“Come, take a good look at how your son’s soul is torn apart and scattered to the winds.”
“Come to think of it, this is all thanks to you.”
Jack, having become a ghost, was even more cowardly. He crouched in the corner with his hands over his head: “Don’t kill me, don’t kill me.”
The female ghost had regained her appearance from when she was alive. She walked up to Jack: “You don’t deserve to live in this world.”
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The female ghost had regained her appearance from when she was alive. She walked up to Jack: “You don’t deserve to live in this world.”
After recognizing who the female ghost was, Jack started kowtowing: “I was possessed by evil back then. I deserve to die ten thousand times. Please, I beg you to spare me, spare me.”
In the female ghost’s memory, this was exactly how she had begged Jack to spare her back then.
The painful memories kept attacking her.
She could no longer stay calm.
She wrapped her hands and feet around Jack’s body, forcefully tearing apart his soul.
The more transparent Jack’s soul became, the happier the female ghost smiled: “You should have died long ago, long ago.”
Jack, being newly turned into a ghost, had no power to resist at all.
The old lady waved the knife wildly at them.
“Get away, don’t hurt my son, don’t!”
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When the police arrived, they saw the old lady waving the knife around wildly.
The female ghost had already fulfilled her wish and perished together with Jack, both of their souls scattered.
The scene in the room made all the police officers feel sick.
As the police officer helped me up, I closed my eyes and threw myself into his arms.
“This family is so scary. The old lady just started hacking at her own son with a knife.”
“I couldn’t stop her at all.”
“Don’t be afraid.”
I raised my head when I heard the familiar tone.
Our eyes met, and we both looked embarrassed: “It’s you.”
The police officer’s face showed a suspicious blush: “That was… undercover work.”
Oh well, looks like my dream of keeping a young sugar baby won’t come true.
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After the old lady was put in the police car, she still had a dazed look.
I kindly helped her one last time.
I showed her the birthmark on my arm and whispered in her ear: “Do you remember how you abandoned me? Mom.”
The old lady was greatly stimulated. She screamed and tried to hit me: “So it was you, it was you, you disaster–bringing star. I’ll kill you!”
Het her grab my neck, gritting my teeth in anger.
The police stopped the car in time and pulled us apart.
At the police station, we were sent to different interrogation rooms.
The old lady was still cursing, saying I was unfilial and she would teach me a lesson.
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After recording my statement, I handed the police a voice recorder.
“I heard that old lady say they had killed a couple and a girl before.”
The information inside was enough for the police to reopen the investigation and clear my adoptive parents‘ names.
Before leaving, I was given a lecture: “Young lady, don’t get involved in superstitious things like haunted house cleansing.”
I nodded repeatedly.
Seeing my good attitude, the police officer advised me to go home and rest well.
The officer who escorted me out was still that same police officer: “You’re so young, why don’t you find a proper job instead of doing this?”
I winked at him: “So you prefer girls with regular jobs?”
“Don’t joke around with me. And those foot… foot massage places, don’t go there anymore.”
After dropping that line, he walked away without looking back.
From behind, I could still see his ears turning red.
As he walked away, I heard his colleague teasing him: “Why are you blushing just from escorting someone out?”
“What’s up? Did you give this girl a foot massage before?”
“Come on, it was just a joke. Why are you getting so embarrassed?”
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My adoptive parents‘ case was finally cleared, and the old lady was sentenced to death for killing her own son.
Although Jack was already dead, the girl’s parents made a big fuss about this incident on the internet.
Jack died without closure.
Everyone was clamoring for the old lady to be executed soon.
Before the old lady’s execution, I visited her once.
By now, she was completely lucid.
Seeing me, she acted like she had seen a savior: “Daughter, you have to save me!”
“Now you know I’m your daughter?”
“You’ve always been my precious. Do you know how heartbroken I was when you went missing back then?”
“All these years, I never forgot to look for you. Heaven has finally brought you back to me!”
The old lady’s acting skills were wasted if not used for acting: “You think I’m still as gullible as when I was a child?”
“You thought you could just steal my things whenever you wanted?”
The old lady stopped making a fuss and stared at me: “What do you mean? You knew on the train?”
I nodded and continued: “That ghost was the girl your son killed back then.”
“That couple was my adoptive parents.”
“They were so much better than you. You all deserve to go to hell with her.”
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I nodded and continued: “That ghost was the girl your son killed back then.”
“That couple was my adoptive parents.”
“They were so much better than you. You all deserve to go to hell with her.”
The old lady looked at me with horror in her eyes: “Demon, you’re a demon.”
“You were restless even when I was pregnant with you.”
“Ghost coming for revenge, help!”
The old lady was dragged away by the police.
The hurdle I could never get over in my heart was finally behind me.
I was never a disaster–bringing star. I just had the bad luck of meeting a few vicious family members.
They should be the ones feeling guilty, never me.
For the rest of my life, i can finally live well.
Just for myself.
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I had disrupted the natural order, and sooner or later I would face retribution.
These days, I had been anxiously waiting for divine punishment to descend.
But since leaving the police station, I had been safe and sound.
The only thing was that I could no longer see ghosts.
At first, I thought it was just peaceful recently, until I went to the hospital and didn’t see any strange things.
It’s impossible for a hospital to be full of only living people.
That’s when I was sure I would never see ghosts again.
If this was the retribution, then I welcomed it wholeheartedly.
Heaven knows how much I had longed for a normal life.
I gave all my haunted house cleansing tools to that charlatan who paraded around.
I swindled all the money from his hands.
Well, it wasn’t really swindling. I had spent a lot of money on those things too.
But for someone who couldn’t see ghosts like him, these things were useless anyway.
Later, I opened a bookstore, located right across from the police station.
A leisurely job, plus enough money to last me for the rest of my life.
This life is enough.
I often sit at the door, lost in thought.
When I see that familiar figure going out on duty, I jump up and wave: “Brother, I’ve changed to a proper job now, and I don’t go to foot massage places anymore. Can you like me now?”
