Chapter 73 Jinjiang Debut
"You didn't kill her?"
Hearing this, the agent breathed a sigh of relief, which meant that He Xianxian was still alive. She then asked, "So what did you do to her?"
Lan Zheng said, "I took her to another mountain. There was an abandoned wooden house on that mountain. It was a location I had spotted a long time ago. I pushed the cleaning vehicle up there, so it didn't take much effort. After locking her in the wooden house, I tied her hands and feet with tape, taped her mouth, and then quietly watched her wake up."
"After the effect of the drug wore off, she opened her eyes. She saw me and the surroundings and immediately understood what had happened. She whimpered, probably wanting to beg for mercy, but it was too late. Where were you when I begged you?"
"She looked at me with tears in her eyes. I felt great at that moment. No matter how arrogant she was, she was still in my hands, wasn't she?"
"Then I left the cabin, used a voice changer, and called you to extort money. On the phone, I said I wanted five million, and you readily agreed. I really found it ironic because I only wanted fifty thousand at first. You forced me to this point!"
The agent frowned and said, "Okay, stop talking nonsense. I gave you the money, why didn't you go and get it?"
Speaking of this, Lan Zheng's face darkened. "I disguised myself and observed for a while near the transaction location. I did see you put the money there. Then I returned to the mountain. I planned to bring He Xianxian down and hand over the money and the person. I am different from you. I am trustworthy."
"But when I got closer to the cabin, I found that the glass in the window was broken. I approached carefully and He Xianxian just happened to flip out of the window. It turned out that she had smashed the window with her shoulder while I was away, and then used the glass shards to cut the tape. She was about to escape when I bumped into her."
"Of course I had to stop her, so we started fighting in front of the wooden house. Although I was stronger than her, my right arm was injured and my movements were not very flexible. She knew this, so she deliberately attacked my right arm. After fighting for a few minutes, I was at a disadvantage. In the end, He Xianxian hit my nose with her head, and I saw stars. By the time I recovered, she was gone."
The agent thought for a moment, "You mean, she ran away? But why didn't she come to find me after she ran away?"
Lan Zheng spread her hands: "Then I don't know, but I can guarantee that what I said is true. Since she escaped from the cabin, I don't know where she went."
The agent rubbed his brows and said worriedly, "Could something have happened on the mountain? The mountain road is difficult to walk on, and she usually lives a pampered life and doesn't exercise much. What if she slips and falls somewhere... No, I have to go find her!"
She raised her head and asked Lan Zheng, "What is the name of the mountain you are talking about?"
Lan Zheng: "Posuo Mountain."
The agent immediately made a phone call: "Hey, assistant, arrange for staff to go to the place where He Xianxian was filming last time. At the same time, call the local police and tell them that He Xianxian is very likely in Posa Mountain. Ask them to search the mountain!"
After the call, He Xianxian breathed a sigh of relief. Things were finally looking promising. Now all she could do was wait, hoping that He Xianxian was okay and would return safely.
Even though Lan Zheng had confessed everything, her manager couldn't help but blame her: "The person is missing, why didn't you look for him? You made us anxious for so many days!"
Lan Zheng explained, "I looked for her! I searched all the way down the mountain, but I didn't see her. I thought she might have escaped. After she escaped, she would definitely call the police to arrest me. I was very scared and hid at home every day. But I never waited for the police to come to my door. On the contrary, I received your invitation. I was kicked out of the crew by you, but you actually spent a lot of money to invite me back."
"I wanted to refuse at first, but I was really curious about what happened to He Xianxian, so I took the risk and went to Beijing and agreed to your conditions. I didn't expect that you would not let me film this time, but let me play He Xianxian and show my face in front of the public."
"This means that He Xianxian did not contact you. She is really missing. I was very panicked at first and wanted to find a search and rescue team to go to Posuo Mountain to save He Xianxian. However, I was afraid that such a large-scale effort would alert the police. After thinking for a long time, I decided not to care about her and let her take her fate."
