When Darkness Falls, Light the Lamp
Chapter 206

Are you on your own?

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There was no need to say much. A hint was often enough for them to understand.

Luo Bin murmured his assent.

"That's good... it's been so many years. I always thought all three of them were dead. That's good, that's good..."

Although Zhang Baijiao kept saying it was good, his tears would not stop. His grief was overwhelming.

"Yes, Zhang Yunling was a good person. Her parents were good people too," Luo Bin began.

He told him everything he knew about Zhang Yunling.

Of course, that knowledge was limited to his face-to-face encounters with her.

It did not include Zhang Yunling's desire to kill Zhong Zhicheng.

Nor did it include Cabinet Mountain Village's subjective judgment that Zhang Yunling was evil.

He also told him everything Zhang Yunling had said about her parents.

A healer had a compassionate heart.

Zhang Yunling's parents had been genuinely good people.

Zhang Baijiao was a good person too.

That was clear from the way he had treated Luo Bin's injuries and come to bring him news.

Zhang Baijiao earned trust through sincerity and help, unlike certain people who controlled others through vicious schemes.

For that reason, Luo Bin could not bear to state the "facts" outright. They would surely crush the old man before him.

There was another crucial point, too. This really was not just wishful thinking.

Was Zhang Yunling truly the one at fault?

After all, Zhong Zhicheng and Feng Ji were in league.

Gu Yiren had already said that Feng Ji refined human oil, while Zhong Zhicheng refined evil spirit oil.

Why had they refined human oil first? Had that been some kind of experiment, with Zhong Zhicheng eventually finding a successful result?

Even if those two had followed

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