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Qi Luoling and Liu Siling hurriedly got out of the taxi.
Outside the community, Qi Luoling saw several white police cars with orange and yellow lights flashing on their rooftops.
As they entered the community, they noticed that the entrance to a building not far away was cordoned off with red and white police tape, with several police officers inside and outside the tape.
The road outside the building was crowded with onlookers. Many people were whispering to each other, discussing various rumors.
"Star-crossed lovers," "tragic couple," were phrases that floated past Qi Luoling's ears, leaving her stunned and feeling somewhat strange.
"Please make way," Liu Siling said softly, pushing through the crowd. She noticed some broken glass near a flower bed. Qi Luoling looked up and saw that a window on the third floor had been smashed, and she could vaguely see several police officers moving around inside.
Gu Tianye was actually dead.
Qi Luoling felt a bit dazed, as if in a dream. Just this morning he was alive; how could he suddenly be declared dead?
How did Gu Tianye end up here?
What exactly happened to Gu Tianye?
The shattered window on the third floor resembled a sinister black hole. Qi Luoling struggled to pull her gaze away and staggered forward.
At the entrance of the hallway, there was a sign for Unit Three, and the password door at the entrance was open. A police officer standing nearby stopped Qi Luoling and Liu Siling.
"Do you live in this building?" he asked.
"No, we are family members of the deceased."
"How do you know who the deceased is?" His expression became alert. "How do you know?"
"I called the deceased, and it was your captain who answered the phone. He told me," Qi Luoling replied with difficulty.
"Oh, I see. Xiao Huang, you take him upstairs," he called to another officer.
"How... how did he die?" Liu Siling asked the officer while going upstairs.
"It seems to be carbon monoxide poisoning," the young officer surnamed Huang replied expressionlessly.
Upon reaching the third floor, the entire area had already been sealed off.
The door on the left side of the staircase was wide open, with many police officers coming in and out.
"So many police officers; could it be that carbon monoxide poisoning isn't an accident?" Qi Luoling murmured.
"We're still investigating; for specific details, you'll need to ask Captain Dong," Officer Huang said.
"Dong Captain, there's a family member of the deceased here who says she spoke with you on the phone," he shouted loudly.
A tall officer stepped out, in his forties, with a crew cut and dark skin.
He glanced at her and then asked, "Are you Qi Luoling?"
"Before I tell you the facts, I want to ask you a few questions," he said calmly, pulling out a notebook from his jacket.
Qi Luoling nodded.
"Do you know Nie Xiaoyu?"
Qi Luoling shook her head in confusion.
"I don't know her. Who is she?"
"She is the one who died from carbon monoxide poisoning along with your husband." He looked at her meaningfully and spoke cautiously.
She was stunned.
"According to our understanding, Nie Xiaoyu had an inappropriate relationship with your husband. They had been together for some time," he continued.
Qi Luoling's legs went weak, and she nearly fell. Liu Siling hurried to support her.
Gu Tianye actually had another woman outside, and now he had died with that woman.
Humiliation, anger, pain, and confusion intertwined; her world seemed to collapse in an instant, leaving her unable to find a single point of support in the vast emptiness.
At the same time, facing the abnormal way her husband had left, issues she had never thought to confront surged forth, pale and overwhelming before her, catching her off guard.
"Alright." Dong Ying put away her notebook and pen. "Since you are the deceased's wife, I can tell you some things. This afternoon, a classmate of the female deceased, someone named Rao, came to deliver dog food. After knocking on the door for a long time without anyone answering, she called the deceased. She vaguely heard the deceased's phone ringing inside but no one picked up. Meanwhile, someone from the second floor called property management to report a strong smell of gas and asked them to come check it out. As a result, the police were notified. After breaking the glass, they found your husband and Nie Xiaoyu dead in the bedroom. The cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning. Our investigation revealed signs of a struggle between the two before their deaths. We initially suspect that their deaths were related to emotional entanglements."
Qi Luoling's mind went blank; she couldn't comprehend his words at all.
Mother Liu Siling cried and scolded, "That scoundrel Gu Tianye! How could you betray my daughter and find a mistress outside? Now you have your comeuppance! Poor Ling'er!"
Dong Ying frowned, "Family members shouldn't cry and make a scene here; it will affect our work. Qi Luoling, as the wife of the deceased, I can let you take a look, but only from a distance. We need to maintain the integrity of the scene, so you cannot enter the bedroom."
