Cute surprise from the official ebook at the end of this chapter! I should probably learn how to use Photoshop one day instead of relying on MS Paint…
Translated by: TaffyGirl13
Chapter Nine
A few days later, it broke out on the news that several boxes containing corpses had been dug up from the yards and other sections of unowned land surrounding a certain abandoned house.
According to reports, the police had originally received a tip-off about someone using the abandoned house to secretly consume and store drugs. After searching, they had found that one of the alleged boxes of drugs actually contained a shriveled hand. When they continued digging, they found more body parts from unknown origins. Per analysis, they were determined to have been several years old, and the police were now expanding their search.
Meanwhile, the owner of the house that was now charged for serious crimes was nowhere to be found. The police had called out the homeowner with the surname Zeng to make an appearance at court to explain their case.
“They’ve already confirmed five.”
Yu Yin lowered the volume of the morning news report and glanced sideways at Dong Feng sitting next to him. “My uncle said they dug out over fourty boxes, all scattered around the house, but they still haven’t finished digging everything. Also, more was retrieved from the disk files, including some photos of the body parts…After killing the girls, he would drag them up to the third floor and cut them up in that bathtub, then take photos of it all…”
Right at this moment, several body parts placed in a small box with other items showed up on the TV. Some of the items were small jewellery or a dirty dress. There was also a red striped jacket laid out on the ground that the reporter said had been wrapped around the body parts.
“Because they’re his spoils of war, just like the corpses. He wanted to be able to see them and re-experience them any time he wanted.” Dong Feng was not surprised as he tonelessly stated, “He was just that type of person.”
“It seems like most of the victims were problematic girls. Some family members were contacted, and who all said the kids had run away from home a while ago. One of them said their daughter hung out with hoodlums all day and was kept as a mistress. They hadn’t known her whereabouts for a while, and had assumed she had been in a love affair with one of the hoodlums…sigh.” Since the officers had found some heads, they had been able to identify matches with girls that had gone missing for years, seeking out their families one after another. Yu Yin couldn’t describe how he felt upon hearing the results. “They found some of the girls in the photos too. Like Ji Ya Xuan, they were just interacting with Zeng Jian Zhe online for his money and getting things like brand-name bags. They later found out how possessive he was, and his violent tendencies in bed, so they cut things off. Pretty fortunate, really.”
But the comforting part was that some of these “girls” were like Ji Ya Xuan and had left behind their wild youths. Some had done online projects, some had opened shops, some had gone back to school to complete classes, others had started working like normal people. There were a few that had already married, and when they received the call from the police to explain the case, they even brought their laughing babies. They had tried their best to live normal lives, and earnestly continued striding towards their futures.
Of course, some had also chosen to continue sinking until they were living at the bottom of society.
Yu Yin really hoped these girls who had yet to find their paths would soon get a chance to live a life that wasn’t wasted away.
After all, they were still alive and not stuffed inside boxes.
“Their choices are their own. Those that would’ve changed in the first place will change, those that wouldn’t have changed are hopeless no matter how much you think about them or try to meddle.” Dong Feng could completely read Yu Yin’s thoughts from his face. This was why he found their group so annoying. There was no point in overthinking so much about people that wanted to self-destruct.
Some people did not wish to be saved, and those that did wish to be saved had been struggling for a while.
Interfering with such things would sometimes only bring pain to others.
“I guess. But I continue thinking about it whether it’s hopeless or not. Either way, it’s my choice.” Yu Yin knew very well just how meddlesome he was. After all, his involvement with both the dead and alive often affected his life.
But he never regretted it in the end…Well, maybe a bit that time when his head had been bashed in.
“I still want to do all that I can.”
“…Idiots, all of you.” Dong Feng clicked his tongue and stood to leave the living room. “Pains in the ass.”
Yu Yin watched Dong Feng go up the stairs before looking away with a chuckle.
Yu came out of the kitchen with desserts, placing freshly-made cream cake on the living room table.
“He seems to be getting used to living here after so long.” Yu Yin stabbed a piece of the sweet cake as he looked at his younger brother sitting across from him. “Now he just beelines straight to the room without a word. In the past, he’d always grumble about going home whenever he was embarrassed or angry.”
“Mhm.” Yu nodded in agreement.
“When we have enough savings, we should renovate the house.”
The house currently only had a few rooms. The initial guestroom had become Yu’s room, while the room that doubled as an office had become the new guestroom. With the increased number of guests, there was no more space in the house.
