"When I uncovered the truth back then, it shattered my entire worldview too."
Even as he spoke about it, Zhang Rong still sighed, unable to understand. "Someone who used to be kind did something even some bad people wouldn't do. It was simply beyond belief."
Zhang Rong said Tao Xiaojuan had killed three children in all.
All three children had gone down to keep Tao Xiaojuan's child company.
And because no rites had been performed to help Tao Xiaojuan's child pass on, the child harbored some resentment and began harming other children in the village.
When Zhang Rong exposed this back then, no one in the village believed him at first, not even the three families whose children had died.
But later, everyone put their heads together and carefully recalled what had happened before the three children died. They finally discovered one coincidence: all three children had been in contact with Tao Xiaojuan before their deaths.
With the victims dead, there was no way to verify any of this, and Zhang Rong had no solid evidence to accuse Tao Xiaojuan either. After all, an Infant Spirit was a ghost formed from a baby and had no way to tell the truth.
Fortunately, when the villagers confronted Tao Xiaojuan, she acted awkward and evasive. Under their fierce questioning, her guilty conscience made her lose her nerve.
Once she lost her nerve, the truth naturally came out, shattering the villagers' worldviews too.
According to Zhang Rong, the scene at the time was utter chaos. After all, what she had done was so depraved that the entire village crowded around Tao Xiaojuan's house, frightening even some of her relatives into staying away rather than trying to intervene.
The three families whose children had died, in particular, wanted nothing more than to hack Tao