Chapter 93.2: Xishan Residential Area (13)

  It was probably the state of pretending not to be able to see the corpse that made Ruan Qing much calmer.

He seemed to be looking for a water cup, one hand searching on the ground, while the other tightly held the scissors in his pocket, his whole body tense.

As long as the corpse got close to him, he would stab it fiercely, then stand up and run.

Once he left the room, the corpse might not necessarily chase after him.

Ruan Qing endured fear and dread, accumulating strength while hoping that physical attacks would be effective.

In reality, it was completely different from what Ruan Qing had in mind; the corpse, Yang Tianhao, did not intend to kill him.

Originally, Yang Tianhao was very happy when he saw his wife, but his wife seemed not to see him at all and went straight to the water dispenser.

Yang Tianhao knew that his wife had temporarily lost his sight recently, so not seeing him was normal. He moved his lips.

Ah Qing.

However, because the corpse was stiff, he couldn’t make a sound and couldn’t get his wife’s attention.

Yang Tianhao felt a bit wronged, but he twisted his face even more, with blood continuously flowing from his eye sockets and the corners of his mouth, making him look extremely terrifying.

Like an evil spirit crawling out of hell to seek vengeance.

“Bang!!!” The sound of the water cup hitting the ground interrupted a certain corpse’s grievances.

Seeing his wife scalded by boiling water with wide-open eyes, Yang Tianhao urgently wanted to stand up and help him.

However, his spine and leg bones had been crushed, and the corpse was extremely stiff after death, making it very difficult to stand up.

In order to open the refrigerator, Yang Tianhao scratched for a long time with his fingertips, which now looked blurry with flesh and blood. His left middle finger was also broken, and he couldn’t exert any force, far from enough to support his entire body.

Moreover, it was still broad daylight, and his strength was greatly suppressed, making it almost impossible to stand up, let alone crawl.

He shouldn’t have crawled out of the refrigerator at this moment, but he couldn’t stand so many damned people pretending to be him and deceiving his wife.

Yang Tianhao wanted to tell his wife not to trust those bad people, but his tongue was extremely stiff, and he couldn’t make any sound.

Yang Tianhao regretted making his wife blind; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been deceived by others and could have seen him.

However, because he had become a corpse, Yang Tianhao’s thinking became slow and sluggish. He completely forgot what state he was in at the moment and how terrifying his current state appeared to ordinary people.

He just wanted to tell his wife not to trust others.

Yang Tianhao struggled to crawl toward Ruan Qing, wanting to pick up the water glass for his wife and offer him comfort. However, Yang Tianhao’s entire body contorted and looked eerie. As he slowly approached Ruan Qing, it seemed as though he wanted to drag him into hell, inexplicably instilling a sense of fear in anyone who witnessed it.

Ruan Qing didn’t know that the corpse had no malicious intent towards him. As he sensed the corpse getting closer, he tightly gripped the scissor in his hand, preparing to turn and strike when Yang Tianhao approached.

Just as Ruan Qing was about to turn with the scissor in hand, a child’s crisp voice came from behind, breaking the eerie silence and disrupting the strange atmosphere.

“Daddy?”

“What are you doing?”

At the moment when the child on the sofa was about to wake up, Yang Tianhao’s contorted and his abnormal hand was almost touching his wife.

Yang Tianhao looked at his beautiful wife with reluctance, then instantly returned to the refrigerator, leaving no trace of blood on the floor.

The child didn’t see the corpse or the bloodstains. He glanced at Ruan Qing, who was kneeling on the ground as if searching for something, and then at the water glass, as if he understood something.

The child jumped off the sofa, picked up the water glass not far from Ruan Qing, and handed it to him. “Daddy, here you go.”

Ruan Qing paused for a moment, seemingly looking sideways in the direction of the child. Although his eyes still seemed unfocused, his peripheral vision took in everything within his field of view.

The living room was empty except for him and Yang Muqing, and there was no trace of blood on the floor. Even in the kitchen, there was no sign of anything strange.