Moreover, since the house had been filled with males from the beginning, they had only sought the minimum requirement of having enough space to sleep. As a result, the rooms were not very large. Yu Yin had long since wanted to redesign the house to add floors and expand the space so that everyone could live more comfortably.
However, he did not wish to use his dad’s or uncle’s money.
After graduating, he could work hard to save up enough money to spend on this.
“We can save up together.”
Yu swallowed a piece of cream cake and continued, “My home too. We can save up together.”
“Sure, let’s save up together then.”
***
“Yo~ You’re working hard.”
Li Zi Hong looked up from his documents, completely unsurprised to see a certain annoying guy leisurely striding into his office.
“Here’s a gift.” As usual, Yan Si willfully took a seat next to him before opening a paper box and taking out cupcakes and fruit tea. “I dropped by the Zeng Jian Zhe case site this morning. It’s just like a treasure hunt. He really went through the effort of picking boxes out to store the bodies — each one is a different style.” It appeared that Zeng Jian Zhe had been meticulous with his spoils of war, making careful choices to handle them.
Li Zi Hong stopped what he was writing, deciding he might as well take a break. “Are you too bored?” Yan Si had dropped his work to go on vacation only to run around and end up on someone else’s turf. If he had truly wanted to go on vacation, he should have gone further to avoid getting involved.
“Of course not, I’m enjoying the happiness of being on break. You know, it’s like~watching how busy the world is while I am simply free. It’s such a refreshing feeling.” Yan Si ignored his friend’s chilling glare, used to receiving many such looks by others. He chuckled, “Originally I just wanted to check out the fun and use the chance to chat with my friend. But he ended up showing me something interesting that wasn’t captured by the media, or else the place would have become a place of worship or something.”
“What?” Li Zi Hong had no choice but to ask about it after seeing Yan Si’s suggestive expression.
“I brought back a set. I was planning on asking the great master about it later.” Yan Si tossed a USB at his friend, urging him to open it.
With a rising sense of suspicion, Li Zi Hong connected it to his computer and opened the USB folder to find a large amount of photos. He could immediately recognise the abandoned house – all three floors of it, including multiple closeups of the tub and bathroom on the third story. After glancing through them, he found what was wrong. “These…”
The duplicate photos of the room appeared very normal, but there were a few strange ones mixed in. The first would be of a normal wall, while a large amount of black handprints would appear on the next one. The beautiful wallpaper were covered in dense handprints to form a revolting sight, to the point where one could not discern the wall’s original pattern. In the photo after that, the wall was back to its previous state.
This phenomena was visible in multiple places; there were some instances on staircase handrails, some on the door to the stairwell, and a few pieces of furniture sported handprints as well. The worst case was on the second floor, where the dark handprints filled the entire space. Not only were the bed, the floor, the beautiful decor and furniture, and the pretty wallpaper covered, but even the ceiling was not spared. At a quick glance, one would think the photo was entirely black, as though there had been ink spilled everywhere. And the floor of the third-story’s bathroom was similarly in the same state.
“Interesting, isn’t it? The photographer didn’t find anything unusual at the scene, let alone see these handprints. They weren’t there during the scene inspection either. It was only upon returning to the station and sending out these files did they get a shock from the photos.” Yan Si really wanted to go straight to a specialist to study this supernatural sign. Maybe it’s a profound revelation descending from the heavens. “By the way, nothing was picked up in the places where these handprints appeared. No fingerprints or anything. Don’t you think that we could operate this into some cool haunted house attraction? It could be a pretty good business!”
“…” Li Zi Hong did not want to agree with running a haunted house and simply went back to going through the photos. There were a few that should have been retrieved from Zeng Jian Zhe’s computer that had been separated into a different folder. When he opened it, he was not surprised to see the murdered girls. There was one in particular of a young girl missing her left leg lying in the tub of blood. By her side was a male face with no particularly outstanding features yet was not easily forgotten; the man was extremely average. In the photo, he had the camera held up with one hand while his other hand was flashing a V while taking a selfie with the corpse as the background.
There were even worse photos. There was no knowing what thoughts were running through the man’s head as he posed in different ways with the corpse, sometimes even doing indescribably filthy things with them. In every picture, his face sported a proud smile with no trace of fear or regret. He always looked at the deceased like they were pieces of delectable meat on a dining table.
“That’s Zeng Jian Zhe,” Yan Si commented as he rested on his arms and watched Li Zi Hong go through the photos. The police had already received photos of the man, but seeing these disgusting selfies would make anyone feel a stronger sense of repulsion.
