"You can make a request of me."
When she heard Shi Shen's words, Luo Yu'an wanted to say for a moment: "Please save me!" or make other more greedy requests, but she finally restrained her greed and her desire to live.
Her own death was decided before she was ready to kill Ma Junmao. When she killed those three people for the first time, she thought that after these four people died, she would die too.
There is always a price to pay for hurting others. She thinks this is true for them and for her too.
The first person she killed was Duan Leyan, an entrepreneur. At that time, she almost collapsed because of her sister's death. In order to get close to the four murderers, she quit her job and became a nanny. She took great pains to successfully apply for the job. She worked as a nanny in Duan's family, mainly responsible for taking care of Duan Leyan's daughter, a little girl named Mei Li who was more than four years old.
Duan Leyan has a wife who is an artist, who is gentle, intellectual and beautiful, and a lively and lovely little daughter. When he is at home, he is a good father who loves his children, a good husband who cares about his wife, and a glamorous and successful entrepreneur.
Why would such a person do such a terrible thing outside the family? Luo Yu'an couldn't figure it out. She kept hesitating and didn't know how to ask Duan Leyan about this matter. At first, she just wanted to find out what these people had done and whether they felt even a little guilty about her sister's death. She just wanted justice.
That day, Duan Leyan came home drunk and rested alone on the sofa in the study. He was helped back by the driver, and his steps were unsteady. Luo Yu'an thought this was an opportunity, so he quietly entered the study.
She asked this successful man about her sister. He sat on the chair with a look of disgust and impatience, interrupting her and saying, "Your sister is dead. It has nothing to do with me. I just slept with her once. You came here just to get money. How much do you want?"
Luo Yu'an stood there and heard his own voice floating, "Yujing... My sister was not even seventeen when she died."
"You have a daughter yourself. When you did that, did you ever think about your own daughter?"
Duan Leyan's face turned pale with anger. He struggled to sit up from the sofa and scolded her: "Get out of here. If you keep talking nonsense, I will call the security guards! Your sister committed suicide. It has nothing to do with me. You can find a lawyer and sue me, but I tell you, it's useless!"
Luo Yu'an listened to these words and looked at the disdainful sneer on his face. She suddenly became enraged. She picked up the scissors on her body, rushed over, and stabbed the scissors into the man's throat.
Then his arrogant and disdainful expression froze. She pulled out of her anger and pulled out the scissors a little slowly, and saw blood gushing out, soaking his clothes and soaking the sofa.
She was still immersed in the daze of killing someone when the study door suddenly opened. Duan Leyan's four-year-old daughter woke up from her nap, rubbed her eyes, looked at her, and called her, "An An."
She didn't see her father twitching before his death on the sofa with his back to her, nor did she see the mess of blood. Luo Yu'an subconsciously put his bloody hands and scissors behind his back, smiled, and said gently to the child: "Li Zi, are you awake from your nap? Go wash your face first, then wait for me downstairs, An An will bring you pudding ice cream, okay?"
The child cheered. She loved pudding ice cream the most. She blew her a cute kiss and ran away obediently. "An An~ I'm waiting for you~ You have to come quickly~"
"Okay, I'll be right there."
Luo Yu'an washed the blood off his hands, looked at the corpse on the sofa in the study for a while, took out his mobile phone, found the three people in his contacts, sent them messages separately, and asked them to come to his house immediately.
Then, she went downstairs and brought pudding ice cream to Meili who was sitting there waiting obediently, cut some fruit for her, and talked to her. Although she had only been taking care of her for a short time, Meili already liked her very much and usually clung to her more than to her mother. Whatever she did, Meili would follow her. She was a very cute child.
Luo Yu'an looked at her bright smile and kept thinking of his sister when she was little, and his heart ached so much that he couldn't breathe. He felt pain for his sister and for the child.
She knew clearly that everything she had done would bring about tremendous changes in the child's future life, but she could still hold the child in her arms and stroke her head with the hand that killed her father.
Only two of the three people she contacted came. Luo Yu'an couldn't wait any longer. When Mrs. Duan came back, Duan Leyan's body would be found soon. She calmly served the two people drinks with added ingredients and asked them to wait, saying that Duan Leyan was in the study. The two were completely unprepared and teased Mei Li for a while, laughing at her childish talk.
Luo Yu'an stood aside. She didn't know why she could maintain such a normal smile. Her hands didn't shake at all, and her expression wasn't flustered. Then she sent Mei Li to her room to play cartoons for her, and locked her room to prevent her from going out and running into scenes she shouldn't see. Finally, she went to the kitchen to get a knife.
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The scene with blood everywhere was like hell. When she came to her senses, the place around her was a mess.
Mrs. Duan, who had returned early, was shocked by the scene and was stunned for a long time before she ran out screaming. Luo Yu'an subconsciously wanted to chase him, but he stopped after two steps and was caught. He was undoubtedly sentenced to death.
Later, she met Mei Li once again. The child was sitting next to her mother. Her eyes, which used to be filled with sunshine and stars, were now raining heavily. She held her mother's arm tightly, glanced at her, then lowered her head with a pursed mouth.
Luo Yu'an did not regret killing people. She felt no guilt for killing four people, but she felt guilty about Mei Li. She hurt this little girl who would hold her face and pout and call her An'an.
If you hurt others, you have to pay the price, and she will pay the price eventually.
Now it's all over.
