"Ah!"
Seeing the blood-red characters and the two matching sets, Bai Ziyan let out a shrill scream and scrambled off the bed.
There was also some loose soil on the floor.
Recalling what she had seen last night, Bai Ziyan couldn't help but be scared.
She had no choice but to believe that "Yang Fan," whom she had killed and buried in a desolate forest days ago, had returned to seek her out as a ghost.
"But how can there be ghosts in this world?"
Her heart pounding, her face ashen, Bai Ziyan suddenly thought of something as she muttered to herself.
She got up and grabbed her phone.
With trembling heart and shaking hands, she finally opened the home security system software.
Then she saw a shadow, with arms outstretched and knees unbent, hopping in and hopping out.
The shadow leaped over the one-meter-sixty high fence as if it were nothing and quickly disappeared from the camera's field of vision.
"It, it really is a ghost, a zombie."
Bai Ziyan said, her voice trembling, her eyes brimming with fear.
Eight o'clock in the morning.
Bai Ziyan drove out of the residential compound.
She first drove to a civilian neighborhood, parked her car in the underground garage, and then pushed out a motorcycle from a storage room.
On the motorcycle was a foldable shovel.
Vroom—
After the motorcycle roared out of the underground garage, Bai Ziyan, wearing a black helmet, sped eastward.
Despite the terrifying scene of the early morning, which made her tremble at the mere thought of it.
She had to go somewhere and see for herself!
The motorcycle roared, a streak of lightning.
In just one hour and ten minutes, Bai Ziyan arrived at the forest where she had assassinated Li Qianfan days ago.
She looked around.
Seeing no one but sparrows in the treetops, and after glancing at the bright sun in the sky, she bent down and began to dig with all her might.
As she dug, she spoke.
"I bet the pit is empty."
"Yang Fan isn't dead at all."
"He wasn't poisoned to death by me, but crawled out and then pretended to be a ghost to scare me."
"If that's the case, I'll kill his whole family!"
"I'll even..."
What would Bai Ziyan do to "Yang Fan"?
She suddenly stopped her rambling.
Because she saw a black helmet and a corpse emitting a foul odor!!
The corpse, wearing a black helmet, had already highly decomposed.
There were even countless earthworms and ants crawling on the body.
The flies, with their keen sense of smell, buzzed from all directions.
"Ugh—"
Bai Ziyan, who had a certain潔癖 (cleanliness fetish), stared blankly at the corpse in the pit. After an unknown amount of time, she opened her mouth and vomited loudly.
She vomited her guts out.
Even though she hadn't eaten breakfast.
After almost vomiting bile, she took out a tissue to wipe her mouth and, forcing down the churning in her stomach, used the shovel to slowly lift the helmet's face shield.
Several days ago.
When she buried "Yang Fan," she had buried two matching sets with him as a sacrifice, one of which covered his face.
Now—
The smell inside the helmet was even worse, with more worms, ants, and other insects.
The corpse's face was already unrecognizable.
Indeed, the shroud was gone.
"So, he really came to find me last night."
Bai Ziyan knelt by the pit, her forehead touching the ground, crying softly as she confessed: "I'm sorry, Yang Fan! I shouldn't have killed you. I was wrong. I was really wrong. Please, let me go! As long as you let me go, I'll agree to anything!"
Another case of regret.
After a full ten minutes, Bai Ziyan, with trembling hands, placed the two matching sets she had brought back into the pit.
"As long as you let me go, I will unconditionally do whatever you ask."
Bai Ziyan said, and began to fill the pit.
The sparrows in the treetops chirped about something.
When Bai Ziyan finished cleaning up the scene and roared away on her large motorcycle again, the sparrows said, "Why didn't this silly girl listen to us?"
"Exactly, exactly."
"We clearly told her that the guy she buried crawled out right after she left that day."
"Exactly, exactly."
"And the next night, two young men came and buried a fake corpse here."
"Exactly, exactly."
"This woman is so stupid."
"Exactly—"
The chirping sparrows suddenly took flight.
Because someone had arrived.
It was the same two young men whom the sparrows had seen burying the fake corpse that night.
They dug up the newly filled pit, used tweezers to retrieve the two matching sets that Bai Ziyan had just buried, placed them in a plastic bag, and then immediately filled the earth.
After the two left the scene, a sparrow exclaimed, "I know! That guy who crawled out wanted to scare her with her matching sets."
The other sparrows nodded: "Exactly, exactly."
