False evidence

Chapter 232 The Most Familiar Stranger (3)

Xiao Shen San looks like a child, but when he shouted, his sharp, drawn-out voice carried the accent of his hometown, which sounded strange and startled Gao and his lover.

"Oh dear, what's wrong with this child? Why is he making such a fuss?"

Xiao Shen ignored everyone else and spoke directly to Liang Kaiyuan:

"Guests are welcome. If you have something to say, say it. If you want to cause trouble or intimidate the innocent, your great-grandfather will make sure you don't even become a ghost!"

He then turned to me and said, "Alright, let's talk things out."

My jaw almost dropped.

Is this reinforcement that they've called in?
This guy is some kind of idiot hired by a monkey!
Xiao Shen San leaned closer to me and whispered, "Even though it's snowing, someone who comes here without avoiding the sunlight must be a malevolent spirit. The brigade leader's wife can hear him, right? That's it! His resentment runs deep, and once it erupts, innocent mortals will suffer as well. I'm treating him like a guest now, so he'll hold back some of his resentment. Stop talking nonsense and just say what you have to say. If all else fails, we can always confront him directly."

Left with no other option, I tried asking Liang Kaiyuan, "What are you doing here?"

Liang Kaiyuan lowered his head and said, "That slut was here!"

I noticed Gao and her lover's expression; she just looked at me suspiciously, and sure enough, she couldn't hear Liang Kaiyuan's voice anymore.

I couldn't care less about her anymore; I just wanted to get rid of this uninvited guest as soon as possible. So I said directly to Liang Kaiyuan:

"Whatever happens between you two is none of anyone else's business. If you know what's good for you, you'd better leave now."

Unexpectedly, Liang Kaiyuan said in a sinister tone, "It has nothing to do with others, but it has to do with you and this woman."

Seeing him glance at Fang Ling, I immediately turned cold: "Looking for trouble, huh?"

Liang Kaiyuan remained somber and said, "No. I just want to make a deal with you."

I frowned: "What kind of deal did we make?"

Gao and his lover couldn't help but interject, "Sanqi, something's wrong with you. This can't go on, you have to see a doctor!"

Fang Ling pulled her back: "Sister... Sister, don't worry about him. He's not usually like this, he'll be fine in a little while." As she spoke, she winked at me.

Xiao Shen San took my hand and sat down on the sofa with me, whispering to me:
"If you don't want to be seen as crazy, get straight to the point. The sooner you resolve this, the less trouble you'll have."

Reminded by the two of them, I gritted my teeth and said to Liang Kaiyuan:

"Speak, what do you want to do?"

Liang Kaiyuan said, "I know you want to borrow the life force of the dead. I died unjustly, and my resentment is hard to quell. If you avenge me, I will give you what you want."

Fang Ling and I exchanged a knowing glance, thinking to ourselves, "He's already dead, yet he still listens to 'thieves'—this Liang Kaiyuan is really something else." It's true I wanted to borrow a ghost's life, but Fang Ling said that to prevent Pi Dan from being haunted in the next life, it would be best to borrow only a woman's.

I couldn't help but ask Liang Kaiyuan, "You took the knife for your wife, what are you wronging? Do you regret it?"

"It wasn't me who took the knife for her! She killed me!" Liang Kaiyuan's expression suddenly turned ferocious again.

I was startled by what I heard: "What do you mean she killed you?"

Liang Kaiyuan said, "I didn't take the knife for her. I was the one who hired that burglar. I wanted to kill her to avenge her! But why? Why did she kill me again this time? Why?!"

"Be honest with me!"

I shouted at them, but I was filled with doubt.

Although the first half of his statement was shocking and contained a lot of information, it was not difficult to understand.

But the second half was incoherent, and I really couldn't understand it.

What do you mean by "she killed me again this time"?

Fang Ling suddenly leaned close to Gao He's ear and whispered something. Gao He's husband glanced at me, hesitated for a moment, and then hurriedly walked out.

I don't know what Fang Ling said to get her away, but I still breathed a slight sigh of relief.

I asked Liang Kaiyuan, "You said that burglar who broke into the house, was someone you hired?"

Liang Kaiyuan nodded.

"His real purpose wasn't to steal anything, but for you to make him kill Li Meizhi?"

Liang Kaiyuan nodded again.

"And then what happened?" I was suddenly filled with a sense of dread.

If Liang Kaiyuan hadn't said it himself, who would have known that there was something fishy about this case?

Liang Kaiyuan also showed doubt: "I gave that thief a large sum of money, enough for him to live on for the rest of his life. But I don't know what kind of sorcery Meizhi used on him... He actually turned against me and killed me with Meizhi... Yes, it must be sorcery! It must be! She's a witch, otherwise I wouldn't have died at her hands three times in a row! I was clearly on guard..."

Fang Ling waved her hand at me and said to Liang Kaiyuan, "Tell me first why you killed your wife. Tell me, she killed you three times?"

Liang Kaiyuan grunted in agreement: "Yes, she killed me three times."

Xiao Shen was quick-witted and asked, "You mean, she killed you three times in three lifetimes?"

Liang Kaiyuan shouted, "Yes!"

Xiao Shen asked, "How do you know that in your past life, and the life before that... she killed you?"

"I dreamt about it!"

I was speechless for a while.

Liang Kaiyuan said, "On the first night we were together, I had a dream. I dreamt that a woman killed me. I couldn't see the woman's face clearly. I just thought it was a nightmare. I love Meizhi very much, and I married her."

But on my wedding night, I had another dream. The two dreams were different, but in the same dream, I was still killed by a woman whose face I couldn't see.

After getting married, I had more and more frequent dreams. Two dreams overlapped and repeated... Eventually, I not only started dreaming, but if I closed my eyes for more than three seconds, I would see myself being murdered. And the woman who killed me, her face, which was initially indistinct, became increasingly clear.

"The woman who killed you is your wife?" Xiao Shensan's question was really unnecessary.

Seeing Liang Kaiyuan nod, I subconsciously took out my phone.

But after turning on the screen, he remembered Liang Kaiyuan's identity.

The clues I get from calling the police or Gao He now seem more dubious than any they've ever provided before.

I have come to believe in reincarnation, and I am even willing to believe that Liang Kaiyuan's dream of his past life is true.

However, I feel even more strongly that Liang Kaiyuan has mental problems.

Even if what I dreamt was truly a past life; in my past life, or even the life before that, Li Meizhi really killed him.

In modern society, is it acceptable to seek revenge simply because of a dream? And is it revenge for a past life?

What else could it be but a mental illness?
Xiao Shensan's thoughts were obviously similar to mine. He rolled his eyes and said, "The cause of the past life and the effect of this life do exist. The cycle of cause and effect does exist, but it is not something that can be done intentionally. Otherwise, it would not be called karmic retribution."

"That's because you don't know what she did to me!!"

Liang Kaiyuan suddenly raised his voice, gritting his teeth, and said, "Not just in the past life! In this life, if I don't strike first, she will still kill me! Moreover, she has already begun to plot!"

(End of this chapter)