Chapter 35 Jiang Caixia wasn't pointing to the doorway...
Han Lang's expression instantly turned ugly upon hearing the name "Bai Anna".
Chen Xinxin, however, had a lot of grievances she wanted to express.
"Sister Aci, do you still remember the three female students who bullied me when we first met?"
"The person who led the way by taking pictures of me was Anna Bai!"
As she spoke of this, her eyes grew increasingly red, and with a blink, tears fell.
But more than feeling wronged, she was angry.
Pointing to Han Lang beside her, she said, "Bai Anna's family is rich. Although she looks down on us poor students, she didn't target me before. It was him!"
"Bai Anna likes him, but he slipped me love letters, which is why Bai Anna is targeting me!"
Han Lang hurriedly explained, "Xin Xin, you've misunderstood me! I really like you. I never expected Bai Anna to be so shameless, targeting you just because I like you!"
Chu Ci could no longer hear what Chen Xinxin said next.
The moment she heard the words "love letter," her ears started ringing.
Countless fragments squeezed out from the depths of her mind, making her exhausted brain feel like it was about to explode.
After the indescribable pain subsided, Chen Xinxin helped her to her home at number 15.
Grandma came out of the house, took her other arm, and helped her into the house.
With concern, she said, "Your head is starting to hurt again? Come on, come sit down at your table."
But this time the headache wasn't caused by psychic intervention, so sitting next to the psychic table didn't help.
Chu Ci lay on the table for a while to recover before the pain that felt like her head was being split open gradually subsided.
She stared intently at Chen Xinxin, and warned her word by word: "That Han Lang is not a good person, don't get too close to him."
Chen Xinxin seemed to have found a kindred spirit, "I also think he's not a good person! Sister Aci, you have no idea, Han Lang is such a strange person!"
"It's like he has something about him; everyone who knows him likes him! My former deskmate knew I didn't like Han Lang and thought I was crazy!"
"I think she's the one who's sick! What's so great about a man who can't understand human language and only has a pretty face!"
Chu Ci, supporting his head which felt like it was about to explode, gave Chen Xinxin a thumbs up.
"Young lady, you have a good eye!"
Han Lang is not described much in the original book; he is a minor supporting character with a moderate amount of screen time.
His first appearance wasn't in Chen Xinxin's storyline, but in a case handled by the male and female leads after they graduated from university.
At that time, Han Lang was already married to Bai Anna, and his life was going smoothly with a stable career.
While enjoying the luxurious life that Bai Anna provided for him, he also had an affair with Bai Anna's female assistant.
He enjoys watching his female assistant subtly sabotage Bai Anna, and the two women openly and secretly fighting for him.
The girl experienced her parents' violent fights and divorce when she was young, so she has very high requirements for the loyalty of her lover.
Han Lang suffers from his performative personality disorder and enjoys acting to seduce people who don't actually like him.
Make people fall in love with him, and then watch this person fight with other people who like him.
Finally, after much effort, he managed to seduce a girl into falling in love with him, but then, impatiently, he deliberately let her know that he was a married man.
I expected to see a jealous look on the girl's face, but instead, I was met with a knife.
The girl swiftly brought down the knife, the white blade going in and the red blade coming out, sending Han Lang straight to his death.
And Chen Xinxin's intuition was correct.
She has been targeted by Han Lang.
Han Lang was still using the same old trick: he wanted to act so that people who disliked him would fall for him, and then make those people compete with those who liked him, enjoying the vanity of being fought over.
However, nine times out of ten, this "other people who like him" are just blind Anna Bai.
After calming down, Chu Ci repeatedly urged Chen Xinxin to stay away from Han Lang.
Hearing the disdain in the other person's voice towards Han Lang, she felt relieved and asked, "Does Bai Anna often bully people at school?"
She was still thinking about Grandma Guo's little granddaughter who had just passed away in the hospital.
School bullying cases were difficult to adjudicate even in her time, let alone in the chaotic early 1990s in Hong Kong.
Sure enough, when she brought up this topic, Chen Xinxin's radiant spirits wilted.
She nodded weakly. "Yeah, her family is rich. I heard her uncle is on the school board, and he's always acting like he owns the place. None of us dare to mess with her, but she's only interested in Han Lang."
Mentioning Han Lang made her feel nauseous, as if she had swallowed ten flies.
"Han Lang is usually not well-behaved at school. Bai Anna will target any girl he is close to, even if she knows which girl he is close to. He is also close to many girls."
"So, Bai Anna is busy at school every day driving away girls who bully Han Lang, so she's basically... bullying people most of the time."
"Do you know if there's a girl at your school who was bullied by Bai Anna and then jumped off a building?"
"You mean Guo Miaotong?"
"Guo Miaotong?" Chu Ci was surprised that Grandma Guo's granddaughter's name was so beautiful.
“Yes, she’s the only one who’s jumped off a building at our school recently,” Chen Xinxin nodded with certainty.
Speaking of Guo Miaotong, she looked disappointed and full of regret.
"Guo Miaotong is amazing. Our school requires extra money to get in, but to maintain its college entrance rate, it needs to recruit a group of high-achieving students."
"Guo Miaotong is the most outstanding among them. She is beautiful and academically excellent. She has always been number one since she came to school and has won every scholarship she could get."
“I know her very well. I want to study medicine, and she wants to study architecture. She said that the mainland will definitely develop better and better in the future, and maybe the housing prices will rise to be as expensive as those in Hong Kong.”
"She wanted to enter the real estate industry in mainland China after graduation, make a fortune, and then take her grandmother to live out her retirement."
"..."
