Chapter 14 Die for Her
"Oh?" Bai Mian 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 lost herself in memories.
"My best friend and I were childhood friends. Our families both lived in Qingshui Town. Later, her family moved to Beijing. Her father started a successful business and became a CEO. My best friend also became a rich and beautiful woman. Although there is a difference in status, there is 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 is too naive. She has never lacked money since she was a child, and she has never worked since she grew up. She is completely supported by her family, so she has never seen the dangers of society and is always easy to trust others. Look, she met a Phoenix man when she fell in love for the first time!"
"This Phoenix man is just an ordinary employee in her father's company. I don't know what kind of drug he gave my bestie to make her fall in love with him. This man has no house, no car, no money, and looks ordinary. His family is from a remote mountain village. He has a lot of brothers and sisters, and he is stingy and cunning."
"How cunning is he? One time he went to my best friend's house for dinner and saw a beautiful special pearl shell spoon. He quietly put the spoon into his pocket without saying a word! Later, when my best friend wanted to feed her hamster, she found that the hamster's special spoon was missing!"
"Tell me, what does my best friend like about a man like this?"
"We all felt confused, but my bestie 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 friends and family!"
"I was so anxious that I ran to her 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 and she will inherit the family business in the future. It goes without saying that she will definitely give the business to that Phoenix man. Isn't this the same as handing over the family property to an outsider?"
"Her father pulled me into the room, and cried in front of me, begging me to persuade her bestie and to scold her to wake her up. 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, treating me like a great benefactor. My best friend was also very grateful to me. I work in Beijing, and the rent is quite expensive, so she asked me to give up the house I'm renting and move into hers. It just so happens that she's going to travel to Jiangnan to relax, and the house is vacant. I can live there for free, and I just need to pay for the water and electricity bills."
"So, I moved into this high-end residential area, and then encountered a series of bad luck. I should have thought that this life-borrowing talisman must have been placed by the Phoenix Man. He thought my best friend still lived here, so he cast a curse at the door, hoping 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, have a Beijing hukou, luxury cars and houses, and even become the heir to a large company. But my best friend dumped him after they got engaged, causing all his dreams to be shattered. He also lost such a big person. He will definitely not let this go!"
Zeng Li snorted coldly and slapped her thigh fiercely: "I'm so stupid. Why did I just 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 there is no need for pulse diagnosis or fortune-telling, 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 phone call and tell my best friend about this discovery and ask her to be careful. The Phoenix Man has found her doorstep, who knows what he will do next!"
As she spoke, she took out her cell phone and paid Bai Mian ten yuan for the pulse diagnosis fee: "Master, I'm sorry for taking up your time today. Just pretend that I have never been here. You don't have to help me with the fortune-telling. I'd like to leave the opportunity of fortune-telling to others."
After that, Zeng Li stood up and was about to leave. Bai Mian called her and said, "Since you are here, maybe fate has directed you to have a fortune-telling at this time. Are you sure you want to give up?"
Zeng Li sat back hesitantly: "It's fate...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 placed two fingers on Zeng Li's wrist and quietly felt her pulse.
After taking the pulse, Bai Mian 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 bestie, 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 a very kind person to my colleagues and friends. How could this happen..."
Bai Mian asked Zeng Li a question: "What do you think the meaning of the Borrowing Life 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 borrow your life to help others avoid a disaster."
The barrage suddenly became lively.
[Oh no, it’s clear now, it must be my best 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 comments and shook her head desperately to explain, "It can't be hers. My bestie is really innocent. She doesn't even dare to step on an ant when she goes out. How could she possibly cast such a vicious curse? And there's one more thing I didn't tell you. My bestie has fainted at the sight of blood since she was a child. Don't forget, this spell is written in blood!"
Seeing that the comments were all about scolding her best friend, Zeng Li got a little anxious. She shouted at Bai Mian, "I call you Master out of respect, but you can't slander my friend. If my best friend wants to harm me, there are many ways to do it. Why bother to be nice to me? She gave me a big red envelope and lent me her 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 perspective of the Phoenix Man——"
"After being dumped by your bestie, the Phoenix Man lost everything that was about to be gained. He was so angry that he decided to kill her. But he was faced with a problem - how to find your bestie?"
"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 under your best friend's name and your best friend usually lived here, so he disguised himself as a food delivery boy and waited downstairs of the apartment building 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 downstairs. I was wondering who was such a big eater that he ordered takeout all day long!”
"That's right," Bai Mian nodded, "This is the Phoenix Man. His takeaway box actually contains a boning knife. If your bestie shows up downstairs, he'll 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 determined that you were living here now."
"So what if he saw me? He and I don't have much in common, we just had a meal together before," Zeng Li said without taking it seriously. "He can't possibly 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 him, he received a recording of you advising them to break up. He knows exactly how you complained in front of your best friend and how you belittled this Phoenix man."
Bai Mian leaned closer and said, "So in his eyes, it was you who caused him to lose the opportunity to enter a wealthy family."
[Shit, who else could have provided this recording? It can only be a best friend! 】
[Uh...what kind of friend is this? Isn't this a lackey? 】
[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 my way, you love-brained person. Don’t make friends with someone who is love-brained like this. As soon as they see a man, they throw all the friendship between sisters out of their mind.]
[Always remember this sentence, do not interfere with the cause and effect of others, otherwise the bad consequences that originally belonged to him may fall upon you]
Zeng Li shuddered: "Will he hate me to death? Wait, who recorded the recording? It can't be my best friend, right? 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 caused by his murder!"
Zeng Li's hands and feet became 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, so he has to take advantage of you being out and repeatedly look for 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 on the road at night, the Phoenix man specifically found an intersection without surveillance cameras and drove his car to hit you to death, but you escaped again because it was too dark and you couldn't see the license plate number and the driver's appearance. The Phoenix man successfully escaped."
"The third time, he saw that you didn't go out for a long time, so he planned to poison your takeaway. After your takeaway was delivered to the downstairs of your unit, he opened the lid and sprinkled some poison in it, and then watched you carry 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 took a closer look at the package and found that it had been opened. At that time, I thought the delivery man had opened it and eaten 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 is experienced in business."
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