Four years ago, twelve-year-old Zhou Yan was a timid and shy girl.

Her face is fairer than usual, making her look like a well-behaved doll. When she meets a boy talking to her at school, even if the other party is in the same class, a faint flush will appear on her small cheeks.

This innocent girl never watches anything about horror, and occasionally she is taken by her evil father to watch horror movies, but even if she watches it with her father, she is holding a soft cushion, and only dares to sneak a glance at the screen from time to time, and when she hears that the situation is wrong, she immediately closes her eyes and trembles.

Due to the location of the house, every night, Zhou Yan, who sleeps alone in the bedroom on the second floor, also has a feeling of fear.

This timid girl, always shrunk under the quilt, afraid to look at the constantly moving shadows on the curtains, covered her ears with her hands, and tried to filter out the wind whistling outside the window.

Because, her home is in the middle of nowhere:

As a rich man who caught up with the "tide of going to the sea" at the beginning of the 21st century and made a lot of money, the choice of Zhou Yan's parents, to be precise, the choice of Zhou's father, is not quite the same as ordinary rich people.

Instead of buying a villa built by the Xia Group, the largest local real estate company, like other wealthy people, he bought a vacant lot deep in the mountains on the outskirts of the city and built a large ornate "castle" there.

In that era, his unconventional behavior also caused a lot of turmoil at that time. And that building is called the "ancient castle" by the residents of the neighborhood.

Even though the family has a lot of complaints about Zhou's father's choice, everyone who has visited the "ancient castle" has to admit that the luxury of this building is even better than the large villas built by Xia's enterprises to represent the city's top residences!

This three-storey Gothic-style building stands quietly in the mountains, like a forgotten ornate castle, and in the middle of the splendid garden in front of the castle stands a statue of Venus with a broken arm.

Even today, the "castle" is considered an incomparably luxurious building. The remote location makes this place a paradise that few people disturb. Except for the fact that it is a little inconvenient to go out, there are no shortcomings in this place.

The girl named Zhou Yan spent her childhood in this gorgeous castle that was rarely visited. Although I sometimes feel inexplicably scared, I was actually very happy until that day......

Zhou Yan will never forget that "ordinary" morning four years ago.

To this day, she still remembers every detail of that day clearly:

"Girl, how are you doing at school? Did any of your classmates bully you? No one will come to harass you, if you meet such a person, tell me immediately, and Dad will help you teach him a lesson......"

Sitting on his father's Volvo car that he had driven for many years, Zhou Yan smiled and shook his head: "No, Dad." ”

The tall man who was driving was still chattering, and the girl lowered her head helplessly and played with her fingers, directly taking her father's words as a deaf ear.

In the girl's opinion, her father is almost a perfect man, and if there is any flaw in her father, then "too suspicious" should be counted as one.

Probably because he was deceived in business, his father became extremely suspicious after his success, and the reason why he chose to live in the mountains seemed to be to avoid contact with too many people.

Although Zhou Yan didn't understand why her mother sighed deeply when she said these words, she still noticed that her father's behavior seemed to hurt her mother's heart.

Because her residence is so remote, she has to rely on her father to drive her to school every day, but if her mother, who can't drive, wants to go out, she has to walk a long way to find a taxi into the city.

For some reason, my father seemed to be particularly opposed to my mother going out shopping. However, Zhou Yan has only heard of these things, and when she was young, she did not fully understand what happened between her parents.

"It's so beautiful...... Zhou Yan stared at a scarlet Mercedes-Benz sports car parked in the courtyard of the "Tenglong Car Wash" outside the car window, and muttered to himself.

"That's a damn drag racer, this kind of person deserves to be shot." Father said indignantly.

"Ah, that's right." The girl turned her gaze to the road ahead with some frustration.

Volvo drove for a while on the ring road in Xicheng District, and finally entered the city. When the iron-gray sedan stopped at the entrance of "Pine Garden Middle School", it was already seven o'clock.

"Go ahead, I'll pick you up at school in the evening." As usual, my father said the lines that he had to say every day.

"Hmm." The fair-skinned girl nodded obediently, and got out of the car with a small blue schoolbag painted with a Mickey Mouse pattern on her back, and her figure quickly blended into the large number of students who were entering the campus.

It wasn't until the daughter was no longer visible that the Volvo sedan slowly drove away from the school gate.

