Based on the scene and common sense, this is more like a murder and body burning case.
Masi Wang speculated that the woman was killed by Wang Chengfu and that the body was hidden for a period of time. However, as the body began to decompose, he had to set the car on fire to dispose of it, creating the illusion of a car accident.
The female corpse sent for examination quickly had DNA comparison results. The deceased was named Yang Xiaomei, 23 years old, and lived in another prefecture-level city in the province. She went missing 10 days ago after having a fight with her boyfriend, and her family reported her missing. The local police station collected DNA samples from her parents and entered the information into the database.
The investigation team immediately contacted the local police and learned that the girl's life trajectory was very simple; she had been studying locally since childhood and had also been working near her home for the past two years.
Strangely, she has never been to our small town, nor does she have any friends or classmates here. Yet now, her body has unexpectedly appeared in a place three to four hundred kilometers away from her home.
She has been missing for more than ten days, but based on the level of decomposition observed in the autopsy, the time of death was not that long ago.
From death to cremation, there must be a relatively safe and undiscovered place to hide the body in between.
In Mas Wang's mind, a perfectly suitable place popped up: the home of the wealthy Wang Chengfu. It was highly likely to be the primary scene.
Wang Chengfu's home is a standalone villa with a small yard, extremely secluded. As soon as Mas Wang arrived, he felt something was off—the doorknob of the front door was covered in dust.
Pushing open the door, a osmanthus tree in the yard is in full bloom, while the flowers in the nearby pot have almost all withered. It's clear that they have not been cared for in a long time. Inside the house, there are hardly any decent pieces of furniture, the refrigerator is empty, and a thick layer of dust has accumulated on the floor, with not a single fresh footprint in sight.
English: At least no one has lived here for a month; it doesn't seem like a place where a murder has occurred.
As Ma Siwang was preparing to continue checking Wang Chengfu's other residences, the captain's new message arrived: through comparing road surveillance, Wang Chengfu's whereabouts during the time of the incident have been confirmed.
For a period of time prior, Wang Chengfu was either staying overnight at a hotel or at the company, neither going out nor returning to his residence. He only drove a few hundred kilometers to City S the day before his BMW was burned, and he returned that same night.
Excitingly, City S is right next to the city where the deceased Yang Xiaomei lived! This is the only place where the two could possibly intersect.
But there is something that doesn't add up here: the time of Yang Xiaomei's death.
Based on the degree of decomposition of the body, Yang Xiaomei should have already been dead, and even started to decompose, by the time Wang Chengfu arrived in S City! How could they have met?
"It seems that Wang Chengfu is unlikely to be the murderer." Mas Wang and the captain sat across from each other, smoking together. As the most experienced detective in the team, he suspected that his line of thinking had indeed gone off track.
If you are a paranormal enthusiast, you would probably immediately think of various ghost stories such as "ghosts hitching a ride" or "vengeful spirits haunting." However, as a detective, when a decaying corpse appears in Wang Chengfu's car, which is then burned along with the vehicle, Mas Wang can only think of four words: destroy the evidence.
But looking at it this way still seems very forced. If Wang Chengfu didn't kill the person, why would he put the body in his own car to burn it? Even if he was helping someone else dispose of a body, it wouldn't be worth sacrificing a BMW. These days, even "dirty work" isn't worth that much.
Is it really to commit insurance fraud? Where did the body come from? Why didn't Boss Wang just find a male corpse to take the blame?
The only person who can answer this question is probably Wang Chengfu himself, who is "missing."
Two days later, the police found Wang Chengfu in a short-term rental.
When the police burst into the room, Wang Chengfu was sitting on the only small stool in the room, eating a boxed meal. He hadn't treated himself too poorly; the boxed meal was takeout from a big hotel, and there was still more than half a case of unopened canned beer under the table.
Wang Chengfu was startled by the suddenly intruding police. He said he had never imagined such a scene; in his mind, it was only the creditors coming after him at most.
Being directly pinned down by a group of armed police, Wang Chengfu felt extremely wronged. "I only burned a corpse."
At first glance, this statement seems fine, but Wang Chengfu's next words left all the police, including Mas Wang, stunned.
"The body was bought from the 'black market for corpses' for 20,000 yuan, right by the seaside in S City."
"Black market" and "buying corpses," these two phrases came out of the mouth of a plump former wealthy businessman, surprising even Wang Mas.