"Do you know why a Triangular Relationship is the most stable?"
"Because it has two fulcrums? Whenever one tilts, the others can help support it—or keep it in check?"
"No. Because the key to a triangle is ambiguity. You never know whether your him is his her, or her him. Cough. Anyway, when there are too many possibilities, when everything has to be guessed at, naturally, you hesitate and dare not act."
"Guess?"
"Yes, guess. After something happens, you have to guess whether A did it, whether B pretended A did it, whether A pretended that B pretended A did it, or whether B pretended to be A—"
In a case, the murderer might be the one who profited, or someone who suffered losses pretending to be the beneficiary in order to gain greater long-term benefits. Perhaps. A Matryoshka Doll could go on without end.
"This time, if there were only Zhao Yan and Sun Yi, no matter what happened, they could talk it through. Even if they truly fought, so long as they did not become mortal enemies, they could still sit down and talk properly afterward. But if a third party were added—"
"Then no one could be sure of anyone else. Within this chain of mutual suspicion, there would also be room for me to arrange a few Small Accidents."
"Smash!"
The teacup shattered on the floor like an alarm bell.
The atmosphere instantly grew tense.
Meanwhile, in a manor not far away, a man was smiling.
"When they are utterly tangled up in a three-way guessing game over who did it, how would they ever think that, from the very beginning, there might have been a fourth party outside the game?"
".It was you, Zhao Yan. You again! You poisoned us again!"
The spilled tea instantly