While Zhan was in the house with the IT professionals looking for possible recorded videos, Yibo went outside to the garden. Now in the daylight, it looked much nicer and bigger than it had on that evening of the politician's birthday party when he had first been here with Zhan. It was also the evening when he and Zhan had become closer again.

As Yibo walked slowly through the garden, he admired the many beautiful flowers. He had no idea what kind of flowers they were. But besides their beauty, the flowers also smelled wonderful. He went down on his knees to pick one of these flowers to show Zhan later and let him smell it, when something caught his eye.

In the middle of this flowerbed, he saw that the soil in one spot had been loosened by something recently. He put on some gloves and pushed the soil aside. He dug a hole with his hand until he felt a resistance. Something hard was in that spot.

Yibo made the hole a little bigger and pulled out what had been buried there. It was a small wooden casket wrapped in foil. It had decorations and a date had been carved into it. December 17, 1993. The small metal clasp had long since rusted and was difficult to open.

When he had opened the box, he looked at the contents. He took out a letter, two photos and a revolver. "ZhanZhan? Come over here. You have to see this!" He shouted as loud as he could. A minute later, Zhan came running out of the house and to him.

"What is it? What did you find?"

"There was this time capsule buried in the ground. At least, I assume it is one. There's a date carved on it. I don't know if it has anything to do with the contents, though. Here is a letter. Then there are two pictures. Looks like pictures of the young politician and a woman. She doesn't look like his wife. And then this. A revolver."

"Did you read the letter?"

"No, not yet."

"Then we'll read it together."

"Do you really think we should?"

"There was a revolver in it, so yes."

"Okay. Then I'll open it and read it aloud."

"Uh-huh. We'll put the revolver in an evidence bag first, though."

"Okay wait. There are two letters in here. Oh, one is kind of a contract. It says, "I hereby swear that I will keep everything that happened that night to myself." Underneath are the signatures of the politician and a woman named Xian Sue."

"I assume Xian Sue is the mother of Xian Chu."

"Mhm, I think so too. Here's the letter. Or no, a confession. "On December 17, 1993, my beloved Sue and I did something unforgivable. We killed a man. Her stepfather! The revolver we did it with is in this casket and hopefully will never be found. After her stepfather found out that Sue was expecting my child, he beat her and demanded that she abort the baby. We then just wanted to talk to him. I wanted to tell him that I would take care of her and our baby. But he didn't listen to me at all. He immediately started screaming and tugging on Sue. She fell and fell on her stomach. I slapped her stepfather in response. Suddenly Sue had this revolver in her hand. She was furious. I tried to stop her from doing something stupid and took the revolver away from her. But she fought back and we struggled for the gun. Suddenly a shot went off and hit her stepfather in the neck. He gasped, blood shot from the wound, and then he went down. Sue and I panicked. He was spitting blood and gasping desperately for air. He was suffering. I wanted to end his suffering and took the revolver. I shot him in the chest but missed his heart. He suffered even more. He gasped in agony. Sue took the revolver from me and shot her stepfather in the head. Then he just winced once more, and then he was dead. We buried his body here. It lies just a short distance from the casket. I pray that no one will ever find it. We kept it quiet and pretended we didn't know anything. Sue broke up with me shortly after. She said she couldn't look at me anymore without seeing her stepfather die. She made me sign a contract when she left. A contract for my silence. If I didn't abide by it, I would never be allowed to meet my child." That's all it says."

"That's enough, too. So they accidentally shot the stepfather, panicked, and instead of calling for help, they just shot him and then buried his body here. That means we need a forensics team to dig up the body."

"If the politician is still alive, could we use that to get him behind bars?"

"I'm not sure. That's up to the prosecutor to figure out. But first, let's find out if he's still alive." Said Zhan. He and Yibo talked about the possibility that the politician staged everything to disappear.

"And we need to find out where his wife disappeared to. When we questioned her brother earlier when he suddenly showed up here, he told us that his sister had been in a big hurry and didn't explain to him where she was going or what she was up to."

"But he also said that she was acting strangely. And that he saw her get into the car with a strange man."

"Yeah just the contact between them wasn't very good. So he could hardly know every man in her circle."

"Well Bo, looks like more and more questions are coming up."

"Hmm. But now call forensics to dig up the body."

"I'll do that. But as soon as they get there, you and I will go home."

"Why? Our work isn't finished yet ZhanZhan."

"I know. But for now, there's nothing else we can do."

"Alright. But first, I want to take a look at the children's room."

"And why is that?"

"Well, it could be that they've hidden something there. One wouldn't expect it in the children's room at all."

