Chapter 48 [Fourth Day Part Ten]

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MAY 27, 2022~ 8ONI

Un-edited so please don’t kill me if you find anything wrong, please gently commenting so I can fix it.
Thank you.

The plot shows its fang before piercing his throat with the truth.

“What happened later?” Li Sinian asked.

Yang Song’s voice is calm but you can tell she fake it: “Then one day, he came back, my mother recalled that the weather is sunny that day, he sat by himself on the balcony smoking for a long, long time, auntie* cooked and called out to him, but he didn’t come out to eat.
My mother sent me over to him to ask him what was wrong.
He picked me up, held me on his knee and looked at me for a long time.
Then he asked me, “If daddy had no money and couldn’t buy the little dress you liked and take you to see the sea, would you blame daddy? I couldn’t even remember at that time how I would know how to answer such a question.
My mother told me later that I said, “Yes, I will blame you.”

(T/N : This probably a housekeeper not a real family member, but anyway just a note)

Li Sinian suddenly felt cold and he slightly trembled.

Yang Song was stable.
She was holding the wine glass in her right hand and her left hand holding her right elbow.
The wine inside the glass did not move at all.
The sentence, the memory, has replayed in her mind so many times that when she spoke it out, it no longer affected her as it should have been.

“He died.
Together with Director Niu of the Exploration Institute.
I heard that the two of them were going to transfer from Line 2.
I don’t know what happened.
When the train came, they didn’t stand firm and the two fell down together.
Mom said it was Niu Nahan who fell first and my dad tried to pull him and he then fell too.
I don’t believe it.” Yang Song smiled slightly, took a sip of wine, and said, “The insurance company paid out quite a bit of money, enough for my mother and I to live in comfort, even after all these years.”

(T/N : Remember what Liu Xin said in chapter 44 about boss Wang dying together with Niu Nahan? So yep, now we got who boss Wang is related to.)

Li Sinian sighed, a little bit of empathy surged in his heart: “Since you can have a peaceful life, why decided to swim in this dangerous water?”

“What about you?” Yang Song turned his face to the side and smiled, “You are doing well, why are you in this mess?”

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“I’m having a hard time,” Li Sinian shook his head with a smile and pointed to his temple, “For a while, I had nightmares almost every night, the dream will be scattered but the content is almost the same.
In that dream, my father died in various ways.
But every time before he died, he grabbed me and asked me why I didn’t go to save him, he said he was waiting for me here.
– The headache was so bad that I even ate several sleeping pills when it got unbearable.”

Yang Song smiled, with a lot of understanding and emotions.

Li Sinian looked up at the chandelier on the ceiling, hesitated for a long time, and then said, “I saw my father.”

“Is he…?” Yang Song hesitated.

Li Sinian shook his head: “Only bones are left.”

“When I saw him, I regretted it.
I shouldn’t have come.
It’s not his spirit that comes to me every night, but my own nightmare.
He definitely doesn’t want me to do these stupid things in his name.” Li Sinian said meaningfully.

Yang Song’s expression changed slightly, she stared at him silently for a while before suddenly laughed: “Has anyone ever told you that men can’t be too smart and they need to be stupid to be liked by women?”

Li Sinian only smiled and said, “I don’t need to be liked by women.”

Yang Song raised an eyebrow.

“Let it go,” Li Sinian knew that a hint was useless so he went straight to the point.
When he spoke, there was a flowing emotion between his eyebrows and eyes, which could be called a little compassion.
“No matter who you came for, living is the most important.”

“Of course I will survive,” Yang Song proudly lifted her chin.
“Those who can’t survive are the evildoers and the bastards with bad blood.
Justice may be late, but they will never favour the bad guys.”

“Du Chaosheng is dead.” Li Sinian emphasised.

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“But his son is still alive.
Back then, my father’s investment advisor was bought for a small profit.
Although he committed suicide, his descendants are still alive… I can’t let go.
This island was resold to my father by Du Chaosheng, he bought off my father’s investment advisor, pitted my father and drove him to the brink.” Yang Song took another large gulp of wine, and her fingers finally began to slightly shake.

Li Sinian sighed: “What is the name of your father’s investment advisor?”

“Li Lixing.” Yang Song said, “I’ve never met him, neither has my mother, I’ve only heard my father talk about it occasionally, he’s said to be a very powerful figure who almost never blundered in several big investment operations.
My father mentioned to my mother before he died that it was Li Lixing who had harmed him by taking advantage of others, joining forces with outsiders and deceiving him.”

Li Sinian pinched his brows: “Do you think Li Lixing is my dad? That’s why you were hostile toward me at the beginning?”

When he mentioned this, Yang Song was a little embarrassed: “Yes, you are the only one surnamed Li on the island.
When we do body search that night*, you said that your father’s name was Li Heng and he was a prospector, that is when I realised that I made a mistake.
I apologise for misunderstanding you.”

