The wedding scene was extremely romantic, with a long red carpet on the floor, crystal chandeliers above their head casting diamond-like glow, a large number of white roses on both sides of the red carpet, and the scent of roses floating in the air.
Yue Xingwen looked around and found that the entire wedding scene was full of guests, but he couldn’t see the groom and bride.
Jiang Pingce asked in a low voice, “Where are the groom and bride?”
Yue Xingwen said, “The wedding shouldn’t have started yet. The groom and bride won’t appear until later.”
Ke Shaobin noticed a familiar face in the guest seat. He pointed to the front row and said, “Look at the mother and son, are they the woman holding the parasol with a child we saw in the garden earlier?”
Yue Xingwen followed his gaze and saw the woman with a gentle smile, and the little boy sitting beside her. Behind the mother and son was the nanny, still holding a snow-white kitten in her arms.
The appearance of the 13 of them did not attract the attention of all the guests, as if they were a cloud of air.
Yue Xingwen said, “The illusion in the painting, the people in the world of paintings can’t see us, so everyone can look around for clues.”
Everyone looked at each other and split up to look for clues.
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce walked side by side on the red carpet, pricking up their ears to listen to the conversations of the guests on both sides.
A woman whispered to her best friend next to her and gossiped, “I heard that Ms. Alice’s husband is the heir to the Brown family. He’s a good-looking man, this couple is really a match made in heaven!”
“That’s right. I heard they grew up together as childhood sweethearts. It’s really enviable that they ended up getting married.”
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other, continued to walk forward, and came to the side of the mother and son.
The little boy asked, “Mommy, why hasn’t my aunt come out yet?”
The woman smiled and said, “The bride needs to touch up her makeup, and the wedding doesn’t start until 5 pm.”
The little boy looked aggrieved. “I’m so hungry ah. When can I have dinner?”
The woman said softly, “After the wedding, there will be a buffet dinner, with your favorite steak.”
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Hearing the food he loved to eat, the little boy’s eyes lit up and he immediately sat up straight in his seat.
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Yue Xingwen said alertly, “her wedding dress is very similar to the clothes in that painting.”
Jiang Pingce nodded and said, “It seems that she represents the painting <La Donna Velata>. We have found all the heroines in the three paintings.”
Both of them looked at each other and then looked at the couple on the red carpet together.
The combination of handsome man and beautiful woman was a perfect match. The young man had a gentle smile, the bride seemed a little shy and hung her head slightly, and amidst the cheers of all the guests, they walked side by side down the aisle to the oath stand of the church.
A priest said gently, “We are gathered here today, under the watchful eye of God, to witness the wedding of Mr. Jack Brown and Ms. Alice Roland together. May I ask, Mr. Jack Brown, do you take Ms. Alice Roland to be your wife, to cherish and protect her from now on, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, for better or worse…”
The priest’s voice echoed through the auditorium. When the young man said ‘I do’ with a clear voice and a gentle smile, the bride also looked happy. The two exchanged rings, embraced and kissed amidst the blessings of family and friends.
The entire auditorium was filled with romance and sweetness.
Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce and found that the latter looked serious. His eyes kept staring at the guest seat. He followed Jiang Pingce’s gaze, and among the guests, the bride’s parents sat in the first row, full of smiles; Her sister, the woman with the child, also had a smile on her face, and only the nanny sitting in the back row was expressionless, clapping along with the other like a machine.
Yue Xingwen asked softly, “That nanny’s mood isn’t right?”
Jiang Pingce said, “From the beginning to the end of the wedding, she never smiled. Moreover, on occasions such as weddings, a nanny is generally not invited to attend, so her relationship with this relationship is certainly not simple, and she may also know the bride.”
At this moment, Liu Zhaoqing typed on the chat channel: “I heard the guests in the corner talking. Roland’s family is a well-known local rich businessman, and there are two daughters in the family. The youngest daughter is today’s bride called Alice, and the eldest daughter is the woman with the child, named Daisy.”
Yue Xingwen asked, “What about the nanny Leah?”
Ke Shaobin followed closely and said: “I heard someone gossip that Leah used to be a rich lady, but due to her family’s bankruptcy, she was adopted by the Roland family, and grew up with the two sisters of the Roland family since she was a child as if they were sisters.”
Adoption?
Jiang Pingce glanced at Yue Xingwen and said, “Two of them are sisters, and the other is a girl adopted by the family. The relationship between the three of them is definitely not simple.”
Yue Xingwen agreed. “Leah used to be a rich lady, and her family bankruptcy might have secrets as well. If her family’s bankruptcy was the work of the Roland family, then she’s likely to come back for revenge after knowing the truth?”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “The elderly couple sitting in the first row, have you noticed? It’s the bride’s parents, possibly the elderly couple among the three bodies we found.”
