Chapter 42 So Fierce! Xie Shijin, are you sad for me? ...
Cheng Shiyun remembers Feng Yue's relationship very clearly; it started in the first semester of her first year of high school.
They had a week of military training in September, and classes officially started in mid-September. She and Feng Yue were deskmates. At that time, Feng Yue hadn't started dating yet and was incredibly innocent.
In October, most of the students in the class got back into study mode, while some were thinking about starting a relationship.
At sixteen or seventeen, during puberty when both body and mind are developing, it's normal to feel restless and want to be in a relationship.
“Feng Yue also talked to her,” Cheng Shiyun said.
However, it wasn't Feng Yue who told her; Cheng Shiyun discovered it herself.
Cheng Shiyun asked Xie Shijin, "Do you remember when the midterm exams ended, Old Zhao received a report that some students in the class were dating?"
Xie Shijin nodded: "Mm."
"Feng Yue was terrified at the time."
Old Zhao made the consequences sound extremely serious, and even said that he had a list and that classmates who were in relationships should come to his office to find him.
Only a fool would go.
Feng Yue wanted to go.
It was Cheng Shiyun who noticed something was wrong and stopped her.
Feng Yue cried her heart out, saying that if her father found out, he would definitely beat her to death. Cheng Shiyun, being soft-hearted, secretly went to Lao Zhao's desk to look for the list, only to discover that Lao Zhao had tricked them.
November marks the beginning of winter.
It is often said that autumn and winter are the seasons when the gap between the rich and the poor is most apparent.
Underneath everyone's school uniform, there were either down jackets or cotton-padded coats, covering themselves up completely. But Feng Yue was wearing two sweaters and an autumn shirt layered underneath.
But she did have a pure silver bracelet.
Cheng Shiyun knew about her family situation and also knew that she herself would never be willing to buy such an expensive item.
As expected, Feng Yue said shyly that it was a gift from her boyfriend.
Cheng Shiyun murmured, "The timeline of Feng Yue's dating life matches the timeline on the note..."
At the time, she and Feng Yue were in a relationship where they could share clothes, but she found it strange that Feng Yue was dating someone without telling her.
It turns out it wasn't that I didn't want to say it, but that I couldn't say it.
If this gets out, one will be expelled from school and the other will be dismissed from their job.
Cheng Shiyun's mind was buzzing.
"Cheng Shiyun".
"hiss?"
She looked up and noticed that Xie Shijin's expression was somber and suppressed that it was almost stagnant.
Xie Shijin said, "Feng Yue and Guo Renyi were together on July 12th."
"The day I die?"
Xie Shijin showed her the note in his hand.
——[Date^_^ (Added July 12, 2016)]
"???"
Dating?
Are you in the office?
This jar of stars was given to Guo Renyi by Feng Yue in May, and the date on the note also ended in May.
Xie Shijin disassembled all the stars and said, "Only this one star has a date in July."
"Were they at the school the day I died? Could they have been put in there later?" Cheng Shiyun asked, puzzled. "Didn't the police question them?"
"I asked." Xie Shijin opened her phone's camera, took pictures of all the notes, and saved them in a folder.
The school did not have surveillance footage from July, and Guo Renyi had been questioned at the police station.
Initially, the police classified Cheng Shiyun's death as an accidental traffic accident, but her phone was not found for a long time, and the timelines of several witnesses did not match. Under Cheng Jinghua's insistence, the police also considered the possibility of homicide.
But this happened a week after Cheng Shiyun's death.
To rule out the possibility of homicide, the police began investigating her social relationships, and Feng Yue, Cheng Shiyun's best friend, was also questioned.
Xie Shijin recalled the contents of the statement: "Feng Yue said that she was sleeping at home at the time, and only when the police came to her door did she hear that you had an accident."
The school has no surveillance cameras, and the cameras on Xuefu Road and Xuezi Road at the front and back gates are also broken. Whether Feng Yue and Guo Renyi came to the school on July 12th is unknown to anyone other than the parties involved.
Cheng Shiyun tried to recall what happened that day, but she still couldn't remember anything. However, a bold yet logical guess came to her mind.
"Do you think... it's possible that I caught them... having an affair?" Cheng Shiyun didn't want to use the word "affair," "so they wanted to kill me to silence me?"
Subjectively, Cheng Shiyun was unwilling to hastily label Feng Yue as the murderer, but judging from Feng Yue's attitude towards Xie Shijin during their recent encounters, Feng Yue did indeed know something.
