Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve

The sound of knocking on the door woke me up, and the slight dawn came in from under the rolling shutter door. I tried to stand up, but I struggled and fell to the ground. Lying on the ground, I saw Xuan Lingxiao. He was sitting on an armchair, biting an extinguished cigar crookedly in his mouth, his face was pale, there was a frozen smile at the corner of his mouth, and his left hand was hanging weakly on the outside of the chair. , There was a large pool of dark red blood on the black and white checkered floor. I tried my best to open my eyes wide to see him, but he became more and more blurred, and tears gushed out of my eyes.

With a bang, the lock on the rolling shutter door was smashed open, and the light of day burst into the room. Ding Zhaoyang barged in shouting my name, and followed behind him in random steps. Obviously, they found Xuan Lingxiao on the chair first, and Ding Zhaoyang called me in a sad voice. He was like a headless crazy fly, ignoring the police to stop him, looking for me everywhere. I opened my mouth wide and let out an ah. No, I am not responding to Ding Chaoyang's call, I am only exhaling the pain in my heart. Ding Chaoyang, who came patrolling, grabbed me in his arms and refused to let go. In his embrace, I cried with all my strength.

Mere grief does not have such power. Xuan Lingxiao let me witness a tragedy, martyrdom for love, family love. So, when they came to me and asked me what happened, I was silent. I can only remain silent. Everything that Xuan Lingxiao wants others to know has already been written down on paper. I can't reveal the falsehood that he gave up his life to create, otherwise, it will be a blasphemy against him. They wanted to take me to the hospital and I refused, telling them I was just drugged. Ding Chaoyang took me home, I leaned on the bed, he asked me something, I looked at him with slow eyes, to be honest, I kind of hate him, if he hadn't impulsively made friends with Ruan Jinji, none of this would have happened occur.

I said, "Gu Xiaolu will never look for you again." His eyes looked away. At noon, Ding Chaoyang left home, I got up and took a shower, and called Ruan Jinji. She still doesn't know that Xuan Lingxiao has gone, her voice is very indifferent, we are no longer friends, not even enemies, now, to her, her and I are just strangers with an unpleasant past. I said you come to my house. She said she was very busy and had no time. "Your brother is dead." She froze for a moment: "You're kidding." "Really, I have something to tell you." How is that possible, she said sharply?

"real." "How did he die?" "Cut your wrists to commit suicide." Half an hour later, Ruan Jinji arrived, hesitated at the door for a while, and said, "Let's go out and find a place to talk." After speaking, she pulled her feet back and stood at the door waiting for me. I changed my clothes and went downstairs with her. Her face was always up, staring at the elevator display board, expressionless. I asked softly, "Are you feeling sad?" She glanced at me and said nothing. In a tea house not far from home, I asked for a secluded single room, and I poured tea for her: He knew you were his sister, and you were a long time ago.

So what if you know, so what if you don’t know?She blew on the tea indifferently, and took a sip: "Is this what he asked you to bring to me?" I didn't expect Ruan Jinji's indifference. I thought that no matter how much you hate someone, when you hear the news of death, even if you start from the impermanence of life, you will feel a little sad. What's more, he is related to her by blood. Many intersections.I snatched the cigarette she was about to light: "Why are you so cruel?" "I've always been so cold, what's so strange? It doesn't matter if he commits suicide or not." She coldly pushed my hand away, threw the broken cigarette into the ashtray, and took out another one. Point.

"Don't you wonder why he committed suicide?" "There are many reasons for him to want to commit suicide. Anyway, he won't commit suicide for me." "You are wrong, he committed suicide for you." Ruan Jinji took a puff of cigarette: "Are you joking?" I told how Xuan Lingxiao talked to me about her, how he drugged me, how he begged me not to pursue her on Gu Fuli's death, how he put the written suicide note on the bar , How did he sit on the armchair with a cigar in his mouth and smile and cut his wrists, and as he talked, tears blurred my eyes, my throat hurt a little, and I choked up and said: "His greatest wish is to be able to Hug you once like a brother hugs a sister, he loves you, has always loved you, loved you until he took the crime of murdering Gu Fuli for you and made a gesture of committing suicide in fear of crime, just to let you live happily."

