Jian Jing was still a little confused when she went to the back garden.
She didn't expect Xie Wei to say such a thing. There was no evidence, it was all her speculation. As long as he refused to confess, no one could do anything to him.
But he told her where the evidence was.
Why? Did he suddenly have a conscience and repent?
Jian Jing thought so, but she couldn't even convince herself.
Xie Wei's condition was too strange. His words and deeds were flawless, like a clever criminal, but under the absolute advantage, he actually took the initiative to reveal clues.
This was not a confident play, but... with more complicated emotions.
The source seemed to be her.
This was special. It was too early to say it was love, and it was not enough to say it was a good impression. It was like a call from a distant valley, shadowy and unclear.
Jian Jing walked to the back garden with a very complicated mood.
Now she thought that the figure she saw when she and Xue Zhe were walking in the garden should be Xie Wei. He was destroying evidence.
The crabapple flower.
The crabapple flower was there.
She took a deep breath, exhaled, and ran quickly without giving herself time to hesitate.
Relying on her memory, Jian Jing immediately found the place where Xie Wei stood, but...where was the crabapple flower? There was clearly a crabapple tree here, where did it go?
"What are you looking for, Miss Jian?" the proprietress asked, holding a broom.
"Isn't there a pot of crabapple here?" she asked.
The proprietress smiled, "Yes, but the night before yesterday, Mimi knocked over the flowerpot, and the mud and soil inside were scattered all over the ground, and all washed away by the rain. I moved the pot for the crabapple yesterday, and it's there."
The night before yesterday? Wasn't that the night when the power went out? She and Xie Wei also met the cat who came back in the rain.
Jian Jing's heart skipped a beat, and she asked, "Then did you see anything in the flowerpot?"
The proprietress looked confused, "Nothing, the roots were washed away."
Jian Jing was stunned.
The evidence... disappeared?
The cat knocked over the flowerpot, and it rained heavily. After a few days, even if the container was found, nothing would be found in the test.
How could it be such a coincidence?
Did he deliberately lie to me and make fun of me? No.
Jian Jing shook her head secretly. The look on Xie Wei's face when he blurted out those words was definitely not a joke. He was full of surprise, as if he had not expected that he would say such words.
She returned to the restaurant with a heavy heart.
Xie Wei was waiting for her.
He was absent-minded, with a hint of sadness between his brows. When he saw her coming back, he smiled at first and wanted to speak, but his eyes did not catch what they should have, and he was stunned.
His eyes became extremely complicated.
He misunderstood, he thought she had given up.
Jian Jing said, "I didn't find it."
"Really?" Xie Wei's tone was very strange, and it was hard to tell whether he was relieved or disappointed.
Jian Jing pursed her lips and said, "The cat broke the flowerpot, and everything is gone."
Xie Wei exclaimed, "Ah," and met her gaze, "I didn't lie to you."
"Tao Tao...didn't you?" Jian Jing asked.
He became his own flawless self again, and said, "Shao Meng's death was beyond my expectation."
The implication was that there was no time.
Jian Jing understood his subtext and couldn't help but smile bitterly. She seemed to understand the meaning of the system a little bit. Things that didn't make sense in common sense but could happen in theory just happened.
To put it more bluntly, it was just good or bad luck.
Shao Meng might not have been infected with meningitis. He might have been discovered quickly after getting it, and his life could have been saved after emergency rescue. But he got sick and was scared to death. Such a low probability actually happened to him.
And Xie Wei's luck is particularly good.
His method of hiding evidence is poor, but a cat and a rain help to destroy the key evidence, making it impossible to convict him.
At the same time, Zhang Xi gets involved and threatens Tao Tao, causing her mental illness to relapse due to guilt, and she goes crazy that night. He doesn't have to do anything, and the rest of his life is completely ruined.
Such strong luck is incredible.
If Jian Jing didn't have a system, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to solve the puzzle no matter how hard he tried.
Although it's useless now.
"You win." She rubbed her cheeks and said helplessly, "Your life... is really good."
Xie Wei said nothing.
Jian Jing tried to hold back, but still couldn't suppress the surging emotions, and blurted out: "Since you believe in fate, have you ever thought that if you don't do it, Shao Meng will also encounter an accident, so why bother?!"
