From the end of the world

Chapter 99 Shadow Changer 2
Everyone was listening quietly to Chang'an's narration. However, when Chang'an reached this point, the place suddenly fell into a silence even quieter than silence.

"…I'm sorry, I can't understand." Zhu Shi said in disbelief, "What does Jinyu's joining the brothel her father frequented have to do with her wanting to frame her father?"

The goldfish pretended to be nonchalant and said, "It's the kind of connection you think."

Chang An said directly: "Goldfish wants to create a situation where his father nominated him and spent the night with him, so that he would be ruined in the end."

Obviously, this kind of conspiracy was too advanced in Zhu Shi's moral values. She said in confusion: "Wait, regardless of why she did that... Could her father not recognize his own daughter? How could he point to his own daughter when they were having fun in a brothel?"

"The customers of that nightclub all wore hoods, and the employees wore masks, which really created conditions where they couldn't recognize each other." I recalled the interior of the nightclub that I had previously investigated.

"Wait, Ah Cheng, how do you know what's going on in there?" Chang'an was shocked.

"I just did some research," I said. "Don't ask me about my business yet. Just continue."

"All right……"

Hearing this, he continued to narrate——

After knowing Goldfish's outrageous plan, Changan was completely dumbfounded and quickly asked the other party why he had such an idea.

Perhaps with the idea of ​​throwing away the jar, or perhaps because he regarded Chang'an, whom he met for the first time, as his own emotional tree hole, Goldfish spoke out his motives with tears in his eyes like pouring beans.

The reason why she wanted to frame her father through such extreme means was naturally because she had a strong hatred towards her father.

Goldfish's father and mother were both born in the countryside. Neither of them had any cultural or family background worth mentioning, but they had a deep affection for each other. His father used to be a dark-skinned boy with a strong body, and his mother was a girl with an oval face and a goldfish hairpin, who was quite pretty. When the former entered Xianshui City with his dreams and ambitions for the outside world, the latter also left her hometown with him regardless of everything.

At the end of the 20th century, the order in Xianshui City was not as stable as it is today, and there were all kinds of gangs. In order to quickly get ahead, my father joined one of the big gangs when he was a teenager. Later, with his brave and aggressive character and indispensable luck, he accumulated a lot of wealth in his youth and married his childhood sweetheart who followed him into the city and accompanied him from poverty to wealth.

As gang forces gradually withdrew from the urban stage with the changes of the times, he relied on timely whitewashing and transformation to avoid being liquidated by official forces. He even successfully entered the upper class of Xianshui City in his middle age by relying on real estate business and gained a glamorous social identity.

However, just like the wine tasting club that looks beautiful on the outside but is actually rotten on the inside, there is an unknown darkness hidden beneath its bright and beautiful appearance.

Because her father was away from home for work and socializing all year round, Jinyu was only close to her mother since she was young. She even made a mistake in the lower grades of elementary school, mistaking her father who rarely came home for a "kind uncle who visited from time to time." In fact, generally speaking, the relationship between her parents was relatively harmonious. However, the good times did not last long. After Jinyu graduated from elementary school, her father changed.

It was unknown what had happened to her father, but he became moody and would fly into a rage at any time, and would insult and beat her mother. His devil-like behavior frightened her as a bystander, and left her with a very strong psychological trauma.

This horrific life continued until she entered college. Instead of stopping, her father became even more violent. Every time he came home, he would beat his wife severely, and even his daughter was not spared. One time, he even beat his wife so badly that she had to be sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, leaving her with painful sequelae.

It was this incident that completely ignited the fear in Goldfish's heart for many years, turning it into outright hatred and anger. From Goldfish's perspective, his mother was the only family member who had accompanied him since he was a child, and his father was just a villain who would break into his home from time to time and bring him pain and torture.

It stands to reason that when domestic violence develops to this extent, it has already reached the stage where the official forces can be reported. After this incident, Jinyu finally made up her mind to send her biological father to prison. However, it is unknown what kind of social connections the father had to operate to avoid questioning and trial, and he even beat Jinyu so badly that she was hospitalized.

After being discharged from the hospital, the fire of hatred in Jinyu's heart was not extinguished by his father's punishment, but became more and more intense.

She began to think about how to avenge her father. As a helpless female college student, how could she make that man with a strong social network receive the punishment he deserved? She secretly investigated her father while thinking hard. She even thought about killing her father while he was sleeping, but unfortunately her father did not stay at home overnight recently, so her revenge idea had no chance of success.

Until one day, she found out that her father seemed to frequent a wine tasting club. It was rumored that the wine tasting club was actually a masquerade-themed nightclub that specialized in providing "special services".

