Chapter 14 Die for Her

"Oh?" Bai Mianrao looked at her with interest, "Then tell me about it."

"It must be my best friend's ex-boyfriend! This is a long story, so I'll tell you from the beginning." Zeng Li crossed her arms and fell into memories.

"My best friend and I were childhood friends. Our families both lived in Qingshui Town. Later, they moved to Beijing. Her father started a successful business and became a CEO. My best friend also became a beautiful, wealthy woman. Although our statuses were different, there was no barrier between us. We spent every winter and summer vacation together when we were in school. She has always been my best friend."

"My best friend is good in every way, except for one thing - she's too naive. She's never lacked money since she was a child, and she's never had a job since she grew up. She's been supported by her family, so she's never seen the dangers of society and is always easy to trust others. Look, she met a phoenix man the first time she fell in love!"

"This Phoenix man is just an ordinary employee in her father's company. I don't know what kind of drug he gave my best friend to make her bewildered. This man has no house, no car, no money, and looks ordinary. His family is poor, he has a lot of brothers and sisters, and he is a thief."

"How cunning is he? One time he went to my best friend's house for dinner and saw a beautiful pearl shell spoon. He quietly put the spoon into his pocket without saying a word! Later, when my best friend wanted to feed the hamster at home, she found that the hamster's special spoon was missing!"

"Tell me, what does my best friend like about this man?"

"We all felt confused, but my best friend insisted on marrying him, even if she had to pay for the car and house. I thought she was just joking, but who knew they even held an engagement party and sent invitations to all their relatives and friends!"

"I was so anxious that I ran to their house right away. Her father was so anxious that half of his hair turned white. My best friend is the only daughter in the family. She will inherit the business in the future. It goes without saying that she will definitely hand over the business to that Phoenix man. Isn't this the same as handing over the family's property to outsiders?"

"Her father pulled me into the room and burst into tears, begging me to persuade my best friend and to wake her up even if I had to scold her. Since her father said so, I won't be polite!"

"I locked my best friend in the room and had a heart-to-heart talk with her for three days and three nights. I told her about our love since childhood, how difficult it was for her father to start a business, and showed her many cases of Phoenix men abandoning their wives. She finally calmed down and agreed to cancel the engagement and temporarily break up with this Phoenix man while she thought about it carefully."

"After I succeeded in persuading her, her father thanked me profusely and gave me a big red envelope. He treated me as a great benefactor. My best friend was also very grateful to me. I was working in Beijing and the rent was quite expensive. She suggested that I give up the house I was renting and move into her house. It just so happened that she was going to travel to Jiangnan to relax, and the house was empty. I could live there for free and just pay the water and electricity bills."

"So, I moved into this high-end neighborhood, and then encountered a series of bad things. I should have thought that this life-borrowing talisman must have been put there by the Phoenix Man. He thought my best friend was still living here, so he cast a curse at the door, trying to curse my best friend to death!"

"But he doesn't know that my best friend has moved away. I am the one living here now. Unfortunately, I have to bear this curse."

"He must hate my best friend to death. He could have married a beautiful, wealthy woman, become a phoenix, had a Beijing hukou, luxury cars and houses, and even become the heir to a large company. But my best friend dumped him after the engagement, causing all his dreams to come to nothing. He also lost such a big person. He will definitely not let it go!"

Zeng Li snorted coldly and slapped her thigh fiercely: "I'm so stupid. Why did I only think of it now? Who else could it be besides him?"

Bai Mian narrowed his eyes after listening to her story: "Your thinking is very clear. It seems that you don't need to take a pulse or tell fortunes. You have solved the problem yourself?"

Zeng Li nodded: "Yes, I am now absolutely sure that the one who placed the talisman at my door was the Phoenix Man! I have to make a quick call and tell my best friend about this discovery, and ask her to be careful. The Phoenix Man has found her door, who knows what he will do next!"

As she spoke, she took out her cell phone and paid Bai Mian ten yuan for the consultation fee: "Master, I am sorry for wasting your time today. Just pretend that I have never been here. You don't need to help me with the fortune-telling. I am willing to leave the opportunity of fortune-telling to others."

Zeng Li stood up to leave, but Bai Mian called her, "Since you are here, maybe fate is telling you to have a fortune-teller. Are you sure you want to give up?"

Zeng Li sat back down hesitantly: "Fate's arrangement...Okay, then help me calculate it, but hurry up, I'm in a hurry to call my best friend, she might be in danger."

Bai Mian didn't say anything. He put two fingers on Zeng Li's wrist and quietly felt her pulse.

After taking Bai Mian's pulse, he didn't speak for a long time. Zeng Li asked hurriedly, "How is it, Master? Is it the same as I guessed?"

"Yes and no."

"This spell is not cast on your best friend, but on you."

Bai Mian spoke slowly and tactfully told the truth, "You should be mentally prepared. The person who curses you at your doorstep may be the last person you expect."

"Ah?" Zeng Li was startled and her face turned pale instantly. "In other words, someone really wants to kill me? Am I so hateful? I am always very nice to my colleagues and friends. How could this happen..."

Bai Mian asked Zeng Li a question: "What do you think the meaning of the life-borrowing talisman is?"

Zeng Li said without thinking: "Of course it means literally, you want to kill me!"

Bai Mian shook his head: "The real meaning of the life-borrowing talisman is not to take your life, but -"

"I'll lend you my life to help others avoid a disaster."

The bullet screen suddenly became lively.

