Chapter 5 — I Came Back To Pull You Down

On the other end of the line was the girl I had told her about in advance, shouting in unison: "What?! Really? How much money?!" I was so excited that my voice changed, like a normal girl who had just had money fall on her head from the sky.

"Five hundred thousand! Five hundred thousand! After tax!"

"I just went to receive money yesterday afternoon! My hands are still shaking!"

"I'll tell you, I don't dare deposit money in the bank, I'm afraid my information will be leaked, and I'm also afraid my parents will ask for money. Now I've withdrawn all the cash and hidden it in the house!"

The close friend on the line pretended to be shocked: "Hide it at home? Is it safe? Where are you hiding it?" I deliberately lowered my voice and said each word clearly:

“I found a great hiding place!”

“The wall next to my bedroom wardrobe seems to be a hollow wall. I tried knocking, there was a loose brick!”

"I pried it open, there was an empty hole inside, I stuffed all the money in there! No one can guess!"

"That's five hundred thousand in cash! Hidden right in my bedroom wall! I feel like I don't have to worry about the rest of my life anymore!"

I hung up the phone and looked at the wall, my eyes cold as ice. The bait has been spread. Greed — even scarier than lust. A pseudo-gentleman, a crazy stalker - what will they do when faced with five million dollars in cash? I turned off all the lights in the bedroom, leaving only a dim floor lamp in the living room. Then I quietly hid in the darkness behind the sofa, hand tightly holding the prepared phone, the screen stopped right at the 110 call interface. Time passed minute by minute. I don't know how long it's been, when I thought they wouldn't make a move tonight... Then - from the direction of the bedroom, suddenly there was a very soft "click" sound. Right after that, in the dead silence of the night, a giant closet door in my bedroom... from the inside — slowly, without a sound, opened a crack. A white-gloved hand quietly poked out from the gap.

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That hand groped in the dark, extremely careful, every movement was gentle. Soon, the closet door was completely opened from the inside, and a dark shadow quietly crawled out - it was Bui Tu Nien! He didn't go through the door, but from the common wall between the two houses, "sneak" straight in! That wall wasn't a load-bearing wall at all, not even a real wall — it was a door disguised as a wall! Behind that door is a giant one-way glass panel! From his side, you can see everything in my house. As for me, I only saw a mirror as large as a normal dressing mirror, located on the inside of the wardrobe. He thought I was asleep, so he tiptoed to the wall and started searching for the "loose" brick I mentioned on the phone. This is the moment!

“Split!”

I turned on the living room light switch! The whole room lit up! Bui Tu Nien was blinded by the bright light. When he saw me standing in the middle of the living room, coldly looking at him, he stood as if turned to stone.

“Are you… are you not sleeping yet?”

He was so frightened that his voice changed color, and he no longer had any of his usual elegant appearance. At the same time, the operator's voice on my phone rang out clearly:

"Hello, this is the 110 police reporting center, is there anything you need assistance with?"

I quickly replied:

"Apartment XX, Building

The words are not yet there finished, my door was kicked open, several police officers in uniform rushed in, quickly controlling Bui Tu Nien who was standing there frozen in place!

"Don't move! The police are here!"

The handcuffs were pressed hard and made a "click" sound, locking the hands that had just tried to steal five hundred thousand! It wasn't until he was pinned to the floor, his face glued to the cold floor, that Bui Tu Nien fully woke up. He began to struggle wildly, screaming:

“Misunderstanding! It's just a misunderstanding!”

"I'm a neighbor! I heard a noise and thought there was a burglar in her house so I went in to help!"

He tried to defend himself, but the police found lock-picking tools, gloves, screwdrivers used to pry tiles... from him, everything he said became meaningless. More fatally, the police pushed open the disguised door in the closet — the scene behind it gave people goosebumps. That's no ordinary wall. It was an empty cavity deliberately carved out by Bui Tu Nien, with a huge double-sided glass panel inside! Just an extremely thin wall, he can monitor every action in my bedroom! Clear evidence!

“Bui Tu Nien, what else do you have to say?”

Bui Tu Nien opened his mouth, but was speechless. He knew it was all over. At this time, Luu Y Y also heard the noise and ran over. As soon as she saw the scene in the bedroom, she froze for a moment, then suddenly screamed loudly and fainted on the spot. Really good acting. If it weren't for the memories of my past life, perhaps I would have been fooled by this "victimized good wife" appearance. Unfortunately, I'm not stupid anymore. I gave the phone to a young policeman:

“Comrade police officer, this is the recording of the entire conversation between me and him, from the moment he walked in.”

"Also, I suspect his wife - Luu Y Y - is not innocent either."

“This afternoon she cursed me in the resident group, intentionally putting psychological pressure on me, distracting me, to create conditions for her husband to act in the evening.”