"He Xianxian's makeup artist did a make-up imitation on me. After putting on the mask, I looked exactly like her. Even her assistant couldn't tell the difference. That's how I started my life as He Xianxian. Except for her manager and makeup artist, no one in her team knew she disappeared."
"Gradually I began to enjoy this kind of life. Wherever I went, I was surrounded by people, with countless flashes pointing at me to take pictures, and gifts from fans piled up like a mountain. This was the life of a female star that I had dreamed of for a long time."
"I'm addicted to this feeling. I secretly hope that He Xianxian won't come back. It would be best if she disappears forever. Then I can replace her forever. I can have plastic surgery to look like her and complete those contracts for her. Anyway, we look so similar and I'm more dedicated than her. What's wrong with that?"
"You want to have plastic surgery to look like her..." Cripple asked hesitantly, "So that's why the media took photos of you going to the plastic surgery hospital?"
He Xianxian shook her head. "No, this was all arranged by my agent. She asked me to walk out of the door of the plastic surgery hospital, then took my photo and gave it to the media for publication. The purpose was to stir up public opinion online and make people focus on the plastic surgery. This way, no one would find out that I am fake. After all, if a star always keeps his mask on, the public will definitely be curious. If it is related to plastic surgery, then everything makes sense."
Hu Leying said: "Even if you have used so many tricks, I can still see at a glance that you are not her. Even if you can fool ordinary audiences, you can't fool hardcore fans like me. Wake up, fake is fake, you are just a substitute!"
When Lan Zheng heard these words, she smiled tiredly and did not argue. To her at this moment, nothing mattered anymore. She knew that her journey had come to an end.
Several people waited silently until dusk. When the blood-red sunset rose in the sky, the agent's phone finally rang. Hu Leying said excitedly, "The person must have been found! Master Bai just said that He Xianxian would die. I was really scared!"
The agent answered the phone and scolded, "Go away, stop talking nonsense!"
After answering the phone, the agent heard a cold and cruel answer:
"He Xianxian has been found. We found her body under the cliff. She has been dead for several days. There are signs of fighting on her body. We cannot determine whether she fell off the cliff accidentally or was pushed off the cliff by someone..."
The agent's brain exploded. With He Xianxian's death, her career was over. She rushed over like a madman and tore Lan Zheng's hair, shouting, "He Xianxian is dead. You killed her. You murderer, pay for your life!"
Lan Zheng was so exhausted that she could not breathe. She struggled to explain, "It's impossible. The mountain road of Posuo Mountain is not rugged and easy to walk on. A healthy adult can walk down smoothly without any obstacles. How could she fall off the cliff?"
The agent was furious and said, "Oh, that's just your one-sided story. You said He Xianxian escaped on her own. Who can prove it? Maybe you made all this up and it was you who pushed her off the cliff!"
Lame brother stopped the agent and stopped her from taking action again. Lan Zheng escaped from the agent with difficulty. She sat in front of Bai Mian and handed her arm to Bai Mian:
"Master, please help me feel my pulse and tell me the whole story. Tell us how He Xianxian fell off the cliff. You successfully predicted He Xianxian's death before. I believe you and I want to prove my innocence. If it was something I did, I admit it. If it wasn't something I did, I firmly deny it!"
Bai Mian put two fingers on Lan Zheng's pulse, ready to feel her pulse. The man in sunglasses who had been silent for a long time suddenly became furious. He urged the agent impatiently: "What's wrong with you? It's already this late, and you still let them tell fortunes here? This is ridiculous. Since someone has died, you should call the police and let them take the murderer away. Deal with it however you want. Stop wasting time here!"
"You're right," the agent said submissively, took out his cell phone and called the police, saying to the man in sunglasses, "The police will be here soon."
Lame Brother looked at the two men and suddenly felt something was strange. The man in sunglasses was just a bodyguard and the agent was his employer. Logically, the man in sunglasses should obey the agent, but now the relationship between the two seemed to be reversed.
