After hearing Ranran's gentle question, Alice was completely stunned, like a frozen computer that could no longer can deny and argue madly. No matter how unreasonable she seems to others, as long as she doesn't admit it, others can't do anything to her.
But she couldn't deny herself or refute herself.
The denial she blurted out finally put her in a situation where she could not move.
Shen Yin reacted and immediately glared at Ran Ran, "You did it on purpose! You just deliberately agreed with me just now, just to lead me to say the wrong thing!"
Ran Ran said innocently: "How can it be guidance? I am just expressing my point of view. Everything depends on what you want, Miss Alice."
"It's like you can change your story now and admit that you've been to Count Armand's garden. Everyone will choose to believe it, but..."
"That is a forbidden area of the castle. Even a disabled person like me who has just recovered knows it. It is impossible that you, Miss Alice, who has visited the castle many times with Madam Christine, don't know it."
Ran Ran smiled gently, "Excuse me, where are you going and what are you doing, Miss Alice?"
The next moment she stopped smiling and said coldly: "That is also the scene of Tok's death."
"You now suspect that I have something to do with Tok's death?!" Shen Yin almost shouted, "Are you completely crazy? Insane?!"
"It's ridiculous to link me to that dead man! And now you think I killed him! Why would I kill him?!"
Ran Ran was unmoved and said calmly: "If Miss Alice must have a motive, I can give you one."
"You didn't want your relationship with Tok to be exposed, so you killed him."
Shen Yin trembled all over, as if struck by lightning, "What nonsense!"
Not knowing how to refute, she could only look at Christine, "Sister! How could I kill anyone? I can swear on my life that I didn't kill anyone!"
Ran Ran narrowed her eyes slightly. Alice didn't look like she was lying. Did she really not kill Toke? But there was another important point...
She did not deny her relationship with Tok.
In a critical situation where one can swear on their life, people will deny everything they can deny, as long as it contradicts their own cognition...
They would deny it immediately.
Alice didn't...it only means that Ranran's suspicion is consistent with her cognition.
She does have a relationship with Tok.
When this thought came into Ranran's mind, a warning suddenly sounded in Shenyin's mind.
[Players please note that the number of players who know the relationship between Alice and Tok has reached 1/5. When it reaches 5/5, the main quest of the character will automatically fail.]
Shen Yin was shocked. Someone had already confirmed it! It was that Elizabeth! It had to be her!
But why did she confirm this guess without even having any concrete evidence, just by expressing her doubts verbally? How dare she?!
Shen Yin didn't know that Ran Ran always acted based on subjective inferences.
Suspense movies and TV dramas and detective games developed on the market often have a lot of solid evidence, but this is not the case in real life.
Finding the truth really requires a little imagination and intuition.
Shenyin felt that she was wronged. She thought that she was tricked by Ranran, but it was not true.
Ranran began to doubt her the first time he saw her after regaining his sight.
At that time, she only felt that Alice looked somewhat familiar, and did not connect the person with the painting that Tok showed her. After all, she was looking at it piece by piece, which was not intuitive enough.
It was not until they were in the secret room that Minister Gao and Zhong Ning mentioned the painting supplies scattered at the scene of Tok's death.
Ran Ran's doubts deepened as she pieced together the portrait that was so different from the other landscape paintings for the first time in her mind.
The person in the painting was Alice, she confirmed.
Later, Alice took the initiative to reveal her flaws. When Ah Fu brought the painting here, her face looked strange.
If she really had no contact with Toker, she would not know the content of the painting, and she would not show a guilty and panic expression because of the painting. So she must have had contact with Toker.
As long as this is confirmed, it will be a relatively easy matter to set a trap with words and make her fall into it.
Ranran successfully found out that Alice had really been to the forbidden garden, so it was obvious what Toke had painted in the garden.
It's not about what is painted, but who is painted.
Minister Gao and Zhong Ning once mentioned a detail that Tok's painting supplies were scattered all over the floor, including all kinds of paints and colors.
And Ranran also happened to know that Tok was always stingy with the paint when painting landscapes, and only when painting Alice would he use all the paint.
The painting that Ah Fu was holding at that moment was beautiful and real, and there was one more thing that might have been noticed by people other than her.
Love.
It is not a love that is so strong and passionate, but a pure appreciation and admiration.
It is from a painter to a model, and from a man to a woman.
Toker had an eye for beauty, and he might have thought Alice was a better model than nature, but he certainly didn't think he would die because of it.
So far, the only thing that could have killed Tok has happened.
As a lowly servant, he was actually involved with a noble lady like Alice.
In Kristen’s words…
He deserves to die.
Ranran was still thinking... There were actually two possibilities regarding Alice's panicked reaction to the painting.
Because there are two paintings.
One was the one that Toker had painted long ago and treasured in the attic, and the other one disappeared at the murder scene.
Which painting is Alice panicking about? This is related to Minister Gao's role and mission, and Ran Ran has to think about it.
Kristen stood up and looked at Ran Ran coldly, “Miss Elizabeth, you are slandering a lady!”
"Such absurd behavior is enough to land you in jail. You will be condemned by the world and you won't even have a chance to redeem yourself."
When Christine said this, Armand raised his eyes and glanced at her calmly, but he did not speak.
Because he already knew that Ranran could handle this situation perfectly.
Ran Ran blinked her eyes and said, "I don't know anything else, but I know very well what you are doing now, Madam Christine..."
"An adult is intimidating someone much younger than her."
Ran Ran asked sincerely, "Are you engaging in age bullying?"
A word that was out of tune with this world jumped into everyone's ears. Except for Christine and Ah Fu who looked puzzled, the rest of the people did not find it strange at all.
"What's age? What's bullying?" Christine even slightly suppressed the coldness that was overflowing from her body.
"You can understand that you are bullying me by taking advantage of the fact that you are a few years older than me." Ran Ran seemed naive and ignorant when she said this.
After hearing this, Christine felt so cold that she immediately felt as if she was free.
"How dare you! How dare you insult me like that!"
Ranran now really believed that Christine was a lady. After all, she was so angry that she didn't say any more insulting words except the word "untouchable".
If this happened in their world, no matter how well-educated they were, they would find it hard to hold back.
So, this world is really distorted, and it can suppress human nature to such an extent. (End of this chapter)