When the police searched through the abandoned house, they had not found any money, valuables, or items of identification. As a result, they were considering the possibility that he had run away years ago in concern of being exposed by Lin Hong Zhi and the others.
Li Zi Hong handed the USB back to his friend after going through the files. “What else is there?” There was no way Yan Si had gone so far just to find some fun. He must have initially gone over there for a more important matter. Considering the store where these cupcakes had come from, Yan Si had to have already gone to the southern district, and just happened to pass by where these photos came from.
“…You’re all getting harder and harder to fool.” Between his friends from the police and his friends with the children, Yan Si was starting to wonder how much harder he would have to work to find new and exciting things.
“So?” Li Zi Hong ignored the complaint, waiting for the answer.
“Alright, it’s the case with Teacher An. The post-mortem examination did not have any particular issues, so I asked the guy in charge of the inspection. He had apparently left his position due to family reasons not long after the incident, and is now teaching at a school. I went through a ton of effort, including dragging out my instructor to use his connections, before I managed to get this.” Yan Si turned to pick up his work bag and pulled out another folder to pass to his friend. “He said that ‘there were no issues with the process after receiving the corpse’. But when he received it, he discovered that some parts had been wiped clean. He had written this suspicion on the earliest version of the report, but the version you gave me didn’t have it.”
Li Zi Hong opened the folder to see the examination report and found that it did include some annotations that were not in his file.
“The old forensic investigator said that when he looked at the crime scene photos, there was clearly a bit of yellow, unidentifiable powder on the body’s fingers, but it was nowhere to be seen by the time the corpse came to him. With a poof—it just evaporated into thin air, returning to its home planet and never to return to Earth. And it brought its companion away with it—those close-up photos of the fingers are also missing. Unless you, the Great Prosecutor, is bored enough to try to trick me by giving me less information, it probably jumped into a black hole.” Despite not having the photos, there were notes left on the initial testing form. Yan Si had naturally been able to interpret what the annotations meant.
“Was there mention of what the yellow could have been?” Li Zi Hong’s brows furrowed together slightly. He had received notice of Jiu Shen’s discovery, and with the addition of Yan Si’s, there was now a huge discrepancy between the truth and the conclusion of the incident long ago.
Moreover, it confirmed that—there was likely a mole in the group in charge that had interfered from the beginning to make it easier for the evidence to mislead the case.
An Tian Qing’s death was undoubtedly not as simple as it appeared on the surface.
“Something like pollen, probably.” Yan Si shrugged. In any case, with the things gone and with so much time passed, it was near impossible to identify the powder. To be more accurate, there was a higher chance of walking out and getting struck by lightning than overcoming that level of challenge.
“Hm.” Li Zi Hong finished going through the report. Aside from a few extra annotations, the cause of death was more or less the same as what they already knew.
The reason this case had never been publicly announced was because An Tian Qing had likely been slowly killed. She had suffered a blunt impact to the back of her head which paralysed her and prevented her from resisting. Then the killer had tied her to the chair, put everything in place, before finally slitting her throat—Dong Feng probably was not aware of this, and Li Zi Hong did not want him to find out.
The prosecutor that had been responsible for this case had been investigating in the direction of a personal vendetta. After all, an ordinary person wouldn’t use such a method to cruelly murder a woman. However, An Tian Qing did not have any enemies; she lived a pure and simple life. Her colleagues in school and her students all adored her, and her relationships with relatives were normal. Even her neighbours praised her. There was no way she could have antagonised anyone. In the end, the only conclusion left was the unidentified stalker.
“It would be hard for a random stalker to infiltrate the police.” Yan Si chewed on his cake as he said, “And keep the case under the wraps too. It’s a bit too odd.” At this point, he was starting to believe the kid that refused to eat instead.
However, could a senior high student really have been able to commit such a crime?
Li Zi Hong pondered all the information he had recently received and decided to change directions.
“Let’s start with investigating that student.”
***
When Yu Yin received the final body count of seven, a day had already passed.
Right as Yu Yin was about to head out for work that morning, he had received the update on his phone. Aside from the total count, Yan Si had also sent a weird file containing a bunch of photos of black handprints.
When he saw the accompanying message of “Begging for the great master’s guidance”, he irritatedly sent back the addresses of several temples, then informed Dong Feng and Yu, who were playing Jenga in the living room…He actually had no idea where the game had appeared from. But after eating breakfast and going up to change his clothes, he had come back down to see the two allegedly highly intelligent people tossing a dice around while plotting against each other.
