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Feng Xunyu paused, breathing slightly heavier, a thin layer of sweat forming on her forehead.
Sixuan took out a small iron box, red and black in color, about the size of a palm. With a click, she opened it and poured out a few Meiji Juice Candies, offering them to Feng Xunyu with a gentle voice. "Have some candy; it might make you feel better."
Feng Xunyu shook her head lightly, her eyes filled with sadness and exhaustion. Seeing this, Sixuan popped all the candies into her mouth, chewing as she asked casually, "And then he committed suicide?"
"Yes, he was a stubborn child. Though obedient and sensible, he couldn't stand being wronged."
Feng Xunyu sighed deeply, an endless sense of sorrow reflected in her eyes as if she were transported back to that painful night.
"He didn't buy the robot; he spent the tuition fee elsewhere," Sixuan said with a deep gaze, as if she already knew everything.
"How do you know that?" Feng Xunyu asked curiously, her eyes wide with confusion as she looked at Sixuan.
But Sixuan did not answer. She merely turned her neck slightly and said blankly, "Continue."
Feng Xunyu nodded, took a deep breath to steady her emotions, and continued her story. "The next day, in the evening, residents nearby discovered Yin Xuan's body downstairs from my house! Amid our grief, we immediately called the police. They confirmed through investigation that Yin Xuan had jumped from the rooftop.
Meanwhile, they found Yin Xuan's Testament in our home. The gist of the Testament was: 'No one believes me; I am in so much pain. I feel like there's no meaning in living anymore.' After authentication, it was indeed written in Yin Xuan's own handwriting.
Thus, the police concluded that Yin Xuan had walked to the rooftop and committed suicide.
"Disaster never comes alone. On the night of Yin Xuan's death, my sister Feng Guyu also went missing. At first, everyone thought she was heartbroken over Yin Xuan's death and had gone out to clear her mind, so they didn't pay much attention. But on the third day after Yin Xuan's death, Guyue still hadn't returned home. Her phone was also turned off, and we had no way to contact her. It was only then that our parents realized Guyue was missing!"
"Next, although everyone was still in immense pain over Yin Xuan's death, we had no choice but to force ourselves to pull together and search for Guyue. During our search for Guyue, something happened that I will never forget.
"That day, a classmate of Yin Xuan—a young boy—came to my house and found my parents. The boy told us something completely unexpected: he had grown up in a single-parent family, as his father had passed away shortly after he was born, and he had been raised solely by his mother.
However, fate took a cruel turn. Not long ago, the boy's mother was diagnosed with skin cancer, and the doctors informed him that the mortality rate for this type of cancer was as high as ninety percent. In despair, the boy confided in his classmate and good friend, Feng Yinxuan.
Upon learning this, Feng Yinxuan gave the boy her three hundred dollars in tuition fees to help treat his mother (a ten-year-old child does not understand that three hundred dollars is essentially negligible for a patient with skin cancer). The boy was extremely grateful and, in return, gifted Feng Yinxuan his birthday present from this year—a Bumblebee Robot.
In the end, the boy hoped that Feng Yinxuan could keep this a secret and not let anyone know about his mother's illness. Feng Yinxuan readily agreed."
"The truth turned out to be like this? Did we wrong Yin Xuan? Did Yin Xuan jump off the building to prove her innocence because she was wronged?" Feng Xunyu's voice trembled as he spoke, tears of regret filling his eyes.
"My parents and I were left dumbfounded after hearing the boy's account; our faces froze in shock, as if we were nailed to the ground, unable to move.
After a long while, we finally regained our senses. At that moment, my feelings could only be described with four words—intertwined regret. I imagined my parents felt the same way."
"Yin Xuan has left us forever, and Guyue is missing with no word on her fate. My parents and I were engulfed in immense sorrow every day, living lifelessly with tears streaming down our faces. This continued for over a month. Just when we thought we might begin to heal from our grief, the police cruelly delivered another piece of bad news.
They said they had finally found Guyue; however, when they located her, she was already a decaying corpse!"
"Guyue's body was found by the seaside. Her skin had been eroded by seawater. During the autopsy, forensic experts determined from the degree of decomposition that Guyue had been dead for at least thirty days and had been floating at sea for over twenty days.
"And just like that, I lost my younger brother and my twin sister. My parents too—they lost two children overnight. My brother died because of us, while the murderer of my sister remains at large."
I lived in the shadows, surrounded by guilt, sorrow, and fear. To escape the darkness, I bid farewell to my parents and left HZ City, settling down in the southern C City.
Feng Xunyu paused for a moment, gathering his thoughts and clearing his throat before continuing with another story.
"Murong Sixuan, do you know? Ever since I was a child, I have loved reading detective novels. I’ve read many foreign classics and was captivated by the various ingenious plots within those stories. My childhood dream was to become a detective, using reasoning to uncover the wrongdoers.
Although I have matured as I grew older and many of my childhood ideas have changed, this particular dream has never wavered—despite living in a country where detectives are almost nonexistent.
"So when I arrived in G City, I started working at a private detective agency. Although I could only be an assistant to the 'detective,' I was still quite satisfied.
However, as time passed, I discovered that our work mainly involved investigating extramarital affairs and finding lost cats and dogs. If we were lucky, we might encounter a missing persons case, but murder cases were completely out of reach. This was far from the detective work I had envisioned.
"Moreover, those so-called 'detectives' didn’t solve problems through reasoning: when dealing with extramarital affairs, they would merely follow someone for a bit, snap a few photos, and install some hidden cameras; when searching for pets, they would just run around aimlessly like looking for a needle in a haystack.
This was so far removed from the grand images of Holmes, Poirot, and Ellery that I had in my mind!"
"So, I resolutely resigned and left G City for L City. After that, I opened my own Feng Xunyu Detective Agency and began promoting it online. Since the agency is still in its early stages, there’s only me as a member for now. I am the chairman and head of Feng Xunyu Detective Agency while also taking on the role of detective when receiving client commissions.
Oh, by the way, now the agency isn’t just me anymore; there’s you too, my good assistant—Murong Sixuan! Haha. The case that occurred at The Crescent Moon two days ago was our agency's first case solved!"
Sixuan yawned at this point and said blankly, "The mystery of your sister Feng Guyu's murder will be our second case to solve."
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