Chapter 7 - Midnight Mansion (5) (2/2)

Bai Yi looked at the corpse in silence for a while: “His cause of death is a little strange……….he was starved to death.”

“He’s already all dried-up yet you can tell that he was starved to death?” Wang Jianming asked suspiciously.

“I have a skill in that field.” Bai Yi explained simply. He then said, “Maybe Mrs. Mei Jie had locked her husband in the basement and had ordered the others not to give him food. Charlie was starved to the point that he almost went crazy, so he scratched at the walls, but Mrs. Mei Jie didn’t feel any sympathy for him. In the end, he was starved to death.”

“If that’s true then that is just too cruel. She actually starved her own husband to death. What kind of hatred is that?”

Cheng Zhi Chu had a look of disbelief. It was hard for him to imagine a wife doing something so vicious to their own husband.

“After starving her own husband to death, she even hid his body behind the oil painting and continued to live in the main bedroom like nothing had happened. For her to be able to do something like this, maybe Mrs. Mei Jie isn’t mentally normal.”

Bai Yi smiled faintly. The hand that was examining the corpse suddenly paused and then it pulled out a notebook from the corpses’ shirt. He said: “There’s something here.”

That notebook was hidden together with the corpse. Cheng Zhi Chu was reluctant to accept the notebook but, seeing that Bai Yi wasn’t saying anything as he examined the corpse, he didn’t feel qualified to be picky.

He held the notebook in his hand and glanced at the cover. He then revealed an incredulous expression: “Mrs. Mei Jie really isn’t normal………This is her diary. She actually hid her own diary together with her husband’s body.”

Hearing that there’s a diary, Lu Wenjing and Ren Xue each took the clues they had found and came over. Lu Wenjing found a paper that looked like a report and Ren Xue brought over a jewellery box. Because the diary was quite thick, they began with examining the other two items first.

The report that Lu Wenjing had found was an autopsy report. After Cheng Zhi Chu read through it, he confirmed at it belonged to the second owner. The report mentioned that his body was missing half his foot and half his head. This also proved that the ghost that they had encountered earlier was the second owner.

They then opened the jewellery box. Their lines of sight couldn’t help but be attracted to its contents ——– It was an exquisite emerald necklace with fine workmanship. The gorgeous gemstone was bright and radiant, emitting a moving glow of light in the darkness. It was both beautiful and pure. At one glance, you could tell that it is something very valuable.

Cheng Zhi Chu read over the information about the necklace

【Item Name: Necklace.]

【Item Type: Instance Prop.]

【Can you bring it out of an instance: No]

【Description: A valuable necklace. It is not clear what it can be used for.]

“Unfortunately, it can’t be taken out….” Ren Xue said with disappointment and returned the necklace back into the jewellery box.

Wang Jianming took the opportunity and said: “That necklace really suits you. I will try my best to earn enough money to buy you one like that in the future!”

Ren Xue didn’t say anything, but you could tell that she was a little happy. Lu Wenjing also seemed to be quite interested in the necklace, but they didn’t dare to casually put it on. After all, after seeing what had happened to Cheng Zhi Chu earlier, they couldn’t be sure that nothing would happen after putting it on.

Wang Jianming bravely volunteered to hold onto the jewellery box and stored it in his bag so that Ren Xue wouldn’t be affected if anything was to happen. He also stored the report away but, since the ghost related to the report was already dealt with, it shouldn’t appear again.

“The next one is this diary…….”

Cheng Zhi Chu moved his gaze over to the diary and took a deep breath before opening it. However, after opening, what they saw was that the vast majority of the pages were either smudged or stained with blood. It couldn’t be read at all. The contents at the back was also torn off. After flipping through all the pages, there were only a few pages that were readable.

“…….”

Cheng Zhi Chu read through the first page and fell silent for a few seconds. He then opened his mouth and said with a complicated mood: “I think I can understand why Mrs. Mei Jie would do something like that.”

“Charlie really was killed by Mrs. Mei Jie and it wasn’t just him. Mrs. Mei Jie also killed a maid. The maid was called Mary and is Charlie’s childhood friend. It was through Charlie’s recommendation that Mary got a job in this mansion.”

“Charlie didn’t love Mei Jie. He only had his eye on the Sorcha family status. The person he really loved is his childhood friend, Mary. Not long after Mary came to this mansion, the two of them betrayed Mei Jie.”

Bai Yi’s Diary (Part 7)

In the past, I have also thought about the issue of betrayal. Like what I should do if, one day after getting together with Zhi Chu, he falls in love with someone else.

But I wasn’t able to reach an answer. Just the thought of this was enough to drive me crazy. If I continued to think about it, it would only make my soul collapse even more.

I was troubled by this for a long time and I tried to reach a conclusion but no matter how deeply I thought about it, I just felt more and more anxious. It was like something bad would happen if I didn’t reach an answer.

This kind of anxiety continued until I realised that there was another problem.

—–Zhi Chu isn’t together with me. He doesn’t even know who I am.

I became depressed.