The moment Zhu Xiaohong heard this name, her face turned deathly pale. The resentment around her grew stronger again, and her bloodshot eyes stared fixedly at the shadow in front of her.
The male ghost's hand paused slightly, and he lowered his head to hide the sadness in his eyes. "I don't understand what you're talking about."
"Really?" A low, slow voice came. Feng Chengyuan walked up to Yu Nian and slowly took out a photo from behind him.
The photo was quite old, wrinkled and tattered. It was the result of being torn apart and then glued back together repeatedly.
He had just casually found it under the cabinet where the twins were hiding.
The photo was covered in dust, but it didn't prevent everyone from clearly seeing the picture on it.
On a sunny day, a family of four stood together with gentle smiles. The background was exactly the mansion from twenty years ago.
Yu Nian said softly, "When I was looking at Zhu Xiaohong's diary just now, I always had a doubt. She could record every little thing in her life in great detail, but she never mentioned her two children. When Ruyan and Ruyun saw their biological mother, they were as panicked as if facing a flood or a fierce beast. For a mother, isn't this a bit too strange? There's only one explanation that can make sense of all this, which is that from Zhu Xiaohong's perspective, she never had children in her life."
Jian Ming was completely confused. "?? But she is indeed the mother of the two children! Could she have forgotten her own children?"
Feng Chengyuan's cold eyes suddenly lit up. In an instant, he understood Yu Nian's train of thought. "Maybe Zhu Xiaohong really forgot her children. Everyone, think back to Zhu Xiaohong's description of the home - wrecker in her diary: acting coquettishly, being willful, like an un - grown - up child... Using these words to describe an adult woman is full of contradictions and inappropriateness. But what if we put these modifiers on Ruyan and Ruyun? In Zhu Xiaohong's eyes, Ruyan and Ruyun were not five - year - old children at all, but women of a similar age to her who still didn't know their limits and were entangled with Liang Shaoshan."
After Feng Chengyuan said this, everyone felt a chill run down their spines. It was terrifying to think about.
Bai Shengyi's expression was also a bit strange. "When I was studying in the UK, I audited a class of an old professor in psychiatry. He once talked about a mental illness called postpartum stress - induced schizophrenia. This is a very serious mental disorder. Patients usually show emotional indifference and lack of will. Most of them will have hallucinations... Zhu Xiaohong's original family was too unfortunate. If a person lives under high pressure and depression for a long time, if there's no problem with the body, then there must be an indelible trauma in the mind. Her biological father's infidelity and step - father's beatings and scoldings may have made Zhu Xiaohong subconsciously have a strong resistance to forming a family and having children. After giving birth to her daughters, this sense of uneasiness intensified until she had hallucinations, which led to the tragedy."
The male ghost, who had been silent all this time, trembled violently. There were glimmers of light in his sunken eye sockets. His gaze towards Zhu Xiaohong was gentle but filled with deep affection.
"Yes, I'm Liang Shaoshan. In my heart, Azhu is the kindest and most beautiful girl in the world. A girl like this, whom I even felt was defiling just to touch, was almost beaten to death by her step - father. So I made a decision. On the first anniversary of our acquaintance, I bought this mansion and proposed to Azhu. I thought we would grow old together, but everything was going in a direction I couldn't control. Azhu was very anxious from the pregnancy period to the month after the children were born. She was worried about whether the children could grow up smoothly and often asked me if I would change my heart... Until one day, I came home from work and saw Azhu smiling and preparing a table of dishes, but the children were nowhere to be seen in the house..."
Liang Shaoshan's gaze fell vacantly in the distance, and his voice trembled. "I asked Azhu where the children were. But she looked at me in confusion and asked, 'Where do we have children?' I was shocked and terrified. I searched for a long time on the street and finally found Ruyan and Ruyun in the park. They were shivering with cold and almost out of breath. Since then, I never dared to leave the children at home. I rented a house outside and hired a nanny to take care of them. When they grew a bit older, I saw that Azhu was getting better, so I brought them back. Unexpectedly..."
Liang Shaoshan choked up and seemed unable to say any more. Like a trapped beast, he curled up in front of Zhu Xiaohong.
Yu Nian's gaze slowly moved to the two little dolls covered in blood who were still curled up in the cabinet. In her heart, she completed what Liang Shaoshan couldn't say: As a result, when Liang Shaoshan was not at home, Zhu Xiaohong pushed Ruyan and Ruyun down from the attic on the second floor and killed her own children with her own hands.
Liang Shaoshan's illusory figure trembled constantly. His tears slowly fell on Zhu Xiaohong's hand, and a faint white light appeared. There was a look of confusion on Zhu Xiaohong's face. Tears slid down her cheeks, and her eyes gradually cleared up.
After a while, she slowly reached out her hand and stroked the back of Liang Shaoshan's neck, murmuring, "Shaoshan, it was me who destroyed our family with my own hands. I'm sorry..."
Liang Shaoshan was stunned. Without saying a word, he pulled the blood - covered Zhu Xiaohong into his arms.
There was a soft "rumble", and the whole house shook. Gravel and sawdust fell from the sky.
Jian Ming looked terrified. "What's going on? Is there an earthquake?"
"Zhu Xiaohong's knot in her heart has been untied. Her resentment and attachments have disappeared, so the evil situation has been broken."
When everyone walked out of the Liang family mansion, it was already dawn. Feng Chengyuan noticed Yu Nian walking at the end. He quietly slowed down his pace. When walking side by side with Yu Nian, he whispered, "What's wrong?"
Yu Nian slowly spread out her hand. In her fair palm, there was a strangely - shaped seed. At first glance, it was like four lotus leaves tightly hugging each other.
Feng Chengyuan realized that Liang Shaoshan and Zhu Xiaohong's family had chosen this way to be inseparable forever.
The two planted the seed in the garden behind the mansion. Just as they were about to get up and leave, a cold wind suddenly came from the corner behind them. It carried a heavy chill and, as if premeditated, rushed straight towards Yu Nian.
Yu Nian still had her back to the old house. Her eyelashes trembled slightly. Pretending not to notice, she continued to lower her head.
But the next second, she suddenly fell into a embrace with a faint mint fragrance.
Yu Nian rarely lost her composure, but at this moment, she was indeed briefly confused. Then she quickly raised her hand and threw a talisman at the shadow. After a soft "hiss", the shadow disappeared, leaving only a tattered red paper - figurine floating on the ground.
Yu Nian picked up the paper - figurine and looked up. She saw Feng Chengyuan frowning tightly.
There was rare seriousness in his eyes. "Even I could sense the danger. Why didn't you dodge?"