I wasn't sure how to tell Skinny and the others about it.
Normally, after looking through the files and experiencing the dream, I should have told them. But this time, the matter touched on a bit of Director Ma's private life, and I found it hard to bring up.
The notebook itself wasn't exactly private. What Director Ma had done was just the sort of thing any ordinary person might do when young, and he probably didn't even know Ruan Yuxia existed.
But when I thought of how Director Ma usually acted, then remembered what was written in the notebook and how Ruan Yuxia had held it, I couldn't bring myself to say anything.
"What's wrong, Brother Qi?" Skinny asked. He'd apparently noticed I was acting strangely.
I thought about it, then told them about the files, leaving out the notebook and Director Ma.
Fatty exclaimed, "That actually worked? Then wouldn't all those weird curses and stuff work too?"
"Was the love spell the same kind of situation?" Chen Xiaoqiu asked.
Her question made me think about it for a while longer.
In Liu Shengxuan, Gu Junze, and Chen Jia's case, one link in the chain was that Liu Shengxuan had used some kind of love spell to make his lover belong to him alone. That little incident was what made him notice something was off about Chen Jia and seek help from Greenleaf. Otherwise, Gu Junze and Chen Jia's scheme would probably have gone unnoticed, and no one would have known anything about it.
I agreed with Chen Xiaoqiu.
That ridiculous love spell had probably worked so easily because the world had changed and Heaven had gone mad.
At noon, Wu Ling called to confirm Director Ma's identity.
"Ma Guoping enrolled at People's Celebration City Jiaotong University in 1990