That day, we returned to the courtyard, and she personally handed me a diary. When I opened it, I discovered that it recorded all the past events of Guan Shansong.
April 4, 1999, heavy rain.
Chapter 1: Parents.
This day I wandered around the house alone. For some reason, my parents had not returned, as if they would never come back. I couldn't control my agitated emotions and could only go out in the rain to search for them. They had left earlier and told me they would be back soon, but what was the result? I found out my parents lied to me...
Seeing this first chapter, I thought that Guan Shansong must have thought she was writing a novel at the time. With this word count and theme, I thought it was more like a diary.
April 5, 1999, heavy rain.
Chapter 2: The Truth.
This rain still hasn't stopped. My body is drenched. It's quite a struggle to take the time to record these things now. My parents still haven't returned. Hahaha, do you all know? Actually, I tricked them into leaving. I wrote this yesterday to make you doubt. My parents were sent to a dismemberment site. They will soon turn into lumps of rotten meat. They thought I didn't know, was I adopted? Even if I was from an orphanage, so what? Why can't they treat me the way they treat ordinary children? Cursing, insults, beatings, and confinement, are these things parents should do? You are simply not human! You should go to hell! Really! You have ruined me, serves you right! Serves you right!
1999? How old was she then? Less than 10 years old and she had already done such things to her parents?
What was this guy thinking? In her words, I could see her intense hatred for her parents, to the point of having no affection for them at all.
She was an orphan, adopted, and her parents treated her very poorly afterward.
Seeing these thoughts emerge again, I continued reading. However, the later records no longer had dates, but instead had chapter numbers. They were all about how she tricked people to a certain place to be dismembered. This place, no need to guess, was that old courtyard. In the later records, there was more information about that courtyard, and indeed, that air-raid shelter had existed from the beginning.
I read all the way to Chapter 115. These were probably written by her recently. In the earlier chapters, she detailed things like: "Today I personally came to the air-raid shelter and watched as living people were peeled open alive, haha, I felt so stimulated. I never expected that after so many years, I would still be singled out by the organization for this hobby and used to deal with a divine detective. This detective is very powerful, having taken down several of our leaders. However, I think this person is quite cute, ahahaha."
Seeing this, I don't know why, but I felt a strange sensation, even a slight shiver.
Did this guy have feelings for me? If I hadn't read this record, I wouldn't have known Guan Shansong's inner thoughts.
Continuing to read, there was even more shocking content that followed.
This was already Chapter 160.
"I really don't want to deal with him, haha. Actually, if I wanted to kill him, I could find a hundred ways. However, I deliberately told the organization that the time wasn't ripe and I had better countermeasures. I'll use other victims to provoke him, hoping he'll find me.
That's right, everything I did was deliberate, to attract his attention, and then scheme to lead him to become a criminal. That guy might use a method of deliberately committing crimes, then thinking he could take my place, and I would get angry and appear before them??
Chapter 161: It turned out to be exactly as I thought, but I won't have the chance to write a diary anymore. After I go out tonight, I'll probably be arrested. Unless I can continue writing in prison. He Sheng, I know you will find this diary. You probably understand my feelings now, so I want you to fulfill one wish for me: compile this into a novel and publish it. There are over 600,000 characters here, which can be considered a novella.
Thank you, He Sheng. Actually, I've never told you the truth.
As I finished the last page, Sister sighed, "Are you very surprised? You might have forgotten about Guan Shansong's past, haven't you?"
"Guan Shansong? You don't mean... her??"
"That's right. In high school, she was in your class. She liked you back then."
What??
I almost blurted it out, and silently thought, Guan Shansong, you bastard, you didn't lie to me, I just didn't realize you were telling the truth.
For some reason, as I held the diary and looked back, it was as if I saw myself in the past, studying with her in the classroom. It felt so much like before, sleeping with my head on the desk when I was bored, drooling all over the desk. When I woke up, I realized it was all a dream.
But when I woke up, everything returned to reality.
Later, I still went to the detention center to see her. When I saw her again, she had changed completely. Her eyes were exceptionally bewildered and yet tender: "Did you read it all?"
"Yes. You are the first woman to completely deceive me. It must have been painful for you to act all this time, right?"
"What else could I do? If I didn't do this, the organization would have made me kill you hundreds of times. Don't worry, I won't let you die!"
"So you knew it was all a setup and deliberately walked into it to fulfill my wish."
"Otherwise? Did I really watch you die? Da Shengzi."
Da Shengzi, that was her pet name for me from the past. I didn't expect her to remember.
I gave a bitter smile and squeezed her hand tightly, "Thank you."
After saying that, I stood up. I never saw Guan Shansong again after that.
The moment I walked out of the detention center, everything could no longer go back to the past. I could only pray for her, that she wouldn't be so foolish in her next life. It wasn't worth it, really.
Two months passed, which was December 11, 2022. I took a file from the archives.
Case Name: The Human Puppet: The Emotionless One
Case Number: d04245823987745
Filing Unit: Guangming City Provincial Department Criminal Investigation Team First Squadron Punishment Sin Group
Filer: Liu Yuning
Filing Date: October 11, 2022.
"He who can control his emotions is greater than a general who can conquer a city." - Napoleon.
But in this world, some people are devoid of emotion, because they are controlled by some strange power. They become like puppets, completely dominated by another person, or rather, by some people.
My name is He Sheng. I am the Deputy Director of the Guangming City Public Security Department. I was originally a forensic doctor, but my ancestors were coroner.