"There's nothing to be happy about." The man who was sitting paralyzed moved his body. He was almost lying down, and a magazine in his hand was thrown away. Well, maybe Bishop's original intention was to throw it away, to show Bishop's master's disdain, but it seemed that because the action was too weak, the magazine only flipped over his body, and softly fell off the chair.
Bishop tried to pick it up sideways and moved. The dark red thread that did not appear in his field of vision bound his body. He pulled it slightly and then stopped moving. Picking up nothing, Bishop failed and gave up.
"You..." Bishop, who had not looked at Riley, raised his eyes at this time and was stunned, "Riley, right?" Bishop raised his arms, as if he wanted to adjust his sitting posture again, at least not to sit down anymore. appearance.
"It's Riley." Strange resonance continued to emanate from Riley's mouth, and the misty pink color spread in the dark red space, gradually surrounding Bishop, "I was worried that Mr. Bishop wouldn't remember it." Riley had a shy look of satisfaction on her face.
Didn't Zach remind Riley? Bishop likes women who are easy to satisfy and easy to control, doesn't he.
It seemed that he was reluctant, but Bishop still managed to sit up straight, his eyes staying on Riley's face, "Well -" he said in a long voice, turning his head and quickly scanning the magazine that fell under the chair but failed to pick it up, Unfortunately, the back is facing up and there is no title, "Your magazine, um, "Urban, Urban Legend"..."
"It's a legend." Riley smiled, then raised her eyebrows, seeming very happy, "But legend seems to be better. After all, our magazine is all about fantasy stories."
The corner of Bishop's mouth moved, as if it was a smile that could not be successfully displayed under the binding of the dark red silk thread, "Well. Yes. I just read the article you mentioned on the phone."
Do you know which article Bishop is talking about? It was the article in the last issue of the magazine about the death of Jackson Bishop, the third generation of Bishops, who was killed at the same time as her female classmates.
Do you remember the content? Just like the consistent style of "Urban Legends", the magical theme is that no matter how big or wealthy someone's family is in Barton West, they are all equal to ordinary people when encountering the devil of death.
Riley stood up from her seat as if apologetically. I don’t know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but when I walked towards Bishop, my body moved a little unceremoniously close to Bishop. Haha, but no one is stopping her now.
In short, Riley picked up the magazine at home and looked at Bishop again with an apologetic expression. Her pink eyes happened to meet the other person's, "Well, Mr. Bishop thinks..."
After a brief moment of confusion. Bishop didn't seem to have any intention of moving his eyes away. He looked at Riley, who was no longer leaning at a normal distance, and said, "Just call me Bishop."
The silk threads binding Bisharp's body were less, no, they were tightened and submerged into the body, so on the surface it looked less.
The pink color in Riley's eyes dissipated. After all, this is Bishop Manor, and everything is under the attention of the evil spirit Shel. Schell became the evil spirit haunting Bishop Manor. It is impossible to say that it has nothing to do with Mr. Bishop's character. Just think about Hailey's situation during her lifetime. When Riley comes. Didn't he repeatedly confirm that he wanted Sher to control himself? It was better to take his time.
As if shyly aware of the inappropriateness at this time, Riley turned away her eyes, but still stood up slowly and returned to her seat, "Okay. Become Sharp first..." Riley glanced at the man opposite, "Before. Sharp.”
Bishop nodded, seemingly satisfied, and a smile that could not be fully displayed appeared on his face again, "Yes. I have read it. There is nothing wrong with what you wrote, it is just a fantasy story anyway." Bishop said at this time He looked away, as if he thought of something bad, "Bishop..." He changed the title in time, "My ex-wife, huh, is just looking for trouble."
Some people wonder how Riley, as the editor of Barton's worst-selling magazine, had the opportunity to 'interview' Bishop at this moment
The reason is quite simple. The legitimate reason why Riley came was to apologize. Because of the irony revealed in this article, Mrs. Bishop, Sher, who was immersed in the pain of losing her son at the time, was offended. So when Schell was still Mrs. Bishop, she approached the magazine and demanded a personal apology.
