He frowned and thought to himself, ‘Why is her phone turned off?’ She had no other place to go to other than the campus, which was already empty by now. He looked at the man and asked, “Did she say where she was going?”

The man shook his head, “But I think she probably went to the crematorium first, otherwise where would she put the body?”

Boyce looked at the time. The crematorium was already closed by now. He replied, “Okay.”

While pushing the door to his office open, he thought of something and called the man again, “Is there a record of her hometown’s address in the file?”

“Where’s that?”

“J county.”

Boyce asked again, “Is there a detailed address?”

The man doesn’t remember, “It should be there.”

“Bring me the file.”

Then, Boyce walked into the office while the man had to go and get the file for him. When he came back, he passed the file to Boyce.

“You can go home now.” Boyce took the file over and looked at the address section of her record. J county, which was a mountainous place, was quite a distance away from City B. Initially, Boyce wanted to send his men to accompany Jasmine back to her hometown when she came and claim the dead body since he didn’t have the time to spare.

She was a girl and needed to be taken care of.

But it looked like she left already.

Boyce closed the file, feeling uneasy as he sat back in his chair.

Public transportation required the passengers to purchase tickets with their IDs now, so if it wasn’t this late, Boyce could’ve found out how she traveled back home.

However, he was fidgeting from his worry for that girl.

In the end, he couldn’t sit still anymore. He took his keys and left the office. Once he got into the car, he used his phone to navigate the way to J county. After planning his route, he drove on the road according to the navigation.

Actually, Jasmine hadn’t left yet. She wasn’t planning to return anymore after leaving, so she was still settling her school matters for dropping out.

That was why even after the sun came up the following day, Boyce couldn’t find any of her traveling records after getting his people to check on it.

“She didn’t purchase any train, high-speed rail or plane tickets? There’s no record at all?” Boyce’s heart skipped a beat. ‘How did she go back then?’

buses don’t pick their

Boyce said, “Got it.”

still worried sick about Jasmine, he decided

came to the police station to bid farewell to Boyce. She wasn’t coming back, and they

“Boyce isn’t here.”

he go?”

either. Why don’t you go to his house?”

moment, “Could you tell me

her Boyce’s address, and Jasmine left

one came to it.

Boyce was still nowhere in sight. She turned on her mobile phone, which she switched off yesterday, not wanting anyone to disturb her as she locked herself up in the hotel room. She

to bid farewell to him in person, but it seemed

but the other person’s

used it for navigation the

to find Jasmine’s house. Her house

not leave immediately but asked a little about Jasmine’s family. It

sentence. There was no one else at home after she went to college, so it

tile-roofed house and looked to be in bad condition after being

house seemed like it

left the village at noon. He rested in a motel in the county for two hours before rushing back to

had worn him out, so he went

sleep when his phone rang,

picked the call up. Officer Miller’s voice came through, and he sounded

“Sleeping

mood

Officer Miller’s tone. He hung up the call and went to get ready

supervision department. He vowed to them, “This is absolutely impossible. I know what

to believe that any public officials have such a rumour too.

course I believe you guys, but I trust Boyce too. I mentored him all these years, and I’m sure you guys are clear about what kind of

and honest. He had a good reputation in the field and was

through. We won’t accuse Boyce of doing the things

without going into his own first. Upon seeing the room which was filled with uniformed officers, he was stunned for a moment. He knew who they were, but who were

him.

over. Officer Miller pulled him closer, mumbling lowly in his ear, “You got reported for bribery. These people are here to interrogate you,

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