Chapter 57 Let Me Cry With You
"Ah Cheng, are you sure Director Jiang will call?" The female agent paced around the room anxiously: "Why don't you go back and admit your mistake to the director?"
"Why are you in such a hurry? It's only been 21 hours and 36 minutes. Are you really worried that Director Jiang won't use me?" Ah Cheng laughed, but his fingers were trembling nervously on the leather sofa, and his calves were shaking uncontrollably. "Everything is as I expected. The crew is probably in a mess now."
"Really?" The female agent looked at Ah Cheng's shaking legs and erratic eyes, and she only had a bitter smile on her face: "Then wait a little longer."
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"Jiang Yi, do you know how much of an impact changing the protagonist now will have? Do you know how much effort I put into getting the company behind them to join? Do you really think so many people are optimistic about this drama?"
"I will try my best to control the cost. Besides, Ah Cheng's salary is too high. It's totally unreasonable. Compared with him, the actor I value..."
"Don't talk to me anymore. The shooting time can be postponed for another three days. I think you should calm down for a while." Sister Long hung up the phone after she finished speaking. Only Director Jiang and the two screenwriters were left in the smoke-filled room.
"Director, does this script need to be revised?" The screenwriter took out a hat and covered his almost bald head.
"Everyone has worked hard these past few days. Let's take a break first." Director Jiang said, lit a cigarette, and locked himself in the small room.
After Han Fei came out of the filming location, he had a good chat with the victims' families. He wanted to get more information and get to know his roommates better.
What others see as a ghost is, in Han Fei's eyes, just a roommate living under the same roof.
He now uses the victims' past experiences and memories to fill those illusory ghosts with real people.
"They can't come back, but I will convey your thoughts and love for them."
Sitting with the victims' families and listening to their stories about the past, Han Fei was overwhelmed by an unprecedented feeling.
There seems to be a thread between that eerie underworld game and this warm real world, a thread that runs through life and death and time, connecting the two together.
Han Fei sometimes wonders whether the existence of the game he plays, “Perfect Life”, has some deeper meaning.
At around five o'clock in the afternoon, Han Fei was preparing to say goodbye to the victim's family when he suddenly received a call from Li Xue.
Han Fei answered the phone only after avoiding the victim's family.
"Have you found any evidence against Meng Changan?"
"It has nothing to do with Meng Changan. As the investigation deepens, we have found more and more clues, but all of these clues point to Meng Changxi!" Li Xue's voice came from the other end of the phone: "The report results from the Ecological Forest Black Room are out. We found the remains of two people, one is He Shouye and the other is Meng Changxi. In addition, we found the road surveillance backup video from several years ago. We found Meng Changxi's figure near the street where He Shouye had a car accident. Now we suspect that He Shouye did not die in a car accident, but was murdered by Meng Changxi."
"Meng Changxi killed He Shouye?" Han Fei set his phone to background calls, then opened the victim relationship map he had created: "Why did he kill He Shouye?"
"It is very likely that it was to silence the witnesses. Meng Changxi and He Shouye were both murderers. They were connected in some way and killed the people that the other wanted to kill. Meng Changxi killed He Shouye in order not to expose himself."
"Could it be that someone framed Meng Changxi?"
"We can't rule out this possibility. It is for this reason that we did not issue a wanted order for Meng Changxi." Li Xue's voice changed: "In order to find the murderer of the human puzzle, we checked all the information about He Shouye and Meng Changxi from childhood to adulthood. Meng Changxi disguised himself very well, but He Shouye is really a complete scumbag. He is not a local. He married and had children in the countryside. We visited his former neighbors and took a lot of effort to find his ex-wife."
"Ex-wife?"
"That's right. He Shouye behaved very honestly before marriage, but after marriage, he gradually revealed another side, domestic violence, and all kinds of abnormal hobbies. At first, He Shouye was still suppressing himself, but then He Yuhuai was born. The child was weak since childhood and suffered from congenital diseases. He Shouye's attitude towards the mother and child became worse and worse. Beating and scolding were the norm. In the end, his wife couldn't stand it anymore and ran away alone."
"He Shouye threatened his wife many times, saying that if she didn't come back, he would kill He Yuhuai, forcing his wife to call the police, and they divorced afterwards."
"The focus of the dispute between the couple was the house. They didn't want the child with a congenital disease. I heard from their former neighbors that the child was very pitiful. He had no friends and was locked up at home. He lived in fear every day and became a punching bag for his parents. The crying of the child in the house never stopped."
"What the neighbors hear most often is He Shouye's roar - Why are you crying? If you cry again, I will strangle you to death!"
"It may be because of his own children that He Shouye hates children. According to his neighbors, He Shouye is very normal at ordinary times, but he will go crazy as soon as he hears a child crying ."
"In the end, the property was divided equally between the two parties, and the child He Yuhuai was awarded to the mother. But what happened next was sad. The mother didn't want the child. Once, she took He Yuhuai to a faraway place to play hide-and-seek, and in the end she didn't care about the child and left alone."
"He Yuhuai's mother disappeared with the money. After the police found the child, they had no choice but to send him to He Shouye. You also know what happened next. The child of a wealthy man in Xinhu suffered from kidney disease. When He Shouye learned that his child's kidney was a perfect match for the other party, he immediately signed some kind of agreement with the wealthy man in private."
"The initial tragedy of this incident started with that child. If one of his relatives had given him a little love and was willing to accept him, the subsequent tragedy could have been avoided."
Li Xue said a lot, and after Han Fei listened, the image of the crying figure in the game "Perfect Life" emerged in his mind for some reason.
The child who lived downstairs from him always stood alone beside the altar. He was a dark shadow whose face could not be seen clearly. He kept crying and playing a never-ending hide-and-seek game with other children.
"Maybe I should go and accompany that child..." Han Fei silently repeated the name He Yuhuai in his heart. He planned to go and see him tonight.
