"Wu Cheng, are you sure director Jiang will call?" The female agent walked around the room anxiously, "Why don't you just go back and admit your mistake to the director."
"What's your hurry? It's only been 21 hours and 36 minutes, are you really worried that director Jiang won't need me?" Wu Cheng's face grinned, but his fingers gripped the leather sofa uneasily, his calves shaking uncontrollably: "Everything is as I expected, the crew is probably in a mess by now."
"Is that so?" The female agent looked at Wu Cheng's shaking legs and wavering eyes, she only had a bitter smile left on her face, "Then let's wait a little longer."
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"Jiang Yi, do you know how much of an impact replacing the main character now will have? Do you know how much effort it took me to bring the company behind them into the fold? Do you really think this drama has that many people thinking about it?"
" I will try to manage the cost, Wu Cheng's salary for the film itself is on the expensive side, completely unreasonable, compared to him the actor I value ..."
"You do not have to continue telling me, the shooting time can be delayed for another three days, I see you also need to calm down." Sister Long hung up the phone after she finished, and only director Jiang and the two screenwriters remained in the room full of smoke.
"Director, does this script still need to be revised?" The screenwriter took out a hat to cover his almost bald head.
"Everyone has worked hard these days, let's take a break first." Director Jiang finished lighting a cigarette and locked himself in the cabin.
Han Fei came out of the shooting site and had a good chat with the victims' families, he wanted to get more information and wanted to know more about his roommates.
What others see as ghosts are roommates living under the same roof in Han Fei's eyes.
He now used the victim's past experiences and memories to make those imaginary ghosts into real people.
"There is no way for them to come back, but I will convey your thoughts and love for them well."
Sitting with the victims' families and listening to their stories of the past, an emotion like no other emerged in Han Fei's mind.
It was as if there was a thread between that eerie netherworld game and this warm real world, a thread that ran through life, death, and time, connecting the two together.
Han Fei sometimes wondered if there was some deeper meaning to the existence of that Perfect Life he was playing.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, Han Fei was about to say goodbye to the victim's family when he suddenly received a call from Li Xue.
Only after he had evaded the victim's family, did Han Fei pick up the phone.
"Have you found anything to do with Meng Changan?"
"Nothing to do with Meng Changan, as the investigation deepened, we found more and more clues, but all these clues point to Meng Changxi!" Li Xue's voice came out from the other side of the phone, "The results of the report from the black house in the ecological forest came out, we found the residue of two people, one is He Shouye's, and the other is Meng Changxi's. In addition, we found the backup video of the road surveillance several years ago, and we found Meng Changxi's figure near the street where He Shouye had his car accident. Now we suspect that He Shouye did not die in a car accident, but was murdered by Meng Changxi."
"Meng Changxi killed He Shouye?" Han Fei put his phone on backend call and then opened the victim relationship map he had created, "Why would he kill He Shouye?"
"Most likely to silence him. Meng Changxi and He Shouye were both murderers, and they were connected in some way that they killed the people whom each other wanted to kill. Meng Changxi killed He Shouye so as not to expose himself."
"Could it be that someone framed Meng Changxi?"
"This possibility cannot be ruled out, and it is for this reason that we have not issued a wanted notice about Meng Changxi." Li Xue's voice changed: "In order to uncover the murderer of the human jigsaw puzzle case, we checked out all the information about He Shouye and Meng Changxi from childhood to adulthood, Meng Changxi disguised himself well, but this guy He Shouye is really a total scum. He is not a local, is married in the countryside to have children, we visited his former neighbors, and took a lot of effort to find his ex-wife."
"Ex-wife?"
"Yes, He Shouye was honest before he got married, but after he got married, he gradually revealed another side, domestic violence, and all kinds of perverted hobbies. At first, He Shouye was still suppressing himself, then He Yuhuai was born, the child grew up weak, but also suffered from congenital diseases, He Shouye treated the mother and son worse and poorer, beating and scolding are the norm, and finally, his wife got sick of it and fled alone."
"He Shouye had repeatedly threatened his wife, saying that if she did not come back obediently, he killed He Yuhuai, forcing his wife to finally call the police, and then later they divorced."
"The couple fought over the house, and neither of them wanted the child with the congenital disease. I heard from their former neighbors that the child was miserable, he had no friends, was kept in the house, lived in fear every day, became a punching bag for his parents, and the sound of the child weeping in the house was never stopped."
"The neighbors most often heard He Shouye's angry roar - why are you weeping? If you weep again, I will choke you to death!"
"According to his neighbors, He Shouye was usually normal, but he would go crazy whenever he heard a child weeping."
"In the end, the property was divided equally between the two sides, and the child, He Yuhuai, was given to his mother. But what happened next was saddening, the mother did not want the child, and once she took He Yuhuai to a faraway place to play hide-and-seek, and in the end, she actually left the child alone."
"He Yuhuai's mother took the money with her to go missing, and after the police found the child, they had to send him to He Shouye. What happened further down the line, as you know, was that the child of a certain tycoon in New Shanghai was suffering from kidney disease, and when He Shouye learned that his child's kidney and the other party happened to be a match, he immediately signed some kind of agreement privately with that tycoon."
"The initial tragedy of this matter started with that child, if one of his relatives could give him a little love and be willing to accept him, then the tragedy that followed should be able to be avoided."
The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you're doing.
That child who lived downstairs from him, always standing alone next to the spiritual altar, a dark shadow whose face could not be seen clearly, kept weeping, constantly playing a game of hide-and-seek with other children who had no end.
"Maybe I should go and stay with that child ..." Han Fei silently recited the name He Yuhuai in his heart, and he was ready to meet the crying side tonight.