SFTD -Chapter 103 Man in the Wall (Final)

“I… I want to be discharged. Go talk to the director. Why are you here?”

“Discharged?”

Chu Menghan immediately frowned. She reached out and shoved Zhou Hai. The push came so suddenly that Zhou Hai nearly lost his balance. He staggered back several steps before steadying himself against the wall.

“You—”

“With your physical condition, you still want to leave the hospital? You’re practically a modern-day Lin Daiyu!”

Zhou Hai’s eyelids twitched. Communication with Chu Menghan was impossible. When she was unreasonable, she was completely domineering—someone you couldn’t hit or scold. He decided to deal with it later and turned back toward the hospital bed.

Chu Menghan placed the large bouquet on the bedside table and sat down. She glanced around the room. She had been here once before, but last time Zhou Hai was still unconscious. Now that he had improved, he was already trying to sneak out.

She asked casually, “No more fever?”

Zhou Hai was slightly surprised by her concern. He looked at her and, seeing no sarcasm, nodded.

“Yeah, no fever these past two days. Blood tests are good too. I’m basically fully recovered.”

Chu Menghan was silent for a moment, then sighed and looked at him.

“I know you’re worried about this case. I didn’t come these past few days because of it too.”

Zhou Hai straightened and stared at her.

“So you’re saying… you came today because the case is already solved?”

She nodded, taking a tablet from her bag and placing it into his hands. On the desktop was a file labeled:

“1.1 New Year’s Day Wall-Buried Body Special Case.”

“The case is solved. Read it yourself. Same old rule—destroy the file after reading.”

Zhou Hai didn’t open it immediately. Instead, he studied Chu Menghan. Something was off about her—very off. She looked unusually downcast.

“What’s wrong with you? You don’t seem like yourself. So gloomy.”

He paused.

“Don’t tell me… one of the suspects is Song Kainian?”

Chu Menghan suddenly looked up, staring at him in confusion.

“How did you know? I only finished the interrogation last night. The DNA comparison was handled directly by Liu Da through Sister Ceng Da. It didn’t even go through Team Two!”

Zhou Hai glanced at her.

“Why didn’t it go through Team Two? How are we supposed to write our report like this? Do you plan to handle lab reports yourselves from now on? Do we not need to do crime scene and autopsy work anymore?”

“Give me the tablet!”

Zhou Hai almost wanted to throw it at her, but curiosity about the case held him back.

“Read it.”

“First tell me—how did you figure out Song Kainian was involved?”

“I just woke up and re-evaluated everything. Putting DNA aside, his suspicion is very high. His father disappeared without a report—then he also disappeared. The company was in serious financial deficit, and he was aware of it. Why vanish completely?”

“And his relationship with the Cao family brothers—if you look deeper, in this line of work you always need to ‘acknowledge your backing.’ Young people inevitably have other intentions.”

“Cutting corners, using substandard materials… that kind of thing is inevitable.”

Chu Menghan didn’t refute him. Zhou Hai’s mind was terrifying—he could infer so much from so little information. Standing in front of someone like him made her feel completely transparent.

She stood up, picked up her bag, and walked toward the door, waving as she left.

“Your current guardian is Liu Da. If you’re discharged, he has to sign off. But he seems to be on a business trip today and won’t be back until the 24th, so you’ll still need to stay in the hospital for a few more days.”

The door closed.

Zhou Hai sat there blankly, digesting what she had said.

A guardian? Liu Da?

He shook his head and opened the document.

Song Kainian was the nephew of Song Guangjun’s cousin’s son.

Back then, Song Guangjun had been married for several years without children. His cousin already had seven children and couldn’t afford to raise them, so the youngest son was adopted by Song Guangjun.

Later, Song Guangjun and his wife had a son, but the child had intellectual disabilities. So they continued treating Song Kainian as their own, and both families remained close.

Song Guangjun had grown up without parents, raised by relatives and villagers, so he was extremely indulgent toward family. After Song Kainian graduated high school and started hanging out with delinquents, worried he would go astray, he kept him close and involved in his work at the concrete mixing station.

Gradually, Song Kainian adapted to the job. Especially after Song Guangjun injured his foot, he took over most of the station’s operations.

He met Cao Wei, and the two hit it off immediately. They were the same kind of people. They began frequenting nightlife venues, and Cao Wei even introduced him to some projects.

With Cao Ming backing them through the Dongjian Group, even small leaks from the system were enough to support them.

After several concrete supply deals, Song Kainian seemed to find the taste for it. Just as Zhou Hai had deduced, they began cutting corners and making illicit profits. After tasting success, Song Kainian went all in with Cao Wei.

However, Dongjian was a large corporation, and large corporations have a disadvantage—slow cash flow.

