Villain: Starting as a Corrupt Tycoon's Wife

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"Yes Yes Yes!"

"Remember my words, anyone who dares to betray me... ha, you wouldn't want to know the consequences."

"Xiao Si wouldn't dare!"

After he left, Ling Yun walked towards the village entrance.

Situ Jing was already waiting for him there, and greeted him with a smile when he arrived.

"Where is that Taoist priest?"

"He went back first."

Ling Yun didn't say much, and Situ Jing didn't ask any more questions; everything was understood without being spoken.

A short while later, the Hell Bus stopped at the village entrance again.

Lingyun could see the bus, but the others in Huangshan Village ignored it, and even the two people at the village entrance disappeared from their sight.

When Situ Jing boarded the bus, Ling Yun followed him on.

He had expected the bus to reject him, but he easily boarded it.

A piece of white paper floated over from in front of the car and landed in Ling Yun's hand.

Blood-red characters slowly seeped out from above.

Welcome to apartment #1689!

Chapter 228 Facing the Strange

The bus was moving very fast, quickly weaving through the city.

The surrounding vehicles did not notice the strange bus, and the two people and the ghost inside seemed to be completely isolated from the world.

The Hell Bus doesn't refuse to pick up the supernatural; there are even buses specifically for transporting them. If you get on the wrong bus, the consequences are obvious.

The Hell Bus that you ride after completing your mission is designed to protect the residents inside, but once you get off the bus, the journey from the parking spot to your apartment is not entirely safe.

However, the eeriness of this blood-letter trial has become Situ Jing's guardian spirit, so she appears very relaxed.

The two sat side by side in the back seats. She gently rested her head on Ling Yun's shoulder, closed her eyes, and felt a sweet warmth in her heart.

However, she also had some concerns.

Ling Yun became a new resident. Although he could spend a lot of time with her, Situ Jing didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing.

With Chu Renmei's protection, ordinary blood-letter missions couldn't harm Ling Yun at all. However, Gui Ling's abilities were ultimately limited. If he unfortunately encountered a 9-star or even higher-level mission, then...

Lingyun's phone rang.

"Hey, Shuang'er?"

"Are you done with your work over there?"

"not yet."

"Are you having any trouble?"

"fine……"

The conversation between the two was ordinary, but Situ Jing felt uneasy listening to it.

Chairman Ling got on this bus to help me solve my problem, but now he'll be risking his life to carry out the Blood Letter Test, and I'm happy to be his neighbor...

Am I being too selfish?

After hanging up the phone, Ling Yun hugged Situ Jing, rested his chin on her head, and patted her gently with his hand.

The bus was traveling very fast, ignoring all traffic rules, and came to a stop in front of the apartment building.

The car door opened, and Ling Yun stood up, took Situ Jing's hand, and walked straight towards the apartment entrance.

The moment Ling Yun entered the apartment, he indeed sensed that something was watching him.

He looked up, his Eye of Insight slowly activating, his gaze passing through layers of floors, and "saw" a red figure on the rooftop.

"Situ Jing, you're back?"

Building manager Zhang Yu walked over and was slightly taken aback when she noticed Ling Yun's intimate actions. She then asked in a friendly manner, "Is this the new resident?"

"My name is Ling Yun, and my room number is 1689." Ling Yun nodded.

"Hello, my name is Zhang Yu, number 847."

"Are there so many people living in this apartment building?"

Zhang Yu sighed softly: "The room numbers are usually not consecutive, and there are currently no more than 20 residents in the apartment. I've been here for almost two years and was chosen by the apartment to be the building manager."

Ling Yun nodded slightly and chatted with Zhang Yu for a few more minutes.

Jiang Chen had originally planned to visit Situ Jing, but after learning that Ling Yun was also coming, he gave up on that plan.

It's true that Jiang Chen passed the Blood Letter Test, but because the crucial item for the mission, the "Pear Blossom Comb," was discovered and deciphered by Ling Yun, an outsider, Jiang Chen received a pitifully small reward that offered no help for future tests.

Unlike their needle-in-a-haystack search for the comb, Lingyun went directly to the village chief, who was the most well-informed. Unexpectedly, the comb was in his daughter-in-law's room.

This is also the mindset of these residents. Due to the cruelty of the Blood Letter Test, they dare not talk too much with people near the mission location, for fear of provoking some unknown danger, and thus give up the fastest solution.

After learning that the two knew each other before, and that Ling Yun had boarded the Hell Bus for her sake, Zhang Yu admired Ling Yun even more.

If it were him, even if his own wife were chosen, he might not dare to come along.

However, after living in the apartment for two years, his wife has long since divorced him.

After passing the Blood Letter test, residents are given a certain amount of free time. However, once this time is over, even if they are not selected to participate in a new test, they are not allowed to leave the apartment.

"Manager Zhang, what's on the top floor of this apartment building?"

Upon hearing Ling Yun mention the top floor, Zhang Yu's expression changed: "Mr. Ling, did someone say something to you?"

"I was just asking."

"It's best to avoid going to the top floor if possible. Once you go there, your mental state will be disturbed. There was a resident who tried to find out the truth on the top floor, but it turned into something bizarre, and he even started a blood-written test in the apartment..."

When the matter was brought up, Zhang Yu showed a lingering fear.

Ever since that first bloodletting test was conducted in the apartment building, for a long time, residents would feel a pang of anxiety at the sound of a knock on the door. When visiting each other, they would either ring the doorbell or confirm beforehand with their mobile phones.

Ling Yun didn't say anything more and went back to his room with Situ Jing.

They took the elevator all the way to the 16th floor, and after a few steps, they arrived at their apartment entrance.

Ling Yun arrived at number 1689. A skull-shaped key was inserted in the door, which he easily turned to open it.

