Witch, Open Your Eyes

Chapter 87: Seventh day Part Two

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Un-edited so please don’t kill me if you find anything wrong, please gently commenting so I can fix it.
Thank you.

Fang Daichuan wasn’t swayed and asked, “What is the relationship between the beer belly and the case more than ten years ago? Why did you kill him first?”

“He and old Chen were both prospectors at the Geological Institute back then.
They didn’t do any evil, but sometimes being ignorant can do more harm than being actively evil, like a thorn in the flesh.” Li Sinian raised his eyebrows.

Fang Daichuan remembered that when he was in the car, old Chen said to him, “Every time I take on new jobs at places without any signal where there isn’t even bird shit, I’d download several shows involving fights against the Japanese on my phone.
I’ve seen you several times.” At that time, he naively thought that the other party was an older generation of actors.
Turns out every time he took on a job, he was actually going prospecting.

(T/N : On chapter 1)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospecting

“They noticed my father’s actions, Director Niu asked them about it and they threw my father under the bus without remorse,” Li Sinian continued sneering, “They deserve it.”

With things close to end, Fang Daichuan instead became calmer and his eyes nailed Li Sinian: “Let me ask you two last questions.”

“First, how did you determine beer belly’s role?”

Li Sinian said with a very faint smile: “I guess it.
He glanced at the audience after reading the cards.
He either has a really good card or a wolf.
I throw the bait, saying that the werewolves should not kill people.
Let’s go back together alive.
He was the first to respond.
When the werewolves heard this proposal they were definitely hesitant.
They are not willing to give up their advantages just for others.
Only the villager faction wants to live in peace to the end.
I guess you are a witch and I want to find more special roles, so I stay by your side to win your trust.”

Fang Daichuan listened and was silent for a while before asking in a trembling voice, “Second question,” he took a deep breath, “You recognized me at the airport, why did you let me come to this island?”

Li Sinian turned his head and looked out the window, recalling the heavy rain.
It was raining so hard that the figure came crashing headlong in from outside, with a bright smile and droopy eyes, innocent and determined, he felt at the time that he had met his destiny.

“I recognized you and remembered that your parents were criminal police officers.
You said you received an invitation to go to the island and I immediately became suspicious.
I wondered if your parents had anything to do with the case back then and if this time you were involved.
But you are innocent and it’s all my fault for being suspicious and pulling you down on this road of no return.” He said in a deep voice.

Fang Daichuan finally understood why among so many people, why Li Sinian seemingly chose him for no reason and got close to him.

He couldn’t figure out what he was about, so he was the first to approach him.
So there was the initial gesture of goodwill, the deliberate approach to test the waters, the step-by-step walk-in and the meticulous observation.

Li Sinian recalled these seven days, just one week, but it feels like a lifetime already.
He watched him coldly as he tried to save everyone, he watched him naively make fools of himself, he watched him little by little get roped into his trap and finally saw him take a leap of faith and the last thin ice in his heart was ruthlessly shattered.
He leaned back against the other man’s back and sighed, “Alright.” He has since then accepted his fate.

(T/N : Remember chapter 34? I will put the part below so you don’t have to go back and search for it and then break the atmosphere.)

Fang Daichuan spoke firmly, already knowing what he would face.
He thought for a while, and added to Li Sinian, “Even if I get poisoned on the way, the antidote will be given to you.
This, I promise.
I won’t break my promise.”

Li Sinian instantly reacted.
He leaned on his shoulder and gave a low laugh.

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Li Sinian put his forehead against Fang Daichuan’s back, sighed, and shook his head gently.

In a place invisible to everyone, he turned to Fang Daichuan’s back and said softly, “Alright…”

Fang Daichuan didn’t understand what he said, what Li Sinian just gave up and what the choice he just made.
——Under the cover of darkness, Li Sinian slid his finger upwards and held Fang Daichuan’s hand with his backhand.

(T/N : End of flashback.
Yeah this chapter hurts…)

Regrets.
If only he did not have any doubt at that moment…

If Fang Daichuan caught the plane to the show, if he went to film variety shows safely, he (Chuan’er) would never experience such a thrilling experience and he (Sinian) would not have to face such a dilemma.

Li Sinian looked frustrated.

“You lied to me again.” Fang Daichuan’s voice was like the sea breeze outside the window, terribly calm.
His eyes were sharp and he was staring at Li Sinian but his voice was very soft, “If you are really the boss, how can you not know, I didn’t get invitation to going to the island!!?”

