Chapter 245: Restart Chapter 245: Restart He stared into Wen Zhi’s eyes, his tone certain as he said, “You know it was you who did it!”

Wen Zhi’s heart trembled.

Just as she was about to deny it, she heard Gu Rang revisiting her actions from the previous day—

“You knew you couldn’t get the information about which hospital Chong Wanyin was in from me, so you targeted Zhan Feng alone!”

“Zhan Feng isn’t the same to you as I am; actually, he’s more cautious. Yet, you didn’t hesitate to use such despicable means to get close to him. He dares not step wrong and ultimately convinced himself to just show you once.”

“You faked it really well, just looked once with Zhan Feng and left. But you turned around and told Wen Yiwan.”

“You knew Wen Yiwan is also insane, so you had Wen Yiwan go kill her?”

Word by word, sentence by sentence, they were all of Wen Zhi’s ‘charges.’

But it was only Gu Rang’s one-sided certainty.

“Despicable means?” Wen Zhi laughed upon hearing this, “I merely told Zhan Feng that I liked him better and stirred discord between you brothers, that’s despicable?”

Gu Rang’s expression darkened, “But why would you do something like this?”

Wen Zhi shrugged nonchalantly, “Isn’t it obvious?”

Gu Rang clenched his teeth in anger and helplessness.

Just then, Wen Zhi didn’t forget to ask one more question, “How did Chong Wanyin die this time?”

Gu Rang was stunned and didn’t answer.

How she died…

A death with eyes wide open.

Wen Yiwan had removed all of Chong Wanyin’s tubes, turned off her ventilator, dragged Chong Wanyin to the ground, and smothered her with a pillow.

It is said that in the last moment, Chong Wanyin woke up.

It was a return to consciousness.

By the time the doctors and nurses discovered her, it was too late; Chong Wanyin had stopped breathing. Wen Yiwan was celebrating in the hospital room, moving her hands and feet joyously, as if seeing her off, mad as a hatter.

The scene was in complete chaos.

The police arrived and took Wen Yiwan away.

After the doctors confirmed repeatedly, Chong Wanyin had indeed stopped breathing. Shang Jizhou was devastated and swore he would never let Wen Yiwan or the Wen Family go…

Upon hearing this, Wen Zhi remained extraordinarily composed, even letting out a light chuckle.

“Wen Zhi, have you come to your senses?” Gu Rang couldn’t believe she could still laugh at such a time.

Seeing that he had seen through her, Wen Zhi simply didn’t pretend any longer, “The peace my father bought with his life, I don’t want to disappoint him, but I can’t accept this, so… the best person to do this would be Wen Yiwan, wouldn’t it? After all, she constantly declares her love only for my father!”

“Wen Zhi!” Gu Rang exclaimed sharply, “How could you…”

How could you become like this!

The rest of the sentence lodged in Gu Rang’s throat, unspoken.

Because Wen Zhi laughed again, her lips curling up in such a proud smile, as if she had transformed into another person entirely, “She deserved to die anyway; she just died too easily. It’s a pity I didn’t see it myself… oh right…”

Wen Zhi suddenly looked at Gu Rang, smiling as she asked, “Is she dead for good this time? She’s not going to spring back to life again, is she?”

Gu Rang was shockingly frozen.

Afterwards, Wen Zhi closed the room door, and Gu Rang, isolated outside, occasionally heard laughter from inside. Sometimes it was continuous, sometimes just a sound or two, like a deranged madman.

Listening to that laughter, Gu Rang was terribly shocked, realizing for the first time what a true calamity of a broken family meant.

Both parents dead, the daughter insane…

…

It was just a few hours earlier that afternoon.

Following Wen Zhi’s lead, Wen Yiwan had finally found the hospital where Chong Wanyin was staying, and that ICU.

She couldn’t get in, but she didn’t recklessly force her way. She didn’t want to cause too much commotion, lest she might not even see Chong Wanyin.

She was unusually calm.

