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Chapter 33: Portrait

Cao Qian glanced at Xing Ye and silently took a tissue, gently wiping away Zeng Jingrou's tears.

The ghost resumed its fierce and malicious appearance, its expression proving she was indeed an evil spirit.

Xing Ye just ignored her as he tried to link everything together.

"Who Killed Cock Robin" was a clue. The robin in the nursery was Liu Muqing; she was outstanding, beautiful, and had a healthy rivalry with Lin Jingxue. At the start, there wasn't a problem. Unfortunately, somebody just had to be the sparrow. Envious of the two, she took Lin Xingxue's expensive watch and put it in Liu Muqing's locker.

There were also the birds in the nursery rhyme. At the very start, they were very indifferent: the housefly saw the robin die and the fish even caught the robin's blood. But then suddenly, the winds changed, and they began to grieve for robin's death inconsolably and the birds would put sparrow in the next court trial.

It was just like how after Liu Muqing was framed for stealing, the whole school treated her coldly and believed her to be guilty. She was poor but outstanding; outstanding enough to attract envy and poor enough to attract discrimination. They all took the chance to trample over her pride.

Liu Muqing, bearing a heart full of torment, was dazed, and without knowing what actually happened, fell off the stairs and died. After that, the birds all realized their deeds had actually harmed somebody, and the guilt made them shift their feelings onto Lin Jingxue.

She killed Liu Muqing. It was her fault. It had nothing to do with me. By thinking like that, they would feel less guilty.

As such, the birds started to mourn the wrongfully killed Robin and decided to try Sparrow in court.

But Lin Jingxue wasn't the real sparrow. Furthermore, her father's report and Liu Muqing dying right in front of her made her feel enormous stress. Could a first-year high school student really bear such pressure?

The answer was no.

She had money. Xing Ye frequently used the power of money and knew buying poison wasn't anything difficult.

The real Sparrow who had caused the two girls' tragic deaths was still alive. The girl who entered the locker room first in the video- it was her.

After solving the mystery about Robin and Room 404, a new enigma appeared.

Logically speaking, the human head in the girls bathroom should be Liu Muqing. She fell to death, so she should've had an intact corpse. But if that was the case, why was she looking for her head? Could Miss Human Head have something to do with the weeping Mona Lisa or the youth running around campus hugging a head?

Why did Lin Jingxue leave behind the rhyme Cock Robin when she died? The sheet music with errors that Cao Qian took was most likely hers.

What about the headmaster? What was his role in all of this? Earlier, after hearing Xing Ye had broken the piano, he had recommended for Xing Ye to go to the political education prep room. He directly revealed the location of Room 404 to Xing Ye.

The headmaster clearly knew the inside story, but he chose to not expose the housefly. So then, why did he say that now?

With every question answered, countless more emerged. They only had one day left and tomorrow evening, they would be going to find the youth running around with a human head. They could only hope Di Kuang's group would find new leads by then.

"The sheet music is with you, right? Let's give it to Zeng Jingrou." Xing Ye told Cao Qian after thinking everything over.

The whole time, Cao Qian had been hiding it under her pillow. She directly took it out and gave it to Zeng Jingrou. Zeng Jingrou flipped through the handwritten sheet music and her eyes immediately started to water again. "Thank you. This is my sister's writing. It's my sister's handwriting, although I'm not sure when she wrote it."