Chapter 710 The Last Performance
(The previous chapter was blocked, and the ban is being lifted)
After the performance, Jiang Feng and Gao Fei went backstage to congratulate Eva and invite her to have lunch together.
Eva declined her invitation and half-jokingly said, "Mr. Wayne must want to be alone with you, and I don't want to watch you two show affection and make myself redundant."
After listening to her complaints, Gao Fei couldn't help but think of Martin.
People in love have their own happiness, but single dogs, whether male or female, always have similar depression in their hearts.
The two left the art gallery, and the game screen turned dark.
When the screen switched to the next scene, the time in the game had come to New Year's Eve a month later.
The streets and roofs were covered with white snow.
That afternoon, at two o'clock, Louise and Roger came to the "Fin Family Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall" again, intending to watch the last performance of Eva and Lingna's collaboration.
Brother Martin was very considerate and accompanied them to watch the performance.
After today's performance, the performance contract signed by Eva and Mr. Finn expired.
Although Mr. Finn repeatedly tried to retain her and even doubled the commission for each performance, Eva still refused to renew the contract.
Eva admitted that it was not a matter of money, but mainly because of physical discomfort. She had to leave the stage temporarily and rest for a while, and make plans in the spring of next year.
As Eva's close friend, Louise knew that "physical discomfort" was just a decent excuse. The reason why Eva refused to renew the contract was because she couldn't stand Mrs. Lingna's harassment.
Louise had to support her friend's farewell performance.
When she arrived at the exhibition hall, she didn't find Eva.
At this time, she didn't realize the seriousness of the problem, so she went to the exhibition hall on the first floor accompanied by Roger and Martin.
The layout of the wax figure exhibition hall was slightly different from the last time.
The theme of this issue of "Secret Room Murder" is a murder disguised as suicide.
A wax figure was made up as a female corpse in pajamas, hanging under the chandelier.
The wind blew in from the open window, and the body swayed.
The light blocked by the body cast a swaying light and shadow on the carpet, and the atmosphere was indescribably eerie.
Louise, Roger and Martin were not like Gao Fei, who were "people who would die if they didn't do evil things".
The three used conventional reasoning methods and spent half an hour to finally find the wax golem that played one of the "murderers".
According to the script setting, the wax golem played the role of the deceased's brother-in-law, the male owner of the mansion where the crime occurred, and a young politician with a promising future.
The incestuous love between the brother-in-law and the sister-in-law has lasted for more than half a year.
Recently, the sister-in-law found out that she was pregnant, so she forced the brother-in-law to abdicate, asking him to either divorce her sister and marry her, or give her a large sum of money as the cost of raising the illegitimate child, otherwise she would make a big deal of it, ruin his reputation and bid farewell to his career.
The brother-in-law had no choice but to confess to his wife, kneeling down and crying and begging his wife to forgive him for cheating and spend money to avoid disaster.
The deceased's sister beat up the spineless pretty boy so hard that two feather dusters broke.
She said coldly that she would not give her sister, the shameless bitch, a penny, and asked him to completely solve this trouble and not leave any handle, otherwise his career would be ruined sooner or later because of this scandal.
Under the coercion of his wife, the man could only strangle his sister-in-law to death with his own hands and pretend it was a suicide scene...
After the wax figure exhibition, Roger and Martin smoked pipes in the corridor on the second floor, and Louise went backstage to find Eva.
However, she still didn't see her figure.
In another half an hour, the song and dance performance began, why didn't Eva come yet?
With doubts, Louise found a maid backstage and asked her why Eva hadn't shown up yet.
The maid initially said that she didn't know.
Her flashing eyes could not escape Louise's eyes, so she took out a banknote and pried open her mouth.
The maid looked around and made sure no one was paying attention to her. Then she pulled Louise to a quiet corner backstage and whispered in her ear.
It turned out that just before the exhibition started this afternoon, Eva and Mrs. Lingna had a fierce conflict in the choreography studio.
The door was locked and no third person was present.
The maid could only eavesdrop on Eva and Lingna's quarrel through the crack of the door.
Later, there were sounds of fighting and broken porcelain.
The maid found that something was wrong, so she knocked on the door with courage and asked the two mistresses what happened.
The quarrel in the room stopped abruptly.
After a long time, Eva opened the door and came out, holding her bleeding neck, her face was pale, she walked with a limp, and her skirt was torn.
The maid found that she was injured and screamed in fear.
Eva stopped her sternly and warned her not to make a fuss.
At this time, the maid noticed that there were scars on Eva's neck, and teeth marks were vaguely visible.
Eva limped and left the backstage alone.
The maid secretly peeked into the room and saw that Mrs. Lingna was topless, her face flushed, and there were two bloody marks on her plump chest that were scratched by nails. Against the white background, the scarlet was even more glaring.
After a while, Walter Fane hurried over and closed the door to talk to Lingna privately.
After that, Mr. Fane walked out of the choreography studio and announced to the backstage staff that "nothing happened."
He also said that Ms. Eva accidentally sprained her ankle during the dance rehearsal and had to take leave to recuperate, so she couldn't perform this afternoon.
Mrs. Lingna changed into a more conservative dress to cover her scratched chest and sang on stage as usual.
The wax golem will dance with her alone.
After listening to the maid's story, Louise could easily guess why Eva and Lingna had a conflict.
"How does Mr. Finn plan to explain to the audience that Eva can't dance on stage tonight?" She asked the maid, suppressing her anger.
"I don't know about that, Miss Quinn, you have to ask our boss." The maid shrugged and spread her hands.
Louise did want to find Walter Finn and Lingna Bella to ask for an explanation, but before that, she was more concerned about Eva's injury, so she asked Roger to discuss whether she should visit Eva immediately.
Without Eva's performance, it was no longer worth appreciating for the two of them, not to mention that they were furious when they saw Lingna, that perverted woman.
As the two were about to leave the second floor, a middle-aged gentleman with a mustache hurried up the stairs, wiping his sweat with a handkerchief.
Louise recognized him as Walter Fane, but she didn't intend to give him a good face.
Fane politely took off his hat and saluted her, then walked quickly to Roger and Martin and shook hands with them excitedly.
"Mr. Wayne! Mr. Page! I heard that you are famous detectives in the city? Can I talk to you!"
As soon as Roger saw his anxious look, he knew that something must have happened.
