The Missing Wife

The Missing Wife Xiao Zhang's wife disappeared a year ago. The police searched fruitlessly, eventually classifying it as a cold case. Devastated, Xiao Zhang decided to renovate his house and replace all the old furniture to overcome his grief. As the contractor was dismantling the wooden headboard of the large double bed in the bedroom, he suddenly cried out, dropped his tools, and stumbled backward. Xiao Zhang leaned in to look. Inside the hollowed-out space of the headboard was a thin, dried human skin, remarkably preserving his wife's face. Terrified, Xiao Zhang collapsed onto the floor and immediately called the police. Upon arriving at the scene, the police meticulously examined the headboard's interior. Forensic experts found a large amount of wood shavings and dried blood under the wife's fingernails, and the inside of the headboard was covered in dense scratch marks. The veteran forensic examiner sighed and said to Xiao Zhang: "She was crammed into this gap, less than two centimeters wide, while she was still alive. When they put her in there, she was alive." "And judging by the direction of the scratches, for the past year, right where your head rested every night as you slept... she was actually in there, trying to reach out and touch your hair."