If he had held back, it would have been a different scene.
Now his hands are stained with blood, and he can't wash them clean for the rest of his life.
What a pity.
Who would have thought that Xie Wei actually laughed when he heard this. He leaned forward, held her hand, and clasped his five fingers: "Thank you."
Jian Jing frowned and tightened his face.
"I've thought about what you said. But I don't regret it." He said slowly, "My teacher owed many people favors for my plays. He had to travel around at an old age, and he suffered from stomach problems. He passed away just like that. Before he died, he was still comforting me, telling me not to worry, there would always be a day to come.
"My mother sold the house for me, and finally let me get the role I wanted. But the movie took a long time to pass the review, and I lost all my money. But she told me that it didn't matter, since I liked acting, I should stick with it, and she was proud of me.
"And my friends, my senior brothers and sisters, directors, they all helped me, they are all good people. But because of me, either the investment failed, or the box office was terrible, and everyone suffered losses.
"If it was my incompetence and my bad luck, I would accept it - but what if it wasn't? "
Jian Jing's brows suddenly relaxed, his lips moved slightly, and he was unable to answer.
Who could answer his "what if"?
"If not, then my teacher should be proud of me and attend my award ceremony, and my mother should live in the big house I bought for her and spend her last moments comfortably." Xie Wei's hands gradually exerted force, and his knuckles turned white. "Those who help me should get the rewards they deserve, those who win awards should get awards, and those who make money should make money, instead of being forced to change careers because of me, or being unable to be with the people they like because of losing money."
"Even..." He chuckled, "I shouldn't have met you like this."
The idea of luck is illusory, and who can confirm it?
He didn't believe it at the beginning.
But what if it is. What
if his life was really stolen by someone. In these long and painful ten years, why did those people whose fate was changed because of him have to have such an ending?
Just thinking about it, I hate it to the bone and can't sleep at night.
Xie Wei slowly let go of her hand.
"I don't want to believe it, but Miss Jian, I'm just an ordinary person." He leaned back in his chair, stared at his hands, and said self-deprecatingly, "I'm sorry, I offended you. It must be disgusting to be held by such hands?"
Jian Jing bent her fingers subconsciously, and the temperature of his hands seemed to still remain on her skin.
Like a cup of tea that has been left for a long time, it is no longer hot, but is still getting colder.
Dark clouds came and blocked the winter sun.
Xie Wei's body was shrouded in the ubiquitous shadows again.
The space was filled with suffocating silence.
Xie Wei no longer looked at her, his eyes always fell on the distant horizon, and I don't know what he was thinking.
The silence was broken only when the screenwriter Xu dragged over with heavy steps: "Jingjing, Xie Wei? What are you two doing sitting there?"
He raised his voice, looked at them with great interest, and teased: "Oh, the breakfast is good, the boss lady can also cook Western food?"
Xie Wei nodded politely: "I made it."
"Any more?" screenwriter Xu asked.
He spread his hands, indicating that there was no stock.
Screenwriter Xu laughed and said something else: "It seems that Jingjing has it, I don't."
Jian Jing forced a smile and said: "When are you leaving?"
Screenwriter Xu said: "If there is nothing else, I will leave in the afternoon."
"Can I take a ride?" she asked.
"No problem." Screenwriter Xu agreed immediately.
So Jian Jing spent the whole morning packing her luggage in the room. Of course, there was nothing much to pack, but her mood.
She had been thinking about whether to tell Liang Yi about this.
If she told him, it seemed useless, because the evidence had disappeared, and there was no way to convict her. Maybe she would not believe it at all. If she didn't tell him, she would feel that she had betrayed her principles, and her conscience would be uneasy for her to remain silent for the criminal.
What should she do?
As Xie Wei said, the law is to uphold justice, but sometimes, the law has corners that it cannot reach.
Jian Jing fell into an extremely contradictory struggle.
Emotionally speaking, she did have sympathy for Xie Wei. Especially since she herself had been reborn, it was difficult for her to say with certainty that borrowing luck was nonsense. But once she believed it, even if it was only three-quarters, it was enough to make people feel sympathy.
