Bringing up the incident that had given her nightmares for so long, He Meishu felt deeply guilty, and her eyes reddened.
"I—I didn't do it on purpose. I really didn't. At the time, I... I..."
Although she had only been eight then, her arduous life had made her more mature than other children her age.
When that woman had leaned out the window and reached toward her for help, He Meishu had felt not only panic and fear but also hesitation.
She knew that because her brother had been sickly since childhood, he had developed a habit of torturing and killing puppies and kittens. That very day, she had happened to discover him brutally killing a puppy, splattering blood all over the house.
She was afraid someone would see everything, and even more afraid that the police would find out and take away her only brother. So after freezing for a moment, she had fled in panic as though she had seen nothing.
Afterward, when she learned that the mother and daughter in that house had both died, she had remained anxious for a long time, consumed by both fear and guilt.
She had never been able to forget the sight of that woman reaching out the window for help.
To ease her conscience, she had secretly sworn that she would find the killers. That was why she had later applied to the Police Academy.
She had also thoroughly investigated the case from back then, but for some unknown reason, much of the evidence had been erased, and she could not find any clues at all.
Su Qiao was speechless.
What difference did it make whether she had meant to or not?
The result was that the mother and daughter had died just like that, while the truth of the