Xu Yao walked out of the apartment alone. It was only a week until the traditional Chinese New Year. The streets were filled with a festive and harmonious atmosphere.

Suddenly his cell phone rang. Looking at the screen, it was this familiar phone number. Xu Yao felt a little guilty.

"Hello! Mom, why are you calling me suddenly?"

"Xiao Xu, are you busy recently? You haven't called me for almost half a month. Your dad nags me every day." It was an old and concerned voice.

Xu Yao felt guilty, "I'm sorry, Mom. I've been busy investigating a case recently. Please talk to my dad and I'll be able to come back to see you two soon."

"Of course I will come back. The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival. No matter how busy children are, they should go home to celebrate the New Year!" Suddenly, the scene on the other end of the phone changed, and Xu Yao's mother's laughter was heard. She said mysteriously,

"Xiao Xu, you shouldn't just be busy investigating a case recently, right? Do you have to accompany someone after work?"

Xu Yao's family knew for a long time that he and Li Mengyao had broken up, and the implication of this statement should have been known a long time ago.

"Mom, what are you talking about?"

Xu Yao's mother was talking incoherently on the other end of the phone, "Yo, now you have learned to keep secrets from mom. Don't underestimate your mom, I can know everything about any slightest movement.

Your sharp detective cells are inherited from me.

I heard that your new girlfriend is your colleague..."

Xu Yao finally understood who his mother was talking about the new girlfriend, and knew that all this was the secret told by his naughty cousin Xu.

"Xiao Xu, you see, the New Year is coming soon, and you should be on vacation soon, otherwise you can bring your girlfriend back to our house to celebrate the New Year together, what do you think?" Xu Yao could feel his mother's excitement and joy on the other end of the phone.

He had to explain desperately, "Mom! Don't listen to Xu Hao's nonsense. She's just my assistant, and she's developing a steady relationship with a psychologist."

"Ah, what are you talking about! Do you know how to chase girls? People say that the one who is close to the water gets the moon first, ah! You stay with your assistant every day, but you let her date a psychologist outside.

The mother over there was getting more and more anxious, as if she had lost her daughter-in-law.

Xu's mother started to yell, "Mom doesn't care! This New Year you must bring your assistant home for mom to review. As the saying goes, it's not a problem if you can't dig the corner, but a problem if you can't swing the hoe well. ...

Son, try harder! Mom has confidence in you."

Xu Yao was about to refuse, but there was a busy tone on the other end of the phone.

"Hello! Mom!...Mom."

Xu Yao looked at his phone, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

Another year has come to an end, and Xu Yao is one year older. After ageing three times, he is heading towards the pace of a middle-aged man.

He also longs to have a happy family of his own, but those painful experiences are always lingering in his mind.

Moreover, his own mental illness has not improved, he just kept it a secret from his family. He was afraid to see the lost expressions on his parents' faces when they saw him come home alone.

Xu Yao shook his head, blew the cold wind for a while, and then went back home to rest.

He went to work as usual the next day. In the afternoon, Lin Yalin's autopsy report came out. From all the pathological findings of the body, Liu Lixuan died of suicide.

The suffocation phenomenon on the body of the deceased was a physiological phenomenon of suicide. Lin Yalin did a full-scale scan and found no pinholes. Lin

Yalin also did a toxicology test, which has ruled out most of the possibility of poisoning. The test for biological toxins will have to wait until the day after tomorrow.

Xu Yao sat in the office, holding the suicide note and reading the words, "Fate comes and goes, and everything returns to dust."

An idea suddenly flashed in his mind, and he suddenly shouted, asking Liu Xiaobo and a team of police officers to search and dig in the woods by the lake behind Liu Lidan's villa.

Unexpectedly, good news came at five o'clock in the afternoon. Liu Xiaobo reported that a telescope was dug under a banyan tree. Liu Xiaobo couldn't help but admire the team's ingenuity. Xu Yao just calmly explained that he had read Liu Lixuan's suicide note and he always remembered that he and his sister liked to play by the banyan tree at the other end of the lake when they were children.

That place had a different meaning for Liu Lixuan, and he didn't expect that he would bury the telescope there.

After Liu Xiaobo brought it back, Xu Yao used gloves to test it, and sure enough, the inside of the telescope had been changed beyond recognition.