Chapter 613: Live for the House, Die for the House
In the quiet interrogation room, Gong Jianqin spoke slowly, “At first, it was just a house in my eyes, but of course I loved it very much. Its layout was perfect. The living room was always filled with sunlight, and I wanted to live here so much. Occasionally, when I was upset with clients and managers, I would come up here alone, sit on the balcony watching the clouds. This place became my secret little house where I talked to myself about my troubles, and it was the only one listening. Gradually, if I didn’t come here every day, I would feel uneasy. Not seeing it, the anxiety in my heart was like a smoker without cigarettes, a drunk without alcohol. As soon as I entered its clean living room, I would immediately calm down…”
“The more time I spent there, the more I caressed every wall, kissed every floor. I even made love to it. Of course, in your eyes, it was just using a tool stuck on the wall for self-gratification. That feeling was wonderful; I was inside it, and it was inside me…” Gong Jianqin, like a girl in love, blushed and said, “Even now, when I think of it, I suddenly feel wet.”
“Cough, don’t go into detail about your fetish. It’s disgusting to listen to!” Lin Qiupu interrupted.
“Don’t call me that!!!” Gong Jianqin’s expression changed drastically, and she roared so fiercely that the interrogation chair was shaken, “Never define me with those three words. You don’t understand anything, anything at all!”
This was a blatant threat to the police. Lin Qiupu wanted to say something but was stopped by Chen Shi’s gesture.
Chen Shi said, “About fetishism, do you know what I think?”
Gong Jianqin nodded calmly, and Lin Qiupu thought to himself, why can he say it and I can’t, what kind of discrimination is this?
“I think it’s also love!” Chen Shi said, “What exactly is love? If we have to be clear, it may just be a cocktail made of a few chemical substances in our brains. It’s a feeling that appears when we meet someone. If that person is of the same sex, an animal, a thing, or even oneself, is this feeling wrong? I don’t think anyone can call it wrong. Love is love, no matter who or what it is directed towards.”
“Thank you for understanding!” Gong Jianqin nodded, with a crying voice.
“Actually, I just suddenly thought of this level, and I find it a bit hard to believe, so I set up a trap to anger you, and the result proved that I was right.”
“I love it more than anything! Even just saying its name, 1818, my heart trembles!” Gong Jianqin said, “So when I see clients come in, dirty its floor, pointing here and there, talking about how to decorate in the future, like discussing an object, I have a fire of anger in my heart! Thinking about what this place will become in the future, snotty kids crawling all over the floor, dirty and smelly cats and dogs peeing and defecating inside, smoke oil blackening the walls, the homeowner proudly showing guests how big his house is, and then selling it to the next dubious person when the house price goes up, thinking about these things drives me crazy! I know it’s wrong, I’m the one selling it, but I fell in love with it, but I can’t control it. Love is a selfish thing and doesn’t want to be shared with others. I want it, and I can give everything for it!”
“So why didn’t you buy it? Even if you’re a salesperson, you can buy it yourself.”
“I thought about it, but that was after I killed two people. If I bought it at this time, the police would suspect me, so I changed my mind and let all this happen quietly and end quietly. Find a worthy person to entrust 1818 to it, anyway, ordinary people will also experience lovelorn, just a lovelorn, I can bear it!”
“What do you mean by ‘find a worthy person’?”
“Keep killing!” Gong Jianqin showed a sinister smile, “Until it meets a good person! Mr. Chen, in fact, after you appeared, I had already planned to entrust it to you. If you hadn’t seen through me, if this case had just been left unsolved, and you bought it, it would also be safe.”
“I’m sorry, but I have a cat at home.”
“A cat… it’s acceptable!”
Lin Qiupu made a gesture to Chen Shi, and Chen Shi said, “Let’s continue to talk about the case!”
“Okay.” Having revealed her innermost feelings, Gong Jianqin’s expression became much brighter.
The interrogation lasted until five o’clock in the afternoon, and finally, Gong Jianqin said, “I have a small request.”
“To see it for the last time?” Chen Shi asked.
She nodded.
Chen Shi turned his head and asked Lin Qiupu, “It’s not an excessive request, is it?”
Lin Qiupu said, “I’ll think about it!”
