Chapter 38, Chapter 38, you've already issued a letter of understanding, haven't you?

Unexpectedly, she heard her say that. Jiang Caixia suddenly raised her head, her already pale face showing an even more unpleasant expression.

Chu Ci: "You were tricked by that pretty boy Meng Zehai back then, and you needed money, so you set your sights on me."

"As a result, Wang Qiang didn't give you enough money. Because of Meng Zehai, you didn't give your brother the money you earned from working part-time in the red-light district."

"Perhaps that's why your brother thought you were useless and agreed to cooperate with Qian Hui?"

Chu Ci leaned against the door frame, touched his chin, and voiced his guess, but quickly waved his hand.

"Forget it, there's no point in saying all this. I accept your apology, now go and reincarnate."

After she finished speaking, she turned to leave, but was stopped by Jiang Caixia.

"etc!"

Jiang Caixia tried to reach out and grab her, but just as her hand crossed the door frame, she was swept by a golden light, which hurt so much that she almost flew out.

Chu Ci looked up at the luminous Bagua mirror above her head, then at Jiang Caixia, who looked terrified, and squatted down to look her in the eye.

"You can't get in. Now tell me, what else do you want?"

Jiang Caixia, clutching her burning hand, sat on the ground, gave her an apologetic look, and lowered her head.

Dark red tears of blood streamed down his nose.

"I... in the end, this is all my fault."

Chu Ci: "..."

Her leisurely expression changed, and she almost thought she had misheard.

"What did you say?"

Jiang Caixia didn't notice the displeasure in her words. She looked down at the ground, dark red tears of blood dripping from her nose onto the floor.

And then, the moment it touched the floor, it disappeared.

She covered her mouth, her shoulders shaking with sobs.

“It’s all my fault. A-Yuan is right. If I hadn’t disliked Qian Hui for his looks and had married him willingly, our family wouldn’t have ended up like this because of me…”

Before she could finish speaking, Chu Ci suddenly stood up.

"You were murdered, and your younger brother, whom you raised since childhood, helped the murderer cover it up for money. Your mother probably knew the truth but chose to help your brother. In the end, do you think it was your own fault?"

Jiang Caixia seemed not to understand why she was so unhappy. She glanced at her cautiously and lowered her head like a child who had made a mistake.

“Aci, your grandma has always been good to you and has never let you suffer any injustice, so you don’t understand what it feels like to be so poor that you can’t afford to eat.”

“My dad abandoned us when I was little and ran away with all the money in the house. My mom suffered a lot to raise my brother and me… In a family like ours, money is much more important than people…”

Her head drooped lower and lower. "Ah Yuan is right. Since I'm already dead anyway, why not exchange it for money?"

"Stop! Don't say it, I don't want to hear it."

Chu Ci stopped her, not understanding why she could treat herself so disrespectfully.

She originally intended to close the door and leave, but after thinking about it, she couldn't help but glare at her.

"Your brother has gone astray because you've sacrificed too much for him, making him take whatever you give for granted, which is why he's ended up like this!"

Jiang Caixia was taken aback, then lowered her head again. "He's my brother, and I'm his sister. It's only natural that I would do anything for him..."

Chu Ci: "..."

She couldn't stand it anymore and closed the door, but Jiang Caixia's knocking continued.

"Aci! Aci!"

Her voice came through the door, "Could you please open the door? I have something to tell you."

She knocked on the door for a long time, and gradually realized that Chu Ci didn't want to open it, so she gave up.

Just as Chu Ci thought she was about to leave, Jiang Caixia's voice came through the door again.

"Ah Ci, I've come here to beg you, could you... ask those officers to release my brother?"

After waiting for a while, she didn't hear Chu Ci's reply, and her voice sounded a little anxious.

“It was wrong of Xiao Hui and A Yuan to hit you, but our two families have already given you medical expenses, which you accepted. Why are you still pursuing this matter?”

This time, Chu Ci couldn't hold back any longer and suddenly flung open the door.

"Qian Hui and Jiang Yuan broke the law, so they should be punished."

"Do you think they want to pay my medical expenses? They're only offering me compensation to get the judge to be lenient and to get me to write a letter of leniency (a letter of understanding)!"

Seeing her open the door, Jiang Caixia was overjoyed. "Aci, then you should write a letter of appeal, okay?"

Chu Ci: "..."

She was so angry she almost fainted. Just as the door was about to be slammed shut, Jiang Caixia suddenly ran over and tried to block the door with her body.

This time, she screamed and was thrown out by the golden light in the room.

Chu Ci's brows were so furrowed they could trap a fly.

Her voice was filled with suppressed anger, "Jiang Caixia, even if I issue a letter of understanding, it won't make a difference. It's a small matter that they beat me up, but the real issue is that Qian Hui killed you and Jiang Yuan helped transport the body."

“Ah Ci…” Jiang Caixia endured the pain and got up from the ground, dark red tears sliding down her face. “You can see me, can you go and tell those officers that I, the deceased, have forgiven them?”

"The officer in charge of this case has seen me before. He knows you can see me. If you go and tell him, he will definitely believe you!"

Seeing her face covered in blood and tears, yet still pleading for Qian Hui and Jiang Yuan, Chu Ci closed her eyes.

"Whether you forgive them or not, they made a mistake and they should be punished."

"But if I, the victim, am not pursuing this matter, why should the officers pursue it?"

Jiang Caixia was puzzled and reached out to grab Chu Ci's clothes, but Chu Ci avoided her.

