Frightening Joke: Above the Mist-Chapter 26: The Reason

Bai Yanliang stared at Zhang Wen's face, trying to see what this woman was really thinking.

Zhang Wen saw Bai Yanliang's business-like attitude, which actually gave her a sense of assurance.

She just picked up the kettle, ready to pour Bai Yanliang a glass of water, but was stopped by his raised hand.

"No need for formalities, I have other work to attend to, and I won't stay long."

Zhang Wen paused, and under Bai Yanliang's gaze, she put down the kettle and sat at the edge of her bed with a strange expression.

Bai Yanliang was certain that this woman's secrets were far more numerous than he had imagined.

Zhang Wen seemed dazed for quite a while before she fixed her eyes on Bai Yanliang, sitting across from her, and smiled, "You must publish everything I tell you."

"That depends on whether your story is exciting enough." Bai Yanliang's emotion remained completely unmoved.

"Hehe... alright, I'll tell you."

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Zhang Wen laughed oddly, looking at Bai Yanliang. The first sentence she said contained information unknown to him.

"I'm Zhang Qiao's sister." She didn't blink, "Her biological sister."

Zhang Qiao, huh...

What appeared in Bai Yanliang's mind was that bloodless face under the bed.

It seemed the relationship between these people was getting more complicated.

Bai Yanliang really didn't expect that Zhang Wen and Zhang Qiao were actually siblings.

However, as Zhang Wen narrated, an abnormal story gradually unfolded before him...

The Zhang sisters and the Ding brothers were lovers.

Ding Peng and Zhang Qiao.

Ding Lei and Zhang Wen.

But... a third person suddenly appeared in Ding Lei and Zhang Wen's relationship—Li Yuhua.

Li Yuhua wasn't as pretty as Zhang Wen, nor as young, but she had a piece of land and a building.

That's right, the Ruyi Hotel was Li Yuhua's family business.

No love beats the growth of wealth, and Ding Lei chose Li Yuhua without hesitation.

But at the same time, he made Zhang Wen a promise—once he got the ownership of the Ruyi Hotel, he would stage an accident to kill Li Yuhua, and then marry her, Zhang Wen.

Zhang Wen was intoxicated by the beautiful lie her lover wove, stopped pestering Ding Lei, and quietly waited for the right moment at the Ruyi Hotel.

However, she ended up waiting for three years.

Zhang Wen started to get anxious.

It seemed her lover had forgotten about this matter, day in and day out going to work, then home...

The love letters she secretly hid in Ding Lei's office went unanswered, disappearing without a trace.

Zhang Wen understood, she was already... abandoned...

But then, an opportunity came her way!

Her own sister and Ding Lei's brother came for their honeymoon!

Zhang Wen knew well what kind of person her brother-in-law was. He seemed gentle and casual, but deep down, he was full of jealousy toward his brother!

He didn't understand why he wasn't the one chosen by the wealthy heiress.

Why could someone like Ding Lei become a big boss in an instant?

Zhang Wen approached him, and they hit it off immediately.

"So, your request was for Ding Peng to help you kill Li Yuhua?" Bai Yanliang asked.

"Yes!" Zhang Wen's expression was filled with resentment and a hint of pleasure: "I told Ding Peng, kill Li Yuhua, disguise it as a suicide! Then forge a will, as soon as Li Yuhua dies, her estate would all go to Ding Peng!"

Bai Yanliang looked at her resentful face, unfazed.

This woman was completely insane.

"And then?"

"Then?" Zhang Wen looked at Bai Yanliang, her gaze extremely dangerous: "Then Ding Peng agreed to work with me, but! Before we had the chance to act, my sister disappeared!"

Zhang Wen's expression changed, her face losing all its resentment and turning into worry: "Qiao'er is a good child, a very very good child... She's kind, intelligent, beautiful, generous, how could she disappear? Why would she disappear!"

Zhang Wen's voice grew louder, her emotion more agitated.

"Soon after Qiao'er disappeared, that damn old woman also vanished? Ha... What right does she have to disappear with Qiao'er?" Zhang Wen stared intently at Bai Yanliang, showing signs of madness: "Tell me, what right?"

Bai Yanliang didn't answer her question, but he had mostly figured it out.

Zhang Qiao might have disappeared back then, but Li Yuhua did not.

Ding Peng had already acted.

Li Yuhua was thrown into the water tank, and then... turned into a "giant" that would burst with one poke.

Zhang Wen's emotions changed rapidly, and in just a moment, she continued with normal expression: "Three days after Qiao'er disappeared, I saw her again."

"Haha... Qiao'er looked at me through the mirror... Qiao'er told me to let people know about this place, know about what happened here, as many as possible..."

Zhang Wen's expression began to turn bizarre; initially clear words turned into fragmented whispers.

Bai Yanliang listened to her increasingly strange words, finally realizing something amiss.

Zhang Wen decided to call the newspaper and publish those messages—was it all because "Qiao'er" told her to?

But... as far as Bai Yanliang knew, that ghost under his bed was Zhang Qiao.

So... who was haunting Zhang Wen?

Regarding the identities of the two bodies in the water tank, Bai Yanliang was entirely clear, but... the most bizarre issue remained Zhang Qiao!

Slept on the back, awakened in lost dreams...

The protagonist in the decryption was her!

Who killed her?

And... where was her body?

"Hey, aren't you a reporter? Write this down well, then publish it!" seeing Bai Yanliang seemingly distracted, Zhang Wen showed a hint of dissatisfaction.

"You don't need to teach me how to do my job." Bai Yanliang's attitude was very cold.

In fact, if not for pretending to be "normal," this was his true demeanor.

This woman... was clearly insane.

Bai Yanliang could feel a very familiar sensation from her, a familiarity from where he had once stayed—the Ye City Mental Hospital.

She had an almost obsessive love for Ding Lei and her own sister, and from her descriptions, she had never used a single bad word to describe them.

Even though Ding Lei abandoned her, her only target of resentment was Li Yuhua, without considering any fault of Ding Lei.

Perhaps... it's not that she doesn't think, but rather that she doesn't want to think.

Zhang Wen could only live by whatever pleasant memories remained in her mind.

If her beautiful dream of Ding Lei was shattered, this woman would likely collapse instantly, with a mental breakdown being the best possible outcome.

This was probably... a type of delusional disorder.

"I'm leaving now, I'll publish the report as soon as possible. You can tell 'Qiao'er' not to worry." Bai Yanliang said as he stood up.

That ghost was definitely not the 'Qiao'er' Zhang Wen spoke of.

But Bai Yanliang had no intention of revealing this.

Zhang Wen didn't notice, she was still satisfied with Bai Yanliang's "promise," watching him leave her room.