This actor is full of tricks.

"Uncle, do you smoke?"

Lin Jue walked up to the old man and handed him a cigarette.

"Oh right, I need to buy some fruit for Jiankang; he loves dragon fruit the most."

The old man didn't hear Lin Jue's words at all and walked towards the door on his own.

For the past few days, the old man has been doing the same things repeatedly, which is why the house remains clean and tidy despite being uninhabited for a long time.

Lin Jue watched the old man's hunched back and shaky back as he walked towards the door. Suddenly, he took a step forward and blocked the old man's path. "I don't want to eat dragon fruit. Can you sit down and have a proper talk with me?"

The old man paused, and then he did something different from usual, raising his head and staring at Lin Jue with his cloudy eyes.

But there was no emotional fluctuation in his gaze, just like a piece of wood.

Then he lowered his head and walked past Lin Jue: "Health is too tired from work every day. I'm going to buy him his favorite fruit so he can take good care of himself."

This old man...

You can see me!

Lin Jue realized that the old man was not actually blind to him as He Wen had said; he was just pretending not to see him.

"Is it because he knows I'm not his son? Even though we have the same face, father and son are connected at heart. This old man loves Sun Jiankang so much that even the slightest difference is a flaw to him."

The old man walked to the entrance hall, trembling as he reached out to open the door, but the next moment, just like before, he turned into a wisp of smoke with a bang.

As the old man disappeared once again, the shoe cabinet door next to him inexplicably opened.

Lin Jue's heart skipped a beat. He walked to the shoe cabinet, rummaged through it for a long time, and finally found an iron box in the corner.

The box was rusty, and inside it was a thick photo album.

“The old man could see me. In the instant he disappeared, the wardrobe opened, revealing a photo album inside. Was he trying to tell me something?” Lin Jue took out the photo album and opened the first page.

The first page features a little boy, around two years old, riding a small wooden horse, smiling innocently and brightly. Judging from his eyebrows and eyes, he is Sun Jiankang when he was young.

At this point, Sun Jiankang's smile actually looked a bit stiff, but because the child naturally loves to smile, he probably hadn't been checked yet.

In the second photo, Sun Jiankang has grown up a bit and is being held in the arms of an elderly man who was younger. The old man's face clearly shows worry, indicating that Sun Jiankang had already been diagnosed with Happy Puppet Syndrome at that time.

The subsequent photos documented every moment of Sun Jiankang's growth, from his first time visiting an amusement park, his first time receiving a little red flower, his first spring outing, his first time starting elementary school, and his gradual growth into adulthood. He used colorful paints to draw the signboard of Happy Paradise Amusement Park and turned into a little kitten with his father.

"The old man deliberately showed me this photo album; it's definitely not just to let me see how my grandson is growing up. There must be something important he wants to say..."

Lin Jue continued flipping through the photos, and the next ones weren't just of Sun Jiankang, but also included many other photos of tourists at the amusement park. There were many of these photos, and everyone on their faces wore a genuine smile.

It's clear that Happy Paradise Amusement Park was very popular among the residents of Sanjiang at that time, making it a great choice for weekend outings with kids or dates for couples.

Everyone's smile is different, but everyone's happiness comes from the amusement park. The photos capture their happiest moments of the day.

"No, something's not right..." The old man definitely didn't want him to see these, so Lin Jue flipped through more than a dozen more photos and finally saw an unusual one.

That was a group photo of all the amusement park employees, titled "[The First Mid-Autumn Festival Group Photo of All Amusement Park Employees]".

Lin Jue stopped at this page. The photo had faded, but the outline of the person's facial features could still be roughly made out.

He saw several familiar faces up there: Sun Jiankang, who was laughing like a puppet and hiding in the corner; an old man surrounded by employees; and Brother Wang, who looked like a middle school student, walking alongside a middle-aged couple.

Every employee wore an expression of enthusiasm, a hope for the future, because Happy Paradise was the first amusement park in Sanjiang City, a nascent industry at the time.

Soon, Lin Jue noticed that one person was missing from the photo.

The current director, formerly the deputy director, is Dong Jian.

"Judging from his age, Dong Jian should have been in his twenties at that time. Could it be that he hadn't joined the amusement park yet?"

Lin Jue scanned the photos again and indeed did not find Dong Jian. He flipped through a few more photos, but still did not see Dong Jian.

When the date on the photo turned to 2013, Dong Jian was still nowhere to be seen.

Something is wrong!
According to Dong Jian himself, he was already working at the amusement park in 2013, and at that time he was already the deputy director. He encountered the director of the mental hospital who came to film.

Not only in 13, but also in the group photo of 14, 15, and even the last one in 18, Dong Jian was nowhere to be seen.

If it was just a coincidence that Dong Jian happened to be busy and couldn't participate, then it's impossible that he hasn't taken a group photo with his colleagues for several years, especially since he is the deputy director, the highest-ranking leader in the amusement park. It's hard to believe that he would always be absent.

What could be the reason that the person in the photo could not be found? Is it because the amusement park never had such a person, and Dong Jian's identity is fake?
Ke Linjue was certain that he had met Dong Jian before, and that it was Brother Wang who introduced him to Dong Jian.

"Could it be that Brother Wang's identity is also questionable? Is he and Dong Jian colluding to deceive me?"

Lin Jue frowned, but this was unlikely, because Brother Wang had been helping his parents run the circus when the amusement park first opened, and he was in all the group photos. He had been at the amusement park for more than 20 years. It couldn't be that he joined the amusement park with the intention of waiting 20 years to deceive someone named "Zhou Yue".

Moreover, Lin Jue really couldn't figure out what reason it was that Brother Wang could lie low in the amusement park for twenty years without revealing himself.

Or is this photo album fake, and the old man is actually the one with the problem?
Subjectively, Lin Jue did not think there was anything wrong with the old man who had dedicated his life to the child and continued to take care of the child even after his death. Logically, he could not understand what the old man's purpose was in doing so.

Therefore, the one who has been problematic from beginning to end is that guy named Dong Jian.

In addition, during his previous conversation with Dong Jian, he discovered many loopholes in Dong Jian's words. At the time, he only thought that Dong Jian might be hiding some facts, but now it seems that Dong Jian's identity is highly questionable.

But Lin Jue still couldn't figure out what the problem was, and he planned to ask Brother Wang again after he went to work tomorrow.

Is this what you wanted to tell me?

Lin Jue put the photo album back into the box, looked up at the portrait on the wall, but another question arose.

Why would this old man tell him that Dong Jian's identity was questionable? In other words, the old man must have known that he had met Dong Jian, which is why he told him this. But how did the old man know about what happened at the amusement park when he was always at home?
(End of this chapter)