WOYE Chapter 42 [Fourth Day Part Four]

Editor: reii

Fang Daichuan and Ding Zihui were the first group. No matter how naive Fang Daichuan was, at this point, he had to hold suspicion toward Sister Ding. He stood aside, looked at Ding Zihui, and pointed his chin at the machine. “You go first.”

Ding Zihui was helpless. “I won’t scam you. Will you vote for yourself or someone else?”

“Vote for each other.” Fang Daichuan gazed at her viligantly. He followed Li Sinian’s example and was firm in his decision, not leaving any room for opportunities.

Ding Zihui voted for Fang Daichuan under his stare. In order to gain his trust, she stood a step away and looked at Fang Daichuan, hiding nothing. Fang Daichuan was wary that there would be more trouble, so he voted in a hurry and the two returned to the table together.

Li Sinian was sitting in the same spot playing with a pen. The pen spun between his fingers, making an audible sound. He was quick, his fingers extremely nimble, his thumb fondling the side of the pen after every few turns. Others didn’t seem to notice, but Fang Daichuan recognized it at a glance; this was a move of someone who knew very well how to wield a knife. When Fang Daichuan filmed one of his anti-war movies, there was someone who played the role of a military officer, having retired from the military. This is his habit when he played with knives. The knife would never touch his fingers, but after every few spins, he would rub his thumb on the knife.It was how they cleared their minds from their bloodlust.

Hearing the two coming back, Li Sinian held his pen in one hand, half raised his head and glanced at Fang Daichuan. Fang Daichuan suddenly seemed to have seen an angel——Li Sinian’s eyes reflected the light, lustrous and glittering, a flush apparent on his cheeks.

“Are you alright?” Fang Daichuan whispered, frowning deeply, he stretched out his right hand and put the back of his hand on Li Sinian’s forehead.

Sure enough, Li Sinian was running a fever, the heat almost scalded his hand. He had slept all night in wet clothes after having just been poisoned. He hadn’t had a good rest since yesterday. In fact, him not having a forty degree fever was evidence of Li Sinian’s a good physique. However, there was no medicine on the island and he could only fight the fever by himself, inevitably worrying Fang Daichuan. Li Sinian shook his head lightly, pulled Fang Daichuan’s hand down, smiled at him, and signaled that he was fine.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

The second group was Niu Xinyan and Yang Song. Niu Xinyan looked at her son with some concern and could not stop talking to him. Her crazy son, who today was not crazy but rather timid and weak, glanced at Fang Daichuan’s direction and quickly lowered his head, seemingly somewhat afraid to look in his direction. However, when Fang Daichuan remembered that last night it was this kid who forced Li Sinian to jump into the sea, he couldn’t help but get angry, snort and stare daggers into him.

The kid shuddered.

—— Fucking hell, Fang Daichuan suddenly felt like he was bullying a child.

Niu Xinyan seemed in pain. When she stood up, although she tried her best to suppress it, her face was still stiff. Yang Song saw it, calmly helped her and said in a low voice, “Be careful.”

The two helped each other and went to the front to vote. The two women did not guard against each other. They voted successfully. Chen Hui and Liu Xin were next.

When Fang Daichuan saw that Liu Xin was going up to vote, he shifted his gaze away from the kid to Liu Xin. After all, Liu Xin was the focus of today. But this was not the only reason. The child had changed into a different person. There was a strange vibe emanating from him. Because he thought it would really be bullying a child to stare at the kid while the mom was away, he simply looked away.

The child that was no longer stared at, let out a sigh of relief. He then leaned heavily on the seat, his body tilted, he shook twice and there was a discerning sound of water under the table. The smell of urine gradually spread out.

What the hell? Fang Daichuan was so shocked that he didn’t know what to do. He’d actually managed to scare a 13 or 14-year-old into urinating himself? Although it was a weird child who sings eerie nursery rhymes, splashes water on the walls, did he still have any dignity to save if people found out?

The child was already old enough to have self-esteem. He was embarrassed when realized he’d wet his pants in public, laid on the table and began to cry.

For a moment everyone looked a little awkward.

Niu Xinyan hurried back after voting, hugged the child and coaxed, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, it’s not Xiquan’s fault, let’s go back and change clothes after voting.”

The child who was still crying a moment ago stopped crying.

He raised his head, tears still clinging to the corners of his eyes, but his expression was terrifyingly gloomy. He sniffed and distanced himself from his mother.

“Pa—”, with a crisp sound, Niu Xinyan’s hair became dishevelled, and her whole body froze on the spot.

The boy cracked a faint smile, a few drops of tears still hanging on his long eyelashes. Without hesitation, he backhanded another slap at Niu Xinyan’s face with a “pa—”.

Thirteen or fourteen-year-olds strength wasn’t small and ten fingerprints appeared on Niu Xinyan’s face. She hooked her lips hard, forced a smile, turned her head and explained to the stunned crowd, “Nan Nan… is just playing with me…”

Is that why she’s injured? Fang Daichuan felt a chill all over his body.

“Split personality?” Li Sijian whispered to himself.

Fang Daichuan turned his head and glanced at him, and asked in a low voice, “Are you sure? Isn’t it because the kid is a psychopath?”

“It’s probably a split personality,” Li Sinian frowned deeply, “Have you noticed that every time the crazy child comes out, Niu Xinyan calls him ‘Nan Nan’, when the child acts timid, he’s called ‘Xiquan’?”

“Yes, if you have children, you have to get up early every day and make breakfast for them*.” This is what Niu Xinyan had said when she met Fang Daichuan at the stairs on the third morning. She had been a widow for many years and had only one son. So why did she say “them”?

(T/N : On chapter 26. Now, I really like how the author did put so many clues and foreshadowing on this novel. I am just glad I managed to get this one transferred correctly to English :nervous sweating: )

She instructed the cowardly child, “Xiquan, say hello to uncle”, with the mentality and seniority of a mother, but in the middle of the night, she kissed her son and cried, “Nan Nan, I’m afraid.”

Liu Xiquan was indeed her son, but who was Nan Nan?

Fang Daichuan sweating bullets, terrified.

There was a muffled thunder outside the window, the sound seemed to shatter heaven and earth. The chandelier swayed and flickered several times before suddenly exploding and going out.

A gloomy silence filled the room.

Liu Xin and Chen Hui silently sat back at the long table, and no one dared to speak. Chen Hui’s right hand was shaking the whole time. She grabbed the corner of her boyfriend’s shirt as if calling for help.

“Useless,” the one called Nan Nan, the one who inhabited the boy’s body showed a big smile and scolded softly “What else can you do?”

Niu Xinyan covered her mouth, big drops of tears slid down the sides of her face.

(T/N : I happen to translate a story about split personality before so I will just put this warning here, people with split personality usually have a lot trauma so yeah, there is child abuse in this story. I will put a warning obviously but it is still far away so just a note. Also please comment if you think I should put trigger warning or not on the part where Niu Xinyan got slapped.)

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