Yinghong hid behind the old principal and was unwilling to come out. She looked very nervous, but Chen Ge did not find too much fear on her face, which meant that even facing the three red-clothed people, Yinghong might still be able to escape.

Chen Ge didn't know what Ying Hong relied on, so he could only deal with it carefully.

"Principal?" Chen Ge saw that the old principal remained silent, as if he had something to hide.

"These two children are both Li Xueying. They are the same person." The principal looked at the two girls with eyes full of love and guilt: "I know that one of them is called Yinghong and the other is called Yingbai, but no matter what their names are, they are both my relatives."

Reaching out and gently touching Yinghong's head, the old principal protected Yinghong behind him.

When the old principal touched her head, a trace of disgust flashed in Yinghong's eyes, but maybe it was because the current situation was too unfavorable to her and she still needed the old principal to act as a backer, so she did not resist and deliberately acted very obedient.

"In fact, Yinghong is more like Xueying at that time. Facing her alcoholic and gambling father and her frail mother who couldn't leave the wheelchair, she could only protect herself." The old principal took all the responsibility on himself: "This is all my fault. I was blind and believed the lies of Xueying's father. I pushed them into the fire pit with my own hands."

Ying Bai seemed unaware of what the old principal said. She looked at him blankly, her beautiful and clean eyes full of confusion, and she kept muttering the word "grandfather".

Yinghong's reaction was completely different from Yingbai's. She was trying her best to suppress the anger in her heart. Her expression did not change much, but her pupils were already bloodshot.

The memories of the past hurt her so much that her body was slowly changing.

"Principal, things may not be as simple as you think." Chen Ge didn't want to hide anything from the old principal. He opened Yinghong's schoolbag and found the paper ball he had searched out of Yinghong's drawer.

Seeing the crumpled papers, the calmness on Yinghong's face was broken, and she looked as if the murderer knew that the body she buried had been discovered by the police.

Written on the paper was Yinghong's dissatisfaction with the world, and words saying she wanted to kill the old principal.

Holding the papers in his hands, Chen Ge looked at the old principal who was determined to protect Yinghong, and Yinghong, whose eyes were red as she tightly grasped the old principal's clothes. He hesitated again.

Gently shaking his head, Chen Ge put the papers back into his schoolbag: "Principal, can you explain in detail why Xueying became like this?"

After collecting the white papers filled with crazy words, Chen Ge found that Ying Hong and the old principal were relieved.

He vaguely understood in his heart that the old principal actually knew everything.

"Yingbai is the purest side of Xueying's heart. She is simple, kind and innocent, but the reason why she can live like this is because all the negative emotions such as anxiety, fear, hatred, etc. are borne by Yinghong." The old principal's voice was filled with regret and anger: "Xueying's mother was the first child I adopted. She was in poor health and couldn't have children, so I adopted Xueying. I accompanied the couple at that time. Xueying was still very young. I saw the three of them talking and laughing so happily, and I was very happy too, but then I realized that things were not what I thought at all."

Chen Ge heard a hint of hatred in the old principal's voice, which surprised him a little. It was unexpected that an old principal with such a good temper could hate someone so much.

"You can never know a person's heart from the outside. Xueying's father is a complete liar. He approached Xueying's mother not because he liked her, but because he wanted to get the properties under my name. He knew that I had no biological children, so he approached us on purpose. Including the adoption of Xueying, everything he did was deliberately performed for us."

If that was all, the old principal wouldn't be so angry. What he said next was the real reason why he was angry: "After learning that I was going to donate all my properties and had asked a lawyer to make a will early on, he became angry and found all kinds of reasons to make trouble every day. He beat Xueying's mother and even once set his sights on Xueying. Fortunately, Xueying's mother found out in time."

The old man's voice was trembling. He was a good man, but that didn't mean he wouldn't get angry.

From another perspective, given the old principal's personality, he probably wouldn't devour other evil spirits. The fact that he can become half-clothed in red in this situation only shows that he has a deep obsession and there are things he must accomplish.

"I saw all these things in the diary in Xueying's room after she died. Do you know how sad I felt when I held that diary?" The old principal gently stopped Yinghong beside him: "Yingbai couldn't live in that kind of place, so Yinghong appeared."

After hearing what the old principal said, Chen Ge was somewhat glad that he did not take out the paper balls directly. He looked at Ying Hong and suddenly remembered another thing.

Ying Bai said that his father suddenly left home at a certain time and never came back. At first, Chen Ge didn't think much about it, but now after seeing Ying Hong, he vaguely guessed the man's final fate.

He will definitely not come back, and he will never come back.

Yinghong had a lot of grievances against the old principal, and she even wanted to hurt him.

But what happened next was beyond her expectations. When she was targeted by the three red-clothed people, the old principal stood behind her and protected her, becoming her lifeline. This changed her opinion of the old principal.

Then, when she saw the old principal's regretful and sad look, she felt very uncomfortable in her heart, as if a tiny crack appeared on the cold and hard scab of her heart.

"I didn't expect she had such a past. I can understand that, but..." Chen Ge didn't say the rest. He put away the headless female ghost and the red high-heeled shoes. These two could not be considered real employees of the haunted house. The headless female ghost was very reluctant, and the red high-heeled shoes were even more disobedient. Although the shoes were put into the backpack, there were more and more blood-red shoe prints on the table.

Putting away the two red-clothed people was a statement of his attitude. Chen Ge decided to let the old principal handle the matter himself. Although Yinghong was cruel and full of negative emotions, she and Yingbai were one after all.

With his hands on Ying Bai's shoulders, Chen Ge's eyes moved between Ying Hong and Ying Bai. He was about to ask the old principal some more questions when he suddenly realized something.

"Why does the situation with Yinghong and Yingbai feel a little familiar? Just like me and the shadow of Liwan Town?"

To be exact, Chen Ge thought of himself and the ghost fetus. One was just an optimistic and cheerful haunted house owner, while the other was the most terrifying existence in the four-star scene.

"Wait, wait..." Chen Ge rubbed his temple fiercely: "My family told the old principal that Xueying is in the psychic ghost school, which means that he knows Xueying's situation very well. Could this be another hint from them?"