Zhaodong girl matricide case

The city of Zhaodong in Heilongjiang province saw a drop in temperature just after The National Day holiday in 2016, with the lowest temperature reaching below zero. After supper, there were few people in the street after six o ‘clock.

I had prepared before I went, but now, even though I was tucked into my down jacket, I still felt cold, and the wind seemed to pass through my body.

Go back to your hotel, enter your room, turn on your computer, and start listening to a recording.

“You know, sometimes killing is just a thought away, a thought away. I’m standing on the 24th floor, I don’t know. My life is gone with the wind. The funny thing is nobody cares what I think.”

This is the voice of the ear, a hearing is young. The sound was “hard” and the wind was roaring in the background. This is a voicemail Chen Xinran, a 16-year-old girl, sent to her friend Zhang Nan.

Her mother died early that morning.

“It’s strange. I killed her. She’s hopeless. I know she’s hopeless. What if I get it back? I’m a murderer.”

At 6:30 am on September 16, 2016, 43-year-old Chen Gang was called downstairs by his friend, who said “something happened”. When he arrived, he was told that his wife, Li Mei, 41, had died and that his 16-year-old daughter, Xinran Chen, was on the run.

“My mood, at that time was already unable to walk the road.”

Chen had known for eight days that his daughter had been in control of his wife. The family had lived in the same duplex for nearly two months, and their parents had moved out and rented another room because of the conflict. Li Mei always misses her daughter and often comes back to visit her. At noon on Sept. 8, Li said she would go home to cook for her daughter, but did not return to the couple’s rented house until the evening.

“The next day we agreed to go to Harbin to attend the meeting. A meeting on how to educate children, recommended by her great uncle before, I remember spending 500 for the name. She must come back and take an early train to Harbin the next day.”

Chen gang then asked his friend to call Li Mei. The daughter answered, “Said her mother was in the bath.” As soon as Chen gang heard this, he felt abnormal. He suspected his wife of being under the thumb of his daughter.

“After we moved out, she changed all the locks and I couldn’t get in the house.” Chen just came to his downstairs, walked around, and went to a residential building on the opposite side to observe.

Duplex building is Chen gang bought in 2008, six with seven two floors. On the other side of the street, Chen gang noticed that the light in his daughter’s room on the seventh floor was on, and the shadow under the light looked like his wife. Chen Gang waved from the other side, and his wife soon saw him and signaled him to go downstairs.

After Chen gang went downstairs, Li Mei threw the first note to him. The note said, “Nothing, just tuition. I’m staying here today. You can go back. The phone’s at the kid’s.”

During the seizure, Ms. Li held up the board on the balcony of her seventh floor apartment, on which the word “nothing” was written. During the seizure, Ms. Li held up the board on the balcony of her seventh floor apartment, on which the word “nothing” was written.

“You know what? If they could, otherwise, I would still be in school, in class, as a student who is not studying well but studying hard. When all this happened, it was just god playing a joke on us. It was a story.”

In the father Chen Gang’s story, daughter Chen Xinran from childhood grade “not good autumn”. “In our society, there is no knowledge, what to do in the future? Chen gang graduated from the original Heilongjiang Banking School, and his wife, Li Mei, graduated from the Harbin Electric Power School. The couple later had decent and stable jobs in Zhaodong, benefiting from hard work. In their day, students who went to technical secondary schools did well.

So when Chen Xinran’s grades always go up, Chen gang and his wife worried. “But she has always been obedient. Ask her to sit at her desk, and she’ll sit even if she can’t learn. He is good.” After graduating from junior high school in 2015, 15-year-old Xinran Chen failed to get into the top local no. 1 middle school, and told him he would have to go back to school. “If you want to have a jumbled idea, can you repeat it? Just want to take an examination of one!”

Change may happen quietly or overnight.

The summer after junior high school, Mr. Chen says, his daughter Xinran made friends he didn’t approve of. These friends “have very short hair and don’t like to study”. Xinran Chen once went to the barber shop with his mother and suddenly asked for a haircut similar to Yin and Yang.

“Her mother called me right then and there, and I said no, no.” Her parents objected, but Chen cut her hair very short. After returning home, Chen gang scolded his daughter and understood something in his heart. “One of her friends had her hair cut just like this, just like that. And a child who does not like to study.”

