Just then, Wen Chuyu emerged from the shadows. When he saw Feng Che behind Ji Jiuying, he was quite surprised. "Little Jiu, Teacher Feng!"
"Chu Yu! How's your investigation going?"
Wen Chuyu glanced at Feng Che behind her, seemingly wanting to say something but hesitating. Ji Jiuying smiled and said, "Chuyu, just say it. This is one of our own. Teacher Feng is my uncle!"
Uncle? Remembering the previous rumors, Wen Chuyu nodded in understanding and explained his discovery, "Liu Piaopiao's behavior was normal and there was nothing suspicious about it, but when I followed her out, I found that she actually went to Liu Susu's courtyard. I was afraid of being discovered, so I didn't dare to get too close!"
"I know about this. My second uncle and I were in the room at the time!"
Have you encountered any?
"We weren't discovered! And she didn't do anything!"
The general direction was the Medicine Sect and the Pill Sect. After returning to the courtyard, Ji Jiuying lay on the bed, pondering every piece of information. She always felt as if she had overlooked something!
"Hey~ are you even capable?" Liu Susu said from the side.
Ji Jiuying closed her eyes, too lazy to look at her. "If you're so capable, why don't you do it yourself?"
Liu Susu immediately deflated. She wanted to go too! But she was currently in spirit form!
The Medicine Sect and the Pill Sect, because they were targeting her, came to the Weapon Refining Sect and cruelly murdered an innocent person to frame her!
Ji Jiuying suddenly stood up, went to the entrance of the Pill Sect, then walked from the Pill Sect to Liu Susu's courtyard in the Weapon Refining Sect, then back to the Medicine Sect, and from the Medicine Sect to Liu Susu's courtyard in the Weapon Refining Sect. She found that the Medicine Sect and the Weapon Refining Sect were only separated by a wall. After passing through the main hall of the Weapon Refining Sect Master, she could directly reach the vicinity of Liu Susu's courtyard.
Liu Susu didn't understand what Ji Jiuying was doing walking around, but she still wanted to follow her.
Before dawn, Ji Jiuying returned to Liu Susu's room and said to Liu Susu, "You should go back now. After my investigation all night, I have a new direction. I believe the truth will soon come to light."
After spending the night together, she found that Ji Jiuying was actually a pretty good person. If she had discovered Ji Jiuying's good qualities earlier and those things hadn't happened, she and Ji Jiuying would probably have become good friends, right?
But it's too late for regrets now. If she hadn't listened to those people's instigation in the first place, wouldn't she have been spared from being used? Would she have survived? But people always have to pay the price for their actions!
"Thank you. You'll come to tell me the good news tomorrow night, right?"
Liu Susu said with a smile that she knew she would automatically return to the corpse at dawn. Without Ji Jiuying's help, she would not reappear. Seven days later, she would disappear from this world and cease to exist!
Ji Jiuying nodded and asked, "Is there anything else you wish for? I can help you!"
Although she was initially used as a pawn against her, she ultimately didn't suffer any losses, so helping her out wouldn't hurt.
"I want to see my father one more time," Liu Susu said. She didn't know if her mother would bring her father to take her body back to the family, but she still held onto a sliver of hope.
Ji Jiuying nodded and disappeared from her room, while Liu Susu returned to her body.
Daylight broke quickly, and a group of people gathered together, but unfortunately, they hadn't found any clues all day.
Just when everyone thought they had exhausted all leads, the First Elder and the Second Elder arrived. The Second Elder asked, "Do any of you disciples have any clues now?"
"Reporting to the Second Elder, not yet!" Yue Feiqun and Liu Piaopiao stood up and answered.
"There's still half a day left, everyone, don't worry. I believe the murderer will leave some clues!" the elder comforted them. He had thought about it all night and just couldn't believe that Ji Jiuying was the murderer!
"The First Elder is right! I wonder where the First Elder and Second Elder are planning to go?" Ji Jiuying said with a smile, seemingly not in a hurry at all.
"The annual Trial Tower is about to open, and the Second Elder and I are just about to go and make preparations!" the First Elder replied.
"You still have the mind to ask these questions? If you don't find evidence to prove your innocence, you'll be expelled from the academy. Once you're out of the academy, the Liu family and Xijin won't let you off just because you're the princess of Cangyue!" the Second Elder said sarcastically.
Ji Jiuying's clear, unfathomable eyes seemed to see right through people's hearts as she looked at the Second Elder with a half-smile. "Actually, I already have some general clues and directions. As the Second Elder said, I believe the truth will soon come to light!"
The Second Elder was somewhat taken aback by her gaze. What a joke! How could an elder be intimidated by the gaze of a new student? He snorted coldly and walked forward, ignoring Ji Jiuying.
Liu Piaopiao and Yue Feiqun looked at Ji Jiuying with confusion. They had no clues and couldn't understand why Ji Jiuying said that.
Soon, the appointed time arrived, and the group arrived at the main hall. There were many more students from the academy in the hall, including Qingling and Wen Longting, as well as Han Shaoting and others, and some unfamiliar faces, presumably the Liu family. I wonder if Liu Susu's father has arrived yet.
From the moment Ji Jiuying entered, the Liu family members glared at her with hostility.
"Two days have passed. I wonder if you have found out who the murderer is?" Shen Qingqiu asked. Although he also wanted to help Ji Jiuying, he couldn't help her if she offered to prove her innocence and he couldn't find any evidence to prove her innocence.
"Hmph~ There's not a single piece of evidence. In my eyes, Ji Jiuying deliberately stalled for time these past two days!" Liu Piaopiao said angrily. Anyone who didn't know her would think she was standing up for Liu Susu's death.
"Hmph, I told you so. I opposed letting her prove herself from the beginning. Now that two days have passed, even if there is evidence, it should be destroyed by now, right?" Sect Master Leng said solemnly.
"In my opinion, she is the murderer who killed Liu Susu. Such a despicable person does not deserve to be in our Starry Sky Academy!" the Second Elder said.
“Susu may have made mistakes, but she didn’t deserve to die. How could you be so cruel as to kill her!” a woman from the Liu family cried. She was Liu Rumeng, the current head of the Liu family.
In an instant, the surrounding clamor and questioning gazes all focused on Ji Jiuying.
"Someone like this doesn't deserve to stay at Star Academy!"
"And she's supposed to be the Dean's apprentice! I never imagined she could be so vicious!"
"I heard that Liu Susu was brutally murdered because she spoke rudely to her!"
"······"
Qingling and Wen Longting looked at Ji Jiuying with concern. "What should we do? Miss must have been wronged by them. If Miss were no longer in the academy, I wouldn't be here in this unreasonable academy."
"I also think Xiao Jiu is definitely being framed! Let's see how Xiao Jiu handles this. If Star Academy can slander students without investigating the truth, then we might as well not study here!"
"..."
Have you said enough?
Ji Jiuying's eyes revealed a deep and indifferent look as she glanced at the people around her. The chill emanating from her body sent shivers down people's spines.
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