Resumen del episodio 12 de Light to the Night
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Wu Shanlong, still nursing a head wound from the recent attack, photographed the body of a young girl hidden in his trunk before driving to a remote area to dispose of the remains. Meanwhile, He Yuanhang continued his investigation into the person who had been monitoring the Xu family. He discovered that the Guangdong phone number belonging to the employer was now out of service, cutting off a vital lead.
In 2002, Ran Fangxu investigated reports of a prowler stealing women’s lingerie and stockings. He questioned Du Mingliang, a young man caught acting suspiciously in the building. Du claimed he was merely playing "guerrilla warfare" to hide his gaming habits from his overbearing, menopausal mother. Their conversation was interrupted by Du’s mother, who berated her son before revealing that years ago, she had seen Xu Zhihong arguing with a man named Zhang Ersong at the Qihuang Clinic.
She described Zhang as a con artist from her hometown who had served time in prison for fraud, though his business had since expanded into a larger establishment called Songbentang. Neighbors also recalled strange occurrences at the Xu household just before the 1997 Hong Kong handover. Xu Zhihong had been heard chiseling away at his doorframe, claiming he needed to widen the opening to sell a large wardrobe to pay for an expensive qigong master to treat his father.
However, the wardrobe was never sold. The following day, a scrap collector haggled with Xu for a long time but only ended up taking away a collection of jars and bottles. During a band rehearsal, He Xiaohe and her friends were confronted by the angry father of their keyboardist. The man shouted at the students for wasting time on music instead of studying, eventually smashing their keyboard in a rage. Later, Ran Fangxu picked up a frustrated He Xiaohe.
When she got into a heated argument with her father, He Yuanhang, over her musical ambitions, Ran stepped in to mediate. He suggested that adults often discourage dreams because they have suffered too many failures themselves. Back in the 2002 timeline, He Yuanhang and Ran Fangxu visited Zhang Ersong’s clinic. They bypassed the long queue by confronting Zhang about his criminal past in Langzhong and his fraudulent credentials.
Ran presented evidence that Xu Zhihong’s skull contained traces of arsenic, which he linked to the high levels of realgar in Zhang’s proprietary prescriptions. Zhang admitted that Xu had threatened to expose him to the media over a refund dispute but insisted their conflict never reached the level of murder. He further revealed that Wu Shanlong had once sought qigong to treat a "strange habit" of collecting women’s clothing and watching women from a distance.
A breakthrough occurred when Wu Zhengxiong, a video rental shop owner arrested for producing obscene discs, offered information about the severed head case in exchange for leniency. He claimed that in 1997, he saw Wu Shanlong hiring a man known as Wolfie to "deal with" Xu Meng and her father. Wu Zhengxiong was certain of the identification because he had seen Wu Shanlong driving a Mercedes with a distinct license plate ending in 688.
He Yuanhang and Ran Fangxu interrogated Wu Shanlong, who complained about the police's lack of compassion for his head injury. Wu claimed an unknown assailant had knocked him out with a stone after he parked his car. When confronted with the murder plot, Wu eventually confessed to hiring Wolfie on Song Qingsong's orders, but he maintained the intent was only to scare the Xu family into leaving town. Denying any involvement in their deaths, Wu was eventually released.
Ran Fangxu decided to trail him, hoping he would lead them to an accomplice or show his hand now that he felt free. In 2015, He Xiaohe worked late to prove that Han Zi'ang had acted in self-defense, hoping to save him from expulsion. After learning from a colleague that her father was the man Ran Fangxu respected most, she sought her father's guidance.
He Yuanhang suggested that teenagers often hide their true interests from their parents, suspecting that Han Zi'ang might have frequented unlicensed internet cafes. They visited a hidden cafe in Yuanlongli run by Du Mingliang. There, a gamer recognized Han Zi'ang as a regular who enjoyed Japanese anime and confirmed seeing two of the other missing children at the cafe as well.