It was as if the hallucination he just experienced had never happened.

Yang Tianhao’s body had disappeared.

Perhaps the threat of death had dissipated, but Ruan Qing’s body suddenly went limp, and all the strength seemed to vanish in an instant. He slumped back onto the ground, looking somewhat disheveled.

But inside, Ruan Qing let out a deep sigh of relief.

It seemed that the body only appeared when he was alone.

This time, and the previous time too, it could be considered good news.

After all, in this instance of the scenario, he had his son with him, and it shouldn’t be too difficult to avoid being alone. Even at night, he could sleep with Yang Muqing, and if there were any problems, he could wake him up.

It looked like he’s going to continue pretending to be blind. After all, if he wasn’t blind, he could definitely expose those who were pretending to be Yang Tianhao. Then, there would only be him and Yang Muqing left in this apartment.

Moreover, if he regained his sight and exposed those people, it might anger them, and who knew what could happen then?

It’s better to continue pretending to be blind on the surface and maintain this delicate situation while secretly investigating the clues of the instance.

The child looked at him. The corners of his eyes were red, his beautiful eyes devoid of vitality, with a hint of tears welling up. The child tilted his head slightly, as if not quite understanding why Ruan Qing was in this state.

Ruan Qing’s current condition was indeed not good. Due to fear and tension, his forehead was covered in fine sweat, dampening his disheveled hair. His eye sockets were also red, as if he was about to cry, giving him a fragile and pitiful appearance.

Just like a fragile porcelain doll, it would break at the slightest touch.

Yang Muqing glanced at Ruan Qing’s eyebrows and eyes and then shifted his gaze to Ruan Qing’s hand.

Ruan Qing’s hand should have been fair as jade, but because it had just been scalded by boiling water, it now had an abnormal blush. It was easy to see that it was scalded.

Although the scald was not very serious, it would heal in two or three days, even if left untreated.

But Yang Muqing widened his eyes, panicked, and exclaimed in a sharp voice, “Dad, you got burned!?”

The child didn’t wait for Ruan Qing to answer and immediately pulled him, trying to drag him into the kitchen, seemingly wanting to rinse the burned area with cold water.

Ruan Qing followed the child’s lead and stood up, passively entering the kitchen as if he couldn’t see, guided by the child.

The child’s height was not enough to reach the kitchen counter, so he moved a stool from the side and stood on it, pulling Ruan Qing’s hand and starting to rinse it with cold water.

The child was being a bit too sensible.

But Ruan Qing seemed to be unaware of how absurd it was for a three-year-old child to handle a burn. He looked around the kitchen with his peripheral vision.

The corpse just now seemed to be in the kitchen.

Although he couldn’t see it yesterday, Ruan Qing could hear sounds, and it was likely that the murderer had dragged the body into the kitchen.

Without thinking, Ruan Qing’s gaze fell on the freezer.

If the body was hidden in the kitchen, the only possible place for it to be concealed was in the freezer.

It wouldn’t be opened frequently, and it wouldn’t emit a foul odor. It was definitely an excellent hiding place for a body.

Although he knew the body was in the freezer, Ruan Qing didn’t dare to approach and investigate the clues. He was afraid that if he opened the freezer, the body would come rushing out at him.

Yang Muqing gently washed Ruan Qing’s hand and looked at it with concern, his voice filled with tenderness as if he was the one who had been scalded. “Dad, does it hurt a lot?”

“It’s all because Xiao Xi fell asleep; otherwise, Xiao Xi wouldn’t have let Dad get burned.” The child blamed himself deeply, his whole demeanor deflated, and his usually lively eyes lost their sparkle.

Ruan Qing shook his head slightly. “It’s not your fault, Xiao Mu. It’s my carelessness!”

Before Ruan Qing could finish his sentence, his eyes widened, his pupils contracted, and his whole body stiffened once again.