Xie Shijin said, "Go see Feng Yue tomorrow."
Cheng Shiyun flicked her forked tongue in agreement: "What about these stars?"
They've taken everything apart; if we were to fold it all back up and put it back, we probably wouldn't finish until dawn.
They can't be taken away either. If Feng Yue and Guo Renyi are really related to her death, could these stars be considered evidence?
"Should we tell Officer Yang?" Cheng Shiyun asked.
Hand it over to the police?
Is it useful? It's just another round of being evaded and given the runaround.
Feng Yue was determined not to admit her relationship with Guo Renyi, and these stars were not solid evidence. Would the police bother to investigate them?
Xie Shijin picked up the slips of paper, folded them twice, stuffed them back into the glass, and plugged it with a wooden stopper: "Guo Renyi hasn't opened this drawer in a long time."
My hands were covered in dust.
He put the glass bottle into the drawer, then inserted the paperclip into the drawer's keyhole, and with a forceful pull, a piece of the paperclip broke off and remained inside the lock cylinder.
He pulled twice, and when he confirmed that the drawer wouldn't open, he reached out to Cheng Shiyun: "Let's go."
Cheng Shiyun hooked her tail around his wrist, climbed onto his arm, and teased, "You're a top scorer in the college entrance exam, and you're also a top scorer in lock picking. When did you learn this behind my back?"
"There are tutorials online, it's not difficult."
"I remember there were two jars of star-shaped ornaments in the drawer of your desk in your bedroom, weren't there?" Cheng Shiyun asked gossipyly. "Were they a gift from someone, or were you planning to give them away?"
"Want to know?" Xie Shijin opened the office door.
"Who is it?" Cheng Shiyun wanted to ask the day she returned.
Xie Shijin pressed her protruding head back into his collar and said, "I'll tell you when you become human."
"..."
hehe.
"If you don't want to tell me, just say so. Why make excuses? If I could become a human."
Cheng Shiyun ground his teeth with his collarbone: "...That's not called becoming human."
"Summon the zombie!"
...
The next morning, Xie Shijin took Cheng Shiyun to find Feng Yue.
Xie Shijin found Feng Yue's home address in the roster on Lao Zhao's desk.
It takes more than 50 minutes to get from the school to Feng Yue's house by bus, and the round trip takes nearly two hours.
In her first year of high school, they finished school at noon and started class at 2:30 pm. Feng Yue had to go home every day.
Cheng Shiyun asked Feng Yue why she didn't eat lunch at school, since the cafeteria wasn't expensive. Feng Yue said she had to go home to cook lunch for her parents, and she could only take a nap on the bus.
After the bus arrived at the station, Xie Shijin got off and found Xingqing Street, where Feng Yue lived, according to the address on the roster.
Looking left and right and seeing no one, Cheng Shiyun popped out from Xie Shijin's collar with a "biu" sound and looked upstairs: "...Feng Yue lives here?"
So old and dilapidated.
Along the way, she also smelled a very strong, sour stench of fermenting garbage, so strong that she didn't dare stick her tongue out.
Xie Shijin glanced at the address in her hand: "Hmm."
Unit 1, Building 3, Room 503.
Someone came down from upstairs. Cheng Shiyun shrank into Xie Shijin's clothes, resting her head on his shoulder and sniffing around, trying to find a comfortable place to put her head.
Xie Shijin was wearing a round-neck long-sleeved T-shirt today, with half of his collarbone and collarbone hollow exposed. Cheng Shiyun couldn't find a place to put her head, so she just leaned on his shoulder.
There was a cracked full-length mirror next to a pile of garbage not far away. When Xie Shijin passed by the mirror, he glanced at it... The uneven shoulders were very obvious.
The little snake's tail drooped lazily down to his lower back, its cool tip occasionally poking his back.
"Cheng Shiyun".
"Hiss?"
Xie Shijin coughed lightly: "...wrap it around my waist."
"OK."
Cheng Shiyun couldn't have asked for more! She slid off his shoulder in a flash.
Xie Shijin's skin is so smooth and warm, and the pheromones smell so good. It feels especially comfortable to be in contact with his skin.
Cheng Shiyun wrapped herself around his waist, rested her head on his waistband, and could even take a nap in his pants pocket when she got tired—perfect!
"Hiss~ I wonder if Feng Yue is home or not."