Payments could be delayed five or six months after delivery. Even though business volume increased, Song Guangjun’s company couldn’t withstand the pressure and began experiencing cash flow collapse.

Song Kainian grew anxious but didn’t dare tell Song Guangjun. Cao Wei suggested they mortgage fixed assets to keep the company alive—everyone did it that way anyway.

At this time, Song Kainian’s biological father’s family began intentionally approaching him, persuading him to think about his future. After all, Song Guangjun still had a mentally disabled son who would be a long-term burden.

So he should save more money and help his siblings if possible.

This planted new intentions in Song Kainian.

After Song Guangjun was discharged from the hospital, the mixing station had completely changed. Many employees were unfamiliar to him. There was no money in the accounts, and production records showed severe discrepancies—specifications and quality completely deviated from contracts.

He was alarmed and realized his adopted son had developed his own agenda.

This station was Song Guangjun’s life savings. Furious, he slapped Song Kainian, who then ran away.

Song Guangjun went to Dongjian Group’s Cao Ming to settle accounts. Without recovering funds, he couldn’t continue operations.

Cao Ming learned of this and warned Cao Wei. Cao Wei became angry and, using Cao Ming’s name, invited Song Guangjun to Maidao for a barbecue under the pretense of resolving things face-to-face. He also contacted Song Kainian, telling him not to go too far.

On June 4, 2014, both Song Kainian and Song Guangjun arrived at Maidao. Cao Wei mediated between them. After twenty years of father-son ties, tensions softened and they began preparing barbecue together.

Song Kainian received a phone call but missed it while setting up a tent. Song Guangjun answered instead. On the call, someone began reading financial transactions, detailing how certain payments were handled.

The more Song Guangjun listened, the angrier he became. He smashed the phone and went to find Song Kainian.

At a rocky cave entrance, he found him, dragged him inside, and struck him repeatedly, demanding whether what he heard was true—whether company funds had been fully transferred.

Song Kainian snapped back, and they fought. He punched Song Guangjun.

Cao Wei heard the noise and rushed over. He grabbed Song Guangjun, who was about to swing a hammer, and shoved him. Song Guangjun stumbled, hit the rocky wall head-first—

He died instantly.

Both men froze. Too many consequences would be impossible to explain.

They considered calling Cao Ming but ultimately decided otherwise. They dismembered the body, removed internal organs, and during the process urine leaked from the corpse. In anger, Cao Wei cut off the genitals.

They filled the chest and abdominal cavity with sand and salt for preservation.

The body was wrapped in blankets and plastic sheeting. Internal organs were dumped into the sea.

But disposal became a problem.

Cao Wei recalled a construction trick: workers sometimes cut rebar and created false beams so future openings could be made without affecting structure. If done carefully, a thick wall cavity could easily hide a body.

So they contacted site personnel involved in the Sofia project, silenced them, and used Cao Ming’s name to request removal of eight steel bars in a wall section.

On the evening of the 5th at around 9 PM, during concrete pouring, Song Kainian transported the wrapped body and placed it into the prepared mold. Concrete was then poured normally.

The building was completed without anyone discovering the truth.

Over time, attention faded. Song Kainian emptied the mixing station, liquidated assets, and fled south with the money.

Chu Menghan had tricked him back using the excuse that his biological father was critically ill.

After learning of the incident, Cao Ming immediately sent Cao Wei to Hainan. Because of his criminal record, Cao Wei had difficulty obtaining a visa.

On January 15, through Cao Ming’s spending records, Cao Wei’s hiding place in Hainan was located. He was arrested the next day.

Song Kainian and Cao Wei confessed to all crimes.

Thus, the wall-buried corpse case was concluded and prepared for prosecution.

Zhou Hai let out a long breath.

Cases like this leave almost no traces. Not becoming a cold case was already difficult.

The ignorance of Song Kainian and Cao Wei was almost tragic—what began as an accidental death escalated into a concealment case. Even a simple online search or consultation could have prevented everything.

A noise came from outside the door. Zhou Hai quickly hid the tablet under the blanket and closed his eyes.

Liu Da entered, walked to his side, and coughed twice.

“Stop pretending. Your eyelashes are trembling.”

Zhou Hai sat up and fixed his hair.

“Liu Da? I thought you were on a business trip.”

“Kid, I just came to see you before leaving. What, not welcome?”

“No. By the way… I heard you’re my guardian now?”

“Hmm?”

Liu Da looked confused, then realized.

“Oh, that. I just signed a couple of emergency treatment consent forms for you. Honestly, it scared me. The director said you’re stable now.”

“So? You really recovered?”

Zhou Hai nodded.

“Fully back to life.”

“Good. Then I’ve got a new case for you.”

Zhou Hai’s eyes lit up instantly.

“A new case?”