Jiang Caixia was stunned for a moment, then stammered, "Aci, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have schemed against you, it was my fault. But it was my fault, it has nothing to do with Brother Xiaohui or Ayuan, could you..."

"cannot."

Chu Ci interrupted her.

"The law is the law. If you do something wrong, you have to be punished. What good will it do you to forgive them? One of them can kill, and the other can help transport a body. If they aren't punished this time, they'll just do it again!"

“Jiang Caixia.” Chu Ci took a deep breath, looked down at her, and said seriously.

"The law is not your personal law. The purpose of the law is to maintain social stability. Forgiving them does not eliminate their threat to society."

She closed the door. "I don't want to say anything more. You can leave now."

Jiang Caixia continued to cry, "Aci, please don't do this, please open the door..."

"Ah Ci, please, please go and talk to those officers, please help my brother, okay?"

“Aci…”

But this time, Chu Ci did not soften his heart.

The soul-summoning bell in the bedroom rang all night, only stopping at dawn.

Chu Ci lay in bed, staring at the ceiling above her head all night.

The next morning, Grandma was startled when she saw the dark circles under Chu Ci's eyes.

"Aci, didn't you sleep yesterday?"

Chu Ci was so sleepy that he was in a daze. He slipped on his shoes and staggered out of the bedroom, plopping down next to the spirit communication table.

She slumped her injured hand, rested her other arm on the table, leaned her head on it, and nodded almost imperceptibly.

"I had insomnia last night, I couldn't sleep."

"Oh dear, you're so young and you've just been injured, how can you not get some sleep?"

Grandma touched her forehead and found it wasn't hot, but she still couldn't put her mind at ease.

"Let's not open the shop today. You go back and get some more sleep. I'll go get you some medicine."

Chu Ci wanted to say that she could still hold on, but she didn't expect to feel dizzy and lightheaded as she walked towards the dining table.

"Alright, alright, go back to your room and get some sleep. Don't push yourself too hard!"

Grandma urged her to go back to sleep, and she slept until about 2 p.m. before groggily opening her eyes.

Grandma left her some food. After she finished eating, she was cleaning up in the kitchen when there was a knock on the door.

She subconsciously listened to see if there was a soul-summoning bell ringing inside the room. After confirming that there was no bell and that there were living people outside, she responded.

Who is it?

"Master Chu?"

A slightly familiar male voice came from outside the door.

"Master! I'm Ryan! The reporter who interviewed you before, do you remember me?"

Chu Ci thought for a moment before remembering that he was the male reporter who was cheated on by his wife and brother and almost killed.

"It's you! You've been discharged from the hospital? You recovered so quickly!"

The door opened, and the male reporter outside, still with his arm draped in a sling, smiled.

"I'm not fully recovered yet, but I'm no longer hospitalized and can walk normally, so I wanted to come and visit you."

He carried the things in with his good arm, only to find that Chu Ci also had an arm in a sling.

"Master Chu, what's wrong with you...?"

Chu Ci glanced at his arm that was hanging up and waved it off nonchalantly.

"It's nothing, just a minor injury."

She glanced at the things Ryan had brought; they were all top-quality tonics, perfect for her current condition.

Ryan followed her gaze, quickly sent the items over, and sincerely thanked her.

"Master, I really have to thank you. If it weren't for you, I would have been hacked to death that day..."

Thinking of his beloved wife, his expression turned somber.

"I was wrong to speak rudely to you, and I apologize."

If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would have thought that your spouse would conspire with others to kill you?

And that adulterer was his best friend...

He looked down at his arm, which was in a sling, his expression dejected.

"After this incident, I've thought a lot. I've seen through many people and things, but fortunately, I still have many good people around me."

"Sometimes I think, thank goodness I found out early. If I had only found out when I was old that my wife and brother were having an affair, and that they were both only after my money, I wouldn't even have had a chance to regret it."

As he spoke, a look of relief appeared on his face.

Chu Ci stared at his face, and upon closer inspection, she vaguely saw several images.

She blinked, and the afterimages became clear for two seconds before quickly disappearing again.

Chu Ci: "..."

She frowned and asked, "Why did you come alone today? Where is the female reporter who usually partners with you?"

Rytan was a little embarrassed when she suddenly changed the subject and mentioned her colleagues.

"Master, you mean Linda..."

He scratched his face, a hint of worry flashing in his eyes.

"I heard she hasn't been to work for several days, it seems she's taken leave."

"I asked her about the specifics, but she didn't want to tell me. However, I heard from a colleague at the publishing house that something seems to have happened at her home..."

He paused halfway through his sentence, then asked Chu Ci expectantly, "Master, do you have time tomorrow? I'll bring her here tomorrow, and you can tell her fortune, is that alright?"

"You might not be able to bring her over."

"..." Ryan was taken aback. "Master, what do you mean?"

Chu Ci lowered her eyes for a while, then suddenly asked, "Do you have any recent photos of Linda? Preferably from the last few days."

“These past few days?” Ryan shook his head. “Except for the first two days after I was injured, when she visited me in the hospital, we haven’t seen each other for a long time since then.”

He suddenly felt a little nervous, as if he had just thought of something. "Master, has something happened to Linda?"

Chu Ci looked at his face. Those images didn't reappear, but she was also certain that what she had just seen wasn't an illusion.

Could it be that the system gave her an extra reward because she completed Jiang Caixia's task?

She suppressed her doubts for the time being and looked at Ryan, who was looking worried.

"You'd better go find her. I saw that she was beaten badly and was bleeding a lot."