Ruan Jinji stared at me blankly, the cigarette between her fingers had burned out, and her fair and verdant fingers were burnt yellow, she murmured: "You lied to me, you helped him make up an earth-shattering warm lie to deceive me." I took the cigarette butt out of her fingers: "I didn't lie to you." Big tears rolled down Ruan Jinji's face and rolled over her slightly trembling lips. "If you want to see him one last time, I can accompany you." She was like a child who had collapsed and lost her mind, weeping silently. Xuan Lingxiao's body was parked in the hospital mortuary. When I went in with Ruan Jinji, I saw an elderly couple weeping silently beside a dead body covered with a white sheet.

Ruan Jinji hesitated for a moment, but still walked over, turning a blind eye to the old couple. She tilted her head and stroked Xuan Lingxiao's pale face, called her brother in a low voice, then knelt down, hugging his head tightly, crying flow all over the face. After a long time, Ruan Jinji let go of Xuan Lingxiao, carefully tidied his hair, took out the makeup box from her handbag, and carefully put on Xuan Lingxiao's makeup. His originally pale face slowed down under her meticulous care. Slowly regained vibrancy. The old couple sat silently, neither asked nor said anything. After putting on her makeup, Ruan Jinji looked him up and down for a while, covered him with a sheet, bowed deeply three times, and left.

After leaving the mortuary, Ruan Jinji walked quickly on the street without saying a word. I watched her cross the intersection quickly, turn a corner, and disappear into the bustling crowd. I stood on the street, called Li Changfeng and told him that Xuan Lingxiao committed suicide. He said he knew, the criminal department had just received a report from the police station and opened the case, which included my name, and seeing that I was just an innocent circumstantial witness in the case, he didn't disturb me. I was startled, and asked, "Everyone is dead, so why file a case?"

Li Changfeng said: "Because it was judged that Gu Fuli committed suicide at the beginning, the case was not filed. Now Xuan Lingxiao said in the suicide note that it was murder. The previous case needs to be filed. Of course, this filing is only a procedure. If you die, the case will be closed." I said so. Li Changfeng, yes, then asked: "He didn't hurt you, did he?" "No." "However, the criminal department will ask you to make an investigation record for this matter." He reminded me. "Got it, thank you." I was trapped in Xuan Lingxiao's suicide and couldn't extricate myself. The police from the Criminal Division of the City Bureau came to me several times, and each time they repeated the details of what happened that night. Every time I told them, my heart felt uncomfortable. I finally couldn't bear it anymore, and said to the detective with eagle-like eyes: "I have repeated all the details of that night N times, how many times do you have to listen to it?" He smiled and said: "This is our practice, because you are too frightened, you may miss some details, repeating it a few times will help you remember them, this is the same as reading a book, every time you read it, you will have new gains. " "My memory is very good. I have already told you all that I can remember." He closed the book: "Well, if you think of anything again, please remember to call us." I don't want to disappoint Xuan Lingxiao, that is the love he gave Ruan Jinji with his life. When cleaning out the pockets of clothes before washing, I found a business card of the sales center in Ding Chaoyang's pocket. I called and asked, and found out that Ding Chaoyang had booked a duplex apartment there, and it would be ready for use by the end of autumn. I was a little surprised, remembering that he said a while ago that he wanted to build a European-style fireplace on the wall between the living room and the next bedroom. How could he suddenly buy a new house. I put down my clothes and ran out to find the locksmith from last time. An hour later, I pointed to the door of the next room and told him that the key on this door was lost somewhere, and it was locked accidentally, and I asked him to open it for me and give me a key. He looked at it for a while, and said that this lock is not easy to open, it is the latest lock.While fiddling with the lock, he babbled, saying that young people nowadays are careless, either forgetting the key at home or leaving it outside when they go out. I had a smile on my face, but my heart was terribly apprehensive, lest Ding Chaoyang suddenly come back because of something. Ten minutes later, the lock was unlocked. He made a clay model and asked me to go to his store to get the key the next day. I agreed and wished he would leave immediately. After the locksmith finished packing his tools, he suddenly sniffed a few times and said, "Have you not opened the door to your room for a long time? There is a strange smell in the