vrcanaries Chapter 478 Extra Time Traveler - Gunman
Chapter 478 Extra Time Traveler - Gunman
Ying Wenhai made an appointment with the gunman to meet at a coffee shop in the city.
Jiang Ruochu chose to sit at the table next to them so that she could not only see the gunman's appearance clearly, but also roughly see Ying Wenhai's expression.
The gunman who came to meet Ying Wenhai was in his twenties, wearing an unfashionable cotton shirt. He looked like the type who didn't like to dress up. He was slightly fat and walked with a limp.
The gunman's eyes were a little swollen, as if he had just cried.
As soon as she sat down, she choked up and asked, "Is Sister Shenghua really... dead?"
Ying Wenhai pretended to be heartbroken and said, "Yes."
The gunman sniffed and tears welled up in his eyes again. She hurriedly took out a tissue to wipe his tears.
Ying Wenhai continued, "She died of illness and was in great pain before she passed away, so I wanted to fulfill her last wish."
"Xiao Xiang, thank you so much. Without your help, Shenghua's last work might not be completed."
"It is my blessing and destiny to help Sister Shenghua fulfill her wish. I am very grateful to her. It was her novels that helped me get through the most difficult times. Her words are a ray of light in my life."
"And you also paid me the corresponding royalties, which helped me improve my life, but..." Xiaoxiang picked her fingers nervously, "I know ghostwriting is wrong, will this be discovered? Will I go to jail?"
Ying Wenhai heard this, a hint of sarcasm flashed across his eyes, but on the surface he still looked like a gentleman. He comforted her, "Of course not. This matter is only known to you and me. As long as you don't say anything, outsiders will have no evidence and can't do anything to us, unless..."
Ying Wenhai looked at Xiaoxiang meaningfully.
"I will never tell anyone." Xiaoxiang assured nervously, "I also want to thank you for helping me and letting me use my brainpower to gain financial benefits. If I hadn't used the name of Sister Shenghua, I'm afraid I would never have seen the words I wrote printed in a book in my entire life."
Ying Wenhai was very satisfied with Xiaoxiang's obedient and grateful look: "Did you bring the update this time?"
"I've got it." Xiaoxiang quickly opened her backpack and took out a stack of handwritten manuscripts. "Here are the latest ten chapters. Do you think they're okay?"
Jiang Ruochu glanced at the manuscript from a distance. The handwriting was neat, as if it was printed. From this, it can be seen that the person who wrote it was a very patient person.
Ying Wenhai took the manuscript and began to read. During this time, Xiaoxiang waited silently.
Ying Wenhai deliberately made some scrutinizing noises from time to time when reading the manuscript, which made Xiaoxiang's heart rise to her throat. She kept observing Ying Wenhai's expression, fearing that he would be dissatisfied.
Xiaoxiang asked cautiously, "If there's anything wrong with what I wrote, I'll change it right away."
Ying Wenhai did not answer, but nodded with a serious expression.
At this moment, he was like a god who was high above and could control Xiaoxiang's life and death.
Before, Jiang Ruochu's knowledge of Wen Hai's PUA methods came only from Shen Xiaoxuan's description, and she didn't have a deep understanding of it. Only after seeing it with her own eyes did she realize how this man manipulated a young girl who was inexperienced in the world.
After about half an hour, Ying Wenhai slowly said, "It's well written. I'll hand in the remaining ten chapters in five days, is that okay?"
Xiaoxiang breathed a sigh of relief, her brows relaxed: "Okay, okay."
Ying Wenhai reminded him, "Just focus on writing the article and don't be influenced by the comments online. They are all nonsense. If I were really as bad as what people say online, would Shenghua's biological parents let me go? They would have jumped out to sue me a long time ago."
Xiaoxiang nodded: "I understand, Teacher Ying, you are a good person."
"I'm glad you understand. Let's fulfill your wish of growing flowers together." After saying this, Ying Wenhai pinched his nose and acted as if he was deeply sad.
"Teacher Ying, the dead cannot be resurrected, so don't be too sad. I believe that when this novel is finished, Sister Shenghua will rest in peace."
Jiang Ruochu thought that he would probably not rest in peace, but would be so angry that he would die and come back to life.
"Teacher Ying, I'm going back first. My mother still needs my care, and I can't leave for too long."
"Okay, go back now. If you need any help from me, just tell me."
"You have helped me a lot. Without your help, I would not have been able to find a bed for my mother, and I would not have the money for her surgery." Xiaoxiang stood up and bowed to Ying Wenhai, "Thank you and Sister Shenghua."
"Don't be so polite, go back quickly." Ying Wenhai waved his hand.
After Xiaoxiang left, Jiang Ruochu whispered to Yesha, "You follow Ying Wenhai, and I'll follow this girl named Xiaoxiang."
Ye Sha nodded slightly.
Jiang Ruochu looked at Ye Sha's expressionless face and couldn't help but remind him: "Don't attack Ying Wenhai, we haven't collected all the evidence yet."
Ye Sha said coldly: "I know, I'll do it later."
Soon, the two men split up.
Jiang Ruochu followed Xiaoxiang to an old neighborhood. Since Xiaoxiang lived on the first floor, Jiang Ruochu could roughly see the situation inside through the window on the first floor.
The interior of the house is old but cozy. Both the electrical appliances and furniture are wiped clean. A faint smell of medicine wafts out from the window.
"Mom, I'm back."
Xiaoxiang's mother looked very haggard, and it was obvious that she had just suffered a serious illness.
"Hey, how was your chat with your friends today?"
