☆, 91, This is what you call a good child
Chapter 92
"Why is it so cold all of a sudden? Is the heating broken?" The sudden chill made everyone shiver. But then, the girl walked in from outside, causing them all to stare wide-eyed in surprise.
Her sweet smile made her look particularly delicate, but her pale face added a hint of weirdness.
"...Mu Tian?!" Almost everyone in the room immediately called out her name. After all, this face was a nightmare they would never forget. Even if they still insisted on believing they were on the right side, they had indeed forced Mu Tian to death!
"Long time no see, do you still remember me?"
"Are you a human or a ghost? What are you going to do?"
"Revenge, of course."
Mu Tian walked slowly up to one of the boys, raised her hand and slapped him hard.
"No!" The boy's mother tried to protect the child, but found that she could not move.
No, not just her, but everyone in the room couldn't move. They were like puppets, only able to see, unable even to speak. And Mu Tian's revenge had officially begun.
Although Yu Jiuyin's blood slightly alleviated her resentment, it also gave her another special ability. Mu Tian was originally a smart girl and she knew exactly what she wanted to do.
As the law of nature requires, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
She would not do the same despicable things as them and make them embarrass themselves in public as revenge, but Mu Tian would let each of them personally taste everything she had endured in the past, so that they would understand what it meant to be worse than death.
"Ah! No, don't touch me."
"Save me, someone save me."
"I can't do it, don't force me."
Three years later, the students in Class 4, Grade 6, are now fifteen-year-old boys and girls. Even so, the pain Mu Tian experienced remains beyond their comprehension. Immersed in Mu Tian's fantasy, they empathize with all the pain she once endured.
The thick, inescapable darkness, the abyss from which they could not escape, the curses and insults of countless people, even the hand of that pervert reaching out to touch them in the darkness... every detail reappeared on them.
"Let him go, he was just a child!" The parents couldn't bear to watch and begged. At this point, they didn't care whether Mu Tian was a human or a ghost, all they wanted was to save their children.
However, what disgusted Mu Tian the most was their hypocritical and selfish faces that were disgusting.
"Child?" Mu Tian sneered, "Is it the child who gave Yu Jinchen the idea to secretly steal sexy lingerie from home and ask me to wear it?"
"Or was it the kid who drugged me, took nude photos of me, and then posted them all over Tieba?"
"Or put boys in the locker room during gym class and let them molest my child?"
"Or are you the kid who used justice as a target and sent me into the hands of the devil?"
"They're all children, and so am I?"
Mu Tian's questioning, word by word, drowned out the wails of the young men and women. She demanded coldly, tears streaming down her cheeks. "They were the ones who did all the dirty work. Now, what right do they have to cry for help? They're the ones who killed my entire Mu family!"
"But they were too young back then." One parent couldn't bear to watch any longer. "If you want revenge, go find the molester. My daughter didn't do anything!"
"Didn't do anything?" Mu Tian smiled even more happily. She snapped her fingers and the girl suddenly spoke.
"I was the one who told the boys that Mu Tian liked to change the doll's clothes. I was also the one who told the boys that Mu Tian was a bitch and they could play with her however they wanted. Who told her not to lend me the doll?"
Such vicious words came so naturally from the mouth of a seemingly innocent little girl. The parent who had just insisted that her daughter was innocent was completely stunned.
"That's what you call innocence." Mu Tian looked at him, her expression more sarcastic than ever. "Every one of you thinks children are innocent, and that your children are good. That means you, as parents, haven't raised them well, right?"
She laughed softly, her sweet little face looking particularly strange. "How about this? I'll give you a chance, okay? Only one of the parents can stay. I'll give you five minutes to choose who lives and who dies."
As soon as Mu Tian finished speaking, all the children woke up from the illusion and finally escaped from the nightmare. They were all terrified, but Mu Tian's judgment-like words immediately afterwards plunged them into an even more terrifying abyss of choice.
I didn't want to die, so I jumped from the top floor. The moment I hit the ground was too painful, and what was even more terrifying was the despair when my life completely disappeared.
If they can live, no one wants to die. After all, they are still so young, aren't they?