(T/N : On chapter 23)

Li Sinian shook his head: “It is ok, I didn’t take it to heart.”

After a while, Yang Song put the wine glass on the table and took a deep breath: “Don’t you want to avenge your father? Don’t want to find out the cause of your father’s death?”

Li Sinian was stunned for a moment, then he stood up, walked to the wine rack by the door and poured wine, avoiding Yang Song’s eyes, he said lightly: “I already know the cause of my father’s death.”

“Your father must not have stumbled into the sea and drowned! That is not how he died! I want you to help me! We need to work together! Including Fang Daichuan, we three have special roles and Fang Daichuan still has a bottle of poison.
Whoever we want to die can’t live! We control the game! Don’t you understand?! As long as we form an alliance!” Yang Song persuaded him.

The two fell into stalemate, neither able to convince the other, nor willing to be convinced by the other.

In the middle of silence, there was a squeaking sound from the copper-clad wooden door.
Fang Daichuan held a big cup in one hand and opened the door with the other hand.

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Seeing that there were two people in the room, he was frozen  for a moment.
When he saw that they were holding wine glasses, Fang Daichuan couldn’t help but frown and ordered, “Put the wine down! Do you want to die?!”

As he spoke, he came over and slammed the hot water in his hand onto the cabinet next to Li Sinian.

Li Sinian knew he made a mistake and did not dare to invoke Fang Daichuan’s anger.
He quickly glanced at Yang Song, pretended nothing was wrong, he forced a smile, then took the cup and took a sip of water.
Unexpectedly, the water was still very hot, Li Sinian was absent-minded and was scalded all the way into his stomach by a mouthful of hot water, his entire oesophagus was burning.

Fang Daichuan looked at the two suspiciously: “What are you talking about? So absent-minded?”

“We were about to tell you, let’s…” Yang Song said quickly.

“Yang Song!” Li Sinian yells to stop her, ignoring the burning pain in his throat.
He has always been polite and courteous except for one time when he was angry and scolded Fang Daichuan in front of everyone.
Yang Song flinches when he yells.

(T/N : On chapter 16)

Fang Daichuan listened to them talking, looked left and right at both of them, realising that the two of them had a tacit understanding, but they didn’t want him to know.
He couldn’t help but feel a little irritable.

“Forget it,” he picked up Li Sinian’s wine glass, opened the window and poured out the remaining wine.

Fang Daichuan stared at the glass in his hand, remembering the scene when Li Sinian was lying weakly on his side and thinking that he had taken care of someone all night, but in the end, they did not appreciate it, so he could not help but feel a little angry.
He turned his head, like a fire-breathing dragon whose territory had been invaded, spat out an angry dragon’s breath at the person in front of him: “Eh, big brother, do you know that you almost died last night? Can you have more self-awareness as a patient? Why are you still receiving visitors and chit-chatting? Just lie down and rest, okay?!”

Hearing him say this, Yang Song couldn’t help but feel a little uncomfortable.
She put down the wine glass in her hand and said to Li Sinian, “I’m sorry, I was reckless, you have a good rest.
I won’t bring it again.”

Fang Daichuan’s face was cold and he was about to say something, when a loud cat voice suddenly came from outside the window, “Meow–“.

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Everyone was surprised.
Fang Daichuan also forgot what he was going to say.
He turned his head around.

There is a wet black cat sitting outside the window screen.
The black cat is probably old already.
The thing with old cat, is that their eyes become more human-like as if there is intelligence hiding behind it, making people uncomfortable.

In a dark room on an isolated island where many people have died, the sky is gloomy and the rain is pouring outside the window.

Such a scene makes Fang Daichuan’s hair stand on end, he knocks on the window, trying to scare it away.

The cat was smart and wasn’t afraid of him.
It skillfully pulled open the corner of the window screen with its claws and got in directly from the outside.

As soon as the cat came in, it stared at Li Sinian with a clear objective and approached step by step, circling around Li Sinian.

Fang Daichuan squatted down bravely and touched the cat’s ears with two fingers.
The blue-eyed black cat shook his fingers away and rubbed his face against Li Sinian’s feet.

“Did you know it?” Fang Daichuan was a little suspicious.

“How come?” Li Sinian shook his head and grabbed a piece of bread to feed it: “Maybe small animals are just drawn to me, since I was a child, I attracted some cats and dogs.
I used to feed them a two pieces of candy and they will fight for me.” He said and looked up at Fang Daichuan, something flashed in his eyes, but it was a pity that Fang Daichuan didn’t understand.

He said, “Oh.”

Li Sinian looked at him for a while, then shook his head: “Forget it, stupid dog.”

(T/N : Well, this novel has the tag ‘dense protagonist’ for a reason… Anyway boss Wang is Yang Song’s dad, so now, who is Li Lixing related to? Stay tuned~~~ Oh and we are officially halfway through main story, main story ended at chapter 97 and after that is extra, I will also translate extra since I found they are sweet, compared to the main story obviously)