Chapter 113 A Signature
Cut into pieces, die violently——
Perhaps that was not a curse that was made up out of thin air, but a fate that could not be escaped after marrying into the Dai family.
Before coming to meet Gu Jiaying, Lin Guantang had made preparations in advance.
It's different now than before. Lin Guantang is more or less a celebrity. Coupled with his relationship with Huo Shizhen, there's no guarantee that the person who's looking for him has bad intentions. At least he needs to have a basic understanding of Gu Jiaying first and have a rough idea of why he's looking for him.
Then, from a pile of information, I learned that Gu Jiaying was going to marry Dai Zhourong.
Other people's marriages were not something Lin Guantang cared about. But when he was discussing him with Yuan Wenjun, Yuan Wenjun suddenly said:
"It's that old man who kills his wife!"
She was a person who loved to collect all kinds of gossip. When she talked about this, she became very excited. Without waiting for Lin Guantang to say anything, she told him all the related rumors she knew.
The main point is that Dai Zhourong's three wives all died of illness, which is an ominous sign. If they were ordinary people, no one would dare to remarry.
But who can blame Dai Zhourong for being so rich and powerful? He is even a shareholder of Quan O College. Countless people rush to curry favor with him. Words about him being unlucky in marriage are spread privately, and no one dares to say it openly.
And the rumor also said that several of his wives were actually tortured to death by him, but being a wife-killer is a vague metaphysics, and domestic violence involves character issues, so it is even less circulated. If it weren't for a gossipy person like Yuan Wenjun, at least young people of their age would never know too much about the private rumors of an old man.
Speaking of this, it is really a coincidence that, in addition to Gu Jiaying, Dai Zhourong’s ex-two wives were also students of Quan O College.
That's such a coincidence.
Too many coincidences and it becomes strange.
Afterwards, Lin Guantang thought about it over and over again, feeling uneasy. In the end, he simply retrieved the detailed and accurate information through the system for review.
The first wife was a beta female with a history of illness for several years. She had multiple diseases and eventually died of body rot.
His second wife was an omega. They remarried after seven years, but she died of extreme anorexia five years after their marriage. It was said that she vomited even when drinking water, so it would be more appropriate to say that she died of starvation.
The third wife was a male omega. She married Dai Men four years later. This time they were married for only three years. She was bitten by a mad dog and soon died of rabies.
The time of death was two years ago.
Attached to the file are photos of the three ladies from different periods. Under normal circumstances, the three ladies are quite young and beautiful, and even have some similarities - there is nothing to say about this, as people's aesthetic tastes always have certain biases.
There seems to be no pattern in gender and manner of death.
The photos taken during his illness before death are so miserable that it is hard to look at them closely.
Lin Guantang endured the immense discomfort and zoomed in on the photos of the three people.
The more I looked at the photos, the more I felt something was wrong. However, because they were all black and white, and the photo of the first wife was even blurrier, I couldn't tell what was wrong, so I could only zoom in.
However, the expansion range of Lin Guantang's terminal was insufficient, so he simply took it to Huo Shizhen and borrowed the projector that filled the entire wall of his study.
Perform local limit expansion and system recovery.
A nose and an eye were magnified to the size of an entire wall, so that even the pores were larger than a needle tip and any scars could be seen clearly.
Then he saw the exposed facial features and the subtle stitches on the arms.
To be precise, the layers of stitching marks on the first lady's body became very obvious after magnification and restoration. Compared with her photos during her lifetime, although similar, they are also very strange, as if her facial features were pasted on according to the original.
But because the area of ulceration was too large, Lin Guantang suspected that he had seen it wrong.
Moreover, the second and third wives, compared with their normal states - specifically the photos of the last two wives kept in the O Hospital, seemed to have not been modified, as if they were deliberately cut open and then sutured.
But it is also possible to say that the injury was caused by illness or during treatment.
The person is gone, and the body has long been cremated and buried. The system expansion and restoration is not very convincing evidence - and it is not even clear what the evidence is proving.
His guess was just a guess, and there was no chance of anyone believing it. He might even be accused of slandering others.
When Huo Shizhen entered the study, he saw Lin Guantang sitting in a daze on a large chair, hugging one of his knees.
He looked at Lin Guantang's legs and feet in white stockings standing on the chair, raised his eyebrows, and didn't say much. Then he looked up at the enlarged image.
"No matter what, there's definitely something fishy about this guy. He's very likely a violent criminal. Marrying him is very risky."
Lin Guantang suddenly said something without any context. Huo Shizhen quickly understood what he meant and saw his hesitation. He handed him the cup of warm tea and said, "What are you talking about?"
"You want to persuade your classmates to break off their engagement?"
Lin Guantang sighed dejectedly:
"But I'm in no position to speak."
"That can't be done either."
Huo Shizhen took a sip of the ice water in his hand and calmly concluded:
"Let's not talk about the fact that the marriage was a long-standing consensus between the two parties. Breaking off the engagement is impossible. If he escapes, the Dai family will definitely be furious. His entire family is in the Linyi District. It would be extremely difficult for him to escape alone. How can he run away with his entire family?"