room." I hurriedly said yes, because I couldn't find the key, and I didn't open it for several days. I put the money into his hand while talking, and he took it and walked away slowly. I locked the door from the inside and ran into the next bedroom. what do i see The floor is full of construction powder, other furnishings have not been changed, the strange thing is that all the walls are intact, suddenly remembered that Ding Chaoyang said that he wanted to chisel a fireplace on the wall of this bedroom and the living room, this bedroom is shared with the living room The wall is in the closet. I nervously opened the closet door. The closet is a mess, with a few small pieces of trash scattered on the closet floor, it looks like most of the trash has been taken away, and the floor now has some that wasn't cleaned carefully enough to miss.The wall between the closet and the living room has been chiseled out a lot. After looking carefully, it was not the partition wall between the closet and the living room that was chiseled, but a very thick wall that was built later. People wondered that the craftsmanship of the wall was not very good. It seemed that after the wall was built, it was smoothed and then pasted with the same wallpaper as the bedroom. Ding Chaoyang didn't chisel in order from one direction, but chiseled from the surrounding edges, leaving a huge oval in the middle, like a raised ugly relief. I leaned closer to take a closer look, and there was an unpleasant smell seeping from the wall, which was a strong and pungent rancid smell. I covered my nose and stared blankly for a while. Suddenly, my heart jumped up. The whole heart beat violently on my chest, as if it was going to pop out. I ran to the living room, took a big gulp of fresh air, drank a glass of water, then turned back, picked up the chisel, frightenedly found a spot, and chiseled down without any seriousness. After dropping a few pieces of cement, I saw a piece of red fabric, which was tired and crumbled when pulled lightly. I didn't dare to continue chiseling at this point, so I moved up to another place and continued chiseling. After a few chisels went down, a piece of gray-blue object was exposed in the wall. I touched it lightly, and ran away screaming and jumping. It turned blue-gray, like a strawberry that was too ripe, and it shattered into a drop when touched lightly. I was like a frightened rabbit, hopping around the room, not knowing what to do.I can finally be sure that Xu Zhilan is dead. For more than a year, I have been sleeping next to the dead Xu Zhilan. I didn't have time to think about it, I simply packed up my things, swept out the door like the wind, hailed a taxi in a panic and went straight to my mother's house. As soon as he entered the door, he said to his mother: "Mom, don't ask me anything now and don't care about me." My mother came into the bedroom with me out of nowhere, looked at the suitcase lying on the floor, and finally couldn't hold back: "Have you had a conflict with Ding Chaoyang?" I knew that silence couldn't cope with the mother's concern for her children. I buried my face in the quilt and said in a muffled voice, "It's more terrifying than a conflict." "Break up?" Mother asked carefully, lest the inappropriate tone would hurt me further. I didn't speak, and my mother went to the living room. After a while, I heard my mother pressing the phone button. I jumped up, grabbed it and hung up. Dare to tell her the truth. About five minutes later, Ding Chaoyang called back, and I rushed to answer it, saying that I had gone back to my mother's house, and asked him to go home and have a look. He was puzzled and asked what to look for.I said you will know when you go back and have a look. When I ran out of the house in a panic, I didn’t close the door next door. My heart shudders at the thought of being next door to a dead body for over a year. When I was a child, Ding Chaoyang came and called me in the car instead of going upstairs, with a low and hoarse voice, asking me to go downstairs. I put on my shoes and went down, my mother chased after me and told me: "Speak up if you have something to say, don't fight." Ding Zhaoyang sat in the driver's seat slumped. In an hour, he seemed to have aged a lot. He rested his index finger on his forehead. I opened the car door and sat on the passenger seat. He didn't look up and said nothing. Driving the car, drove out of the city, and finally stopped under a hill behind the old man's scenic spot. A golf course was being built here, and there were rumbling machines and sweaty workers everywhere. And the messy construction site said to himself: "You finally know." I looked at the sea, did not speak, tears fell down one after another. He turned his head and looked at me, calmly separated from the twilight old man: "Actually, I know you have always had doubts about whether she is missing or dead. Originally, I wanted to transport her here, but the more