Just as Bai Mian felt Lan Zheng's pulse, the man in sunglasses grabbed Lan Zheng from behind, threw her aside, and glared at her, saying, "The police will be here soon, stop playing tricks here! Manager, what are you still standing there for? Hurry up and find a rope to tie her up, or she won't run away!"
After the man in sunglasses said this, the agent started to act. She stood up and searched everywhere in the house. Lame Brother blocked her way and said, "Lan Zheng has no intention of running away. You don't need to resort to lynching. Besides, this is our territory. Why are you rummaging through our things?"
The man in sunglasses came up, pushed his agent aside, and stood in front of Lame Brother: "I asked her to do this, what's wrong?"
Lame Brother looked at him with fierce eyes, said nothing, and silently turned his wrist. The two of them seemed to be ready to fight.
Smelling gunpowder in the air, Hu Leying and her agent hurriedly hid behind the medicine shelf. Lan Zheng stood calmly behind Lame Brother. She was already accustomed to such fighting scenes.
Just when the man in sunglasses was about to make a move, Bai Mian smiled coldly and said to him, "Stop acting."
"What?" Lame Brother was stunned for a moment and didn't react.
Bai Mian pointed at the man in sunglasses and said, "I mean him. Stop pretending. You want to interrupt my fortune-telling with provocation to stop me from telling the truth, right, Mr. Guo Yonghan?"
The sunglasses man's body instantly became stiff, and Lame Brother was still a little confused: "What truth? Hasn't the truth been investigated clearly?"
Bai Mian tilted his head and looked at the man in sunglasses: "The truth about He Xianxian's death is that you killed her."
Although the man in sunglasses tried his best to stop Bai Mian from taking his pulse, Bai Mian still saw the whole story through a brief pulse feeling.
The people hiding behind the medicine shelf cried out in surprise. Lan Zheng looked at the man in sunglasses with sympathy: "Why did you do this? Did He Xianxian treat you harshly?"
The man in sunglasses didn't say anything. His agent rushed out from behind the medicine shelf, grabbed his neck, and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Guo Yonghan, He Xianxian is so good to you! Since you got married, she has always been considerate of you and was reluctant to let you work. She has always been supporting you. How could you do that to him, you bastard!"
Everyone else at the scene exclaimed, especially the two fans of He Xianxian who couldn't accept it. Lame Brother frowned and said, "He Xianxian is married? Didn't she announce to the public that she was single?"
Hu Le Ying also took a breath of cold air: "OMG, He Xianxian is actually married, and even I, a professional fan, didn't know! And even if she wanted to get married, she should find someone similar. Why did she find such an ordinary man?"
The agent said angrily, "I felt the same way. When He Xianxian wanted to get married, I tried to persuade her in every possible way, but she insisted on marrying this man. It's all my fault. I arranged for him to be He Xianxian's personal bodyguard, but I didn't expect that they were inseparable and actually developed feelings for each other. By the time I found out, He Xianxian had already decided on him!"
Lame Brother was a little unconvinced: "What's the point of being inseparable? If I had known that my goddess was so easy to woo, I would have been her bodyguard a long time ago! You really should check to see if she has been bewitched!"
The agent shook his head helplessly: "It's not that simple. Ever since Guo Yonghan became He Xianxian's personal bodyguard, he has saved He Xianxian several times and even helped her block a knife. I asked a psychologist, this is called that...something bridge...oh, right, the suspension bridge effect! Anyway, He Xianxian has decided on him and must marry him. I have no choice. I'm just an agent, not her mother. Why should I care about her lifelong affairs?"
"They got married a year ago and have been keeping their marriage secret since then. No one in the team knows about it except me. When we build He Xianxian's image, we also build a single persona. After all, it's a fan circle. You know, once He Xianxian announces her marriage, a large number of fans will definitely leave."
