Chapter 41 The Fifth Floor Full of Doubts
The scene in the hallucination was so heartbreaking that Xia Lili's tears suddenly welled up in her eyes.
Like beads with broken string, they fell down with a click.
——"Lili?"
"What's wrong? Why aren't you talking?"
Xia Xubai's voice brought Xia Lili's thoughts back to reality.
"I am here!"
Xia Lili answered with red eyes. She was just glad that her brother couldn't see her crying.
She tried her best to hide her abnormality: "Brother, the network was not very good just now, what did you say?"
Xia Xubai had a gentle smile on his face. "Lili, I'm preparing for a competition recently and have to produce several versions of songs overnight. I'm very busy."
"When I'm free, I'll take you and your parents out for dinner to celebrate you finding a satisfying job."
Xia Lili bit her lip, trying her best not to cry out loud. She nodded and said, "Okay, you're busy."
"I've eaten too."
After Xia Lili finished speaking, she was afraid that Xia Xubai would notice something unusual, so she hung up the phone immediately.
She was in extreme panic at this time.
Foreseeing the death of a loved one and foreseeing your own death are completely different feelings.
She tried desperately to calm herself down, clear her thoughts, and organize the information in the hallucination.
My brother's song was selected by Shangguan Xu, and the two parties negotiated the licensing matters at the company. After hearing what Shangguan Xu said, my brother suddenly refused.
Later, the brother released a song online and became popular. Then, Shangguan Xu’s fanatical fans accused the brother of plagiarism, blocked him offline, and finally forced the brother to death.
There are two suspicious points here. The first is that her brother suddenly refused Shangguan Xu's cooperation, and she has to find out the reason.
The second question is why the matter turned into that the brother plagiarized Shangguan Xu. It was obviously the brother's own original work, so why was he accused of plagiarism?
Combining these two points, the problem lies with Shangguan Xu.
In the hallucination, Shangguan Xu was smoking an e-cigarette, playing with his mobile phone, and putting his legs on the table in the conference room. This scene was enough to shock Xia Lili.
Because Shangguan Xu’s personality on the Internet is that of a sunny little puppy, who is polite to his seniors and caring to his juniors.
Moreover, none of his music works are bad. In short, he is a perfect idol.
Sure enough, they are all packaged.
As Shangguan Xu is a popular idol, there is no chance for me to communicate with him.
Xia Lili decided to rush to Xia Xubai immediately and follow him closely to prevent anything from going wrong.
And there’s something fishy about that original song music competition. You absolutely cannot participate in it and you cannot give out the audio.
After Xia Lili adjusted her mood, she immediately called Xia Xubai.
However, Xia Xubai did not answer the phone at this moment.
Xia Lili couldn't help but feel nervous.
She took a taxi directly to the downstairs of Xia Xubai's house.
In order to save money, Xia Xubai rented an old house in the old city, a tube-shaped building with exposed stairs.
There is no elevator, and the higher the floor, the cheaper the rent.
Xia Xubai lives on the seventh floor, and it is really hard to climb up.
When Xia Lili climbed to the fifth floor, she was already a little out of breath.
She was planning to continue climbing up, but suddenly she remembered that her brother fell from the fifth floor in her hallucination.
Xia Lili glanced towards the left side of the fifth floor for some unknown reason.
To her surprise.
The construction area on the left side of the fifth floor is being renovated, but the protective railings are still retained on the side facing the air. The eye-catching cordon trembles slightly in the wind, obviously to prevent people from falling from high altitudes.
This is in stark contrast to the completely open, unobstructed facade in the illusion.
This means that when the group of crazy fans chased Xia Xubai, the protective facilities here had already been dismantled.
A worker covered in cement stains was squatting in the corner laying bricks.
Xia Lili stepped forward quickly and casually pointed at the guardrail: "Master, are we going to remove the guardrail outside and replace it with a floor-to-ceiling window?"
The cement worker glanced at Xia Lili and chuckled, "How is that possible? Why would you install French windows in such a shabby building?"
"It's not a high-rise building in the new urban area. What kind of scenery can you see with floor-to-ceiling windows? Just watch the old man playing chess downstairs?"
"Of course the guardrail won't be removed. The owner of the house just wants to do a simple renovation. If the guardrail is removed, how much money will it cost to install it again?"
"This guardrail looks old. It would be nice if it were repainted."
When Xia Lili heard the cement worker's nagging, her heart felt as if it had sunk into an ice cellar.
The original owner of the house had no intention of removing the guardrail.
That means the guardrail was deliberately removed by a third party at a later stage.
It is very likely that Xia Xubai's fall from the building was not an accident, but was planned by someone.
That person knew that the fans would block Xia Xubai's way, so he deliberately removed the railing on the fifth floor in order to make it look like Xia Xubai's death was an accidental fall.
This is not an accident, it's murder!
And the person who wanted to murder Xia Xubai——
All the suspicions have pointed to the popular idol Shangguan Xu.
But just because the song collaboration didn't go through, it shouldn't be enough to drive someone to death, right?
In his hallucination, Shangguan Xu's agent negotiated a copyright fee of 300,000 yuan, which was already a considerable amount of money for Xia Xubai.
If a new artist’s first song can be sold at this price, it can be said that he has surpassed 99% of creators.
Why didn’t Xia Xubai agree?
There must be something hidden.
Xia Lili's brain was only capable of reasoning this far, so it would be better for her to ask her brother directly for the rest.
Xia Lili hurried up the stairs, climbed to the seventh floor in one breath, and knocked on Xia Xubai's door.
"Brother, are you home? Open the door!"
Xia Lili's knocking on the door sounded like a death call.
Soon, the door opened.
Xia Xubai appeared at the door with a cane. He was surprised to hear Xia Lili's voice: "Lili, why are you here?"
Xia Lili was relieved to see that Xia Xubai was safe and sound. "Brother, why didn't you answer my call? I was so scared."
"The competition is about to end, and I'm busy catching up."
Xia Xubai did not show any anger at all when Xia Lili suddenly appeared and interrupted his creation.
'There was a hint of worry between his brows.
"Besides, you hung up on me so quickly that I thought you wouldn't contact me again today, so I devoted myself to my creation."
Xia Xubai sounded a little aggrieved when he said this.
When Xia Lili heard the word "competition", she immediately became nervous: "Is it an original song competition? Don't participate!"
Xia Xubai looked puzzled when he heard this: "But I just sent the work by email."
Why did his sister suddenly stop supporting his music dream? Did she think he didn't have the talent?
Xia Xubai felt even more aggrieved.
"ah?"
Xia Lili quickly pushed him into the house: "Let me see!"
There was a worn-out laptop in the room, and the screen was stuck on the "email sent successfully" interface. WY Mailbox did not have the function of withdrawing emails.
Xia Lili was cautious and quickly took a photo of the time the email was sent.
She asked, "How did you hear about this original song competition?"
Xia Xubai stood there awkwardly, like a big rabbit with drooping ears.
He answered his sister's question honestly: "The owner of the music store told me."
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