I The stronger the smell of chiseling the wall, the more chiseling, the smell will definitely alert you and be discovered by you, so I had to stop and plan to buy a new house, we will deal with her after we move there, and sell the house after we have dealt with it." "In the past, you would rather endure the ringing bell at midnight than move out, because you were worried that if you moved out, the secrets in the house would be exposed by accident, right?" He nodded. "Why did you decide to move this time?" "I want to have a whole new life with you." "You killed Xu Zhilan, and then built her into the wall?" He replied curtly, "No!" "Then who is it?" He looked at me, silent. "You still have other secrets that you haven't told me, but I already know." His eyebrows twitched: "Did she look for you?" "You also know that she's back?" We talked calmly, who was referring to her in the words, we tacitly refused to mention the name Zhu Jin. He nodded: "I haven't seen her. Ever since I received those mysterious calls, I knew she was back, and I also guessed that it was her who rang the doorbell at midnight. I thought I could handle all this, but, I still I overestimated myself and underestimated her, what should come, finally came." "Remember my friend I told you about living upstairs? Her name is Ruan Jinji." He, look at me, wait for me to write. "She is Zhu Jin. She had plastic surgery and wanted to appear in front of you with a brand new look and regain your love. However, she was unwilling to have me by your side, so she made up like Xu Zhilan and rang the doorbell." , calling you, because she believes that Xu Zhilan is indeed dead, and died of your murder." I described it calmly, but my heart was as uncomfortable as a knife. He stared blankly at the excavator in the distance, without making a sound. "It was you who murdered Xu Zhilan, built it in the wall, and claimed that she was missing?" He still stared blankly at the excavator and said nothing. "Because of your sudden lust, three people have already paid the price with their lives." My heart was so painful that it was about to shatter into water droplets. The man in front of me who I loved with all my heart is a murderer. My love, He became a flying bird that crashed into a solid wall, and was doomed to be seriously injured. Big tears rolled down his face slowly, he slowly turned to me: "If I murdered Xu Zhilan, would you regret loving me?" The sound of the sudden collapse and shattering sounded in my heart, and I couldn't hold back any longer. I covered my face and cried. He took my shoulders and whispered, "I didn't murder her." "Impossible!" I wiped my tears: "I'm too tired of guessing, please tell me the truth that I don't need to be scrutinized." "Okay," he said. More than 5 years ago, Zhu Jin and Ding Chaoyang planned how to murder Xu Zhilan like a demon, but Ding Chaoyang couldn't do it, even though he knew clearly that Xu Zhilan had betrayed him and was pregnant with someone else's child. He was in so much pain that he couldn't live without it, but he still couldn't do it if he wanted to murder Xu Zhilan. However, at the urging of Zhu Jin, he once bought a bottle of highly toxic chemicals on the Internet. After buying it, he didn't know where to hide it, so he put it in the corner of the balcony. Unfortunately, Xu Zhilan found it when cleaning the balcony. I asked him what it was, and he was shocked. He said it was a new type of clothing color fixing agent. Because it was highly toxic, he didn’t dare to put it in the company. He was afraid that there would be troubles caused by too many people, so he simply put it at home. , and repeatedly asked her not to touch it lightly. Xu Zhilan believed it, and put it back in the corner of the balcony. Not long after, Xu Zhilan asked him if there was someone outside. He refused to admit it. Xu Zhilan didn't continue to ask, but in the next few days, she was depressed and often looked at her slightly protruding belly in a daze. As he said that, he laughed to himself, weeping while laughing, his expression was very stern, he asked her what's wrong, she didn't say anything, just kept laughing, the more she laughed, the crazier she became. At night, she always sat up coldly when she fell asleep, patted him on the shoulder and asked, "Are you planning to murder me with that bottle of chemical reagent on the balcony?" Ding Chaoyang broke out in a cold sweat, and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? I'll live a good life, so why murder you?" Xu Zhilan sneered and said, "You know why you murdered me." Said, fell asleep. Ding Chaoyang felt terrified, so he threw away the bottle of highly toxic chemical reagent. However, a week later, Xu Zhilan was still dead. That day, when he came back from get off work, he saw Xu Zhilan lying on the desk in a bright red silk pajamas. He thought she was asleep, so he pushed her. There was still a smear of blood on it. Under her arm, there was a