Chapter 95 We received a report from the deceased…

Shen Xiuhe put the medicine bottle into the evidence bag.

"If there's a problem, we can just send it for testing."

He pulled out handcuffs. "Gentlemen, come back with me."

As he spoke, he walked toward Wu Xiushan's brother-in-law, whose body was already stiff, and handcuffed his wrists.

Just as he was about to handcuff the mistress, she suddenly jumped up like a rabbit.

He rushed down the stairs without looking up.

"Hey! Don't run away!"

Shen Xiuhe rushed down the stairs with the handcuffs in his hand.

When the mistress runs away, the handcuffed man also wants to run away.

Ji Jingtong grabbed him and said, "Don't move!"

A few minutes later, Shen Xiu returned with his mistress, whose hands were handcuffed.

Ji Jing and his companion put the two scoundrels, who had plotted to kill for money, into a police car.

Wu Xiushan stared blankly at everything before her, then frowned and looked at Chu Ci.

"What... is going on?"

Chu Ci leaned against the door frame and pointed with his chin toward the direction of the police car.

"Since you investigated that woman, do you know where she works?"

“She…” Wu Xiushan hesitated for a moment, “When I investigated, I couldn’t find that she had a job.”

As far as she knew, this woman had always been supported by various men and didn't have a job at all.

Chu Ci: "Some time ago, under your brother-in-law's arrangement, she entered a mental health facility to work as a caregiver."

"Mental sanatorium?"

Wu Xiushan suddenly realized what was happening.

"So, the medicine my sister and I take..."

"Yes, she changed it."

Chu Ci paused for a moment.

"To be more precise, it was she and your brother-in-law who switched the medicine. It was mainly your brother-in-law's idea."

After she finished speaking, she patted Wu Xiushan on the shoulder.

"Come with me to the police station; the police will probably need you to give a statement."

Shen Xiuhe was standing next to the police car and waved to her.

But Wu Xiushan did not move.

Her eyes were slightly red, and she suddenly turned her head to look at Chu Ci.

"You know so much about this?"

She took a step closer to Chu Ci, her reddened eyes fixed on his, her voice almost squeezed out between her teeth.

“We’ve only met twice. When did you find out about this?”

"If you knew all this, why didn't you tell me sooner?"

She suddenly reached out and grabbed Chu Ci by the collar, pulling hard.

"If you had told me sooner, my sister wouldn't have been killed by them!"

"They killed my sister with their own hands, but you are also indirectly responsible!"

Chu Ci was pulled and swayed, his brows furrowing slightly.

"I just found out too..."

"You just found out?"

Wu Xiushan sneered, "You just found out, yet you understand it so clearly, even finding evidence."

"Then it's a waste of your talent that you don't work at the police station!"

Bai Shengtian tried to stop her, "Miss Wu, please calm down..."

"What do you mean, 'calm down'?!"

Wu Xiushan suddenly roared, and the veins on her neck bulged.

She couldn't help but cough again.

"My...my sister is dead! If she had told us sooner, she wouldn't have died!"

She bent over, clutching her chest, which was trembling violently from coughing, her bangs falling down to cover most of her face.

Large tears fell to the ground.

"Three days... just three days short..."

"If she had been willing to talk to me or my sister during those three days, my sister wouldn't have had to die..."

“My niece is so young, and she has already lost her mother…”

She suddenly raised her face, her bloodshot eyes filled with hatred.

"Why won't you tell me! Why do you have to wait until you're dead to tell me the truth!"

"My sister is dead, what's the point of saying all this now!"

A violent cough caused a sharp tinnitus.

She coughed so hard she bent over, and when she looked up she could only see Chu Ci's mouth opening and closing, but she couldn't hear her voice.

After her tinnitus finally disappeared, she heard Chu Ci's reply, but only the last sentence.

"You didn't stay long enough that day."

Wu Xiushan was suddenly stunned.

My memory was instantly pulled back to three days ago.

That day, she and her sister went to a spiritual medium's incense shop, hoping to find a master who could help them get rid of the ghosts that were haunting them.

But the person in front of them immediately said that they were not haunted by ghosts.