He put away the key and glanced around the room.

The interior features a light luxury style of decoration and is fully equipped. Owning such a residence in Beijing is already quite satisfactory for the average person.

The room was completely isolated from all outside observation; even the entity on the roof could not know what was happening inside.

He opened the door, entered the elevator again, and arrived at the 18th floor.

This is the top floor.

Unlike the relatively ordinary corridor on the 16th floor, the 18th floor looked like it had been abandoned for many years. The walls were covered with reddish-brown stains, and the floors and ceilings were filthy, with some strange handprints visible.

The corridor had no windows, and the overhead lights flickered on and off, the kind of place that would make any normal person want to keep exploring after just one glance.

Ling Yun stepped out of the elevator and walked down the dimly lit corridor.

That being did not try to interfere with his mind, but instead guided him to the deepest part of the 18th floor.

At the end was a large, rusty iron gate. As Ling Yun approached, the gate emitted an unpleasant metallic scraping sound before slowly opening.

Standing in front of Lingyun was a little girl wearing a red dress.

The next second, the little girl's clean dress instantly became dirty and messy, and her fair face was covered with hideous and terrifying scars. Before Ling Yun could examine her closely, her appearance changed back to normal and kept flashing back and forth, like a broken old-fashioned slide.

This sight naturally did not frighten Ling Yun.

"Your name is Ling Yun," the little girl said in a hoarse voice. "I've looked up information about you online."

"Then you're really impressive." Ling Yun shrugged.

She looked at the young man: "I want to talk to you about a deal."

"What can you offer?"

The little girl smiled, pleased with Ling Yun's straightforward personality: "If you hand her over to me, you will gain supreme power."

Chapter 229 Doll

Inside the detention room, there were many dolls, and the overall style of the room was more like the home of a little girl who loves beauty.

After entering the room, the little girl's appearance stabilized at clean and fair, and no longer changed.

Ling Yun found a place to sit down, and the little girl, holding a doll that had obviously been patched many times, sat opposite him.

Looking at the doll's appearance, Ling Yun frowned slightly, then said in a deep voice, "You are that doll..."

"The doll-hidden corpse case." The little girl uttered the words softly, her expression remaining largely unchanged. "You actually knew about it."

The doll-hidden-body case is a notorious case in Hong Kong, and it was even made into a movie.

This is a story full of tragic undertones. The little girl's real name is Ma Nini. Her father is a gambling addict who drinks after losing money. When he is drunk, he beats her mother.

Unable to bear the harassment any longer, her mother chose to hang herself.

Her father was a compulsive gambler and naturally didn't have much money to buy her toys. Her favorite toys were the dolls that her mother made by hand and mended many times.

Later, her father somehow hooked up with a woman, who then naturally became her stepmother.

After the two got married, Ma Nini lived a fairly good life for a while. Her father stopped gambling and even found a job.

Originally, Ma Nini thought that life would get better, but things didn't go as planned. Less than a month later, her father started gambling again and gambled away the house. The family was forced to move out and rent a place to live.

One time, her father got drunk and assaulted her stepmother.

Her stepmother was no pushover either; she was originally involved in the underworld. The two of them fought almost every day, and eventually, her father simply stopped coming home, leaving the mother and daughter behind.

Perhaps out of hatred for her father, or perhaps out of her own evil nature, the stepmother began to vent her resentment on Ma Nini.

It started with punishment and verbal abuse, then escalated to physical violence, and then to knives, scissors...

Ma Nini died one winter morning. According to the woman's confession, she woke up hungry and asked Ma Nini to make breakfast. Ma Nini was too young and short, so she could only cook while standing on a chair, and she was not very fast.

After waiting for a while and seeing that she hadn't finished, the woman rushed into the kitchen and started yelling at her.

The little girl was so frightened that she cried loudly. The woman, annoyed, tied her hands and feet with tape and gagged her.

Ma Nini begged her stepmother to let her go, but the woman happened to be menstruating that day and was already in a bad mood. When she saw the girl's face, which resembled her father's, and thought of the man's domestic violence against her, she suddenly became angry and picked up a pot, pouring the boiling water inside onto the girl's head.

The excruciating pain nearly robbed the girl of her senses, and the woman, upon witnessing this, realized she had gone too far and decided to take her to the hospital.

But as she was about to leave, she changed her mind again. She was alone at home with her, and even if she said that the girl had accidentally burned herself while cooking, the police might not believe her. Once she was taken to the interrogation room, she might not be able to withstand the questioning.

So, she decided to go all the way and killed the little girl.

After killing her, for reasons unknown, the woman cut off her head, put it in a pressure cooker to steam, and then drove the body to a hillside to bury it.

And that doll became the container for hiding Manini's head.

The woman took the cotton out of the doll and hid the steamed head inside.

To make a living, the woman sells her body every day. So many customers come and go, but none of them know that there is a little girl's head in the next room.

One day, the girl's father returned.

He came back intending to get a divorce and then take the young girl to another place to make a living.

Not finding their daughter, the two naturally started arguing. During the argument, the man sensed something was wrong and immediately called the police after leaving the house.

When the police arrived, the woman, who was emotionally distraught, confessed everything without much questioning.

Upon seeing the blood-stained doll, the man collapsed to the ground.

The case ended with the woman being sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve. Her defense lawyer argued on her behalf out of "humanitarianism," claiming that she had suffered long-term domestic violence from her husband, leading to mental instability and ultimately resulting in a crime of passion that caused the tragedy.

This sparked widespread public dissatisfaction, and the lawyer was also heavily criticized.

The man also received administrative penalties due to inadequate supervision.

Not long after the woman was imprisoned, she died a gruesome death in jail; strangely, her head was also severed...