"The reason why I refused Master Bai's pulse check just now was because I didn't want her to reveal the fact that He Xianxian was secretly married. You all blamed me for not reporting to the police, but it was actually Guo Yonghan who prevented me from reporting it! He is He Xianxian's family member, and I am just a colleague. Of course, I have to follow his opinion."
Guo Yonghan took off his sunglasses, revealing a pair of brown eyes. Hu Leying found that this man had a pair of fox eyes, which were very attractive. She instantly understood He Xianxian's thoughts. It was hard not to be moved when she had such a pair of eyes looking into her eyes every day.
Guo Yonghan finally spoke up: "Don't believe her, this witch is talking nonsense. The police haven't announced the final results of the investigation yet, so what can she know? She said this just to take advantage of my wife's traffic to increase her own fame!"
The agent looked at Guo Yonghan and said, "No, she's not that kind of liar. She predicted that He Xianxian would die, so what she calculated this time is very likely to be true. Now that He Xianxian is dead, the biggest beneficiary is actually you! Guo Yonghan, as her husband, you will inherit all her estate. You can't spend all that money in your lifetime!"
"But I really don't understand. He Xianxian has been good enough to you, why are you not satisfied? Guo Yonghan, tell me honestly, since you got married, He Xianxian no longer let you go out as a bodyguard. You live in her villa every day, wear custom-made clothes, carry branded bags, have a chef cook for you, and even the ingredients are airlifted in every day. You don't have to do anything, just sleep in at home. She goes out to film and work hard, and uses the money she earns to support you. Isn't she good enough to you? Why did you want to kill her?!"
Guo Yonghan looked at Bai Mian with murderous coldness in his eyes: "Witch, you have no evidence at all, but you are slandering me here. When I take care of my wife's funeral, I will find a lawyer to sue you to death!"
"I really don't have any evidence. The evidence is in the hands of the police." Bai Mian said calmly.
"What?" Guo Yonghan became nervous.
Bai Mian shook his wrist: "I said, the evidence is in the hands of the police, don't you remember? The couple's watch, isn't that how you found He Xianxian?"
Guo Yonghan lowered his head and thought about Bai Mian's words, and instantly broke out in a sweat.
Bai Mian: "When you got married, you and He Xianxian bought a pair of couple watches. There was a chip in the watch that could accurately locate each other's location. On the day He Xianxian was kidnapped, she was wearing that watch. After you learned that she was missing, you quickly located her location, so you knew she was in Posuo Mountain early on."
The agent was anxious: "Guo Yonghan, you knew she was on the mountain a long time ago, why didn't you say it? If you had said it earlier, maybe she could have been saved!"
Guo Yonghan was silent, and Bai Mian spoke for him: "That's because he didn't want He Xianxian to come back alive from the beginning. Who wouldn't want the huge inheritance of a female star?"
"So, so after He Xianxian escaped from the wooden house, she met you?" Lan Zheng asked.
Seeing that the truth had been revealed, Guo Yonghan simply threw in the towel and blurted out everything in one breath: "Yes, I followed the location to find her, and I happened to see her running away in panic. She threw herself into my arms. She didn't have a cell phone with her at the time, so I couldn't call the police. I persuaded her to go down the mountain and call the police."
"There was a mountain road on the mountain, but I coaxed her into following me into the bushes, saying it was easy for criminals to catch up with her if she took the mountain road. I took her to the edge of a steep cliff, and then pushed her down when she wasn't paying attention."
"I thought I did it perfectly. I was wearing gloves at the time, and there were traces of fighting on her body left by the kidnappers. No matter how I think about it, the kidnappers are the most likely suspects. This is a cliff, and it is impossible for anyone to rescue her. When someone finds her body, I can inherit the estate beautifully."
"But I didn't expect that the problem was with the couple's watches. I destroyed my watch, but hers fell off the cliff with her. I can't get it back. Damn it!"
