My 'Healing' Game-Chapter 57 Let Me Keep You Company and Cry

57: Chapter 57 Let Me Keep You Company and Cry

57 -57 Let Me Keep You Company and Cry

“Acheng, are you sure Director Jiang will call?” The female agent paced anxiously around the room.

“Why don’t you just go back and apologize to the director?”

“What’s the hurry?

It has only been 21 hours and 36 minutes,” Acheng laughed dryly, yet his fingers nervously clutched the leather sofa, and his calves shook uncontrollably.

“Everything is going as I expected; the crew is probably in total chaos by now.”

“Really?” The female agent looked at Acheng’s trembling legs and his restless eyes, left with nothing but a bitter smile on her face.

“Then let’s wait a bit longer.”

…

“Jiang Yi, do you realize how much changing the lead actor now will affect us?

Do you know how much effort I put into pulling their backing companies in?

Do you really think this drama is that well-regarded by so many?”

“I will try to control the costs.

Besides, Acheng’s pay is unreasonably high.

Compared to him, the actor I value more…”

“Stop, don’t continue.

We can delay the shooting for another three days; you also need to calm yourself,” Sister Long said and hung up the phone, leaving Director Jiang and two screenwriters in a room full of smoke.

“Director, do we need to make changes to the script?” The screenwriter took out a hat to cover his rapidly balding head.

“Everyone has worked hard these past few days.

Let’s take a break,” Director Jiang said, lighting a cigarette before shutting himself away in a small room.

After leaving the filming site, Han Fei had a good talk with the victims’ families; he wanted to gather more information and to understand his roommates better.

What others saw as ghosts, Han Fei saw as roommates living under the same roof.

Now, he used the victims’ past experiences and memories to fill those ethereal ghosts, making them real people.

“They cannot come back, but I will relay your longing and love for them properly.”

Sitting with the victims’ families, listening to their past stories, Han Fei felt an unprecedented sensation in his mind.

Between the sinister Underworld game and this warm real world, there seemed to be a thread connecting life and death, weaving them together through time.

At times, Han Fei also pondered whether the existence of that “Perfect Life” game held some deeper meaning.

It was past five in the afternoon, and as Han Fei prepared to say goodbye to the victims’ families, he suddenly received a call from Li Xue.

After stepping away from the families, Han Fei answered the phone.

“Have you found any dirt on Meng Chang’an yet?”

“It’s not connected to Meng Chang’an.

As the investigation deepened, we uncovered more and more clues, but all these clues point directly to Meng Changxi!” Li Xue’s voice transmitted from the phone, “The report results from the dark house in the ecological forest are out.

We found remnants of two people, one is He Shouye’s and the other is Meng Changxi’s.

In addition, we traced old surveillance footage from years ago and located Meng Changxi near the street where He Shouye had his car accident.

We now suspect that He Shouye was not killed in a car accident, but was murdered by Meng Changxi.”

“Meng Changxi killed He Shouye?” Han Fei set his cell to speakerphone and then opened the victims’ relationship chart he had created, “Why would he kill He Shouye?”

“It’s very likely that it was to silence him, Meng Changxi and He Shouye were both killers.

They connected through some method and killed the people the other one wanted dead.

Meng Changxi, to avoid exposing himself, therefore killed He Shouye.”

“Could someone be framing Meng Changxi?”

“We haven’t ruled out that possibility, and it’s precisely because of that reason that we haven’t issued a warrant for Meng Changxi.” Li Xue’s voice changed, “In order to catch the perpetrator behind the Human-body Puzzle case, we dug up all the information on He Shouye and Meng Changxi from their childhood onwards.

Meng Changxi’s disguise was good, but this He Shouye guy was truly despicable.

He was not a local; he married and had children in the countryside.

We visited his former neighbors and, after much effort, we found his ex-wife.”

“Ex-wife?”

“That’s right.

Before his marriage, He Shouye seemed very honest, but after getting married, he gradually revealed another side, domestic violence, all sorts of perverse hobbies.

At first, He Shouye was still suppressing himself, but later when He Yuhuai was born, the child was frail from the start and also had congenital diseases.

He Shouye’s attitude towards his wife and child got increasingly worse, with beating and scolding becoming the norm, eventually leading to his wife running away to escape the abuse.” novelbuddy.cσ๓

“He Shouye often threatened his wife, saying if she didn’t come back obediently, he would kill He Yuhuai, forcing his own wife to finally call the police.

After that, they divorced.”

“The focal point of the couple’s dispute was the house; neither wanted the child with congenital diseases.

I heard from their former neighbors, the child was pitiful, had no friends, was always locked up at home, living in fear every day, becoming the vent for his parents’ frustrations.

The crying of the child never stopped in the house.”

“The most common thing neighbors heard was He Shouye’s rage—’What’s there to cry about?

Cry again, and I’ll strangle you to death!'”

“It might also be because of his own child that He Shouye had an extreme hatred for children.

According to his neighbors, He Shouye was normally very composed, but he would go berserk whenever he heard children crying.”

“In the end, they split their properties equally, and the child, He Yuhuai, was awarded to the mother.

However, what followed is lamentable; the mother didn’t want the child.

One time she took He Yuhuai far away to play Hide-and-Seek and then shockingly left the child alone, walking away by herself.”

“With money in tow, He Yuhuai’s mother disappeared without a trace.

The police found the child and had no choice but to send him to He Shouye.

You’re aware of what happened next; a child of a rich man in Xinhu had kidney disease.

When He Shouye discovered his own child’s kidneys were a perfect match for the other, he immediately struck a private deal with the rich man.”

“The initial tragedy began with that child.

If among his relatives there was someone who could have given him a little love, willing to accept him, then the subsequent tragedy might have been avoided.”

Li Xue said a lot and after Han Fei listened, for some reason, he couldn’t help but think of the crying figure in the “Perfect Life” game.

That child who lived downstairs, always standing alone next to the Spiritual Altar, was a blurred shadow.

He was constantly crying, endlessly playing the never-ending game of Hide-and-Seek with other children.”

“Maybe I should go and keep that child company…” Han Fei silently recited the name He Yuhuai in his heart, preparing to go see Cry tonight.