As usual, Zhou Yan, who has always been very low-key in the class, also listened carefully to today's lesson. Because she was too far from home, she didn't go home at noon, but settled her lunch in the cafeteria.

It wasn't until half past six in the evening, after the last class, that the girl finally walked out of the school gate again, looked around, and looked for her father's car.

Normally, my father would park his car in front of the grocery store across the street because he had an argument with the shopkeeper. But today, his car is not there.

The girl frowned suspiciously, and looked left and right for a long time, but she couldn't find her father's location. She walked briskly to the corner, pulled out her cell phone that had been smuggled to school, and dialed her father's number.

"Your call is temporarily unavailable, please dial again later......" An indifferent female voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Ah......" Zhou Yan raised his head in confusion, stared at the sunset that was about to sink in the distant sky, touched his pocket and took out a few crumpled ten yuan, then stopped a taxi and sat in the front seat, and said to the bald driver: "Go to the ring road in Xicheng District......"

For fear of danger, her father had always forbade her to take a taxi alone. But the school was too far away from home, and it was completely unrealistic to walk back, so I had to take a taxi.

"Where's the Ring Road?" The driver asked again when he started the ignition.

"Ah...... You can go to the Tamron car wash. Zhou Yan whispered.

Her "ancient castle" is located deep in the mountains, and if she directly asks the driver to drive her there, she is afraid that something will really happen. Therefore, I can only report a place name that is not so remote.

The taxi soon arrived in front of the Tenglong car wash, Zhou Yan jumped out of the car with his schoolbag on his back, and was about to walk home when he stopped again because of the scene in front of him.

The scarlet Mercedes-Benz sports car I saw when I went to school was still parked in the courtyard of the Tamron car wash, and under the reflection of the sunset, the body shell shimmered faintly, like a huge neon sign.

"It's so beautiful...... "The girl stared at the sports car.

"Well, I think she's pretty too."

With a slightly muffled voice, a tall young woman stepped out of the garage of the car wash, with long dark red hair, dressed in a handsome black suit, and a silver cross on her chest that shone sharply.

"Little girl, why did you come here alone and not go home?"

"My family is ......on the mountain," Zhou Yan whispered.

"On the mountain? Is it the 'Kasbah'? The woman glanced thoughtfully at the mountains beside the ring road.

Although his suspicious father had reminded himself countless times not to tell strangers his address, Zhou Yan still nodded:

"Well, there it is."

"That place isn't close to here, but my sister happens to be fine now, how about taking you there? My name is Lin Shuang. The woman stretched out her right hand to Zhou Yan, leaving an eerie silhouette against the light.

"Well, I'm Zhou Yan." The pale girl nodded again and gave her name as well.

Sitting in Lin Shuang's Mercedes-Benz, Zhou Yan only felt that the seats in this car were very comfortable, more than twice as strong as the taxi just now. The woman next to her skillfully started the engine, drove the scarlet racing car out of the courtyard of the Tamron car wash, and drove into the streets of the suburbs.

Thinking of what his father said in the morning, Zhou Yan asked curiously: "Sister, are you a 'drag racing clan'?" ”

"Hah, how do you know?" Lin Shuang, who was driving, laughed out loud.

"Daddy said it." Zhou Yan replied honestly.

"Well, your dad was right." Lin Shuang smiled: "Sister, I'm a professional, and I haven't been defeated until last night." ”

"Did you fail last night?" Zhou Yan asked.

"Lost last night to a Dodge Viper kid." Lin Shuang quickly said the model of the vehicle that Zhou Yan didn't understand, and then waved his fist violently: "I must win it back!" ”

"Well, it's going to win." Zhou Yan said.

When Lin Shuang drove Zhou Yan to the front of the "ancient castle", it was already dark. Zhou Yan planned to wave goodbye to the woman, but found that the other party had no intention of leaving, but parked the car at the gate of the courtyard and followed.

"I'd like to see what it's like to let such a little girl come home alone, your father is so irresponsible!" There was a hint of reproach in the voice of the woman in black.

"Usually my father picks me up, I don't know why I ...... today," Zhou Yan whispered.

In fact, she didn't want Lin Shuang to follow up, with her father's character, she was likely to have a big fight with this woman. But she seemed to insist on coming in, so there was no other way......

