Chapter 368 - 232: Committing the Crime Calmly_2
Ran Yan suddenly felt very alone, compared to when she first arrived, she had ties—Ran Yunsheng, Xing Niang, Wan Lu, and Ge Lan, they were all good to her, which was her fortune, but for some reason, occasionally she still felt utterly isolated.
It was for that reason, she couldn’t afford to be soft-hearted.
Ran Yan’s intelligence was not one that couldn’t conceive of strategies, but she just lacked the patience to apply her mind to those unnecessary, endless squabbles. Having worked as a forensic doctor for many years, she knew one clear truth: for a person, the end of life meant the end of everything, leaving behind a body that told secrets only a forensic doctor could understand.
Guessing that the time was about right, Ran Yan pulled out the short knife from her flute, pried open the door latch, and walked in.
The bedroom’s layout was almost identical to Ran Yan’s, with only some differences in decorations. The maid in the outer room was lying on the couch, apparently about to undress for bed when sedatives had made her unconscious.
Ran Yan knew she wouldn’t be entirely unconscious, so she went over to give her an extra dose of sedatives. Once she was completely passed out, Ran Yan helped her undress and placed her on the couch in the pose of peaceful sleep. She hung her clothes on the small screen at the end of the couch, just as Wan Lu usually did.
Entering the inner chamber, Ran Yan gracefully sat by the bed, coldly looking at Ran Meiyu. The maid in the outer room was unlikely to be completely unconscious, and Ran Meiyu, sleeping in the inner chamber, was even less likely to be thoroughly knocked out; now she was probably just under the effect of sleep and the sedatives, in deep slumber.
Ran Yan lifted the quilt and swiftly pressed the tip of the knife against Ran Meiyu’s chest, not the slightest bit hesitant to pierce the skin.
Ran Meiyu was in deep sleep when suddenly the pain made her scream involuntarily, but because of the drug from Ran Yan, the scream at her lips turned into a groan. She opened her eyes in terror to see the "murderer," and in the dim light, could only vaguely make out the facial features. When she realized it was Ran Yan, she seemed relieved, but her eyes were filled with rage, "Ran Shiqi, what are you doing!"