"Ling'er, let's go. He has acted so ruthlessly; we have no reason to see him," Liu Siling said, pulling Qi Luoling's hand and angrily walking out.
Qi Luoling broke free from her mother's grip and returned to Dong Ying. "I will go with you."
Dong Ying nodded and led Qi Luoling to the bedroom door.
Standing beside Dong Ying, Qi Luoling could already see the entire layout of the bedroom from this angle.
Gu Tianye lay sprawled on the floor beside the bed, his face twisted. One hand was gripping Nie Xiaoyu's hand, while the other clutched a bedpost tightly.
Nie Xiaoyu lay sideways on the floor, one hand reaching forward as if searching for a glimmer of life; her eyes were wide open. In her hollow gaze was a desperate fear.
Qi Luoling glanced at them once before looking away, tears streaming down her face.
As she staggered back to her apartment complex, she struggled to pull out her keys from her bag, her hands trembling so much that she failed to insert them into the lock several times.
After finally managing to unlock the door, she did not turn on the wall lamp. In a daze, she bumped into the wooden door inside, pain jolting her back to harsh reality.
Liu Siling was very worried about her and hoped she would return to the hospital. But she insisted on going home. Unable to persuade her otherwise, Liu Siling had no choice but to let her go home to rest.
Entering the familiar house, Qi Luoling stopped in her tracks, staring blankly at the dimly lit living room.
The tea table was as messy as usual, piled with newspapers and medical books. Normally, at this time, Gu Tianye would be sitting on the sofa under the bright chandelier in the living room, reading the newspaper and flipping through professional books.
Qi Luoling pushed open the door to the bedroom and walked in. On the desk in front of the bed sat a White Apple Computer, still on that same desk, that same chair, just as clean as it had been when he was alive.
She sat down, her eyes vacant, staring blankly.
In the left drawer of the desk, there were some blank A4 papers and a few black pens, empty and desolate.
She opened the right drawer and found a Black Fountain Pen pressing down on a piece of White Stationery. The paper bore her familiar handwriting.
Could it be that Gu Tianye had left something for her? She was startled, her hands trembling as she pulled out the white paper from the drawer.
She shakily held up that letter.
It read: Ling'er, forgive my departure, leaving in such an undignified manner. At the same time, I have brought you an unhealable pain; I deeply regret it! But in this life, I cannot atone to you.
Please forgive my momentary lapse into an extramarital affair that led me down this irreversible path.
Regarding the secret of my death, I never wanted you to know while I was alive, and even after death, I must hide it from you because it is safer for you this way.
I just want to say that because I did not want to be sentenced to life imprisonment, I chose to end things early. She grasped my weakness; I was unwilling to surrender but could not save myself. Therefore, I could only choose death. Perhaps some things are destined, like fate and destiny.
My relationship with her was transactional from the very beginning. We could say our twisted relationship was for our own interests, which desecrated the beautiful feelings between us.
In the end, I still want to say that I love you more than ever now. Because I respect love, I chose destruction without hesitation. I want to defend my loyalty to you and my fidelity to love through death.
Therefore, I am very much looking forward to our next life, where I will still love you!
Gu Tianye Final Note
She curled up her body, lowered her head, and buried it deeply in her bent arms, tears silently falling once again.
Her chest felt like a turbulent undercurrent, and she began to deeply blame herself.
This was the truth of the matter. Yes, I have a responsibility; if I had thought about you more, there should have been a chance to save you, but I neglected you and only focused on my own body at that time.
If back then, I could have cared more about you, even if it was just seriously capturing the moment our eyes met, I could have seized the true opportunity for communication, and the outcome would not have been like this.
If I had done that, my heart would be much calmer at this moment, but I couldn't do it.
Finally, she arrived at the bathroom sink, turned on the faucet, and water gushed out, splashing into the basin.
She cupped her hands to splash cold water on her face again and again. She didn't know whether what flowed down her cheeks was tears or water droplets.
In front of the sink was a mirror embedded in the wall. Many people fear looking into a mirror in the dark, with many eerie legends surrounding it, but she focused intently on that blurry reflection in the mirror, unsure of what she was trying to see.
Unfortunately, she saw nothing. Turning on the wall lamp in front of the mirror, she saw in the reflection
a woman with a pale complexion and bloodshot eyes, devoid of any vitality. The entire person was shrouded in a haze of despair, fear, and confusion; these negative emotions entangled her body like a massive black net.
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