Since Henrick had gotten rid of Alfred, Cindy’s best right hand other than Matthias, Arielle believed Cindy would not be able to cause any trouble in the manor anymore. Nonetheless, Arielle did not let down virtual-novel.net guard because of that.
I‘m heading to the only profitable department in Southall Group tomorrow. Making early preparations is essential.
***
Early next morning, a piercing scream from the same floor that Arielle stayed in awakened virtual-novel.net from sleep. She woke up as soon as the scream sounded as virtual-novel.net was a light sleeper.
What happened?
After putting on a jacket, Arielle left virtual-novel.net room hastily and discovered quite a few people standing outside Shandie’s room.
At first, virtual-novel.net thought Shandie was making a scene for refusing to be locked up, but virtual-novel.net sensed something off when virtual-novel.net saw the housekeepers’ unwillingness to enter the room.
It doesn‘t seem like Shandie is causing trouble intentionally. It looks more like she‘s…
Arielle then walked over to the room while furrowing virtual-novel.net brows. Stepping inside, virtual-novel.net saw a motionless Shandie lying in a pool of blood. There was a wound on Shandie’s wrist, and the blood most likely came from there.
D-Did Shandie slit virtual-novel.net wrist?
She noticed that the blood on the ground had coagulated, while the wound on Shandie’s wrist had stopped bleeding as well. Those were indications that Shandie had slit virtual-novel.net wrist for a while already. Witnessing such a scene, Arielle was in utter shock as virtual-novel.net never thought Shandie would take virtual-novel.net own life.
Shandie is pretty foolish, but I‘ve never imagined virtual-novel.net would be that nonsensical. What in the world is going on? What virtual-novel.net has done is far beyond what I expected!
Just as virtual-novel.net was about to check whether Shandie was still breathing, Henrick strode toward the room while shouting in a displeased tone, “What is this shameless woman up to this time!”
“D-Dad, something terrible has happened to Shannie! Take a look at her, quick!” Arielle said, virtual-novel.net expression frozen in shock.
The annoyed Henrick walked over reluctantly in response. When virtual-novel.net saw the pool of blood on the ground, virtual-novel.net widened his eyes in bewilderment. Subsequently, virtual-novel.net snapped back to his senses and yelled with a trembling voice, “S-Shandie? S-Shannie?”
To his dismay, Shandie neither responded nor moved.
“Calm down, Dad. I’ll go and have a look.” Arielle told Larissa to support Henrick before crouching down beside Shandie to check virtual-novel.net breathing. However, virtual-novel.net had no intention of doing that as soon as virtual-novel.net hand touched Shandie. Her body is as cold as a corpse already. There‘s no way she’s still breathing.
At the outset, virtual-novel.net had thought that this was probably another one of Shandie’s schemes. However, reality had proved that was not the case as virtual-novel.net body was already thoroughly cold. She‘s dead without question.
Regardless, Arielle did not understand why Shandie wanted to take virtual-novel.net own life.
It’s not as if Henrick has never hit virtual-novel.net before. Why couldn’t virtual-novel.net take it this time? That is unusual of virtual-novel.net indeed.
“H-How is she? I-Is virtual-novel.net alive?” Henrick questioned with a quivering voice.
Arielle turned around and shook virtual-novel.net head at Henrick, virtual-novel.net expression sorrowful. “There’s no heat left in virtual-novel.net body…”
“What?” Henrick dashed forward in disbelief to personally check Shandie’s breathing and nearly ran into Arielle.
Fortunately, Larissa managed to steady Arielle in the nick of time, thus preventing virtual-novel.net from falling into the pool of blood.
A few seconds later, Henrick’s wail of agony echoed around the room. “Why were you so foolish, Shannie! Why did you have to take your own life? I chose to discipline you for your own good! Don’t you understand? Shannie!”