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The next morning,Lily messaged me saying that my brother was thirsty in the middle of the night. When he got up to drink water, he accidentally dropped the water cup and it broke. In a dazed state, my brother lost his balance and fell to the ground. A piece of glass shard happened to pierce the main artery in his neck, and my brother died just like that.
Lily found him in the morning, lying on the floor in the living room with a large pool of blood underneath him. When she tried to wake my brother up, he was already stiff.
Tradition demands burial in the hometown.
Lily contacted me,and we drove Daniel’s body back to our hometown. She wanted to have my brother buried as soon as possible so that his soul could rest in peace.
As we mourned before his coffin,Nancy and her son stormed in,wailing.
At the sight of my brother's coffin, Nancy's eyes turned red. She threw herself onto my brother's coffin and began to cry bitterly.
Lily’s face darkened, she wanted to say something, but out of consideration for the surrounding relatives, she held her tongue.
I kept vigil all day and slept early. A piercing scream woke me.
I threw on clothes,grabbed a wooden stick for defense,and ran toward the sound.
Nancy’s room was locked. Shrill screams and cries for help kept coming from inside the room.
I called the police,trying to unlock it.
The screams grew fainter.
Villagers arrived,hearing the noise.
When silence fell,a burly man kicked the flimsy door down. The inferior wooden door was kicked in on the spot,at the same time, a thick smell of blood wafted out from the room.
Tommy was holding a fruit knife in his hand, his eyes bloodshot with a murderous look, stood over Nancy
Her upper body was on the bed,lower half dragging,riddled with stab wounds,dead.
Nancy’s son cowered in the corner,trembling.
Seeing that Tommy was walking towards that child with the knife in his hand, the men in the village who had come to their senses quickly surrounded him. Some grabbed the knife,others restrained Tommy, one saved the boy.
Finally, when the police arrived ,Tommy was pinned to the ground and the child was rescued.
At this moment, Lily, yawning, emerged from another room.
Seeing the crowd,she blinked.”What’s everyone doing?”
Just as she finished speaking, Police escorted Tommy past.
Lily screamed,lunging.”What’re you doing?Why take Tommy?”
I pulled her back.”Lily,don’t interfere with police!”
“Tommy killed Nancy!The house is bloody.What do you think they’re doing?”
Lily’s pupils shrank.” No! I gave Nancy the milk…”
I leaned in, whispering,” How’d that sleeping-pill milk taste,Lily?”
That's right,Lily planned to let Nancy stay,giving her drugged milk. Late at night, Tommy would kill Nancy and her son quietly. And Lily would clean up after.
I swapped the drugged milk for Lily’s,so Nancy’s screams when Tommy stabbed her woke the village.
The shrill screams just happened to attract the villagers. Lily’s plan had completely failed!
