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Chapter 128 - 5 Sister’s Secret

Chapter 128: Chapter 5 Sister’s Secret

"Yun Ran, what did you come to me for just now?"

Startled, Jin Yunran turned her head and saw her sister Jin Yun Lan standing at the doorway to the study.

Jin Yunran immediately hid the diary behind her and said, "Sister... I..."

But she found she didn’t know what to say.

Her brother-in-law’s diary was updating itself automatically?

Impossible!

Clearly, someone had imitated her brother-in-law’s handwriting and written the diary entry during the time she had been away from the study!

Clearly, her sister couldn’t have done it.

So that left only two suspects.

Yunyi and Alana.

"Sister, is Yunyi still downstairs watching cartoons?"

"Yes," Jin Yun Lan nodded. "After you told him heaven really exists, he seemed much happier."

"And Alana?"

"She should be washing dishes; probably done by now."

"Hmm..."

"What’s wrong, Yun Ran?" Jin Yun Lan looked at her younger sister with confusion. "You look pale."

Jin Yunran quickly said, "It’s nothing, sister, just that the study has so many books..."

She moved stealthily to the back like a thief and pretended to put the diary back in the drawer.

Downstairs.

In the spacious living room, the floor cleaning robot moved under Gao Yunyi’s feet, and he slowly lifted his foot.

The TV was playing the classic cartoon "Tom and Jerry". At the dining table, the conversation about heaven seemed to have clearly cheered up the child. Watching Jerry play tricks on Tom, he also let out occasional laughs.

Jin Yunran approached Yunyi from behind and asked, "Let me ask you, Yunyi, did you go upstairs just now?"

Yunyi, thoroughly engrossed in the cartoon, replied subconsciously, "Ah... upstairs?"

"Did you go up to the study on the second floor just now?"

Yunyi then realized what she was asking and said, "I’ve been here watching cartoons the whole time! I didn’t go upstairs!"

"Then... Alana?"

"Alana should be in the kitchen, I think, I haven’t been paying attention."

Jin Yunran immediately went to check the kitchen where Alana was wiping dishes. She was very adept at it, and the dishes she cleaned looked as good as new.

"Yun Ran?" As Alana saw Jin Yunran coming, she said, "I’m almost done with the dishes. Is there something you need me to do?"

Jin Yunran inspected Alana carefully. Her face wasn’t flushed, she wasn’t panting; she didn’t look like someone who had just done something guilty. If this was acting, it was too impressive.

"Alana, you carry on, I have something to discuss with you later."

Exiting the kitchen, Jin Yunran observed the area from the kitchen to the stairs.

If Alana wanted to go upstairs, she would certainly have to pass by this spot. But with Yunyi so absorbed in the TV, even if Alana had gone upstairs right beside him, he likely wouldn’t have noticed.

In Jin Yunran’s view... if someone was playing pranks, Alana was the most suspicious. After all, it’s not uncommon for people with psychological twists and a dislike of the wealthy nowadays.

Of course, this motive was also far-fetched, but Yunyi didn’t seem like the kind of child who would play such pranks. Moreover, Jin Yunran had seen his writing before; Yunyi’s handwriting was nothing like her brother-in-law’s neat script.

Running to her sister and then back to the study—it took at most four minutes. It was Such a brief time to flawlessly write an entire diary entry before quickly leaving... how could a child manage that?

But it was equally absurd for a maid to do so. Jin Yunran just couldn’t figure it out. Writing that diary entry so neatly in just four minutes was extraordinarily difficult.

After weighing it over, Jin Yunran decided she couldn’t tell her sister about this.

Her sister was in a very unstable mental state, and if she let her fixate on the idea of "unfinished business with a ghost," it might provoke her to actually do something drastic, even if she hadn’t been contemplating it before.

Of course, there was another possibility.

And it was the most frightening possibility.

Someone from outside had broken into the villa.

But this villa was secured with a fingerprint lock, and the area outside the villa complex was densely covered with surveillance cameras. Security personnel were always monitoring from the control room, justifying the high property fees of this place.

Besides, if it were a burglar, why wouldn’t they steal money instead of pulling pranks to scare people? Wasn’t that too far-fetched?

