Chapter 80: Pretend to be a corpse
"How to do it specifically?" Li Yanjing asked.
"Go downstairs and find your grandma later. Tell her you suddenly realized I wasn't breathing." Li Zhi paused, then continued, "And tell her you found the pillow dropped on the floor and someone entered the room."
Li Yanjing waited for two seconds, "And then, nothing?"
Li Zhi hummed, "That's all. You can just do whatever you want when the time comes. Gu Yanran will definitely show her true colors."
"But how are you going to survive?" Li Yanjing discovered the problem.
"Just open your eyes and come back to life, otherwise how else can you live?" Li Zhi replied nonchalantly, "It's called pretending to be dead."
“…”
Li Zhi reached out and poked his cheek, "Okay, you can brew some tears now."
Li Yanjing tilted his head, his dark eyes clear and pure, "How do you brew it?"
Li Zhi rubbed her chin with her white fingers. "Like, think about something sad?"
Li Yanjing thought for a few seconds and shook his head, "I can't think of anything sad."
"Just think about whether you would feel sad if I were gone one day," Li Zhi said.
Li Yanjing was slightly stunned for a moment, then realized, "Gone?"
Li Zhi nodded, "Yes, I don't want you anymore, you have to live alone."
Li Yanjing tightened his hands at his side, as if he took her words seriously. A hint of stubbornness appeared in his eyes. "Will you do this one day?"
Seeing that he was almost emotional, Li Zhi stepped up her efforts and said seriously, "Yes, you are not the only one in my life. I will leave one day. You can be fine without me now, right?"
Li Yanjing's eyes gradually turned red, and his expression became a little excited. He asked, "Li Zhi, did you tell me your true feelings?"
"Hmm?" Li Zhi realized that he seemed to have misunderstood something. "What are you talking about? Of course I'm not telling the truth. I'm just helping you build up your emotions."
Li Yanjing bit her lip, trying hard not to let the tears fall, "Really?"
Li Zhi sighed and laughed softly, then reached out to pull him closer and raised her pinky finger. "Mom will never leave you alone. Let's make a promise?"
Li Yanjing sniffed, raised his hand and hooked her little finger, muffled and said: "Don't lie."
Li Zhi pulled her hand out and touched the top of his head. "Of course, I can't fool anyone but you."
"But you can't just lie to others." Li Yanjing said.
Li Zhi smiled and couldn't help but jokingly said, "You're still thinking about others at this time."
She paused, looked at his miserable little face, and continued, "Don't hold back all your tears. Your emotions are at the right level now. Hurry down and find your grandma."
“…”
Li Yanjing didn't say anything, but still did as she said, turned around and left the room.
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Downstairs living room.
Gu Yanran was acting coquettishly and apologizing to Jiang Ruyun for what happened yesterday, trying to ease the somewhat stiff relationship between them.
"Mom, please don't be angry with me, okay? I said those words yesterday because I was hot-headed. I really know I was wrong. As long as you don't get angry, I'm willing to do anything..."
Jiang Ruyun didn't say anything, just drank her tea.
Gu Yanran bit her lip and was about to say something when she suddenly heard hurried footsteps and a child's crying voice, "Grandma!"
She frowned and turned to look in the direction of the sound, and saw Li Yanjing running towards them with tears in her eyes and an expression filled with panic and fear.
Seeing this, Gu Yanran's heart skipped a beat and she suddenly had a bad feeling.
Jiang Ruyun put down the cup in her hand, stood up from the sofa and walked towards him, "What's wrong, Yan Jing?"
Li Yanjing couldn't stop her tears from falling, and said in a trembling voice: "Mom, she... Mom, she seems to be not breathing..."
Jiang Ruyun was stunned for a moment, then reacted. Her pupils suddenly contracted, and her expression was full of surprise. "What did you say?!"
"I was wrong. Mom wasn't sleeping all the time. I just suddenly realized that she was not breathing..." said Li Yanjing.
"How could this be!" Jiang Ruyun couldn't believe it. She suspected that the child had made a mistake and quickly ran upstairs.
Before Li Yanjing turned around and followed, he glanced at Gu Yanran from the corner of his eye. Sure enough, he saw a flash of panic on her face and a hint of uneasiness in her eyes.
Gu Yanran looked at the two people going up the stairs one after another, and her hands hanging by her side couldn't stop shaking. She didn't expect that she was wrong. Li Zhi was really dead and was not deliberately teasing her.
She took a deep breath, pinched her hands, forced herself to calm down, and followed.
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In the room.
Jiang Ruyun looked at Li Zhi, who was lying on the bed with her eyes closed as if she was asleep. Her mind went blank. She couldn't believe that her daughter had died suddenly and silently.
No breathing, no heartbeat, no vital signs.
"how so..."
Jiang Ruyun shook Li Zhi's body with trembling fingers, and she felt like she was about to break. "Zhizhi... wake up, don't scare your mother!"
Li Yanjing reached out and grabbed Jiang Ruyun's hand, and asked in a choked voice, "Grandma, is Mommy...dead?"
Jiang Ruyun came to her senses and turned to look at him. Her eyes were red and she opened her mouth slightly, but no sound came out. It seemed that she didn't know how to answer his question.
Li Yanjing noticed Gu Yanran coming in, his eyes flickered slightly, and he said, "Grandma, it seems someone has entered Mom's room..."
As soon as he said this, Gu Yanran's feet were instantly fixed on the spot, not daring to take a step forward.
Jiang Ruyun was stunned. "Yan Jing, what do you mean by that?"
"Grandma, do you remember that we came up together after lunch, and when we saw Mom fell asleep again, we left again?" said Li Yanjing.
Jiang Ruyun nodded, "I remember."
Li Yanjing pursed her lips. "When I came back, I found the pillow that had been on the bed had fallen to the floor. Mom's hair was messy and her face was red. I thought she was sleeping too hot and rolled over, so I didn't think much of it."
"But since I came back, Mom has been staying in that position without moving. I just realized something was wrong and wanted to wake her up, but she didn't respond at all. Then I realized she wasn't breathing..."
At this point, Jiang Ruyun already knew what was going on. Her face was as pale as paper, and she slowly said, "So Zhizhi's death wasn't an accidental sudden death caused by staying up late. Someone came into the room and covered her face with a pillow, causing her to suffocate to death..."
Li Yanjing raised her hand to wipe the tears from her eyes, "Grandma, is there a bad guy in the family?"
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