Stepdaughter of a wealthy family? The little darling of a Beijing tycoon

A cold glint appeared in Shen Jingshu's eyes as she softly pressed, "So, how did you finally leave?"

"suicide."

Two words, as light as the wind, yet wrapped in a bone-chilling sorrow.

"When the incident first came to light, my boyfriend stood firmly by my side, believing in me and protecting me. But later, with the proliferation of fake documents, overwhelming rumors, and everyone pointing fingers at me and cursing, he gradually began to waver."

"The last straw that broke my back was that he broke up with me, completely cut ties with me, and refused to say a word in my defense anymore."

"From then on, I couldn't escape pointing and whispering wherever I went on campus. Not long after, the school notified my parents to come and process my withdrawal. When my parents arrived at the school, in front of countless teachers and students, they started punching and kicking me, calling me shameless, despicable, and disgraceful."

"On the day I dropped out of school, I stood on the rooftop of the teaching building, looking down at the densely packed crowd below, and my heart died completely. I jumped off the building."

"I was filled with resentment and unwillingness. When the underworld messengers came to take me away, I evaded them. My obsession wouldn't go away, so I've been trapped in this school ever since. But I find myself firmly imprisoned, only able to wander around this school, unable to take even a single step out."

"For the past ten years, I've followed Wang Xuemei every day, watching her teach one class after another, still favoring men and secretly tormenting pretty girls. Yet this vicious devil later had a smooth life, married a male teacher at the school, and had a well-behaved and lovely daughter, living a stable and respectable life."

"She lived a glamorous life, but the only thing she owed me was her life, which she never repaid in the slightest."

Li Xiao's voice gradually took on a cold and ruthless tone:

"At first, my ghostly power was too weak to even get close to her; I could only follow her from a distance. But recently, for some reason, a resentful power has suddenly arisen within me, growing stronger and stronger."

"Now I pester her by day and harass her by night, my chill seeps into her body, my nightmares never end, tormenting her day and night, leaving her mentally and physically exhausted. She's almost at her breaking point, her mind growing more and more erratic each day. In a few more days, she'll definitely go completely mad and ruin her life—this is what she owes me."

Shen Jingshu lowered her eyes, her fingertips rapidly forming hand seals, her brows furrowing slightly. As soon as the divination result appeared, she sensed something was wrong.

Li Xiao's ghost has lingered in the human world for ten years. Her ghostly power was originally weak, and she couldn't even leave the school, let alone get close to Wang Xuemei, who still had plenty of yang energy. But recently, her ghostly power suddenly surged, and the yin energy around her far surpassed that of ordinary lonely ghosts. Clearly, there was an external force secretly helping her to cultivate and condense her resentment!

Someone is deliberately helping her, or even deliberately fueling her hatred, turning her into a vengeful ghost so that she can take revenge on Wang Xuemei herself.

But there is no such thing as unearned help in this world. This kind of secret manipulation is definitely not a good deed to help Li Xiao seek justice. On the contrary, it seems that they want to use these ten years of vengeful spirits to achieve their ulterior motives.

Is it simply that he dislikes Wang Xuemei, or does he have ulterior motives? Or perhaps, is the matter involving the Shen and Li families also connected to this person in the shadows?

Suppressing her doubts, Shen Jingshu looked up at Li Xiao, who was still filled with hatred, and said in a calm and firm tone: "I know everything about your situation. You can rest assured. Continue to pester her in your own way these next few days. Don't do anything rash, and don't actually kill anyone, or you will never be able to enter the cycle of reincarnation and will only have your soul scattered."

Although Li Xiao was puzzled, she still nodded. Right now, only Shen Jingshu could help her, so she had no choice but to trust her.

"Tomorrow is the school's teaching evaluation conference. As a key teacher, Wang Xuemei must attend. At that time, I will make her admit what she did back then in front of everyone and give you justice."

As soon as Shen Jingshu finished speaking, she raised her hand and waved a gentle calming talisman into Li Xiao's body, soothing her restless soul. "Go back to the teaching building and lie low for now. Remember, do not act impulsively."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Xiao's figure gradually faded away and slowly drifted back towards the teaching building.

Shen Jingshu stood in the washroom, her eyes cold. Since the person in the shadows dared to interfere with the karma of the mortal world and manipulate ghosts to take revenge, she would follow this line to find out the mastermind and also clear Li Xiao's name of the injustice he had suffered for the past ten years.

On the other side, Li Hanting drove straight to the secret rendezvous point he had arranged with his informant. His speed was steady along the way, but he exuded a cold and aloof aura that kept strangers at bay.

The location was secluded on the outskirts of the city, with few pedestrians around, making it easy to avoid being seen. The informant was already waiting there. Upon seeing Li Hanting arrive, he immediately stepped forward and handed him a encrypted intelligence report, whispered a few key points, and then quickly left without leaving a trace.

Li Hanting quickly scanned the intelligence, clenching the note tightly between his fingers, his eyes as deep and cold as a still pool.

This time, he was targeting a large drug trafficking gang that had been entrenched in Beijing for a long time and had committed numerous crimes. His informant had been lying in wait for months and finally uncovered the key clues—this afternoon, the gang would be conducting a large-scale drug transaction in an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of Beijing, and the leader would be present in person. This was the perfect opportunity to wipe them out in one fell swoop.

Without daring to delay for even a moment, Li Hanting immediately drove back to the bureau, and upon entering, he summoned all the key anti-drug officers to begin emergency operations.

The atmosphere in the meeting room was tense. Everyone held their breath and listened as he clearly conveyed the time, place, number of people on the other side, and their firepower. He quickly assigned responsibilities to the infiltration, encirclement, arrest, and backup teams, repeatedly emphasizing the need for secrecy and that they must not alert the enemy.

After careful planning, everyone quickly packed up, packed their gear, and quietly set off.

They deliberately arrived at the outskirts of the city ahead of time. More than half an hour before the transaction was to begin, Li Hanting led his team to disperse and lie in ambush in the bushes, embankments and abandoned vehicles around the abandoned warehouse. Everyone held their breath, concealed their figures, and kept their eyes fixed on the entrance of the warehouse. They were ready to close the net as soon as both parties to the transaction arrived and the transaction was to begin, so as to catch the people and the stolen goods and completely wipe out this group of drug traffickers.

Just as the drug dealers were about to complete the transaction, exchanging money for goods, the drug lord in charge of the meeting suddenly received a phone call. His expression changed drastically, and his arrogant demeanor was instantly replaced by panic. Without saying a word, he turned around and ran wildly towards the car parked outside the warehouse.

Upon seeing this, Li Hanting's heart sank, and he realized something was wrong: their operation had been exposed!

"Action! Arrest everyone!"

At Li Hanting's command, the powerful and resounding gunfire instantly shattered the silence of the warehouse, and a fierce firefight was about to break out. The special police officers who had been lying in ambush all around rushed out from their hiding places like tigers emerging from the mountains.

Seeing a large number of special police officers closing in, the drug lord angrily spat on the ground, cursed, and, disregarding the majority of the goods on the table, shouted at his henchmen to carry some of the shipment, yelling, "Split up! Don't get caught all at once!"

This scene instantly dispelled the doubts in Li Hanting's mind—if there hadn't been a mole within the police station tipping them off, the drug dealers would never have received the news at the crucial moment of the transaction and fled in panic.

But the situation is critical right now, and there is no time for him to investigate who the mole is. The most urgent task is to capture the drug lord and cut off the criminal chain.