Rules of the Unusual: My Yandere Husband Pretends to Be Innocent Online

"Liu Ruyan, why aren't you saying anything?"

Xia Xiaoqin couldn't help but speak up, not understanding what Liu Ruyan was trying to do by standing still.

But Liu Ruyan suddenly spoke in an extremely desperate voice.

"Sister-in-law, can you hear the phone ringing?"

"A cell phone ringing?" Xia Xiaoqin frowned. "What nonsense are you talking about? I didn't hear anything. Can you even bring a cell phone into a ghost story world?"

Liu Ruyan stared blankly at her phone, then suddenly grabbed Xia Xiaoqin's shoulder in a frenzied manner.

Then the woman's hysterical defense, filled with deep sorrow, rang out.

"Sister-in-law! I was just lying! I only said that to entice you to live!"

"I was lying to you, it was Lu Yang, it was Lu Yang! We... let's get on with your plan! Survival is the most important thing right now, isn't it!"

Liu Ruyan's frenzied behavior almost made Xia Xiaoqin drop the knife in her hand.

Xia Xiaoqin sighed in silence.

—Sure enough, she should have believed Liu Ruyan.

This habitual offender will only keep deceiving her.

"I understand. Calm down and do as I say."

"Go and call that maid, Xiao Lü, over here. Tell her you've discovered me... and then..."

.......

Thirty minutes later, Xia Xiaoqin arrived at the sheepfold and pushed the sheep, which was in a sack, inside.

"I'm back! I caught the sheep and I'm back! According to the rules of the game, I won!"

After saying that, Xia Xiaoqin raised her voice and shouted several times, signaling the chef to come and take a look quickly.

Inside the kitchen, upon hearing the noise, the stout chef wiped his hands with his blood-stained apron, then picked up a cleaver from the wooden stake and looked at Xia Xiaoqin with a sinister gaze.

"Young Madam, you really did bring back a sheep according to the rules of the game."

Upon seeing the sack, the chef's mouth twisted into a grin, revealing a mouthful of twisted, yellow teeth encased in necrotic gums, emitting a horrifying stench.

Without much hesitation, the chef swiftly grabbed a cleaver and chopped it heavily at the sack.

In an instant, the person who had been struggling faintly inside the sack fell silent.

The chef squinted and grotesquely ran his hand over the sack.

"Yes, it really is a sheep, and it smells very strongly of sheep, but you've gone over time!"

"I told you you only had three hours to catch a sheep and put it back in the pen, and now more than three hours have passed!"

Upon hearing this, Xia Xiaoqin shook her head firmly, saying each word slowly and deliberately, "It's impossible for it to be three hours. You're lying to me."

But the chef let out a sinister laugh, raised his cleaver, and dragged his fat feet to Xia Xiaoqin.

At that moment, a huge shadow enveloped Xia Xiaoqin.

The chef lowered his head, his eyes bloodshot, his voice terribly hoarse.

"How can you prove you didn't exceed the time limit? Did we agree on a specific start time for the game?"

"You lost! I said it's over three hours, and it's over three hours!!!"

After saying that, the chef couldn't help but burst into laughter.

—From the very beginning, the so-called sheep-catching game was a scam!

As the most cunning and treacherous chef in the kitchen, he sets a game rule for players to catch a sheep and put it back in the sheepfold within 3 hours, but he never accurately specifies the start time of the game!

So even if a player does bring back a sheep, as long as they use the excuse that the timeout has occurred, that player will lose everything.

After all, who can truly prove when their game started?

But Xia Xiaoqin remained calm and pointed to the sheep in the sheepfold.

Then the girl calmly raised her voice: "This sheep I caught can prove it. If you don't believe me, open it and see."

The chef frowned, staring at Xia Xiaoqin for two seconds, a hint of suspicion flashing across his fleshy face.

But he still bent down and untied the rope at the top of the sack.

His smile froze the moment the bag was opened.

It was the maid, Xiao Lü.

She lay in the sack, her neck twisted to one side at an abnormal angle, her eyes wide open, the blush on her cheeks faded, and her dark pupils dilated, reflecting the flickering firelight in the stove not far away.

She is dead.

He personally chopped her neck with a cleaver, cleanly and decisively.

"What—what's going on?!"

The chef abruptly took a step back, and the cleaver in his hand clattered to the ground.

"Shh." Xia Xiaoqin expressionlessly held up a finger to her lips. "Don't make a sound. Do you want everyone to know that you killed Old Madam Lu's personal maid?"

The chef stared at Xia Xiaoqin in disbelief.

His fleshy face showed a hint of despair, which then turned into a roar.

"What did you do... what on earth did you do?!"

Xia Xiaoqin took a deep breath, pretending to be calm, and switched the wood-chopping knife to her other hand, wiping the blood off the blade with her sleeve.

In the darkness, the girl wiped her wood-chopping knife, her voice as calm as an ancient well.

"Chef, do you think I didn't notice? You never specified a precise start time for the game in the first place. You can cheat, and so can I. Liars will eventually be deceived."

"And in order to fool you, I thought about it for a long time—finally, I figured it out. The reason your kitchen door has always been open is because you are also part of this sheep-catching game, right? So I had an acquaintance lure Little Green into the room. Obviously, she didn't know she would become a sheep."

Upon hearing this, the chef's face drained of all color in an instant.

However, Xia Xiaoqin lowered her eyes, revealing no expression, and continued to reply calmly: "Do you like this sheep I caught? Its brains are different from mine, but they should be good for making soup. You can take it."

The cook opened his mouth, looked down at Xiao Lü's corpse in the sack, then looked up at Xia Xiaoqin, and finally something appeared in his eyes that he had never seen in all the years he had slaughtered sheep.

fear.

"Who...who are you?! Do you think I'm afraid of you?! Do you believe I'll kill you right now?! If I kill you, no one will know about this!!!"

The chef, his eyes bloodshot, shouted in a fierce but cowardly manner.

Xia Xiaoqin showed no panic. She simply stood quietly in front of him and then reached out her hand, gesturing for him to come closer.

"Of course you can kill me, but if I die too, don't you think the old lady will start to suspect you about Little Green's disappearance?"

At that moment, the chef's bluffing froze, and he trembled as if he had been whipped hard by the words "old lady".

—Little Green is the old lady's personal maid, not someone like him who is just a cook in the kitchen!

If Old Mrs. Lu really finds out...

But Xia Xiaoqin didn't let him off the hook. She lowered her voice and pressed her advantage.

"Don't worry, chef, you've uncovered Little Green's secret, I'll eat you for the rest of my life."

"So, if you don't want the old lady to know about this... you should know what to do, right?"

Chi Chi!

The firewood burning in the kitchen went out.

The sound of falling ashes was like someone laughing.

The chef stared at the petite and slender girl in front of him, his lips moving for a long time before his bulky body finally collapsed to his knees with a thud.

A hoarse voice, like that of a broken gong, rang out in the kitchen, carrying a hint of pleading.

"Young mistress, please be kind to me!"