Great, It's the Pervy Neighbor. We're Doomed

Chapter 669: Rashomon

【He was staring at that female student, and his hand unconsciously went down to that area of his body.】【Then, he was shocked to discover that, under these circumstances, he seemed to last longer than before.】

【That was also the first time he started having these voyeuristic tendencies, which later developed into the point where he could "take off" right in front of others.】

Ultimate Rich Kid: 【Oh...】

【But from what I saw yesterday, he was like the Flash! Could it be that before yesterday, his physical condition was even... faster than that?!】

While Ultimate Rich Kid was typing in the chat section, the middle-aged man and Lei Xiaoman had already reached a life-or-death moment.

Fairy Sister was frantically typing in the chat section: 【Damn! This Lei Xiaoman! Doesn't she have a kitchen knife in her right hand? Why isn't she slashing him?! If she doesn't slash him now, she's going to die!!!!!】

Domineering Female CEO: 【Maybe she doesn't have the guts. Afraid of accidentally killing someone and breaking the law.】

Perhaps Domineering Female CEO was right about Lei Xiaoman. After all, as an ordinary person, she would fear killing someone and facing legal consequences. But at this critical moment of life and death, her body automatically activated its self-preservation instincts. Her conscious mind hadn't even given the command yet. Her right hand, tightly gripping the kitchen knife, continuously slashed at the middle-aged man pinning her down.

When the first slash landed, the middle-aged man let out a scream of agony. When the second and third slashes followed, the screams came one after another. As the slashing motion continued relentlessly, eventually, the middle-aged man's screams could no longer be heard.

The only sound in the entire room was Lei Xiaoman's heavy, ragged breathing.

That was the instinct of being able to breathe freely without a hand strangling her neck.

When Lei Xiaoman's breathing became smoother and her consciousness regained some clarity, she struggled to sit up. As she sat up, a horrifying scene unfolded before her eyes.

The middle-aged man who had been violently choking her neck, trying to kill her, now lay in a pool of blood, his eyes wide open, completely lifeless.

Lei Xiaoman gently nudged him with the tip of her shoe. The middle-aged man showed no reaction, utterly still and dead.

Lei Xiaoman trembled with fear all over, but she still mustered her courage. She crawled cautiously to the middle-aged man's side and placed her right index finger under his nose.

"No... no breathing! Dead! He's dead!"

Lei Xiaoman scrambled backward frantically, using both hands and feet, so panicked that she didn't even notice her own body was covered in the middle-aged man's blood.

"I... I killed someone?! Will I be thrown in prison?! Or the death penalty?!"

She fumbled to pull out her Rice phone, which wobbled unsteadily in both her hands. She opened the Doubao AI and used Doubao's voice input to say a sentence: "A man was frantically choking a woman's neck, and the woman killed him in self-defense. What crime has the woman committed?"

Lei Xiaoman kept swallowing hard, her eyes welling with tears that mixed with the blood on her face.

Soon, Doubao AI presented three scenarios: Special Justifiable Defense (no criminal liability), Excessive Defense (criminal liability required, but should be reduced or exempted), and the final one, Not Self-Defense (handled as ordinary crime).

Each of the three scenarios came with more detailed explanations. Lei Xiaoman read through them one by one, feeling she should belong to the first category, Special Justifiable Defense, but also feeling she might somewhat fit the second category, Excessive Defense.

For a moment, she was utterly panicked and terrified, completely losing her composure. Now, she was thinking, what exactly should she do?

Call the police?

If she belonged to the first category, then it would be fine. But if she actually belonged to the second category, she would still have to go to prison. Once she went to prison...

"Jiankang and I will never have a future..."

"Waaaah!"

Even though she usually acted tough, when something like this suddenly happened, she was still just a weak woman. She could only hug her knees and cry bitterly.

At the same time, she muttered under her breath: "I shouldn't have come to this place!"

"I shouldn't have been tempted by that one thousand a day! Waaaah!"

"If I hadn't come to this apartment, none of this would have happened!!!!!"

"Waaaah!"

She cried for who knows how many minutes. In her heart, there was nothing but endless regret for coming to Alice Apartment.

Maybe even the heavens got annoyed. They simply let a man's voice interrupt her crying.

"Oh ho, a murder, huh?"

Lei Xiaoman lifted her head, her eyes blurred with tears, completely filling her vision. She blinked several times before she could make out who was speaking at the doorway.

At the door stood a tall young man with sharp, angular features. He was probably a few years older than her, in his twenties. Right now, he was holding up his phone, filming the room. While filming, he let out a laugh: "Wow wow wow, this is huge! A murder!"

"I'm finished!"

This was Lei Xiaoman's first reaction upon seeing someone at the door recording or taking pictures. This time, she was truly finished. Her face turned deathly pale. Since she had been discovered, she could only obediently wait for the police to come and handle things.

As for whether she would end up being justifiable self-defense or excessive self-defense, that would all be up to fate!!!!

At this moment, the young man at the door seemed to have finished filming. He put away his phone. Then he asked, "You killed this man?"

Lei Xiaoman nodded, tears still streaming down her face.

"Why did you kill him?" the young man asked again.

Lei Xiaoman said urgently, "It was him! He wanted to kill me! He was frantically choking my neck, and then I fought back, and I accidentally killed him!!!"

Even though the person before her was only an eyewitness, Lei Xiaoman still frantically tried to clear the reason behind her killing. After all, she had really just been defending herself!!!

Then, she pulled open the collar of her clothes, revealing the red choking marks on her snow-white neck, to prove her innocence.

"Is that so? Then this man really is too evil! But why did he want to kill you?"

The young man asked with a smile.

Lei Xiaoman quickly explained, her hands gesticulating wildly along with her words: "Yesterday, in the elevator, he already made indecent gestures toward me. Today, he found my apartment, frantically rang the doorbell, and when I opened the door, he made indecent gestures at me again! Then I told him, if you keep doing this to me, I'll call the police to arrest you! But he wasn't afraid at all, and instead kept making indecent gestures at me! Then, I tried to close the door and ignore him, and he suddenly went crazy and rushed at me to choke my neck!!!!"

If anyone were paying close attention, they would notice that what Lei Xiaoman was telling the young man now clearly omitted certain parts. For example, she had previously taken the initiative to kick him in the groin, and later mocked that part of his body, which was what drove him into a rage and made him want to kill her. Both of these points were conveniently left out.

What was this? This was a textbook example of Rashomon.

Lei Xiaoman, whether consciously or subconsciously, based on her own interests and position, concealed everything that was unfavorable to her, as if the entire conflict was solely the other party's fault.