Before Chen Mo could finish his sentence, Old Zhang’s face suddenly changed drastically. “Why?! Isn’t Zhao Heping already…” “Hasn’t he already tampered with the surgery to fake a routine medical accident?”
A cold smile flickered across the young man’s lips. “Ha, what seems like a routine medical accident hides a vicious conspiracy behind it!” “Zhao Heping wants me dead because he’s always harbored deep jealousy toward me!” “Yes, Zhao Heping truly loves his wife, but that love has twisted into extreme selfishness and possessiveness. Zhao Heping, you’re nothing but a selfish man who couldn’t care less about Zhou Xue’s feelings!”
Clearly, this Qi Dongsheng was mistaking Chen Mo for Zhao Heping. Though his face was pale, his eyes blazed with fury. “Because of that twisted mentality, after marriage, you locked her away in your own world, monitoring her every move.” “Coincidentally, I’ve had congenital heart disease since childhood, making me a regular at the hospital. During my long stays as a patient, I came to know Zhou Xue, a medical staff member.” “Zhou Xue was a very attentive woman. She noticed I was always alone with no one to care for me, so she showed me extra concern. Of course, this quickly drew Zhao Heping’s—your—displeasure. You started suspecting her, threatening her, forcing her to quit her hospital job.” “But this time, Zhou Xue didn’t give in to you! So you began hitting her, abusing her!” “I saw it all, and my feelings for Zhou Xue gradually shifted from gratitude to sympathy. Maybe, in the end, it really turned into love.” “That’s right, I fell in love with Zhou Xue, and all of this is the consequence of your own doing!”
As he spoke, perhaps the emotional strain took a toll on his body. The frail young man raised his hand again, pressing it against his chest, a sickly flush appearing on his pale face. “Zhou Xue’s kindness moved me, and her weakness pained me. Living by your side, she was too exhausted, too tormented. A man who seemed to love her deeply only brought her endless suffering. So I came up with a bold idea: after my final surgery, I would convince Zhou Xue to leave you, to take her away from this dark world! I could feel that, by then, Zhou Xue had developed feelings for me too. Her response filled me with ecstasy, so much so that I overlooked the venomous eyes lurking nearby! After eavesdropping on my conversation with Zhou Xue in the hospital room, you, enraged and humiliated, took your hatred for me out on Zhou Xue even more viciously. Not only did you abuse her wildly, but you also locked her in her room, refusing to let her leave.”
When I could no longer bear my longing for Zhou Xue, I finally saw her again. But what had she been reduced to! Skin and bones, her eyes devoid of any spark. Though she was only in her twenties, she looked like a dying patient, radiating an aura of death. That was the last time I ever saw Zhou Xue. That day, she climbed to the rooftop, and with boundless despair and resentment, she leaped, choosing to end her own life! When I learned of Zhou Xue’s death, I was overcome with unbearable pain. The excessive shock and anger caused my condition to deteriorate rapidly, requiring immediate surgery. It was only then that I realized a vicious conspiracy and mad revenge awaited me, aiming to kill me! You’re an expert in cardiac surgery and the head of the department. Manipulating a surgery would be far too easy for you. Even if you staged an accident to make me die without a trace, what could I do? But just as I closed my eyes in agony, resigned to death, Zhou Xue’s kindness saved my life once more…
Foreseeing that Zhao Heping might retaliate against me, Zhou Xue, before her suicide, secretly sought out another assisting surgeon, pleading desperately for them to tamper with the surgery in some way, to do their utmost to save my life. In the end, that doctor, out of adherence to medical ethics, managed to make me miraculously survive the surgical accident you deliberately caused. After the surgery, to escape your persecution, I was forced to pretend to be a corpse and was sent to the morgue. Using a key hidden in my hospital gown, I fled the hospital under the cover of night!”
Even after escaping, my longing for Zhou Xue brought me back here, to the place where she once helped me. As he spoke, Qi Dongsheng’s eyes stared blankly at a point in the air, as if through the endless darkness, he saw something eerie. “Zhou Xue, you told me to come back here to find you. I’ve come, but where are you?”
This last sentence instantly made both Chen Mo and Old Zhang’s faces change dramatically. “Not good!”
Only then did Chen Mo finally grasp the ultimate deadly twist of this story. It didn’t come from Qi Dongsheng, but from Zhou Xue, who had jumped to her death with immense hatred! Only Zhou Xue was the true vengeful spirit in this story!
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The story’s plot props, from start to finish, existed only to seal away Zhou Xue’s vengeful spirit. But the intricate plot deliberately or unintentionally misled the participants, diverting everyone’s attention to the missing corpse. Even Chen Mo had once believed it was the source of the supernatural event. In the end, the story played a vicious joke on them. At the final moment, it revealed that the vengeful spirit they thought was Qi Dongsheng hadn’t actually died. Instead, through Qi Dongsheng’s longing for Zhou Xue, her resentful spirit was summoned back!
In hindsight, the truth of the story wasn’t entirely without clues. Especially on the night the corpse “revived,” which was the first hint given to the participants. At that time, Old Zhang was in the duty room outside the morgue. If he hadn’t been too afraid of the story’s vengeful spirit and had risked coming out to check, he would have immediately uncovered the secret of Qi Dongsheng’s “fake corpse,” changing the story’s direction. At the very least, he could have discovered that Qi Dongsheng wasn’t the vengeful spirit.
Additionally, Zhou Xue’s suicide by jumping and the injuries on her body were indirect hints to the participants that this Nurse Zhou also harbored immense resentment, making her a candidate for becoming a vengeful spirit. But after being fixated on the missing corpse, everyone overlooked this clue.
“No, that’s not right. Actually, we still had one more chance!”
Hearing Chen Mo suddenly speak, Old Zhang’s face changed again. “What?!” “Even after using the Golden Light Charm, we still had one chance to escape the supernatural attack.” Chen Mo gritted his teeth, his expression complex as he looked at Qi Dongsheng. “If we had killed Qi Dongsheng before he called out to Zhou Xue, the story’s vengeful spirit might not have fully manifested!” “This damn story is too vicious!”
Old Zhang wasn’t stupid. Hearing Chen Mo’s explanation, he immediately understood. —Zhou Xue, you told me to come back here to find you. I’ve come, but where are you? In this supernatural story, this wasn’t just a line of dialogue; it was more like a curse, a spell to summon the vengeful spirit! When Qi Dongsheng uttered these words, he completed the final summoning of the vengeful spirit. But because they were stunned by the revelation of the spirit’s true identity, they missed their chance again.
It was at this moment that Chen Mo truly experienced the cunning and malice of this supernatural world!