Chapter 29

Chapter 29

-The stream next door just came out of the closet! Come watch the drama.

-Where? Who came out?!

-Follow the link → Canyue Wushuang.

Qiao Yu stared at the bullet chat in his Live Stream Room, his face lit up with the expression of someone about to witness major gossip. He blinked.

Were the viewers this season really that obsessed with gossip? More than half of them had already run off to the other stream!

Besides, wasn’t Canyue Wushuang supposed to be doing his deduction? How did he end up coming out of the closet?

Who was he cheating with?

Logically, the other streamers should be in their own rooms. Could it be the Landlord Uncle? Or maybe that gambler, Hou Yong?

No way, surely his tastes weren’t that extreme?

This wouldn’t do. He had to go see for himself. He always wanted to be on the front lines of any drama.

Qiao Yu raised his hand to open the door. Man-Eating Crocodile had developed a sort of PTSD regarding Qiao Yu opening doors; he instinctively rushed forward, using his body to block the panel. “What are you doing?”

“I’m going out!” Qiao Yu said, impatiently trying to shove Brother Crocodile aside.

Don’t let the kid’s thin and small frame fool you-the guy was surprisingly strong!

Qiao Yu struggled to budge him for a long time before finally standing still and staring at him with a resentful gaze. “Let me out.”

“It’s full of ghosts out there! Why are you going out?”

“To see the show! The viewers in the Live Stream Room said Canyue Wushuang just came out of the closet. Get out of the way, don’t stop me from getting the tea.”

Canyue Wushuang came out of the closet??

Wait, even if he did, what does that have to do with you?!

Man-Eating Crocodile was going crazy.

He really couldn’t understand this big shot’s train of thought. What kind of situation were they in, and he still had the heart to worry about someone else’s love life?

“Move!”

“Dad!” Brother Crocodile wailed, lunging forward to wrap his arms around Qiao Yu’s waist. “Dad, have mercy on your son! What am I supposed to do if you leave? I can’t handle Sister Sadako or that Ghost Shadow in the kitchen by myself!”

Qiao Yu: “…”

Right, this guy was a total tag-along.

Leaving this fellow alone was indeed a bit worrying.

Fine, if Canyue Wushuang came out, then he came out. It wasn’t like Qiao Yu was getting paid for it; he was just looking for some entertainment.

However…

“Hey guys, who did Canyue Wushuang come out with?” Qiao Yu still wanted to know who the partner was. He was just too curious.

-It’s not Canyue Wushuang who came out of the closet, it’s Li Xiaoqin.

Qiao Yu sucked in a breath. “Isn’t she a total ‘love-brain’? Why would she suddenly decide to come out? Did she suffer such a huge shock that she finally woke up and turned over a new leaf?”

-Streamer, what are you talking about??

-What is this nonsense? We’re saying Li Xiaoqin crawled out of the closet. Streamer, what on earth are you thinking?

Qiao Yu’s rationality returned. “…Oh. So that’s the kind of ‘coming out’ we’re talking about.”

-Otherwise?

Qiao Yu cleared his throat. “Nothing. I figured as much.”

Seeing that the other man had finally settled down, Man-Eating Crocodile breathed a sigh of relief. But over on the other side, Canyue Wushuang was in a dire state.

At that moment, Canyue Wushuang felt as if the blood in his entire body had frozen. He couldn’t manage to take a single step even as Li Xiaoqin crawled right up to him.

Suddenly, her ice-cold palm gripped his ankle. Li Xiaoqin’s mouth opened, the corners of her lips splitting all the way to her ears. “Either deduce… or… die!”

Her voice was eerie and shrill.

“I’ll deduce, I’ll deduce…”

Li Xiaoqin withdrew her arm, her pitch-black eyes staring at him without blinking. “I’ll give you fifteen minutes. Begin.”

Fifteen minutes. He only had fifteen minutes!
Canyue Wushuang tried his best to organize the clues in his mind. Taking a deep breath, he began to recount the story: “Li Xiaoqin. Your husband is Hou Yong. You once had a very happy family.”

Li Xiaoqin continued to stare at him, her expression unchanging, showing no sign of emotion whatsoever.

Abandoning the idea of finding a breakthrough in Li Xiaoqin’s reaction, Canyue Wushuang could only press on. “I saw your diary in Room 4004. The entries from seven years ago were beautiful. Hou Yong had a stable job with great prospects. Although your education wasn’t as high as his, you worked in a flower shop because of your good looks. Even though you didn’t earn half as much as Hou Yong, he still treated you well. Because you were beautiful and had a kind personality, he wouldn’t even let you do the housework. When he was off work, Hou Yong did all the chores.”

“But you were an orphan, and Hou Yong’s family background wasn’t particularly outstanding either. So, after you got married, you didn’t have any extra money to buy a house, and you moved into Ping’an Apartment. It was convenient for transportation and the rent was low, which was good for saving up to buy a house in the future.”

“You’ve been married for eleven years now, but all that happiness changed one day seven years ago. Because you hadn’t had a child after several years of marriage, you went for a physical exam. The report showed that you suffered from abnormal egg development.”

“After that, Hou Yong changed. He started beating and verbally abusing you at the slightest provocation. His past tenderness and consideration vanished into thin air. Hou Yong even took up gambling because of it. A perfectly good home was torn apart just because you couldn’t conceive.”

“To win back your husband’s heart, you went to an orphanage and adopted Hou Yuanyuan. You thought that with a child, Hou Yong would make up with you and things would go back to how they were. However, Hou Yong only wanted a child of his own blood. Hou Yuanyuan’s arrival only made his already unfriendly attitude toward you even worse.”

“Hou Yong remained addicted to gambling, even losing all the money you had saved for a house. Then, you killed him. You killed Hou Yuanyuan, and you killed everyone in the apartment.”

“Finally, you committed suicide.”

Li Xiaoqin tilted her head slightly. “Are you finished?”

Only two minutes remained of the fifteen-minute limit.

Canyue Wushuang stood there trembling, trying desperately to remember what he had missed. After a long pause, he added, “You killed people according to the Landlord’s House Number Plates because… because the old House Number Plates were aging. On the day you committed the murders, the Landlord was in the middle of replacing them. You… well…”

“Time is up! The reconstruction has ended…”

Canyue Wushuang couldn’t make up any more, and the time Li Xiaoqin had given him was over.

[System scanning…]

[The accuracy rate of the streamer’s reconstructed storyline is…]

[15%]

[System judgment: Streamer Canyue Wushuang-Reconstruction failed.]

“That’s impossible!”

How could it be so low?

He had clearly found so many clues. Why was he judged to have failed the reconstruction?

Reconstruction failure… Would he die?

No, he couldn’t die!

Snapping back to his senses, Canyue Wushuang turned to run. But in the next second, a tearing sensation powerful enough to crush his flesh surged through him. He let out a cry of agony and collapsed weakly to the floor.

Directly above on the ceiling, Li Xiaoqin had crawled to the center of the crown molding in an extremely bizarre posture. Her head was rotated 180 degrees backward, staring down at him-pale, twisted, and utterly terrifying.

Then, Li Xiaoqin opened her massive maw. A thick, viscous liquid secreted from her bone-white teeth and dripped onto the man’s face.

*No, don’t eat me…*

This was Canyue Wushuang’s final wish before death, but it was destined to go unfulfilled.