"You're saying your ex-husband was indeed wronged back then?"

Mingmei and Mu Chen perked up when they heard her last sentence. Lillian knew what she had just said, so she nodded and recounted the incident.

"Lisa did have someone she liked, but it wasn't my ex-husband, but his colleague."

Lisa was the daughter of Bai Xiao and the others' characters.

Lillian sighed as she spoke, then said, "It's just that, because of her reputation, Lianna never directly confronted that scumbag. Every time, she had to find a shield.

"She even secretly sought out Lisa several times to try and talk her out of it, telling her that there was no need for a young girl to be infatuated with an old man. There was nothing good to come of it."

"Ah, so your ex-wife's character was actually okay?"

"Okay, I guess. He was a good person before Mona controlled him and he started abusing me."

Not knowing how to comment on this messy mother-daughter relationship, Mingmei and Mu Chen exchanged a glance and decided to shut up.

"And then?"

"Nothing after that. It's just that the person Lisa liked was actually a scumbag. Not only did he deceive her feelings, but she was already pregnant when my ex-husband found out."

"Hiss—then, the suicide at that time..."

"Yes, two lives lost."

"Damn..." Mingmei's voice gradually faded as she spoke.

"There were too many rumors circulating in their school at the time, and that scumbag refused to step forward. Lisa couldn't defend herself, and in the end, she couldn't think straight and committed suicide. My ex-husband only found out about Lisa and that scumbag's affair after he was fired and investigated for a long time."

"So, he took Bai Xiao and Yuan Fang to the school one night?" Mu Chen automatically completed the rest of the story. The other party nodded, acknowledging it.

"So, that chance encounter with Bai Xiao and the others was also deliberate?" Mingmei recalled Bai Xiao's description of meeting Lillian.

"Yes. Logically, they shouldn't have appeared again..."

"Then how did you realize they were acting strange and try to get close to them?" Mingmei listened to Lillian.

"Then your ex-husband is gone too..." Mingmei felt a moment of sympathy for this NPC.

He seemed to have done nothing wrong, said nothing wrong, but was saddled with the blame, lost his job, and then his whole life.

"Ah… a bit unlucky, I suppose."

Lillian said with some emotion.

In the game, she had almost forgotten about the character of her ex-husband.

Just like in reality, her husband was also a blur in her life. The couple was busy with their own affairs, and they were completely unaware that their child was being bullied and becoming psychologically twisted.

By the time she found out, Mona had already committed many irreparable evils, and her husband actually showed his "fatherly love" for the first time and used his power to suppress everything until it could no longer be suppressed…

…

Just as Mingmei and the others were learning about the past events of the characters Bai Xiao and the others were playing, Lu Xiaoyao dazedly left the temporary interrogation room set up by the police at the school and let out a heavy breath.

"Murderer…"

"Help, does their family have some kind of murderous gene?"

"She was able to come out unscathed? Shouldn't she have been taken away directly?"

"That's right, I don't want to be in the same school as a murderer like that…"

The surrounding "whispers" were not quiet at all. When Lu Xiaoyao turned to look at them, everyone tacitly closed their mouths, turned their heads away, and avoided her as if she were a plague.

Fear and disgust, intense negative emotions emanated from the people around her. Lu Xiaoyao ignored them and went straight back to her dorm room, pretending nothing had happened and falling asleep.

It was only now that Lu Xiaoyao understood that Julian's warning was true.

Why would a villain boss be nice to someone else, care for them, take care of them, and build himself into a well-known hypocrite?

Her friendly behavior had long been secretly marked with a price.

"What are you thinking about?"

"Thinking about my… my dad." The word "boyfriend" almost slipped out. Lu Xiaoyao suddenly opened her eyes and looked at Mona, who was once again standing at the head of her bed, "scaring" her. She was almost scared to death.

"What are you doing here?" Lu Xiaoyao's expression was now undisguisedly disgusted.

Lu Xiaoyao knew her expression was ugly, but she really didn't want to pretend with Mona anymore.

Was this morning's incident the other party's provocation towards her?

Or was it a warning?

"Daisy, are you okay? I saw you staying in the interrogation room for so long, I thought…"

"Thought what? They want to arrest me without rhyme or reason, without any evidence?"

Lu Xiaoyao held back a bellyful of anger and didn't say anything more, just turned over and ignored the other party.

"By the way, Daisy…"

"What is it?"

Lu Xiaoyao pulled the blanket over her face again, simply covering her ears, not wanting to pay attention to anyone!

"That person this morning… did you kill them?"

"What do you think?" Lu Xiaoyao curled her lips disdainfully, her back to the other party. Anyway, she had only told Mona about this method of death. If it wasn't her, it was Bai Xiao.

"I think…" Suddenly, Lu Xiaoyao felt the shadow above her growing larger. Before she could react, Mona had already lain down next to Lu Xiaoyao and hugged Lu Xiaoyao, who was completely wrapped in the blanket, tightly. She whispered, "I think you're really amazing. That method of death was indeed stunning!"

…

"Lu Xiaoyao is really in a situation where 'I didn't kill Bo Ren, but Bo Ren died because of me.'" After returning from Lillian, Mingmei directly gave Yuan Fang half a day off under the pretext of a romantic getaway and continued discussing the problem with Mu Chen.

Among them, Mingmei really didn't know what to say about Lu Xiaoyao's situation.

Regarding the methods of killing people she told the boss, Mingmei just wanted to say that Lu Xiaoyao was really honest.

"At least she looks like she can still be saved."

"Yes, there's no evidence yet that Lu Xiaoyao killed anyone. She should be able to hold on for two more days."

Through the live broadcast, Mingmei could clearly see the word "tired" written all over Lu Xiaoyao's face, but she didn't know if Mingmei's mouth was blessed.

She had just lamented that Lu Xiaoyao should hold on a little longer, but in the evening, when Lu Xiaoyao woke up, she saw a twisted, veined hand gripping the bed sheet tightly on the bed next to her.

Lu Xiaoyao sat up and looked at her two empty hands—good, where did the hand on the bed sheet come from?

Her gaze followed the hand towards the edge of the bed, and then she saw a corpse with its neck twisted 360 degrees, face up, on the floor next to her bed.

Its mouth was turned outwards, as if it had been propped open by something. The mouth occupied half of its face.

Something seemed to be missing from the dark, bloody mouth, like—a tongue.

[Those who speak ill of others and spread rumors behind their backs will go to the Tongue-Pulling Hell after death.]

[What is the Tongue-Pulling Hell?]

In her memory, she had pretended to be profound and described the scene of pulling tongues in the Tongue-Pulling Hell to Mona.

[Use a pair of pliers to open the mouth to its widest, then use a curved hook to reach into the mouth, hook the root of the tongue hard, and yank it out…]