No, no, this isn't about being filial or not...
You're being too filial, child.
As a father, Lu Mingran felt he was already moved to tears, but if he had a child in the future, and the child innocently held up a rabbit and asked his father how he planned to kill it, Lu Mingran would definitely choose to beat him up.
It's so difficult; being the father of a villain is incredibly tough.
"Dad, just tell me straight, how do you plan to kill those people?"
Braised, spicy, or with chopped chili peppers?
"System..." Lu Mingran asked, "Can the Ouija board write words?"
"Well, within the setting of this world, it's possible."
Okay, anyway, Zhang Tianshi has never seen his father's letters or anything like that, so he won't be exposed.
Thinking of this, Lu Mingran regained control of the pencil and began to write crookedly:
"Don't hit people."
This was the first thing the old father said to his son after they met.
Such a simple and humble wish, can't you just grant your father's wish?
Zhang Tianshi, after seeing these words, was stunned for a long time, then burst into laughter:
"Don't hit people? Do you know how much bullying my mother and I have suffered since you left?"
His mother was evicted by the landlord, almost gave birth to him on the street, and then passed away in tears when he was four years old.
He doesn't hit people? But others have already beaten him up and left him covered in bruises!
"Dad, if I hadn't hit people... I wouldn't be alive today."
Finally, Lu Mingran heard the most normal thing Zhang Tianshi said all night:
"Dad, I miss you so much."
His lips trembled as he uttered those few words.
Who could have imagined that the fearsome Zhang Tianshi would be so aggrieved and so vulnerable in a classroom late at night?
well.
Lu Mingran stared intently at the person in front of her, then raised her wrist again.
Sunday. He wrote down the date of the accident.
Let's not talk about anything else for now, but at least, don't hit anyone that day.
After writing this, Lu Mingran let go of the pencil. He saw it fall downwards because it was out of his control, and he saw Zhang Tianshi grab it in alarm.
Looking at the date, the clever Zhang Tianshi understood something and kept stroking it with his fingers.
As Lu Mingran was about to leave, he stood at the classroom door and looked back, seeing that Zhang Tianshi had not left yet.
The man carefully pressed the paper to his chest, leaning against the window, staring blankly outside, muttering repeatedly, "Okay, okay, Daddy, he won't hit me anymore, he won't hit me anymore..."
Lu Mingran closed her eyes tightly for a moment, then turned and left.
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Lu Mingran remained silent from the way back to the bathroom.
"What's wrong?" the system asked with concern.
"It's nothing. It's my first time being someone's father, so I'm not used to it yet."
Lu Mingran put on his clothes and saw his face in the mirror again, but this time, his eyes were inexplicably red—for Zhang Tianshi, and for those innocent victims.
When Lu Mingran came out of the bathroom, it was raining heavily outside.
He rushed home and immediately felt the dampness inside. Besides that, while changing clothes, Lu Mingran noticed something was wrong in the living room.
On the wall below the TV...
The paint on the wall is peeling off.
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Not long after, Lu Mingran knocked on Wei Jiangyan's door, carrying his beloved floral sheet in her arms.
Chapter 26 Want to know the formation? No way (12)
Lu Mingran had heard some noise about that wall a few days ago, but he didn't take it seriously at the time.
When Lu Mingran returned home today, he was startled by the wall. After the carefully painted white paint peeled off, a reddish-brown stain was revealed in front of him.
In this world of supernatural tales, anything reddish-brown can generally be assumed to be bloodstains.
Lu Mingran was afraid that when he woke up, there would either be a reddish-brown human-shaped stain on the ceiling, or a child's face smiling at him on the wall. To be on the safe side, he immediately decided to flee with his floral sheet.
The only place he could escape to was Wei Jiangyan's house.
Just like last time, Wei Jiangyan opened the door very quickly.
For some reason, after listening to Lu Mingran's jumbled narration, Wei Jiangyan was not surprised at all. She calmly turned to the side and let Lu Mingran come in first.
"Um, Lu Mingran..."