After carefully placing a wooden block at the top of the precariously swaying tower, Dong Feng accepted Yu Yin’s phone to scrutinise the photos. “What do you think?”
“Er…I think it’s just venting? I’ve run into similar situations before. They probably just have a strong desire for others to know of their existence.” Yu Yin had seen plenty of black or bloody handprints. The ones that had covered his leg a few days ago had already disappeared on their own, so he hadn’t thought much about those either.
“Hm, then that’s that.” Dong Feng returned the phone, then threw the dice at him. “You go.”
“Oi, oi, I need to go to work.” Yu Yin turned his head, only to see Yu peering intently at him too, seemingly wanting very much for him to go as well. Yu Yin decided that it didn’t matter if he was delayed by another five minutes, so he went along with the pair and tossed the dice before shakily pulling a wooden block out.
Two seconds later, the dangerously wobbly tower collapsed right before his eyes as if to embarrass him.
“…” These two definitely planned this.
Yu Yin stared at the wooden blocks all over the floor, convinced he had walked straight into a trap.
Without hesitation to hit Yu Yin while he was down, Yu grabbed a flyer from the table and held it up to the loser’s face. “The loser has to pay.”
“Damn it, you guys were just trying to get money from me!” Yin Yin took one look at the fruit basket on the flyer and was completely certain he had been tricked. These two brats teamed up to get me!
“I can pay instead then.” Dong Feng bent over to pick up his backpack.
“Forget it, I’ll buy it on my way back from work.” Seeing as the price was within his budget, he would treat it as a way to show appreciation. Yu Yin stuffed the flyer into his pocket.
“I’m going out too, I need to go meet a client.” Before Yu Yin could chime in, Dong Feng cut him off, “The client strongly values privacy, so I’m going alone. If I ask the officers outside to drop me off, it should be fine, right?”
Yu Yin was originally going to ask Yu to go too, but he figured that Dong Feng needed his own freedom; they couldn’t follow him everywhere forever. Being that restrictive would be unfair, so he agreed with Dong Feng’s proposal. “Alright, take care when you go out.”
“Ok.” After receiving approval that he could go out on his own, Dong Feng turned to go upstairs and get ready.
Yu Yin found Yu peering at him intently. “You have to be careful while you’re home alone too. Make sure to lock all the doors and windows.”
Yu nodded, then began to restack the Jenga blocks.
Upon leaving the house, Yu Yin grabbed his motorbike as usual.
“Weird…”
His bike’s movement was choppy, though it had been perfectly fine yesterday. He inspected it everywhere, but couldn’t see any issues. With rising suspicion, Yu Yin started the engine. The motorbike made a strange noise at first, then it gradually began to stall. After about ten minutes, it finally started normally.
He scanned his surroundings but did not see anything. With a ton of questions in his mind, he turned and began to open the gate, only to hear an extremely familiar sound.
Cough, cough….
“You…”
The moment he started his sentence, his motorbike died again. “Are you trying to ask me for help?” Despite its repeated appearances, he had only managed to see its form once, and he had no idea what it was trying to communicate.
Moreover, based on his knowledge, Dong Feng really wanted to meet it. Yu Yin could not understand; if Dong Feng was not a natural repellant like Xiao Hai was, why didn’t the teacher ever appear around Dong Feng?
Dong Feng had been the first one to find the crime scene that year. According to past experience, this meant the ghost should be attached to Dong Feng instead.
Since his first meeting with Dong Feng, Yu Yin had never seen anything by Dong Feng’s side. These paranormal phenomena had only started showing recently, so what about the past ten years?
Yu Yin subconsciously looked down to see a pool of blood appear below the gate, just like before. He could practically predict what he would see behind the door.
But what exactly was it trying to tell him?
He jerked his head back up to see a black figure appear in the shadows by the gate.
“Are you Teacher An?”
The figure did not move. It stood in place, its silhouette on the shorter side and its head completely attached to the body rather than the terrifying state it had appeared in before.
Cough, cough…
Before he could ask any more questions, he suddenly heard the faint sound of a female weeping.
It was followed by another weird noise…Wait!
“Ah!” Yu Yin realised with a start that his motorbike was not responding at all anymore. Even its lights remained off; it was completely dead. Yu Yin was worried the bike had died permanently this time.
He had no time to ponder the possibility of it being truly dead or not, because a loud bang came from the gate, as though some enormous object had crashed into it. At the same time, he noticed the figure by the gate disappear.
“You don’t want me to go out?” Crap, Boss specifically told me I need to go in today to learn from an invited manufacturer’s demo.
