Chapter 36: A Little Gift for Everyone

“The girl from that night, she’s not dead! She’s really not dead!”

Dong Xuan blurted out.

In the end, he was so scared he curled up into a ball.

The entire room fell silent.

Everyone knew exactly who “the girl from that night” referred to.

“Impossible!” someone immediately countered.

The skepticism pushed Dong Xuan to his breaking point.

Impossible, impossible! He wanted to know how it was possible too!

“How is it impossible? I saw her with my own eyes today! She even told me a life for a life…”

Dong Xuan rambled incoherently, then suddenly looked up, panic-stricken, “She can’t be human; she’s a ghost, back for revenge… Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense… It just doesn’t make sense…”

They’d seen her jump from the rooftop!

Yet, just a few days later, she appeared before him, unharmed!

The others: “…”

They exchanged glances, clearly seeing disbelief in each other’s eyes.

“Maybe the pressure’s gotten to him, and he’s gone crazy?” someone mouthed silently.

Dong Xuan saw it and shouted, “I’m not crazy! If you don’t believe me, go see for yourselves!”

“Fine, we’ll go look. Maybe you were mistaken!”

***

After dropping Su Bao back at the training ground, Su Yuzi turned to leave.

“I haven’t had any business for days, and clients are urging me to return, so I’m off!”

The so-called clients…

Su Yuzi never hid her work from her daughter. When she was young, she was deceived by a man and ended up in the wrong line of work.

Trying to turn her life around was hard, especially with Su Bao, who needed constant care and milk, which was expensive.

To raise Su Bao, she had no choice but to continue her old work.

She earned her money honestly, without stealing or robbing, so why should she hide it from Su Bao?

Su Bao squeezed the old phone in her bag, watching Su Yuzi’s back, feeling something strange…

A warm sensation in her heart.

“Da Hei, she doesn’t seem to know her daughter is already dead,” Su Bao said.

Da Hei nodded, “Seems like it.”

“What if she finds out later?” Su Bao, unusually concerned about something unrelated to her, asked.

Da Hei tilted its head, thinking, “Then I guess she’ll have to be consoled.”

Su Bao thought for a moment, realizing it was true, then dismissed the thought and changed the subject, “Oh, I think I just met one of the killers of the original Su Bao.”

Da Hei puffed up, “Then it’s time for revenge!”

Su Bao sighed, “But I can’t kill. If a body of utmost virtue kills, it’ll face instant retribution!”

Da Hei deflated, looking dejected, “Ah, Bao, don’t be sad. As they say, people…”

But before Da Hei could finish, Su Bao was already chuckling.

“Luckily, I don’t like killing. I can give them lots of little gifts to keep them scared! That old man once said that tormenting the mind is far more painful than tormenting the body.”

Old man = Black-robed elder.

Da Hei, always failing to console: “…”