Under the Skin Episode 4 Recap
> Under the Skin Recap
At the case summary meeting, Du Cheng arranged for police officers to visit Ren Xiaoxuan's classmates as soon as possible to try to obtain clues. Since Ren Xiaoxuan's skull was replaced after the corpse had skeletonized, it was crucial to confirm the time frame of the skull replacement as soon as possible. Shen Yi left in a hurry after listening. Based on the paintings in the school's art room, he found Qu Lanxin's home.
There was an unfinished line drawing at Qu Lanxin's home. Qu Lanxin liked the swaying hair in the line drawing very much, and Shen Yi thought it was very ingenious. Art students of the Seventh Middle School over the years all had skull sketching assignments. Shen Yi wanted to find out the time of the skull replacement by checking these assignments. Finally, Shen Yi determined the time when the skull was replaced.
Clues were summarized, and Ren Xiaoxuan's skull was replaced six years after she disappeared. Shen Yi pointed out that only art students and art teachers could freely enter and exit the art room. Ren's mother brought a diary that Ren Xiaoxuan had disguised as a Chinese textbook. After reading the diary, Du Cheng discovered that Ren Xiaoxuan had been bullied and molested. Li Han interpreted the diary from a girl's perspective. The diary recorded a boy that Ren Xiaoxuan liked.
Shen Yi saw a back view of a boy drawn by Ren Xiaoxuan in the diary, which was exactly the same as the back view of the boy drawn on Ren Xiaoxuan's desk. Du Cheng handed Ren Xiaoxuan's diary to Shen Yi and asked him to make a portrait. Shen Yi complained that Du Cheng hadn't studied it carefully enough. Du Cheng verbally disagreed, but privately, he looked at the diary again carefully.
The diary recorded the process of Ren Xiaoxuan being molested. Du Cheng discovered that the person who molested Ren Xiaoxuan was likely her art teacher at the time, Zhang Zipeng. Du Cheng checked the teacher's files and found that Zhang Zipeng had been fired for molesting a female student, which was after Ren Xiaoxuan's skull was replaced. Shen Yi sat on the playground looking for inspiration. He tried to draw a portrait of the boy based on Ren Xiaoxuan's description.
Just when he seemed to be about to touch the boy, Du Cheng suddenly interrupted him. Du Cheng took Shen Yi to find Zhao Zipeng, who had changed his name to Zhao Tingtao, to learn about the situation. He was now running an art gallery. Zhao Zipeng was receiving guests, and Du Cheng and Shen Yi wandered around the gallery.
Shen Yi found that each oil painting in the gallery was marked with the number of sales that should not have appeared, and the painting time and painter recorded on the paintings were also problematic. Shen Yi suspected that what Zhao Zipeng was selling was not paintings. Du Cheng took Zhao Zipeng back to the police station for interrogation. Zhao Zipeng confessed to organizing prostitution, but denied that he killed Ren Xiaoxuan.
Back then, when Zhao Zipeng molested Ren Xiaoxuan, he was interrupted by a male classmate. Shen Yi asked about the boy's appearance, but Zhao Zipeng couldn't remember it at all. Shen Yi asked Qu Lanxin about the situation, but Qu Lanxin didn't know that Ren Xiaoxuan had a boyfriend at all. Shen Yi asked Qu Lanxin to draw a portrait based on the description in Ren Xiaoxuan's diary.
Qu Lanxin talked about how they in the art room often gathered together. Shen Yi wanted to organize a gathering to see if the boy related to Ren Xiaoxuan was among them. The venue was arranged at the school. During the preparation, Shen Yi asked Qu Lanxin why she didn't go abroad for further studies. After all, with her artistic attainments, she could have achieved higher achievements.
Qu Lanxin asked Shen Yi why he wanted to be a portrait artist at the police station. Shen Yi only said that he liked stable jobs and stable income. Qu Lanxin didn't want to be surrounded by too many desires. Teaching at the school allowed her to bring art to every student who liked painting. Everyone was very happy at the party. Qu Lanxin suggested playing a game.
She took the lead, and finally everyone picked up chalk and drew characters on the blackboard. The introduction of these characters came from Ren Xiaoxuan's diary. Shen Yi and Du Cheng observed everyone's reactions in the dark. A boy named Tian Lin attracted their attention. Tian Lin was taken back to the police station. Tian Lin confessed that he had read Ren Xiaoxuan's diary. Before that, he had always thought that Ren Xiaoxuan liked him.
At that time, Ren Xiaoxuan often watched him play basketball on the basketball court. The two met on a rainy April Fool's Day. After Tian Lin discovered that he was being sentimental, he began to bully Ren Xiaoxuan. These were also recorded by Ren Xiaoxuan in her diary, but Tian Lin never knew who Ren Xiaoxuan liked. Shen Yi fell asleep in the car again. When he arrived at Shen Yi's home, Du Cheng woke him up.
Shen Yi went home and looked through Ren Xiaoxuan's diary again. He found that the April Fool's Day recorded in Ren Xiaoxuan's diary was a sunny day. So why did Ren Xiaoxuan lie in her diary?