Chen had initially restricted his daughter to a few friends and, predictably, ran into protests.

The summer vacation passed, and Chen Xinran began to go to high school at Zhaodong No.2 Middle School. Chen found that his daughter often didn’t come home on time after class and hung out with “bad” friends.

“Not a little girl, but a boy too.” Chen first drove to pick up his daughter after work, but she objected several times. He could only allow her to go home by herself, but agreed to the time. “At first, I returned home at some point. Later and later, I called her on her cell phone. After that, she got bored.”

Chen gang and Li Mei have tried other methods. Go quietly to the school gate with, to see who the daughter is with; If Chen xinran said she was going to a friend’s house, they would call their parents.

As a child, Chen tried his hand because his daughter did not like to study, but “as I grew older, I became more aware of it.” Impression of the last time began to teach her daughter, but also because of friends. One day in the first semester of her first year of high school, Xinran Chen was at home late at night. Suddenly, she took her mobile phone and told her parents that her friend was waiting for her downstairs and she would go out. Chen gang disagreed. The attitude is firm. “I ended up spanking her and giving her a kick.”

Chen Gang once watched his daughter go out with a book, the Sorrows of Young Werther. He followed quietly to a drink shop near the school. There were a lot of students in the shop, “all 15 or 16 children.” Chen Gang did not find her daughter, but to see her daughter’s book on the bar.

It was the first time Chen Gang met Zhang Nan, the shop-owner, who seemed to be in her thirties. “I asked her, where is Xinran Chen? And she said, No. I said, this is her book. She said she couldn’t remember names because there were so many children in the shop. She knew faces by their faces.”

Chen made a decision he later regretted.

“My child is a little rebellious and doesn’t listen to our parents,” Chen told Zhang. “If the child likes to come here for drinks, you should try to persuade her and talk to her.” ‘I thought, after all, Zhang is about my age, so I think I can understand what it’s like to be a parent,’ Mr. Chen said.

“Yes, it’s my fault. She’s dead and dead now. I know this, and you may not even hear it, but I want you to know that these moments with you are the last of my humanity, the ultimate warmth.”

Chen Xinran sat in front of me, in the eyes is not hidden proud.

Her voice was the same as the long ones sent to Zhang Nan. It was stilted, short, fast, wrapped in something, vague. She said she knew of the scene in which her father “entrusted” her to Mr. Zhang, and she saw him following her. Zhang Nan was in the drink when his father said that to her.

She just didn’t want to face her parents.

“I don’t care what friends they have, they do it, they mess around, they talk to my friends’ parents.” More than once, Chen said, a friend told her, “You’re a nice person, but your parents are so annoying.”

Chen xinran said her parents had always been like this and didn’t respect her. She knew it from the first haircut. As far as she was concerned, she wasn’t being egged on by her friends. “Growing up, I didn’t want my hair, but my parents always said, ‘You’re a girl, you act like a girl.'”

In her own house, Xinran had been living in an unlocked room on the seventh floor. She and her parents asked for a lock and a knock on the door. “Otherwise, anyone can come in anytime and anywhere, no matter if I am sleeping or changing my clothes, I feel very uncomfortable.” Those demands were not supported either.

Xinran Chen likes sports very much. When she was in junior high school, she and her parents wanted to practice. Chen Gang disagreed. “I said it’s ok to practice, but you have to learn in cultural classes. After a look no, forget it.” Xinran Chen felt his father was too strong. “How far can they go? I’ve already signed up for the game; they won’t let me go. Because of that, the coach never looked for me again.

After graduating from junior high school, Chen Xinran failed to enter his ideal high school, “under great pressure”. After the first year of high school, she was so busy with her lessons that she couldn’t keep up. When she wanted to “talk to someone,” her parents let her down again. “They put on the monastic AIRS and said to me, ‘Don’t cross your legs when you talk. Don’t cross your hands or anything like that.”

Xinran Chen began to find some friends to play with.

What are you playing with? “Just walking down the street and drinking milk tea. We don’t do anything.” Chen xinran said that some of her friends smoke and drink, but she doesn’t do it. She prefers quieter activities.

