Under the Skin Season 2 Episode 16 Recap, Plot

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李晗 checked the surveillance near Min Xue's relief station and found that Min Xue's adoptive mother, Min Shengmei, had visited Min Xue last week. After being released from prison, Min Shengmei had no job, but had multiple records of booking high-end hotels. Through hotel surveillance, the police discovered Min Shengmei taking a girl into room 1016, leaving the girl alone in room 1016, and then going to the adjacent room 1018 herself.

The person who booked room 1016 was named Guo Zhengjian, the boss of a private enterprise, who had been sued for threatening underage girls but the case was dropped after the other party withdrew the lawsuit. The police immediately confirmed Min Shengmei as a major suspect. The police moved out and brought Min Shengmei back for interrogation. Min Shengmei confessed truthfully that she was just working for others, and both the girls and the clients were provided by Min Xue.

Furthermore, Min Shengmei claimed that Min Xue never let her initiate contact, and Min Xue would contact Min Shengmei using different numbers. Min Shengmei was also always the one who took the girls out. The girl, Min Xue, whom Captain Lei had painstakingly rescued back then, was not a simple person at all. When Min Shengmei adopted Min Xue, she had suspected her age, but eventually softened and adopted Min Xue.

Because of this sentence from Min Shengmei, Du Cheng recalled that Shen Yi had said Min Xue did not look like she was twenty-four or twenty-five. Li Han expressed confusion, wondering why Min Xue would lead those girls to do such things, given that she had been assaulted when she was a minor.

Shen Yi explained that in psychology, this is called victim-perpetrator transformation, which refers to a phenomenon where a very small number of people, after being harmed, transform from victims into perpetrators due to psychological trauma and other influencing factors. Jiang Feng was in charge of calling Min Xue in for questioning. She denied that she made the girls from the relief station sell their bodies. When mentioning her painful past, Min Xue's eyes turned red.

Du Cheng arranged for people to search the relief station, but no funds of unknown origin were found there. At Min Shengmei's residence, Du Cheng found two bags of cash in the washing machine. Min Shengmei vehemently claimed innocence, stating that Min Xue had framed her, just as Min Xue had framed her back then by lying about her age.

Li Han investigated further and found that the girls at the relief station unanimously said that Li Han had not led them to sell their bodies. The usage of the relief station's funds was also normal, and Wei Xianzhong's funding for the relief station had been gradually decreasing, which aligned with his characteristics of bankruptcy. Based on this, Du Cheng believed that Wei Xianzhong's case could be closed.

--- Unexpectedly, someone posted a revelation online at this time, directly pointing the finger at the investigators of the underage sexual assault case from back then. Du Cheng dared not believe it, nor was he willing to believe it, but if what was said online was true, and Min Xue was twenty-two when she was assaulted, then Zhang Bin's sentencing standard would be different, which would also mean that Captain Lei had mishandled the case.

Du Cheng did not believe that Captain Lei would make such a big mistake, so he went to find Old Yan to recall the details when Min Shengmei recanted her testimony. Public opinion online was rampant, and the Municipal Bureau sent Comrade Lu Haizhou, the Deputy Head of the Criminal Investigation Detachment, to be responsible for re-investigating Min Xue's sexual assault case from back then.

Director Zhang instructed the criminal investigation team led by Du Cheng to cooperate and assist in the investigation. Given that most of those present had a working relationship with Captain Lei, Captain Lu requested instructions from Director Zhang and had Shen Yi cooperate with him. However, no one understood Captain Lei's case-handling habits better than Du Cheng, so Du Cheng would also participate in all investigations.

Shen Yi and Captain Lu first went to find He Rongyue, learning that the bone age test indeed showed Min Xue's age to be older, but since other corroborating evidence was needed, and household registration and other information all indicated Min Xue was a minor, He Rongyue did not insist further. Du Cheng accompanied Captain Lu to Captain Lei's home and obtained Captain Lei's case notes from before he passed away.

Learning that Captain Lei's daughter held grudges against Captain Lei, Du Cheng told her through the door before leaving that Captain Lei was a good policeman. Shen Yi discovered Min Xue's characteristics of being sweet-talking and skillful, but this was not mentioned in Captain Lei's case notes. Based on this point, Shen Yi and Captain Lu went to the orphanage where Min Xue had stayed to inquire. The person in charge confirmed that Min Xue had a docile and likable personality and was very skillful with her hands, making many handicrafts, some of which were sold for money.

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