piece of paper with a few words crookedly written on it: Before the note was finished, Xu Zhilan died, throwing the half-used refreshing spray on the floor under her feet. Because Zhu Jin had poisoned Xu Zhilan's refreshing spray, Ding Zhaoyang didn't doubt the words on the note at all. He watched over Xu Zhilan's body and sat withered all night, not knowing what to do. In the end, he decided not to announce the news of Xu Zhilan's death, because once she announced her death, some people would definitely become suspicious of her sudden death. Once her relatives asked for a forensic autopsy, Zhu Jin would definitely be involved. Whether you love her or not, after all, he is the one who has betrayed her affection, even though the madness of that affection frightens him, so he can't avoid it.After all, she also loved him sincerely. Even though he was tired of her, he still couldn't bear to push her to a dead end. He bought back some cement one after another, and quietly built Xu Zhilan into the wall of the closet. After finishing everything, he announced that Xu Zhilan was missing. Sending Zhu Jin to England was the last kind treatment for her. Just as Zhu Jin had guessed, he had thought that if Xu Zhilan's death really came to light, he would take it upon himself and not involve Zhu Jin any more. Let her repay it affectionately. As time went by, people gradually forgot about the missing Xu Zhilan. After that, Ding Chaoyang fell into endless panic. At night, he always dreamed that Xu Zhilan, who was bleeding from the corner of his mouth, was standing beside the bed and grinning. He had thought about moving, but he was worried that there would be accidents if he didn't live in the house. The secrets in the closet were discovered. As for selling the house, it is even more unthinkable. The new owner will definitely have to renovate the house after buying a house. By then, the secrets in the closet will be enough to make him indisputable. The bloody case fell on his head. So, he kept on business trips, and when people asked him, he said that he hoped to meet Xu Zhilan suddenly on the street in a foreign land. This is not his hypocritical lie, he would rather that Xu Zhilan eloped with a man than die so hard that he can't explain it. On the streets of foreign lands, he often stared at some women who looked like Xu Zhilan in a daze. Several times, he was almost beaten as a pervert. How he hoped that with a call, the woman who turned around in amazement was Xu Zhilan. If time could be turned back, he would be willing to go back to 7 years ago, tell her his physical condition in detail, leave it to her, and live an open life. Later, when he received a call from Xiaolu, he was very frank about Gu Fuli's death. He didn't need to be afraid at all. When it comes to searching the house, the wall that has been cut around the closet is like a bomb that explodes at the touch of a button... "Do you regret meeting Zhu Jin?" I asked him. He shook his head: "It's like you can't go back in time. Regret the word is a whip. Say it once and it will whip yourself ten times." "What are you going to do?" He looked at me and said he didn't know, now, even if I jumped into the Yellow River, I wouldn't be able to wash myself off. "You can turn yourself in." I admit that if I say this selfishly and coldly, it is tantamount to pushing Ruan Jinji to a dead end. Ding Zhaoyang's piercing gaze made me feel hairy and a little hurt. The natural exclusivity of love is too easy to arouse the viciousness in a woman's heart. "It's useless, I tore up that note and rushed it into the sewer." He said with a relieved look. We sat in the car like two people whose brains had been removed. I didn't know what to do, and I didn't know what was waiting ahead. I never went back to Ding Chaoyang's house. We can never go back to the intimacy of the past. Over the past year, too many things have happened. They are like hard stones, with the cold winter night, gradually separating us. Even though our love was as deep as the sea, But in the end, love gradually becomes powerless.Occasionally, I still talk on the phone, except for how are you? It's just a long silence. Except for going to the radio station at night, I almost never went out, and I didn’t write very much. After more than a month, I suddenly saw a news in the newspaper that Ruan Jinji was imprisoned for losing control of her emotions and causing serious injuries. The person who was severely injured by her was Xiaolu. I suddenly remembered that after Xuan Lingxiao's death, the criminal police from the Criminal Division of the City Bureau hadn't come to me for a long time. From the process of asking me to repeat Xuan Lingxiao's suicide case again and again, it was not difficult to see that they seemed to be suspicious of Xuan Lingxiao's Death, there is another hidden story behind it. I picked up the phone, called Li Changfeng, and asked him to come out for a chat. He should have hesitated