Faced with Chen Miao's questions, Wang Chen held nothing back.
Everything Chen Miao had displayed filled him with both awe and fear.
Soon, Chen Miao had extracted the relevant information from Wang Chen.
But it was not the information Chen Miao wanted.
According to Wang Chen, he had sold the Cherry Blossom Kimono cheaply simply because he thought doing so would let Zhang Xiaoxue and him return to normal.
Ever since obtaining the Cherry Blossom Kimono, Zhang Xiaoxue had become somewhat obsessed.
At first, she had merely liked it in an ordinary way. But after wearing it out to dance and receiving praise from many people, her obsession had grown stronger and stronger.
She had started wearing the kimono to go shopping, then to eat out, and eventually even to sleep.
Whenever anyone said anything bad about the Cherry Blossom Kimono, Zhang Xiaoxue became extraordinarily aggressive.
Zhang Xiaoxue's parents had never considered whether the kimono might be the problem. Instead, they suspected she had fallen in love and been devastated by a breakup.
But Wang Chen's thinking was less conventional, and he had considered many possibilities.
So when Zhang Xiaoxue suddenly fell into a vegetative state, Wang Chen took the kimono out and burned it.
Yet to his horror, when he returned to Zhang Xiaoxue's home, not only had she failed to recover, but the kimono was also sitting intact in its original place.
The kimono's unnatural behavior frightened Wang Chen, and he no longer dared to interfere.
But his earlier attempt to burn it had already gotten him into trouble.
From then on, he dreamed of the Cherry Blossom Kimono when he slept. Sometimes, when his eyes played tricks on him, he would see it too.
That thing had appeared in every aspect of his life.
Until one day,