Cynical Romantics - Chapter 2 Nightmares Of A Cold Case

Qian Meigui woke up startledpanting breathlessly, as if she was regaining breath from drowning in her own sweat and sorrows. A nightmare.

She took a few moments to regain her breath, inhaling and exhaling repeatedly. It had been three years since her parent’s deaths. To this day, the memory of finding her parents dead in their apartment years ago daunts on her within her dreams and unconscious thoughts.

Qian Meigui found themfar gone, far too late. They were dead in their apartment for two days as Qian Meigui was sent on a field trip arranged by her parent’s and was accompanied by her schoolmates.

She found them with cloudy-grey eyes rolled back and mismatched limbs, lying on top of a pool of semi-dried blood. She remembered the sound of the ambulance, the sound of the paramedics arriving at the scene and encouraging her to let go of them.

Qian Meigui did not budge for some timeunwilling and distraught. The police had to explain to her why she had to let them go, as they needed to proceed with the case.

When she arrived at the police station, Qian Meigui obliged to answer questions. She was always willing to respect the law, and desperately wanted answers.

Through the entire interview, Qian Meigui seemed distant, lostand answered every question forcibly, but she did not cry. She wanted to give them every detail of when she had last seen them to the time she found them.

She wanted the police to solve the case, and hoped that what she had told them would give them a clue despite not having any prior inclination of how this could happen.

After a few days, Qian Meigui had seen the news from a hotel room of her parent’s in the news. The words she read horrifyingly striking her: The Tragedy of a Murder-Suicide.

The police called her later that evening and ruled it as a murder-suicide. The media had said that her father murdered her mother by stabbing her in the abdomen before he struck himself.

There were no signs of a forced entry and no DNA on the weapons was found besides those of her parent’sand Qian Meigui.

However Qian Meigui was nowhere near home during the time it happened and she had several alibis to confirm her whereabouts.

However she knew that it was not a murder-suicide. Her parents would never leave her alone in this world, not purposely.

Qian Meigui spent weeks trying to convince the police they were both murdered and that her father was not a monster as the media tried to perceive him to be. However, since she was nothing but a mere penniless orphan, they did not listen to her, and dismissed the case as cold.