She stood up and wanted to leave with her sister.

They could smell that eerie gas odor every day, how could they not be haunted by ghosts?

So she immediately concluded that this person was a fraud and took her sister to find other, more powerful "masters".

But the other masters couldn't save them.

My sister still died.

She stared blankly at Chu Ci, tears welling up in her bloodshot eyes.

"so……"

Her lips trembled.

"Did I kill my sister?"

Because she was always impatient and short-tempered, she missed the real opportunity to save her sister, which allowed the murderers to succeed.

Chu Ci looked at her bloodshot eyes and frowned slightly.

"No, of course not."

It's normal to feel guilty and regretful when faced with the death of a loved one.

But it shouldn't become an obsession or a lifelong knot in your heart.

"Your sister was killed by your brother-in-law and his mistress. They are the murderers, and it has nothing to do with anyone else."

Wu Xiushan shook her head, closed her eyes, and large tears slid down her cheeks.

"No, it's my fault, it's all my fault..."

“I should have been taken away by my mom. If my sister hadn’t saved me, she would be much happier…”

Ever since her sister rescued her, her sister has taken on the responsibility of caring for her.

While other people's older sisters go out with their classmates and friends, her older sister has to do odd jobs to earn her living expenses.

While other girls' older sisters were secretly dating at school, her sister could only go to see her after school, then buy groceries and cook at home.

If it weren't for her, her sister's grades would have allowed her to continue her university studies and then go abroad for further education on a government scholarship.

But her sister chose to drop out of school to work and take care of her.

Even this time is no exception.

If she hadn't been so impatient and had listened to her sister's advice, things might have turned out differently...

Chu Ci pursed her lips. "When I said you stayed too short, I wasn't blaming you."

Even if you knew back then that it was your brother-in-law who was harming you, and you escaped this calamity, your brother-in-law would have thought of other ways.

"As long as he doesn't get what he wants, he'll come up with countless schemes."

"The ultimate reason lies in the killer's murderous intent, not in the fact that you two victims failed to detect it beforehand..."

After a pause, Chu Ci continued, "And you must live well."

"Don't forget your sister has a child."

When the topic of children came up, Wu Xiushan suddenly looked up and grabbed her hand.

"Yes, and my sister's child too!"

Through her teary eyes, she looked at Chu Ci and asked, "My sister's child, do you know where they sent my sister's child?"

Her heart pounded. "Is the child... still alive?"

"Alive".

Hearing the approaching footsteps, Chu Ci glanced at Shen Xiuhe, who was impatiently walking towards them.

"They sent the child to an orphanage, and he's doing alright now..."

Before she could speak, Wu Xiushan tightened her grip on her arm.

"Which orphanage? I need to go and bring the child back."

As she spoke, she struggled to stand up, but this only resulted in another bout of coughing.

Bai Shengtian quickly helped her up and advised her:

"Ms. Wu, you have things to take care of here and don't have time to take care of your child."

"Let's finish this first before picking up the kids, that way someone will take care of them."

Wu Xiushan shook her head vigorously, coughing as she did so.

"No, I'm going to get the child back."

She gently pushed Bai Shengtian's hand away.

"My child has family, why should he stay in an orphanage like an orphan?"

She insisted on going, and Shen Xiu and the others couldn't force her to go to the police station.

Bai Shengtian offered to drive Wu Xiushan to the orphanage to pick up the children. After picking up the children, he took the two of them to the police station.

Standing outside the police station, I watched as Wu Xiushan carried her child into the station.

Chu Ci glanced to her side. "Are you relieved now?"

A black shadow slowly condensed and took shape beside her, eventually solidifying into a human form.

It was Wu Xiuying, Wu Xiushan's older sister.

She was still wearing the pajamas she had worn when she died, and her skin no longer had that sickly sallow color, but rather a deathly bluish-gray.

She watched her sister carry her daughter into the police station.

After a long while, he finally nodded.

Her child is not yet one year old, just at the age of babbling.

The little head rested on her aunt's shoulder, her big eyes darting around.

Suddenly, he raised his finger and pointed in one direction, "Mom... Mom..."