"You'll see when you get there." Xie Shijin walked up to the fifth floor.
The old-style residential building has external cement stairs covered with mottled marks. Once it rains, the stairs are wet, and you can easily slip and fall if you are not careful.
The paint on the walls in the stairwell was peeling off, the cement walls were damp and alkaline with white mold growing on them, shoe racks from every household were placed in the stairwell, and several bags of household garbage were piled up at the door of apartment 503.
Before they even got close, they heard cursing coming from inside the house.
"You knew your father had to go to work, why didn't you let the porridge cool down beforehand? You wanted to scald me to death!"
Feng Yue had just come out of the kitchen with a bowl of porridge when a pair of greasy chopsticks came flying at her, hitting her squarely in the face.
She shrank back slightly, and that was the moment she angered the man at the dinner table.
"You dare to hide?!" The man slammed his hand on the table and stood up, grabbing her hair with his large, fan-like hand and dragging her in front of him. "You little slut! You eat my food and live in my house, so it's your own fault if I beat or scold you. You still dare to hide?!"
Feng Yue was in so much pain that tears welled up in her eyes. She covered her face and cried out, "Dad! I won't do it again, I really won't..."
The man spat and looked her up and down with disgust: "I raised you all these years and you're completely useless. You can't even earn a penny. If human trafficking wasn't illegal, I would have sold you long ago!"
Cheng Shiyun recognized the voice: "It's Feng Yue's voice... Is her dad hitting her?"
She knew that Feng Yue's parents didn't love her and wouldn't even pay her tuition, but Feng Yue's life was even worse than Cheng Shiyun had imagined.
Cheng Shiyun hid herself, and Xie Shijin stood at the door, raising his hand to knock.
The man inside was still cursing: "Are you deaf? Go open the door!"
Feng Yue wiped away her tears and quickly picked up the bowl and chopsticks from the ground.
She bit her lip and pulled open the latch, the hinge making a soft click.
The boy standing outside the door was slender and tall, with raven-black hair falling over his forehead. His light-colored eyes appeared even more melancholic in the sunlight. His thin lips were tightly pressed together, and he stood out starkly against the dilapidated apartment building.
"Thank you, thank you Shi Jin..." The redness in Feng Yue's eyes faded instantly, replaced by a look of terror.
Xie Shijin lowered his gaze slightly, glancing over her swollen cheeks, bruised wrists, and the mess behind her, and frowned slightly.
Feng Yue tried to close the door, but Xie Shijin held onto the door frame and stuck his hand inside, blocking the door.
"Who is it?" The man walked over and tugged at Feng Yue's hair. "I'm asking you a question, and you haven't said a word!"
Feng Yue was pulled so hard that she stumbled and crashed into a cabinet next to the door, making a series of clattering noises.
The man craned his neck, sizing up the boy who was a head taller than him, and asked in a gruff voice, "Who are you looking for?"
Xie Shijin said, "I'm looking for Feng Yue."
"Looking for Feng Yue?" The man's eyes instantly turned suspicious as he scanned him up and down.
"Old Feng, it's nine o'clock, hurry up and take our son to his tutoring class!" A woman's urging voice came from the bedroom.
The man answered impatiently, then asked Xie Shijin, "Who are you?"
"He's downstairs!" Feng Yue said hurriedly, "The water pipe in our house burst yesterday! He's downstairs."
Outside the door, Xie Shijin stood there, stunned, and raised his eyebrows slightly.
The small snake wrapped around his waist tightened its grip.
Even as a cobra, Cheng Shiyun is the kindest cobra.
Feng Yue told Cheng Shiyun that when she was in junior high school, a male classmate had a crush on her and came to her house to play. Feng Yue's father caught them and slapped her twice across the face without listening to any explanation.
Although Feng Yue unilaterally broke off their friendship, Cheng Shiyun still considered her a friend and didn't want to see her being beaten and scolded.
Xie Shijin gave a faint "hmm" and didn't expose her.
"The water pipe burst?" The man turned to look at Feng Yue, his face full of disbelief. "How could the water pipe burst out of nowhere?"
The man raised his hand to slap Feng Yue across the face, but Xie Shijin caught him: "Aging water pipes and water pressure issues can both cause water pipes to burst; it's not her fault."
"Old Feng! What are you dawdling for!"
"We're here! What's the rush!"