The refrigerator, which had been closed just a moment ago, had silently opened a crack, revealing a pair of terrifying and sinister eyes. Those eyes, filled with resentment and smeared with blood, were fixed on Ruan Qing.

It was as if, the next moment, something horrifying would crawl out of the fridge and kill him, sending shivers down one’s spine.

Ruan Qing stiffly averted his gaze, pretending not to notice the fridge, as if he had seen nothing.

Because he was pretending to be blind, he used his peripheral vision to observe, seemingly not catching the attention of those terrifying eyes.

Yang Muqing was puzzled by Ruan Qing’s sudden silence. “Dad, what’s wrong?”

“Is your hand still hurting?”

“Let Xiao Xi blow on it, and it won’t hurt anymore.” Yang Muqing held Ruan Qing’s hand to his mouth and gently blew on it, showing an unusual level of consideration.

Yang Muqing was adorable in appearance, well-behaved, and sensible - the kind of child all parents would love.

Unfortunately, Ruan Qing didn’t have time to appreciate the child’s care. He just wanted to escape from the kitchen as soon as possible.

Because the owner of those eyes had been staring at him all along, as if waiting for an opportunity to come out and kill him.

Ruan Qing calmly lowered his gaze and spoke with composure, “It still hurts a bit, Xiao Mu. Can you go find the first aid kit for Dad?”

“Sure, Dad.” Yang Muqing nodded immediately, took Ruan Qing’s hand, and left the kitchen.

The eyes in the fridge continued to watch as the two figures disappeared from the kitchen. If one looked closely, the sense of grievance in those eyes became even more evident.

Although Ah Qing was his wife, he could only peep at him like a rat in a sewer now, afraid to reveal himself. And now that he had become ugly, would Ah Qing still love him?

At the thought of Ah Qing no longer loving him but falling for the imposter Yang Tianhao, the resentment in the eyes of the corpse Yang Tianhao grew stronger, almost on the verge of materializing.

The gray-white pupils gradually gave way to a deep crimson, and reason was gradually being consumed by resentment.

Damn, they should all die.

Those who covet Ah Qing, they should all die.

He wanted to reclaim his identity, reclaim the ring, and reclaim his wife.

Ruan Qing was pulled back into the living room by Yang Muqing. Just as he was observing the living room out of the corner of his eye, he froze.

On the white wall of the living room hung a family portrait of three.

Ruan Qing lowered his gaze. He remembered this picture; it had been broken and thrown into the trash can by the murderer.

But at that time, he couldn’t see it and could only rely on listening, so he couldn’t be sure if it was this picture.

Yang Muqing pulled Ruan Qing to the sofa, while he himself brought a chair to take down the medicine box.

Ruan Qing, on the other hand, kept his head down, waiting for Yang Muqing.

Although Yang Muqing was a child, he seemed to understand everything, even what medicine to use for burns. He didn’t need Ruan Qing to say anything; he just applied the medicine to Ruan Qing’s hand.

Just as Yang Muqing put the medicine box back, the doorbell rang again.

Yang Muqing turned his head in the direction of the door and seemed to see Ruan Qing wanting to open the door, so he immediately stopped him. “Dad, I’ll do it.”

Ruan Qing hesitated a bit and spoke. “Can you reach it?”

“Yes, Dad.”

After saying that, Yang Muqing ran to the door, tiptoed, and managed to open it with difficulty.

However, at the moment he opened the door, he was pushed and knocked down by the person outside.

Chen Sihan looked at the child on the ground and then immediately shifted his gaze, walking directly into the living room, as if this were his home.

Chen Sihan looked at Ruan Qing on the sofa and gave a bright smile, his voice very cheerful, “Sister-in-law, good afternoon.”

Ruan Qing hesitated upon hearing the familiar voice and pursed his lips. “What are you here for?”

Chen Sihan’s voice carried some concern, “Sister-in-law, Brother Yang hasn’t been to the company for the past two days, and he hasn’t asked for leave either.”

“I’m a bit worried about him.”

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