Chapter 142: Hug the pillow to scare people
Xu Si rose from the bed and walked into the bathroom. Examining herself in front of a mirror for a long time, she noticed a row of faint, neatly aligned bite marks.
The pattern of the bite marks seemed familiar. They were fresh and couldn’t possibly be an impression left from sleeping or a remnant from before.
What happened last night? Why couldn’t she remember anything?
With this question in mind, she walked out of the bathroom with furrowed brows and stepped into the hallway outside the bedroom. There, she noticed that all the decorative items along the long corridor had been moved from their places the night before.
Subconsciously, she moved towards the latticed arched window and looked down, just in time to see a car pulling up in front of the mansion.
Someone quickly opened the rear car door. Pei Zhen stretched out his long legs and stepped out gracefully, his silver hair meticulously combed, his gray eyes concealed beneath the shadow cast by his long eyelashes.
The clouds drifted slowly, idly morphing into countless shapes in the sky, casting a cold filter over the world.
Hei Shi wiped the still-smoking gun barrel, his expression indifferent. "The incident at the Xu Mansion back then went like this. They concealed it well at the time, helping cover up the true cause of the Xu Family matriarch’s death. The officials involved fled the country a few years ago due to a homicide case, thanks to a letter of accusation sent by one of your elder sister’s people. Our branch organization in America apprehended and interrogated the person, and that’s how we obtained this information."
Pei Zhen toyed with the scepter, silent, an air of loneliness about him. Gradually, he gripped the scepter tighter, veins protruding on his pale, bony hands, and his ashen eyes filled with bloodshot streaks.
Within the thick fog, he heard leaves falling and sensed a curious, doubting gaze from above.
Gentle and unhurried, it was the kind of scrutiny he enjoyed the most.
Pei Zhen struggled to suppress the emotions in his eyes. After a long moment, he finally lifted his handsome face and, indeed, saw Xu Si’s clear and beautiful figure.