Li Sinian’s eyelashes trembled.

“I know what you want to do, Li Sinian, you can’t fool me.” Fang Daichuan took out the bottle of poison from his trouser pocket and pulled out the brass cork.

“I won’t give you what you want.” With a faint smile, he swung his right arm round and flung the bottle of poison against the nearby floor-to-ceiling window in one swift motion, the glass shattering with a crash! The shattered pieces glinted with a bit of sharp light in the sunlight.

Li Sinian stared at the shattered glass and froze on the spot.

“Don’t you just want to test human nature? I tell you, there are fucking idiots like me in this world, who are rebellious and unyielding, so go on, kill me, I will prove to you with my life.
You might fucking won the game, but you’ll never prove that human nature is evil.
You lose the bet.”

“You fucking kill me now,” Fang Daichuan raised his eyes and looked directly at Li Sinian, with an angry arc at the corner of his mouth, “Come on.
Stab me to death!”

There was a loud bang outside the window and the villa shook.

The sea syphoned, retreated far away and then suddenly rose.
There was a destructive force brewing beneath.

However, neither of the two people in the room moved.
Facing each other, the gloves are off.*

https://www.purpleculture.net/dictionary-details/?word=%E5%89%91%E6%8B%94%E5%BC%A9%E5%BC%A0

Li Sinian smiled bitterly as he thought to himself, “I lost a long time ago.
The night you jumped down, I lost willingly without regrets.”

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Li Sinian’s face was grim, he was still standing in the same place.
Without anyone knowing, a thin layer of mist gradually formed under his eyes.

Fang Daichuan took a step forward, the sharp steel nib nudging at his soft neck, a step further would have cut through the flesh and filled it with venom.

Li Sinian reflexively took a step back.
Fang Daichuan squeezed his wrist tightly.

“You’re always like this,” Fang Daichuan’s voice was choked but his eyes were wide and round, stubbornly preventing the tears from rolling down his eyes, pretending to be unmoving like a mountain, calculating in every possible way.
With your personality, Li Sinian, if you really want to kill me, will you have sex with me? With your pride, will you see everyone’s identity cards before you do anything? You are forcing me to do it, right?? You fucking want me to kill you! Isn’t it!”

Li Sinian’s figure slightly swayed.

“You think we’ve only known each other for seven so I can be deceived by you.
You fucking look down on me, Fang Daichuan and you look down on yourself.” He said every word powerfully.*

https://www.purpleculture.net/dictionary-details/?word=%E6%8E%B7%E5%9C%B0%E6%9C%89%E5%A3%B0

Li Sinian shook his head and smiled bitterly: “No, I think highly of myself.”

Qian Zhongshu* said: The viciousness of loyal and honest people, like the gravel in the rice or the uncleaned thorns in the boneless fish fillet, will give people an unexpected pain. Now it seems that the viciousness of loyal and honest people still can’t match that of honest people who are committing crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Zhongshu

(T/N : Link for people who wonder about the quote.)

https://min.news/en/culture/eeae7541ed419f26bed8c150bce847d1.html

He might look stupid on surface* but he nailed it.

https://www.purpleculture.net/dictionary-details/?word=%E5%A4%A7%E6%99%BA%E8%8B%A5%E6%84%9A

Because there is an eternal flame of light in my heart, I never fear the darkness around me.

He bowed his head and smiled miserably, lowering his hand.

The sea breeze came in through the holes in the floor-to-ceiling windows and the smell of sulphur in the air became heavier.

“If you don’t want to say it, I’ll tell it for you,” Fang Daichuan stretched out his hand to hide his tears, his face tense, “From the very beginning, you have been giving us a way out, you said that no one should do anything, wait for the seventh day and the plane will came to pick everyone back together.
You didn’t do anything until Ding Zihui screamed on the second floor, the war drums were already beating and you killed the beer belly without knowing it.
You have been in a self-destructive mood, poisoned by wolves, threatened by hunter, voting for yourself.
You are looking for death every step, putting yourself in a dangerous situation countless times.
Of course you don’t know our identities, everyone draws cards at random, you can’t check people and you have never been to the wolves’ room.
You put yourself on everyone’s hostile list, balancing on a thin wire, your life hanging by a thread.
Is this what a cold-blooded and calculating boss will do?”