"It was good. The money was transferred to me on the spot and the other party asked me to continue writing."
"Then you should write well. The other party has helped us a lot."
"I will. Mom, how are you feeling today? Do you feel unwell?"
"Much better, just want to go out for a walk."
"Then I'll cook first. After dinner, I'll help you go out for a walk."
Xiaoxiang's mother looked at her daughter kindly and said, "Okay."
Jiang Ruochu now understood why Ying Wenhai chose Xiaoxiang as his assassin.
She is short of money, has a gentle personality, is filial, and Jiang Ruochu can't see any trace of a man living in this family, which means Xiaoxiang depends on her mother for everything.
I have no father and I have a seriously ill mother.
Xiaoxiang, at first glance, is a girl who is very easy to handle.
It is estimated that her royalties were used to treat her mother's illness.
After thinking it over, Jiang Ruochu did not rush to look for Xiaoxiang, but turned and left.
The system anxiously asked, "Are we leaving? Aren't we going to reveal Ying Wenhai's true identity to her?"
"From her chat, we can see that Ying Wenhai not only gave her royalties, but also helped her mother solve the problem of medical treatment. She is full of gratitude to Ying Wenhai."
"She is too deeply tied to Ying Wenhai now. She may not believe us or help us."
"But I can see that she has her own bottom line, so just because she may not help now doesn't mean she won't help in the future."
"In short, she is only suitable to be the one who deals the fatal blow to Ying Wenhai, not to be a comrade in the early stages."
The system is a little confused [Although I don’t understand, I think what you said makes sense, and I think you humans are so complicated. ]
Jiang Ruochu smiled and said, "People are not complicated. It all comes down to interests."
“If you see through the essence of interests, you can understand many things and many people.”
After a while, the latest news came from Yesha.
After Ying Wenhai returned, he personally entered the manuscript into the computer and turned it into an electronic version.
The system sighed, "This man is really extremely cautious. He was afraid of leaving evidence behind, so he only let the ghostwriter hand over the manuscript, so that the other party would not have electronic evidence. Even the transfer was a private transfer, and it was not stated that it was a manuscript fee. After taking the manuscript back, he still entered it into the computer himself and turned it into an electronic version."
[Unless Xiaoxiang is more careful and takes a video as evidence before submitting the manuscript, otherwise we will only have witnesses but no physical evidence. ]
[However, isn't Ying Wenhai afraid that Xiaoxiang will use this incident as a cover-up? Will Xiaoxiang use it to blackmail him in the future? ]
Jiang Ruochu shook her head: “With Xiaoxiang’s personality, she won’t blackmail Ying Wenhai.”
【Why are you so sure? 】
"This is Ying Wenhai's cleverness, and it is also one of his PUA methods."
"Xiaoxiang is his carefully selected prey."
"Who among the young people nowadays doesn't write on the computer? The fact that she agreed to hand in all the hundreds of thousands of words in handwritten form, which is very difficult, proves that Xiaoxiang is a very docile person. It is difficult for people with this kind of personality to bite back at Ying Wenhai."
"And in the process of getting along, Ying Wenhai has always shown an attitude of superiority and distrust. Xiaoxiang really needs a high reward to treat her mother's illness. When facing Ying Wenhai, she will lower her attitude more and more and obey him."
"Once people obey for a long time, they will lose the consciousness to resist."
"Xiaoxiang is only afraid of losing the ghostwriting job, and doesn't think about leaving evidence to threaten or inform on the other party in the future."
"Her experience is the same as Shen Xiaoxuan's."
“I entered the cage carefully woven by Ying Wenhai and became a bird with broken wings, forgetting that I could fly.”
After listening to it, the system thought about it for a long time and even felt a little sad.
On the other side, Ye Sha followed Ying Wenhai for three days and made new discoveries. Together with the new clues collected by Jiang Ruochu during his investigation of Xiaoxiang in the past few days, they integrated these discoveries and roughly pieced together a complete story.
It turned out that Xiaoxiang had submitted a manuscript to Ying Wenhai. In fact, her submission had been approved, but was rejected by Ying Wenhai.
Because Ying Wenhai was impressed by her wild imagination and writing style similar to Shenghua's, he wanted her to do ghostwriting.
Later, Ying Wenhai contacted Xiaoxiang and tricked her into submitting her manuscript, but it was rejected. Xiaoxiang was very disappointed and anxious. She needed money so badly. She could not raise enough money for her mother's surgery by working alone. She had hoped that the story she wrote could earn her some royalties, but she did not expect that her manuscript would be rejected.
Ying Wenhai saw that she was short of money, and immediately expressed that he admired her writing style very much. It was a pity that her story could not be published. If she was willing, he could let her co-write with Shenghua, but she could not use Xiaoxiang's name and could only use Shenghua's pen name.
Xiaoxiang was very hesitant at first. Firstly, it didn’t seem right to have someone else write for her, and secondly, she felt a bit at a disadvantage because she couldn’t put her name on the work.
However, the price offered by Ying Wenhai was very high, higher than that of ordinary newcomers. That is to say, even if Xiaoxiang's own submission was accepted, she would not get that much royalties.
In addition, Ying Wenhai repeatedly asked and begged her, saying that this was to help the sick Shenghua fulfill her wish.
In the end, Xiaoxiang, who was in urgent need of surgery money, agreed to these unreasonable requests, and was even very grateful to Ying Wenhai for appreciating her and giving her the opportunity.
But she didn't know that it was Ying Wenhai who blocked her chance to fly.