She was also introduced by a friend to zhang Nan’s shop for a drink. With that “trust” of her father, she went more often. Zhang nan, 38, was initially called “godmother” by Chen Xinran. When she was ripe, she went to drink milk tea, but Zhang Nan did not charge her. She is also more and more willing to talk to Zhang Nan, effortless. “I think she’s the only one who understands me and trusts me.”

Chen gang and Li Mei sensed danger. They found out that Zhang nan was not married and seemed to have been doing business in Hainan before. It was unclear what he was doing. Most important of all, “I heard she ran away at 16 and didn’t get on well with her family.”

“You’re the only one who gets to see the whole thing in its entirety.”

As zhang Nan and Chen Xinran got to know each other, the distance between Chen xinran and his parents grew. She still came home late, and did not even come home late. She even went to Spend the night at Zhang Nan’s.

What Chen xinran says she lacked most in her parents was “respect.” For Zhang nan, “it’s a complicated mixture of affection, friendship, trust,” she pauses, “because I’m missing all those feelings.”

By the end of 2015, the relationship with his parents had become so bad that Chen wanted to break it off. “The template was downloaded from the Internet. I want them to reflect on themselves and respect me.”

Chen still has a “severance letter” from his daughter on his mobile phone WeChat. Xinran Chen offered that her parents would give her money until she reached adulthood, but let her alone. Mr. Chen said that he and Ms. Li were both chilled. “But it’s your own child.”

Li Mei also called her sister in other places to complain, and said that Zhang Nan even came from home, said to her such words, “This child you never had, you want another one.” Li Mei’s sister said, at that time she heard this, angry, “What does she eat? Who is to say that? Did our child beg her for an education?”

Chen gang and Li Mei did not promise to give money to their daughter. In January 2016, during the winter vacation, Chen Ran away from home.

Xinran Chen poses for a selfie on a tall building on Jan 21, 2016. Xinran Chen poses for a selfie on a tall building on Jan 21, 2016.

Chen Gang couple worried, secretly looking for, found her daughter zhaodong local odd jobs. two people immediately thought of Zhang Nan, began to take the monitoring of the vicinity of Zhang Nan’s home, indeed as expected to find her daughter will go to Zhang Nan overnight. Sometimes she lives in hotels.

Until the New Year, the daughter did not come home. Chen just tried everything and finally called Zhang Nan. “If you know where Xinran Chen is, talk to me. And she said, I don’t know.”

Finally, Li Mei thought of a way to ask other relatives to tell Chen Xinran that her grandfather was ill. Xinran Chen went home to find that her family had lied to her. Not only that, “they taught me, shoved me into the car and told me I was wrong.” This was more than Chen could bear. When she sees her father Chen Gang again, anger erupts and both of them feel from the bottom of their hearts that it is clearly each other’s fault.

“Finally my dad said, in that case, you can go.” Xinran Chen did leave. This time she left Zhaodong for Daqing, more than 100 kilometers away. She wandered daqing for a few days and got a job cutting fruit bowls in a nightclub.

“I hate them even now.”

When Chen Xinran was in Daqing in February 2016, she never dreamed that her family had made a difficult decision.

Li Mei’s sister said Xinran’s behavior surprised the whole family. ‘She used to be quiet and quiet, but then she ran away from home and stayed up all night. Who could bear it?’

To add to the family’s frustration, Chen xinran often spends time with Zhang Nan. After Xinran Chen arrived in Daqing, Chen Gang also went to look for it. Found Zhang Nan also in. Once he followed Zhang Nan to a hotel, asked for the next room, and heard in the window sill, “What kind of goods, how much”. Chen gang felt that he could not wait any longer.

“It felt like it was dangerous to be outside for another second, and then the situation wouldn’t allow you to wait. She had to find a closed school, the kind she couldn’t get out of, the kind no one else could get in. It’s the only way.” “Said Li Mei’s sister.

This was a collective decision made by the family, Chen Gang, Li Mei, Li Mei’s brother and sister, and Chen Gang’s brother and sister.

