Chapter 288: Holy Hell… That’s Twisted

Chapter 288: Holy hell… that’s twisted.

“Huh?”

A puzzled expression crossed Jiang Xin’s face. “Officer, what are you talking about?”

“Everything in this world is going up in price… except for people like you.”

Suppressing a smirk, Xiao Yu glared coldly at Jiang Xin. “You’re becoming more and more despicable!”

“Ugh!”

Jiang Xin was dumbfounded—this time, she was truly stunned.

“I once wanted nothing more than to catch every last villain!”

Shifting his gaze to the rising sun on the horizon, Xiao Yu continued, “To cleanse the world, purify the air, even to reform some people… But back then, I turned into a monster, a machine—so lost that even I didn’t know what I had become!”

Indeed, in his past life, not even he could recognize himself.

“Officer, I don’t understand a word you’re saying.”

Coming back to herself, Jiang Xin looked nervously at Xiao Yu. “If nothing else—”

“Would you care to explain how you managed to split a living person into nine pieces with just nine cuts?”

Xiao Yu turned his head, a wry smile playing on his lips as he replied, “And how did you make three living people appear so blissfully relaxed and happy even moments before death? I’ve racked my brain over that. By the way, before I came looking for you, I ran an experiment. I have to say, the substitute you found is worthless. I had him use a Bone-Chopping Knife to demonstrate splitting a giant bone stick, and it took him four cuts. Don’t you think that makes him a total failure?”

“Huh? Substitute? Giant bone stick?”

Fear contorted Jiang Xin’s face as she bowed her head.

As her head dropped, her terrified eyes flashed with a chilling indifference and murderous intent.

“I can stand before you and speak these words.”

Xiao Yu sneered, “What’s the use of all your disguises? Do you really think no clue can be tied to you? That all the evidence is irrelevant? That someone else will take the fall for every incident? And so you can sleep soundly?”

“Otherwise?”

Slowly lifting her head, Jiang Xin met his gaze with cold calm. Her eyes, glinting with an icy light, fixed on him. “You don’t have a recording device on you, do you? You came alone, right? Even if you know everything, what can you do about me?”

“Ha, am I being looked down upon by you?”

Xiao Yu snorted, “Admit it?”

“Admit what?”

Jiang Xin laughed and countered, “With no clues, no evidence—nothing at all, what am I supposed to confess to?”

“Evidence? Clues? Not confessing?”

Xiao Yu grinned, shaking his head. “No need. Once the police tag you as a suspect, you’ll be nailed for life!”

Jiang Xin’s body convulsed as if struck by lightning, her face stiffening.

Her eyes flickered with intense… murderous intent.

After a long pause, the murderous glimmer faded from Jiang Xin’s eyes as she looked at Xiao Yu with a conflicted gaze. “How did you find out about me?”

“Remember that day when we finished talking at the clinic?”

Xiao Yu made no attempt to hide the truth. “When you handed me over, I ran into Liu Yunwei. At first, a man like him wouldn’t catch my eye. But just as I was leaving, he suddenly exuded a familiar aura. Then, when we went after him, that aura had completely vanished.”

“So I found it odd. A person’s aura is either innate or developed, and once established, it’s hard to lose. But Liu Yunwei’s aura just… disappeared?”

“Then I discovered something amusing. It seems someone deliberately forced Liu Yunwei to develop that aura, which he naturally resisted. Yet he could not defy that person. So whenever he encountered them, whether out of habit or fear, he couldn’t help but display that artificially imposed aura.”

At that, Xiao Yu coldly fixed his gaze on the shocked Jiang Xin. “There were only four of us there. Aside from the deceased receptionist, it could only have been you. You’re the one who gave him that… perfect aura.”

Jiang Xin’s expression changed rapidly as she stared intently into Xiao Yu’s eyes. After a pause, she said, “I once thought he was smart. Instead, he really is a useless wretch!”

“No, he truly is smart.”

Shaking his head calmly, Xiao Yu replied, “He’s just not a perfectionist—that’s not his nature. And yet you insisted on forcing him into that mold. How is that even possible?”

“Exactly.”

To her own surprise, Jiang Xin agreed with him. “So he only deserves to be a substitute… to take the fall for me and die quietly!”

“Why kill?” Xiao Yu fixed his gaze on her.

“The answer is simple.”

Jiang Xin spoke lightly, “Back then, I did like him—so his girlfriend could die. Jiang Xiuran loved me, so he had to die. Yu Xue ended up with him, so she must die even more. Whatever I desire, no one else gets it; and those I despise must perish. Since Liu Yunwei made a mistake, he now must die too.”

Xiao Yu’s mind went blank.

No—he was simply stunned by Jiang Xin’s words.

“The things you yearn for—if someone else grabs them, they must die?”

“Someone who fancies you—if you reject them, they must die?”

“If someone else even dares to touch what you desire, they still must die?”

“And even what you desire must perish along with them?”

Holy hell… that’s twisted!

While Xiao Yu was momentarily stunned,

Suddenly, a surge of crisis flooded his mind—every nerve screamed danger.

He felt like a child walking a tightrope, ready to fall into a heap of shattered bones at any moment.

Then he saw Jiang Xin.

Before he knew it, she had appeared right before him.

“You’re gonna die too!”

Jiang Xin stated coolly, “As long as you’re dead, no one will know a thing.”

Xiao Yu: …

Good grief—I’m attracting all this hatred onto myself?

He suddenly realized something was terribly wrong.

Just moments ago, he had been lured in by Jiang Xin’s words.

Throughout it all, he hadn’t noticed her approach.

What baffled him even more was that as she spoke,

She silently drew a scalpel and plunged it into his lower abdomen…

What does it feel like for a man to be stabbed by a woman?

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