When a snail falls in love | Liskook

Chapter 80 part 2

"Little Chaeng, past or present, whether I was working in Hong Kong or on the run... I've never stopped loving you. What would it take for you to give me another chance?"

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It was nightfall by the time Rosé and the other classmates walked out of Baekhyun's villa. Since she did not want Baekhyun to send her home, she had asked her driver to bring her car around to Baekhyun's villa. After this, he was dismissed.

Instead of going home straightaway, she stopped by the roadside. She was on the main road and there were many crowded stalls with plenty of patrons eating supper inside. The atmosphere there was very lively and cheerful, and so, she sat there quietly for a while, then called Lisa.

Lisa had just put her child to sleep and Jungkook was taking a shower. She picked up the stack of documents that Jungkook had brought back from the police station and was just about to start reading when she saw Rosé's number flashing on her phone screen. "Are you calling because of Jimin?"

Rosé smiled and shook her head. "He's not the problem. I'm not going to get together with anyone right now." She paused and added, "Baekhyun also asked to get back together with me just now, but I refused."

Lisa thought for a moment before replying, "You made a right decision."

Rosé leaned back on the chair and looked up at the starry midnight sky. "Why? What do you think of him? Tell me honestly."

Lisa replied, "He's not a good match for you. When he was a teenager, he was very arrogant. After that, he was on the run for three years and lived in complete isolation in the forest. Of course, these are not necessarily drawbacks, but both of you have too many things on your plate right now and it would be better if you have a fresh start."

Rosé was slightly shocked, and she answered softly, "I didn't think about it that deeply. It's just that it has been so long so I no longer have feelings for him."

"Oh. That's also true I guess."

Her reaction made Rosé laugh. Her disappointment slowly disappeared as she began to feel upbeat again. "Okay then, go and take care of my godson. I'll visit you in a few days."

The two of them hung up the phone, but the call quickly reminded Lisa of Chanyeol's case. She put aside the files that Jungkook had brought back, then went to the drawer where they stored the previous case's files and started going through it again.

When Rosé hung up to put her mobile phone back into her bag, she was shocked. Rummaging through her handbag, she could not find her housekey. Naturally, she tried to re-trace her steps. Previously, she had left the garden and gone to the toilet. When she did this, she had left her bag on the chair, so it was possible that this was when her keys fell out.

Rosé instantly turned around and drove back to Baekhyun's place whilst feeling slightly embarrassed. However, she did not dwell on it for too long as she soon arrived at the place. She did not park too far away from Baekhyun's house, so after locking her car, she strolled over to the villa.

The streetlights shone brightly in the otherwise gloomy street. This was one of the best residential locations in the city and as such, there were security guards on duty at every corner. There was also a row of luxury shops by the side of the street that were still operating, ready to tend to any midnight customers. She walked along the boulevard step by step and she soon spotted Baekhyun's large iron gate.

Just as she was about ring the doorbell, she peered through the gate and saw Baekhyun sitting alone on a lounge chair in the porch. He was holding the doll figure that she had handled earlier with an odd smile on the corner of his lips.

Rosé was a bit confused, so she stood still and watched him without saying a word. Suddenly, she saw him lift up the doll and bring it near to his face before planting a kiss right on the doll's lips. The streetlights were very bright which caused the porcelain-like teeth of the doll to glow with a soft gleam.

Rosé trembled slightly as she stood there in silence for a moment before walking away as quietly as she could.

At the same time, Jungkook just returned to the bedroom after taking a shower. He saw Lisa unpacking all the information and arranging it on the table before reading intently.

"Are you looking at Chanyeol's case again?" Jungkook asked gently.

Lisa sighed and said, "Husband, do you remember, that before Chanyeol died, I told you that he said that he only found Sehun to confess for his crimes after Sehun killed the third victim. Later, we deduced that it's very difficult to get a hold of such a poisonous substance like potassium cyanide. Chanyeol could get it from Hong Kong's black market, but Sehun is just an ordinary college graduate and an ordinary forest guard. Through what medium did he buy it? We've not found out about it."

"Just now, I was going through the previous files and in comparison, the third case was way too similar to the first two cases. Therefore, we assumed that Sehun was coincidently a heavy forum user at that time and that he just so happened to know everything about the "Angel Killer" from his time trawling the internet. When he came across Chanyeol, it triggered his internal desires to commit a crime. Thus, he imitated Chanyeol and used the same methods to carry out his deeds."

"There are just so many coincidences and assumptions - I always felt that something was not right. The more I go through the file, the stronger this feeling becomes."

Jungkook nodded as he also had doubts about their initial hypothesis. He stroked her head and nodded. "Let's go through the file once again."

He sat down beside her and picked up one of the files containing some that he had brought back from the police station. Taehyung had handed him this particular document as he was about to go home, he claimed that it was some follow-up information regarding the angel killer case that he had just received from Hong Kong this afternoon.

Jungkook was initially calm, but after reading a few lines, the expression on his face changed. After he finished reading it, he looked up at Lisa and said seriously, "The Hong Kong authorities came across a number of bodies in the open sea last week. After conducting some DNA test, they confirmed that the corpses are, in fact, the other nine victims of the 'Angel Killer' case who went missing in the past. All of their bodies were dismembered and some of them had been disemboweled and their teeth had been pulled out."

Lisa was shocked. She took the information and her eyes widened in horror. She quickly went through it and murmured, "This couldn't have been done by Chanyeol. It doesn't match his methods or his character at all. The only possibility is that it was done by another person."

She suddenly raised her head and looked Jungkook in the eye only to see his astonished expression staring back at her.

Was there another psychopathic serial killer in Hong Kong at the time?

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