[Oh, it’s clear now, she must be a close friend! ]

[You still say she is a naive person, pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger, right? ]

[Tsk tsk tsk, the old saying is so true, beware of fire, theft, and best friends~]

Zeng Li looked at the bullet screen and shook her head desperately to explain: "It can't be hers. My best friend is really simple. She doesn't even dare to step on ants when she goes out. How could she cast such a vicious curse? And there is one more thing I didn't tell you. My best friend has been afraid of blood since she was a child. Don't forget, this talisman is written in blood!"

Seeing the bullet screen falling to the ground and scolding her best friend, Zeng Li got a little anxious. She shouted at Bai Mian: "I call you Master because I respect you, but you can't hurt my friend. If my best friend wants to harm me, there are many ways to do it. Why bother to be so nice to me? Giving me a big red envelope and lending me a house to live in!"

After Zeng Li finished shouting, Bai Mian said slowly: "The family is indeed very good to you, but it's not because you helped persuade them to break up, but because - you are about to die for your best friend."

"What-what do you mean?!" Zeng Li asked fearfully.

Bai Mian drew circles on the table with his slender fingers: "Why don't we change our thinking and look at the whole thing from the Phoenix Man's perspective——"

"After being dumped by your best friend, Phoenix Man lost everything that was about to be gained. He was so angry that he decided to throw the pot into the ground and was ready to kill her. However, he faced a problem - how to find your best friend?"

"After the breakup, your best friend had deleted and blocked his contact information, and he didn't know your best friend's whereabouts. The only clue was this house. He knew that this was the house under your best friend's name and your best friend usually lived here, so he disguised himself as a takeaway boy and waited downstairs of the unit for a long time."

“Ah!” Zeng Li screamed, “No wonder when I first moved in, there was always a takeaway guy with a mask covering his face and carrying takeaway boxes hanging around downstairs. I thought it was strange, who could eat so much that he ordered takeout all day long!”

"Yes," Bai Mian nodded, "This is the Phoenix Man. His take-away box actually contains a boning knife. If your best friend shows up downstairs, he will stab you with the knife."

"But he wandered around for a month and never saw your best friend. Instead, he always saw you coming in and out. He finally confirmed that you were living here now."

"So what if he saw me? He and I don't have much in common, we just had dinner together once before," Zeng Li said without taking it seriously. "He can't stab me to death thinking I'm my best friend, right? My best friend and I don't look alike!"

"You two may not look alike, but he hates you just as much because after your best friend dumped you, he received a recording of you persuading them to break up. He knows everything about how you complained and belittled this Phoenix man in front of your best friend."

Bai Mian came closer and said, "So in his eyes, it was you who caused him to lose the chance to enter a wealthy family."

[Fuck, who could have provided this recording? It could only be a close friend! ]

[Uh...what kind of friend is this? Isn't this an accomplice? ]

[It’s so scary, that’s why I never get involved in the affairs of young couples, just because I’m afraid of getting into this kind of trouble]

[Get out of here, love-minded person! Don’t make friends with people who are love-minded like this. As soon as they see a man, they forget about the friendship between sisters.]

[Always remember this sentence, do not interfere in the cause and effect of others, otherwise the bad consequences that originally belonged to him may befall you]

Zeng Li shuddered: "Will he hate me to death? Wait, who recorded the audio? It couldn't be my best friend. I was trying to persuade her earnestly, but she actually had the mind to record it?"

Bai Mian did not answer this question, but instead said: "After listening to this recording, Phoenix Man changed his target when he couldn't find your best friend. He changed his target to you. The several unfortunate events that you encountered later were actually all caused by his murder!"

Zeng Li's hands and feet turned cold as she listened to Bai Mian's words.

"Because the community you live in is strictly managed, Phoenix Man cannot enter the apartment building. He had to take advantage of you being out and find opportunities to attack you."

"The day you were injured by the flowerpot, it was the Phoenix man who threw the flowerpot from the roof, but he didn't throw it accurately, so he only injured your foot and didn't endanger your life. After throwing the flowerpot, he ran away immediately, so you and the police couldn't find the owner of the flowerpot no matter how hard you tried."

"When you were walking at night, the Phoenix Man specifically found an intersection without surveillance and drove his car to hit you, but you escaped again because it was too dark and you couldn't see the license plate number or the driver's appearance. The Phoenix Man successfully escaped."

"The third time, he saw that you hadn't been out for a long time, so he planned to poison your takeaway. After your takeaway was delivered to the downstairs of the unit, he opened the lid and sprinkled some poison inside, and then watched you take the takeaway upstairs with your own eyes."

"Oh my god, it turns out that the takeaway was poisonous. Luckily I didn't eat it!" Zeng Li patted her chest in fear. "After I went upstairs, I looked at the package carefully and found that it had been opened. At that time, I thought the delivery man opened it and ate it secretly or deliberately added something to it for me. I was worried and threw it away. Oh, I am so lucky. I have experienced so many murders and I can still live safely until now. May my ancestors bless me, may my ancestors bless me..."

Zeng Li muttered to herself, clasped her hands together, and bowed to the air.

"Speaking of this, do you understand who cast the curse on you?" Bai Mian asked.

"I know, you want to talk about my best friend. You think my best friend planned to let me live in this house from the beginning. She wanted me to bear the wrath of the Phoenix Man for her and let me be killed for her."

Even at this point, Zeng Li still insisted: "But I really don't believe it. You don't understand. My best friend and I grew up together. I know her. She is very, very simple. She can't think of these things at all."

Bai Mian shook her head helplessly, and finally said the answer she had calculated at the beginning:

"Your best friend is very innocent, but don't forget that she has a father who has a long career in business."