Chapter 108: Festival

Looking at the silent Wang Qi, Zhong Kui continued her narration: "You were once an excellent lighting technician. I found you on the cast and crew list of several of Hong Mei's works. However, Hong Mei, relying on Huang Daqiu's support, acted like a tyrant on set and fired you. I don't know how you and Lan Die met, but in short, you became friends because of a common enemy.

After learning that Hong Mei was coming, you planned an almost perfect murder plan. The most critical part of this plan was your light and shadow technology.

You needed to use virtual images to create an alibi for Lan Die.

Just like normal filming, light and shadow need to be adjusted, so you sneaked into the suite late at night to test it secretly. It's just that sometimes when adjusting the angle, the projection would sweep past the window, which became the so-called ghost shadow seen by everyone in the villa.

After Lan Die put on makeup on the set, she drove to the villa.

From Lian Hu to the villa, if you take a plane or public transportation, of course, it takes more than five hours. But don't forget there are mountains here. Lan Die drove along the mountain road and arrived in three hours instead.

She used your management permission room card and sneaked into the room while Hong Mei was sending Huang Daqiu off. After killing her, she hurried away. Originally, there would be no one on the small path in the backyard, but you didn't expect that Liu Ayi would temporarily decide to go sweep the floor.

It was a coincidence. Recently, there were rumors of ghosts in the villa. Liu Ayi's first thought was that she encountered a ghost, not a murderer. And the reason Lan Die came with makeup on was because the time for makeup originally took several hours. She had to complete the makeup before departure to create the illusion of waiting for filming at the hotel during this time. Another thing was that she knew that the scene that night was the picture of her lying in the snow covered in blood and dying. Only, no one would have thought that the blood she was stained with this time was not artificial plasma, but real human blood.

And you, completed the most critical part after Lan Die left.

First, you found a perfect eyewitness—the paparazzi Wang Defa. You notified him in advance that Hong Mei would come to the Yun Shen Secret Realm to have a secret meeting with Huang Daqiu. Subsequently, using Hong Mei's image from her film and television works, under special lighting conditions, you projected a life-sized image, allowing Wang Defa to provide us with proof that Hong Mei was still alive at 12:00.

Another even more brilliant plan was sending red wine.

Because you work in the villa, you know the layout of the suite very well. You know that looking from the door toward the bedroom, you can only see a space of less than one meter from the bathroom."

As she said this, Zhong Kui clapped her hands again. The image of Hong Mei appeared on the white wall again. This time, she had just finished taking a shower and said to them coquettishly: "My dear, I want red wine."

The front desk, hearing this, said in surprise: "Right, that's the voice."

Zhong Kui sneered: "The convenience of pretending that an actress is still alive is that she has too many voice materials to use."

"You mean Hong Miss was already dead when I went in, right?" Xiao Sun had been listening and became more and more afraid. "But I clearly saw her come out of the bathroom, just, just like you just..." She was incoherent, as if she didn't believe what she saw herself.

"I already demonstrated it to you just now. Don't you have a water curtain movie here? I think this should also be the work of handyman Wang Qi. He knows this principle best. Before you went in, he specifically released a lot of water vapor in the bathroom. The hotel room was originally dimly lit with ambiguous lighting. Using a specific angle to project the image of Hong Mei after taking a shower in an urban drama looks quite like the real thing at first glance.

Your villa's service has always prided itself on professional service. He knew that if you saw Hong Mei exposed, you wouldn't stare at her, and it would almost never be exposed," Zhong Kui said and sought verification from Wang Qi. "Don't you think so?"

Wang Qi turned his head to the side, but Zhong Kui didn't give up and walked into his line of sight: "I just really want to know, when you took over for Lan Die and walked into the suite, seeing Hong Mei's death state, what was your mood at that time? You hate her for making you lose your career. But is this result what you wanted?"

Hearing this, Wang Qi finally collapsed and repeated: "I didn't know Lan Die hated her so much. She peeled off Hong Mei's entire face, all of it... I'm sorry to President Qi, he is a good leader. My selfish revenge brought such big trouble to his villa..."

Qi Fei, hearing this sentence, immediately twisted his hand hard: "Don't talk nonsense, just talk about the criminal process."

"Right, I am the other murderer you are looking for. You..." As he said this, Wang Qi looked at Zhong Kui and said, "I have been a lighting technician since I graduated from college. This is the only thing I know how to do, and I do it very well. However, unfortunately, the few years I worked were exactly when Hong Mei was the most popular. Everyone in the circle knows that Hong Mei is a workaholic, spending most of the year on set, so I encountered her plays many times. Everyone in the circle knows that this person has many demands, is hard to serve, and is snobbish... Originally for me, I was just a lighting technician, it didn't matter to me whether the actor was good or bad.

Unfortunately, I was wrong. I never expected that I, such a law-abiding person, could also be targeted by her. The matter wasn't complicated, just because I didn't agree to use abrupt lighting to cover up the plastic surgery scars on her face that could no longer be restored. Because that kind of lighting would only make her shots and the lighting of all the shots in the whole show extremely uncoordinated, very strange. God, thinking about it now, I was too stupid. The soap operas she acted in, what was I obsessing over art for?

After I put forward my own ideas, I was scolded by her, saying what qualifications I had to offer opinions. But this is my profession, does an actor who climbed up by relying on relationships understand? I got angry and talked back a few times, and she made a scene to replace me.

Those spineless people were afraid of her and really fired me."

"Just like this, you want to kill Hong Mei?" Qi Fei couldn't help but say.

"Hmph, you don't understand our circle. I'm a nobody, but Hong Mei is a big star. Her affairs, big or small, will spread quickly in the circle. The fact that she had a conflict with me is also known to everyone. Now everyone has no money. For actors like Hong Mei who can bring money in, everyone has to lick and coax her. Even if I apply to a crew where Hong Mei is not the lead, they will reject me because they are afraid of offending Hong Mei. After countless rejections, I knew that I had no foothold in this industry anymore.

After not doing lighting, I drove a taxi, delivered food, and suffered a lot. After tossing and turning, the Yun Shen Secret Realm was recruiting people who could do water curtain movies. I came with the mentality of giving it a try. Only President Qi, not afraid of people like Hong Mei, took me in. If Hong Mei hadn't suddenly come here, I might have worked honestly in the villa. Heaven's will is unpredictable..."

"Then what about you and Lan Die? How did you meet?" Zhong Kui looked coldly, not moved by Wang Qi's narration at all. ===== CHAPTER 109 =====