Wu Xiushan pressed her face against the child, pinched the child's fingers, and glanced in the direction the child was pointing.

But all they saw was Chu Ci in the distance.

She kissed her child's forehead, and as she smiled, she couldn't help but choke up.

"You little rascal, you never knew how to call me 'Mom' before, but now you do."

"If only your mother could hear this..."

She followed the police into the police station, and her figure disappeared from Chu Ci's sight.

Chu Ci asked the woman beside her, "Did you hear that? Your child is calling you 'Mom'."

Wu Xiuying nodded vigorously, "Yes, I heard you."

She stared for a long time in the direction where her sister and child had disappeared, tears of blood welling up in her eyes before disappearing the moment they hit the ground.

It took her a while to come to her senses, and the first thing she said after she came to her senses was to apologize.

"I'm sorry, Master. My sister was rude before, and she was rude this time too... but she meant no harm."

She smiled, but with a helpless expression.

“We didn’t have any elders growing up, and I have a gentle personality, so I was always bullied when I was with her.”

"Only if she has a bad temper and looks unapproachable will no one dare to bully us."

As she spoke, she lowered her brows, concealing the sadness in her eyes.

"In the end, it's because I, as her older sister, didn't protect her well that she became so impatient, sharp-tongued, and prone to guilt..."

"You've done a great job."

Chu Ci looked at her intently.

"Without the protection of your parents, you've managed to raise your younger sister through all the ups and downs. As the older sister, you're already amazing."

"Really?" Wu Xiufang smiled shyly, but the smile quickly faded.

"But I don't want Shan to live like me, raising a child..."

She lowered her eyes and thought for a moment, then said, "Master, could you please pass on a message to A-Shan for me?"

-

In the police station's interrogation room, Wu Xiushan's brother-in-law, handcuffed, cried miserably, looking utterly remorseful.

She broke down in tears as she spoke to the police.

On the contrary, mistresses with weaker mental fortitude often exhibit a kind of resigned indifference.

"Why kill her? Why else? Of course, it was for the house that Wu Xiuying's parents left her!"

She appeared remarkably confident when questioned by the police.

"What else could it be for? She's an old hag, no one would even take her to the red-light district."

"What else could I possibly want from her?"

The policeman frowned: "Just for a house?"

The woman seemed to have heard a joke: "What do you mean, 'just for a house'?"

She pointed towards the doorway, "That place is going to be demolished, and a high-rise building will be built there!"

"Do you know how much that house is worth? What do you mean by 'just for a house'?"

"Officer, do the math on your salary. With Hong Kong's current housing prices, can you afford a house even if you work your whole life?"

"But my husband and I are different. If we successfully kill those two sisters, we'll become rich overnight!"

The smile on her face was obsessive and manic.

"Do you know what it means to become rich overnight? We will never have to live in pigeon lofts again, nor will we have to share a room with strangers."

"We won't even have to go to the corridor to stretch, and our children can live comfortably without having to follow our old path."

"And all of this came at the cost of a haggard, worn-out woman's life..."

But when the police asked her about her relationship with Wu Xiushan's brother-in-law, the woman fell silent.

Under the cold light of the overhead lamp, Shen Xiuhe stared at her coldly.

"Li Kang led you to murder his wife and even tried to kill his own child, which is enough to prove that he is not a good person."

"People say even tigers don't eat their cubs, but he's capable of harming his own children. Do you still dare to stay with him?"

After a brief silence, the woman turned her head away and snorted coldly.

"I know him better than you do what kind of person he is."

"When I was forced to work as a hostess in the red-light district, he was the only one who was willing to stand up for me."

"As for what you said about even tigers not eating their cubs..."

A smile bloomed on her face.

That's because he hasn't met someone he truly likes.

“In his eyes, Wu Xiuying, that old hag, was just a tool to provide him with a house, while I was his true love.”

“When we get married and have children, he will definitely be a good husband and a good father.”

She looked at Shen Xiuhe with a smile in her eyes.

“Officer, you don’t need to ask me anything anymore. I confess. It was all my idea, and it has nothing to do with Li Kang.”

She was confident: "Li Kang still has children, and the children's mother is dead. Even for the sake of the children, the judge will give Li Kang a lenient sentence and will not let the children be without a father."

