Return to before death

"Liu Xinyin, if you dare touch her, I'll make you wish you were dead. Want to try?" Sheng Xuanling's icy voice echoed in Liu Xinyin's mind.

Has he already discovered...?

No, not possible!

She forced herself to calm down, her gaze towards Yan Ran turning into hatred; this was the man who had stolen her away.

When you dig your fingers in hard, besides the smell of disinfectant, there's also a faint smell of blood in the air.

"Pfft." Yan Ran sneered. She was powerless right now, otherwise she wouldn't have been bullied like this by Liu Xinyin.

But she still refused to admit defeat. Even though she was on top of Liu Xinyin, her aura was a thousand times stronger than Liu Xinyin's, as if Liu Yunyin, not her, was the one being confronted head-on.

"What are you laughing at..." Liu Xinyin hurriedly let go of her hand. Yan Ran's laughter was exactly the same as Sheng Xuanling's, and bad memories were stirred up in her mind.

However, after a moment, her expression returned to normal, and she gracefully reached out to help Yan Ran up.

"I'm sorry, I was too emotional just now. After all..." Liu Xinyin paused slightly, her expression softening as if she had thought of something happy, "After all, my fiancé was so seriously injured, and you happened to be sitting next to him, so I naturally assumed you were Mrs. Zong..."

She didn't say the rest, but the words "fiancé" and "Mrs. Zong" were enough to spark the imagination.

“I know that Xuanling likes to have affairs outside, and I always have to clean up the mess afterward. Since Mrs. Zong is here, I’ll just make things clear to her.” Seeing that Sheng Xuanling didn’t stop her, she became more and more enthusiastic, looking at Yan Ran with a smug expression.

See? Sheng Xuanling is on her side, while Yan Ran is nothing to her.

Judging from what just happened, he asked Yan Ran to feed him water because he was unable to move around easily. If she were here, the situation would be the same. Anyone could do it.

Therefore, Yan Ran is not special.

Liu Xinyin comforted herself in this way. Even Sheng Xuanling's sister agreed to the marriage, so she was determined to get this young mistress of the Sheng family.

“Xuanling likes to sulk with me. When he does, he goes out and finds other women to make me angry, so please forgive him, Mrs. Zong.” Liu Xinyin lowered her head, shyly glancing at Sheng Xuanling, looking like a newlywed couple.

Little did they know that the two of them were watching her orchestrate this whole thing with cold indifference, no one saying a word or stopping her.

They treated it as a farce, as an extra form of entertainment.

"Mrs. Zong?" Liu Xinyin looked up, puzzled. Why hadn't she replied to her after talking until her throat was dry? Had she already decided to give up?

The confusion on her face instantly turned into ecstatic joy. How come she only thought of this now when it was so easy to solve? Wasn't this how she always dealt with those women?

"Are you done talking?" Yan Ran leaned lazily against the table, looking down and playing with her nails. "If you're done talking, you can get lost. Has no one ever told you that you're really annoying?"

The cruelest humiliation is not reopening someone's wounds, but completely disregarding them!

Liu Xinyin was furious. Oh, so all she said was a lie!

“My fiancé is here, and you’re the one who should leave.” She stood up, meeting Yan Ran’s gaze head-on with a defiant look.

"This is a hospital, and unfortunately, I'm sharing a room with your fiancé." After saying this, Yan Ran ignored her expression and went straight to her bed to lie down.

She's not afraid of trouble, but she hates trouble that comes out of nowhere.

She remembered that she and Liu Xinyin were complete strangers, except for the last time she went to see Sheng Xuanling when she was in a hurry and Liu Xinyin stopped her.

"You!" Liu Xinyin stomped her foot angrily and slammed the door shut.

Once she left, the whole world became quiet, with only the breathing sounds of Yan Ran and Sheng Xuanling remaining.

Gradually, their breathing became calm, and upon closer inspection, it turned out that they had both fallen asleep.

Perhaps they've been too tired lately and haven't been able to rest properly, especially Yan Ran, whose physical strength isn't very good to begin with, and who has been working day and night on the case.

A week later, Yan Ran's injuries had almost healed, and she resumed her investigation on the third day.

But mainly it was to avoid Zong Zhengqing. Ever since he found out she was in this hospital, he's been coming here every few days. He doesn't find it annoying, but she can't stand it.

"Do you know why the elevator in that building we went to last time didn't have a fifteenth floor?" After all, Sheng Xuanling was her savior, and she always distinguished between gratitude and resentment.

She casually asked a question, then lowered her head and gently blew on the soup in her hand to make sure it wasn't too hot before feeding it to his lips.

She's been taking care of him these past few days, except for Liu Xinyin who came a few times, but each time she came she ran into Yan Ran there, and naturally she left in a sorry state.

After that, Liu Xinyin never came again, and Sheng Xuanling was even ridiculed by Yan Ran for this, saying that her charm was nothing special.

"Hmm? Why?" Sheng Xuanling obediently opened her mouth and drank the soup in the spoon, pursing her lips as if savoring the taste.

Every time Yan Ran fed him, she would talk about the developments in the case. Although he had already received the news before her, he still listened to her talk with great interest.

“They said that the floor was abandoned because someone died there, and the place where the person died was 1503.” Yan Ran’s voice unconsciously became softer, as if she were whispering, and she said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, “Ever since then, strange sounds have been coming from that floor every night, and it sounds like someone is calling out a name.”

During the conversation, the soup in the spoon dwindled again, and she helplessly repeated the action.

Sheng Xuanling raised an eyebrow. He hadn't heard Qin Zhiyuan mention what Yan Ran had said this time. Was he intentionally hiding it from him?

Qin Zhiyuan, who was at the police station racking his brains over a case, suddenly sneezed. He rubbed his nose, wondering who was cursing him, and felt a chill run down his spine.

"The reason the fifteenth floor disappeared is because of this incident. You can't just tear it down, right? So those real estate developers had to renovate it again and deliberately bury the fifteenth floor. They just removed the elevator that was originally on the fifteenth floor. Generally, unless something happens, no one would be so bored as to go to the fifteenth floor to look. Moreover, whether it's the fourteenth floor to the fifteenth floor or the sixteenth floor to the fifteenth floor, there will be something blocking the stairwell so that no one can go to the so-called fifteenth floor."

Yan Ran paused slightly and told Sheng Xuanling everything she knew.

"I didn't expect the murderer to be so clever, taking advantage of this feature of the building to trigger our fear." Yan Ran smiled faintly. "The disappearance of the fifteenth floor, the fleeting shadow, the empty building, and the sweltering weather show that the murderer paid great attention to the right time, place, and people. None of these can be missing."

“Indeed, if one element is missing, it would be difficult to ignite our inner turmoil, which would then turn into panic and ultimately lead to a breakdown. However, he calculated so much, but he overlooked the fact that the three of us have stronger mental fortitude than he imagined.” Sheng Xuanling picked up on Yan Ran’s words and fell into deep thought.

From this series of calculations, it can be seen that the murderer is someone who understands human psychology very well. Could he be a psychologist like Ye Ting?

People in the same profession are more likely to experience friction.

However, Ye Ting may also be the one who destroyed Zhang Xinyi's body, as she holds key information in Zhang Xinyi's case.

For a time, disagreements arose regarding the case.