They have heard that there are such schools in Shandong. Chen gang searches on the Internet, searched a “Shandong science and technology defense academy”, entrust shandong’s friends to inquire. “I hear the school has a good reputation. Well, to tell you the truth, none of us went to the school to see it ourselves, because it seemed to us then that time was running out.”

Chen gang contacted the school and told them about Chen Xinran. The university said it could send someone to pick them up. At the end of the winter vacation, Chen Gang and Li Mei’s sister met the school instructor in Daqing.

Three people came to school. Chen said his biggest concern was how the school would discipline the children. “I asked them, ‘Do you beat or scold the children? They said, we have so many instructors, hundreds of children, can beat and scold over it? It makes sense, when I think about it.”

Li Mei’s sister asked again, “Those are disobedient children. Why do they listen to the drillmasters and get rid of their bad habits when they come to school?” “The instructor told me at that time that children are like this, in front of the parents alike, to the school environment, the nature is good.”

Shandong Science and Technology Defense College. Shandong Science and Technology Defense College.

On Feb. 26, 2016, Chen xinran said that after two days of work at a nightclub, at night in her dormitory, the manager on duty knocked on her door. “Two people came in immediately, stranger. I didn’t know what to do, and I got stuck.” “He looked at me coldly, like I was looking at an enemy,” Chen xinran said. She also saw her aunt. “I asked what was wrong,” said my aunt, “taking you to school.”

She was carried straight to the car with her feet on the ground, Said Chen xinran. Two drill sergeants, dressed in camouflage fatigues, clipped her between them and took away her mobile phone.

Then the instructor told her that the car would drive directly to Shandong. “Said I went to school there, said my father signed me up.” Xinran Chen didn’t understand. At first, she said, she struggled and resisted, but he quickly subdued her. Later, in the back of the car, she saw the instructor in the front row answering the phone. The number she knew well was her father’s.

“It took two calls, and every time I called, the drillmaster slapped me and my mouth bled.”

After driving for more than 10 hours, Chen xinran offered to go to the toilet. In fact, he wanted to run, but failed. She remembers the drillmaster grabbing her, saying, “Well, your dad was right. He just shouldn’t believe you.”

Xinran Chen laid all the blame on his father.

“At the last moment, I finally saw the society, saw myself, who I really was. I don’t have any hope for the world.”

The car drove almost a day and a night, came to the school in Jinan. Xinran Chen began to get used to the school, which she called “abnormal”.

School uniform is camouflage, two sets of a person, can not wear other clothes; Chen xinran’s phone was taken away and told that no Internet access was allowed at the school, which specializes in “Internet addiction”, and of course no mobile phone use. However, Chen soon discovered that only a small percentage of students at his school are addicted to the Internet.

“The school was a mess. Drug addicts, drug dealers, prostitutes, gambling… I don’t really feel like I did anything wrong compared to them.” Xinran Chen didn’t quite understand why her parents had sent her in. She couldn’t get in touch with her former friends, and she wondered if Zhang nan was worried about her sudden disappearance.

When Chen Xinran entered the university, she filled out a new student registration form. In each stage, she wrote “nothing” in the column of “happy things in my memory” and “nothing” in the column of “loved ones”. In the “sad things in my memory” and “reasons”, she wrote a lot — “Beaten and scolded by my parents”, “bullied by others, but my parents did not defend me”, “only cold violence at home”, “my father took everything from me, friends, freedom and rights”.

Under “Confusion and annoyance,” she wrote, “Why can’t my family respect me?”

But she can only adapt.

Fourteen people live in Chen Xinran’s dormitory. “She’s doing fine,” two of her roommates said. Good performance in school is a neat shop floor and careful training. Students get up at 5:45 am, do their chores, and then have breakfast together. The girls go to the playground in the morning and have cultural lessons in the classroom in the afternoon. The boys do the opposite. At night, we watch TV together, sum up the day, turn off the light and go to bed at 9:00. Except for bathing, everything else — eating, training, and attending classes — is done in groups.

“She was obedient and didn’t have any problems with the others,” said Li Guifang, Chen’s instructor. “She always does sit-ups in bed at night.” Her monitor described her as “cold and easy-going. Gao Cold is that she does not speak actively, came to tell us that she and her parents do not get on well. But he is easygoing and active in group activities. Then he asked to be a monitor.”