"You're right, Bo. Come on, let's call forensics now and then we'll search the children's room." Said Zhan. Yibo nodded and waited until Zhan had done the call, then went with him to the children's room. However, Zhan was called back to the secret room with the monitors shortly after, so Yibo was alone in the children's room.

Yibo briefly looked around the children's room and he noticed the huge toy box standing under one of the windows. It caught his eye, however, not because it was so big or beautiful, but because there were a few red drops of blood on it. At least, he assumed it was blood. But because this is a children's room, it could be something else entirely.

When Zhan came back to him after a few minutes, he said, "We should leave everything as it is. The boss is sending forensics again and a team to dig for the body in the garden. We're supposed to pull back for today and wait to see what forensics finds."

"All right. Then they should also take a sample of the red stuff on the toy box. It might be blood."

"Uh-huh. Best we make a note so they can check this place out, too."

"I bet they'll find evidence of a fight here."

"How can you be sure?"

"Well, this is a children's room. And the politician's wife left pretty frantically. Do you think they cleaned up the children's room first? Well, I don't think so. And this is definitely too tidy and clean for a children's room."

"True. Now that you mention it, I notice it too."

"You noticed it as well, didn't you? The look on your face tells me so ZhanZhan."

"True. But you're in agent training. So I wanted to see what you notice."

"Oh. So?"

"You're like I said, better than I expected."

"Thanks."

"You don't have to thank me for that. It's the truth."

"What do you think really happened? It all seems staged to me. The wife who supposedly fled the country but without her favorite purse or her credit cards. The husband who was supposedly killed and whose body disappeared. And all these little anomalies that we found. And then there's this thing with Agent Xian."

"I don't know yet what really happened. But you and I are going to find out. The boss is already checking to see if Agent Xian has started her new mission. The video footage from the airport showing the politician's wife leaving the country is being analyzed again. Our own forensics team will examine and search everything again. And you and I will continue to investigate. We will find the truth. You'll see."

"Okay. Then let's go home now."

"Good. Because you and I have a lot to do tonight. Don't we?"

"I hope so. You promised to pleasure me all night long. And I insist my husband!"

"It's okay Bo, I keep my promises."

"Last week on Tuesday you promised me too. But then you just fell asleep while I was on the phone with my mom for just a few minutes."

"That wasn't just a few minutes Bo. You had been on the phone with your mom for over an hour."

"Yeah but you fell asleep! We had said every day. And in my mind, every day means every day!"

"Sure it means that. And actually we had slept with each other last Tuesday too. If you remember, we already had sex in the morning."

"But not in the evening!"

"I'm sorry. I was tired and fell asleep."

"As long as you don't fall asleep tonight, too, I'll forgive you."

"I guess you'll have to postpone your plans. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to play killjoy. And believe me, I can well understand if you're upset. It's been a week since I last saw my wife. But what can I do? Work comes first. So here's the thing. Twenty minutes ago, someone called the police and said he saw the politician. He was said to have been dragged into a car by two men and kidnapped." Said the boss, who had suddenly appeared in the children's room.

"Boss?" Asked Zhan and Yibo at the same time.

"Yes. With all you guys have discovered, I thought it would be good for me to come here and see for myself what all this is."

"And how was that about the phone call now?" Yibo asked.

"As I said, someone claimed to have seen the alleged dead politician being kidnapped. The police are now looking for the kidnappers' car. I want you two to go to the boarding house where the politician is said to have come out."

"Yes sir." Said the two and got the address of the boarding house. They immediately made their way there.

When they arrived at the boarding house, they asked the manager for the room number of the politician's room. At first the manager wanted to insist on a search warrant, but then he recognized Yibo and after Yibo gave him an autograph and took a selfie with him, he gave in and even opened the door of the room for them.

The moment the two were about to go into the room, they heard something clanging in the room. They armed themselves and Yibo shouted, "Federal agents! We're coming in!" Zhan nudged the door with his foot, causing it to open wider. They went into the room. But it was empty. No one was there. But one of the windows was wide open. A vase that had probably been in the window was lying on the floor.

Zhan and Yibo immediately ran to the open window. But they could only see a person dressed in a black coat running around the corner. Too late to catch up with it. But at least they could see that the person was a woman. But not who she was. Yibo called the manager of the boarding house into the room. "Do you know who the woman was?"

"No, I don't know. When he came here and moved into the room, he was alone." Replied the manager.

"Is there video surveillance here?" Zhan wanted to know.

"No. The owner doesn't allow it. He doesn't want to violate the privacy of the guests." Explained the manager, shrugging his shoulders.

"Alright, thanks for now. We can manage on our own now." Said Yibo. He and Zhan waited until the manager left and then looked around the room. But except for a few empty bottles of beer and two scratch cards, they found nothing. They informed their boss about it and since there was nothing else they could do, they finally headed home.