The moment the array was broken, scenes that Xu Xiaoyu had forgotten flashed through her mind like a running slideshow.
Although Xu Xiaoyu was an orphan, she was capable and excelled academically. After being directly admitted to Jingchuan University, she continuously won scholarships and even started her own business outside of school.
Her company was showing moderate promise, making her a rising star in Jingchuan.
Bai Heng, meanwhile, was handsome and gentle. When they accidentally crossed paths in the library and he helped her solve a difficult business problem, Xu Xiaoyu gradually began to take notice of him.
Before long, the two of them got together.
After becoming a couple, Bai Heng treated Xu Xiaoyu with great tenderness. Later, when she rented an apartment outside, the two officially began living together.
Xu Xiaoyu had actually been the one to bridge the gap for Bai Heng’s first meeting with Gu Guixi.
That time, through efforts her small company had endured unimaginable hardships to make, she finally secured a project from the Gu corporation.
On the day Xu Xiaoyu was heading to the Gu corporation to sign the contract, Bai Heng stubbornly insisted on tagging along. Unable to shake him off and fearing that a prolonged argument would make her late, she ultimately brought Bai Heng with her.
Never in her wildest dreams would Xu Xiaoyu have imagined that this single trip would become the catalyst for her murder later on.
Once the partnership was successfully secured, Xu Xiaoyu began working consecutive night shifts at her small company, until she suddenly fell ill and was rushed to the hospital by her employees.
When she woke up, the doctor informed her that she was pregnant.
Xu Xiaoyu had been an orphan since childhood, accustomed to standing alone and possessing a reclusive personality with virtually no friends.
Yet now she had a child sharing her bloodline. For a moment, Xu Xiaoyu was both shocked and overjoyed. She reached for her phone to call Bai Heng, but then lowered it again.
“I will go straight home and tell him in person to give him a surprise.”
Her earlier fainting spell had been caused by exhaustion from the pregnancy. After resting at the hospital for half a day and waiting for the doctor to finish prescribing medication and run checks, she left.
Holding the ultrasound report in her hand, the image of the embryo looked exceptionally adorable to her. Carrying a heart full of joy, Xu Xiaoyu returned home.
Yet the sight that greeted her when she opened the door dealt her a stunning blow.
On the double bed she had meticulously chosen, her boyfriend had another man pinned beneath him. The two were entwined in a passionate frenzy, so consumed by their actions that they failed to notice someone standing right at the doorway.
Xu Xiaoyu’s vision suddenly went dark, as if a tub of ice water had been dumped directly over her head. She stood rooted to the spot, freezing cold all over.
Filled with intense fury yet maintaining an eerie calmness, she turned, grabbed two bottles of beer from the kitchen, and quietly crept up on the two men still locked in passion, raising her hands to smash the bottles over their heads.
“Die, you scum!”
“Ah!”
“Fuck!”
The beer bottles shattered instantly, cracking open both men’s scalps. Blood immediately began to spread across the bed, mingling with spilled beer and shards of glass.
Coldly watching Bai Heng, who scrambled in panic to put his clothes back on, Xu Xiaoyu stepped forward and unleashed a rapid flurry of slaps across his face.
Almost instantly, the dazed Bai Heng’s face swelled up like a pig’s head.
When he finally recovered his wits, both of his cheeks were burning with a numb, stinging pain. Seeing that Xu Xiaoyu was about to strike him again, Bai Heng instinctively lashed out with a kick, catching Xu Xiaoyu squarely in the stomach.
Xu Xiaoyu collapsed to the floor as a tearing pain ripped through her lower abdomen. In a panic, she reached down to feel, only to brush against warm blood.
The child was gone.
This realization brought Xu Xiaoyu agonizing pain, but it also unlocked a surge of immense strength. Enduring the agony, she pulled herself up from the floor, picked up half of a broken beer bottle, and glared at Bai Heng and Gu Guixi with venomous hatred.
“Go to hell, go to hell!”
Gu Guixi was standing closer to her. Seeing the glass bottle about to plunge into him, the man panicked and grabbed a fruit knife from the bedside table, plunging it forward with a vicious expression.
The sound of a blade slicing into flesh echoed, leaving all three people present frozen in place.
Looking down at the knife protruding from her chest, Xu Xiaoyu felt all the strength drain out of her body in an instant as she collapsed to the ground unconscious.
“I, I did not mean to!” Paralyzed by overwhelming terror as he stared at the dead woman on the floor, Gu Guixi collapsed onto the bed.
Bai Heng’s expression was not looking too good either, but he forced himself to calm down first. “If you do not want to go to prison, hurry up and dispose of her.”
Gu Guixi snapped back to reality as well. “Throw her in the hillside graveyard.”
With a dark expression, he added, “I will handle the aftermath of everything else.”
After changing their clothes, the two men stuffed Xu Xiaoyu into a burlap sack and dragged her in a car all the way to the hillside graveyard.
Bringing along shovels, they dug a massive pit. Once it was finished, Gu Guixi said with a gloomy expression, “You bury her.”
With that, he walked off to the side, smoking a cigarette with a face as dark as water.
Bai Heng dumped Xu Xiaoyu into the pit and shoveled dirt over her layer by layer.
Midway through, however, Xu Xiaoyu, who had only been temporarily knocked unconscious from severe blood loss, actually woke up.
She opened her eyes, her face deathly pale. Half of her body was already covered in dirt, leaving only her face exposed as she weakly cried out for help.
“Save, save me…”
Gu Guixi was standing too far away to hear her voice, but Bai Heng heard it clearly. His hands shook, causing the shovel to drop heavily against the ground.
Impatiently, Gu Guixi snapped, “What is it?”
Forcing himself to stay calm immediately, Bai Heng replied, “Nothing.”
Then, with an expressionless face, he shoveled the remaining dirt in, inch by inch, until Xu Xiaoyu’s face vanished entirely from sight.
With her memories fully recovered, Xu Xiaoyu’s eyes remained hollow and empty. She slowly reached out a hand to touch her own abdomen.
Stirred by the resurfacing hatred, blood and tears gradually welled up and streamed from the female ghost’s eyes.
After a long silence, she turned to look at Lanting, gritting her teeth with a voice dripping in blood as she asked, “Sir, what should I do?”
“Enter their dreams and call the police. Once they are utterly ruined and have tasted every bitter fruit, bring the decree and kill them.”
“Understood.” A dark shadow settled in Xu Xiaoyu’s eyes.
Lanting picked up his phone and sent a message to the private investigator he had previously worked with.
Merely a single night later, a deeply shocking and horrific story suddenly surfaced across the internet.
The actions of the two scumbags in the story were so appalling they rivaled demons. When the person who posted the microblog declared at the end that this was not fiction but a true event that actually happened, exposing all the real personal details of the perpetrators, internet users across the country exploded in outrage.
Because the evidence provided was airtight, even including videos and screenshots of Gu Guixi bribing the police back then, furious netizens flooded directly to the official microblog pages of the Gu corporation, Jingchuan University, and the Jingchuan police department to launch massive waves of condemnation.
Gu Guixi was found collapsed and unconscious in his office. When he woke up, not a single person offered to send him to the hospital.
Before his anger could even flare up, wave after wave of employees handed in their resignation letters.
They declared, “We refuse to work for a homewrecker and a murderer.”
Hearing their words and meeting the disgusted gazes of those people, a terrifying suspicion welled up inside Gu Guixi’s heart.
Panic seized him almost instantly, leaving him with no time to pack anything as he bolted frantically out the door.
With a face drained of all color, Gu Guixi muttered, “Run, run!”