Sister, my dear sister, I really hope you can rest in peace.
Yubei District, late at night.
At this time of year, there are still many vehicles passing through Sujiang Street, and there are also pedestrians near the Sujiang River. But today, for some unknown reason, this area is blocked and vehicles and pedestrians are not allowed to enter. The street is not empty at this time. On the contrary, there is a long procession on this empty street, as if it is an ancient wedding procession, with people playing cheerful music and carrying sedan chairs.
However, there was no noisy sound from the crowd, only the joyful happiness, which spread far in the streets at night, and had a creepy meaning that gave people goose bumps. The sedan in the middle was exquisite and gorgeous, but it was very small and could not accommodate a single person. Looking through the curtain, there was only a small white porcelain jar inside.
This long procession of people all wore red clothes, with white cloth tied around their waists. Behind the long procession, a row of motorcades followed silently. The guests sitting in these cars were going to the wedding banquet. All of them wore black suits and dresses, with white flowers on their chests and temples.
After passing through Sujiang Street, the team slowly entered a remote mountain street and finally entered a forest. Behind the forest was the mysterious Qin family's old house. Thousands of years ago, the Qin family lived here. Now the Qin family has a large number of people and lives in various districts. This place has become the Qin family's ancestral home and their ancestral hall.
Every year, only some members of the Qin family are allowed to visit the old house in the first month of the calendar year. Today, the gates are wide open and it is more lively than ever.
Starting from the mountain road in the forest, the road was lined with red lanterns, like a fire dragon winding through the mountains. On weekdays, there were few people on the mountain road, but all kinds of luxury cars were jammed, and the progress was slow, but no one was urging them.
After passing through numerous red-pillared gatehouses and entering the old residence, more and more people gathered here, and it finally felt like a lively wedding banquet. The respected elders of the Qin family and the busy Qin family members who were usually scattered all over the place were all here, with smiles on their faces, toasting each other and chatting quietly.
The huge, cold and silent old house was brightly lit, and the ancient and eerie feeling was dispelled a lot. The young people of the Qin family who had never had the opportunity to come here before looked at this old house curiously, and from time to time they speculated what the shrine enshrining the clan god in the innermost part looked like.
This was an unusual wedding banquet, hosted by the clan daughter and the elders, without the two newlyweds. They held a rather grand ceremony on their own, carrying the white porcelain jar brought by the wedding sedan to the highest point of the ancestral hall, and then offering a tablet with black background and red characters.
The ceremony came to an end. It was almost three in the morning. The older elders felt a little sleepy and sat in the lounge drinking tea and resting.
A skinny old man holding a cup of tea sighed and said: "After so many years, I didn't expect that I would be able to see Ujigami marry in my lifetime."
"That's right. Among so many generations in our Qin family, our generation is probably the most special." said another smiling old man.
"However, how did the clan god suddenly choose a wife? This is too fast. When I heard the clan daughter say that the clan god ordered me to get married, I was almost scared to death and went to see the ancestors early."
"It was too sudden. I don't even know what kind of person the God of the clan has chosen, nor do I know when I can meet him."
"He can choose whoever he wants. You, an old man, still think it's your descendants who are going to get married? Wake up. If the clan god gets married, she will also be our ancestor. According to seniority, everyone should kowtow to her when they see her."
"Hey, why are you so anxious? We all know the reason. We are just curious. Look at the Zhang family, the Han family, the Wei family... The clan gods of those families all chose people long ago. But our ancestor has been silent for thousands of years, and now there is a sudden movement, and we are not allowed to be curious."
Not only the elders, but also the young people who were active at the wedding banquet outside were even more curious. There were even a few brave ones who drank some wine and wanted to sneak to the shrine to take a look.
"Isn't it a tradition to make trouble in the bridal chamber? Today is the day of the wedding of Mr. Shishen, so he shouldn't do anything, right?"
"Yes, yes, we are all grandsons after all, the god of the clan should not bother with us, so what are you afraid of!"
Unfortunately, these arrogant bastards were brought back by the dedicated bodyguards before they could even leave the wedding courtyard, and were scolded by two stern-faced maidens.
In the quietest shrine in the entire courtyard, the curtains were changed to red, and it was decorated like a wedding hall. There was no one inside, only the curling of incense, and the porcelain statue as tall as a person on the altar was covered with a layer of red cloth.
Luo Yu'an heard the lively joy, and the music was getting closer. She was walking along the river in a daze, and the dark river water unknowingly covered half of her body, gradually making her forget many things, and just walked into the depths of the water. She subconsciously knew that she should move forward and escape from all the troubles in this world.
But the joy was disturbing, like a thread pulling at her mind. Luo Yu'an woke up a little, and suddenly saw many red camellias appearing on the river, one after another, flowing down from upstream. She walked upstream along the path formed by the red camellias, and walked to a bank, where she was taken away by the wedding sedan that had been waiting there for a long time.
The wedding sedan was swaying, as if walking on clouds. She felt that she had been walking for a very long time. In a trance, the music and other things around her disappeared, and she came to a very quiet place. Looking down, her clothes had turned into a complicated red wedding dress, and she was holding a small white porcelain jar in her hand.
This... What on earth is going on? Am I not dead? Luo Yu'an still felt confused.
A little light appeared in the darkness, revealing a very familiar altar and a statue on it. The statue, with a crack in it, stared at her quietly with the same expression as if it was painted on.