I enjoy my life as a detective. Sometimes it’s scary and sometimes it’s exhausting, but it never dull. Take that day we discovered the body on the Seventh Street for instance.
Let me first introduce my name, I am Charlie Ho. Last month, on the 1st April, I received a call about a dead body discovered on the Seventh Street when I was sleeping. ‘What an April Fool’s Day?’ I was agitated and said with a sleepy voice.
I hurried up to meet my team at the crime scene. ‘Sir, the inspectors have searched the surrounding and there wasn’t any important discovery. They could just find the footprints of the dead body.’ Fong, who was my assistant said. According to the primary report, the victim was called Kwan Yu Mei, an officer working in a famous company, The Big Entertaining Co. Ltd. She had a 4-year-old little daughter, Alice and had divorced. Seemingly, Kwan’s death could be concluded as suicide.
However, when I observed the body, I had a strange feeling that Kwan’s death was not a simple suicide as reflected by her painful and unwilling facial expression. ‘There must be some secrets!’ I thought.
Because of this reason, I decided to investigate this case seriously and deeply. I interviewed her workmates and neighbors. They all had good comments on Kwan saying that she was an optimistic and trustful woman. So, why would she choose to leave her lovely daughter and end her life? I wondered. Yes! Daughter! She was an important key for the case! How come I have forgotten and missed this point? I really had a little bit angry with my careless. I went to the orphanage and visited little Alice.
Alice was quiet and reticent in the orphanage. I tried to get close to her and asked her about her mother. ‘Little Alice, do you want to see mum?’ I asked. She didn’t say anything but nodded her head. Actually, Alice was really a cute girl with a pair of big eyes and a lovely mouth. However, there was not any smile on her face. I could feel that Alice noticed her mother’s death. When I was absorbed in the case, a man wearing proper suit was walking towards me. He looked like surprised about my existence. ‘Nice to meet you! I am the lawyer of Miss Kwan’s boss, Mr. Black,’ he said. ‘Nice to meet you, too!’ I said and found Mr. Black weird. Why would he visit Alice? He said that he represented his boss Mr. Wong to take care of little Alice since Miss Kwan helped him a lot when she was still alive. He came to Alice and gave a warm smile to her. But it seemed that she didn’t like it and was even afraid of Black. Alice embraced her teddy bear and stepped back continuously. ‘Enough! Um…maybe Alice was not well. I nearly forgot to introduce myself – I am Charlie Ho, a detective.’ I tried to get Black off from Alice. ‘I can understand her pain about losing a closest family member. It’s really a pity!’ Mr. Black said.
Three days were over; I still had no idea about Kwan’s death. But what I was sure of was that the evidence on the crime scene must have been eliminated by someone who was disposed to do it as there wasn’t fingerprint of anyone. The most suspected person I found was Mr. Black. Therefore, I went to Kwan’s ex-company and investigated the case. Unfortunately, I could find nothing.
I felt frustrated. I chose to visit little Alice because she was so poor. It made me want to look after her. Alice always embraced the teddy bear. ‘Do you want to buy a new teddy bear?’ I asked her because I thought the teddy bear she held was old and dirty. ‘No, it is made by my mum,’ she answered. As I was gazing at the bear, I found that there was a hole in its body. I took the teddy bear from Alice and enlarged the broken hole. There were letters which were about Kwan’s company! The truth was that Kwan’s boss, Mr. Wong and Mr. Black were involved in corruption. They used the money of the company as private investment. They even lost a large amount of capital because of their unsuccessful investment. Their scheme was discovered by Miss Kwan.
I called my subordinates immediately and went to Wong’s company. When we arrived at his office, Wong escaped! We found that Wong and Black’re driving to the airport and decided to take off. I hurried up and chased them. Suddenly, a bullet was shot towards my car. Oh my god! The glass of my car was totally broken. After that, a series of bullets kept coming! ‘Was he crazy?’ I wondered. Luckily, I could dodge them successfully and drove just like a drunk mouse!
On the highway, there were two cars galloping and leaving two lines of red light. I stepped on it and went over Wong’s car using my skillful technique! I gave pressure on them and stopped them going forward! We all got off the cars. I took a gun and pointed to Wong and Black, demanding them to put down the weapons. Finally, they were arrested and charged as premeditated murderers.
Since Miss Kwan discovered the secret of Wong. Wong and his lawyer then asked her out to discuss their problems in a building on Seventh Street. The negotiation failed. Therefore, Wong killed her by pushing her over the building. Wong was sinful and culpable. But what made me angry was that Black was a professional lawyer but he committed crime with Wong. He was an example of breaking the law deliberately. This file was closed.
What more important was that I adopted Alice and looked after her. Since my childhood was in the orphanage too, I can feel the loneliness of Alice.