The two walked through the garden, stood in front of the double wooden doors of the castle in the mountains, and rang the doorbell.

After waiting for about a minute and still no one responded, Zhou Yan was about to press it again, but he heard Lin Shuang's suspicious voice beside him:

"The door isn't closed?"

The woman in black said and slowly pushed open the door of the "ancient castle", and what caught her eye was the dazzling lights of the main hall, as well as the -

"My God......"

Lin Shuang, who has always been active, gasped after seeing the scene in the house clearly, covered Zhou Yan's eyes suddenly, and tried to take the girl away from this place:

"Sister take you to dinner, are you hungry?" Lin Shuang said in a panic.

"Ahh Murmured female screams and angry screams of men could be heard in the room. Hearing these voices, Zhou Yan didn't know where he got the strength, shook off Lin Shuang's hand roughly, and rushed into his living room. And then—

"Ahh

On that day, the pale maiden witnessed a scene that had not appeared even in her own worst nightmares.

The moment she saw that scene, she fell to her knees in despair with her legs out of strength, covering her face and screaming in horror.

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"Now you know, right?" Zhou Yan, who was sitting on the sofa in the living room, said slowly.

"Hmm." Zhao Nuo nodded and patted the girl's shoulder comfortingly.

There is no need for her to recall it anymore, what this girl saw, Zhao Nuo already knows very well in the news report.

-- The day after Viper defeated the Queen, the pale maiden saw her father killing her mother at home.

Since then, the timid and shy little girl has completely disappeared, and has been replaced by the "ghost scriptwriter" who now sits in front of her.

But even so, the most important problem has not been solved:

"What does this have to do with the barber?" Zhao Nuo asked.

"If it weren't for that person, Mom and Dad wouldn't be dead." Zhou Yan gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, then returned to the bedroom and walked out with a yellowed, crumpled letter.

After taking the letter, Zhao Nuo frowned and stared at the content on it, and then couldn't help but widen his eyes:

"Are you sure the barber wrote this letter? If that's the case, I'll be the first to kill him for you. ”

To put it simply, this letter is the typical thing that provokes family relations, and the most terrifying thing is that its content is extremely detailed, and even attaches an intimate photo of a woman when she goes out with others. Even if you don't have to ask, you know that the woman in the photo must be Zhou Yan's mother.

Even Zhao Nuo felt that the content of this letter had some credibility, and if Zhou Yan's suspicious father saw it, it would be self-evident what would happen.

This damn letter is undoubtedly the fuse that intensified the family conflict and made the matter irreparable!

"Why is it so sure that the barber wrote it?" Zhao Nuo asked.

"Because, only that person could do such a thing." Zhou Yan's face became gloomy.

――Since his family lives in the mountains, there is only one barber shop that is relatively close, and Zhou Yan solves every haircut in that shop.

Even though her memory has begun to blur a little, she still clearly remembers that when her mother led her to the shop for a haircut, the barber once praised her mother for her beauty, and also expressed her attitude towards her father's behavior of building a house in the mountains:

"What was that person thinking? It's so stupid, do you want your wife and daughter to suffocate in the mountains? ”

"He has his own reasons, too." The mother gently interrupted the barber's words, but there was a hint of sorrow in her voice.

"If I were to just change someone's home, such a man is not worth it." The barber said "meaningfully".

Zhou Yan still remembered that after the guy said this, his mother's face became extremely gloomy, and she directly dragged herself out of the barber shop before she finished cutting her hair.

As she walked out of the shop, she glanced back and saw the young barber still standing there with a strange expression on his face.

It wasn't until later that she realized that that expression represented "resentment."

And, if it wasn't for the letter that guy wrote, then why did he suddenly close the original barbershop after that incident?

In Zhou Yan's opinion, the guy who can write such a letter is undoubtedly that man.

However, Zhao Nuo obviously doesn't think so:

"That's just to make sure he did it, it's a bit too hasty, right? I think we should investigate your father's rivals at the time, and by the way, continue to work on this letter to find out who wrote it. ”

"How do you check?" Zhou Yan asked.

"I happen to know that there is a very professional technical emperor, maybe he can handle this kind of thing."

Zhao Nuo took out his mobile phone as he said and dialed Xia Xiaoling's number:

"Hello? That's right, it's me, can you let me meet your 'old classmate'? I have something I want to ask her. ”R1152