False evidence

Chapter 260 Three pillars
I asked in surprise, "Liang Kaiyuan? Didn't you leave?"

Liang Kaiyuan shook his head with a wry smile and remained silent.

At that moment, Tong Xiangnan's voice rang out again, like an echo.

He asked the same question again: "Are you Sanqi or Lü Xin?"

Lu Xin and I looked at each other, neither of us saying a word.

But then Liang Kaiyuan said, "I am Liang Kaiyuan."

"Liang Kaiyuan?" Tong Xiangnan's voice couldn't hide his astonishment.

"Yes, Liang Kaiyuan, I used to be the owner of a chain of bakeries. Would you like to hear my story?"

Tong Xiangnan hesitated for a moment, then said, "Tell me about it."

Next, Liang Kaiyuan began to recount his entanglement with Li Meizhi across three lifetimes...

After a brief silence, Tong Xiangnan sighed, "Actually, you still can't bear to part with Li Meizhi."

Liang Kaiyuan said, "Yes, when she said she couldn't live without me in front of my grave, I already knew that I couldn't bear to leave her. So, I can't leave."

Tong Xiangnan said slowly, "Some things aren't about being willing or unwilling to let go; they're about things you have to let go of. Only then can it be true love. Besides, don't you both know you'll have a next life?"

Liang Kaiyuan shook his head: "I used to think there would be a next life, but now I know that Meizhi and I won't have a next life. So, I can only stay here and give her everything I want to give her."

Why did this shift in thinking occur?

"Because I owe another woman. Perhaps I'll have to repay that debt in my next life."

"Another woman?"

Liang Kaiyuan nodded: "Yes, it was my fiancée in my past life. I saw her. When I recognized her, I realized that in my past life I stayed in Heqian Town because of Meizhi, until I was murdered... She never married, waiting for me to take care of my parents until they died, and then she died alone."

Tong Xiangnan couldn't help but say, "How could it be such a coincidence? Just when you were about to leave, you happened to run into her?"

This time, Lu Xin, Liang Kaiyuan, and I all said at the same time, "It's fate!"

Tong Xiangnan seemed startled: "Who exactly are you?"

Lu Xin, Liang Kaiyuan, and I exchanged glances.

Lu Xin made a gesture and said, "I am Lu Xin, let me speak."

I heard Tong Xiangnan gasp.

Lu Xin said, "Three days ago, we witnessed a domestic violence incident with Boss Gao. The man who almost beat his woman to death wanted to jump off a building to commit suicide. At that time, Liang Kaiyuan recognized him. It turns out that he was Liang Kaiyuan's fiancée in his previous life, but he was reincarnated as a man in this life."

She recognized Liang Kaiyuan. She hated him and wanted to torment him, so she ultimately chose to end her own life. Liang Kaiyuan, already feeling guilty upon learning the past, was further burdened by witnessing her death before his eyes, which led him to the thought—that he would repay her debt in the next life.

Tong Xiangnan asked, "So? What does Liang Kaiyuan plan to do?"

“Liang Kaiyuan has passed away. God gave him a chance to continue his unfinished love with Li Meizhi in this life.”

Lu Xin leaned back in his chair, glanced sideways at Liang Kaiyuan beside me, and touched his nose. "He's very smart and trustworthy. He promised to make a deal with Sanqi, but ultimately failed to deliver. So, he left behind a piece of his consciousness to keep me in check."

Tong Xiangnan gasped again.

After a brief silence, Tong Xiangnan asked again, "What's the matter with Daoist Lü?"

Seeing Lu Xin looking at me with a half-smile, I grinned and said, "Everything I told Brother Gao before was the truth. The only lie I told was that after he escaped, Xiao Shen and I chased after him. He was desperate and tried to fight us. He used the metal tube he used to drug us as a weapon, trying to kill us. But he ended up being drugged himself and passed out."

"Why didn't you call the police?"

“Because of personal emotions,” I said immediately. “Although there is no concrete evidence, everyone knows his purpose in drugging her. Fang Ling is like family to me. He wanted to do that kind of thing to Fang Ling, and I wanted to kill him. But murder is illegal, and I just stood by and watched her die.”

Lu Xin glared at me, his eyes filled with disdain.

That's blaming me—for not telling the truth.

The next second, I heard a knocking sound and I jumped.

After the initial disorientation subsided, the meeting room returned to its original state, with the same people and setting.

Tong Xiangnan's face still showed astonishment, but his eyes revealed a hint of surprise.

Gao waved his hand in front of me, pointed at me with a stern face, and said, "You kid, at least you didn't do anything too outrageous."

I could only manage a wry smile: "If that last question hadn't been asked by you, Mr. Tong, I definitely wouldn't have answered it if it had been someone else."

Gao He turned to Tong Xiangnan with a smirk: "This kid seems to be in serious trouble."

"No, it's not that his condition is serious, but rather that he's doing very well."

Tong Xiangnan said to me, "Actually, I called Captain Gao first and said I wanted to see you. The reason is that I finally thought of a way to help you."

"any solution?"

Tong Xiangnan smiled: "You've already done it yourself. That's right, the method I could think of was to use hypnosis to instill a part of your consciousness into you. To ordinary people, this would not only be a temporary solution but could also harm you."

But your situation is different from ordinary people. I believe that even the best psychologist would find it difficult to separate Lü Xin's consciousness from your brain. Since that's the case, let's create a three-way balance, maintaining a equilibrium through mutual checks and balances among the three.

He shrugged: "To be honest, it really was fate. I was worried you'd run into trouble, but I never expected it. Just in terms of your behavior, you handled it really well, practically perfectly!"

Gao He couldn't help but ask, "Another layer of consciousness? Doesn't that mean another personality has split off?"

"So far, this is the only sustainable solution I can think of. You just saw and heard that three different people responded to our questions in a very orderly manner, as if... the three of them had discussed it together. This proves that the idea of ​​a three-way balance of power has indeed achieved the desired effect."

Tong Xiangnan then turned to me and said, "One last thing to remind you is that you should understand the principle of a tripod. Before the problem is completely resolved, try not to disrupt the existing balance. Otherwise, it may have the opposite effect."

After the meeting ended and we got into the car, Gao He asked me, "Lu Xin said Liang Kaiyuan has left. Where did he go?"

"You didn't notice another sentence he said—Liang Yuan is dead."

Gao He realized what was happening and his eyes widened. "You mean, it was actually Liang Kaiyuan who woke up?"

"I didn't say that."

"Then... what about Xiao Hanning?"

I lit a cigarette, looked out the window, and murmured, "If there is a heaven, she must have gone there."

Gao He sighed, "If there is a heaven, then Daoist Lü should go to hell."

I turned around and smiled, "You guessed right this time."

(End of this chapter)