As if agreeing, the strange noise immediately quieted.
“…”
After a beat of silence, Yu Yin had no choice but to brave himself and call to ask for the day off. Fortunately, his company gave their consent.
As soon as he hung up to head back inside, he spotted Dong Feng step out of the house.
“Why are you still here?” Dong Feng raised a brow in slight surprise to see the person that should have left a while ago still standing in the yard.
“Something came up last minute.” Yu Yin pushed his bike back to its parking space. He thought about asking Dong Feng to wait a bit so they could go out together, but then his phone suddenly rang.
There was nothing on the display when he answered, but there was a faint sound coming from the receiver.
It did not sound male or female, but rather a weak, unnatural noise electronically pieced together.
Stop him…Stop…him…
“Who? Stop who?”
Yu Yin whirled around and found that Dong Feng had already stepped out and had closed the gate on him. “Wait! Wait a second!”
When he opened the door to chase after, there was no one in sight.
He put the phone next to his ear once more, but the line had disconnected.
Yu Yin realised that something was wrong, so he hurriedly called Yu Xia to contact the officers following Dong Feng to stop him.
Five minutes later, he received a call back.
However, it was after Dong Feng had already escaped the police and vanished.
***
The coffee shop’s metal shutters were pulled down again.
“I’ll take my leave first. You guys make sure to be careful.”
Ji Ya Xuan and the others glanced at Dong Feng, who was here for the fourth time now, before bidding farewell and leaving through the back door.
Dong Feng had used the excuse of stopping by a convenience store to shake off the meddlesome police before taking multiple buses to return to the cafe near the school. He had called Hu Bao Er the previous night so she would be mentally prepared, and had also contacted the people related to Lin Hong Zhi as well.
Currently before him were Hu Bao Er and Lin Hong Zhi, who had rushed over last night, in addition to two strangers.
“These are Xiao Xing’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Shu,” Hu Bao Er introduced as she came out with tea and snacks.
“…What did those baseless claims you sent to us mean?” Shu Xing Yu’s mother rushed to say before waiting for Dong Feng to reply, “What basis do you have to say that has any relation to us? It was seven years ago. My daughter’s been gone for so long, yet you’re still trying to remind us of our loss?!”
“Mrs. Shu, listen to what he has to say.” Lin Hong Zhi consoled the woman and quietly said, “He’s even come here alone, hasn’t he?”
“That cop’s kid didn’t follow?” Mr. Shu’s tone still carried reservations as he looked at Dong Feng in distrust.
“You’ve looked into us, as expected.” Yu Yin did not go around saying he was the child of police, so the parents might have found out before they had even interacted with Shu Xing Yu. Just as they had been investigating, the other party must have learned of their background as well. “The way you treat Shu Xing Yu is really not an ordinary level of strictness.”
“That shop you guys ate late-night snacks at has been in our neighbourhood for many years, and the owner is a friend. What did you expect?” Mr. Shu harrumphed and matter-of-factly stated, “If we didn’t look into you, how could we be sure of our daughter’s safety?”
“Mn, then let’s not circle around each other. Since I came alone, you should just speak truthfully.” For the sake of bringing this matter to a close, Dong Feng surveyed the four people present and said, “I can tell if you’re lying or not, so please don’t bother re-using the excuse you gave to the police last time. It’s just wasting all of our time.” Because there were others present at the time, he had not stated the truth; Hu Bao Er and Lin Hong Zhi had said shattered pieces of the truth, not the complete facts.
The others exchanged looks with another, clearly hesitant.
Dong Feng was in no rush for them to immediately confess. He pulled out his phone that had been vibrating nonstop from the beginning to see countless missed calls all coming from the same few people. Tch, not a single moment of peace. After some thought, he decided to choose a random person to send a text saying he was handling a personal matter as a way to confirm he was safe and sound.
As soon as he finished sending his text, he closed his phone as a gesture to prove he would not threaten them with recording anything, and placed it on the table to push it towards Mr. Shu. It was clear that they had made their decision by this point, as Lin Hong Zhi spoke first:
“How much do you want to know?”
“What you really want to ask is how much I already know, right?” He noticed that their expressions relaxed a bit when he handed over his phone. Without giving them any more time to get anxious, he directly voiced his answer. “I know you four killed Zheng Jian Zhe.”
Almost instantly, their expressions turned extremely wary.
