Chen Xiao knew he couldn't escape. He ran his fingers through his hair and scratched it irritably, then looked up and asked Yan Muhuai, "Did Yanling's parents ask you to come find me?"

"Who is Yanling?" Mrs. Chen asked immediately.

Yan Muhuai chuckled, "Mayor Chen, when will you accept the truth? We weren't the ones who came to mess with you. It was she who died with regrets, and her ghost is haunting your son."

As he spoke, he pointed at the girl in red on the screen with his slender fingers.

After Rong Jin left, the female ghost in the painting calmed down and there was no sign of anything unusual.

"How could it be Yanling's ghost? She has been dead for more than ten years!" Chen Xiao believed that Chen Sangluo had encountered a ghost, but he still didn't think that the ghost was Xu Yanling whom he knew.

Yan Muhuai leaned lazily in his chair. "It's precisely because this situation doesn't make sense that I want Mayor Chen to tell you the truth about what happened back then. How did Xu Yanling die? Was she killed by you?"

When Mrs. Chen heard her husband say the name of a strange woman, she had some vague guesses in her mind, but she also knew that now was not the time to lose her temper, so she forced herself to endure it.

She also wanted to hear the so-called truth, to hear what her husband, who had slept with her in bed for more than 20 years, was hiding from her!

Chen Xiao lowered his head and sighed, then said with great difficulty, "I am sorry for her. Her death is indeed inseparable from me..."

This story started when Chen Xiao went to the countryside when he was young. Xu Yanling was the village beauty where he was sent down. He was deeply attracted to her at first sight. In addition, he was also the most outstanding among the educated youth, so the two naturally came together.

After finishing his trip to the countryside, he happily returned to the city and planned to tell his parents about him and Xu Yanling. He planned to marry her, but before he could open his mouth, he heard that his parents had already arranged a marriage for him. The girl's family background was good and would be very helpful to his career.

He grew up in a poor family, but his parents were both intellectuals and gave everything they had so that he could have a bright future. He also didn't want to do anything to disappoint his parents.

The most important thing is that if he obeyed his parents and married that girl, now Mrs. Chen, his future would be really bright. On the contrary, if he disobeyed his parents and insisted on choosing Xu Yanling, he would lose everything, including his parents who loved him.

"So you decisively chose me and abandoned her?" Mrs. Chen asked in a calm tone after listening to Chen Xiao's past, which she had never known.

Chen Xiao said, "I hesitated for a long time, but ultimately failed her. I wrote her an apology letter, but she didn't receive it. A year after we got married, she suddenly came to see me. She was covered in wounds, saying her parents had beaten her and she was homeless. Out of guilt, I arranged for her to live in that suburban apartment."

"That house was originally a surprise I prepared for you. You were already pregnant at the time, and I thought that after the baby was born, we could go to the suburbs for a couple of days during the holidays... Yanling suddenly showed up, and I didn't have time to make any arrangements. Besides, if we made too much noise, my father-in-law would notice, so I had no choice but to let her move in first..."

Mrs. Chen took a deep breath. "What happened next? Did you and her..."

"No!" Chen Xiao interrupted Mrs. Chen before she could finish. "I've already let her down, and there's no way I'm going to let you down again. I kept her here because she had nowhere else to go, and I wanted to explain things to her and persuade her not to waste her time on me anymore."

"But she's very persistent. No matter what I say, she won't listen and has decided to stay here for a long time..."

Before Chen Xiao finished speaking, Yan Ce took over, "So you killed her?"

Judging from what Chen Xiao said, it is entirely possible that under such circumstances, he had murderous thoughts and wanted to get rid of Xu Yanling, who suddenly appeared and wanted to destroy his peaceful life.

"I was very worried that Yanling's discovery would affect my life, but I never thought of letting her disappear. I don't know exactly what happened to her. When I arrived, she was already dead. Her parents told me that someone broke into her house and killed her."

Chen Xiao said this and turned to ask Mrs. Chen, "Back then, this case caused a sensation in Huaicheng and made people panic. You were paranoid for a while, and every night when you went to bed, you would doubt whether you had closed the window properly. Remember?"

"I remember that not long after that, people started saying that the place was haunted, and later it became a famous haunted house." Because of the constant morning sickness, Mrs. Chen was very sensitive during that period and had a very hard time. It was Chen Xiao's meticulous care that helped her get through it.

But she could never have imagined that while Chen Xiao was so considerate and caring towards her, he was having an affair with another woman behind her back!

"Yanling died tragically. She was stabbed multiple times, and her blood stained her clothes, as well as this painting." Chen Xiao's gaze fell on the painting on the bedside table and continued, "When I had someone clean the room, I threw away the blood-stained painting. I don't know where you found it; it's exactly the same as the other one."

"The painting has not been changed, it's that one!" Yan Muhuai said and patted the frame. A red light floated out of the painting, and Xu Yanling's ghost appeared out of thin air in front of everyone.

Yan Muhuai asked, "Did you hear everything Mayor Chen said? Did he help you recall anything?"

The sudden appearance of the female ghost frightened Chen Xiao so much that he almost jumped up. "Yan, Yanling? Is it really you?"

Seeing Chen Xiao talking to the air, Mrs. Chen's hair stood on end. Zhao Wang rushed to the door in one step, although he didn't see anything.

"Madam Chen, do you want to see her?" Yan Muhuai asked Madam Chen.

Mrs. Chen nodded slowly, "Meet him!"

Yan Muhuai handed the painting without the subject to Mrs. Chen and said, "Just touch it."

Because the female ghost had absorbed Chen Sangluo's vitality before, he was still covered with her ghost energy, which could be seen directly.

Chen Xiao was able to see the female ghost because he accidentally touched a painting outside the villa.

"Are you Brother Chen? You are so old." The ghost girl's voice was full of sorrow, and there was shock and relief on her pale face.

Although she was trapped in the painting by Yan Muhuai's magic, she could hear everyone talking. In Chen Xiao's memories, she also remembered what happened to her.

"Yanling, I'm sorry. I was the one who let you down back then. I'm a scumbag. You can hate and blame me all you want. I'll accept your life, but please let Sang Luo go. He's still a child and has nothing to do with what happened between us." When Chen Xiao saw Xu Yanling, guilt quickly overcame his fear, and he stood up and knelt in front of her.

Although he was not the one who directly killed Xu Yanling, and he didn't even know who killed her, the whole thing was caused by his infidelity, and he should be held responsible.

Mrs. Chen did not stop Chen Xiao's actions, but stared at Xu Yanling blankly. Although the other person's skin was a little scary white, she still sighed in her heart that the girl was really pretty.

No wonder Chen Xiao fell in love with her at first sight!