Compared with her classmates’ positive comments, Chen xinran’s own description of the school was “inhuman” — “corporal punishment and mental torture.”

When practicing in the morning, Chen says, “do repetitive, energy-draining exercises, like doing push-ups all the time, running all the time.” “A lot of the rules are perverted. A lot of things can’t be done in a high-pressure environment. You might be on good terms with one person one day, and the next she’ll turn you in to the drillmaster. It doesn’t matter if you’re wrong, as long as people say you’re wrong, you’re wrong.”

Chen xinran’s body was also very unfit. She developed a number of rashes on her back and arms. She took some medicine in the school infirmary, but it never went away. What’s more, she hasn’t had her period in three months.

After the incident, the Shandong Provincial Education department issued a rectification notice to the Shandong Science and Technology Defense College. After the incident, the Shandong Provincial Education department issued a rectification notice to the Shandong Science and Technology Defense College.

The first three months of school is the freshman period, not only can’t contact with the outside world, can’t go out of school, even parents can’t meet. Three months later, in early June 2016, Xinran finally welcomed her parents.

“The child saw us for the first time, knelt down before us, and the child cried. We parents couldn’t stand it either. We cried too.” This is how Chen describes the first meeting. ‘When I saw my daughter, it didn’t change much,’ he said. She told them there was corporal punishment at school. “I think it may be the military training, not serious, hit once, will not be very heavy. Chen and his wife have already paid more than 30,000 yuan for a school year. At this point they told Xinran, “You can stay for another year.”

What Chen didn’t tell his daughter was that he came when she was taken away from school in February.

“Where can rest assured, me and her mother also came the next day.” “So we saw the child under surveillance. She was talking to the drill instructor, and I looked good,” Chen said, citing the school’s policy not to meet for the first three months. Chen said his inner thoughts are “desperate to find a cure.” “Think about it, if there is a way, what parent would have the heart to send their child away?”

At the time, Chen described his daughter’s situation in the school registration form: “I didn’t understand the discipline of my parents, I was very disgusted with them and even hated them.” “There was a tendency not to go home, to hang out with my older aunt (38), and to listen to her very much.”

“I want to say I don’t regret it. That’s what I wanted to tell you. I wish I’d met you sooner. My parents were even you. My character will be better. I won’t be.”

“He pushed you into the abyss with his own hands, and when you came up, instead of pulling you, he gave you another kick.” Xinran said she finally got to meet her parents and knelt down again and begged them to take her home, but the answer was “one more year.”

Xinran Chen had a secret plan. She told her parents, he had a rash, always good, begged her parents to take her to the hospital in Jinan to have a look. Chen Gang and Li Mei agreed.

On June 10, Chen and his wife took their daughter out of school. Xinran Chen stepped out of school for the first time in three months. At the hospital, Xinran Chen took a chance and ran away.

“The first reaction was to get out of here, get away from here. Running aimlessly, not knowing where to go.” After running for a while, Chen xinran reached a friend on the phone. She was offered a room in the hotel. “I’ll go to sleep.”

Chen gang and Li Mei are aware of Chen Xinran’s resistance to school.

“If you really don’t like this school, we won’t let you go back to school, Mom believes you! I wanted to arrange the high school to pick you up later, but I didn’t tell you about it in time. Come back at once, father and mother take you home with them!”

After Xinran ran away from school, his parents posted posters on Man Street in Jinan. After Xinran ran away from school, his parents posted posters on Man Street in Jinan.

In addition to Posting the missing person notice, Chen also enlisted the help of local media and wanted to appear on the show to find his daughter. But three days later, through relatives, they found Xinran.

“When she first saw me, she started crying again.” Chen gang saw his daughter’s fear, he hurriedly said, no longer send Chen Xinran back to school.

Chen later posted this message on his circle of friends: “My dear daughter, parents will never lose your heart again. If your father makes a mistake, change it.”

“What is it, what is it? Have I changed? I don’t know.”

Before returning home from Shandong province, Chen gang and Li Mei played with their daughter for a few days, both to relax and to talk about something.