Chu Ci was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
She suddenly felt a real sense of the excellence that Chen Xinxin had described about Guo Miaotong.
Guo Miaotong, a sixteen-year-old girl from a poor family in Hong Kong in the early 1990s who had lost both parents, actually had such a long-term vision.
That's incredible.
But Bai Anna and Han Lang ruined it all.
Chu Ci recounted her encounter with Granny Guo that day.
Upon hearing that Guo Miaotong had passed away, Chen Xinxin sat in her chair, stunned and unable to recover for a long time.
“When I visited her in the hospital before, she congratulated me on transferring schools and said she wanted to take the college entrance exam with me…”
Surprisingly, Chen Xinxin did not cry.
But the straightforward tone made Chu Ci feel even more uncomfortable.
She patted Chen Xinxin on the shoulder, unsure of what to say to comfort her.
Chen Xinxin stared at the floor for a while, then suddenly looked up.
"Sister Aci, you said it's hard to collect evidence of school bullying. Can I testify for Tongtong's grandma?"
She was eager to go home. "You have photos of Bai Anna bullying people, and I also have photos of the injuries they caused me. Shouldn't these be used as evidence?"
"These can serve as evidence that they bullied you."
Chu Ci pursed her lips, "But if it's used on Guo Miaotong... it won't work."
"To help Guo Miaotong, we need direct evidence that Bai Anna and her friends bullied her and forced her to jump off the building. Otherwise, we need to prove that Bai Anna and her friends are habitual bullies in school."
"Only in this way can it be proven that Guo Miaotong's suicide by jumping off the building was related to them."
But it's just a relationship.
Guo Miaotong committed suicide, she wasn't pushed, so it's unlikely that Bai Anna and the others will pay the price they deserve.
The specific ruling will depend on the judge's decision.
"Is that all..." Chen Xinxin sat back down dejectedly. "But where can we find evidence?"
Chu Ci sighed and rubbed her head.
"Grandma Guo has already reported the case to the police. The officer handling the case is a very responsible officer. I will also hand over the evidence I have to him, so you don't need to worry."
“You’re in high school now, and you still want to go to medical school, right? The entrance scores for medical school are so high. If you want to apply, you’ll have to settle down and study hard.”
Chen Xinxin nodded absentmindedly and was taken home by Chu Ci.
Nothing happened for the next few days.
Just thinking about Han Lang's persistent and annoying personality, Chu Ci would often go to the 8th floor for a stroll.
One evening, she actually witnessed Han Lang knocking on Chen Xinxin's door.
"Are you Xin Xin's older sister?"
Upon seeing her, Han Lang's eyes lit up, and he quickly walked over.
"Han Lang?"
"Yes! Sister, you still remember me?"
"Of course I remember. I caught you harassing Chen Xinxin before, how could I forget?"
Chu Ci looked at him with a forced smile, her lips curling into a smirk as she tightened her grip.
With two sharp cracks, the steel pipe in her hand was twisted into a pretzel.
"..."
Han Lang stopped in his tracks, his face turning pale with fright.
Chu Ci's smile remained unchanged.
"This time it was a steel pipe, but next time I see you looking for Xin Xin, I'll twist your head."
Han Lang: "..."
His pupils trembled, his little face was pale, he nodded like a chick pecking at rice, and ran away on all fours.
He didn't dare show his face for several days.
Time quickly passed, and it was the seventh day after Jiang Caixia's death.
Although Jiang Yuan didn't inform her, Chu Ci still planned to go and help.
She asked her grandmother in advance to help prepare the things she might need. Her grandmother kept nagging, "Our family runs an incense shop, and we still need to go out to buy these incense sticks and paper money!"
"Aci, nothing you say will work, you have to come with me to buy goods today!"
Chu Ci quickly agreed, picked up the small basket containing her things, and took the public bus to Jiang Yuan's house.
The seventh day after death is very important in Hong Kong culture. Many things that the deceased would like to be prepared are needed, and various customs and rules must be observed.
The Jiang family mother and son were not displeased by Chu Ci's uninvited arrival.
Thinking of her good relationship with Jiang Caixia before her death, and her willingness to help after Jiang Caixia's passing, she thanked her repeatedly.
Chu Ci didn't understand the culture in Hong Kong very well, so she basically did whatever her mother-in-law told her to do.
Just as everything was almost ready, the neighbor who was supposed to help finally arrived.
She was a middle-aged woman in her fifties, thin and with a mean expression. She didn't close the door after she came in.
As soon as he came in, he pointed at Jiang Caixia's portrait and grimaced in disgust.
"What's wrong with your family? The person has died, and you're still using this smiling photo? It's so unlucky! Don't you have any other photos you can use?"
They didn't seem to come to help; they seemed to come to find fault.
The expressions of the Jiang mother and son changed, but they seemed to be mindful that it was the seventh day after Jiang Caixia's death and didn't want to argue with her, so they pursed their lips and remained silent.
However, this neighbor failed to notice the unhappiness of the Jiang mother and son.
As soon as he entered, he started criticizing the Jiang family mother and son, finding fault with them one by one.
Just as she was talking non-stop, a voice suddenly came from the doorway: "Mom, can you please stop talking?"
Chu Ci turned around.
The Jiang family's gate was wide open, and the neighbor's door across the street was also open.
A short, overweight man in his thirties stood at his front door, looking displeased at his neighbor who was speaking.
Chu Ci was taken aback when he saw his position.
In a daze, a current ran through my body, raising goosebumps.
The man stood at his own doorstep just as if he were standing at the Jiang family's doorstep.
so……
Her pupils trembled.
That day, Jiang Caixia wasn't pointing to the doorway, but to her neighbor across the hall!
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