Just as Lu Mingran finally breathed a sigh of relief and shamelessly started rummaging through the refrigerator for potato chips, Wei Jiangyan remembered something and said:
"You'd better sleep in my living room tonight."
Um?
Lu Mingran's hard-won composure from the panic vanished instantly.
The last time he went to Su Yun's house, he slept in the living room. He didn't mind that time, since he was seen as a pervert by Su Yun, and they didn't have that kind of relationship.
But Wei Jiangyan is different. At least, the way they met was... a bit more normal than Su Yun's experience, right?
Facing Lu Mingran's questioning gaze, Wei Jiangyan spoke with difficulty:
"If you don't want to, you can go to my room first."
Last time Lu Mingran came to his house, she only ate a meal and didn't go to the bedroom. This time, Wei Jiangyan suddenly looked forward to Lu Mingran's reaction after seeing his bedroom.
Lu Mingran looked at him warily, then at the half-open bedroom door, and asked cautiously:
"Then can you tell me first what's inside?"
"It's the same wall as your living room."
After a pause, Wei Jiangyan continued:
"The enhanced version."
If Wei Jiangyan had just been talking, that would have been one thing, but he deliberately moved to the bedroom door and gently pushed it open—
Everything inside the house was clearly visible.
Lu Mingran walked to Wei Jiangyan's house.
Lu Mingran ran back to her home.
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The next morning, after calming down, Lu Mingran remembered that the house where Wei Jiangyan lived was the place where Zhang Tianshi used to live, which was why there was that fragrance in the old house.
As for the things on the walls of their homes, they're probably related to Zhang Tianshi. Judging from Wei Jiangyan's expression, these things are probably just a bit unsightly and don't have any real impact.
So, how much does Wei Jiangyan know about Zhang Tianshi now?
In the novel, Wei Jiangyan also went to the orphanage where Zhang Tianshi lived. From that moment on, he truly began to understand the enemy he was about to face.
If only we could erase the traces Zhang Tianshi left at the orphanage...
Lu Mingran was lost in her thoughts when suddenly there was a knock on the door.
It was Wei Jiangyan; he looked like he hadn't slept well all night. Seeing that Lu Mingran was in good spirits, Wei Jiangyan smiled and said, "You're a bit better than your last tenant here."
Ultimately, perhaps it's because Lu Mingran, though a bit timid, has never done anything wrong.
The people who lived here a long time ago were so frightened by the things in the house that they confessed to everything they had done, which was basically equivalent to "social death," and they moved away not long after.
After saying that, Wei Jiangyan handed something to Lu Mingran:
"This is something left behind by the previous tenant of my room. I've tried it, and it works quite well."
It was a rusty iron nail, somewhat eerie. It seems that Zhang Tianshi really didn't pack up properly when he moved, leaving quite a few trinkets for Wei Jiangyan.
"You'll be fine if you nail it to that stain."
Jiang Yan tried this nail, and it seems that those dirty things are afraid of it.
"Also, I'm not going home on Sunday," Wei Jiangyan added.
Lu Mingran knew that Wei Jiangyan was going to the hospital on Sunday to visit his sick colleague and would happen to run into Shao Xiaoshu late at night.
At that time, the classmates who were supposedly in a car accident had already been pronounced dead in the hospital, while Shao Xiaoshu was arguing with someone about where the accident actually happened.
I don't know if my son is obedient or if he did what I said...
Sigh, Jicheng, he really doesn't give his father a moment's peace.
Thinking of this, Lu Mingran frowned.
"What's wrong?" Wei Jiangyan asked quickly when she saw his worried look. "Did something happen last night?"
"It's fine."
Lu Mingran gave a mature, warm, and amiable smile:
“You wouldn’t understand even if I told you. I have a son, you don’t.”
...
A minute later, Wei Jiangyan personally entered Lu Mingran's house with a hammer and nails, and started banging on the wall in the living room. Lu Mingran couldn't stop him.
Not long after, the downstairs neighbor, disturbed by the noise, opened his window and started yelling.
"Stop cursing, someone's possessed again. I think this one's pretty powerful, it's an old guy!"