The sun shone brightly.
The world was at peace.
This was the ZhiZhi Club!
"Please come in."
Hearing a knock, Chu Yazhi, who was engrossed in her work, gave a sarcastic smile and looked up at the door of the lounge, saying, "Please."
The door opened.
Her little secretary, Xiao Lu, a girl in her early twenties, entered and said respectfully, "President Chu, President Bai from Ziyan Technology is here to visit."
"President Bai?"
Chu Yazhi quickly stood up: "Quick, please invite President Bai in."
"Aunt Yazhi, Ziyan has come to visit unannounced, please forgive my intrusion."
Wearing a white, waist-cinching long dress, Bai Ziyan, looking pale and more delicate, walked in from outside.
"President Bai, you are too kind. Please sit."
Chu Yazhi walked around the table and warmly invited Bai Ziyan to sit on the sofa, then ordered her secretary Xiao Lu to make tea.
"Thank you."
Bai Ziyan, like a demure lady, thanked Xiao Lu softly.
Xiao Lu obediently made tea and quietly withdrew from the office.
"Aunt Yazhi, I remember when I last visited, your secretary was a young man."
Bai Ziyan took a sip of water and said casually, "Why is it a girl this time?"
"Oh, you mean Secretary Xiao Li."
Chu Yazhi said "oh," and a flicker of unnaturalness crossed her face.
She quickly picked up her teacup: "He, after the auction that day, he asked for leave to go home and hasn't returned since. I called him, but his phone was turned off. Sigh, underage children are so unstable when they work."
Bai Ziyan keenly noticed the unnaturalness on her face.
She became even more convinced that Li Qianfan was the young man Chu Yazhi had taken under her wing.
Bai Ziyan followed up by asking, "What is Secretary Xiao Li's name?"
Chu Yazhi cleared her throat: "Secretary Xiao Li is naturally surnamed Li. Oh, actually, he has another name, Yang Fan. He said he took his grandmother's surname."
So that's how it is!
I thought the name he told me was fake.
Bai Ziyan understood, and Chu Yazhi asked, "What, are you very interested in him, President Bai?"
"Aunt Yazhi, to be frank."
Bai Ziyan lowered her head slightly and said softly, "His physique and appearance strongly resemble a boy who pursued me in college."
What kind of nonsense is this?
Chu Yazhi sneered inwardly but said, "Oh, this kind of situation is very common."
"Aunt Yazhi."
Bai Ziyan looked up: "Can you tell me Secretary Xiao Li's home address? I want to find him, maybe he has a brother who was my classmate back then."
This excuse was plausible.
"President Bai."
Chu Yazhi gave an awkward laugh: "To be frank, I only know he's from Qingyun, but I've never asked for his exact address. I don't even know what his parents do or how many people are in his family."
This situation was also normal.
The rich woman was interested in the young man's looks, not his family background.
Bai Ziyan couldn't ask further.
She began to state the purpose of her visit: "Aunt Yachzhi, I want to invest in your ZhiZhi Club."
This purpose was a pretext.
Chu Yazhi was unmoved by the high price Bai Ziyan offered for investment and politely refused.
With no other choice, Bai Ziyan, with a look of regret, proposed to take her leave.
Chu Yazhi personally escorted Bai Ziyan to the elevator. After returning to the office, she pushed open the door to the lounge.
Inside the lounge.
Li Qianfan, who had woken up more than ten minutes ago, was leaning against the headboard, reading his phone.
Chu Yazhi walked over, took off her shoes, and knelt beside him, massaging his right leg: "Master, you heard everything I said to Bai Ziyan just now, right?"
"I heard it."
Li Qianfan put down his phone and yawned.
Chu Yazhi asked, "Are you going again tonight?"
Li Qianfan thought for a moment and said, "I'll go again to consolidate the effect."
Chu Yazhi was delighted and said, "Then let me serve you and sleep a little longer. I'll go brush my teeth and put on lipstick. Don't worry, Vice President Dai is playing cards with some friends I introduced her to in the card room on the eighth floor. No one will dare to barge into my office without my permission."
Before she finished speaking!
Bang—
The sound of the door being violently opened came from outside the lounge.
Immediately after, Secretary Xiao Lu's voice came anxiously from outside the door: "Miss, please do not trespass into our boss's office."
"Where is Chu Yazhi, that lowly bitch?"
Murong Mingyuan's cold voice came from outside the door.