Chapter 35, Discovered
"Okay, cousin."
Zhong Linlin nodded to indicate that she understood, and then began searching through Wang Boyang's room.
Wang Boyang's room was very simple, without any fancy decorations, and it did not conform to the room that the head of an ancient noble family should have.
Finding clues was the priority, so Zhong Bingxuan temporarily put aside her strange feelings and rummaged through drawers and cabinets to find what she needed.
She found nothing on the bookshelf, on the bed, under the bed, or in the wardrobe. Zhong Bingxuan began to doubt whether her guess was wrong. Was the boss of this instance really Wang Boyang?
There wasn't a single important clue to be found in the bedroom.
But if it weren't for Wang Boyang, with such strong combat power, how strong would the boss hiding behind the scenes be?
Zhong Bingxuan hoped her guess was correct; she didn't want to encounter two powerful and bizarre situations in one instance.
"Cousin, here is a letter."
While Zhong Bingxuan couldn't find any clues, Zhong Linlin found a letter in a small hidden compartment in the wall. The letter contained intimate details of the love between two young people.
Zhong Bingxuan took the letter from Zhong Linlin's hand, glanced at it, and was somewhat speechless.
Brother is in the tree, sister is on the ground, where is sister?
Beneath the peach blossoms, a gust of wind sends petals flying everywhere.
Who is drunk, who is infatuated, who is mad?
A haunted old house, a beautiful woman in his arms, an affair that speaks volumes about the vicissitudes of life.
Little sister, walk slowly, big brother, don't rush...
Some of the doggerel were so absurd that Zhong Bingxuan had no way to comment. For a nobleman from ancient times to write poetry, his skill level was incredibly poor.
Could it be that Wang Boyang is not the head of the Wang family, and something is amiss?
As Zhong Bingxuan thought about Wang Boyang's obsession with etiquette and manners, as well as his usual behavior, this thought became even stronger.
You only care so much about things you couldn't do before or didn't have.
Then all the previous guesses were wrong.
Zhong Bingxuan thought that even if Wang Jingzhu didn't marry into a higher social class, it was still a good match. Furthermore, Wang Jingjing's insistence on stealing her sister's man showed that Wang Boyang's family background must be quite good.
However, if Wang Boyang's family status is the lowest, while Wang Jingzhu is a noble lady from a wealthy family, then the two are different.
Ancient tales of "phoenix men" (men from humble backgrounds who achieve success through marriage), cheating on their wives, and killing their original spouses, flooded Zhong Bingxuan's mind.
The letter also reveals a lot of information. The older brother is likely Wang Boyang, the younger sister is likely Wang Jingjing, and the older sister is likely Wang Jingzhu.
But the problem is that the first sentence of the letter says, "The brother is in the tree, the sister is on the ground, but where is the older sister?"
The truth has been deduced: Wang Jingzhu was buried under that strange tree, and Wang Boyang may also be the one who buried Wang Jingzhu, hence the name "the tree" and the culprit.
According to the letter, Wang Jingjing is underground, while Wang Boyang is in the tree, and the whereabouts of the already dead Wang Jingzhu are unknown.
As for what came after that, it should be related to the love-hate relationship between Wang Jingzhu, Wang Boyang, and Wang Jingjing.
No, there might be another person, otherwise where would the affair take place?
Zhong Bingxuan realized that things had changed, and disregarding the action plan that everyone had discussed earlier, she went to Wang Jingzhu's room first to check the situation.
Before they even reached Wang Jingzhu's room, they saw Wang Jingjing's furtive figure.
"cousin?"
Zhong Linlin looked at Wang Jingjing's furtive actions with suspicion. Zhong Bingxuan gestured for her to be quiet and led Zhong Linlin slowly closer to Wang Jingzhu's room.
"Brother, if you have a spirit in the afterlife, please bless me so that this mission will be successful. I will definitely send that scumbag to you."
Upon hearing Wang Jingjing's words, Zhong Bingxuan and Zhong Linlin exchanged bewildered glances.
Is Wang Jingzhu a man?
“Back then, you saw that Wang Boyang had ulterior motives and were worried that I would be deceived because I was young, so you disagreed with the marriage. But I was determined to marry him.”
"You can't do anything to me, so you can only make a bet with me. Our identities will be switched, and if Wang Boyang can remain chaste for five years, you will agree to this marriage."
"I was very happy to agree at the time. In my opinion, Wang Lang is a very good person and will definitely not let me down."
"But who could have known that not long after we got back, he would get together with the bastard child born to a mistress outside? I hate him so much, I wish I could kill him, but I was careless for a moment and caused you, brother, to be killed by him and locked to a big tree, never to be reincarnated."
With a loud bang, a noise came from outside the door, interrupting Wang Jingjing's—no, it should be Wang Jingzhu's—rambling voice, and she immediately burst out of the room.
"Who is eavesdropping?"
Even though Zhong Bingxuan was very unhappy that Ma Yewei had barged in and missed the most important clue, she had no choice but to leave in order to avoid exposing her identity.
Zhong Linlin's identity had already been exposed, so there was no need to worry about her identity anymore. However, her combat ability was too poor, and Zhong Bingxuan was not comfortable leaving her alone here, so she dragged Zhong Linlin along to run away.
"Madam, I..."
"A lowly servant dares to hide in the shadows and eavesdrop on his master's conversation; he's asking for death."
"Madam, it wasn't me..."
Ma Yewei had just escaped from the dungeon with great effort and wanted to go to Wang Jingzhu's room, Wang Qiuling's mother, to investigate, only to find that the boss, Wang Qiuling, was mixed up with the player, Zhong Linlin. Little did he know that he had been tricked.
Wang Qiuling wasn't an NPC at all, but a player like him. Enraged, he wanted to kill someone to avenge himself, but he didn't notice that there were other people in the room of Wang Jingzhu, an NPC who had been dead for many years. He was a step too slow to escape and was killed by "Wang Jingjing".
"There's one more person."
Wang Jingjing didn't miss the implication in Ma Yewei's words: if it wasn't him, then there was someone else eavesdropping on her from behind.
Those things are secrets, and no one should ever know about them.
That scumbag Wang Boyang—she endured his violence for years just to revive her brother, leaving him for her brother to deal with, so that he wouldn't know the truth, and then she ran away.
Zhong Bingxuan and Zhong Linlin had escaped a long way, thinking they had escaped a calamity and avoided the real Wang Jingzhu's attack, and stopped to rest for a while.
"Cousin, I didn't expect Wang Jingzhu to still be alive."
"Yes, the original owner's life in the Wang family was not easy. Wang Jingzhu was the stepmother, but the actual biological mother treated Wang Qiuling, her biological daughter, very badly. Who would have known that she was Wang Qiuling's biological mother, Wang Jingzhu, who had been dead for many years."
If it weren't for Wang Jingjing—no, Wang Jingzhu herself—revealing the truth, probably no one would have guessed the real story behind it all.
"Cousin, Wang Jingzhu, Wang Jingjing, Wang Boyang, and the unidentified person are almost done investigating the strange life story."
Zhong Linlin opened her character panel and was delighted to find that she had almost completed four personal tasks on the task list.
Zhong Linlin was too weak to kill the strange creature, but she could get help from her teammates by learning about its life story, so she accepted the task.
Zhong Linlin hated her weak body. She could never help her cousin when she was in trouble. She longed to become stronger so that she could help her cousin.
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