"Rather than being a pair of ghost lovers, I'd rather he be alive."

Seeing the longing in her eyes, Shen Xiu forced a smile.

"You're really great."

The woman laughed loudly, "You don't understand what true love is. I love Li Kang, and Li Kang loves me too."

"I believe he would have given the same answer if he were in his shoes."

But she was quickly proven wrong.

At midnight, she was clearly locked up in a women's prison.

But she was awakened by a gust of cold wind and found herself in an empty room.

The room was dark, with no lights on, only the moonlight shining in from outside.

You can vaguely make out that this is a prison with windows.

In another corner was Li Kang, Wu Xiushan's brother-in-law, who had also been awakened.

"Li Kang!"

Upon seeing Li Kang, the woman excitedly ran over and hugged his neck.

Li Kang quickly pulled her off him, and asked in horror:

What's going on?

"I don't know either, I woke up here."

She grabbed Li Kang's hand, "Let's run!"

Li Kang nodded and quickly went to see if there was a way to escape.

But before they could find a way to break the window, they suddenly felt a chill down their spine.

Wu Xiuying, looking like she was about to die, stood behind him, her face pale and bloodshot.

The moment he turned his head, someone suddenly reached out and grabbed his neck.

The wailing and howling of ghosts echoed in the small room.

"I was so good to you! Why did you kill me?!"

"Why!"

Seeing Li Kang being choked, the woman rushed forward to help, but was thrown away by the female ghost.

Seeing Li Kang's feet lift off the ground and his eyes roll back, looking like he was about to die.

The woman shouted anxiously:

"It has nothing to do with him! It was all my idea! If you want to kill or torture someone, come at me!"

Wu Xiuying loosened her grip and suddenly floated over, her nose almost touching the woman's.

"Was this your idea?"

Looking at her pale face and eyes filled with blood and tears, the woman trembled with fear, but still held her head high.

"Yes! It was my idea!"

Wu Xiuying looked at her husband Li Kang with her bleeding eyes, while Li Kang clutched his aching neck.

He quickly pointed to the woman: "That's right!"

"Wife! I've been lied to! She's the one who lied to me!"

“We have children together. If she hadn’t lied to me, why would I have hurt you and the children?”

"It's all her fault! I was bewitched by her!"

He scrambled to the corner, his hand still pointing at the woman.

"Wife, if you want to kill someone, then kill her. It was all her idea!"

"We have a child. If you kill me, who will take care of the child?"

"Wife, please let me go for the sake of the children!"

"Even a day as husband and wife is worth a hundred days of kindness!"

The woman listened to Li Kang calling her "wife" repeatedly and blaming her for all the mistakes.

They froze on the spot.

She thought she had misheard. "Li Kang, what did you say? You said it was my idea?"

She roared, "You're the one who said you wanted to kill the Wu Xiuying sisters and take their house!"

"Pah!" Li Kang spat. "What do you mean, 'my idea'? I don't like you at all. You're the one who bewitched me!"

When Li Kang spat on her face and heard him say he didn't like it, the woman couldn't hold back anymore.

She reached out and grabbed Li Kang's face, "You clearly said before that I was the one you truly loved, and for your sake, I took all the responsibility upon myself!"

"How dare you say you don't like me?!"

Li Kang's face was covered in blood from her scratches, and he dodged around in all directions.

Wu Xiuying watched as the woman straddled Li Kang and grabbed at him wildly, and scoffed coldly.

A ghostly voice said, "Li Kang, you're scratched like this and you still won't fight back. Where did your strength go when you hit me?"

"It seems you really like her?"

The woman paused, and her gaze towards Li Kang changed.

"husband……"

However, before she could finish speaking, she was suddenly slapped to the ground.

Li Kang, who was usually gentle and considerate towards her, acted out of character, straddling her and slapping her several times.

They didn't stop until they beat her until her mouth bled.

He knelt down, crying, begging for mercy from the ghostly Wu Xiuying.

"Wife, I love you and the kids. I only hit you because this bitch instigated me!"

The woman's head ached from the beating, her ears were ringing, and she could barely hear in one ear.