'Unfortunately', Schell was very busy in those days. After the funeral, there was Herman's luncheon, and then, it was really unfortunate. The representative of the magazine, the editor Riley, feels deeply ashamed that she should not base her fantasy spirit on the suffering of others. This action of sincerely apologizing has no chance of success and has been conveniently delayed until now.
Of course, none of the above has ever happened. But it obviously doesn't matter whether it didn't happen or not. The fact is that when someone is curious about why this situation happened, there is a set of logic that others can understand.
What, a flaw in the logic? How did Mrs. Bishop come across an article in one of Barton's lowest-selling magazines? Then you can ask Zach, the owner of Grande Funeral Home, he will say this embarrassingly -
"Hey, it's my fault. Mrs. Bishop was too serious when she came to Grande to arrange the funeral. I told an inappropriate joke I saw in a magazine. I wanted to lighten the atmosphere, but it had the opposite effect. .”
Riley immediately shook her head, "This is not a trouble, it is our magazine's fault. We should not put the gimmick of the article on this kind of thing. Mr. Bishop...'s ex-wife's request is not excessive." Riley lowered her head. The head is full of sincerity.
Bishop seemed to be thinking about something and nodded slightly, "Well, a lot of things have happened to Bishop recently. There are a lot of media who want to use Bishop as a gimmick, but you are the only one willing to admit it."
"I'm not a media person." Riley blushed a little, as if she wanted to deny it, "First of all... Bishop also saw the style of our magazine, which is just to write some stories."
"A story?" Bishop seemed to be smiling and shook his head. "Actually, I'm very curious. If I told you what happened to Bishop recently, what kind of story could your magazine come up with?"
Riley looked at Bishop, her face filled with anticipation and hesitation, and she paused for a while. Riley shook her head, her expectation and hesitation gone, and she was sure, "Don't tell me, after all, we are not a serious magazine. If Bishop accepts interviews from the media, let them be left to real reporters."
Riley smiled. A little reluctantly, "Many people in Barton are curious about what happened in Bishop. Haha, our "Urban Legend" is definitely not a suitable reading to solve everyone's curiosity." It is self-deprecating.
Bishop glanced at Riley, still smiling, "I just flipped through your magazine. You are a weekly, right? Will it be published on Monday?"
"Yeah." Riley acted as if she was surprised that Bishop knew such common sense.
"Then it doesn't matter." The smile that failed to be complete for many times finally unfolded this time, "Tomorrow's newspaper will be published before you. Tomorrow's newspaper should have Bishop's reports in the past few days. Huh. Curious. Pattons, tell them to read the newspaper. For interesting fantasy stories, read your magazine."
"Really?!" Riley seemed very happy. She quickly took out a notepad and pen from her pocket and looked at Bishop expectantly.
"So you're all ready?" Bishop chuckled and shook his head.
Riley lowered her head in embarrassment.
"Haha, okay, I won't tease you anymore."
This is so weird. It was just the first time these two guys met. What are you kidding about? However, Riley had no intention of refuting. She blushed shyly, lowered her head, and drew circles on her notebook with her pen in hand. The smile on Bishop's face became more and more obvious.
Two of Zach's suggestions worked surprisingly well for Riley. I don't know whether it's Mei Yao's alien characteristics or Bisharp's character. It should be both.
"Just now. Just now, the gentleman said..." The circle filled the two pages, as if Riley would not speak, Bishop would keep reading with a smile, "There will be a report in tomorrow's newspaper, about..."
"First, my divorce." Bishop interrupted directly. The smile disappeared temporarily and he looked away, "My lawyer should issue a press release and disclose some details after the divorce documents are processed."
Riley began to write in the notebook, and at the same time her face was filled with inexplicable shyness and not-so-sincere regret, "I'm so sorry, sir..."
"Huh, what do I regret?" Bishop shook his head and looked at Riley, all of Riley's expressions were caught in his eyes, "After the details are made public, I'm afraid all the curious people will feel sorry for me getting rid of that woman so smoothly. Lucky."
Riley didn't respond, lowering her head and quickly recording what she already knew. Five days ago, Zach stood in front of the manor with red eyes, instilling such false memories into the few remaining people in the entire manor.