This is indeed not an excessive request. In fact, Lin Qiupu has already agreed in his heart, but he didn’t say it. The next day, when the case was re-enacted, Lin Qiupu had the motorcade take a detour to Century Tiancheng Community. Gong Jianqin, wearing criminal chains, stood at the door of 1818. She took off her shoes and walked in, wandering back and forth in each room.
To prevent her from jumping to her death, the balcony and windows were guarded by the police, and she was not allowed to approach them.
Lin Dongxue and Chen Shi stood at the door. Lin Dongxue said, “The longer you live, the more you can see. I heard that a woman abroad married the Eiffel Tower, then broke up with the tower and fell in love with a crane. When I saw this news, I thought, this is not a show, is it?”
“The biggest mystery in the world is the human heart. You never know what others think. Fetishism is just a sexual orientation, which has nothing to do with good or evil, right or wrong. Sometimes I’m glad I was born in this era, where homosexuals are not burned to death, and SM will not be imprisoned.”
“Are you an S or an M?”
“Why ask this suddenly?”
“I heard that SM is also an orientation, and everyone has it, just like gender.”
“If I had to say, I might be an S.”
“Really?”
“Why do you look disappointed?” Chen Shi took her hand.
“Are you really going to buy here?”
“This house is great. Don’t talk about fetishism; I’m almost in love with it.”
“Then I suggest you don’t buy it… Can we talk tonight?”
The root of their argument was still not resolved. Chen Shi’s past, Chen Shi’s unwillingness to marry her, these two things Chen Shi still couldn’t answer now. He said, “We can talk, but don’t argue.”
“The argument is caused by you, isn’t it?”
“Someone has a bad memory? It was you who got angry first.”
“Okay, okay, I admit it!”
“Tonight, let’s go eat grilled fish. I heard that the shop has launched Thai Tom Yum grilled fish.”
“Good, good, just thinking about it makes my mouth water. If I were a fetishist, I would marry grilled fish.”
“I heard that there is a man abroad who married a pancake.”
“Marry a pancake, then how does he…” Lin Dongxue suddenly blushed.
“What are you thinking! What are you thinking! Little Comrade Lin, your thoughts are very dirty now!”
Gong Jianqin stayed here for half an hour, touching the walls, hugging them, and crying, satisfying her wish. She was escorted back to the police car. Before getting on the car, she said, “Mr. Chen, please buy it, take good care of it, please! In this way, even when I serve my sentence, I will be at ease!”
“Okay, I promise you.”
The police car drove away, and Chen Shi breathed a sigh of relief. He had to pay in these two days, had to sell his current house, or go to get a loan, and there were still many things to do!
In the evening, when he returned home, Chen Shi told Tao Yueyue that he was preparing to move recently, but Tao Yueyue was unhappy. She said, “Do we have to move? I’m used to living here.”
“Aren’t you also very fond of that house?”
“But…”
“What do you want to say?”
“That house is indeed good, but I don’t want a big house. I like living here. I don’t quite understand why adults always care so much about a house. Isn’t it important who lives together? I want to live here with you and the furball… Uncle Chen, am I a bit excessive? You have already signed the contract. If you want to buy it, just buy it, don’t care about me.”
Chen Shi smiled bitterly, squatted down and scratched her nose, “Really don’t want to move?”
Tao Yueyue shook her head.
“This time you saved my life, you have the final say, if you don’t move, then don’t move. The penalty of 10,000 yuan is not much, which also saves a lot of trouble.”
“Great, no moving!” Tao Yueyue happily raised the cat high.
Think carefully, it seems that there was no reason to move in the first place, just because 1818 was too good to be tempted, this is the era of commodities, people are always stimulated by businesses to pursue things they don’t need.
Wallet clothes,氪金手游, limited surrounding, famous cars and watches, ask yourself, are those things really indispensable?
A moment of thought, 1818 has become a house without a master again, waiting for the next opening, I don’t know how many people will fight for it, house, house, how many people trade their entire youth and life for it, willing to be a slave!
(Note: The term “氪金手游” is a Chinese internet slang referring to spending money on mobile games, which does not have a direct English equivalent. It was left in the original language in this context.)