From Xiang Yuntian's perspective, Bai Mengfei's childlike face was now filled with sorrow.

She frowned slightly, lost in thought. Such a deep expression seemed out of place on her soft and cute face, like a few strokes of heavy sorrow suddenly added to a childlike painting.

Xiang Yuntian parked the car steadily in the garage, but did not rush to get out. Instead, he quietly observed Bai Mengfei's expression with his gentle gaze, as if he found great interest in her reaction.

A faint smile played on his lips as he asked softly, "What are you thinking about?"

Bai Mengfei looked up in surprise, only to realize that the car had already come to a complete stop.

She paused, then replied softly, "I was thinking about Zhang Shun."

"He's not the murderer!"

Xiang Yuntian spoke with certainty and unhurriedness, uttering this sentence.

"what?"

Bai Mengfei's eyes widened, filled with surprise and confusion.

Is this for real? In her memory, she clearly saw that the person who killed her was Zhang Shun. That bloody and painful scene still haunts her mind.

Now, Xiang Yuntian has actually come to this conclusion with his eyes wide open.

"Aren't you hungry?" Seeing that he had piqued the other person's interest, Xiang Yuntian suddenly seemed to want to tease him.

She deliberately ignored her shock and subtly changed the subject.

"I want to know, who is the murderer?!" Bai Mengfei was extremely anxious, and a series of questions came out of her mouth, her eyes full of urgency and unwillingness.

Xiang Yuntian, however, seemed not to hear him, and put on a fawning smile.

Her eyes were wet and she stared at Bai Mengfei innocently, like a puppy, and she blurted out, "I'm hungry."

Seeing his expression, Bai Mengfei sighed helplessly, "Alright, alright, let's eat first."

Before long, Bai Mengfei sat down at the dining table with a stern face.

In front of her, Xiang Yuntian was wolfing down instant noodles.

"What evidence do you have that Zhang Shun is not the murderer?"

She couldn't suppress her curiosity after all.

"Ah."

Xiang Yuntian didn't even look up, continuing to devour his food as if the instant noodles were some kind of delicacy, and he couldn't bear to waste a single bite.

"Then tell me, I..." Bai Mengfei wanted to ask more, but was quickly interrupted again.

"I'm thirsty."

Xiang Yuntian interrupted her unhurriedly.

Bai Mengfei clenched her small fists, looking frustrated.

After a moment's thought, she reluctantly got up and poured him a glass of water.

Xiang Yuntian stretched out his slender, fair hand, with distinct knuckles and beautiful lines, and gently grasped the transparent water glass.

He gently put down the water glass, and only after hearing the slight clinking sound did he speak, his words filled with undisguised joy: "Now, you can get angry with me."

"I didn't!" Bai Mengfei subconsciously wanted to refute, but as the various actions she had just taken in a fit of pique flashed through her mind, her voice gradually lowered.

"Do you still remember the two knife wounds on your back?" Xiang Yuntian suddenly cut to the chase.

Upon hearing this, Bai Mengfei subconsciously reached behind her back, then realized that he was referring to her murder case, not her current self.

"The two wounds were not far apart, but the places where they were stabbed were completely different. One was directly pierced into the heart, while the other was less than five centimeters off, but it cleverly avoided the vital organs."

“You are 166 cm tall, and Zhang Shun is 178 cm tall. Even if you are facing away from him, and both of you are standing, given his height and angle, plus the simulation I did on the spot, it would be very difficult for him to hit your vital point with one strike.”

Xiang Yuntian explained clearly and logically.

“But Zhang Shun himself confessed.” Bai Mengfei was full of surprise.

She initially assumed that someone else had dismembered the body, since Zhang Shun's skills were probably insufficient for the task. However, she never imagined that even the real killer might have hidden motives.

Xiang Yuntian tapped his fingers lightly on the table, seemingly organizing his thoughts in his mind.

After a moment, he said, "But you're right, we can't rule out that possibility."

"However, from another perspective, it's also possible that after he stabbed you, he saw you lying motionless on the ground and, due to his nervousness, mistakenly thought you were dead. In the end, it was a second person who struck, causing you a truly fatal wound. So if this is true, then no matter what, Zhang Shun at most had the motive and the action to kill, but whether he actually succeeded is hard to say."

Bai Mengfei was stunned; she had never considered such a complicated situation.

If what Xiang Yuntian said is true, Zhang Shun was at most guilty of attempted murder.

