The mother held the music box, looked at it for a moment, then put it ba pd smiled, "It feels familiar, like I've heard it somewhere before, but I 't remember."

  "Maybe it's just a ce. Son, you seem very tense?"

  Qin Nuo shook his head and chuckled dryly, "Just curious, asking casually."

  "Alright then, finish your milk and go to sleep, don't stay up te."

  With that, the mother left the room.

  Qin Nuo's gaze returo the two music boxes. He had to put them away for now. Although he hadn't made any substantial progress in his iigation, at least he khat this mysterious principal had some e to Li Xiaoming.

  Following his mother's instrus, Qin Nuo washed up, drank a gss of milk, ao bed.

  The m, sunlight streamed in through the window. Nearing six o'clock, Qin Nuo, who had developed a biological arm clock, opened his eyes right on time.

  This time, there was no shouting from his mother outside the door.

  Qin Nuo called out twice but got no response, guessing she had go.

  He sat up, ruffled his messy hair, yawned, and instinctively g the painting on the wall by his bed. The paintied a fairy frolig by a river, with es and auspicious clouds symbolizing blessings.

  The painting had been there since Li Xiaoming was old enough to uand things. His mother said that at the time, they specially issioned a master to design it for Qin Nuo's room, meaning to bless him with academic success ahy growth.

  It was somewhat simir to the style of Dunhuang murals. There was nothing strange about it, yet every time he woke up and looked at the painting first thing, it always gave him an inexplicable sense of horror.

  Wearing his pajamas, Qin Nuo went to the bathroom, washed up, and theo the living room. His mother was not i, and in the er, his father sat with a neer, as usual.

  Qin Nuo ignored his father, avoiding unnecessary trouble.

  On the dining table, his mother had left breakfast, her cold nor hot, just right. Qin Nuo began to eat by himself.

  But at that moment, his father in the er suddenly put down the neer.

  After a few days, his father's face looked even more terrifying, like melting rubber, with something crawling and wrigglih the skin, as if the whole face would fall off the sed.

  A lot of hair had fallen from his head, and the cleaver embedded in his skull was clearly visible, as if it had grown together with the flesh and blood.

  Qin Nuo looked at him in surprise, not uanding why he suddenly put down the neer.

  Then he saw him go into the kit and rummage through the froze ks in the freezer, tearing and searg frantically.

  "Not here! Not here!"

  His father's face twisted, clutg the hard meat ks, his voice growing increasingly agitated.

  "Does she really think she hide it forever? That damned woman, once I find it, everything will be settled!"

  His father roared hoarsely, ing out of the kit and rushing to the bedroom, where the sounds of rummaging and smashing tinued unabated.

  Qin Nuo frowned slightly.

  Why would Li Tong lose trol at this time? Was it because Mo Fang had left?

  What exactly was he looking for, something he hadn't found after all this time?

  Qin Nuo ignored his father's agitation, finished his breakfast, and took the dishes into the kit to .

  The scattered meat ks on the floor were already melting, blood seeping through the tile cracks.

  Qin Nuo hesitated whether to up, sidering Li Xiaoming's temperament, he decided to squat doick up the meat ks, putting them bato the freezer.

  The freezer had been open for a long time, and the iside was melting, dripping with water.

  Qin Nuo scooped out the ice water from the freezer, intending to put the meat back, but then his eyebrows raised.

  The ice yer in the freezer seemed to have something frozen inside.

  Qin Nuo took an ice pid chipped away at the ice yer, and the frozen object fell out—a ring.

  Qin Nuo picked up the ring, puzzled.

  Why was there a ring in the freezer?

  Did his mother actally lose it in there?

  "Mo Fang doesn't seem like a careless woman, it's uo happen by act."

  Qin Nuo checked the freezer again and soon discovered another ring frozen in the ice yer. If it weren't for the ample light and careful observation, it would have been hard to find.

  Qin Nuo chipped away with the ice pick again and successfully retrieved it.

  paring the tws, one was rger, and the styles were identical.

  Clearly, this air of wedding rings.

  Why would Mo Fang hide her and her husband's wedding rings in the freezer?

  Qin Nuo examihe inside of the rings. The rger ring had "LT" engraved inside, clearly the initials of Li Tong's name.

  Qin Nuo then examihe other ring and uedly found that the inside was not engraved with Mo Fang's initials but with the letters "LFF."

  "LFF, this should be the initials of that third party's name. Why would she have a wedding ring with Li Tong..."

  Qin Nuo murmured this sentence, his face suddenly stiffening, pupils trag sharply.

  Could it be that the third party in the photo was Li Tong's inal spouse, and Mo Fang was the third party in this family?

  Qin Nuo took a deep breath.

  Because he realized that if he reasoned acc to this hypothesis, all the fusions he had discovered before could be better expined!

  Damn, doesn't that mean he was the bastard brought into the family from outside!

  Li Xiaodong and Li Xiaodie were the inal owner's children?

  Then why did Mo Fang bee the mistress of this house, and where did Li Tong's inal wife go?

  There was a otion in the living room, and Qin Nuo silently put away the rings.

  Li Tong came in, covered in dust and cobwebs, staring ily at his son, hoarsely asking, "What are you doing?"

  "ing up," Qin Nuo spat out two words.

  Smack!

  Just as Qin Nuo was about to pick up a pieeat, Li Tong stomped on it, crushing it into a mess, blood spttering.

  "Why up? Are you helping me, your father? Don't pretend to be kind. I've never aowledged you as my son!"

  Li Tong's eyes were bloodshot, staring fiercely at Qin Nuo, a faint creaking sound ing from his head, as if the cleaver was grinding against his skull.

  "I'm pitying you, you pathetic creature!" Qin Nuo let out a cold ugh, raising his head to meet his gaze without a trace of fear.

  "What did you say?" His father's face twitched, the distorted features making it impossible to dis his exact expression.

  "No, I misspoke. I should say you're nothing but a coward!"

  Qin Nuo sneered, "Living a pathetic life under my mother's trol, getting sshed on the head and not daring to retaliate, just sulking in the er all day."

  "When my mom leaves, you dare to leave your seat, searg for something you haven't found in years. Wheurns, you obediently shrink bato the er, hiding your cowardice behind a neer."

  Qin Nuo stood up, approag his father, ign the terrifying ghost aura and the increasingly horrifying face.

  With a cold smile on his lips, he said, "Your inal wife probably regrets entrusting her life to a coward like you the most, doesn't she?"

  JOSOLUNA