False evidence

Chapter 114 Rewriting Destiny
The candle flames in the room suddenly shrank, and in an instant, they all turned green.

The preserved egg swayed twice and then suddenly fell backward.

I pulled her into my arms, and in the blink of an eye, I saw the path of yellow rice in the dim green candlelight, starting from under the offering table, gradually revealing its marks.

The mark was very small, like an animal's footprint, or like a person's tiptoe.

The mark continued to the doorway, then paused for a moment.

About a minute later, the candlelight in the room returned to normal.

At that moment, I vaguely heard a woman's voice say in my ear:
"Thank you for letting me find the love of my life; whatever you want, I'll give you..."

The rain stopped.

The lights in the attic were turned on again.

The monkey stood by the switch, hesitated for a while, and then pointed to the corner of the wall: "All four of these are out."

I nodded wearily: "When the four corner lights go out, this house will only belong to the living."

"Gululu..."

Pidan suddenly straightened up, shaking his head, "I'm starving..."

The monkey was overjoyed: "She's alright!"

I laughed, a hearty laugh.

Qi Zhen is gone.

When she left, the yellow rice path was no longer marked with blood-red footprints.

That's because when a person dies, they have no more attachments, and their soul weighs only three coins.

She eventually let go of the hatred, or as she herself said: after nearly a hundred years of her life, she finally found true love.

Before she left, she left me with what I wanted.

That's the fate of century eggs!
……

"Buzz...buzz...buzz..."

"Hey!"

"You're so calm, does that mean you've succeeded?"

"Thank you."

"No need. I'm not helping you, but rather using you to prove that some things can be changed. To prove that fate is not immutable, but can be rewritten! I'm satisfied with this ending."

Why are you following Pidan?

"Haha, I knew you'd ask that. First, I like this girl too. Second, I'm even more curious about how things will turn out between you and her. Alright, that's settled then, and I should continue my journey. Junior brother, I know you'll definitely tell Captain Gao about this, so I'm changing my number after I hang up. Bye-bye."

After hanging up the phone, Gao He took off his headset and threw it aside, glaring at me:
"Why couldn't you have stalled for a full minute? Was it on purpose? Because he helped Pei Xiaofan, and you're so grateful to him?"

I chuckled dryly: "You heard it all, he didn't give me any room to say anything more."

Gao He said coldly, "If Zhao Wenqiang hadn't called an ambulance through me, were you planning to hide Sun Jing's whereabouts?"

I shook my head: "I was the one who brought up Sun Jing; Monkey didn't tell you that. I'm not as bad as you think; I wouldn't let emotions get the better of me and protect a criminal." "That's for the best!"

Gao He glared at me, lifted the curtain of the partition, and peeked out, asking, "Yan Fengwei, are you sure you don't want to sue him for knocking out your teeth?"

Yan Fengwei leaned against the hospital bed, grinned at him, revealing several dark holes in his mouth, and said, "Officer, if I sue him for knocking out my teeth, he'll definitely sue me for hitting him on the head. So let's just call it even, and neither of us will sue the other. It'll save us, the people's guardians, a lot of trouble!"

Gao He turned to face me, pointed at his Adam's apple with two fingers, and then pointed at me sharply: "Take it easy, you might not be so lucky next time!"

Gao He and the others left with communication and tracking equipment, and Monkey, Pidan, and Meng Zhen followed them in.

The monkey seemed a little embarrassed, and as soon as it entered the ward, it said to me:
"I called Captain Gao so he could call an ambulance and the medical staff would do their best. I didn't expect Sun Jing to call us."

“It’s alright. Even if you don’t call Gao He, I’ll tell him later. Sun Jing did break the law. Even if I owe him a favor, I’ll help him with his funeral arrangements after he’s arrested.”

Seeing Meng Zhen glaring at me next to Yan Fengwei, I laughed and said, "Haven't you explained things to your sister-in-law yet?"

Yan Fengwei rolled his eyes: "What are you talking about? What are you going to say? I'll make you kick me until I lose six teeth, and I won't even be able to gnaw on a rib. I don't have time to waste talking to this stupid woman."

Later, he laughed himself, and after a while, he turned to look out the window and said with emotion:

"Past lives and future lives are all meaningless; let's just live in the present, buddy."

Fortunately, my punch to Yan Fengwei didn't actually break his Adam's apple, but I knocked out six of his teeth, which was quite a serious injury.

The blow to the back of my head was quite severe.

So, we shared a hospital room for five days.

On the day I was discharged from the hospital, I went to that little restaurant near my home with Monkey and Pidan.

It wasn't until then, out of consideration for my injuries, that Monkey, who had been holding back for several days, finally blurted out all the questions he had been keeping to himself.

We've been through life and death together, so we say whatever comes to mind.

Of course, whether he believes it or not is his business.

After I finished recounting my experience that night, the monkey's expression became very strange.

This was expected.

Before he could ask, I pretended to explain to Pidan, saying, "Lin Qin'en's death was somewhat unjust; they were all confused ghosts. My grandfather and Old Master Bai both said that people who die violently often have lingering obsessions. If they are murdered, they will harbor resentment. Whether it's obsession or resentment, it may reside in the last thing the deceased was close to in life."

Qi Zhen harbored deep resentment because she genuinely only wanted to use Lin Qin'en to escape her predicament. Giving him all her savings was, in essence, a gamble with her fate. Believing she had lost, she ultimately chose suicide. Her resentment ran deep, and her vengeful spirit lingered after death, attaching itself to the Listening Wind Bottle.

Although Lin Qin'en never knew why he died, firstly, he had been on guard beforehand; secondly, even the most magnanimous person finds it difficult to face death calmly. Therefore, at the moment of his death, his soul was reincarnated, but his lingering resentment attached itself to his last weapon of defense—the candlestick.

Pidan asked me, "You and Baldy both suffered heavy losses, and I didn't dare ask him anything in front of Mengzhen. Did you ask? What's the deal with that candlestick?"

"The girl was Meng Zhen's past life. Back then, she believed that Lin Qin'en was the only one in the whole world who truly treated her well. After she died, the Lin family finally realized their mistake and buried her and Lin Qin'en together. They were buried together in the same grave in their past life, and fell in love at first sight in this life."

I shook my head again with a sigh: "I did ask Yan Fengwei where the candlesticks came from. Guess what? They were actually the only dowry Meng Zhen brought with her when she married him! In her previous life, after Lin Qin'en died, the girl took the candlesticks back to the Lin family; in this life, those candlesticks became a testament to their love... Who says this isn't destiny?"

"What's going on with Lao Yan?" Monkey finally couldn't help but ask. "After that day, when I saw him again, he seemed a little different from before."

Pidan nodded: "Yes, I also think he's trying to act like a cultured person."

I looked into her eyes, paused for a moment, and then whispered, "That night, there was a fourth person who entered the fifth dimension with us..."

(End of this chapter)