Chapter 546: Chapter 546 I Know the Reason
Sheng Tang had heavy dark circles under her eyes and looked a bit pale.
Jiang Baocu was frightened by her.
She felt that Lu Yuanyuan’s condition was contagious to Sheng Tang, and Sheng Tang looked a bit like Lu Yuanyuan before her suicide.
"Don’t scare me, I don’t want to know!" Jiang Baocu held her hand tightly, "Stop drinking coffee, haven’t you been sleeping well?"
Sheng Tang was a bit at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
In the last class of the morning, Sheng Tang and Jiang Baocu asked the teacher for leave, only saying that Jiang Baocu wasn’t feeling well, so the teacher let them go.
They originally planned to find a place to sit and talk, but Gu Shiting came.
He took Sheng Tang and Jiang Baocu to his lounge.
"Lunch will be delivered soon." Gu Shiting said, "You both will eat here at noon."
Sheng Tang agreed.
She continued the conversation from the morning, talking to Jiang Baocu about Lu Yuanyuan’s cause of death.
"A Mother’s Forgiveness," it is said to be a horror novel, but actually, more precisely, it is a mystery novel," Sheng Tang said.
Jiang Baocu and Gu Shiting did not interrupt her, waiting for her to speak.
"The novel mainly revolves around the suicide of a boy in a church school. The boy’s mother, a lady, was especially beautiful and pursued by many gentlemen in her youth.
He resembled his mother, and therefore he was liked by many people around him; everyone took care of him. After he committed suicide, his teachers, friends, and elders came to offer their condolences.
The boy’s father was very angry, blaming his mother for not teaching him right. The first two-thirds of the story are full of doubts, but the mother seems not to see them."
In the last third, the net is closed; the pastor of the church school concerned about the boy’s suicide, the school directors, even a few local tycoons who knew the boy, and the boy’s father all died mysteriously, all suicidal in the same way as the boy," Sheng Tang said.
When she said this, Jiang Baocu shivered.
"My God, isn’t this a horror novel?" Jiang Baocu’s teeth chattered, "This is too scary."
"Not scary, they were all killed by the boy’s mother," Sheng Tang said.
Jiang Baocu: "..."
Gu Shiting didn’t say anything because he also found it quite terrifying.
"Why?" Jiang Baocu was surprised, "Why did she blame these people?"
"Because they all sexually abused the boy," Sheng Tang said, "The pastor started it first, then for personal gain, sold the boy to the school directors, and introduced him to local wealthy businessmen.
The school received a lot of funding as a result, and the pastor himself made a lot of money. The boy’s father knew; the pastor shared the profits with him, and through the wealthy businessmen, got the boy’s father a good job.
After finding out the truth, the boy’s mother killed everyone.
If suicide is a sin, then revenge is the greatest forgiveness for him. So, the book is called ’A Mother’s Forgiveness,’ but it tells the story of a mother’s revenge."
Jiang Baocu: "..."
After hearing this, she got goosebumps all over her body.
This was the scariest story she’d heard in recent years. Not ghosts or spirits, but the human heart which was more vicious than ghosts, making a chill run down her spine.
Gu Shiting furrowed his brows deeply.
"You mean?" Gu Shiting looked at Sheng Tang.
Sheng Tang was silent.
Jiang Baocu suddenly came to her senses, her face instantly turned pale: "You... Sheng Tang, you mean..."
She covered her mouth tightly, unable to make a sound.
It felt as if the blood in her chest had vanished, and an overwhelming dread engulfed her. Her whole body trembled.
Before her death, Lu Yuanyuan had said to Sheng Tang, "Forgive me, you are Young Master Gu’s girlfriend, you are smart and capable..."
The insinuation in those words, combined with Sheng Tang’s interpretation.
Jiang Baocu felt the world spinning, unable to sit steadily, almost fainting.
