Chapter 38: There’s a Ghost… Trying To Harm Me!

Manager Zhao quickly said, “This matter isn’t easy to explain online. Could I trouble the master to come over in person?”

He added, “As long as the issue gets resolved, the price is negotiable.”

Shen Chujin looked at his facial features—it was clear he was facing some kind of trouble.

So she said, “Alright, but I have to finish the third divination first.”

“Okay, okay! I’ll wait for you!”

After speaking, Manager Zhao ended the call on his own.

Shen Chujin then released the third lucky bag.

It was quickly snatched up.

The netizen who got it was named “Ruirui An.”

She appeared to be a girl just in her teens.

At the moment, she was wrapped in a blanket, clutching her phone, trembling.

“Streamer… I think there’s… a ghost trying… trying to harm me.”

Her voice was shaking.

As she spoke, she kept glancing left and right with the corner of her eyes, as if she were on guard against something.

“She’s… she’s here! She’s here!”

Suddenly, she let out a terrified scream.

Her dark pupils were full of fear.

Right after she said that, the sound of a door opening rang out abruptly.

Then came the steady sound of footsteps—one step after another.

There was also the sound of water dripping onto the floor.

Drip… drip… drip…

Clear, yet piercing.

It made people feel a strange sense of unease.

“Streamer, save me ahhhhhhh!”

Ruirui An was so frightened she curled her entire body into the blanket.

The screen of the video feed suddenly went black, and only her heavy breathing could be heard.

【Oh my god! This is so scary!】

【Why did I have to stumble onto this live stream? Sob sob sob, so terrifying~】

【Street rule: Never attack someone hiding under a blanket!】

【Can’t find this during the day…】

【Master Shen, please save her! She’s so pitiful!】

Shen Chujin’s expression didn’t change. She gave a faint, cold smile.

“She’s pitiful?”

“I think you’ve got that backwards. The girl she caused to die was the real victim.”

Huh?

What did that mean?

Everyone was confused.

Shen Chujin said to Ruirui An, “Scared now, are you? But when you and the others bullied her, when you drove her to the point of being unable to bear the rumors and whispers, when she jumped into the lake to end her life—were you scared then?”

Upon hearing that, Ruirui An’s heartbeat intensified.

She had known this streamer was powerful, but she didn’t expect her to be able to calculate even that!

Her eyes flickered slightly.

She couldn’t admit it!

If she did, everyone would know she had bullied someone.

It would seriously damage her reputation and greatly affect her chances of getting into a good school.

It would become her black history.

And for someone who wanted to become a celebrity, that would be a fatal blow.

So, admitting it was absolutely not an option!

She steadied herself and hurriedly defended herself.

“I didn’t bully her. It was the others who bullied her, not me. I’m innocent. I even helped her secretly. Maybe she didn’t realize and misunderstood me.”

“Streamer, I paid you to help me. You can’t just take the money and do nothing!”

She emphasized that last sentence.

It sounded like she was trying to remind Shen Chujin that since she had accepted payment, she was obligated to help her.

Shen Chujin gave her a cool glance. “Whether you did it or not… why don’t we ask the person involved?”

So what if she paid the divination fee?

She had never promised that paying the fee guaranteed help.

To her, only two words mattered: justice and fairness.

With that, she pressed a talisman onto her phone.

In the next second, a dark shadow emerged from Ruirui An’s phone.

The figure had long, disheveled hair dripping wet, hanging down over her face, completely covering her features.

Water dripped steadily from the ends of her hair.

Not only that, but her whole body was soaked through.

She was wearing a high school uniform.

Her body was thin and covered in bruises in many places.

【Qingcheng High School? Jumped into a lake and died? I think I know what this is about!】

【Guys, what the heck is going on?】

【Wait, you seriously don’t know?

This was in the news at the time.

It was reported that a sophomore girl at Qingcheng High School had… something going on with her math teacher.

The scandal blew up. The teacher’s wife went to the school and slapped the girl several times in front of all the teachers and students.

The girl couldn’t take it and jumped into a lake after night study that evening.】

【Now that you mention it, I vaguely remember too—wasn’t that the case where the math teacher got fired, and the girl’s parents told reporters they never had a daughter?】

【Yes, yes, that’s the one.】

The live stream chat exploded with heated discussion.

Just then, the ghost girl suddenly yanked the blanket off Ruirui An and lunged, hands outstretched, aiming for her neck.

“Ahhh! Don’t kill me! Don’t kill me!”

Ruirui An screamed and scrambled backward in panic.

“If you have grievances, why not speak them all out first?”

Just then, a calm voice echoed gently from the phone.

Xu Qiaoqiao lifted her head, revealing her face from beneath the wet hair.

Although her face was pale and bruised, her beautiful features could still be seen.

“Who are you?” she asked.

“Who I am isn’t important. You just need to know that I won’t harm you.

What you really want is their apology and remorse. Only if you tell the full truth of what happened back then can your injustice be cleared.

Otherwise, you died without reason.

Even if you take revenge, the world will still label you as someone who killed innocents. Wouldn’t that be even more unjust?”

Xu Qiaoqiao lowered her head, seemingly pondering Shen Chujin’s words.

After a moment of silence, she looked up again, staring hard at Ruirui An.

Her eyes were full of grievance and fury.

She began to recount what happened during her life.

Because she was beautiful, she often received love letters from boys.

However, she was focused solely on her studies.

So no matter who confessed to her, she would reject them without hesitation.

Who would’ve thought that one of those boys happened to be someone Ruirui An liked.

One day after school, Ruirui An led a few girls and blocked her in an alley.

At that time…

Ruirui An crossed her arms and looked down condescendingly at Xu Qiaoqiao, who had been pushed to the ground.

She sneered, “What are you? How dare you seduce him? You’ve just got a vixen’s face—what’s there to be proud of?”

“I didn’t seduce him. If you like him, then confess to him. There’s no need to take it out on me. Besides, I already rejected him,” Xu Qiaoqiao replied.

Ruirui An instantly became enraged and kicked Xu Qiaoqiao hard in the stomach.

“What the hell do you mean? Are you saying I’m so desperate I’d throw myself at someone you don’t even want? Don’t think just because you’re pretty that you’re something special. I’ll make sure you know that crossing me comes with consequences!”

After she said that, she gave the other girls around her a look.

And so, in that deserted, silent alleyway, screams of pain rang out again and again.

In the end, they left her with a warning: if she dared tell the teachers or her parents, they would make her pay for it.