Chapter 44: Parricide! The final madness! [Please send flowers!!!]

The wailing of a trombone accompanies the unsettling percussion.

Su Chen walks through the cold hallway.

The apartment corridor, which originally had warm yellow lights,

is now, for some reason, covered in pale, sickly light on the walls.

Under the slightly heavy and eerie music,

on Su Chen’s body,

something seems different... like a metamorphosis, or perhaps a rebirth?

And this wailing of the trombone is even more grand, like the foreshadowing of a movie villain’s entrance!

In the empty home, Su Chen laughs like a maniac.

The laughter is filled with sorrow.

He holds a cigarette in his left hand, smoking it in the gaps between his loud laughter.

And this time,

Su Chen laughs with extra force, even collapsing onto the coffee table at one point, his emaciated body becoming increasingly shocking.

Watching Su Chen laugh hysterically, yet so much like he is crying,

all the viewers fall into silence.

They cannot empathize with this feeling of being completely drowned by despair.

Friendship, career, ideals, love, family!

All the spiritual pillars supporting Su Chen’s life have collapsed!

And he is forced to tear open his wounds again and again, making him face how pathetic he is.

No one can endure a life like Su Chen’s.

This is a tragic life capable of crushing and grinding anyone!

In the silent, wordless atmosphere,

all the viewers don’t know what to say.

Or rather, their comfort cannot reach Su Chen.

The scene shifts.

The next day, in the hospital room.

Su Chen lights a cigarette with his left hand, sitting with his back against the blinds.

Today’s sunlight is exceptionally bright.

The entire hospital room is filled with this warm sunlight!

It even dispels much of the gloom in the viewers’ hearts.

And this... is the first time all the viewers have seen such warm and bright sunlight in Gotham City!

“Hello, Penny.”

Amidst the swirling smoke, Su Chen’s expression is unclear.

But when he speaks,

all the viewers are stunned.

To his mother on the hospital bed... Su Chen’s address is... Penny?

But Su Chen doesn’t feel anything is wrong, continuing to speak quietly, as if revealing his inner heart.

“Penny Fleck.”

“I’ve always hated that name.”

“You once told me that my laughter was a disease, that it was my problem...”

“But actually, it’s not; that is the real me.”

Listening to Su Chen calmly yet coldly stating his thoughts,

Penny on the hospital bed is somewhat fearful, whispering Arthur’s nickname hoarsely,

“Happy...”

“Happy? How ridiculous....”

Su Chen, hearing this, smiles, as if mocking his own pathetic life and pathetic nickname.

His gaze toward Penny becomes increasingly cold.

He puts out the cigarette in his hand and slowly stands up.

“I have never been happy for a single second in my entire life.”

“Do you know what’s truly funny?”

As he speaks, Su Chen approaches the hospital bed under Penny’s terrified gaze.

“I used to think my life was a tragedy.”

“But now I realize it’s actually a comedy.”

While stating his thoughts, he slowly pulls out the pillow from under Penny’s head.

And this scene

makes the pupils of the viewers in front of the screen tremble!

Su Chen... what is he doing?!

Feeling the extreme coldness in Su Chen’s words, an ominous premonition rises in everyone’s hearts!

A terrifying guess arises in their minds!

Su Chen wouldn’t....?!

The next second,

a chill rises from the bottom of all the viewers’ hearts, spreading uncontrollably....

On screen, Su Chen, while speaking, expressionlessly places the pillow over Penny’s face.

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As that terrifying guess in the viewers’ hearts is confirmed by Su Chen’s actions,

the camera moves upward.

On screen, Penny’s struggle under the pillow cannot be seen; all that remains is Su Chen’s silent face and the bright sunlight behind him.

Apart from the heavy music, the only things reaching the viewers’ ears are Su Chen’s heavy breathing and the suffocating, painful twitching sounds from the hospital bed under the pillow.

In front of the screen,

there is dead silence.

Countless timid viewers have even turned their heads, not daring to look at the screen.

What is happening on screen right now... is still too terrifying for ordinary people!

No viewer could have predicted this scene.

And they didn’t even dare to think in this direction.

After extreme repression and collapse, after losing all hope to rely on, the path Su Chen chooses is full of madness and extremity.

“Woooo....!”

Through the pillow, the dying struggle becomes increasingly intense.

As a patient who was already physically weak, Penny is unable to let out any louder whimpers.

And now, it is just the instinctive struggle for survival before an animal dies!

But even so,

within Su Chen’s emaciated body... a terrifying, beast-like power erupts at this moment.

Carrying hatred, carrying catharsis, carrying an indictment of his own tragic life!

He pins her firmly to the hospital bed with the pillow!

As all the viewers watch with trembling hearts, unable to bear looking, counting the seconds,

the struggle on the hospital bed grows weaker and weaker.

One second,

two seconds.....

three seconds......

until there is no sound left on the hospital bed.

He releases the pillow.

Her golden hair is somewhat disheveled, and Penny’s head is tilted slightly, her eyes closed as if she were asleep.

The soft sunlight shines on Penny’s profile, looking incredibly holy.

It is as if, at this moment, Penny has redeemed her sins.

Su Chen turns around.

He walks to the window, looking at the incredibly bright and beautiful world outside, bathing in unprecedented, brilliant sunlight.

Taking a deep breath, Su Chen closes his eyes, feeling it carefully.

At this moment, almost all the viewers can see the change in Su Chen!

The relief of having shed a thousand-pound burden and broken free from all shackles!

At this moment, Su Chen abandons all the identities and connections this society has imposed on him!

He is no longer someone’s employee, no longer someone’s colleague, no longer Penny’s son, no longer Sophie’s lover, no longer a comedian chasing an idol.

He is now just himself, Joker Arthur.

Returning home,

Su Chen puts on an exquisite, elegant red suit he has never worn before.

A crisp white shirt, a bright red suit vest.

A confident and calm smile.

Pulling back the curtain, he steps into the stage of fantasy with light dance steps.

He has never been so high-spirited.

Bathing in the sunlight, Su Chen smiles very happily.

Light background music plays.

And in the still silent live stream room,

all the viewers watch silently as Su Chen dances slowly to the music.

He begins to meticulously clean his body, dyeing his long, unkempt hair green strand by strand, and combing it back.

At this moment,

Su Chen feels his complete transformation.

From soul to skin.

He is no longer Arthur, who had a tragic life, lived for others, and was shackled by a man-eating society.

At this moment,

he is the Joker.

The free Joker.

Facing the makeup mirror, Su Chen applies white paint to his face stroke by stroke, incredibly seriously.

This time, the world will witness his grand appearance.

The world is waiting for the arrival of the Joker!