After several scouting visits, she finally knocked out a nurse who was going to the restroom, switched into the nurse’s clothes, and headed to the ICU.

But she didn’t attack immediately upon entering.

First, she appreciated Chong Wanyin’s miserable state, her body wrapped all in gauze, clearly not a patch of skin intact, with only her face exposed outside, said to be in a deep coma…

“You haven’t died even like this, your life is really something,” Wen Yiwan almost gnashed her teeth as she spoke.

The moment after she finished speaking, Wen Yiwan noticed Chong Wanyin’s fingers slightly moved.

Wen Yiwan raised an eyebrow, “Scared awake because you know I’m here to kill you?”

After speaking, Wen Yiwan’s expression turned cold, “Chong Wanyin, you love this one, and that one, weren’t content with being with Shang Jizhou, and coveted my Yanzhou. It’s laughable that, someone like you, Yanzhou wouldn’t even spare a glance, but I am better than you, at least I can stay under the same roof with him as a sister-in-law.”

She leaned slightly forward, examining Chong Wanyin’s swollen face, “Everyone says I am not as good as my Wen Yinxi, but you are not even as good as me, at least that comforts me.”

As she spoke, a look of triumph appeared on Wen Yiwan’s face.

Then, she reached out and removed the respirator from Chong Wanyin’s face, “Heard it was you who killed Wen Yinxi?”

“Not only did you kill Wen Yinxi, how could you also harm my Yanzhou?” While saying this, Wen Yiwan continued to remove the tubes from Chong Wanyin’s body.

“You deserve to die, Yanzhou died that day, you should have died then, and these days that I did not know are the only time you struggled desperately to live.”

Before dragging Chong Wanyin from the bed to the floor, Wen Yiwan opened all the curtains, choosing the time as dusk fell.

She picked up a pillow and pressed it directly onto Chong Wanyin’s face.

At the moment she really acted, Wen Yiwan was nervous. Not because of the fear from the act itself, but because she was afraid of botching it.

She saw Chong Wanyin’s hands move.

Her feet moved too.

It seemed like her consciousness was awakening, with faint struggling.

Wen Yiwan removed the pillow, and seeing Chong Wanyin’s eyes open, she leaned in excitedly, “Awake, huh? Good, see clearly who’s killing you, and remember not to accuse the wrong person after you’re gone.”

After speaking, as Chong Wanyin’s expression grew extremely terrified, the pillow landed on her face again.

…

Before long, it was two days later.

Nian Xun arrived in Lin City, booking a mountain villa and temporarily moving Wen Zhi in.

Just a few minutes ago, Wen Zhi was upset and insisting on seeing Wen Yiwan, very emotionally unstable.

A few minutes later, Wen Zhi was sitting quietly on the stairs, bending over using little stones to scribble and draw like a child with the intellect of a mere few years, after drawing she threw the stones into the pond at the fish and then muttered to herself.

Nian Xun furrowed his brows, asking Gu Rang beside him, “Is it a mental problem?”

Gu Rang’s expression was somber, “She is just sick.”

Nian Xun, “Does this happen every day?”

Gu Rang shook his head, “Occasionally, she has brief episodes like this, but it’s not severe.”

After hearing this, Nian Xun’s brows furrowed even more, “She’s already talking to herself, and you don’t consider it severe, then what counts as severe?”

Gu Rang couldn’t bear to hear this, “Mr. Nian Xun…”

“Enough, no need to correct me,” Nian Xun said calmly, “If she continues like this, she’ll eventually turn into a lunatic.”

Gu Rang wanted to stop Nian Xun from speaking like this, assuming it was just temporary, and Wen Zhi would soon recover and return to how she was before.

But after a throaty pause, he swallowed these thoughts back down.

Actually, Nian Xun wasn’t wrong.

Because the doctor had also said, without intervention, she would soon become deranged, already teetering on the brink of it.

“What did the doctor say?” Nian Xun asked.

Gu Rang remained silent for a long time before finally speaking, “Making her forget and starting her life anew is the only way.”