Li Sinian’s eyes flashed, his lips curled into a sad smile that didn’t reach his eyes.

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Bang–

There was a gunshot.

Fang Daichuan was shocked!

Li Sinian hugged his left arm, unable to stand still in pain, his knee slammed to the ground.
The sniper rifle in the corner was aimed at his left shoulder.
Fang Daichuan’s head buzzed, his eyes went black and his reflex took a step forward.

“Back off!” Li Sinian raised his head and shouted! A blue vein popped out on his forehead, his eyes were calm despite the extreme pain yet it was frightening at the same time.
Fang Daichuan had never seen this side of  Li Sinian before.

He stopped in place as a large tear slid down from the corner of his eye: “How, how could it be…” he shook off the tear and twisted his head to force himself to look at the camera, cursing,” Are you fucking out of your mind!”

He was answered by sniper rifles in the corner of the room, four of them, all aimed at him at the same time.

“Don’t touch him! Please!” Li Sinian struggled to stand up, staggered and walked a few steps, ignoring the excruciatingly painful shoulder and the cold sweat on his forehead, squeezed the camera on the machine, “Don’t touch him…”

The loudspeaker of the machine made a rustling sound, and Fang Daichuan froze in place.

The voice that can’t be distinguished between men and women sounded faintly: “Eternity, you really let me down.”

(T/N : Eternity is in English in raw.)

“I can’t understand why you still try to be witty at the end of the game,” the camera was aimed at Fang Daichuan’s face, and Fang Daichuan seemed to see the person sitting behind the camera, who was frowning and thinking, as if he was reluctantly explaining for them for the sake of their death, “This is a game where humanity is tested and you can only choose between your own lives and the lives of others, if you aren’t on same sides, who told you to be unlucky?”

Li Sinian flicked off the pen cap, held the pen upside down in his hand.
Lowered his head, seemingly resigned to his fate.

“That’s right, Eternity, kill him, don’t let me down.
This is what humans are, we are the descendants of Homo sapiens.
For millions of years, more than a hundred biological species were brutally exterminated by our hands.
From the very beginning, the malicious human nature is carried in our genes.
Fear not to carry sin, we are all servants of sin.”

Li Sinian raised his arm.

Fang Daichuan jumped and firmly held the nib, the nib facing Li Sinian’s neck, just a millimetre away from the skin.
Fang Daichuan’s fingers were almost crushed, which showed how much power the opponent used.

“Li Sinian! What did you promise me?!”

At that moment, Fang Daichuan suddenly remembered a lot.

Similar sentences and sayings, but Li Sinian graduated with a film major and not biology.

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Three days ago, at the seaside, Li Sinian stared at the ocean with deep eyes and said, “We are the descendants of Homo sapiens, with the cruel gene of killing and exterminating more than a hundred biological species in our blood.” It was more or less the same as what the boss said.

(T/N : This is from chapter 29)

The room is full of cosmetics, but no cigarettes are prepared.

“The more I think about it, the more I think the boss is probably a gorgeous and smart woman.”

(T/N : From chapter 52)

A string of English words in front of Li Sinian’s room: “It’s better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.”

(T/N : On chapter 25)

On the second floor mural, in addition to the battle between Gods and Demons representing justice and evil, a glamorous Lady Justice holds a scale, her eyes closed in deep thought, with black bat wings growing behind her back.

(T/N : On chapter 24)

“When my mother died, I personally sent her into the crematorium.
I looked at her, a 68-inch* person, squashed into a palm-sized box.
At that time, I thought of only one sentence: ‘For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.’* .

(T/N : From chapter 29)

The paintings signed by Eternity, the wailing of despair, Prometheus bound on the top of the mountain, the surging sea waves, the Wheatfield with crows but there are also the statues of one’s own mother* and the Greek goddess that represents tranquillity and beauty.

(T/N : Yes author used [生母;shēng mǔ] which is one’s own mother also this is from chapter 84)

“He’s asking for help.”

The brass key that opens the door on the third floor represents the star and the aurora of romantic encounter.

“My parents were much more romantic.”

(T/N : On chapter 29)

There are many, many more stories, but there are enough clues.

“Brother Nian,” Fang Daichuan pulled the pen out of his hand and asked softly in his ear, “is your mother really dead?”

(T/N : I told you there is no Star Wars here and I mean there is no ‘I am your father’ but I did not say there is no ‘I am your mother’ situation…*running away again*)