Chapter 48: Bringing the truth out (3)
"The other thing that I couldn't gather was the difference in time. The gap between the onset and the actual death. The asthma attack set in just short after the interval. But she died almost one hour later when it was time for the movie to end. What explained this gap then? If Mr. Dai had clamped her mouth shut then, then what exactly occurred an hour before when she was actually suffering?"
Wang Lei exclaimed. "Oh shit! That's how it happened! This grandma tried to kill her first."
Jia nodded. "Now that we know that both Mr Dai and Miss. Ma were involved, I will tell you the sequence of events. Then we will talk about the motive."
Ma Zhilan softly closed her eyes as if succumbing to her hate. The more she emanated such calmness, the more Ma Wenyan felt on edge.
Jia could feel the deep bone-chilling sense of unease and the impending doom that the truth was going to hurt many.
"First, Miss. Ma's seat was booked in such a way that it will be on the last row beside the Dai family. There were three seats booked at the last row - T19, T20 and T21. Yun was probably on his father's lap. But there is a catch here. Miss. Ma couldn't have known on which side Mrs. Dai would sit. But she also guessed that it wouldn't be the middle seat since she would want Mr. Dai and Miss. Yin to sit together with Yun. So it was either T19 or T21. So she booked both seats T18 and T22 so that it wouldn't be a problem for her.
But the other people on Miss. Ma's left side of the seats could pose a problem if anybody noticed her doing anything suspicious. That's why the entire left side from her seat was booked too. When I checked the booking records, it wasn't done in bulk. It was done from four different accounts and names so that it wouldn't seem suspicious. But none of those people came for the movie. I understand one group's plans canceling at the last moment but all four?"
The air felt still.
"Miss. Ma then wanted to use Mrs. Dai's allergy against her. But animal fur allergies are fairly immediate. If she inhaled a considerable amount of fur without any sort of planning, it wouldn't be possible to time the reaction."