My Healing Games

Chapter 57 Let Me Cry with You
"Ah Cheng, are you sure Director Jiang will call?" The female agent paced anxiously around the room. "Why don't you go back and apologize to the director?"

"What's the rush? It's only been 21 hours and 36 minutes. Are you really worried that Director Jiang won't use me?" Acheng chuckled, but his fingers nervously gripped the leather sofa, and his legs were shaking uncontrollably. "Everything is as I expected. The crew is probably in complete chaos right now."

"Really?" The female agent looked at A-Cheng's trembling legs and unsteady eyes, and could only manage a bitter smile. "Then let's wait a little longer."

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"Jiang Yi, do you know how much impact changing the lead actor will have? Do you know how much effort I put into getting their company involved? Do you really think that many people are optimistic about this show?"

"I will try my best to control costs. Besides, Ah Cheng's salary is too high and completely unreasonable. Compared to him, the actor I value is..."

"Stop talking to me. The filming can be postponed for another three days. I think you need to calm down." After saying that, Sister Long hung up the phone, leaving only Director Jiang and the two screenwriters in the smoke-filled room.

"Director, does this script need to be revised?" The screenwriter pulled out a hat to cover his balding head.

"Everyone has worked hard these past few days, let's take a rest first." After saying that, Director Jiang lit a cigarette and locked himself in the small room.

After leaving the filming location, Han Fei had a long talk with the victims' families. He wanted to get more information and understand his roommates better.

What others see as a ghost, Han Fei sees as a roommate living under the same roof.

He is now using the victims' past experiences and memories to fill those ethereal ghosts with real people.

"They can never come back, but I will convey your love and longing for them."

Sitting with the victims' families and listening to their stories, Han Fei experienced a feeling he had never felt before.

There seems to be a thread connecting that eerie and terrifying underworld game to this warm and real world, a thread that runs through life and death and time, linking the two together.

Han Fei sometimes wonders if there is some deeper meaning behind the existence of the game "Perfect Life" that he plays.

Around 5 p.m., Han Fei was preparing to say goodbye to the victim's family when he suddenly received a call from Li Xue.

Han Fei only answered the phone after avoiding the victim's family.

"Have you found any dirt on Meng Chang'an?"

“It has nothing to do with Meng Chang’an. As the investigation deepens, we’ve discovered more and more clues, but all of them point to Meng Changxi!” Li Xue’s voice came from the other end of the phone: “The report from the Ecological Forest Black Room is out. We found the remains of two people, one belonging to He Shouye and the other to Meng Changxi. In addition, we found backup video footage of road surveillance from several years ago. We found Meng Changxi’s figure near the street where He Shouye’s car accident occurred. Now we suspect that He Shouye did not die in a car accident, but was murdered by Meng Changxi.”

"Meng Changxi killed He Shouye?" Han Fei set his phone to background call mode and then opened the victim relationship diagram he had created: "Why would he kill He Shouye?"

"It is very likely that Meng Changxi and He Shouye were both murderers, and they contacted each other in some way to kill the people the other wanted to kill. Meng Changxi killed He Shouye in order to avoid being exposed."

"Could someone be framing Meng Changxi?"

“We can’t rule out that possibility, and that’s precisely why we haven’t issued an arrest warrant for Meng Changxi.” Li Xue’s voice changed: “In order to find the culprit behind the human body puzzle, we investigated all the information about He Shouye and Meng Changxi from childhood to adulthood. Meng Changxi disguised himself very well, but He Shouye is a complete scumbag. He’s not a local; he married and had children in the countryside. We interviewed his former neighbors and went to great lengths to find his ex-wife.”

"Ex-wife?"

"That's right. He Shouye acted very honestly before marriage, but after marriage, he gradually revealed another side of himself, such as domestic violence and all sorts of perverted hobbies. At first, He Shouye was still suppressing himself, but after He Yuhuai was born, the child was weak from a young age and suffered from congenital diseases. He Shouye's attitude towards the mother and child got worse and worse, and beatings and scoldings became the norm. In the end, his wife could not bear it and ran away on her own."

“He Shouye had threatened his wife many times, saying that if she did not obediently come back, he would kill He Yuhuai, which forced his wife to call the police in the end, and then they divorced.”

"The couple's main point of contention was the house; neither of them wanted the child with the congenital disease. I heard from their former neighbors that the child was pitiful; he had no friends, was always confined at home, lived in fear every day, and became his parents' punching bag. The child's cries never stopped in the house."

"What the neighbors heard most often was He Shouye's roar—'What are you crying for? If you cry again, I'll strangle you!'"

"Perhaps it's because of his own children, He Shouye has an extreme aversion to children. According to his neighbors, He Shouye is usually normal, but he will go crazy whenever he hears a child crying."

"In the end, the property was divided equally between the two parties, and the child, He Yuhuai, was awarded to the mother. However, what happened next was heartbreaking. The mother did not want the child. Once, she took He Yuhuai to play hide-and-seek in a faraway place, and in the end, she abandoned the child and left alone."

"He Yuhuai's mother disappeared with the money. After the police found the child, they had no choice but to send him to He Shouye. You know what happened next. A wealthy man in Shanghai had a child with kidney disease. When He Shouye learned that his child's kidney was a match for the wealthy man's, he immediately signed some kind of agreement with the wealthy man in private."

"The tragedy of this whole affair started with that child. If even one of his relatives had been able to give him some love and accept him, then the tragedy that followed could have been avoided."

Li Xue said a lot, and after listening, Han Fei inexplicably recalled the image of a crying character from the game "Perfect Life".

The child who lived downstairs from him always stood alone beside the altar. He was a dark figure whose face was not clearly visible. He kept crying and playing an endless game of hide-and-seek with the other children.

"Perhaps I should go and keep that child company..." Han Fei silently repeated the name He Yuhuai in his heart. He planned to see him and cry tonight.

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