When Darkness Falls, Light the Lamp
Chapter 123

She was crazier than Yu Mingxin, more terrifying than You Jiang!

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"": 200, "": "", "": "In the end, Zhong Zhicheng still shook his head and said, "What he did was far too vile."

"He killed people who deserved to die!" Huang Jialin argued.

"Did Gu Ya deserve to die?" Zhong Zhicheng countered.

Huang Jialin fell abruptly silent.

"If Luo Shan had harmed someone and he had killed him afterward, perhaps there would have been some justification. But that wasn't what happened. You probably heard it yourself: Luo Shan was the one who informed him. His fixed assumptions about Luo Shan led him to choose not to believe him. He couldn't bear the outcome, so he started blaming Luo Shan for not explaining things clearly enough, claiming that was what caused all this. It was a way for him to evade his own responsibility," Zhong Zhicheng continued.

"Aunt Gu didn't die... What he did was wrong, but it hasn't become an irreversible tragedy yet. An apology! Yes, I'll make my father-in-law apologize! He's already killed two people, so he's vented his anger. And with these four being paraded through the village, there'll be an answer for what happened to Yu Xi. He'll definitely be satisfied! He'll apologize! I'll talk him into it!" Huang Jialin spoke more urgently, a flicker of desperate hope in his eyes.

Zhong Zhicheng shook his head again. "Did Zhang Jun actually kill me, Gu Ya, or Luo Feng? No. Yet he was still paraded through the village. We don't have to wait until someone causes an irreversible tragedy before punishing them with a Village Tour. Its purpose is to warn everyone not to harm others."

"What Yu Mingxin did was utterly vile. If he had simply told us what happened to his daughter, nobody would have protected these people. Does keeping it hidden make him

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