Xie Shijin let go of his hand. The man glared at him, then shoved Feng Yue's head and gritted his teeth, saying, "I'll deal with you when I get back."
The man took the child out, the woman rushed off to work, leaving the house a mess for Feng Yue to clean up.
Feng Yue smoothed her disheveled hair and gave a teasing laugh.
Back in her school days, she was very proud and afraid of letting others know about her family situation. Now, everything was out in the open. Perhaps it was because Xie Shijin didn't show any mockery or pity that made her feel embarrassed about being exposed, but not as ashamed as she had thought.
"What are you doing here? Asking about Cheng Shiyun?" Feng Yue looked up at Xie Shijin, her tone cold and defensive, still with that attitude, "I don't know anything."
Xie Shijin said, "You were at school on July 12th."
Feng Yue's pupils dilated.
"In the office on the fifth floor, with Guo Renyi."
Xie Shijin's lips moved as he spoke, his voice calm and collected, each word delivered with a sharp, forceful quality, as if a venomous snake were slithering out of his mouth.
Feng Yue's face instantly turned deathly pale and stiff, and her eyes became uncontrollably red and swollen.
Seeing the shock and fear in her eyes, Xie Shijin calmly concluded: "Your boyfriend is Guo Renyi."
Bang--!
My brain exploded.
Did Xie Shijin find out?
How did you know?
Did Cheng Shiyun tell him?
When did Cheng Shiyun discover this, and when did she tell Xie Shijin?
Possible and impossible thoughts raced wildly through Feng Yue's mind. She gripped her trembling hands tightly to barely suppress the shiver in her throat.
Recalling the man's words, Feng Yue took a deep breath and calmly said, "...Are you kidding me?"
Even if Cheng Shiyun told Xie Shijin, so what? Is there any evidence?
Cheng Shiyun is dead. Who can prove the truth of what a dead person says?
Who would believe that a beloved high school principal is dating a female student?
Feng Yue laughed mockingly: "Do you know that spreading rumors is illegal, Xie Shijin? I'm warning you, don't talk nonsense."
She was dating Guo Renyi—no, it didn't even qualify as dating.
She once thought she was dating Guo Renyi.
Guo Renyi treated her even better than her own parents, buying her bracelets, clothes, and stationery. She didn't dare take them home, because if her parents saw them, these things would end up on her younger brother the next day.
But she later discovered that she wasn't the only girl he treated so well.
After Cheng Shiyun's death, fearing it would arouse suspicion, she had basically no contact with Guo Renyi. What evidence could Xie Shijin possibly have?
"In the first semester of your first year of high school, you started dating. In the second semester of your first year, you folded a jar of paper stars for your boyfriend."
Xie Shijin opened his phone's photo album and showed Feng Yue the photos he had taken the night before: "These were found in Guo Renyi's office drawer."
Feng Yue froze, then slowly raised her eyes.
She saw the paper stars she had secretly folded in her desk during class.
Folding stars and origami cranes was very popular on campus at that time, and almost all the girls in the class were folding them.
She wrote a sentence on each strip of colored paper used to fold stars.
It was so sweet to write it, and I even imagined how surprised and happy the person who received this jar of stars would be when they opened the note.
Now, Feng Yue only feels fear when she sees these things.
An endless, almost drowning fear.
The star was torn apart, and the note contained her innocent, rebellious, and forever hidden love.
Her body trembled uncontrollably, her fingertips were icy cold, and cold sweat seeped from her palms, almost dripping through her fingers.
The photo was taken yesterday.
...It's been two years.
Guo Renyi didn't throw it?
Xie Shijin put away his phone, his gaze fixed intently on her, and finally unleashed a barrage of questions: "Feng Yue, why did you lie?"
"Is Cheng Shiyun's death related to you? What do you know?"
"Did you see Cheng Shiyun that night?"
Why didn't you tell the police the truth?
Xie Shijin's voice suddenly rose, like heavy hammers slamming into Feng Yue's temples.
She clenched her teeth, forcing herself to keep her voice from trembling: "What else can the things in the photos prove besides that it's my handwriting?"
"I also folded a can for my boyfriend, but I just gave it to the wrong person."
"Don't come again!"
Feng Yue stubbornly denied any relationship with Guo Renyi, and also denied that she had been to the school on the night of July 12.
She slammed the door shut.
Behind the door, Feng Yue pressed herself tightly against the cold door panel, her legs trembling so badly she could barely stand.
