Who hid My Corpse!

Golden Score.

Upon hearing this term, Hewinia experienced a momentary daze, as if she were transported back to a year ago when she saw a beautiful woman staring at her with an incredulous gaze.

"Golden Score?! You're actually the Golden Score?!"

"How is that possible?"

"Does the Golden Score really exist?"

Then, that disbelief swiftly transformed into greed and madness.

"If that's the case..."

She murmured to herself, and that madness turned into cruelty.

The howling cold wind woke Hewinia from her daze, and she lifted her head to look at the mirror in front of her, finding the face from her memory now reflected on its surface, watching her expressionlessly.

After a moment of Silence, she rose to close the window. When she returned to her seat, the look in her eyes as she glanced at the ring on her left middle finger had regained its calmness.

"What else do you know?" Hewinia asked.

Huh... She didn't ask me how I knew first?

Interesting.

Bai Wei's opinion of Hewinia rose a few notches, for it indeed saves much effort to converse with an intelligent person. Thus, he spoke frankly, "You want to play the Seven Notes·Divine Song."

Hewinia did not speak, but Bai Wei could feel her body tense slightly, like a cat whose spine was brushed by a Light Touch.

"Actually, it isn't hard to guess, once I knew your identity," Bai Wei said slowly, "The necessary condition for the Seven Notes·Divine Song to be played, besides those seven golden notes, also requires a golden score. And while the golden notes appear intermittently over time, the Golden Score has not been seen for a very long time, to the extent that many within Holy Sound are unaware of it... but that woman knew, I mean, the real Hewinia, and you learned everything from her."

Bai Wei paused, then smiled as he continued.

"It's actually quite interesting, you found out about your own importance from a woman who wanted to kill you."

Bai Wei could feel Hewinia's breathing becoming gradually heavier, yet she was still trying her best to maintain her facial expression.

"This is just your baseless speculation," Hewinia spoke, "And you might think too highly of me. Playing the Seven Notes·Divine Song, do you think it is truly possible just by myself? Why can't I just be satisfied living with this identity?"

"To be fair, indeed," Bai Wei nodded slightly, "Compared to the Seven Notes·Divine Song that has never been completed in a thousand years, the risk is just too high. You could very well do nothing and live a good life with the stolen identity. The Golden Score allows the body to change into the appearance of the absorbed notes, and seeing as how you have remained unharmed this past year, it seems that nobody has discovered that the real Miss Hevnia has been dealt with by you, not even her biological parents. Thus, you could continue to live in a safer and more comfortable manner."

"So..."

"But would you really do that?"

Bai Wei interrupted Hewinia's words again, leisurely increasing the pressure, causing Hewinia to raise her left hand involuntarily as he looked down at her from above, giving Hewinia a strange sensation, as if this conversation was not a dialogue, but a trial.

With a slight tilt of his dexterous middle finger, he glanced at Hewinia's Mage hat and robe hung to the side, and then seemed to casually say.

"Your clothes seem to be two sizes too large."

"And what's the problem with that?"

Hewinia countered instinctively and then suddenly realized that she might have fallen into Bai Wei's trap of leading her thoughts. But by then, it was too late; she heard Bai Wei continue to speak in his leisurely tone, "Just like a young girl wearing her parents' clothes may appear cute, an adult woman might wear her boyfriend's... I mean husband's clothes to look playful and innocent. In short, whatever the case, wearing oversized clothes tends to make one appear less aggressive, and loose garments can also conceal a lot."

The finger gradually tilted back, resuming "eye contact" with Hewinia.

"You," Bai Wei articulated deliberately, "What are you trying to hide?"

Hewinia fell into Silence.

Even though she was surrounded by Warm Winter Magic, not even the howling cold wind could bring her a chill, yet Bai Wei's words made her feel a bone-deep coldness.

In front of this seemingly ordinary finger, Hewinia felt as if she were naked... even though she indeed wasn't.

However, the sensation of her disguises being peeled away one by one made it hard for her to catch her breath.

The pressuring and suffocating feeling brought her back to a year ago, when the real Hevni had her foot on Hewinia's face, and it seemed as if she would suffocate any second.

And it was at that moment that Bai Wei's tone relaxed, and the other two subjugated fingers regained their freedom.

"Of course, what I just mentioned is merely my guess," he said with a smile, "You might not have such ambitious thoughts after all, and you simply want a different life, just as you said earlier. If you can maintain this status of a young lady, you would already be satisfied."

This sudden release of tension left Hewinia momentarily disoriented.

It was as if a tightly stretched rubber band that could snap any second suddenly lost its tension, all the pressure dissipating in an instant.