"Let me live! Mu Tian, please, I don't want to die!" I don't know which child was the first to speak out his true feelings, and then more and more children also spoke out while crying.
"I don't want to die, Mom and Dad, I don't want to die."
"Don't you all say you love me the most? You'll definitely let me live at a time like this, right?"
"I don't want to care about anything, I just want to leave quickly."
"You!" The parents looked at the children in front of them in shock, so shocked that they didn't know what to say.
Ninety percent of them are typical "Chinese parents," willing to give up everything for their children. Even when they made mistakes, they were so heartless that they threw their consciences into the wind and chose to cover up for their children, just to give them a flawless future.
But now, they have given everything, but are easily pushed out as sacrifices by their own children.
It's ridiculous!
"Is it ironic? This is the good kid in your mind. Hahahahahahaha, be proud! This is the good kid you taught!" Mu Tian's laughter echoed throughout the interrogation room.
But this time, no one responded. Karma had come full circle. They had watched helplessly as their own children sent Mu Tian to her death. And now, three years later, they too were being driven to their own doom by their own children.
"If you love me, die for me." What a high-sounding statement! But behind the innocence lies the vile and despicable nature of human beings.
Yu Jiuyin watched coldly as he and Rongqing left the room. He knew Mu Tian was filled with resentment and simply wanted to vent. In reality, this gentle girl wouldn't resort to murder, even if she had the ability.
Because from the beginning to the end, all Mu Tian wanted was fairness!
She will never forgive those who have hurt her, but she will not resort to lynching either. She believes that God will give her ultimate justice!
"Will these children be sentenced?" Yu Jiuyin asked Rongqing.
"Probably not. After all, both parties were only 12 years old at the time. How the relevant behavior will be determined will ultimately depend on how the judge handles it. But no matter what the final result they get, it is hard to say whether the public will tolerate any sand in their eyes." Rongqing and Yu Jiuyin told their plans.
"I've already had Zhang Yao call reporters regarding Mu Tian's case. All the relevant details will be exposed. This includes how they bullied Mu Tian in school, how they let Mu Tian fall into the hands of a pervert, and how they gradually led to her death."
"It may be a bit troublesome to operate." Yu Jiuyin looked at Rongqing and said seriously.
But Rongqing's reply was far more serious than his. "This is the greatest fairness I can give to Mu Tian as the leader of the special case team. Jiuyin, after getting to know you, I have a deeper understanding of a truth. People must be responsible for their actions."
"You're right." Yu Jiuyin nodded. "Actually, I don't think your actions are extreme. It's true that after these things are exposed, the future of every child in the house will be tainted. But even so, it can't bring back the lives of Mu Tian and her family of three. Three years have passed, and how can someone who hasn't even repented be qualified to talk about the future? Mu Tian spared them, and they should be grateful and kneel down to thank Mu Tian for not killing them."
After saying that, Yu Jiuyin closed the door of the interrogation room and went with Rongqing to the detention room where the Cheng family was being held. They were no longer needed here. Instead of staying here to watch the farce, they might as well seize the time to interrogate Cheng Tian.
Having taken advantage of the Mu family's fortune for so long, it's time for them to tell the truth.
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In the interrogation room, Yu Jiuyin directly threw the relevant information about the Cheng family investigated by Rongqing in front of the Cheng family, and handed Cheng Tian a photo of Mu Tian.
"Does this look familiar?"
"Who is she?" Cheng Tian still looked confused, but the fear in her eyes could not be hidden at all.
"Don't ask questions when you already know the answer." Yu Jiuyin never liked to talk nonsense, so she directly broke the silence, "You clearly know that she is the real little princess."
"Nonsense! I am the princess! I am the princess!" This sentence made Cheng Tian explode. After taking off the mask of peace and tranquility, her vicious appearance was almost identical to those children in the interrogation room who killed Mu Tian.
Yu Jiuyin suddenly laughed, his tone particularly sarcastic, "A princess who stole someone else's life? Don't cry, all the humiliation you are experiencing now is your own choice!"
"I don't!"
