Chapter 68: Haunted House Mystery: Letter to Father

Fang Rui and Xiao Zhang went to Liu Xiaonian's house again.

After learning the real reason for Liu Xiaonian's death, Liu Xiaonian's mother was not surprised, as if she had guessed it long ago.

Liu Xiaonian's mother sighed, "Xiaonian, his life is so hard! Alas, it's our fault. We were too concerned about our reputation back then. We forced him to study hard and didn't give him a happy childhood. It's all our fault."

Liu's father was shocked, "How could he commit suicide? He is so thick-skinned, and no matter how I scolded him, he didn't react. How could a person like him commit suicide?"

"Old man, are you still unwilling to admit your mistakes? If we hadn't carried out repressive education, would Xiaonian become what he is today? He has depression, did you know? He doesn't have the energy to go out to work, and he doesn't have the ability to socialize. It's not his fault, it's our fault. We killed him!"

Liu's father was speechless.

Fang Rui handed the letter to his parents, "Liu Xiaonian asked us to pass it on to you."

"Is this Xiaonian's suicide note?"

"It should be."

Liu Xiaonian's mother's eyes were red again, and she took the letter tremblingly.

Liu Xiaonian's father stiffened his neck at first and didn't want to read the letter, but when Liu's mother took out the letter, he turned his head to look again.

"Oh, why are there no words?"

Fang Rui was about to tell them how to make the words appear.

But Liu's father said: "The words are written with colorless phenolphthalein, and they disappear after drying. If you want to make the words reappear, you have to apply an alkaline solution on it. This is what I told Xiaonian when he was a child. At that time, I always did small experiments with him."

Liu's father burst into tears.

[Dear Dad:

When you see this letter, I should have been gone for many days. I don't know if you will feel sad for me. I hope you feel sad, but I don't want you to feel sad. Look, I have always been such a shy person. I

don't know if you think of my childhood when you see this blank paper. You should remember it, otherwise you may not see these words.

When I was a child, you always accompanied me to do various small experiments and told me all kinds of interesting knowledge. It was at that time that I fell in love with decryption and the feeling of exploring the unknown.

But as I grow up, your expectations of me are getting bigger and bigger, and I need to work very hard to meet your requirements. In the eyes of others, I am both a top student and a dull and boring learning machine. I have no ideals of my own, no hobbies, and I am not even allowed to have happiness.

I know you love me, but your love is too heavy. Dad, I am not your appendage. I hope you can understand that my glory will not become your glory, and similarly, my shame will not be your shame. We are all independent individuals.

Later, I finally found my hobby. Maybe you think I am a toy maker, but I am really happy when I play escape room. It takes me back to my childhood when I studied various problems with you, and I like the pleasure of finding the answers.

Dad, I leave this letter not to make you understand me, nor to make you feel guilty, but I just want to tell you that the decadent time in your eyes was my happiest time. I was alive during that time.

Dad, please apologize to my mother for me. She is really the best mother in the world. If there is a next life, I hope I can still be her child. In my next life, I will try to make myself her pride. There is no chance in this life.

Dad, Mom, you don't have to miss me, just forget me. Please scatter my ashes in the sea. I hope the waves can take me to a very far place. I want to see more unknown worlds.

Tears kept dripping on the paper and slowly faded away, but no matter how they regretted, time could not be reversed, and the dead could never come back.

"Edgar Allan Poe's House" reopened in a few days. It launched a new copy and invited some local Internet celebrities to experience it for free.

It even used the "hanging" as a gimmick to upgrade the horror of the secret room. It became popular again for a while.

Young people who go there don't care if someone has died there. They even think it's more exciting.

After Wang Yang and Li Bin learned the truth about Liu Xiaonian's suicide, they cried bitterly. Only they could understand why Liu Xiaonian committed suicide.

Wang Yang decided not to run an escape room shop anymore. After paying off his debts, he used the remaining money to pay for the down payment of a house, and then decided to run a business with his brother-in-law. He felt that he should live a more realistic life.