Lin Guantang leaned back on the chair with his head tilted back, sighed, stared at the snow-white ceiling above his head, and muttered to himself:
"But knowing that... watching your classmates jump into the fire pit and doing nothing is even more painful."
"What do you want to do? Do you really want to help him escape the marriage?"
As Huo Shizhen's voice rang in my ears, Huo Shizhen's face looking down at me appeared in my sight:
"Even if you succeed this time, you can only help a few people. If he doesn't jump into the fire pit, others will. Even if he jumps, it still won't prevent others from being dragged down in the future."
The implication couldn't be more obvious.
If Gu Jiaying doesn't marry, there will be others to marry her. If Gu Jiaying marries, she may die of illness, but that won't stop others from marrying her after her death.
but--
Lin Guantang suddenly stood up and sat straight, almost bumping his forehead with Huo Shizhen.
But he didn't care about this little embarrassment. Seeing Huo Shizhen straighten up his leaning body, he couldn't help but ask:
"How come you seem to know him so well? Do you know the truth? Are there any strange circumstances surrounding the deaths of his three spouses?"
"There is no problem with the cause of death. What is problematic is the cause of the illness."
Huo Shizhen said:
"It's not difficult to guess what he did, whether he liked torture or was addicted to body art, but speculation is just speculation, there is no evidence."
His answer was expected - it was the same problem faced by Lin Guantang. Without substantial evidence, there was no way to convince Gu Jiaying not to get married, and it was even more impossible to punish Dai Zhourong.
But there is one thing that Lin Guantang cares about.
He looked at Huo Shizhen in confusion:
"How could there be so many people who jump into a fire pit even though they know it's a fire pit?"
"Perhaps there's no other way. The chosen prey will only end up being eaten."
Under Lin Guantang's increasingly puzzled gaze, Huo Shizhen switched the image on the screen to another system interface.
The form interface is quite simple and clear. The first part contains basic information such as name, age, birthplace, etc. The last item is the signature column. However, there are not many signatures. There is only one signature after several blank columns.
Lin Guantang has seen many statistical tables like this. If there is any difference, it is that the name in the signature column does not look like the person in the name column.
Then Lin Guantang saw that at the end of the name column marked "Gu Jiaying", there was the signature of "Dai Zhourong". Even though the signatures were all fancy artistic words, it was easy to compare them as he had a guess in his mind.
But what exactly is this form? Looking at those names, there are a few familiar ones. Lin Guantang recognizes all of them as classmates from O College, but he has never seen this form in school, whether in the system or in paper version.
Moreover, several of the names—
Lin Guantang flipped through a few pages, searched on his terminal, and finally confirmed one thing.
Many of the two people in the name column and signature column are either married or have been involved in marriage-related affairs.
Looking back at previous years, almost all the people whose names appeared in the signature column had news of engagement.
It is not difficult to draw the inference - the presence of a signature means that the student is already engaged, or to think more passively, the presence of a signature means that the student has been noticed and marked.
As a member of the All-O Academy, Lin Guantang flipped through a few pages, confirmed his guess, and almost subconsciously looked for his own name.
It’s not surprising, or rather it’s expected.
At the end of his name column, he signed his name as Huo Shizhen.
Although he was mentally prepared and guessed - or subconsciously had a premonition and expectation - that there would be Huo Shizhen's signature behind his name, he was still shocked.
Because he never knew that his name had been marked long ago.
The speculation that the name column and signature were first formed and then registered was quickly discarded, leaving only the possibility of being forcibly marked.
Lin Guantang looked at Huo Shizhen, who was quite calm and didn't seem to feel any discomfort at having his secret discovered.
Speaking of which, he was the one who originally took out this system interface to show Lin Guantang, and he did not stop Lin Guantang from comparing and searching throughout the process - it would be better to say that he took the initiative to let Lin Guantang know rather than saying that Lin Guantang discovered this secret.
But that couldn't make Lin Guantang accept it completely calmly - he just wasn't as angry.
If he had been told at the beginning that he was being "signed and marked" like a commodity by a stranger for no reason, he would definitely not have had a good face. But this time was different from the past. He already had deep feelings for Huo Shizhen and had a deep filter.
So the shock is greater than the anger, the focus is still on wanting an explanation and getting to the bottom of the truth:
"What is this? When did you sign your name? What does the signature represent?"
"Specially provided to the O College Board of Directors for backstage records."
Huo Shizhen answered every question, holding up a finger to indicate his answer:
"A long time ago, the representative was noticed by the school board members and could realize her dream of becoming a wealthy bride."
He curled the corners of his mouth, his smile looking very sarcastic:
"You should remember what the more well-known nickname of All-O Academy is."
Bridal Academy.
Lin Guantang answered in his heart, but he didn't feel any joy. He only felt an indescribable, dull and sad mood spreading.
He thought it was just a nickname, but he never thought it was actually his true nature.
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