She stared at Li Kang in disbelief, as if something inside her had suddenly collapsed.

"Li Kang, what did you say? You called me a slut?"

She rushed over and grabbed Li Kang's hand, tears welling up in her eyes.

"You promised to protect me for life, but now you're hitting me just to save your own life?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Li Kang slapped her again, his eyes fierce.

"Who said such cheesy things to you? I didn't say anything, don't frame me!"

The woman was stunned by the beating, but she cried and rushed towards Li Kang.

"You bastard, you said it! You definitely said it!"

However, the moment she touched Li Kang, the surroundings transformed back into a single female prison cell before bedtime.

Wu Xiuying's ghost is gone, and so is Li Kang.

Only her cheeks burned with pain, and she couldn't hear in one ear.

She touched her deaf ears and suddenly realized that she hadn't been dreaming.

"Someone come here!"

She leaned over the iron railing and shouted.

"Guards! To tell you the truth, Li Kang forced me to do this; it was all Li Kang's idea!"

"Guards! I'll tell you the truth!"

Her piercing screams echoed through the silent prison.

As Wu Xiuying was led into the Gate of Hell by Chu Ci, the mournful screams of a woman mixed with sobs still echoed in her ears.

A huge weight was lifted from her heart, and even the dark aura around her soul dissipated considerably.

Sending Li Kang in jail will at least prevent anyone from disturbing her sister and daughter's lives.

Without Li Kang as a problem, her sister and daughter's lives should be much smoother.

"Thank you, Master."

After passing through the "Ghost Gate" and queuing in Hall 4, she bowed to Chu Ci to express her gratitude.

Chu Ci waved his hand, "No need to thank me, it's nothing."

Seeing Wu Xiuying enter the queue and quickly blend into the crowd of ghosts, she went to the counter to get her book stamped on the first page.

When I was about to leave after getting the stamp, I passed by the Kwun Tong Police Station.

On the steps in front of the police station, Ji Jingtong and Shen Xiuhe looked exhausted, chugging coffee.

Suddenly, a woman appeared out of nowhere and approached them.

"Hello, I want to call the police."

The woman wore a long dress, her hair was styled in a bun, revealing a delicate and fair face.

The only incongruous thing was that it was a clear, dark night, and she was holding a parasol.

Ji Jingtong and Shen Xiuhe stared at the umbrella in her hand for a moment, but politely did not ask any questions.

Instead, he quickly stood up and pointed to the police station entrance.

"Should we call the police? Come in and talk."

They took the woman into the police station.

Chu Ci frowned slightly as he watched the two men lead the woman into the police station.

That woman, there's something strange about her.

But the umbrella covered most of the person's body, and it was only a fleeting glance, so she didn't get a clear look.

Seeing that it was getting late, she didn't think much of it and hurried home to catch up on sleep.

The next morning, as soon as she got up, she saw Ji Jingtong and Shen Xiuhe sitting in her living room.

The two people were pale-faced, their eyes unfocused as they stared at the floor, seemingly having waited there for an unknown amount of time.

Chu Ci was taken aback. He scanned the house with his eyes but did not see his grandmother.

Ji Jingtong was the first to recover from her reverie and reminded her:

"Grandma went to buy breakfast..."

Chu Ci nodded and looked at the two of them.

"So what are you doing here...?"

Shen Xiu tightened his clothes and looked up at Chu Ci.

"Do you remember what we told you yesterday? We couldn't find the two most important murder weapons in the exchange murder case?"

"Remember."

Chu Ci poured himself a glass of water and sat down opposite them.

He casually asked, "Found it?"

She asked the question casually, but to her surprise, Ji Jingtong and Shen Xiuhe both nodded.

"Yes, I found it."

Chu Ci exclaimed in surprise, "So fast? When did you find it?"

"In the early hours of the morning."

"The early morning?" Chu Ci looked at them in confusion. "You went out to find the murder weapon in the early morning? Has the murderer been exposed?"

"no."

Ji Jingtong and Shen Xiuhe exchanged a glance and simultaneously saw the fear in each other's eyes.

“Last night…we received a report from the deceased.”