Her eloquent rebuttal just now was nothing but a facade of bravado; she would break down if she said a few more words.
Xie Shijin knocked on the door: "Feng Yue."
"Don't ask me anymore! I don't know anything!" She covered her ears and screamed, "Get out! Get out!"
The knocking stopped.
Xie Shijin continued speaking.
"Feng Yue, I've always considered you my best, my very best friend."
"I know you asked me for money to go to school. You've saved enough money, so why aren't you going?"
“You said you wanted to go to a faraway city for the exam, and Beicheng was a good one, where it snows in winter. You said you wanted to see the outside world and leave this suffocating home.”
“You are brave, strong, and kind. You are the last girl I have ever met who should be trapped here. It’s been two years, and I thought your life would get better.”
"What?" Feng Yue lowered her hands from her ears and looked out through the peephole.
Xie Shijin was still standing at the door, his black hair slightly disheveled by the wind, his face still cold and stern.
But he kept talking.
The familiar tone, exactly the same as in my memory.
A gut feeling told her...
Feng Yue's eyes were filled with a thin layer of moisture, and her voice was choked with sobs: "Xie Shijin, who...who said that just now?"
The people outside the door were silent for a few seconds.
Xie Shijin raised his eyes and looked at the tightly closed door. His brows were furrowed with a suppressed darkness, like the sea at night, with turbulent undercurrents.
"—Cheng Shiyun."
A sudden thought struck my mind.
Scalding tears instantly welled up in her eyes, and Feng Yue covered her trembling lips, which were about to crack.
Xie Shijin's voice came through the door again: "Those words were what Cheng Shiyun wanted to say to you."
“Cheng Shiyun…” Feng Yue opened her mouth.
"Feng Yue".
The boy's cold voice fell into her ears, but it transformed into the girl's sweet voice.
Cheng Shiyun said, "From now on, we are no longer friends."
"I wish you a life that you desire from now on."
Inside the door, Feng Yue slowly slid down the door panel and sat down on the floor, hugging her curled-up knees with both hands. Her shoulders heaved violently as she murmured, "I'm sorry... I'm sorry, I had no choice..."
"I really have no other way..."
After waiting a while and confirming that Xie Shijin had come downstairs, she took out her phone and called Guo Renyi, but he didn't answer, so she could only send a text message.
Xie Shijin knows about our affair.
He discovered it.
He discovered that Cheng Shiyun's death was related to me.
He knew we were in the office that day.
He came to see me.
What to do, what to do, what to do, what to do?
Her heart pounded with panic, and the image of that stormy night kept flashing through her mind.
That day, her younger brother pestered her to help him with his summer homework. When she refused, Feng Jiayao tore up the homework and blamed her when their parents came home. Her parents didn't listen to her explanation and started scolding her. The three of them went to see a movie happily, but she ran out with red eyes. She wanted to leave this home.
The rain was heavy, the sky was dark, she had no money and didn't know where to go, so she ran all the way to the school, went upstairs, and hid in the office on the fifth floor.
She also has a key to the fifth-floor office.
Guo Renyi was still on duty here on the night of the 11th; he forgot to take his computer home.
That night, she didn't plan to go home. She pushed a few chairs together to make do for the night. She turned on Guo Renyi's computer, wanting to find the movie her brother had mentioned, but she found some things on the computer.
She wasn't the only girl at their school "dating" Guo Renyi.
Guo Renyi filmed the video.
Many, many.
She called Guo Renyi, demanding an explanation.
Not long after, Guo Renyi came to the school, and they started arguing in the office.
Guo Renyi slapped her, and as he turned his head, she saw the girl outside the window.
She had been watching them for a long time. After being discovered, the girl held up her phone and said righteously that she would help her call the police.
"Feng Yue, come with me, let's go to the police station."
"Report it."
"When the whole school, your parents, your relatives and friends all know that you've slept with someone and you're no longer a virgin, do you think she'll still hold your hand like she does now?"
"Feng Yue, please believe me, okay? I'll be your witness."
"Do you think she's genuinely trying to help you? She's just talking without understanding the situation. Wait until others call you a slut, a whore, and shameless behind your back, then see if she'll avoid you."
"I won't! Feng Yue, I'm on your side, always on your side, come with me!"
“If this gets out, the whole school will call you dirty, and even your parents will think you've lost all face and cut ties with you.”
"When her friends ask her, 'Why are you still hanging out with Feng Yue?' Do you believe she'll immediately say, 'I broke up with her a long time ago?'"
