1327 I Only Want You 25 (1/2)

As soon as she finished speaking, she finally stopped shaking her head and let out the words that she had been keeping to herself. An Xiaoning tried to placate her feelings and said, ”Calm down, tell me slowly. I have the time to listen to you. You have no idea how tricky your case is. There are no clues or evidence, that's why it has been left unresolved for so many years. Fortunately, you haven't reincarnated yet. Otherwise, it's going to take a much longer time to be solved.”

”I… I… finally got to witness this day. I really didn't expect that a police officer could see me. Not to mention, you're even the daughter of the president. I'm sure you can definitely solve this case. I'm so over the moon. The person who killed me is none other than my wicked mother-in-law!”

An Xiaoning and Fan Shixin were flabbergasted.

It had never crossed An Xiaoning's mind that the victim would be killed by her mother-in-law.

Such murders usually arose from conflicts in everyday life.

”Your mother-in-law? Why did she kill you?”

”All because of her son…”

It turned out that the victim did get along rather well with her mother-in-law at first. However, their relationship took a turn for the worse afterward because of her husband.

Her husband was the catalyst of their conflicts. Whenever she argued with her husband, he would tell on her to his mother and rant about all of the victim's flaws and shortcomings. On the other hand, the victim was a thrifty woman who constantly reminded her husband not to spend lavishly. Whenever her husband ran out of money, he had no choice but to borrow some from his mother, who often took pity on him. Hence, the victim and her mother-in-law frequently quarreled because of her husband. They then got a divorce and stopped arguing. Everyone else simply thought that it was because their relationship had improved.

The victim thought so too. However, the murder arose because the victim's husband bought some pork from the market in a bid to make some dumplings.

Two decades ago, pork dumplings were an expensive delicacy that could only be enjoyed during festive occasions.

The victim's husband had bought just enough pork for the family of three, thus leaving his mother out. However, his mother heard about it from someone else and flew into a rage. She then called the victim over to the house and they had a conflict afterward.

The victim said, ”So what if we didn't give you any dumplings?” Her words had greatly infuriated her mother-in-law.

The victim died at 32 years old when her mother-in-law was in her fifties.

Although the victim was young, she could not defend herself against the unexpected attack.

She had never dared to imagine that her mother-in-law would actually kill her.

By the time her mother-in-law had slashed her on the neck, she could no longer retaliate.

It wasn't until she died that she realized the souls of humans could leave their bodies. Just as she was trying to speak, she was taken away by the grim reapers.

However, a hiccup occurred when she was being brought to the netherworld, thus allowing her to escape successfully.

She once hid in a corner and refused to go anywhere, for fear that the grim reapers would catch her.

To her surprise, she discovered that her husband, son, and mother-in-law had already moved away when she returned to look for them in a bid to scare her mother-in-law.

Hence, she never returned to the house again.

”Do you know that the village has been renamed to 'Widows' Village'?”

”Yes, but it has nothing to do with me. I didn't do it,” she said, shaking her head.

An Xiaoning asked, ”Does it really have nothing to do with you? After all, you've become a spirit now. If you admit that you were the culprit, I can help you with your case in exchange.”

”It really wasn't me, but I might know the reason.”