Chapter 548: Chapter 476: Sister Killed Sister
"I recognize the background of the photo; it was taken clandestinely from outside the dormitory window," the woman said in one breath. "Wang Zhongli was dressed as a woman, admiring himself in the mirror."
"And then what happened?" Xiao probed.
"After that, the photo was spread around. Everyone knew about it. Actually, Fei Yong and the others often took sneak photos, but this one was just too eye-catching," the girl frowned involuntarily, her voice lowering, "and there were not just this photo, Fei Yong had many more outrageous ones, all about Wang Zhongli. The most outrageous one I saw was... it was him..."
"Don’t be nervous; you are just revealing the truth," Xiao encouraged.
Letting go of the grudge in her heart, the girl spoke plainly, "It was a photo of Wang Zhongli peeing while standing up in women’s clothes, taken in the restroom. And... and this wasn’t a sneak photo! I saw Wang Zhongli crying in the photo!"
On hearing this, Xiao’s heart gave a jolt, and in an instant, he understood everything, "They forced Wang Zhongli to do it! It was a premeditated setup!"
"Exactly, they blackmailed Wang Zhongli with the threat of exposing the first cross-dressing photo. If he didn’t comply, they’d make the secretly taken cross-dressing photo public and ruin his life!" The girl became agitated as well, "Those three are scum!"
"But Wang Zhongli still underestimated the evil of these people. Even after getting what they wanted, they still released all the photos, just for fun," Xiao took a deep breath, "These three scumbags truly deserve to die."
The girl pursed her lips and slowly nodded, "After the incident was exposed, I never saw Wang Zhongli again. I heard later that he dropped out and went back to his hometown."
"Then, after some time, probably... about one or two months, the school expelled Fei Yong, Sha Mei Hui, and Hu Yuan. They said someone reported them to the city authorities. Nobody said much openly, but everyone was overjoyed in private. Oh right, there was a rumor that it was Wang Zhongli who had reported them."
"The day the punishment was handed down, Fei Yong was furious; he went back to the classroom and flipped his desk over, vowing to find Wang Zhongli to get to the bottom of it," the woman recalled.
"Do you know Fei Yong’s sister?" Monk Wukong, who had been silent all along, suddenly asked.
The woman was stunned, then shook her head. "Fei Yong doesn’t have a sister. He is the only boy in his family, which is why he has become so lawless."
"How do you know all this so clearly?" Xiao was somewhat suspicious.
It took the woman a while to answer when she finally spoke in a voice as faint as a mosquito: "Back then... I was Fei Yong’s girlfriend. He’s a blabbermouth, liked to tell me and show off everything."
After she finished speaking, the woman realized the implications and quickly defended herself, "But... but I didn’t participate in any of his schemes, it was all instigated by Sha Mei Hui."
"What about Sha Mei Hui?"
"Don’t be fooled by how loudly Fei Yong shouts and threatens; he’s actually a pushover. In reality, Sha Mei Hui was the leader among those three. This woman was really ruthless, mean and heartless. All us girls were scared of her," the woman’s tone paused as if she suddenly remembered something, "Right, the camera used for those photos belonged to Sha Mei Hui!"
Xiao recalled for a moment; he remembered that Sha Mei Hui was the last of the three to die, in hotel room 9018. Besides that, information about her was very scarce, not even a single photo was found.
"What kind of person was this Sha Mei Hui?" Xiao asked, his keen senses detecting an issue.
"She... she was very beautiful, with fair skin and a tall stature, but her heart was especially wicked. Anyone who crossed her, she’d take revenge on," the woman recalled. "Her family was particularly wealthy, rumored to be in the foreign trade business. She seemed to have a younger sister, too, though the sister studied abroad. They were twins."
Fei Yong had no elder sister, yet Sha Meihui had an extra sister overseas. At this moment, Yang Xiao boldly guessed that this ’Fei Rou’ identity was fake, and she was actually Sha Meihui’s sister.
But then a new problem arose—why would she pretend to be Fei Yong’s elder sister, what was the reason? To Yang Xiao, Fei Yong and Sha Meihui were no different in essence, unless...
"The elder sister killed the younger sister," suddenly said Monk Wukong.
This statement sent a shiver down Yang Xiao’s spine, and further solidified the suspicion in his heart. He suspected this ’Fei Yong’s elder sister’ was one of the bullies from back then, she was Sha Meihui! The ’Sha Meihui’ who died at the hotel was actually her twin sister.
With that, everything made sense. Sha Meihui had sought them out to take the fall, to protect herself.
"Do you have a photo of Sha Meihui?" Yang Xiao asked urgently. These were, after all, just speculations; solid evidence was still needed.
The woman shook her head and took a textbook out of her shoulder bag. "No photos, I don’t have a camera, but I brought this."
She opened the textbook, whose cover was already wrinkled, and skillfully flipped to the last few pages. After unfolding them, they were filled with shocking curses, all written with a red marker, penetrating the paper, the abusive language too vile to read.
"These are..."
"It was after I inadvertently spoke a few words with a boy she liked and angered her; it was her revenge on me," the woman admitted.
Yang Xiao thought for a moment, then suddenly remembered that he had a letter, handed over by the hotel and kept by him.
He took out the letter and compared the handwriting with the vile words left in the woman’s textbook. The truth became clear.
Though the handwriting could not be said to be exactly the same, the strokes clearly belonged to the same person. Now the identity of the other party was confirmed—there was never any ’Fei Yong’s elder sister’; this person was the one who slipped through the net fourteen years ago, Sha Meihui!
This woman truly personified the phrase ’vile heart,’ to save her own life, she used her own twin sister as a scapegoat!
And now, she was using these people to prolong her life. If it followed the expected pattern, the tragic incident from a few years prior was also masterminded by Sha Meihui. It should correspond to the revenge frequency of the ’Ghost’, a cycle every seven years.
"You... you’re all right, aren’t you?" The woman was frightened by Yang Xiao’s demeanor, sensing that something significant had happened.
Yang Xiao came back to his senses, slowly suppressed his emotions, "Thank you so much. You’ve done very well, here’s a little token of our appreciation."
Seeing Yang Xiao pull out a few navy blue hundred-dollar bills from his pocket, the woman’s expression immediately soured, and finally, she stood up in anger, "What do you mean by this? I didn’t come here for money today, what I want is the truth!"
Seeing Yang Xiao pull out a few navy blue hundred-dollar bills from his pocket, the woman’s expression immediately soured, and finally, she stood up in anger, "What do you mean by this? I didn’t come here for money today, what I want is the truth!"
