"If you don't say, I'm going to sleep," Mu Anxiao said, turning over.
Xiao Fei looked down at the back of Mu Anxiao's head, thinking about how many years she had followed Mu Hua. She said, "I always treated her with sincerity, but she has used me countless times. Not only that, this time, she even wanted my life. I can't control myself, I just hate her."
"Does hating her benefit you?" Mu Anxiao asked back.
"I..."
"I don't know what happened between you and her, but all I want to know now is who the real killer is. Of course," Mu Anxiao interrupted, sighing softly, "if you don't want to say, I won't force you. I have plenty of time to investigate."
"How do you plan to investigate?" Xiao Fei suddenly asked.
"For now, this is just my idea. In any case, this matter has implicated my mother, so," Mu Anxiao turned back over and looked at Xiao Fei, "I can't just ignore it."
"I'm convinced it was Mu Hua," Xiao Fei's eyes were firm.
Mu Anxiao: "I suspect it was the Madam."
"..." Xiao Fei frowned.
Mu Anxiao saw Xiao Fei's slightly surprised expression and her lips curled, "In any case, I won't do as you say."
"Do you think you can contend with that Madam?" Xiao Fei suddenly asked.
Mu Anxiao: "Whether I can contend or not, in the end, everything comes down to evidence. Mu Hua is certainly not the one who killed you."
"It was her."
"Let's make a bet. If it was her, I'll grant you one request. If not, then you give me all the silver you left behind in the mortal world," Mu Anxiao smiled, "What do you say?"
"I don't have..."
"Don't lie to me. Don't think I don't know. Mu Hua is a generous person. Anyone who follows her gets paid well. You were her personal maid, so for you to say you have no money, I truly don't believe it."
"Taking a dead person's money, that's hardly true skill."
"I don't have any true skill to begin with."
"You..."
"Choose. Stay, or leave," Mu Anxiao raised an eyebrow.
Xiao Fei fell silent once more.
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao chuckled, "Think about it yourself." With that, she yawned and closed her eyes.
Xiao Fei was stunned.
On the other side.
Lou Yi pulled the woman along the path in the underworld, looking ahead and glancing around, asking, "Hey, is this the way?"
Hearing this, Jia stopped, turned to look at Lou Yi and the woman who had stopped with him, and said, "I'm your boss, call me Boss."
"You..."
"Call me Boss, and I'll answer you," Jia interrupted Lou Yi.
Lou Yi, hearing this, reluctantly said, "Boss, are you sure this is the way?"
Listening to the title Lou Yi bestowed upon him, Jia straightened his back, "It's this way, no mistake." As he spoke, he inadvertently glanced at the woman who was deep in thought.
The woman: "..." Seeing Jia look at her, she intentionally averted her gaze.
Jia liked to observe subtle details, so naturally, he noticed the slight changes on the woman's face.
Thus, he directly asked, "Do you have something to say?"
The woman: "You captured me, but you didn't even ask my name?" She stared at Jia's face.
Hearing this, Jia immediately stepped forward to stand in front of the woman and asked, looking up, "What's your name?"
"..." The woman intentionally turned her face away.
Jia, seeing this, became angry, "What do you mean by this?"
"If you untie me, then I..."
"This is the underworld. Do you think you have the right to talk to me like this?" Jia said coldly.
The woman's eyes darted, "I know I don't have the right, but don't you think," she said, lowering her head to meet Jia's eyes, "this is not over yet?"
"What exactly do you want to say?" Lou Yi was getting impatient.
Hearing this, the woman glanced at Lou Yi, then lowered her head to look at Jia again, "If you arrest me like this, in the end, someone will still be harmed. You..."
"You are indeed hiding something," Jia interrupted, looking at Lou Yi, "Untie her."
"..." Lou Yi froze.
Jia looked confused, "What are you doing? I told you to..."
"This is Mu Anxiao's magical artifact. I don't know how to untie it."
All the way, Lou Yi had been pondering this problem. He wondered what to do with the light rope binding the woman when they reached the main hall.
However, seeing Jia continuously walking, Lou Yi cast his worries aside.
He hadn't expected Jia to suddenly ask him to untie the rope after they had walked such a long way.
Looking at the situation, he became troubled.
Jia looked at Lou Yi and retorted, "Why didn't you ask Mu Anxiao to untie it earlier?"
"You didn't say anything," Lou Yi pointed at Jia.
Jia admitted that he hadn't said anything, but his thoughts were contrary to Lou Yi's. He thought... Lou Yi would know how to untie this light rope, so he had remained silent.
Who knew... that they were both naive in the end.
At this moment, they looked at each other, speechless.
The woman became anxious, "Then what about this?" she asked, looking at Lou Yi and Jia respectively, secretly preparing to escape.
Jia: "..." He deliberately ignored the woman.
Lou Yi looked at the woman's inexplicably anxious expression and her righteous tone, and he sensed that this woman was really not right.
Thus, he stared at the woman's face, deliberately not saying a word.
The woman became awkward under Lou Yi's gaze, "Why are you looking at me?"
"Are you trying to escape?" Lou Yi bluntly exposed her.
The woman's eyes shifted, and she lowered her head, "I'm not." She lost the courage to look directly at Lou Yi.
Seeing the woman like this, Lou Yi sighed softly, then lowered his head to look at Jia, who was also staring at the woman, and said, "Boss, don't worry about it. Let's go."
"This..."
"She's deliberately delaying our time. If we stay here any longer, we're very likely to fall into her trap, so," Lou Yi was cautious, "let's take her to the main hall. I believe they will find a way to untie this rope for her."
"You have a point," Jia nodded and turned away.
Seeing this, the woman quickly said, "Didn't you want to know my name? You..."
"I'm no longer interested in your name," Jia said and walked ahead.
The woman's eyes sank, and she was pushed forward by Lou Yi.
Thus, the woman's escape plan failed.
The General's Manor.
Xiao Fei paced back and forth in the room, not saying a word.
Mu Anxiao was disturbed by her pacing footsteps.
"Are you done yet?" she said, sitting up and looking at the hesitant Xiao Fei.
Hearing this, Xiao Fei immediately stopped pacing, turned to look at Mu Anxiao, and said, "I've made up my mind."
"What have you decided?" Mu Anxiao was utterly confused.
Xiao Fei: "I'll follow you. If I win, you have to burn paper offerings for me every year."
"Burn..." Mu Anxiao uttered the word, and then suddenly remembered that Xiao Fei was already dead. So, without a second thought, she nodded and said, "Okay, I understand."
"Remember your promise," Xiao Fei said, feigning seriousness.