"You linger as a restless spirit not because you're unwilling to accept being wrongly accused as a thief, right?" I looked at the contractor's wife and said, "Now that everything has been revealed, we will certainly give you justice."

"No, my death wasn't an accident!" The contractor's wife shouted hoarsely, "This bitch killed me! No matter what, I have to make her pay with her life!"

"Yikes," Cheng Xinghe whispered, "So this woman killed for money? She looks like a Pan Jinlian, but I didn't expect her to be a Sun Erniang!"

"Shut up!" The contractor's forehead veins bulged, and he looked like he wanted to say something, determined to protect his wife's dignity. I pulled him back.

It turned out that the boss of Xinli Aquatic Products was called Zhao Xinli. He didn't have any other hobbies except for playing with women, but his family was strict, so he used the excuse of being a part-time DiDi driver to go out in his BMW X5 to pick up female passengers and ask them out.

The contractor's wife was particularly vain and loved to show off. She thought the contractor was rich when she married him, but she didn't expect him to earn so little. She was very dissatisfied and often felt envious looking at other people's bags.

One day, Zhao Xinli picked up the contractor's wife. It was raining heavily, and she felt unbalanced seeing others being picked up in luxury cars while she had to take a DiDi. Zhao Xinli could see it, and since he had money and she had looks, they quickly hooked up.

After that, the contractor's wife achieved her freedom to buy bags and lived a very extravagant life, almost walking around arrogantly. With Zhao Xinli knowing many people in the underworld, her arrogance was even more pronounced. She felt like she had achieved success and would call Zhao Xinli to send his men whenever she saw someone she didn't like. That's how the old man downstairs got beaten up.

The two of them were inseparable until that day when the contractor said he was going out to buy building materials. His wife was very happy and asked Zhao Xinli to come over because she wanted a new limited-edition bag.

Zhao Xinli was busy with inventory and said he didn't have time to come over. His wife got upset and said the bag was a limited edition and if he didn't come soon, she wouldn't be able to get it. She called him more than ten times.

Zhao Xinli had no choice but to comply. Since he was busy with inventory, he brought the cash with him. There was a lot of cash, and he didn't feel safe leaving it in the car, so he naturally brought it into the contractor's house.

The two of them were about to have sex when, unexpectedly, the contractor came back early that day because he couldn't find the building materials.

The contractor's wife wasn't afraid - she was the boss at home, and what could he do even if she gave him a green hat?

But Zhao Xinli was scared. The reason why he knew people in the underworld was because his father-in-law was involved in it. If the contractor shouted it out and his father-in-law found out, he would have been thrown into the Fushou River. So Zhao Xinli made a decision - he had to leave.

Normally, most people wouldn't dare to climb down from the seventh floor, but Zhao Xinli's father-in-law was scarier than the seventh floor, so he climbed down the exhaust pipe. The contractor's wife was still very casual and said she wanted to change the style of the gold necklace he gave her last time. She hurriedly handed it to him and asked him to take it to the mall to have it modified and then bring it back.

Unfortunately, when he reached the ground, a family happened to open their window and pushed him down.

It was still cold at that time, and he was wearing thin clothes. After falling into the shrubbery, he couldn't move, but he still had a little breath left. He saw the contractor's wife staring at him from the seventh floor and hoped she would call 120 to save him.

But the contractor's wife pretended not to see anything and went back inside.

Zhao Xinli saw that at first, he could still exhale a little white breath, but then the white breath became less and less, and his vision became more and more blurred. He was cold at first, but then he became more and more numb. He endured like this for three hours, suffering from the cold, blood loss, and injuries, and died in despair.

Just before he died, he stared fixedly at the contractor's window, swearing that he would never forgive the contractor's wife - he clearly died because of her.

When I heard this, I felt goosebumps all over my body. Zhao Xinli's death was too tragic.

And what surprised him even more was that the contractor's wife, in order to distance herself from him, actually told the police that he was a thief - he had the contractor's wife's gold necklace on him, so it was considered as caught red-handed and couldn't wash himself clean even if he jumped into the Yellow River!