The wedding ended with applause, and guests were invited to dine in the restaurant.
The bride’s parents, who were sitting in the front row, were helped to leave the scene. They passed by Liu Zhaoqing, who looked carefully and found that one of the couple’s movements was not nimble, and the other had a slight hunchback phenomenon.
Liu Zhaoqing said, “The bride’s mother has mild symptoms of hunchback, which is consistent with the mild spinal deformity we found in the corpse, and features such as osteoporosis and herniated discs are also consistent with their age.”
Ke Shaobin said excitedly, “So it seems that two of the dead buried in the garden are the parents of the bride?”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “There is a high probability that it’s them. The body of a third young woman has not yet been identified.”
There were currently three young women, corresponding to the three paintings in the studio.
The girl wearing a light veil was Alice, the youngest daughter of today’s wedding scene; The woman holding the parasol, corresponding to the owner of the old castle, Daisy and her son Dean; The woman holding the ermine, corresponding to Leah, who lived in the nanny room.
Which one was the victim? Who was the murderer?
Yue Xingwen felt that the biggest suspect at present was Leah. If the murderer was Leah, it was more in line with the clues and theme of the current painting. She used to be a rich young lady, she was adopted after the family went bankrupt, and stayed in the Roland family as a nanny. She was likely to be jealous enough to kill the madam Daisy and take her place.
But this was just their subjective reasoning based on the clues in the painting, without any substantial evidence yet.
Leah stared sharply at Daisy, the mother and son in the garden, and stared expressionlessly at the bride at the wedding… These were all abnormalities. Moreover, no matter where she went, she had to hold the cat, but the woman in the painting was holding an ermine, did this mean something else?
Yue Xingwen couldn’t figure it out for the time being, and he said, “Continue to look for clues.”
The romantic wedding scene soon became empty, the illusion disappeared, and everyone returned to the drawing room.
There were three paintings hanging on the walls, and the castle was dark. This scene change made everyone feel as if they were having a dream. Yue Xingwen frowned and looked at the three paintings, and said, “We have found the corresponding characters for the people in the paintings. After the wedding, there should still be things happening, where is the next illusion?”
Jiang Pingce said, “Dinner. Just now the little boy asked his mother when he could have dinner, and Daisy said there would be a buffet dinner after the wedding.”
Yue Xingwen’s eyes lit up. “The painting <The Last Supper> next door?”
Jiang Pingce nodded and said, “En. That painting should have a mechanism as well.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Return the same way before, go to the right room on the 2nd floor, and find the mechanism in the painting.”
Everyone withdrew from the drawing room on the left and returned to the drawing room on the right through the entrance, where a huge painting <The Last Supper> hung on the wall, showing Jesus and the twelve apostles come to life, each with a different expression on their faces.
Yue Xingwen walked over and moved the painting, but the painting was as if it was fixed to the wall, motionless.
Jiang Pingce frowned and said, “Can’t it be moved?”
Yue Xingwen was helpless and said, “The mechanism is opened in a different way.”
The three paintings in the studio just now could be moved and the illusion in the painting would appear after the order was changed, so what should they do with this painting? Everyone stood in front of the painting to observe carefully, and suddenly Xu Feixue said, “You see, the second person on the right side of Jesus seems to have a crack between him and the people around him.”
Yue Xingwen brought the spirit lamp closer and took a closer look. Sure enough, the little man seemed to have been painted and installed separately, and it didn’t completely blend in with the surrounding paintings.
Xu Feixue’s eyes lit up. “I know! The painting <The Last Supper> is about betrayal, and the traitor is Judas, who is second on the right hand of Jesus. We just need to find the traitor, and the mechanism of the illusion in the painting will be opened!
Yue Xingwen nodded. “It makes sense!”
Xu Feixue stepped forward and gently placed her finger on the ‘Judas’ in the painting, and pressed it hard.
Sure enough, the wall on the side rumbled, and a door appeared.
Yue Xingwen walked in with everyone without hesitation. The scene in front of me was indeed the dinner scene after the wedding banquet. The bride and groom had changed their clothes, the bride had taken off her wedding dress and wore a silver evening dress with diamonds, and sat at a long table with her sister, parents, Leah and others.
There were 13 people sitting at this long table, consistent with the 13 people in <The Last Supper>.
The bride, groom, both parents, Daisy’s family of three, Leah and 3 strange faces wearing straight suits that looked like the groom’s brothers.
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other and whispered, “13 people, The Last Supper, there should be traitors on this table.”
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Thanks for the update ☺️
Hi can you change the names of the bride and groom to Alice Roland and Jack Brown instead as it seems weird to have western names with their surnames before their first names.
I changed it already, thanks for your suggestion ❤