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At 10 PM, the Landlord arrived.
His demeanor was somewhat strange; he was no longer the fierce person I remembered but had become unusually excited.
"Xiao Lin, where's your boyfriend?" he asked me.
"Oh, he's working out of town," I replied.
"Then living here alone must be quite lonely for you."
"How about I introduce you to a boyfriend?"
"No, thank you!" I quickly declined.
The Landlord chuckled, "Xiao Lin, actually, I know a few things."
"Hmm? What things?"
"Actually, your name is Li Li, right?"
I was taken aback.
The Landlord continued, "I saw another Li Li this afternoon."
"Is she you?"
"No, no, no!" I hurriedly denied it. "I'm not Li Li; my name is Lin Shufan!"
"Then how come your work ID says Li Li?"
“It was… it was a mistake made by my colleague…” I stammered.
“Oh, I see…” the Landlord nodded thoughtfully.
“Xiao Lin, do you work at the Four Seas Foot Spa?”
“Yes,” I replied uneasily.
“I visited that place a few times last year, hehehe…” the Landlord chuckled lewdly.
“Are you hiding something from me?” I asked.
“No, no!” the Landlord quickly shook his head. “I was just asking casually.”
He glanced at me again and then laughed, “Oh, I was just teasing you!”
“Xiao Lin, don’t take it to heart!”
“I’ve been a landlord here for over ten years and have seen too many things.”
“Everyone has their secrets; I’m no exception!”
“Did you know? There was once a woman who rented a place from me, and not long after, she got pregnant!”
“At the time, I was puzzled, thinking what her pregnancy had to do with me?”
“Later, I found out she specifically invited men over from the internet to sleep with her!”
"Every time she gets pregnant, she goes to the hospital for an abortion, and then continues to meet those men!"
"She does this to make money!"
"Because she takes on a lot of gigs online, each one earning her several hundred dollars!"
"But not long after, those men found out about her!"
"They beat her up and made her move away!"
"So in the end, she still couldn't make any money!"
After the Landlord finished this story, he glanced at me and said, "Xiao Lin, you’re quite beautiful. You should find a good man to marry."
"Don't waste yourself like that woman..."
The sudden shift in the Landlord's tone left me feeling confused and fearful.
I didn't understand what he meant by his earlier words.
Was he warning me?
Or was there something else behind it?
I didn't know.
The Landlord glanced at me once more before turning to leave.
After he left, I thought for a long, long time.
In the end, I decided to continue renting this place.
Because I had nowhere else to go.
I resolved to pay six months' rent in one go to ensure I could stay in this house.
The landlord was dead.
I stood beside his corpse, looking at his shriveled body, feeling not a single ripple of emotion.
It took me just a few minutes to dismember him into several pieces.
Then I placed the chunks of flesh into a snake-skin bag, tied it tightly, and put the bag in the refrigerator.
I performed this process with great skill, just as I had when working in the shop.
The landlord's body was thin, with little fat, and since he was short, I didn't exert much effort when I killed him.
The only hope I had in my heart was that the landlord could be like a true Lin Shufan, a solitary figure whose sudden disappearance would not attract anyone's attention.
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