"You don't have it? Then let me ask you, how did An An come from? Didn't you steal it from Mu Tian? Cheng Xiaoxiang?"
"How do you know Cheng Xiaoxiang?" Cheng Tian widened her eyes and stared at Yu Jiuyin, and suddenly tears came down.
This time, she wasn't pretending to cry, but really crying.
But Yu Jiuyin showed no sympathy. Instead, he pressed her even harder, "Not only do I know your name is Cheng Xiaoxiang, I also know you're a shameless thief. You've taken Mu Tian's things more than once. Later, you even took her name, her upbringing, her identity, and her wealth."
"Do you know why you are bullied by your classmates? Because you are Mu Tian now, and the Mu Tian in the past has always suffered cruel school violence. But you continued to bully her after she returned home. Why do you think An An is seeking revenge on you? Because you are also responsible for Mu Tian's death!"
"No! I didn't mean it." Cheng Tian was just a fifteen-year-old girl, and Yu Jiuyin's series of questions made her collapse.
She cried and defended herself, "I didn't steal it. I didn't want to steal it at first. I... I just liked it too much... I had never seen such a beautiful doll before, so I just wanted to touch it quietly. But after touching it, I couldn't help but want to hug it. In the end, I saw that Mu Tian hadn't come back for a long time, so I couldn't help but take An An away. But my mother said it was okay! She said that everything that belonged to Mu Tian was mine."
"So you knew at the time that everything you took belonged to Mu Tian, right?"
"……right."
"Since you knew this and still chose to take it, how is this different from stealing?"
"No, I'm not..." Cheng Tian was still trying to refute, but this time, it was Cheng Tian's mother who stopped her.
"Don't ask her anymore. I'll tell you everything." At this point, things could no longer be hidden. Instead of carrying it any longer, it was better to tell it all.
It was similar to what Yu Jiuyin and Rongqing had guessed before, but when it came out of Cheng Tian's mother's mouth, it became a different story.
"I really didn't know the final outcome would be like this. All my choices were just for my daughter." Mother Cheng burst into tears almost as soon as she opened her mouth.
In her words, those memories were the most difficult of her life. Cheng's father was a mediocre person, spending all his salary on gambling. She worked every day, but the money she earned was barely enough to support the family. As for her daughter... she could barely scrape together the money for her kindergarten tuition.
"I really feel sorry for Tiantian. Rich people like you can't understand the poverty we live through! I think it's so unfair. We're all human beings, so why do we have to live such a hard life? We can't even eat meat for a few meals a year. The food in Tiantian's kindergarten is not good. Other children can give money to the teacher for lunch, but my family can't afford it."
"Have you ever experienced this? Have you ever experienced the pain of being so poor that you can only eat beans for a quarter? Simply because beans are the cheapest vegetable that quarter!"
"So you went and stole?" Yu Jiuyin put a harsh rebuttal to this tragic drama with just one sentence.
"Isn't your unhappy marriage a problem with your choice of spouse? If your salary isn't enough, why don't you try to find another way out? Your daughter isn't doing well, but you can teach her by example, letting her understand the hardships of life and become a hardworking girl. Poverty is no reason for you to hurt others! You don't have to use such a hypocritical excuse as your daughter's. You're just jealous."
"Yes! I'm jealous! We're both from the same village, so why is she able to marry into the Mu family and become the young mistress? Why is her daughter able to live like a princess with nothing to worry about? A doll's hairpins are all made of rubies, but my daughter can't even afford a plastic hairpin!"
Cheng Tian's mother suddenly exploded, and in this outburst, the truth finally came out.
However, Yu Jiuyin and Rongqing's expressions remained heavy, as the severity of the matter was far beyond their expectations.
Who would have thought that the Cheng and Mu families' life-swapping wasn't an isolated case? Cheng Tian's mother alone knew of at least a dozen successful life-swapping cases, and many of them weren't in City B.
According to Cheng's mother, she did not intentionally look for someone to exchange her life, but was accidentally chosen by the person who could exchange her life.
She got a flyer that said something about changing your life, but it was very inspiring.