“There are a lot of things she doesn’t want to talk about, but I think I’ll let it go,” Mr. Chen said, confessing to his daughter why he sent her to school. Chen gang even remembers walking and talking with his daughter after dinner. ‘I’ve walked so far that it’s almost twelve o ‘clock when I get home. I said all the things my parents had done and all the things I wanted from her. I feel like deep down the child is responding. After a pause of several seconds, Chen gang added darkly, “Or maybe I felt wrong.”

In June 2016, Chen xinran returned home and spent a few days peacefully with her parents. Adults work during the day, she signed up for a boxing class at the sports school and went to classes. But soon, there was a fight. Because Chen gang found, Chen Xinran unexpectedly and Zhang Nan in contact.

“A child’s character is stubborn, and it is hard to get back what he has decided.” Chen Gang was most afraid of what happened, did not escape.

In Chen xinran’s opinion, “Haven’t I told you all about it? Because you’ve already sent me there, I said, and I’m free to be with whomever I want to be.”

At the time, Chen said, she only felt that her parents had not changed at all. This time her heart was filled with hatred. During her three months in Shandong, every day of suffering and every hour of lost freedom weighed heavily on her heart.

In July, Chen just looked for Zhang Nan, may be to give each other an ultimatum, may also put malicious words, these can not be verified. Mr. Chen said he and his friends were out drinking one night when his daughter came to see him looking embarrassed. Xinran asked him why he had interfered with her relationship with Zhang, saying, “It’s for your own good.” Xinran Chen said, “It’s good for me that you sent me to that school? Don’t you think there’s something wrong between us?”

Chen Xinran said this with a beer bottle in his hand. Chen Gang’s friend stood up and asked, “How do you talk to your father?” With these words, don’t hold Chen Xinran’s hand.

“Do you mean for a man to beat up your daughter?” Xinran Chen shouted to his father and rushed out the door. She found her father’s car and smashed the window.

“I was so angry I could have hit somebody.” “After all, it’s my father,” Mr. Chen said.

After that day, Chen didn’t go home to live. A few days later, he went home and quarreled with Chen Xinran again. Chen Gang was so angry that he had a heart attack. When the ambulance arrived at home, Chen xinran was not in a hurry and picked up his phone and began to take photos.

“I’m now, I’ve killed people, but I don’t feel anything. My first reaction was probably to save her. My second reaction was to run away. I couldn’t go to prison.”

After Chen just moved out, his wife, Li Mei, stayed at home, cooking for Chen Xinran and taking care of her daily life. At that time, Li Mei asked for a month’s leave from work. Neighbours also noticed the family squabbling and were under the impression that “the children always had the upper hand”.

Xinran Chen was not touched by her mother’s care at all. She felt, “I’m dangerous for her; She’s dangerous to me, too.” She thinks Li Mei was sent by her father to watch her, and she worries, “I’m afraid they’ll send me to that school in Shandong again. Because he told me before he ought to send you, and it was right to send you.”

Chen xinran again asked his parents to break off the relationship, with two demands: “Either you give me money and let me work out, or you find a sports school for me to practice sports and give me the tuition.”

In short, Chen Xinran asked for 50,000 yuan.

“How can you give a kid $50,000?” Chen just ignored her daughter, he put her daughter WeChat screen, his daughter called him also do not pick up.

Li Mei was caught in the middle. No one knew how difficult it would be. But in Xinran’s eyes, “My mother has always been on my father’s side. It doesn’t matter. It’s useless.” Once, while Li Mei was out, Chen Xinran changed the door lock. “The lock does not change, I sleep not sureness, who can suddenly break in.”

But about the money, Chen Xinran always get no feedback, she became more and more anxious. “I just want a statement. What exactly do you want from me? Work or go to a sports school? It’s almost time for school.”

Just sent to shandong Science and Technology defense College, Chen Xinran wrote the registration form. Just sent to shandong Science and Technology defense College, Chen Xinran wrote the registration form.

On August 8, Li returned home to cook for Chen Xinran and was taped to a punching bag in her bedroom.

Xinran Chen filmed an 11-and-a-half-minute video and stored it on his phone. In the video, she is seen walking around in a training suit and boxing gloves, punching Li Mei every now and then. She also had a swinging stick with which she would sarcastically say, “How light!” when she hit her mother.