TFWYH – Chapter 255 Ending It Personally

Ling Yu stood atop the courtyard wall, watching the entire process unfold.

After Zheng Sanpao pulled up his pants and left while cursing, Ling Yu leapt down from the wall and walked toward Zhang Tao.

Zhang Tao trembled as she hurried to put her clothes back on. She didn’t dare look at him, only kept shrinking back. In the end, she curled up in a corner, shaking.

“Tsk… disgusting.” Ling Yu picked up a pebble by his foot and spoke indifferently.

Zhang Tao’s pupils shrank violently. She lifted her head to look at him.

She opened her mouth, about to say something—when Ling Yu flicked his hand and shot the pebble forward.

The stone hit her forehead with absolute precision.

Zhang Tao’s pupils widened. A bloody hole opened at the center of her brow, and she slowly collapsed.

Ling Yu didn’t spare her another glance and walked away unhurriedly.

In the final moment before her consciousness faded, Zhang Tao still didn’t understand!

She only liked him—was that so wrong?

Why… why did he kill her?!

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Zhang Tao’s body was discovered a day later, and the person who found it immediately reported it to the authorities.

Wei Gao was so frustrated he wanted to bash his head into a wall!

Since taking office as magistrate of Xiangxi Town, this was his first murder case!

Wei Gao immediately led his men to the scene and carried out a series of forensic investigations.

Soon, they also learned about the scandal that happened at the Yang household and quickly locked onto a suspect—

Zheng Sanpao!

Zheng Sanpao felt completely wronged. He really didn’t kill anyone!

Wei Gao knew he hadn’t killed her either, because the coroner said the victim died at the hands of someone with very high martial skill.

The murder weapon was the bloodstained pebble. With one strike, the skull shattered.

Only someone with deep internal strength could do that!

Wei Gao had originally suspected Tang Wan!

But Tang Wan had a solid alibi.

As for Tang Wan’s family: Madam Jiang couldn’t even kill a chicken. Ling Yue was even more impossible. Ling Chen was still young and learning—he had a little internal strength, but far from enough, and he had already gone home with Madam Jiang at the time. He couldn’t have committed the murder.

Ling Yu?

He was just a bookish weakling with no strength to truss a chicken. How could he possibly have deep internal power?

The elders of the Ling family?

Forget it!

They all had airtight alibis.

The only suspect left was Zheng Sanpao!

Even though he had no great martial skill, he was still the most likely person to have committed the crime.

Doesn’t matter!

It’s you!

Officials were like this—where could you find so many honest and righteous magistrates in the world?

Compared to justice, most officials only cared about protecting their own careers.

Zheng Sanpao was arrested—and even sentenced to death by beheading!

Tang Wan only learned of this incident when she went to the roasting shop and heard gossip from Auntie Yang, the notorious loudmouth.

Auntie Yang was truly formidable—she always got information first.

“Aiyo, you don’t even know! So many people went to watch the execution. That Zheng Sanpao looked like a bad one at first glance. Didn’t expect he’d dare kill someone too. But Zhang Tao wasn’t any better—those two were equally rotten. The most ridiculous one is that skinflint Zhang! You know what happened? After Zhang Tao died, he actually went to the Ling household to cause trouble. But that day Ling Canghe was home—beat him up good. I mean really, married daughters are spilled water! His daughter wasn’t even killed by the Ling family, and he still had the face to go cause trouble? Hah! As if no one knows he just wanted to squeeze some money out of them!”

Tang Wan listened with great interest and asked, “What about Ling Xiaofang? Do you know what happened to her?”

Auntie Yang replied, “That I actually do know. Don’t know what got into Ling Canghe, but he married Ling Xiaofang off to the old landlord in the next village—as a concubine to fill the house.

Tsk tsk… Even beasts don’t eat their own young. He’s no good either.

But what’s strange is—wasn’t Ling Xiaofang already married into the Yang family? How did she end up being sent back?”