“Old Daoist.”

“Yes, Boss, what is it?”

“Pull over.”

“Okay, good.”

Getting out of the car, Zhou Ze threw the cigarette butt on the ground and crushed it with the sole of his shoe.

“You go back first.”

“Huh?” The old Daoist was stunned. “Boss, I can wait for you to come out.”

“Just go back.”

“It’s okay, Boss, I’m not afraid to wait…”

“Go back.”

Zhou Ze turned his head and looked at the old Daoist.

The old Daoist shivered.

Tsk tsk tsk,

Sure enough, these guys who crawled out of hell were all the same at heart. The one in front of him, who he thought was quite amiable, was actually just pretending,

Pretending!

The old Daoist immediately saluted. “Okay, Boss, call me when you need a car.”

The old Daoist drove away.

Zhou Ze stood at the entrance of the residential complex for about fifteen minutes.

Tang Shi had told him before that after the little loli left Tong City, besides his bookstore, there was another place that was hidden in plain sight.

However, something might have gone wrong with that lamp, which led Tang Shi to choose to hide at his bookstore instead of there.

Tang Shi hinted that he could go there and take a look, maybe there would be unexpected discoveries and gains. Strike while the iron is hot, or at least take advantage of it.

Zhou Ze was afraid of trouble at the time, so he didn’t go, and didn’t even ask for details.

Therefore, only just now, from the old Daoist’s mouth, did Zhou Ze learn that this hidden place was actually the residential complex where Doctor Lin lived.

One point after another, drawn into a circle,

Even if those points are gone, this circle will eventually form.

His changes in perception of Doctor Lin,

Doctor Lin kept his former house, bought it, and took care of it meticulously,

Xu Le’s identity,

Sleeping in separate beds,

The real murder disguised as an accidental car accident,

Killing people one by one to silence them and destroy the evidence.

In fact, many, many details had already pointed the way.

Including that day in the hospital when he pretended to be a doctor to perform the surgery and confessed to Doctor Lin,

Doctor Lin took the initiative to hug him.

At the time, he just felt that everything was wonderful, but he might not have noticed that the corners of the mouth of the face in his arms might have already shown a slight arc.

A hand,

It stirred the pool of water, causing the fish in the water to churn, and finally, the fishing net fell, closing the net and finishing the game.

People make nets to catch fish, and catch fish to eat fish;

Houses are decorated for beauty, and beauty is for comfortable living.

Everything eventually has a purpose, even just sitting there and spacing out is to enjoy the leisure of emptying oneself.

His previous death, his subsequent resurrection in another body,

His new identity, new family relationships,

In the end,

Who benefits the most?

That woman who had always secretly loved him had a husband whom he didn’t like, and she adhered to the constraints of etiquette and the rules of the family.

She didn’t violate them, nor did she break them, but under the rules, she successfully changed her originally disliked husband into someone else.

Someone that outsiders would never know, never realize, never discover.

She lay comfortably by the bed, continuing to be the well-bred lady in the eyes of her parents, living the life they expected her to live, but still doing things for her own ideas and pursuits.

Many thoughts, in a jumble,

Kept running around in Zhou Ze’s mind, making him unable to distinguish the direction, and even, at this moment, his heart was so chaotic that he couldn’t control himself.

If all of this was really as he guessed, and she was the one who was truly controlling the development of the entire thing, then what attitude should he take when facing her?

Was it anger, was it resentment, that she had killed him, ruined his original life?

Was it touched, was it helpless, after all, the more she did, the more it proved her feelings for him?

Before, Zhou Ze could relentlessly beat Xu Dachuan with his dry tobacco pipe without any psychological pressure, but now, Zhou Ze didn’t have the energy to pick up a branch from the ground and rush into the Lin family’s house.

People are such complex beings, they are not robots, they don’t just follow the drive of a certain program, naturally making their own choices under the setting of trigger codes.

Fifteen minutes of hesitation, fifteen minutes of doubt,

Finally,

Zhou Ze still stepped into the residential complex.

Some things need to be explained, some words must be spoken.

This was himself,

Giving himself an explanation,

Giving an explanation to his past life.

It's rare to be confused,

Does not apply here.

“Knock knock knock…”

Knocking on the door,

In fact, Zhou Ze had the key to the house, but he didn’t have it on him, he hadn’t been back to the Lin family’s house for a long time.

“Coming.”

His sister-in-law’s voice came from inside. She opened the door, saw that it was Zhou Ze, and asked,

“Xu Le, did your uncle leave?”

“Yes, he left.”

Was driven away by me.

“Oh.” His sister-in-law hadn’t fully opened the door yet.

Seeing that Zhou Ze wasn’t leaving, she said in surprise:

“Do you want to come in?”

Zhou Ze didn’t move.

His sister-in-law stuck out her tongue. Zhou Ze hadn’t been home for a long time, and she was a little unprepared for him to suddenly want to come back, but Zhou Ze was still her brother-in-law after all, so she opened the door.

Zhou Ze walked in and sat on the sofa in the living room.

