"Did something happen?" Lin Wan'er asked, her voice very pleasant.

It seemed that after being alone for too long, the old man couldn't stop talking after saying a few more words.

The old man's eyes, with his gray hair, were no longer bright, but when he talked about this matter, his expression couldn't help but change.

Worried about other disturbances, Jiang Cheng pushed the old man to a relatively quiet spot by the roadside.

This place should have been a garden, but it had been neglected for a long time and was now overgrown with weeds in the flowerbeds.

"Sigh." The old man hesitated for a moment before speaking, "That matter... it's been almost 20 years, I was repairing cars in front of the community gate at the time, and now many people have forgotten."

Looking towards the villa, the old man said slowly, "A family used to live there. I heard the man was in business and the family was well-off."

"It wasn't like it is now. To be able to afford such a villa, it wasn't enough to just have money, you also had to have connections."

"That woman..." The old man seemed to be recalling the past again, turned his head, looked at Jiang Cheng sitting beside him, and paused before saying, "It's not that I'm talking nonsense, but that woman was beautiful, not much different from your fiancée."

"Her looks, her figure, were all perfect."

"When they first moved in, many people envied them. The whole family was friendly to the neighbors."

"Oh, right." The old man said, "They also had a child."

"Boy or girl?" Jiang Cheng asked quickly.

"Boy, about... about 1 or 2 years old, looked very cute."

A trace of something flashed in Jiang Cheng's eyes, as if a certain guess had fallen through.

According to the old man's description, this should have been a very harmonious family, a man with a successful career, a woman with a gentle personality, and a cute child.

Jiang Cheng stared intently at the old man, waiting for the rest of the story.

And... the twist.

There must be a reason for the man and woman to end up like this.

"But later, everyone gradually realized that something was wrong." The old man shook his head, his tone changed, "They moved in during the winter, when they wore a lot of clothes, so you couldn't see anything. But when the spring and summer came the following year, it couldn't be hidden."

"That woman's arms and legs were covered in scars." The old man lowered his voice, "Most of them were new injuries, looking very pitiful."

"Who would have thought that the man looked like a good person, but behind the scenes he could be so cruel."

"Later, the neighbors nearby also said that in the dead of night, they could hear the sounds of things being smashed, and the crying of the woman and child."

Speaking of this, the old man's face suddenly became angry, "What's even more outrageous is that he actually... actually laid hands on his own child!"

"The child had injuries too?" Jiang Cheng frowned and asked.

"Yes." The old man nodded, looking quite indignant.

"Do you know why?"

"What else could it be? The woman was too beautiful, so there were a lot of rumors. The man suspected she was having an affair, and the more he drank, the angrier he got, so he went back and beat her."

That reason is too simple and crude, Jiang Cheng thought.

"Later, I heard that the man hired a nanny, saying she was there to take care of the child, but actually it was just to have someone watch the woman when he wasn't home, to see if she was doing anything to betray him." The old man continued.

"From then on, the woman basically didn't leave the house anymore, also because the man wouldn't allow it. The neighbors didn't see her anymore, but they could still hear the sounds of beatings and the woman's crying at night."

"If it was like that, didn't anyone help call the police?" Lin Wan'er's pleasant voice came, but no matter how you listened, it was mixed with a hint of coldness.

The old man frowned unnaturally, avoiding Lin Wan'er's gaze.

It was clear that the neighbors were just spreading gossip, and no one wanted to offend a rich and powerful man for an unfamiliar woman.

Lin Wan'er smiled and said nothing.

"What happened later?" Since the matter had already happened, Jiang Cheng was more concerned about the truth.

"Later..." The old man swallowed and lowered his voice extremely, "Later that boy... died."

"Died?"

"Yes." The old man said, "It was quite sudden, I was shocked when I heard the news."

"How did he die?"

The old man shook his head, "I'm not sure about that, but not long after, the woman disappeared. Some people speculated that the man had sent her to a mental hospital."

"She probably couldn't take the blow and went crazy." The old man let out a long breath, his tone full of regret.

It seemed that this woman was the woman in Room 624.

From the old man's mouth, he learned that the woman's name was Xiang Nan.

The man's name was Yin Zhenliang.

The old man wasn't very clear about what happened after that. He only heard that later this man named Yin Zhenliang killed Xiang Nan.

As for how he killed her, or where he killed her, he didn't know.

This was still gossip from the neighbors in the same community.

From then on, everyone kept a distance from this villa, even speeding up their pace when passing by, feeling that it was unlucky.

Over time, it fell into disrepair and became what it is now.

After saying goodbye to the old man, Lin Wan'er seemed very interested in the villa and planned to go inside to take a look, as there might be clues inside.

But Jiang Cheng rejected the idea. The villa looked very eerie from the outside, and who knows what might happen if they really went inside.

If it wasn't Lin Wan'er by his side, Jiang Cheng might have given it a try.

On the way back, Jiang Cheng looked at the scenery retreating outside the window. Combining it with what Blind Zheng had said, an idea emerged in his mind.

He got out of the car, returned to the hospital, and went upstairs.

After opening the door, Huai Yi and Cao Yang were already waiting in the room.

Judging from their expressions, they had also made considerable gains.

He sat down, and without wasting any time, Jiang Cheng began to introduce the clues he had gathered. The reactions of several women were very strong after hearing about Xiang Nan's experience.

"It seems that this Yin Zhenliang is a beast in human skin. He often beat Xiang Nan and even laid hands on the child!" Yu Yu clenched her fists.

In her opinion, this was simply outrageous.

Compared to her reaction, Huai Yi's expression was slightly calmer, "I'm wondering, what's his purpose in doing this?"

"I don't feel like it's just a simple release of dissatisfaction." Huai Yi raised his head and looked at Jiang Cheng. He had a strange trust in the latter.

Perhaps... it was because he had saved him.

"What if it's like a threat?" Cao Yang scratched his head and chimed in, "Do you guys remember what Blind Zheng said?"

"He said that the woman's husband had hooked up with a woman with a very high status, and the other woman couldn't tolerate the wife, so she found someone to issue an assessment and define the wife as mentally ill."

"Yin Zhenliang beating her like that, even laying hands on the child, could it be... threatening Xiang Nan to leave him?"