The contractor's wife did this for two simple reasons: first, if her adultery was exposed, how could she continue to be a person? Second, there was still the cash that Zhao Xinli left in the room, which was several hundred thousand yuan!

Zhao Xinli became a thief out of nowhere, and his family came to identify the body. When they found out how he died, his father got so angry that he had a cerebral thrombosis and became a vegetative person. His mother cried all day long and couldn't bear to show her face to people again. His wife, who had just been showing off their love on social media a few days ago, suddenly became depressed because her husband turned out to be a thief with a psychological disorder.

Not to mention their two children, who were a pair of lovely twins. They lost their parents, and a child without a father is like a blade of grass.

A man is the pillar of the family, and when he dies, the family falls apart.

Plus, the things he did were so embarrassing that no one in his family was willing to burn joss paper for him - and if no one burned joss paper for him, then he wouldn't be able to find his way home and couldn't enter the cycle of reincarnation.

However, he didn't want to enter the cycle of reincarnation either. He felt that it was too easy for him to enter the grave with this reputation, and it would be too cheap for that woman!

This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.

Saying this, the contractor's wife couldn't help but burst into tears and said, "I know it's wrong to play with other people's wives, but I just have this weakness. Besides, after I started playing with this bitch, I never treated her badly in terms of food and drink. Why did she just watch me die downstairs? The heart of a woman can be so cruel! Because of this, I don't care if I turn into ashes or my soul is scattered. I have to make her pay with her life!"

When the contractor heard these words, he covered his heart with one hand and sat on the ground, gasping for breath and fumbling around his body. I knew he was having a heart attack, so I helped him take out the medicine and fed it into his mouth.

After eating the medicine for a while, he finally calmed down and then sobbed, "Wife, I'm sorry to you..."

Cheng Xinghe was amazed and said, "How can he apologize to his wife when his head is already a green prairie? He's not even as magnanimous as Wu Dalan."

"He's not apologizing to this wife," Zhang Man, who had apparently been eavesdropping for a while, suddenly came over and said. "He's apologizing to his original wife! This wife used to be his mistress. To be with this wife, he divorced his rural wife, drove her back to her hometown, and made her leave with nothing. He took their property and bought this house."

So that's why. The one who plays with fire gets burned. It's all karma.

At that moment, the contractor's wife suddenly became listless and lay down on the bed, not saying a word.

Zhang Man saw this and asked what was going on?

It was because Zhao Xinli's resentment had dissipated. Although Zhao Xinli was a newly dead ghost and had actually died because of his own misdeeds, his resentment was not as strong as that of a wrongfully killed ghost. He had been able to cling to a living person for so long and endure the burning of their yang qi, which was already quite remarkable. It was all because of his resentment at being wrongly accused as a thief that kept him going.

But now that he had revealed his story, his resentment naturally dissipated, and he couldn't cling to the contractor's wife anymore.

Cheng Xinghe stared at the corner of the wall and whispered, "She's still crying, endlessly. She actually looks quite pitiful."

Pitiful people must have hateful qualities. There's nothing anyone can do about it.

I asked Cheng Xinghe to inquire about her plans now that everything has been said and done.

Given her current weakness, she can't stay and she can't leave either. However, considering how tragically she died, let's be good people and see this through to the end, helping her until the very last.

Cheng Xinghe squatted down by the wall and started chatting away.

Strangely, although I could hear the sound of his voice, I couldn't understand what he was saying. It sounded like a foreign language. Could this be what they call "ghost talk"?

Zhang Man looked at Cheng Xinghe cautiously and asked, "Li Beidou, can this guy really talk to ghosts? Is he just bluffing? Why am I feeling so creeped out?"

You've seen it yourself, so why even ask?

Zhang Man finally gave me a look of admiration and quickly said, "Li Beidou, you're actually quite capable, huh? Hey, like I told you last time, I also have something I need your help with..."

Helping you? I'd get nothing in return and might even end up in trouble. Besides, now that Zhang Man has seen what I can do, I couldn't help but notice a dark aura across her forehead, running through her eyebrows and the tip of her nose. It seemed like she was about to encounter some unexpected disaster, possibly involving bloodshed.