"Before she left Bishop, she signed all the documents. She didn't take anything away from her family, her business, or anything else." Bishop chuckled, "Just leaving like that saved me the trouble of my legal team."
gone? Yes, he left, he left, he took the initiative to sign all the documents involved in the divorce and left without taking away a single thing from Bisharp. It is not a disappearance in an uncertain state, nor is it death, nor is it the fact that we all know that it has become a vicious spirit. Why is it handled this way? Because—
"How convenient." Bishop raised his shoulders slightly, and his expression could be fully displayed, but the movement was still a bit difficult for Bishop, "Humph. If she took something away or played some tricks, I said Maybe we need to track down where she went and get back the things that belong to Bishop. There is no need now, she left very cleanly."
do you understand? The treatment of death or disappearance is different from that of voluntary cleansing and leaving. This kind of treatment allowed Zach to retain the last trace of his reputation for the two old Bishops who masterminded the murder of Shel!
Because no one will look for Sher who has taken the initiative to clean up and leave! Thinking about it, if someone were to look for the dead or missing Shel, what would be found would probably be that the body has been disposed of by the liquidators.
Zach wants to take over Bishop, not destroy it.
"Only, only divorce?" Riley's voice shivered, which was a 'true' reflection of hearing something she shouldn't have heard. "Old Bishop and his wife..." She could only quickly change the subject.
"Oh, haha." Bishop looked at Riley's reaction and the flexibly expressive expression with strange satisfaction. "Don't worry, I didn't say anything too extreme. Those who are curious will understand."
Riley nodded hesitantly, "So, Bishop, are you confirmed to be single now?" Riley's emphasis seemed a bit strange.
"Hahaha." Bishop smiled again and looked at the clock in the reception room. "At this time, all the documents should have been processed and the draft has been handed out. It is confirmed."
Riley lowered her head and could barely see the shy corners of her mouth that were curved behind her plump cheeks.
Bishop enjoyed this feeling for a while, then the smile on his face disappeared and he looked away again, "Then the second thing that people are curious about is, similarly, after the lawyer has processed the documents, he will also issue a press release. "
"It's the funeral of old Bishop and his wife..."
Bishop interrupted Riley with just a slightly raised palm, "Don't we all know about the funeral? After all, the person who arranged the funeral was the new maid, oh, the same Zhu who brought you in just now. Li, although the original plan was to arrange all the ceremonies secretly, but she is a newcomer after all, so things are not strict. Hum, the funeral was held in the Grande place, and the people in the West District still found out... "
Bishop suddenly shut up and glanced at Riley. Riley seemed completely unaware of the connection between what he just said, "The funeral was held in Grande" and "It was still known to the people in the West End." He smiled comfortably and continued, "Several families have also sent condolences. Haha, you should be interested in this. Mrs. Quinn sent a bundle of grass, saying it is the soul-inducing grass in Indian culture, haha ,Killing me."
Riley also laughed softly, as if she really heard something funny. But immediately, the smile stopped, and Riley had a blushing shyness on her face, "Hug, I'm sorry. Please forgive me, sir."
"There's nothing to be sorry for, it's just that the time has come." Bishop's face finally showed a little sadness, "It's just a coincidence that my father and mother's time happened at the same time." Maybe it was to add, "Bishop, we, During this period of time, there have been some... bad things." For the supplementary 'this period of time', please start from the Hailey incident. Oh, without the use of Sher's evil spirit, Bishop Manor is already considered a haunted house. Two An old man, well, everyone understands.
Now you know why Bishop Manor needs time to prepare before it can reopen. Basically, it was spent on the two old people's "time is up at the same time". Zach, a civilian, could not produce a normal death certificate.
Who opened it? Do you still remember who Mayor Anthony is friends with, and who is the chief of the North District Police Department, Colon, the husband of Colon's sister? It's a doctor.
This thing is going so slowly because of human methods of doing things.
Use human means and nothing else. Didn't Zach promise to Sher outside the manor five days ago that he would be the mayor? No, the mayor was personally involved, so he must be sincere.
Oh, one thing to note. The corpses created by evil spirits are because the soul marks have been torn out, shattered, and turned into empty shells. The two old people were Sher's first targets. They were very quick and very peaceful. Let's talk and comfort each other.
"The second thing is not about the funeral, it's about the legacy." Bishop continued. (..)