Bai Mian took over the conversation, "The watch was found with her body. I believe it won't be long before the police find out that you are the real murderer. After all, the chip records the couple's status, which can be 'together' or 'separated'. When He Xianxian fell off the cliff, her watch showed the status of 'together'. And this pair of couple watches was specially customized by you. No one else has it. This means that when He Xianxian fell off the cliff, the person next to her was you."
Guo Yonghan touched the back of his head and squatted on the ground in disappointment: "I admit defeat."
The agent looked at Guo Yonghan in disbelief: "How could you do that to her? You had such a good relationship and were so loving. You protected her so many times before you got married. You even dared to block a knife for her. How come your relationship has changed after only one year of marriage?"
Guo Yonghan sneered, "Block the knife? It's just a self-torture tactic. The dangers she encountered were actually arranged by me. I just found a few extras, paid them 200 yuan each, and asked them to pretend to be anti-fans and rush up to attack He Xianxian. Then I appeared at the right time to block her. We had already discussed the location of the stab, so they won't hurt me too badly."
"Just this, she was so moved. It's so funny. She has been an actress all her life, but she didn't realize that it was all acting! Haha! Stupid woman, all she thinks about all day is love. How can a man have so much love? I only think about making money every day! Anyway, she is so stupid, even if she doesn't get fooled by me, she will be fooled by others sooner or later. In this case, she might as well be fooled by me!"
"You——" The agent was so angry that he was shaking all over and couldn't speak.
Guo Yonghan laughed up to the sky and said, "If you want to blame someone, you can only blame her for being stupid! Or you can blame you for arranging me to be her personal bodyguard, which is why I had such evil thoughts! Anyway, you can't blame me, I did nothing wrong!"
The agent's eyes turned red with anger and he covered his face and wiped away his tears. While everyone's attention was on the agent, Guo Yonghan, who was squatting on the ground, suddenly stood up and ran out of the door in one step.
"This grandson wants to escape!"
As he said this, Lame Brother chased after him, but due to his inconvenient legs, he failed to catch up with Guo Yonghan and could only watch Guo Yonghan disappear around the corner.
Two minutes later, several police cars stopped at the entrance of Ci Xin Hall. Guo Yonghan was detained in one of the police cars. It turned out that after he ran out, he bumped into the police car at the corner. He had no time to stop and flew onto the front window of the police car and was caught by the police.
The police have carefully examined the watch at the scene, and just as Bai Mian said, the person who killed He Xianxian was Guo Yonghan.
As a suspect in the kidnapping case, Lan Zheng was also taken away by the police. Before getting into the police car, she looked back at her agent for the last time, as if she saw the prosperous entertainment industry that had once held countless of her dreams.
Both perpetrators were taken away, and the agent still had to deal with a lot of troubles in the studio. She was in a hurry to return to Beijing, and without even saying goodbye to Bai Mian, she returned to the stretch limousine and sped away.
Lame Brother stretched his muscles and said, "Is this incident considered over? Oh, I'm so tired!"
Hu Leying suddenly realized: "That's not right. Although the problem has been solved, I'm still unemployed, and I haven't received my salary for this month yet!"
As she spoke, she chased after him and shouted behind the limousine, "Hey, stop the car and pay me the wages. Don't pretend you can't hear me—"
"She didn't seem to pay me for the pulse diagnosis..." Bai Mian muttered, turned to look at Lame Brother, and said in surprise, "Why are you so calm? The goddess passed away, I thought you would cry and scream."
Lame brother waved his hand coolly: "I don't chase people with bad character. I declare that from today on, I will officially stop being a fan!"
"Who are you going to follow next?" Bai Mian teased.
Lame Brother quickly shook his head: "I'm not a fan of celebrities. I can't tell the difference between the real and fake in the entertainment industry. If I have that money, I might as well buy myself two pig's trotters to eat!"
Everyone laughed. Bai Mian looked quietly at the sunset in the sky, and suddenly discovered a wonderful coincidence arranged by fate -
The cliff-jumping scene that He Xianxian initially refused to film was eventually performed by her herself.
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