Hearing Du Yu say this, the two hurried over to inspect Xiao Nian's wrists. Sure enough, the bloody marks that had still been there last night had now vanished without a trace.
"So what does this mean?" Xie Bi'an asked in confusion. "Where's Xiao Nian?"
Although Du Yu felt deeply sorry for this girl who had died such an unjust death, he did not even know who she was. All he could do was wipe her face a few times, revealing her true appearance.
Xie Bi'an and Fan Wujiao both cried out in surprise. Only then did they realize someone had put makeup on this girl to make them mistake her for Xiao Nian.
"So that's it... someone killed this girl and disguised her as Xiao Nian, hoping to drive a wedge between me and Old Eight," Xie Bi'an murmured. "But who would do that? This person knows all three of us, and knows me, Old Eight, and Xiao Nian very well..."
Du Yu gave a bitter smile. If he had failed to figure it out just now and insisted that the dead girl was Xiao Nian, things would have been very different once Xie Bi'an noticed something wrong himself.
The suspect Xie Bi'an described could only have been him.
Although Xie Bi'an did harbor some suspicions about Du Yu, he knew that since Du Yu had exposed the deception himself, he could not be the one behind it.
"But where's the real Xiao Nian?" Fan Wujiao asked blankly.
"Do you think... this might be possible?" Du Yu asked tentatively. "The person Seventh Master mentioned, the one who 'knows you very well,' is Xiao Nian herself."
"You mean..." Xie Bi'an was clever to begin with, and the slightest hint from Du Yu was enough for him to understand. "Xiao Nian...