“At the very beginning, when Shu Xing Yu came with the postcard, I knew it did not belong to her, so I told her not to search for it. If it was for her, it would not have been hidden among the remnants, nor would it have been written on a postcard from someone else. A different way of communication would have been used to entrust a gift. So I had guessed that it was Shu Xing Yu’s wishful thinking to find her sister’s item…Speaking of which, she only wanted to prove herself useful. She wanted to find what her sister had left behind so that she could make you, her parents, happy. You two should think about how to respond later, though this has nothing to do with the matter at hand.” Dong Feng looked at the parents and flatly continued, “When we later learned of the classmates’ riddles and the handwriting on the postcard having slight discrepancies with the handwriting from the diary, it could be concluded that the card had not been written by Shu Xing Ling.” This had been a fact that both he and Yu had noticed the moment they saw the diary. It was also why Yu had later been focused on the cafe’s chalkboard.
The first time they came to this cafe, Dong Feng had not noticed the chalkboard because he had been distracted by the chimes…the second time, he and Yu had both gotten a good look at the chalkboard’s handwriting and had simultaneously realised the owner of the cafe was Hu Bao Er.
“We knew the older sister had online friends, but didn’t leave behind anything related to that. In addition, part of her diaries and computer files were destroyed—although they weren’t completely wiped. You guys missed a few files that were password locked, as well as some automatic backups of chats. I assume you two did this, since I’m guessing the parts that disappeared were related to Zeng Jian Zhe…”
“That’s right. Since meeting Zeng Jian Zhe, Xing Ling always wrote about their interactions in her diary.” Mrs. Shu sighed, tugging at her collar as she relaxed slightly and picked up the lukewarm floral tea on the table to take a sip. “We did not want any part of the trash to be preserved after her death. He did not deserve to be present anywhere in our home.”
The man sitting next to her silently patted his wife’s shoulder.
“After Zeng Jian Zhe found your address and confirmed the older sister lived there, he began to stalk her. Just like when you discovered us eating late-night snacks near your home, you probably noticed something was abnormal back then.” Dong Feng paused here, waiting for a response.
“…No, it was actually us who noticed first.” Hu Bao Er openly stated, “Because of Xiao Xing’s poor physical condition, her classmates took turns bringing her home. Someone noticed a strange car around her school and home and asked her about it. Although she didn’t know anything, Ya Xuan and the others recognised it as belonging to the internet addict, then privately spread word that Xiao Xing had hooked up with him.”
“Our daughter told us about it…telling you now won’t make a difference since you can look it up. We had some underground friends in the area, so we warned that trash to give up on our daughter. Contrary to our expectations, he continued stalking her, even appearing while she was going in and out of school…It was so disgusting that I just asked people to beat him up.” Mrs. Shu couldn’t keep herself from gritting her teeth in anger as she recalled the matter from seven years ago.
“But he still didn’t give up, and even kidnapped Shu Xing Yu, didn’t he.” This was more or less what they had guessed. Dong Feng knew why Zeng Jian Zhe had suddenly made a move on the little sister at the time—because he had been dissatisfied with being beaten up and wanted to give the parents a warning. He could have even wanted to kill the little sister in that moment, which was why he had intentionally drawn her into his car.
“We really hadn’t thought the trash would do something like that. To this day, I still regret not breaking his legs back then. We should’ve been more merciless.” Mrs. Shu had no regrets about hiring those thugs. She frostily declared, “That kind of person doesn’t even deserve to be in this world. If you personally saw what was on his computer, you would know why we ended up doing what we did.”
“Even without checking his computer, you had already made your decision by the time Zeng Jian Zhe broke into your home and tried to assault Shu Xing Ling, right?” The parents’ killing intent had not taken form as a result of that incident. The decision had been made long before, when Zeng Jian Zhe had repeatedly crossed the line. Judging from the parents’ current expressions, Dong Feng believed his conjecture was very likely.
“Of course. The fact that we didn’t make him pay the price from the beginning when he dared to do such things was already too merciful.” The woman banged on the table and gritted out angrily, “That was our precious daughter, yet he dared to hurt her! An outsider dared to harm the precious child that I carried for ten months!”
Mr. Shu lightly patted his wife in consolation, his tone still wary as he solemnly stated, “We only regret being a step too late.”
This answer was not surprising.
Or rather, Dong Feng had been prepared for this since Hu Bao Er had given them the first explanation.
So he only turned towards Lin Hong Zhi.
“I was the one that killed Zeng Jian Zhe.”
The young adult that had been their old homeroom teacher somewhat defeatedly, but resolutely, confessed.
~Taffy Translations~ 