The same night, the witness who testified for Chen Debao changed his story, saying that Pei Kang had instructed him to give false testimony and that Chen Debao's medical report was also fake. Bail was revoked, and he was incarcerated that very night.
Early the next morning, just as Chen Xiangtai stepped out of the hotel, Ms. Tan rushed over from the opposite side of the road.
"Xiangtai."
"Xiangtai."
She ran over and knelt down with a thud: "We were wrong, it was all our fault, please, for the sake of your grandmother, spare us just this once—"
Chen Xiangtai interrupted: "Ms. Tan."
Ms. Tan looked up.
The girl whom she used to manipulate with ease, at some point, had developed a burning light in her eyes.
She spoke word by word: "Murder requires atonement."
Ms. Tan collapsed onto the ground with her back drenched in sweat. Just then, the sound of a police siren filled the air, and she turned her head.
