Chapter 12 They Are All Lying to Me
"She is the divine bird in the sky, and I am just a gray sparrow on the ground." Imai Airi said with tears in her eyes.
Last time, her attitude was more like avoiding it. Pei Zhen deliberately stayed until the last to choose a room, but as soon as she explained her purpose, her face changed. His originally silent and respectful face was filled with fear, and he even stepped back two or three steps, looking at Pei Zhen as if he was looking at something that should never be here.
Pei Zhen frowned slightly, realizing that his commission was not going well.
"No, I don't know any Imai Zhu," she said with difficulty, "You've got the wrong person."
Pei Zhen shook his head: "You are the only female in the Changchuan family now, and she also said that her sister is called Ai Li."
"That's enough," she couldn't help but raise her voice. Realizing her own misconduct and knowing she couldn't hide it any longer, she turned away and said, "Even if I'm Imai Airi, how I'm doing now has nothing to do with her."
"We were not together in the first place, and now she comes back to me. What does she want to do?" Her expression began to turn cold. Without waiting for Pei Zhen's response, she turned around and hurried away. This was their last brief exchange.
Pei Zhen has already confirmed the safety of the other party's sister, but the difficulty lies later. The Nagakawa family is now like a teapot hung over a big fire. As the steam boils, no one knows when it will explode. In Pei Zhen's opinion, Conan's arrival indicates that something will definitely happen this time. After such a long period of peace, it might be a big event.
A glimmer of light floated down from Ellie's body and gathered into his solution ball, filling the last gap for it. Every person he met this time contributed attention to him. Although not as much as Conan and the others, it was much more than passers-by. The total number reached 50+. Adding the previous accumulation, the ones that Yamashita and Maori and his group met, it has reached 98.6. At this moment, the last difference has also been made up.
Let’s try again. Pei Zhen thought so and returned to his room.
"I also thought about looking for her," Ai Li bit her lip when time returned to the present, "but that was just my thought a few years ago. I haven't seen her for more than ten years, ever since she went abroad with her mother."
This is just a very clichéd story of parents' divorce. There are two sisters, one lives with the father and the other lives with the mother. The one who lived with the father grew up in the country in an orderly manner. The father did not take good care of her and let her grow up in a muddle. On the other hand, the elder sister worked hard to build a career for herself in a strange and distant foreign country. She lives a vivid and beautiful life, as if she were the protagonist of her own life.
Ai Li will always remember the day when they separated. Her mother did not even turn back, but her sister turned around and looked at her for the last time. From then on, the two sisters embarked on two completely different paths. "I didn't dare to look for her. I had heard her name from my relatives. She was... completely different from me," Imai Airi couldn't help but feel emotional. "When I was at my lowest point, I couldn't help but wonder why I wasn't the one who left my mother in the first place?"
"If it were me, even if I didn't have her current achievements, I would definitely not be like this now, right?" She seemed to want an answer. Pei Zhen did not answer her. No one else could judge her life. It was too subjective to imagine something that had never happened.
He just said, "No matter what, she asked me to help you."
Hearing this, the tears that had been suppressed before instantly slid down Ai Li's cheeks, and she murmured: "Yes, you are here to help me..."
Pei Zhen said: "Yes, so no matter what happens, you can tell me."
Imai Airi completely collapsed. She collapsed on the ground, covering her face with her hands, and sobbed: "I didn't know! I didn't know it would turn out like this!"
"What don't you know?" Pei Zhen was very patient. In the detective profession, carefulness is not enough, patience is also basic.
"He lied to me, they all lied to me!" Ellie cried.
"They? Who are they?"
After a long while, Ai Li slowly said, "It was Uesuke Nagakawa. He said that he would let me be the heroine of his next book, just like Hasumi Kamikawazaki back then."
The actress's experience was legendary, and her death also made many people feel sad. After much discussion, some people said that if she continued on her path, she might become the next Fujimine Yukiko.
"He lied to me a lot. He said I would be the next Mrs. Changchuan," Ai Li said in a daze. "He said he would let me act and play the role written for me. I would definitely become famous. Then, my image would appear on the big screen and even spread abroad..."
Pei Zhen took a deep breath: "What did you do?"
Ai Li fell silent. She didn't expect that this young man who had been following Maori Kogoro was so perceptive and asked the core of the question directly. She finally said, "He cheated me, and I wanted to take revenge on him. Someone contacted me at that time, so I took the manuscript of his new book."
This is already a violation of laws and regulations. Pei Zhen had a headache.
"I just want revenge on him!" Ellie suddenly shouted, "Why? He took so much from me without paying anything! I just want him to be as miserable and helpless as I am!"
"Who is the other person?" Pei Zhen asked.
Ai Li gritted her teeth and said, "I didn't mean to kill him. I just sent his manuscript out. I don't know if it was that person who did it. I, I haven't met that person either. We haven't met in person..."
Pei Zhen nodded. It seemed that the clue ended here. He comforted Ellie for a while, then turned and left.
Imai Airi was left alone at the back. She covered her face and cried bitterly: "I don't want her to pity me..."
Hearing the approaching footsteps, Conan hid behind the curved wall and shrank back. After he finished this action, he was a little confused: "Why should I hide? I just overheard some information related to the case. Why can't I expose it?"
Pei Zhen left the corridor. The news that Conan overheard only confirmed his previous guess. He had sorted out part of the case and had a clue about the murderer, but he still lacked conclusive evidence. Conan realized that the love, hatred and vengeance involved here might be much longer and more complicated than he had imagined. This is a tragedy, not the tragedy of Usuke Nagakawa, but the tragedy of the real murderer.
The bitterness and hatred of some people, after the brewing of time, not only did not dissipate, but instead turned into poison, which, after more than ten years, killed others and also hurt themselves.
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Pei Zhen and Conan both returned to the villa hall. Maori Kogoro was furious when he saw the boy running around everywhere: "Where have you been? I was distracted and didn't see you. Don't you know that this house is very dangerous now?"
Xiaolan on the side also looked at him angrily and worriedly, but soon she noticed Pei Zhen, "And you," Maori Kogoro suddenly turned his head and glared at him, "Don't think I wouldn't dare to scold you just because you're not my kid. You dare to go out alone, it seems you're very brave."
"Ah?" Pei Zhen was surprised. But resistance was useless, and both of them were scolded by Maori Kogoro. Unlike Pei Zhen, Conan got two big bumps on his head, which made him look at Pei Zhen with resentment for a long time.
Pei Zhen deliberately ignored Conan. Conan had no choice but to run to the other side by himself. He ran to the frail old butler and asked in a childish voice: "I heard that your master has always wanted to surpass Kudo Yusaku, and that Mrs. Hasumi is also a very famous actress. So, is their child the same age as Kudo Shinichi?"
The old butler looked at him strangely. He still remembered how calm this child was when he asked him questions before. Conan also coughed and realized his mistake, but it didn't matter. He just got used to it. He continued to ask: "I'm just a little curious. You said that your young master is missing. So, if he comes back one day, but grows up, can you still recognize him?"
The old butler was stunned for a moment, "The young master should be older than that Kudo Shinichi. The old master and Mrs. Hasumi have been together for a long time, but he only brought her back home later. As for the young master when he grew up," he paused, and suddenly said with a very firm tone: "I will definitely recognize him the first time!"
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