At that moment, Alana came out.

Yun Ran sat with her in a corner of the living room, about ten meters away from Yunyi, to ensure he couldn’t hear their conversation.

"Alana... the next question I’m going to ask is one many people, including the police, have probably already asked you, but I’ll ask it again."

Jin Yunran leaned in close to Alana and asked, "Before my brother-in-law died, did anything unusual happen? For instance, did he ever feel like someone bad had come into the villa?"

"Really, there was nothing..." Alana shook her head and said, "The police have come and gone many times to inspect, there were no intruders, and they’ve repeatedly checked the surveillance around the villa, there are no blind spots at all."

Jin Yunran stared intently at Alana before her.

She suddenly realized that she had subconsciously taken the diary entry from September 19th, which shouldn’t have existed, seriously.

In that diary entry, the "brother-in-law" mentioned that he always felt like someone was watching him.

This must be forged... But the handwriting was so similar to the brother-in-law’s, there wasn’t a trace of difference, so much so that she had unwittingly confused her own memories.

"Alana, did you come upstairs just now? When you were doing the dishes?"

Afterward, Jin Yunran seemed to ask this question casually and then started to observe Alana’s expression.

However, Alana’s expression didn’t show the slightest change, and she answered naturally, "No, after you all finished dinner, I’ve been in the kitchen the whole time."

"Is that so? Earlier, when I was in the study on the second floor, I thought I heard your voice outside."

"You must have heard wrong, I never went up to the second floor."

When Alana spoke, her expression was utterly indifferent, showing no sign of lying.

Jin Yunran began to feel puzzled. Could it be that she really wronged her?

"Never mind, you can go back to work."

"Okay."

After Alana walked away, she turned her gaze to Yun Yi.

No way...

...

The night grew deep.

Jin Yunran lay on the mattress her sister had specifically bought for her, clutching that diary.

Now, her mind was completely occupied by this diary, making it impossible for her to concentrate on anything else.

She opened the diary again.

This time, she planned to start from the beginning and read it more carefully.

The diary started in July of this year.

She had to admit, the brother-in-law was indeed a writer, his writing was excellent; his diary entries chronicling everyday life were also very vivid.

As the dates in the diary drew nearer to September 19th, Jin Yunran also began to feel nervous.

At that moment, she came across this particular entry.

"September 11th, 2021, partly cloudy

I always feel like Yun Lan has been hiding something from me recently.

Over the years we’ve been married, she hasn’t been able to hide anything from me and has never kept secrets.

But this time, I sense she is carrying a significant burden on her mind.

After much deliberation, I have decided not to inquire. Based on my understanding of her, if she isn’t willing to tell me, it must be something she finds very troubling.

She left early this morning.

She claimed she was going out to buy some things, but the moment she spoke, I could tell she was lying.

I pretended not to notice.

Because of Yun Lan, the creative process today was somewhat disrupted; by the time she returned in the evening, I had written less than ten thousand words.

When Yun Lan came back, she only had a small paper bag with her.

I went to look, but I found she was particularly nervous, clutching that paper bag, not willing to let me see.

Although I don’t know what it is, the fact that she and I have this secret she can’t share makes me feel somewhat disappointed.

Perhaps she will tell me what it is after a while."

My sister hiding something from my brother-in-law?

It’s hard to imagine that the person written about in the diary is my sister, harboring secrets she absolutely could not tell my brother-in-law?

Although the diary didn’t indicate the day of the week (I seem to recall the brother-in-law saying that because he wrote in the diary every day, he got tired of writing the day of the week and stopped), I still remember that day was a Saturday, after all it was the day right after Teacher’s Day.

My sister was not the type to go shopping on weekends, she was too much of a homebody, always shopping online.

What was it that she needed to do, to be out for the whole day?

She continued reading the next entry.

"September 12th, 2021, cloudy turning to light rain

I woke up in the early hours.

Yun Lan was not by my side.

I checked the time, it was almost four in the morning.

At first, I thought she had gone to the bathroom, but after a long time, she did not return.

Immediately, I put on my clothes, left the room, and went to the bathroom, but she wasn’t there.

Where was she?"

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