A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

The rest of the people there started realizing the danger they were facing.

Their families, jobs, houses, savings, everything they had worked for... It would all be for nothing if they died there. What had they done wrong? Nothing that happened was their fault.

But they were all going to pay for it, for that one woman who did not have the guts to come out and admit that she had hurt Emily.

"Mr. Gu, now I remember!" spoke up Sheila, who had been slapped and almost strangled by Jacob the night before. "Lynn went out after Miss Bai left, and when she came back, she wasn't wearing the same clothes. At that time, I remember being puzzled about it and even asked her where she had gone. But she dodged the question and didn't give me a straight answer! I found that quite suspicious even before I knew about Miss Bai's incident!"

Sheila's comment seemed honest. In fact, she was almost scared to death after last night. When she later found out that Emily was not hurt that badly, she seemed really relieved. After the previous night's gruesome episode between her and Jacob, she was planning to keep a low profile and avoid being anywhere near Emily or Jacob until the vacation was over, but unfortunately, she got caught up in this new altercation all due to the fact that she had worn purple the day before.

Sheila's insinuation took Lynn by surprise. She quickly forced herself to turn her frightened look into a confused one, and rebutted loudly at once,"I beg you pardon? Don't you dare frame ME! Everyone in our company knows you hate Miss Bai. You pick on her every time you see her. In fact, yesterday she left because of you! You have the biggest motivation here to hurt her!"

"Oh, seriously? Unlike you, I have lots of alibis who saw that I didn't leave the place at all yesterday," Sheila justified herself angrily,"Tell me, what did you do outside after you left?" she persisted.

"Shut up both of you," uttered Jacob firmly. Immediately, both Sheila and Lynn closed their mouths shut and didn't dare to say another word.

"Who else went out yesterday?" Jacob continued.

Everyone was initially confused by his question, wondering how it tied in with the issue at hand. However, once they had a chance to think about it, they realized he was checking all their alibis. So they all reported on their own as well as each other's activities, some on a more accusing note than others as if any friendship between them had suddenly ended. After carefully putting all the pieces of last night's events together, Sam concluded that it could have only been Sheila or Lynn who had attempted to assassinate Emily.

Everyone who was deemed innocent was allowed to leave. They all breathed a sigh of relief and rushed back to their places of residence.

have not gone in the first place. But now, having dodged the bullet, they could make the most of the time they had

Back at the hall

her hypocrisy anymore. It had to be Lynn who hurt Emily, and yet she dared to blame Sheila so nonchalantly. Realizing Lynn would never admit to it, she had to try to reason with Jacob instead,"Mr.

and turn the tables around. So she contended,"Although you did not leave yesterday, you could still ask other people to follow Miss Bai and push her into the river! Besides, last night when we found out that Miss Bai

strangled her right then and there. She kept telling herself in disbelief, 'Lynn is such an evil bitch. She must have planned to

was racking her brains to come up with a way to prove her innocence, Jacob called out Lynn's bluff himself,"How did you know that Emily was

few hours earlier. Lynn couldn't have known unless she had been

up at his words. She immediately seized the opportunity to further investigate,"Yes! Up until a few moments ago, I knew nothing about

pale with fear. She realized that was the end of her. Unable to put on an act any longer, she began speaking nonsense,"I didn't...

heart at rest, realizing that Jacob wouldn't doubt her anymore. At that point, all she wanted was to get as far away as possible from that hall. However, she

needed to expel any of his remaining doubts. Furthermore, among the clues that Sam's people found by the river was a piece of the purple skirt that

her lips fearfully and kept quiet. She might as well have

already a dead person and then commented,"You're a lost cause anyway! To kill you now would be a favor to you; so I won't do that... just yet. First,

textbook,"You had a blind spot for Emily. I could not bear that. I was very jealous of her and thus, planned to kill her yesterday." Lynn's words sounded mechanical, emotionless.

if perhaps Lynn had lost her mind completely. Did Lynn think that if she killed

He quickly realized that Lynn had been instructed to memorize a worst-case-scenario confession in order to cover up for the real murderer.

bring in a large iron cage covered by a black cloth.

the huge beast. It had its eyes set on her. If allowed, it would rush out of

moment later, the bear roared with its snout sniffing towards Lynn. It then grasped the iron door excitedly, beating against the cage. She quickly covered her mouth with her palms before

And why wasn't Jacob letting her go already? She would have