Zou Ying hurriedly embraced her from behind, but she was terrified looking at the blood-red characters. Trembling, she said to Luo Mingbai, “You, you take this away. Our family’s affairs don’t need your intervention… Please leave.”
Luo Mingbai leaned against the nearby cabinet and said leisurely, “Teacher Zou, to be honest, I knew there was something suspicious before I came, and I wouldn’t have intervened for your sake. So now, unless we clarify things, no one can make me leave.”
He paused and added, “Moreover, with your daughter’s unusual behavior, I don’t believe you truly noticed nothing. Do you think helping her conceal the truth and escaping this ordeal will allow you to remain unscathed?”
Zou Ying’s face instantly turned pale. She didn’t know how Luo Mingbai had learned the details so precisely or how much he understood. However, she had to admit that with her own daughter, she could tell whether she was lying.
When the police asked Chen Jingyu about her other classmate’s whereabouts, Chen Jingyu said she had fainted and knew nothing. Zou Ying had believed her at the time, but in the past few days, she had noticed something was wrong from Chen Jingyu’s increasingly anxious behavior.
However, with a life at stake, she didn’t want to get involved. So when the other child went missing, Chen Jingyu claimed not to know, and Zou Ying went along with the act.
As an adult, she was well aware of the serious consequences, and when Luo Mingbai directly exposed her thoughts, she felt a mix of shame and anger. She opened her mouth but, in her urgency, didn’t know what to say.
Luo Mingbai didn’t want to hear her speak and had already turned his gaze to Chen Jingyu: “Your classmate went missing because of you. Explain clearly what happened when you were in danger, and why she disappeared. Otherwise, if a real disaster occurs later, you definitely won’t have it easy.”
The female ghost on the side lunged forward for effect, with the blood-red characters still hanging in the air.
