allonlinenovel Chapter 296 Thorny Rose (53)
Chapter 296 Thorny Rose (53)
Yan Zhen remained motionless.
She watched with almost indifference as Song Yi struggled in pain, his breathing rapid and labored. Due to lack of oxygen, his body convulsed, and the veins on his neck bulged menacingly.
Song Yi stared intently at her, his eyes filled with madness, resentment, and unwillingness.
After a long while, Song Yi withdrew his gaze, gripping the butler's collar tightly with both hands, and said with all his might, "She... Lin Xun..."
"Young Master, what do you want to say?"
Despite his reluctance to admit it, the housekeeper had to face the undeniable truth—Song Yi was not going to survive.
Every word he speaks now is his last.
The butler leaned closer to Song Yi: "Young Master, please speak, I'm listening."
"Lin Xun..." Song Yi managed to utter two words, but couldn't say anything more.
He remained frozen for more than ten seconds, then his strength gave way and his hands fell limply to his sides.
The ambulance arrived with sirens blaring.
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Song Yi is dead.
He didn't even make it to the hospital; he died in the ambulance after all attempts to resuscitate him failed.
This was within Yan Zhen's expectations.
But even though he knew before he died that she was the mastermind behind Wang Jianchun's gun attack, he gave up telling the housekeeper the truth at the last moment, which surprised Yan Zhen.
He knew better than anyone that if he revealed even the slightest clue, the butler would investigate further.
With bullets, gunpowder, nail guns, and Wang Jianchun's testimony, it wouldn't be difficult to trace the evidence back to her.
What awaits Yan Zhen then is a frenzied revenge.
The housekeeper will kill her to make Song Yi pay for it.
But Song Yi, for some unknown reason, did not do so.
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With the help of the police, Yan Zhen successfully broke open the kitchen island in Wang Jianchun's house and took out Lin Chan's body.
Lin Chan's body was found curled up in an iron bucket filled with lime and activated carbon, then covered with cement. When it was taken out, it was completely skeletal.
The story of "a man who killed his wife and hid her body in his home for eight years after pouring cement" immediately made local news and attracted great attention.
Wang Jianchun confessed to killing Lin Chan and described the whole story in detail.
He and Lin Chan were a second-marriage couple. At that time, he wanted an understanding wife, while Lin Chan had a child and wanted to find a place to stay. So the two hit it off and got married.
After marriage, the couple often argued over trivial matters.
For example, Lin Chan is a clean freak and cannot tolerate any dirt or mess in her home, while Wang Jianchun is used to living alone and always forgets to put his shoes back in the shoe cabinet after changing them at the door.
For example, Lin Chan likes to grow some flowers and plants on the balcony, while Wang Jianchun smokes and often throws his cigarette butts into the flower pots.
A series of seemingly harmless little things piled up, causing Wang Jianchun to harbor resentment.
On the night he killed his wife, the two argued again because Wang Jianchun forgot to clean the water stains on the bathroom mirror after taking a shower.
The argument escalated into a physical fight, and in a fit of rage, Wang Jianchun grabbed a rolling pin from the table and smashed it on the back of Lin Chan's head.
Kill with one blow.
After killing his wife, Wang Jianchun did not panic.
He calmly cleaned up the scene, hid his wife's body under the bed, picked up Lin Xun who was playing at a classmate's house, and lied that Lin Chan was working overtime and hadn't come back yet. He put sleeping pills in Lin Xun's milk and coaxed her to sleep.
Then he went out and bought lime, activated carbon, and cement, sealed Lin Chan's body in an iron barrel, and moved it to the garbage station behind the community.
Some residents like to dry their clothes and bedding in the open air, so they fill iron buckets with cement and build clothes drying poles.
The iron bucket containing Lin Chan's body was disguised as an abandoned "clothes drying pole" and left to bask in the open air for nearly a year, masked by the stench of the ditch behind the residential area and the garbage station.
Because dead chickens and ducks would occasionally appear at the garbage station, the occasional stench did not attract the attention of residents.
It wasn't until the community issued a notice saying they were going to clean up the environment and remove the stinking garbage station that Wang Jianchun took advantage of the night to move the iron bucket home and build it into the kitchen island.
As the statement was being recorded, Wang Jianchun was in tears.
"After she died, I started learning to clean and kept the house spotless, but what was the use? She could no longer see it."
Wang Jianchun was convicted of two murders resulting in the deaths of two people, desecrating corpses, illegally modifying firearms, and molesting children. He was sentenced to death in the first instance for multiple crimes.
Wang Jianchun disagreed and filed an appeal.
The housekeeper harbored a deep grudge against Wang Jianchun for murdering Song Yi, and with his involvement and behind-the-scenes instigation, Wang Jianchun's appeal resulted in the original verdict being upheld.
Spring passed and autumn came, and on the winter solstice, Wang Jianchun was executed by firing squad.
Yan Zhen also held a simple funeral for Lin Chan that day, cremating her remains and burying them.
Standing in front of Lin Chan's tombstone, Yan Zhen rolled up his sleeves, and the wound on his wrist was slowly healing.
She turned her hand over, revealing a burn scar from a mistake she made while modifying nail gun bullets.
As Yan Zhen looked at the scar, the image of her first meeting with Song Yi flashed through her mind.
He was wearing a short skirt, standing in the narrow alley, under the dim light, when he looked up and caught a glimpse of something amazing.
Such a beautiful face.
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Yan Zhen lived in this world for eleven years using Lin Xun's identity.
Lin Xun's health was already poor, and at 28 years old, her physical condition began to decline irreversibly.
Frequent illnesses, taking large amounts of medicine, and hospitalizations lasting a month or two each time.
Yan Zhen's quality of life and living experience were too poor, so she chose to withdraw.
Back at the Quick Transmigration Division, Xiao Qi greeted her outside the office as usual.
But Xiao Qi was acting strangely today. She was sitting on her shoulder looking as wilted as a frostbitten eggplant, and she didn't say a word.
"What's wrong?" Yan Zhen asked. "Is something on your mind?"
Xiaoqi opened her mouth, hesitated, and finally said, "It's nothing."
When Yan Zhen arrived at the entrance of the Quick Transmigration Bureau and saw the person squatting in the corner, he realized why Xiao Qi had stopped talking.
Song Yi—or rather, Jing Chen, who was maintaining the appearance of Song Yi—squatted outside the Quick Transmigration Bureau like a stone lion, his gloomy gaze fixed on everyone who came in and out.
Yan Zhen: "..."
Yan Zhen was not surprised that Song Yi was Mirror Chen.
She had been entangled with him for several worlds, seeing him in all forms—big and small, profound and lively, clothed and naked—and seemed to have grown accustomed to her superior appearing in her missions in this form.
But as is customary, the other person had returned to the Quick Transmigration Division earlier than her, yet still maintained the same appearance and waited here, clearly intending to settle scores with her.
Yan Zhen quickly composed himself, adjusting his expression and calmly stepped forward: "Lord God."
Jing Chen looked up and then stood up.
With the two people two or three meters apart, Yan Zhen noticed that he was still wearing the clothes he wore on the day he died in the small world, and the blood on his back had already congealed.
This feud has become quite serious.
“You…you! You waited for me here?” Yan Zhen spoke first.
"Otherwise what?" Jing Chen's words were full of gunpowder.
Yan Zhen paused, then asked, "Are we settling accounts?"