This dark aura originated from her wealth sector, indicating that it was a matter of risking her life for money.

I told her that if she wanted a solution, she should focus on doing good deeds and not put too much emphasis on money. That was the most I could do for her.

Zhang Man got angry at my response and started shouting insults at me again, saying that I was being ungrateful and heartless after gaining some ability. She claimed that I would suffer bad luck sooner or later.

Those words are better saved for yourself. I probably thought too highly of her. If she doesn't even bother to be kind with her words, what else could she possibly accumulate?

Of course, I only realized later how daring Zhang Man could be for the sake of money.

At this point, Cheng Xinghe finished communicating and said that Zhao Xinli had made his demands clear. He wanted the woman to apologize to his family, hold a press conference to clear his name and reputation, and return the several hundred thousand yuan in unpaid goods to his family. Since he was no longer alive, he at least wanted to leave some money behind for his widowed wife and orphan child. If all these things were done, he would let her off the hook.

Compared to demanding her life, these conditions were quite generous. He understood that even if he took her life, what would be the point if his reputation remained tarnished? Would his family continue to be shamed forever?

In his view, being known as Xi Men Qing was much better than being labeled a thief.

By this time, the contractor's wife had also woken up. After learning about these developments, her eyes started turning rapidly as she asked if there would be consequences if she didn't comply. Now that he was severely weakened, would he still haunt her? If he stopped haunting her, why should she damage her own reputation and return the money?

Had she suffered in vain? Wouldn't she deserve compensation?

I was truly amazed. I had never seen such a ruthless woman before! If she channeled this ruthlessness into something positive, maybe she could have become a powerful woman by now?

Suddenly, I felt a cold breeze rushing into the room, even though the windows and doors were closed. It was heading straight for the woman.

The woman screamed in fright, and Cheng Xinghe gave her a smile as he waved his phone, saying, "You can't deny it anymore. Zhao Xinli revealed everything while possessing you, and I recorded it all."

The woman's face turned green when she saw the recording of Zhao Xinli's confession. If Cheng Xinghe really released it, she would also be investigated. After all, she had left someone to die.

She reluctantly agreed, and Cheng Xinghe nodded at me, indicating that Zhao Xinli was now willing to leave. I used the house-cleansing method again, spreading glutinous rice on the ground and escorting him out through the red thread.

The bell tied to the doorknob rang, signifying the end of the matter.

However... The dark aura on the woman's face had not dissipated and was actually getting thicker. It seemed like the karma for her actions was not yet due, but it would eventually catch up to her, and she would face divine retribution.

The contractor thanked me profusely. I looked at his face and saw that his marriage sector was fractured, indicating that their marital life as a couple was about to come to an end. I didn't say much and advised him to be careful in the future.

The contractor was extremely grateful and suddenly seemed to remember something, asking, "By the way, someone came to the construction site looking for you yesterday. Did you see them?"

Looking for me? I asked who it was.

The contractor replied, "It was a cripple. He seemed kind of creepy."

Both Cheng Xinghe and I became excited and asked in unison, "When was this?"

The contractor was startled by our reaction and quickly said, "At that time, you had already gone down into the well with the young boss. We couldn't call you, so he mumbled a few words and left. He seemed a bit eerie."

I asked him to tell me what the cripple had said.

The contractor told me, "When he heard that you had gone down into the well, he was initially quite worried and wanted to get you out. But then he looked at the mouth of the well and suddenly smiled, saying that he had finally found the right person this time."

"The right person... Is that me?"

I immediately felt goosebumps all over my body. Could it be that all the previous Chen Ming people he had found were not the right ones, which was why they all died? And after much searching, the Chen Ming person he was desperately looking for was actually me?

Besides, just like what Xiao Xiang said, the person she was looking for was only me. What was it about me that made me different from everyone else?

At that moment, my phone suddenly rang, and it was the antique shop owner calling.

I picked up the phone and asked him what the emergency was.

The antique shop owner sounded very excited as he exclaimed, "Hurry up and come back! Something big has happened!"

What? My heart immediately tensed up. What could possibly be the big emergency at the shop?