Chapter 61 - Chapter 61: Chapter 38: Is There Still a Chance? (1/2)

Chapter 61: Chapter 38: Is There Still a Chance?

Translator: 549690339

It was practically the instant Li Mingyu’s words had fallen silent.

Ye Xiao had reacted.

Despite such a calm visage, she adjusted a few micro-expressions, and immediately took on the persona of the character in the play.

Li Mingyu stared intently at her.

The recommendation of a good friend had filled her with enormous expectations for Ye Xiao.

Could she be the leading lady she had been waiting for?

Ye Xiao, too, mimed the action of pushing open a door, and opened it.

Then.

She looked up and saw the person on the ground, close to death.

Li Mingyu’s eyes blinked observantly, watching every micro-expression on Ye Xiao’s face.

Upon discovering a person close to death, Ye Xiao’s expression hardly changed; she used a few micro-expressions to convey a slight surprise, then, turning around, it seemed someone was outside the door, Ye Xiao blocked the line of sight and said with a smile, “It’s fine to drop me off here, my place is a mess, come over some other time.”

Ye Xiao improvised, adding a friend’s role into the scenario.

Li Mingyu’s gaze shifted ever so slightly.

This seemingly inconsequential character highlighted the role’s strong psychological resilience.

Ordinary people simply could not maintain such composure.

After seeing off her friend, Ye Xiao closed the door, methodically locking it behind her.

Then, she turned around.

Li Mingyu watched, her heart suddenly skipping a beat.

With just a turn, Ye Xiao’s expression had completely changed.

In her seemingly calm eyes, a trace of madness flickered, and her facial micro-expressions became inexplicably sinister.

She walked slowly towards the spot where the person lay.

“Begging for mercy? What’s the use?” Ye Xiao chuckled lightly. She half-squatted, as if she had a knife in her hand, gently sliding it across the person’s face.

The eerie smile at the corner of her lips made Li Mingyu feel a chill.

The Ye Xiao before her had lost all previous semblance, becoming a complete psychopath.

She giggled, seemingly listening to the person speak.

“Spare you?” Her voice suddenly became gentle, as if she genuinely intended to spare the person.

But within that tender voice, she suddenly gripped the dagger in her hand and thrust it down fiercely!

There wasn’t anything real!

Yet, at Ye Xiao’s motion, Li Mingyu couldn’t help but feel her heartbeat accelerate for a moment!

“I’ve confined you for so long, and you chose this time to crawl out. Were you hoping my friend would see you and rescue you?” Ye Xiao said, laughing as she struck another blow.

“Back then, you didn’t spare my brother. This time, why should I spare you?”

Another stab.

Li Mingyu was stunned.

It was just an arbitrary note, meant to exhibit acting skills with neither cause nor consequence, let alone logic.

But Ye Xiao.

With only a few lines, she brought the logic full circle.

The scene was completed.

The person had caused the death of the woman’s brother; the woman had trapped and tortured him; seeking his own salvation, the person had crawled out, provoking the woman to murder him in cold blood!

“Spare you?”

“Spare you?”

Ye Xiao was still questioning.

Her emotions were escalating, layer upon layer.

In the end.

It seemed the person had completely ceased to breathe, and a twisted smile emerged on her lips.

“This way, I guess I’m really sparing you.”

Otherwise, she would not have let him die so easily.

Just at that moment.

Suddenly, there seemed to be the sound of a doorbell ringing.

Ye Xiao sharply turned her head.

The wicked smile at the corner of her lips slowly faded, the madness in her eyes gradually returning to normal.

She stood up, with a trace of innocent smile on her face, and asked softly, “Who is it?”

So.

Who was outside the door.

Ye Xiao should be covered in blood by now, she couldn’t be seen like this – would she have to murder again?

Li Mingyu’s heart was in her throat.

“Okay, it’s over.”

Ye Xiao suddenly relaxed her frame and said with a nonchalant face.

“Over? What’s over?” Li Mingyu asked, somewhat dazed.