Black Myth: Starting from the Destined One-Chapter 42 - 38 Classic Cases

“Sister Wanyan, let me be clear first, don’t think about entrapping me. If you’re thinking of having me foretell your fortune, save your breath. I’m really not some kind of Living Immortal!”

Li Ping’an guessed that Wanyan Mengwen’s purpose for visiting him was similar to his roommates, Jiang Liuer, Zhu Ganglie, and Sha Sheng—coming to him for fortune telling or perhaps entrapment to uncover the secrets that he might be hiding.

“You’re overthinking it, I’m not here to have you tell my fortune. But first, don’t be nervous, and try not to be resistant. Let me tell you about a case.”

Wanyan Mengwen, like coaxing a child, held Li Ping’an’s hand and gently patted it:

“Li Ping’an, the case I’m about to discuss is a bit eerie and even somewhat terrifying, so try not to be afraid.”

Wanyan Mengwen reassured Li Ping’an and was about to retract her hand, but Li Ping’an wasn’t about to miss this chance to take advantage, and clutched her hand tightly, pretending to be very scared:

“Police Sister, why do I feel like the case you’re about to discuss definitely involves a dead person? I think I should hold onto your hand while listening, lest the cowardly me gets too scared and ends up in your arms.”

Wanyan Mengwen thought for a moment, and finally agreed:

“Alright.”

Then, while staring into Li Ping’an’s eyes, she began to vividly narrate:

A month ago, in a six-star hotel in Hehuang City, Silver Dragon Tower, a person died.

The deceased was Xiao Xianlü, female, 25 years old, married, who came from Xiao Family’s Valley to the city for work. She struggled finding a job, and through an acquaintance’s recommendation, she started working at Silver Dragon Tower giving massages and washing feet as a technician, a job she has been doing for over six months.

Although Xiao Xianlü came from a rural area, she was good-looking. In her role as a masseuse, she dressed provocatively, in low-cuts and short skirts with black stockings, making her the most popular among the technicians at Silver Dragon Tower.

During her time working there, a regular customer who often came for feet washing took a liking to her. He would buy her expensive makeup and luxury items, with the most expensive gift being an Audi Q7.

Xiao Xianlü, who grew up in a small place, had never seen such a scene before. Although she was already married, whenever she thought about her husband, who was also a worker, she felt he was unambitious. So, she had an affair with her boss behind her husband’s back and even got pregnant.

But the boss was almost fifty, and his daughter was already in college, so naturally, he wasn’t going to divorce his wife.

Therefore, he proposed to buy a villa to support Xiao Xianlü and give her thirty thousand a month as spending money.

Xiao Xianlü could not resist this temptation; being supported for free, spending a lot of money every month without having to work, which was much better than staying with her current husband.

But there’s no such thing as free lunch in this world. The condition for the boss’s support was that Xiao Xianlü must divorce her current husband and must bear a son.

Without a second thought, Xiao Xianlü agreed, then called her husband, started by ruthlessly belittling him, then revealed her affair, and finally kicked him out, planning to start divorce proceedings soon after.

“Tsk tsk tsk! Truly, when men get money they turn bad, and when women turn bad, they get money!”

Li Ping’an couldn’t help but interject when he heard this.

Wanyan Mengwen rolled her eyes at Li Ping’an and continued narrating the case:

This case was supposed to be concluded, but then when Xiao Xianlü went to the hospital for a pregnancy test, it was discovered she was expecting a girl. The boss immediately showed his true colors, considering that he was already tired of her, decided to break up, and demanded that Xiao Xianlü return all the money he had spent on her.

Since being with the boss, Xiao Xianlü had grown accustomed to a lavish lifestyle, often visiting high-end places and spending all her money on designer bags. Naturally, she had no money left to repay, and the shrewd boss immediately gathered his wife to confront Xiao Xianlü together.

His wife sued Xiao Xianlü on the grounds of jointly-owned marital property. The court ruled in favor of the boss, forcing Xiao Xianlü to return the money and the car, meaning all this time, she had let the boss take advantage of her for free.

To add insult to injury, Xiao Xianlü’s husband grew increasingly angry the more he thought about it, both for her betrayal, humiliation, and looking down on him, and because he had spent two hundred thousand on the dowry when they got married.

The two hundred thousand for the dowry was borrowed by her husband’s family and had not been paid back yet, whereas Xiao Xianlü’s family had only given three quilts as a dowry.

Her husband called Xiao Xianlü to tell her he would only agree to a divorce if she returned the two hundred thousand dowry. Otherwise, he was prepared to fight her to the end. But since Xiao Xianlü had already spent all the dowry money during her time with the boss, she naturally refused to return it but insisted on the divorce.

Xiao Xianlü’s betrayal of the marriage and her refusal to return the two hundred thousand dowry meant her honest husband, facing a heap of debts, exposed the matter through social media.

The public outcry was immediate, causing Xiao Xianlü to be shamed from her old home all the way to Hehuang City. Outraged netizens began condemning and insulting her online, plunging an ignorant Xiao Xianlü into depression.

After her husband exposed the affair online, he committed suicide by drinking pesticide. Then her mother-in-law, armed with sulfuric acid, found Xiao Xianlü and disfigured her face.

Played and abandoned by the wealthy, exposed by her husband, and disfigured by her mother-in-law, Xiao Xianlü couldn’t handle the immense stress and impulsively jumped to her death from the Silver Dragon Tower!

“My God, the modern Little Immortal Lü is too terrifying. After hearing about this case, I’m scared of getting married!”

Li Ping’an commented.

“Hey! Can you stop interrupting! I haven’t even finished and you keep cutting me off!”

“Okay, okay, I won’t interrupt anymore, I won’t interrupt. Continue, please.”