"You're just a story of heroism in her life. When others ask about it, will she exaggerate your story?"
A man's words are like a spell, always echoing in your ears.
Feng Yue broke free from Cheng Shiyun's hand.
The rain was really heavy, with lightning and thunder, drowning out the girl's screams and curses.
And then...and then...
A tear rolled down her cheek.
A cell phone rang.
Feng Yue wiped away her tears and hurriedly answered the call.
"Hello?"
...
Do you think I'm... a saint?
“My dad always says I’m soft-hearted and naive. I give two dollars to the beggars on the street who are trying to scam people.”
Xie Shijin walked downstairs, and the little snake popped out of his shoulder again, hissing against the ear where he could hear the sound.
"But we used to be very, very good friends."
“Feng Yue used to be very good to me too,” Cheng Shiyun said. “The time I got my period in my first year of high school and stained my pants, it was Feng Yue who accompanied me home.”
There were no sanitary napkins at home, so Feng Yue went downstairs to buy some for her and even taught her how to wash them to remove the bloodstains from her clothes.
Xie Shijin raised an eyebrow slightly and said, "I remember."
"...You don't have to remember." The little snake's tail curled up.
Cheng Shiyun became a little embarrassed when the topic came up.
The shirt Xie Shijin lent her got dirty, and no matter how she washed it, there was still a faint stain. Even the method Feng Yue taught her didn't work.
She said she wanted to compensate, but Xie Shijin didn't want it; she just wanted the dress.
Stubborn.
Once downstairs, Cheng Shiyun glanced at the tightly closed door upstairs: "...Maybe she cried for me after I died."
The friendship that was once sincere and genuine has now become distant and estranged, which is undeniable.
After the breakup, she wasn't as upset as she used to be.
Around nine or ten in the morning, the streets were crowded with busy office workers rushing to work. Cheng Shiyun obediently shrank back into Xie Shijin's collar.
But just a few seconds later, she popped out again with a "biu" and bumped into Xie Shijin's chin.
Xie Shijin tilted his chin slightly upward, his Adam's apple bobbing: "What's wrong?"
Cheng Shiyun stared intently at his profile, as if she wanted to bore a hole through his cheek.
His eyes were naked, his lapis lazuli pupils forming vertical lines, undisguisedly aggressive, like a lurking hunter suddenly fixing its gaze on its prey.
Xie Shijin's cheeks flushed slightly. Afraid that she would notice, he gave in and turned his face away, saying, "Don't look."
"Hiss~"
Her forked tongue was very long, extending completely, about half the length of a palm, and it hissed as it licked his chin.
A tingling sensation ran down her scalp. Xie Shijin pressed her head down, his ears turning red: "That's what you think?"
"...I'm still outside, I'll take a taxi back."
His palm was placed on his shoulder, but Cheng Shiyun lifted it up again.
Realizing what he was saying, Cheng Shiyun felt her thoughts had become impure, and she retorted angrily, "What?! I didn't think about anything like that at all!"
"You really didn't think of that?" He was gripping her so tightly.
"Of course not!!!" she said, extremely embarrassed.
The little snake opened its mouth wide, as if it would swallow Xie Shijin whole if he said another word in rebuttal.
Xie Shijin moved her hand away, a smile playing on her lips: "So fierce."
His smile was bright and indulgent, which only made Cheng Shiyun more arrogant. She curled her tail into a circle and strangled his neck: "You're the fierce one."
I just choked him a little to scare him.
Cheng Shiyun snuggled back into his clothes, composed herself, and said seriously, "What I was thinking about just now was my birthday."
The boy who was crying uncontrollably and gasping for breath at her doorstep.
Even now, the memory remains vivid and clear.
At this moment, Xie Shijin's eyes were as clean as a washed sky, clear and bright.
She licked the side of his neck and asked.
"Xie Shijin, were you heartbroken for me that day?"
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Author's Note: Finally, it echoes Chapter 3! "Xie Shijin, who are you grieving for?"
I saw that Xiao Bao guessed the murderer, but it seems that he hasn't guessed the details of Xiao Yunduo's death yet.
Friendly reminder: The villains in this story are extremely evil, beyond redemption. There will be no redemption for them, neither male nor female.
The main focus is on romance, and the plot serves the romance, so romantic subplots are interspersed throughout the investigation of clues. [Laughs]
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