Chapter 875 - Cages Of Reality & Phantasm (2/2)

XX: What?

IAmMochi: How do you know what Chen Xiu said to Xin Suyin before death?

Xiu paused for a brief moment. She obviously couldn't say that it was because she was Chen Xiu.

XX: What do you think?

IAmMochi: If I could guess, I wouldn't be asking you. I've thought about it repeatedly, it just doesn't make sense at all. But it seems Xin Suyin's guilty conscience is truly eating her alive.

XX: Let's give her some final blows then.

IAmMochi: *excited emoticon* I'm at your service! You just tell me how to shoot and I'll do it!

Xiu was pleased to hear that. Originally, she had a different something planned for Xin Suyin but after learning the truth about her real identity and her real father. Xiu changed her mind.

Now, she wanted Xin Suyin to suffer in the agony of losing a child just like her father did! She wanted her to suffer in the living hell she created herself!

With that plan in mind, for the past one month, Xin Suyin had repeatedly been seeing and hearing the voices of 'ghosts.' Or more particularly, it was only one 'ghost'; Chen Xiu's ghost.

The plan started with Xiu sending Xin Suyin a letter that had all the details of her first encounter with Chen Xiu. It contained everything down to the last detail. Obviously, Xin Suyin didn't take it.

But then came a second letter... This time, it had the details of how Chen Xiu was kidnapped and taken to Xin Suyin. How she was locked up there for days and how she almost died there. It also included how Chen Xiu died inside in that cage that Xin Suyin built for her out of hatred.

This letter made Xin Suyin a little uneasy. She tried to find out the source but couldn't do so. It led her nowhere. But it didn't end there, she thought the people involved in that kidnapping were just trying to scare her to get some money. So, she waited for someone to give her a call. She waited and waited. And finally, the call actually came after two weeks.

But the words that she heard were, 'Mom, why did you kill me?'

Xin Suyin who had never been scared of anything in her life, felt her blood running cold. The one thing that had taken a toll on her emotions had been the death of Chen Xiu. She believed she had killed her 'daughter.'

And Xiu had planned to use that very thing against her. The third letter she sent to Xin Suyin was today and it was written with blood along with the pictures of Chen Xiu's dead body. This time the letter had only a date and at the rightmost corner, 'three minutes' written on it.

Others won't be able to make sense of such a letter but a guilty person would always think of what he did wrong. The date was the day Chen Xiu committed suicide. That 'three minutes' represented the very last phone call that Chen Xiu had with Xin Suyin before dying.

It was nothing but a reminder.

And unsurprisingly, the letter served its purpose. Xin Suyin killed all those subordinates who had been involved in Chen Xiu's kidnapping all those years ago. And for the very first time, she had done the killing with her own hands. The blood on her hands had derived her crazy and before she could make sense of anything, she started hearing the heart-wrenching cries of 'Chen Xiu' calling for her mother.

The same mother who killed her!

But none of it was her illusion at all, because those heart-wrenching cries were indeed echoing around her. Why? Because Xiu's accomplice had followed her plan to play a clip from Chen Xiu's movie where her mother indeed killed her and she was still calling for that heartless mother.

Since her life had been quite dramatic, Xiu chose the most childish way to way make Xin Suyin suffer but the woman who had been trying to hide her guilt for years finally brokedown under her pressure.

Because just last night, she broke everything in her house and walked on glass shards running around looking for her daughter who was calling for her. Although everything seemed simple, Xiu had actually been using her experience of being a mentally unstable person quite well. She had spent enough time with psychologists to know how human emotions worked.

The worst prison you can gift someone is the one inside their own head. Sometimes, illusions are far terrible than the reality you live in.

After all, right now, Xin Suyin's brain was somewhere in between. She couldn't face the reality where her 'daughter' didn't exist and she couldn't bring herself to enter her illusions where her 'daughter's' cries echoed every minute. And that was the cage, Xiu planned on gifting her. The one that was neither in reality and nor in any phantasm.