Time went back to last night.
"Attorney Chen, were you really the one who died?"
In the second-floor room, Qin Manjiang looked at the corpse whose face was already unrecognizable and asked quietly.
His gaze swept quickly over the mist at his feet.
The mist was dissipating.
Why was there mist in a room where someone had died? Was it a manifestation of the Vengeful Ghost?
Or... something else?
His fingertips tapped unconsciously against the edge of the bed. Watching the last of the mist dissipate, Qin Manjiang stood up and was about to leave when a man's voice sounded behind him:
"She isn't dead."
Qin Manjiang turned around. The tall doctor, Yan Xiao, was leaning against the doorway.
"You don't seem surprised that I'm still here?" Yan Xiao asked with some curiosity when he saw Qin Manjiang's calm expression.
"I am surprised," Qin Manjiang admitted. "My face just can't show it."
That bizarre explanation made Yan Xiao think Qin Manjiang was brushing him off, so he stopped asking.
In fact, Qin Manjiang was telling the truth.
After learning from Zhong Xueran that the doctor had something wrong with his head, Qin Manjiang had also thought the doctor had gone mad when that situation unfolded earlier. He had not expected most of Yan Xiao's actions to have been an act.
"How do you know she's still alive?" Qin Manjiang asked.
The doctor's expression was fairly calm as he simply looked at the corpse. "She overdid it."
"My scalpel can be used not only on the living, but also on people who have recently died. Only a few people know that, though."
Yan Xiao walked to the window and closely examined the glass and its surroundings. "Chen Yu is one of them. She and I worked together before."
"Look at this