Chapter 27 Angelica dahurica
Chapter 27 Angelica dahurica
In order to keep this crumbling building standing, Ning Zhe must ensure the stability of its foundation, which was why Feng Yusu mistook Ning Zhe for a ghost because of that phone call.
All the current advantages are built on lies. Once the truth of the matter is known to Feng Yusu and the wrong cognition is corrected, what awaits Ning Zhe is a total collapse and a complete loss.
Therefore, Ning Zhe clearly knew what the top priority was: "We must not let Feng Yusu know the truth, and we must not let her cognition change."
The most convenient way to achieve this goal is:
——Kill Feng Yusu.
Only the thoughts of the dead will never change. Once Feng Yusu died, her wrong cognition could never be corrected. Ning Zhe would be invincible from then on. Even if he had to face the weird and unpredictable ghost of rules, he still had plenty of time and resources to fight it.
but……
"Auntie, do you want to live?" Ning Zhe suddenly asked as he hurriedly walked through the empty streets.
"Huh? Of course I do. There is no one who doesn't want to live, right?" Feng Yusu didn't quite understand why he suddenly asked this.
"I'm asking you." Ning Zhe corrected him, "I'll be frank. I don't think you're a strong person. Whether it's your upper-class status or your pampered life, it means you lack the experience of facing setbacks and dangers, and the ability to bear pressure."
"Compared to Ye Miaozhu, who experienced her father's bankruptcy and family reorganization, you have hardly experienced any major setbacks in your life. I can see this from your confused eyes and cowardly behavior."
"In other words, Auntie, you are the screaming, prostitute in horror movies, or the attractive character in the hero-saves-the-beauty show. But we are not acting now, and ghosts are not directors. Ghosts will not give you more roles to boost ratings just because you are pretty and have a good figure."
"To survive between the cracks in the rules and witness the mysterious deaths of others requires a very, very, very great psychological pressure, and I don't think you have the ability to withstand such pressure for a long time without collapsing. In other words, you should have died long ago."
But the fact is that when the threat of death was approaching, Ye Miaozhu was easily broken by Ning Zhe's casual words, and even a meticulous person like Zhang Yangxu made an irrational decision, which led to his identity being usurped by a ghost... Feng Yusu was much weaker and more cowardly than these two people, but it was she, the weak her, who had held on until now.
"You should have collapsed, but you have been holding on until now. This shows that you want to live more than anyone else... Your desire to survive is extremely strong, so strong that you are willing to give everything to leave here alive. You even hinted that you can commit yourself to me. Although I ignored you, this is obviously unimaginable given your status and upbringing."
As Ning Zhe spoke, Feng Yushu's wrist, which was held in his hand, struggled slightly. He continued, "The desire to survive is the most basic desire of a person, but your desire to survive is so strong that it affects the normal physiological limit. This is really rare."
"——So, why do you want to live so much? Is there any reason?"
Feng Yusu lowered his head and remained silent for a long time.
After a long time, she finally said, "Because I have a daughter."
"I see." Ning Zhe probably understood. Women are weak by nature, but strong when they become mothers?
Ning Zhe had no interest in asking about other people's family affairs, but Feng Yusu continued to talk on her own:
"My daughter's name is Baizhi. She is a very well-behaved girl."
"My husband is a workaholic. He is devoted to his career and doesn't care about family matters at all. He doesn't care about our daughter's study and growth at all. I am not very good at raising children. Azhi has been no different from a child from a single-parent family since she was young. It's so pitiful..."
"…but she matured very early. She knew how to take care of herself at a very young age. I never had to worry about her life or studies. I really wanted to care about her more, but I didn't know where to start. I also went through that age and I know how sensitive teenage girls are. I'm afraid I might end up making things worse…"
"Azhi is a really good child. I want to give her all my love...but she matured too quickly and became independent too early. She closed her heart early and kept to herself at school, so her clumsy mother didn't know how to convey her feelings to her. I watched her grow up day by day, but the relationship between mother and daughter became more and more distant, like strangers...sometimes I even couldn't help but wonder, was this graceful girl really born from my belly?"
Feng Yusu kept talking on and on with no intention of stopping. In the past, she was always careful to remain silent, but as soon as Ning Zhe talked about her daughter, she seemed to have endless things to say.
Ning Zhe did not interrupt Feng Yusu's mumbling, just listening to it as if it were a small drama on ethics on Douyin. While listening, he led her quickly through the deserted streets. His attention was highly focused, paying attention to every bluestone slab they had stepped on.
"…At the end of last year, Azhi's laptop broke. Her father was not at home, and I didn't know much about computers. After I took it to the after-sales store to get it fixed, the computer's startup password disappeared for some reason. I, I know it's wrong to peek into a child's personal belongings, but I really want to understand her. I really want to know what Azhi is thinking."
"I couldn't help but open her computer and flipped through it like a possessed person... I saw a lot of large-scale bizarre comics in the folder, as well as some very bloody and weird horror games..."
"Then, I also saw the electronic diary written by Azhi on a bookmark page called WPS Notes."
Sneaking a peek at diaries...a traditional skill of Chinese parents.
Ning Zhe did not make any comment on this, as he was used to it.
However, what surprised him was that Feng Yusu's daughter actually wrote a diary. This girl named Baizhi was not a serious person at first glance. Who would write a diary, not to mention save an electronic version in the cloud? She also had a lot of strange comics and horror games saved in her computer. She was obviously a lady from a wealthy family, but this lady who had been raised in a secluded place since childhood had such a unique taste.
Are all rich people so perverted?
Originally, Ning Zhe just regarded Feng Yusu's chatter as an entertaining story to relieve stress, to relieve the depression of being forced into a desperate situation by ghosts. However, what Feng Yusu said next made him feel cold all over, and the biting chill climbed up his spine to the back of his head.
(End of this chapter)