Chapter 230 - The Death of Two Girls
Inside the Memory World…
In the car, Tang Dafa looked out of the car window as his face slowly revealed a proud look. He admired himself because this scheme of his to secretly take Su Yang down using a real scenario was a stroke of genius. Anyone who investigated this matter could not find any problem and would think that he was deliberately trying to please Su Yang by sending money to him.
After all, the movie was real, the risk was small and the high reward was also realistic. Everything was as he said but the only problem was the settlement cycle of the movie.
Netbig’s billing cycle was as long as half a year, and sometimes payments would be pending for more than a year.
This meant that Su Yang would’ve been drained of at least 1.5 million in cash flow for those six months. For Su Yang to lack so much cash all at once would surely strain the companies he was involved in financially.
It was then that he would then ask for the early recovery of Su Yang’s loans…
“Hehehehe.” Convinced by his plan, Tang Dafa laughed in the car.
Out of the restaurant, Su Yang walked on the road. June in Shanghai was slowly getting hotter. Even when the night wind blew on people, it didn’t feel cold but instead, felt a little hot. Su Yang’s heart was full of anger, and that anger came from Tang Dafa and himself as well.
Because of Hourglass’s preconceived “judgment”, he trusted Tang Dafa. In the end, he didn’t expect that the trust would lead to betrayal! No, calling it betrayal was an understatement. After all, Tang Dafa was never “loyal” to him.
He must have been fooled!
In addition to being angry that he was made a fool of, Su Yang also couldn’t accept Tang Dafa and the others and their superior attitude towards ordinary people.
‘Two college students, just a “thing” to them? Cleaned up and sending it over?
‘How is that so much like the wording used in your own village to discuss a pig kept in a pen!
‘As long as you have power and money, can you treat ordinary people like dogs and pigs?’
Su Yang was now incomparably regretful, not that he regretted knowing Tang Dafa, but regretted that he should have just lifted the table and beat that guy up!
‘These guys are animals!’
Just as Su Yang was burning with anger, Little Deeny’s voice sounded in his ears, “Master, there’s something very serious, I feel like… You better take a look.”
Su Yang asked, “What is it?”
Deeny replied, “Xu Lu posted something on her profile.”
‘Xu Lu posted something on her profile? What do you mean?’
Su Yang Brought Little Deeny out and opened his WeChat, the first thing he saw was Xu Lu’s post — [Just received the sad news of Wang Shan, a little unbelievable. May there be no accidents in heaven.]
Su Yang’s head buzzed. ‘She’s dead?
‘That’s so sudden
‘The girl we were looking for yesterday is suddenly dead?’
Su Yang hesitated and dialed for Xu Lu. No matter what, he had helped to look for her yesterday, and now that he knew about it, it was reasonable that he asked about it.
The phone connected and Xu Lu was weeping on the other end, her voice was trembling as she greeted, “Hello?”
Su Yang asked with concern, “Senior sister. Are you okay?”
It was after some time before Xu Lu could speak normally. Even then, her voice seemed like it was glued together and blurred, “I’m… I’m fine.”
Su Yang was silent for a while and consoled her, “I’m sorry.”
Xu Lu cried even louder, but covered her mouth and let out muffled sobs instead.
After listening to Xu Lu cry on the other end of the phone for a while, Su Yang sighed, regretting making this call.
At this moment, Xu Lu spoke, “Su Yang, can you, can you help me and Wang Shan?”
Su Yang asked, “What do you guys need help with?”
Xu Lu choked. “There’s something going on here… Wang Shan definitely didn’t die accidentally! Have you ever seen an accident where two girls fall into the water at the same time! That villa area of Longteng Jiayuan has security guards patrolling every day, so how could it have been two days before their bodies were found?!”
Su Yang’s head was buzzing. ‘Two girls? Longteng Jiayuan?’
Su Yang couldn’t help but remember the last fragment he saw in Tang Dafa’s memory, were the two somehow related?
Su Yang quickly said to Xu Lu, “Senior sister, where are you? I’ll come to you.”
Xu Lu stopped crying. “I’m on the road outside of our college.”
Su Yang said, “Wait for me, I’ll be right there.”
As he said that, Su Yang hung up the phone and took a taxi to Xu Lu’s place.
Arriving near the Art Academy, Su Yang asked the driver to circle the grounds of the Art Academy and finally met Xu Lu who was squatting by the road crying at the west gate. Su Yang quickly paid his bill and got out of the car, then ran to her side. “Senior sister. Are you okay?”
Seeing Su Yang, Xu Lu shed tears while covering her mouth and shaking her head. Su Yang pulled out a pack of tissues from the virtual space on the way, unwrapped it, and handed it to her. She took it and used the tissues to wipe her tears.
Su Yang sat next to her, quietly waiting for her to calm down.
After a while, Xu Lu slowly stopped crying and Su Yang asked, “Senior sister, can you tell me what’s going on?”
“Mm.” Xu Lu nodded with sad eyes as she said, “Shan Shan and I met a year ago, she’s a girl from a third-tier city who came to Shanghai to study. We met because of dance, but the difference was that I studied dance professionally, while she loved to dance.”
“She is a very innocent girl, and her family is not particularly wealthy. However, her parents are very loving and treat her well and call her often. Every time she gets a call from her parents, she smiles like a little girl.”
“She loved to laugh, and when she starts, she just won’t stop laughing. I always tell her she looks like a fool when she laughs. She would reply that she likes to be a fool because a fool was always happy.”