Master, Your Wife Has Become a Super Star Through Fortune-Telling-Chapter 141 - 142: He Passed Away

"I just scolded him a little!"

"He stole something! Can’t I even say anything about it?"

He sounded perfectly justified, and, in fact, the online viewers thought so too.

[Yeah, just because he got called out for stealing, he’s going to hurt the shop owner? That’s way too unreasonable.]

[Let’s not jump to conclusions. The host wouldn’t make baseless accusations.]

[There’s definitely more to this story.]

[Well, kids from vocational schools... aren’t they all just a bunch of good-for-nothings?]

Su Nian ignored the comments, instead looking at Zhang with a serious expression.

"Your problem is with this boy. How are you so sure he’s the one who stole the item?"

"Host, you’re not making any sense. Of course I’m sure! Between a little girl who’s maybe seven or eight and a vocational school student, it obviously couldn’t have been the little girl!"

[Yeah, it was definitely that punk who stole it.]

Su Nian shook her head and let out a soft sigh.

"No. That boy doesn’t smoke. He didn’t steal those cigarettes."

"Huh???"

Zhang was dumbfounded, but he quickly recovered.

"Then this eye of mine... it’s that punk getting revenge on me, right? He must have hired someone to mess with me!"

Even after what Su Nian said, Zhang was still convinced the young man was a bad person, and his tone remained self-righteous.

"I just said a few things to him! Does he have to go this far?"

"It wasn’t him!"

Su Nian’s tone was growing impatient.

"You’ve had your shop here for many years, right? Have you never met a single decent student from the vocational school?"

Zhang felt Su Nian’s words were a bit strange, but he answered as she asked.

"Occasionally there are a few decent ones, but they’re always the quiet, well-behaved little girls."

Zhang felt genuinely wronged. His years of experience near the vocational school had taught him that those students were nothing but a bunch of little hoodlums.

Su Nian said nothing, only watching as the bruise on his eye grew darker and more pronounced. Some things were better left unsaid, lest they lose their power.

"Disaster stems from careless words, and words can be weapons. All I can tell you is that the boy has passed away. Before he died, he couldn’t let go of the fact that you called him a thief and searched him."

"What?"

This time, Zhang was truly stunned.

"How could he be... gone?"

Even though he didn’t understand this sort of thing, he knew that if the boy’s death was really because of him, the consequences would be severe.

He was visibly panicking.

Before Su Nian could even ask, he started spilling everything out like a bag of beans.

"I really thought he was the thief that day! He was dressed like one, he looked like one, and only a thief would be that flustered!"

"Besides, I didn’t mean for it to happen! How was I supposed to know he didn’t steal it? His death has nothing to do with me!" 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

[But you falsely accused him! The guy came to your store to buy things fair and square, what right did you have to search him?!]

[But you can’t really blame the shop owner. You can only blame the little girl for being such a good actor. Between a vocational school kid and a little girl, no one would suspect the girl over a missing pack of cigarettes.]

Zhang’s expression grew more and more terrified. He was truly afraid now. He was afraid the boy had been driven to jump off a building, and he didn’t want his own family to be ruined over something like this.

He felt regret, but not because he had wronged the boy—only because he was afraid of retribution.

"Host, what do I do now? Do I perform a ritual to appease his spirit, or apologize to him, or what?"

Su Nian shook her head.

"What’s happening to you isn’t just because of him. In all your years of running this shop, he wasn’t the only person you forcibly searched, was he? And he wasn’t the only one you’ve falsely accused. You know that perfectly well, don’t you?"