Chen Shi was taken aback. He truly hadn’t noticed this detail. The body had been covered with blood, and the surrounding area was very dark. After the police arrived, they had bagged the body and brought it back to the bureau.

Chen Shi continued to ask, "When was he injured?"

Chu Shifang replied, "A few years ago, I asked him how it had happened. He said that he had visited a factory run by a friend and accidentally gotten his hand caught in a machine. He also said that it didn't matter as the doctor had helped him to reattach it and that after a while, it’d grow better. However, I discovered that the transplanted finger seemed to be a bit different from his original finger."

"Was it ten years ago?"

"Seems like it."

Ten years ago was the time when Chang Juan's parents were killed. Could it be that Ma Xiang's severed finger was related to this matter, or was Ma Xiang the...