But there are so many avengers in the world, and everyone has their own helplessness, but not everyone will choose to kill. The law is the bottom line of being a human being. As long as you do it, you should be punished.
She was fidgeting and couldn't help but click on the system again.
During the previous confrontation, the system announced that the mission had been completed, and all the contents on the panel were decoded.
[Mission name: The mystery of smuggling for life (completed)]
[Mission description: A popular male star died mysteriously, and a strange shadow remained at the scene. When will the stolen destiny return, and what kind of human suffering is behind the stolen life? Please find out the truth]
[Mission reward: determined based on completion]
"Alas." Jian Jing sighed, and finally couldn't make up her mind.
What is justice? Does the truth have to be revealed to the world? What she pursued was justice, fairness, or... actually none of them?
The night she returned to Heping City, the news of Shao Meng's death spread like wildfire.
The popularity of "Devil Doctor" had not faded, and everyone was paying close attention to it, eagerly waiting for the police's announcement. After investigating the scene, the police did not find any other clues, so they closed the case as an accident.
"A popular movie star died of meningitis, God is jealous of his talent!"
"In memory of Shao Meng, an inventory of the roles he played in those years"
"You are the eternal handsome young man, I wish you peace in the afterlife"
Regardless of whether they are familiar or not, most stars have posted mourning Weibo, only Jian Jing did not move at all. There are many fans reminding her below, but she has always remained silent.
Fortunately, people did not pay too much attention, because after Shao Meng's death, the news that Tao Tao was admitted to a mental hospital also broke out.
The Internet has a very good memory, and everyone immediately recalled the scandal from half a year ago. Some people accused her of being deserving of it, but there were also many women who thought that it was not her fault, but she had to bear the consequences.
Unconsciously, the topic shifted from "Tao Tao" to the big themes of "privacy" and "gender", triggering a wave of quarrels.
Soon, no one cared about Tao Tao anymore, her popularity was divided by other issues, and the loyal fans could no longer support a mental patient, so some left and some dispersed. When
the tree falls, the monkeys scatter.
The good fortune that was stolen with great effort was like a spring dream, and the wind and clouds dispersed.
At the same time, Xie Wei's rise was unstoppable.
Almost at the same time, a mixed video occupied everyone's homepage.
"What kind of divine looks is this? I'm intoxicated by the little brother's eyes."
A UP host edited together Xie Wei's roles, including ancient costumes, the Republic of China, and modern ones, with music and lines that are on point, and condensed his ten years of acting into a few minutes of video, which is so shocking.
It only took three days for him to go from being an 18th-tier actor who fell to the bottom to a divine male star who was on the hot search headlines .
Although there are many miracles on the Internet, such a rise is enough to shock people.
All the movies Xie Wei has filmed, the TV series Xie Wei has participated in, and the roles Xie Wei has played have been dug out by gossipy netizens.
Everyone seemed to notice him all of a sudden, and expressed their surprise.
"He is the male lead of "The Mystery of the Song Dynasty", his acting is much better than Shao Meng, why is he not popular?"
"I am just a passerby, but Xie Wei's acting is indeed better than Shao Meng."
"I heard that Xie Wei offended the company's senior management, so he was hidden, otherwise he would have been popular a long time ago."
"Suddenly I found a treasure, there are not many actors who are so low-key, I am a fan."
Xie Wei is popular.
His fan base has skyrocketed, with countless passers-by fans and face-lovers.
Someone also specially found the movies he starred in, selected the essence and edited them together, and then edited out clips of other male actors of the same type and put them together for comparison.
"No comparison, no harm, acting competition".
There are quite a few male stars who are popular but have poor acting skills. Such a comparison is like a car accident scene, which makes those who hear it sad and those who see it cry.
Xie Wei's acting skills were highly recognized.
For a while, it seemed that everyone knew Xie Wei and became his fans.
After ten years of silence, he finally began to walk towards the throne that should have belonged to him.
Jian Jing was extremely sad and thought that this was the end.
However, it was not the case.
A few days later, Taoist He called her and said excitedly: "I know where I have seen that tattoo. There is also a similar style of pattern on the jar of the Seven Star Coffin."
Jian Jing was confused: "What?!"
"Who is the person who borrowed luck?"