Chapter 23
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“Could it be… that we’ve been looking in the wrong direction? What if the murderer isn’t a man but a woman? What if it’s Cheng Xi herself?” The female officer shared her speculation with Lu Zhe.
Lu Zhe said nothing.
I desperately tried to explain, but it was useless.
They couldn’t hear my cries, nor could they make sense of why the murderer scattered my belongings across so many victims after killing me.
First, the bracelet. Now, the earring.
What on earth was that lunatic trying to do?
…
I followed Lu Zhe to Guangli River, a desolate area far from the abandoned orphanage.
It was evident that the murderer killed the victims and discarded their bodies, letting them drift downstream until they were discovered in remote locations.
Standing by the riverbank, I looked at the body covered with a white cloth and instinctively covered my eyes in fear.
Look at me—I’m already dead, yet even as a ghost, I’m still a coward.
“The earring is indeed Cheng Xi’s. The previous body had her bracelet, and now this one has her earring. What is the murderer trying to convey?” Xiao Zhang asked suspiciously. “Could Li Li be right? What if the murderer really is Cheng Xi?”
“Even if it’s not Cheng Xi, it must be related to her. She’s missing now, and all her friends are adamant that she’s alive and just playing dead. What if she’s the murderer or an accomplice?” Xiao Zhang said indignantly.
“I heard from those people that Cheng Xi had a thing for Fu Mingyu and would do anything to marry him. Could she have known the murderer and intentionally left her belongings at the crime scenes to provoke Fu Mingyu and Bai Yuan?” added Li Li, another officer, as she walked over.
I looked helplessly at Lu Zhe, shaking my head frantically.
“No, it’s not me. I didn’t do it.”
Lu Zhe remained silent for a long time before finally speaking. “Issue a wanted notice for Cheng Xi.”
In that instant, the last shred of hope in my heart was extinguished.
I looked at the officers in front of me with a bitter smile, turned around, and left.
They didn’t trust me. They even slandered and wanted me…
I wondered if they’d feel any guilt for doubting me now when they eventually found my body.
But that no longer mattered to me.
No one in this world trusted me anymore.
No one believed I was dead.
And no one believed I was killed because of Bai Yuan.
They all believed Bai Yuan.
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Hengyuan Residential Area.
Before I realized it, I had returned to my old home—the place where I had lived with my parents before everything fell apart.
In Haicheng, we weren’t wealthy, but we were a middle-class family, living a content and happy life.
Until I was eighteen, I thought I was the happiest little princess in the world, with my parents by my side and a beautiful life ahead.
But it was all destroyed.
I could never go back.
Wandering aimlessly down the street, I let the constant stream of cars pass through my soul.
It turned out that being dead was even more hopeless… As a wandering ghost, I didn’t even have the right to wish for death.
“Xixi…”
“Xixi, where are you? I’m begging you… Please come back.”
At the foot of the apartment building, I vaguely heard someone crying.
The figure was frail, squatting by the building and making repeated phone calls.
Standing under the streetlight, I couldn’t stop trembling.
It was Qin Ruolin.
My childhood friend, the best friend I had grown up with.
She kept dialing a number—my number, which had long since been disconnected.
“Xixi, don’t scare me, please don’t scare me,” she murmured to herself, crying hoarsely. “Xixi, come back.”
I helplessly squatted beside her, wanting to embrace her but utterly powerless.
“Linlin, I’m here. I’m here…” I sobbed, speaking to her. “Don’t cry. I’m here, Linlin.”
But she couldn’t hear me.
“Xixi, I’ll find out the truth. I’ll get justice for you,” Qin Ruolin said, her voice hoarse, as though she had made a decision.
“Linlin…” A sense of foreboding rose in my heart. I felt something bad was about to happen.
“Linlin!” Qin Ruolin was the only person who cared about me now. I couldn’t let anything happen to her.
I followed her, panicked, calling her name, but she didn’t look back. She wiped her tears and made a phone call. “Did you find anything?”
“The police found another body today. The victim was wearing Cheng Xi’s earring. They couldn’t confirm the identity, but DNA tests showed the deceased wasn’t Cheng Xi.”
Qin Ruolin studied medicine, and she had friends in forensic science. It wasn’t hard for her to gather information.
“Help me get in touch with Lu Zhe. Tell him I’ve been frequenting Nightfall Bar recently. I can act as bait to lure out the murderer. Let him contact me. If he refuses, I’ll go on my own,” Qin Ruolin said firmly.
“You’re insane!” I screamed sharply, thinking she had lost her mind.
How could she… provoke that murderer?
“Linlin, I’m begging you, I’m begging you, please don’t go.” I cried as I followed Qin Ruolin, pleading for her not to go.
“Linlin! You’re all I have left…”
I anxiously trailed behind her, but she seemed to have made up her mind.
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