a little. An hour later, I saw Li Changfeng in a cold drink bar near the city bureau. He walked over with a smile from a distance and said, "What diet pills did you take, so the results are so immediate?" Seeing that I didn't make a sound, I sat down with a smirk: "Why are you smiling so forcedly?" I pushed the cold drink in front of him: "Is Ruan Jinji in prison?" He glanced at me, lowered his head and took a few sips of cold drink: "Read the newspaper?" I nodded: "It's surprising, why did she seriously injure Xiaolu?" Li Changfeng looked at me anxiously: "I hope you don't get angry." "No." I said lightly, after witnessing so many things happen, my heart grew old inch by inch, and I suddenly understood that there is nothing to make a fuss about in this world, only people who make a fuss . "I told the criminal department about Ruan Jinji's whereabouts on the night of Gu Fuli's death. They also suspected that Xuan Lingxiao didn't commit suicide in fear of crime, but paid for his sister. So they often go to Ruan Jinji to investigate recently. One of them is The police went too often, and secondly, Xiaolu probably heard something vaguely. After the police left, she chased Ruan Jinji to ask what was going on, and called her a vicious liar. She moved her hand, Ruan Jinji picked up a long-handled umbrella and stabbed Xiaolu, Xiaolu's liver was punctured, and she is still in the hospital, her life and death are uncertain." "That's it." I lowered my head, and the broken tears in my eyes reflected on the table glass, not for Ruan Jinji or Xiaolu, but for Xuan Lingxiao, who gave up his life to protect Ruan Jinji, so in vain Sad and desolate, if he knew it in heaven, would he be heartbroken seeing this scene today? Li Changfeng said with some guilt: "I reminded my colleagues in the criminal department. My doing so is contrary to Xuan Lingxiao's painstaking efforts and your painstaking efforts to fulfill him. However, I am a policeman, and I have to abide by the principles of a policeman." Bastard, if you blame me, I will not defend myself." My tears dripped onto the glass, and Wang Cheng was about to break into a ball: "I don't blame you." A week later, Xiaolu was out of danger, and Ruan Jinji was released on bail and placed under residential surveillance, sitting in a daze every day in the closed beauty salon. I went to see her, and she looked so vast when she looked at me against the sun, like a drop of water that would be evaporated by the sun at any time, weak and weak, without any resistance. I said hello and sat across from her. She looked at me with soft eyes, as if all the sharpness had been removed. "I really want to be friends with you forever, but I can't." She said with a smile, "I hope you won't hate me, and I hope that when you think of me occasionally, I'm not a cold female devil face, but a A friend with a warm smile." "Jinji, don't say that." My throat was a little choked up. Ruan Jinji was like a weak and helpless child after shedding all the hatred. She was far away in the middle of the dangerous water. When you tried to reach out, she was already drifting away. , can only watch her disappear into the mist. She put her hand on mine: "Forgive me for hurting you." "You didn't hurt me." She stared at me with staring eyes, and suddenly smiled: "Yeah, except for deceiving and using me, it seems that I really haven't hurt you." After finishing speaking, she pursed her lips and looked at me silently: "That night, I really planned to kill Gu Fuli, and his pestering and threats almost drove me crazy, saying that if I couldn't make Xuan Lingxiao When he got back to him, he told him that I ordered him to rape Xu Zhilan, and Xuan Lingxiao already knew that I had a purpose in promoting him and Xu Zhilan, and I didn't want him to know this, and even if I No matter how hard we try, it is impossible for him to like Gu Fuli again. Xu Zhilan was raped. If the incident continues, I will not be able to escape criminal responsibility. Therefore, I have sent countless times to get rid of Gu Fuli, but that day At night, I didn't murder him because I couldn't do it. He didn't commit suicide. He fell into the sea when he was arguing with me. I tried to pull him up, but he still kept cursing after falling into the sea. I, in a fit of rage, I left him and walked away, to be honest, I expected him to be drowned, but I didn't expect him to die." "Have you told the police about this?" She shook her head sadly: "What's the use of saying this? Who can prove it for me? Anyway, I'm a guilty person." After a while, she seemed to remember something coldly: "He came to see me." "Really?" I smiled lightly, with mixed feelings in my heart: "I haven't seen him for a long time." "He said." After finishing speaking, he looked at me seriously: "He loves you very much." "The past tense." I smiled: "Actually, he loves you more." Ruan Jinji sneered dryly: "Do you want to comfort me and come up with a clever lie? He already