After hearing this, she suddenly had an idea and her wisdom started working wildly - although she had no way to make that man receive the judgment he deserved, she could ruin his reputation.

Her idea was simple. As long as she could find a way to sneak into the nightclub, get her father to name her and "spend the night", and leave enough evidence in the process, and then spread it through the Internet, her revenge would be accomplished. Even if she couldn't arouse public opinion, as long as she could let those who were related to her father know about it, it would be fine. Who would continue to associate with a man who had done such a thing with their daughter? The father would be ruined and his career would be unsustainable.

As for what would happen to her reputation afterwards, she didn't care at all.

The motivation brought by hatred made her take action immediately, and the subsequent process was incredibly smooth.

The boss behind the nightclub was the wife of an upper-class dignitary. She mentally deranged and joined the nightclub to avenge her cheating husband. Later, she became the operator of the nightclub by mistake. After hearing the story of Jinyu, the nightclub owner did not stop him. Instead, he recruited Jinyu, whether out of an evil mentality of watching the fun or having other ideas.

However, even the boss cannot directly match customers and employees together, as it is the customer's right to designate the right person. The boss claimed that helping Jinyu to this extent was "the utmost he could do", but after that, he seemed to just treat Jinyu as an ordinary employee and never provided him with any convenience.

If things continue to go smoothly, Jinyu might succeed. However, there may be a law of luck in this world, and people will become unlucky after they are lucky. Or maybe for Jinyu, it was unlucky to join this place smoothly, and what happened next was lucky. The first guest she received as a worker in a red-light venue was Chang'an.

After knowing Jinyu's past, Chang'an felt pity for this woman and wanted to stop her from embarking on the path of self-destruction.

He began to persuade the goldfish to give up his revenge plan.

It’s not that he thinks the goldfish shouldn’t take revenge, but he thinks the goldfish shouldn’t degrade its own body or even ruin its own future for the sake of revenge.

Unfortunately, he was not a very good persuader, and the goldfish did not take his words to heart at all. However, he had one thing that I don't know if it should be called an advantage, that is, he was extremely stubborn. The more the goldfish drove him away, the more he felt that he should not just leave.

So the next night, Chang'an went to the nightclub again and mentioned Goldfish again.

His second persuasion also ended in failure. However, he still did not give up. After failing the second time, he tried the third time; after failing the third time, he tried the fourth time... He persisted in this matter for nearly three months. Every time, he would pull Jinyu into the private room, and then he would not do any "serious work" but talk about life, future, and ideals.

Even if he didn't come to the nightclub a few times, he would spend money to make a reservation for Goldfish in advance to prevent her from having to entertain other customers.

When Changan said this to us, the goldfish suddenly spoke.

"——Customers like him who like to preach are not that rare in red-light districts." She said, "Occasionally there are a few middle-aged customers who are like those who play adult games with female protagonists but insist on virgins to pass the level. After naming a target, they do nothing but like to pull the person there to have a dry chat, saying things like 'I can control the whole street by setting up a machine gun here'... It's really boring."

Although she said this, perhaps Changan’s past efforts were not in vain. Her current attitude seemed more like she was trying to cover up her own hesitation.

"In other words, the rumor in school that you often go to places of entertainment is because of this incident?" I looked at Chang'an.

Zhu Shi, on the other hand, showed a new look of admiration towards his brother: "I didn't expect that you were actually doing this for good... I have always misunderstood you."

"Hehe..." Chang'an smiled shyly as if he had been caught doing something good in secret.

But seriously, no matter how stubborn he is, would he really go to such lengths to persuade a strange girl for more than two months just because he heard about her absurd past in a nightclub?

From what I know about him, his motive of hoping that the other party would not destroy her own future is certainly true, but as the saying goes, men have had two major hobbies since ancient times, one is "forcing good women to become prostitutes" and the other is "persuading prostitutes to become good women." It is hard for me not to wonder if Chang'an's emotions are mixed with the classical complex of "persuading prostitutes to become good women."

It's rare that Zhu Shi has changed his opinion of his brother, so I'd better not say too much about it.

"So, what happens next? Does what happened just now have anything to do with you being kidnapped and beaten by a strange creature?" I asked, "This matter is not over yet, right?"

"Well, it's not over yet." Chang'an's face became extremely gloomy. "At first, I just wanted to persuade Jinyu to change her ways... I mean, I went to that nightclub every day to persuade Jinyu to give up that ridiculous plan, but as time went on, I found that the nightclub itself had evil and darkness that could not be ignored."

(End of this chapter)