Falling Dreams, Rising Hopes: Saving Mr. Boyfriend

"I got them to scan for fingerprints but they could not find anything at all.", Fan Ruyi explained to Mei Qingyang. While they were creating a makeshift room for her interrogation, Wang Hao, Qingyang and the four friends decided to visit the crime scene.

There was a big blood puddle near the bed. The body was still there, covered in bandages all over. There was some blood near his wrist and on the white bedsheet as well. Perhaps, someone had interrupted when the person was committing the crime.

In hurry, they just yanked the tube and splattered blood all over. But she would not really expect anyone from her class to be stupid enough to make a mistake of spilling it over their clothes. These were people supposed to be with above average intelligence. Anyway, she would look for it when conducting her cross-questioning.

Yeah well, wasn't that obvious? Why would anyone in their right mind leave their fingerprints behind. Mei Qingyang nodded. Wang Hao and Su Lang were covering their noses with handkerchiefs.

"Ugh.. I don't know what we could determine with this blood pool here which has started drying. This probably all came out of that blood pouch.", Mei Qingyang squatted down and put her hand on her head. She had a feeling it was going to take her much time if she did not come up with innovative ideas here. So much for all those detective fiction novels.

"I just feel sad for this guy. He was beaten black and blue just for being loyal to his master.", Wang Hao said in a joking manner, enraging everyone present.

*When you and Yu Rong do it for your gain, it's fine. Someone does that in self-defense, you feel pity for the bully?*

Mei Qingyang rolled her eyes and wished she could just throw this guy out of the room. He was no help at all but was just making trouble. Before entering the room also, he made a ruckus about the room being filthy. Gu Layue also tried very hard to get into the group but Yu Tian stopped her by making her lead everyone to their accommodation.

She stared hard at the blood patch for some time, like it would start revealing the answers by itself. She looked upwards and then observed the room once again, silently. Everyone was staring at her for some response.

"This is stupid. I am leaving.", Feng Yue got agitated with the mess happening here. He removed his gloves in frustration and threw them on the ground.

"Fingerprints! Right!! Why did I not think of this first? Find me the gloves!!!", she exclaimed as soon as she saw Feng Yue's tantrum. It was like an epiphany just happened.

"Gloves? This is a hospital Mei Qingyang! All you will find are the gloves here.", Feng Yue spoke with disdain. What was this girl doing, wasting everyone's time? She had to go ahead and refuse police first and now she was going to wear a hat of detective. Who did she think she was, an all-knowing female lead of an action novel?

"No, I mean, I need gloves with blood on them.", Mei Qingyang sounded kind of excited.

"Listen to this girl blabbering stupid remarks. There will be thousands of blood-stained gloves here.", Wang Hao insulted her a bit more.

"Senior Fan. I need to find gloves, not far away from this room, in probably a dustbin, mostly in a hidden corner. The blood there will match this blood. I know this floor doesn't have an operation ward or emergency room. Chances of such gloves of being found should be fewer if not zero.", she tried explaining to the most reasonable person here who would understand her.

"Oh, are you thinking about glove prints? We did not find any of those either.", Fan Ruyi stated. She had made her team search each nook and corner of the room. She was feeling guilty about the fact that she would not be able to help with CCTV footages. She could have checked it herself for helpful hints but after her parents made that scene, there was no way she would get her hands on any camera feeds. Damnit!

"No, no. I remember reading a research that sometimes a few latent fingerprints remain inside the nitrile gloves. I am sure the perpetrator didn't bring their own gloves since it's easier to discard nitrile gloves from hospital anywhere. No one would think of looking for used gloves in here. I know medical waste is hazardous but this might be my last hope right now.", she suddenly stood up from her position and felt blood rushing to her head. Feeling dizzy, her body waved a bit. Yu Tian caught her just in time, otherwise she would have lost balance.

Such malnourished girl working so hard, Yu Tian's heart ached for this poor soul. What did she even get by coming to their school? His grip tightened around her arms thinking about all that she had faced till now, just because of that witch, Yu Rong. They looked into each other's eyes for a few seconds but realizing that a lot of people were present around, they turned their heads in opposite directions. His friends all observed his ears turning red. Even in this dire situation, these guys could create sweet moments. These two definitely needed to get some room.

"Are you okay? You should sit down somewhere.", Yu Tian made her sit in one of the chairs nearby. Wang Hao was observing everything very carefully. Out of the four, although Yu Tian was the most cold and aloof, he was probably the friendliest to this girl. And that was the biggest threat for Yu Rong. Other people were rather not very fond of her it seemed. Fan Ruyi mostly looked neutral but she was rumored to have feelings for Yu Tian as well. There was a different tension between the two girls. But probably that's why Mei Qingyang was depending on Fan Ruyi the most.

"Yes, I am fine. Senior Fan, please, hurry. Before someone does something or trash gets picked up!", Mei Qingyang pleaded to Fan Ruyi and gave a glance towards Wang Hao, just in case. Seeing that he was staying put in his place, she was kind of relieved.

She had anyway made sure to get everyone's phones taken away on pretext of searching call and text records. Of course, she was not police, so she did not have permission to invade people's privacy. But her classmates complied one by one because they wanted to know the identity of the murderer too. If it was not Mei Qingyang, then mostly the person was amongst them.

Gu sisters had to give away their phones too. Mei Qingyang could always hack the phones but that would not count as legal evidence.

On the other hand, Wang Hao was sweating profusely. He could only pray right now that that person didn't commit a rookie mistake like this. Who would have thought this girl would know about latent fingerprints? Where did her knowledge come from?

All the hospital dustbins on the floor were scoured for gloves. Even the base of the chute on the floor was examined. Finally, a few pairs were found in different bins. They would narrow down the gloves they were looking for by blood testing first and then check if they could find any fingerprints on the gloves. In a few hours, the result would come out. They also let the body be taken for postmortem.

In the meantime, they headed towards the newly arranged interrogation room. Mei Qingyang was the last to go out of the room.

"Are you feeling peaceful now that I am dead? You know the one you are trying to convict and actual person who murdered me are different, right?", she heard someone from the back. She turned around and saw a transparent being who closely resembled the owner of the dead body right there. She closed her eyes and walked out of the door without saying anything.