knew that I was back. If he loved me, he wouldn't have you halfway. If he loved me, he wouldn't know that I'm back." I came back, but tried every means to avoid me." "He did it to protect you." Ruan Jinji's smile was even brighter: "Except for the attempted murder of Xu Zhilan, I didn't do anything outrageous. I have nothing to protect." Ruan Jinji spoke very frankly, and I couldn't help wondering: "Really? Think about it carefully, what did you give Xu Zhilan to her shortly before she disappeared?" Ruan Jinji shook her head blankly: "Except for the fact that I secretly sent some poison in her refreshing spray not long before she disappeared, I didn't give her anything, and that bottle of refreshing spray has already been taken out by Ding Chaoyang and thrown away. "After finishing speaking, she leaned forward suddenly, and asked cautiously: "You mean, Xu Zhilan is really dead?" I didn't want to hide from her anymore, so I told how I found Xu Zhilan's body in the closet wall, how Xu Zhilan died and why Ding Chaoyang handled her body like this. Ruan Jinji was stunned for a long time before she murmured: "I understand, Xu Zhilan died of suicide by faceless face to reality!" "How to say?" "Because she was pregnant, she naively thought that the child belonged to Ding Chaoyang, but after reading the stories in the newspaper, she realized that the child in her belly was not Ding Chaoyang's, and Ding Chaoyang not only had a lover but also loved her. She already knew that the child in her stomach was not her own. This blow was devastating to her. The reason why she endured not to expose Ding Chaoyang was because the child in her stomach was an indestructible and undeniable If you open your mouth, you will be humiliating yourself." In Ruan Jinji's eyes, there was a burning cold air: "She must have guessed that Ding Chaoyang's lover is me, and guessed why I wanted to be friends with her and why I brought her to know Xuan Lingxiao, and made Ding Chaoyang rush that day. She ran to the swimming pool and found the refreshing spray and threw it away. It was connected with my previous gaffe. She guessed that I had tampered with the refreshing spray, so when she committed suicide, she used this detail to put the blame on me. The lesson from the refreshing spray incident last time, even if I defend myself, is useless, Ding Chaoyang will not believe that I am innocent." I didn't think Ruan Jinji's reasoning was absurd, and I also understood that Xu Zhilan's purpose in doing this was to make Ruan Jinji speechless and make Ding Chaoyang feel guilty when he saw Ruan Jinji. This is Xu Zhilan's most powerful counterattack against Ruan Jinji. Ruan Jinji would never get the love she longed for because of her unwillingness to continue living. The cold light in Ruan Jinji's eyes gradually faded, and she asked feebly, "I'm innocent, will anyone believe me?" I looked at her for a long time, not knowing what to say, yes, from a criminal point of view, she is innocent, but, from the point of view of the perpetrator, is she innocent? I didn't say it because she was in tears. I was suddenly not sure if Ding Chaoyang really never loved her, he was prepared to take on a murder case for her. Before leaving, I sincerely thanked her, she smiled lightly, leaned on the door and watched me go away, yes, I want to thank her, although she gave me nearly a year of riddle-guessing life. When dealing with these mysteries, I saw that love has so many faces, such as ferocious, warm, tolerant, indifferent, and more responsible... In the middle of the night, Ruan Jinji sent me a text message, saying that she felt very happy. She used to think that she had never been loved by anyone, but now she knew that she had been loved by someone with her life. Ten minutes later, she sent another text message, only seven words: Thank you, my friend. I suddenly felt ominous, and quickly called back, but no one answered. I quickly dialed 110 for help, and rushed to the beauty salon. From afar, I saw the beauty salon cordoned off by the police in a brightly lit area. I know, it's too late. The thin Ruan Jinji lay under a snow-white sheet and went to heaven. She cut open the carotid artery with an eyebrow trimmer. Ding Chaoyang was sentenced to 4 years in prison for obstructing official duties and covering up criminals. Because Ruan Jinji told a frank lie in her suicide note, admitting that she murdered Xu Zhilan by poisoning a refreshing spray six years ago, Ding Chaoyang put Xu Zhilan's body in a closet to protect her. In the court, Ding Chaoyang did not defend himself, and I kept silent, so be it, this is the relief that Ruan Jinji gave him, so that he no longer has to worry about a dead body that cannot be handled. Prison life for a lifetime of pardon of conscience. When the bailiff took him out of the courtroom, he turned his head, looked straight in my direction, stumbling out, his eyes warm and deep with a smile, my eyes gradually blurred...