Zhou Hao felt a sense of spirit separation.

His physical body was passionately delivering arguments in the courtroom, using leftover issues from the last trial to attack Xi Yinning—this was a strategy sure to lose popularity, he risked his career to drag Xi Yinning down with him.

Even if he lost this trial, it was no big deal; the case would certainly be retried, changing the investigation from accidental to murder, and like mud on pants, whether or not it's considered excrement, it still stinks.

He did not plan on winning, yet he did win.

Xi Yinning was sentenced to twenty-one years, An Shuyao was ordered to go to the correctional center, Zhou Hao suspected it was the judge's first day at work, as the case was not retried.

There's no doubt, tomorrow Xi Yinning's company stock will definitely take a big plunge...

After the trial ended, both parties stepped down, Zhou Hao raised his middle finger and adjusted his glasses.

Seeing this, Xi Yinning turned red-eyed, pulled out a folding knife from somewhere, and stabbed Zhou Hao, shouting furiously about his unfilial nature.

Zhou Hao fell immediately, this knife wasn't deep, but his breathing got weaker and he was about to die.

Xi Yinning cursed a few times, seeing that he wasn't pretending to be dead, slowly came to her senses, and with a clang the knife fell to the ground.

She rushed over, shaking Zhou Hao's body, calling out loudly:

"Zhou Hao! Zhou Hao!! Wake up—please wake up!!"

"Don't scare me, okay? It wasn't intentional..."

"Mom was wrong, isn't admitting wrong enough? Let me go to jail, sentence me to death, anything, just please open your eyes..."

...

Ah, it doesn't matter...

Just feel a bit sorry for that child...

Seems like I accidentally ruined her future...

If there's another life, I'll surely make it up...

...

Fushimi Roku again remembered the night Minamoto Tamako pleaded with him.

— Minamoto Tamako squatted by the bushes of the police school playground, tugging at his pants leg, looking up at him.

— That gaze was sincere and earnest, exactly the same as when An Shuyao begged him.

Fushimi Roku knew clearly, they were not the same person, but the same fervent sincerity they shared was identical.

That's why he cluelessly agreed to Minamoto Tamako, why he catered to that troublesome person, why everything that followed happened...

This is the end of this dream.

Minamoto Tamako, playing An Shuyao, was a little girl suffering from leukemia, who repeatedly pleaded with Lawyer Zhou to seek justice in her last moments for her mother to rest in peace.

If Minamoto Tamako could lose memory earlier, or portray An Shuyao sooner, perhaps this dream would end earlier.

Fushimi Roku hadn't completely let go of the past, but he knew it was time to wake up.

He helped Little Tamako with homework for so long, assisted Little Tamako's parents with psychological guidance, and unraveled Little Tamako's mental knots, like a beast of burden, finally reaching a happy end... Genichiro and Kujo Yua ultimately reconciled their conflicts and lived happily together.

Once Minamoto Tamako awoke, the subconscious prison was gone, her primary consciousness returned, immediately subduing Yuanbao and Kawai, regaining control of her body.

The first sensation to return was touch, Fushimi Roku felt his back was damp, the shirt clinging to him as if soaked with sweat;

Next was smell, he noticed a stale sweat odor and a slightly bitter sour taste in his mouth.

As consciousness gradually gathered, Fushimi Roku's eyelid twitched slightly, his head ached intensely, he clutched his head and slowly sat up, looking around and realizing he returned home, lying on that familiar sofa.

Not the home of the last life, but this life's Sugamo Apartment.

The living room was quiet, filled with a smell of blood. Fushimi Roku's fingertips trembled slightly, when he lifted his hand, he realized it was holding a fruit knife.

Looking down, he saw a body lying on the ground, clearly Miyazaki Shizuka.

Dead?

Fushimi Roku was stunned for a second, promptly got up to check the bedroom, found Minamoto Tamako was not home, Taira Sakurako was also absent, Uesugi Shion had disappeared, even Jun wasn't in the dog cage.

Where is everyone?

Fushimi Roku thought he was still dreaming, he stood up to glance outside the window, it was night, outside was pitch black, pedestrians walked under street lamps, with criminal index hovering above.

The system was still there, indicating this was reality, not a dream.

Fushimi Roku exhaled deeply, he rubbed his temples, as dream memories gradually faded, he didn't remember tutoring Little Tamako or aiding Kujo Yua in resolving marital issues, even forgetting Kujo Yua breaking his legs.

But he remembered Minamoto Tamako escaping with him, remembered her attempting to assassinate him again and again, and remembered her becoming An Shuyao, pleading him to take her case.

The things Minamoto Tamako did in his subconscious, he knew them all, and remembered them clearly.

Similarly, Minamoto Tamako probably also forgot the attic and assassination matters but remembered the evil tutor and the reconciliation of her parents.

They don't remember what they did themselves but remember what the other did.

This feeling was strange, to the extent that Fushimi Roku immediately wanted to chat with Minamoto Tamako, to find out what he did in her dream... then a thought struck him, realizing something was amiss, Minamoto Tamako was not by his side, how did they both hypnotize each other?

How did Miyazaki Shizuka die?

Was it Angel or Demon that did it?

Do they want to destroy the corpse, or want to destroy the corpse?

Fushimi Roku contemplated for three seconds, feeling there's something peculiar about this.

He took out his phone from his pocket, intending to check the date and time, only to discover the phone was in the middle of a call, the contact being Minamoto Tamako, with faint rustling sounds coming from the earpiece, suggesting Minamoto Tamako was awake.

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