"My life was just too hard. So I was confused for a moment... There was a table on the flyer, and one of the columns was whose life I wanted to have. Mu Tian's mother was my junior high school classmate. We went to high school together relying on school subsidies. Now she's a wealthy wife. I was jealous, so I wrote her name on it. Then that night, the flyer magically disappeared. Another week passed, and I had almost forgotten about it, but suddenly I got a call saying that someone would come to help me move that night, and my wish would definitely come true."
"Moving? Where?" Yu Jiuyin asked.
"I don't remember. After exchanging lives with the Cheng family, I couldn't find that place anymore."
With Cheng's mother's explanation, the appearance of the apartment gradually became fuller.
It was said that only poor people lived there. There were no schools or anything like that, but even so, they didn't need to spend money because everything they had could be taken directly from the home they chose to exchange their fate with.
"It's a bit like overlapping time and space." Cheng's mother considered her words carefully. "There's a door in the apartment that opens to the Mu family. We can move around freely in the Mu family. Whether we use the house or eat, the Mu family can't see us or touch us. We can live freely in his house and enjoy the same life as them. Tiantian can also play with Mutian's toys and wear Mutian's clothes."
"The Mu family didn't notice?" Mingyu, who came in later, was very shocked.
"How could they not have noticed? But it's no use, they can't catch us." It sounds like an understatement, but in reality it is extremely bad.
Imagine if your home suddenly started to dwindle every day, with food, daily necessities, and toys disappearing inexplicably, and even your every move, even a single turn in your sleep, being spied on, and if this continued for over a year, someone with a weak mental state would probably be driven crazy.
It is no wonder that when Mu Tian was bullied, Mu Tian’s parents did not discover it in time. They were obviously already tormented by the illegal invasion of the Cheng family.
It's really scary to think about it.
Now, not only Mingyu, but even Rongqing frowned. Yu Jiuyin, who had been silent, suddenly remembered something else. He had just listened to Cheng's mother's narration, and the whole process seemed very familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere before.
Where? Rong Zhuo! Yu Jiuyin suddenly remembered that Rong Zhuo had mentioned something similar at the dinner table, and quickly said to Rong Qing, "Rong Rong, let Ming Yu continue the interrogation here. Call Rong Zhuo and ask him to come over."
"Are you talking about the patient Rong Zhuo?" Rong Qing understood immediately and quickly figured out Yu Jiuyin's point.
"Yes! I remember when Rong Zhuo mentioned Cheng Tian, he also mentioned another little boy. Don't you think his situation is similar to Cheng Tian's mother's? That apartment building couldn't have chosen a certain family for no reason. It must have a purpose. First, find out about the little boy's family situation, and then compare it to Cheng Tian. Maybe we can find the scope."
"I understand. I'll call Rong Zhuo right now."
Coincidentally, just as Rong Qing made the call, someone on the other end said that Rong Zhuo came to look for Rong Qing, and he seemed very anxious.
Something happened? This was Yu Jiuyin's first reaction, and he hurried out with Rongqing. As expected, as soon as they reached the door, they heard a mother's suppressed cry, and in the eldest brother's arms, was a little boy who was unconscious.
Yu Jiuyin could tell something was wrong at first glance. Half of this child's soul had been stolen by someone unknown!
The author has something to say: Yu Jiuyin: I calculated that we might have to stay in that apartment for two days.
Rongqing: Is Chenbi going with me?
Yu Jiuyin: No! It's Jiuyin and his sister Lai Di.
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Updated, there are 40 red envelopes in the comment section. I took my cat to the doctor this morning, so the update is a bit late, sorry. But it was really embarrassing! When I went to the doctor, the doctor asked me, how is Xiaowu's appetite?
Me: Not very good, I ate less than usual.
Doctor: What did he eat today?
Me: Two hundred grams of cat food, a handful of freeze-dried food, a small dish of goat milk, and...
Doctor: ...I think it eats more than the average big cat and doesn't have a loss of appetite.
I was completely humiliated and speechless. Then, something even more embarrassing happened: Xiaowu went to the scale, and the scale showed that Xiaowu, who had been sick with a cold this week, had gained a full pound compared to the previous week.
It's really embarrassing.
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