Just then, before Bai Mengfei could react, Xiang Yuntian suddenly started taking off his clothes.

"You...you, you, what are you doing? Put your clothes on right now. Haven't you heard that men and women shouldn't touch each other?" Bai Mengfei exclaimed, turning around in a panic, trying to forget the abs she had only caught a glimpse of.

Seeing Bai Mengfei's eyes widen like copper bells, Xiang Yuntian suddenly snapped out of his daze and hurriedly tried to put his sweater back on.

He scratched his head awkwardly: "Sorry, I almost forgot you're still at home."

After finally getting dressed, he first looked Bai Mengfei up and down, then chuckled: "Men and women shouldn't touch each other?"

"Please, who am I talking to, you?"

Xiang Yuntian walked up to Bai Mengfei, bent down slightly, and gently rubbed her head, making her soft, short hair all messy.

"Come on, call me brother." For some reason, looking at that puffed-up little round face, even though Xiang Yuntian knew that she was still the proud Bai Mengfei at heart, he inexplicably felt that the distance between them had shortened a lot.

"Hmph, I'm almost ten years older than you, and you're the one who calls me 'sister'," Bai Mengfei emphasized angrily.

"You said it yourself, 'close to,' which means not quite. Let's round it off, then we're the same age."

Xiang Yuntian chuckled and pinched the baby fat that hadn't faded from her face, laughing for a while.

When he saw her gloomy face, as if she was about to erupt like a volcano, he dashed into the bathroom to take a shower.

……

Bai Mengfei rolled her eyes at him and went back to her room to rest.

Wearing Xiang Yuntian's oversized sportswear, she lay on the bed with one hand under her head, her mind replaying the bizarre and strange experiences of the past few days.

Suddenly, she remembered the way Xiang Yuntian had rested his chin on her shoulder in the police station.

Her heart skipped a beat, and she frantically shook her head, trying to clear her mind. She didn't know how much time had passed before she finally drifted off to sleep.

As dawn broke, sunlight playfully peeked through the gaps in the curtains, casting dappled patterns of light and shadow on Bai Mengfei's fair and delicate face.

Perhaps feeling the gentle caress of the sunlight, Bai Mengfei groggily opened her eyes. Upon seeing the completely unfamiliar surroundings, she was instantly stunned. The simple, bright room felt somewhat empty, and the huge floor-to-ceiling window beside the bed, covered by curtains, further confirmed her belief that everything that had happened recently was real. This wasn't her home; she had truly been reborn and was living in Xiang Yuntian's house.

"You're awake? Then come out and eat." Xiang Yuntian's handsome face appeared through the crack in the door.

His short, wispy bangs, as if he had just washed his face and it was still wet, accentuated his extraordinary handsomeness. It wasn't until she saw Xiang Yuntian's face again that Bai Mengfei began to feel a little more real about the situation.

She sadly realized that she was dead, and her soul now resided in the body of a little girl of unknown origin. Thinking of this, Bai Mengfei felt a slight bitterness in her heart. She had once thought that all of this was just an absurd dream.

Why did you get up so early? Couldn't you have slept a little longer?

Xiang Yuntian had been laughing more frequently these past few days, and now, looking at Bai Mengfei, his eyes were full of smiles.

"It's almost eight o'clock, that's not early at all."

Bai Mengfei waved her hand, indicating that she was getting up.

After Xiang Yuntian left, she changed her clothes, went to wash up, and then went to the kitchen.

Remembering how Xiang Yuntian rubbed her head yesterday, she struggled to tie her somewhat short hair into a ponytail before leaving the bathroom.

Seeing Bai Mengfei approach, Xiang Yuntian looked up and gestured for her to sit down.

Bai Mengfei then noticed a plate of golden-brown fried dough sticks, still steaming, on the European-style dining table in the kitchen. Smelling the enticing aroma, Bai Mengfei stared at the food with a mixture of surprise and delight, asking in surprise, "When did you go out to buy this?"

"I made it myself. Food from outside isn't clean. Homemade is always better." Xiang Yuntian rolled up his sleeves and poured freshly made soy milk into the bowl in front of Bai Mengfei.

Bai Mengfei was filled with astonishment.

Whether it was today's soy milk and fried dough sticks or yesterday's noodles, she had never heard of Xiang Yuntian being able to cook before.

I never expected this.

……

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