His sister-in-law got Zhou Ze a bottle of orange juice and brought an ashtray. She had been getting along well with Zhou Ze recently, because Zhou Ze often helped her cover up when she went out to play, so her attitude towards Zhou Ze at home had changed a lot from the beginning.

“Where’s your sister?”

“She just went out to buy groceries. My parents were discharged from the hospital yesterday. An old friend from another province’s child is getting married, so they went to show their support. By the way, your uncle was just sitting at our door, it really scared me.

Especially when he said he was going to send you to jail, tsk tsk, Xu Le, why are the relatives on your side so weird?”

His sister-in-law sat on the opposite sofa, turned on the TV, and put her bare feet on the coffee table. She purely had no manners when sitting or standing.

Compared to Doctor Lin’s gracefulness and poise, they really didn’t seem like sisters.

Really,

They don’t seem like it.

“Hey, Xu Le, you haven’t answered me yet, do you have something on your uncle’s hands, did he come to ask you for money?”

Xu Le was the Lin family’s live-in son-in-law, and the Lin family naturally didn’t have a good impression of Xu Le’s relatives who liked to freeload, after all, Xu Le’s money used to be given by the Lin family.

“It’s nothing.”

Zhou Ze lit another cigarette, planning to wait for Doctor Lin to come back.

“Really nothing?” His sister-in-law looked at Zhou Ze.

“You’re annoying.”

Hearing this, his sister-in-law puffed up her cheeks and snorted in dissatisfaction.

She felt that Xu Le was getting more and more presumptuous, but considering that she would still need him to cover for her when she went out to play in the future, she wouldn’t bother arguing with him.

He put a cigarette on the ashtray, and Zhou Ze watched it slowly burn out.

The cigarette smoke curled up, sometimes gathering, sometimes dispersing.

Just then,

The sound of the door opening came from the entrance, and Zhou Ze subconsciously stood up.

Doctor Lin came back with some groceries. She had her hair in a braid, and looked very refreshed because she was on vacation today.

She was a little surprised to see Zhou Ze at home.

“Sis, you’re cooking today.” His sister-in-law held a pillow and pointed at Zhou Ze playfully.

“Have you eaten?” Doctor Lin asked Zhou Ze.

Zhou Ze shook his head. “No.”

“Then wait a moment, I’ll make dinner.” Doctor Lin seemed to be deliberately maintaining a peaceful relationship, and then she walked into the kitchen.

Zhou Ze stood in place, feeling a little awkward for a moment.

His heart was very chaotic right now.

“Hey, what are you standing there for, go help.”

His sister-in-law gently kicked Zhou Ze’s leg with her foot,

Not cherishing such a good opportunity to enhance your relationship, just standing there like an idiot, your EQ is really terrible.

His sister-in-law felt that her brother-in-law was really much worse than those boys in school who were chasing her, he was simply a blockhead.

Zhou Ze finally walked into the kitchen,

In the kitchen, Doctor Lin had already put on an apron and was cutting vegetables.

“It’s okay, I can do it myself, you go watch TV with Xiaoyi.” Doctor Lin said to Zhou Ze.

“There’s something I want to ask you.” Zhou Ze looked at Doctor Lin and said.

“Hmm?” Doctor Lin raised her head in surprise. “How about waiting until I finish making this meal before you ask? I don’t want to be distracted. Actually, I really rarely cook, I’m afraid I won’t make it to your taste.”

Watching her carefully cutting the vegetables, meticulously, Zhou Ze suddenly found it difficult to ask some questions.

“I’ll go back to the room first, you come up later.”

“Okay, I’ll go up and call you down for dinner after I finish cooking.”

Zhou Ze walked out of the kitchen and went upstairs in his sister-in-law’s surprised gaze.

Opening the door to the bedroom, Zhou Ze saw the big bed, the bed that he had slept on, and at that time, Doctor Lin slept on a mattress on the floor.

He didn’t really have much attachment to this place.

Looking up, he saw the wedding photo hanging on the wall at the head of the bed.

In the wedding photo,

The two people wearing wedding clothes were a little far apart. The woman was dignified and quiet, and the man was shy and restrained. It was Doctor Lin and Xu Le’s wedding photo.

A wedding photo can actually show many problems.

And now,

The one who has the face of the man in the wedding photo,

Is himself.

Zhou Ze kept staring at the wedding photo,

If this whole thing, including the process of the murder, was Doctor Lin’s behind-the-scenes orchestration, watching the whole thing from above, completely understanding it.

Then,

The previous Xu Le,

The previous Xu Le, who slept alone on this big bed every night,

What kind of role was he, in the end?

Like a dough, and this dough finally stirred up a frenzy and courage that was rarely seen in his life,

As a result,

All of his actions were actually seen by his wife, who treated him as a puppet,

Watching him walk forward step by step.

Even, in the end, she personally cleaned up the traces,

The people who deserved to die, all died,

Xu Le also died,

And,

Even his body was cleaned up and emptied,

Just to welcome the arrival of a soul she admired.

His vision seemed to blur at this moment,

Zhou Ze seemed to see,

In the wedding photo at the head of the bed,

In Xu Le’s eyes,

Two lines of bloody tears,

Slowly dripping down…