Although the agent was terrified of Su Nian, watching the ghost suffer brought him immense satisfaction. "That's what you get for scaring people! Serves you right!" he thought to himself.
To his surprise, the Ghost Old Lady turned her gaze toward him the very next second.
"I didn't want to do it either, but this is my home! I've lived here my whole life," she wailed. "This ugly, rat-faced creep brought a bunch of people to my house to renovate it. I wanted to chase them away, but there were too many of them, and they were all men. I really had no choice. I didn't want to harm you girls, I just wanted to scare him!"
The agent, who had just been gloating internally and thinking the old woman deserved her punishment, suddenly snapped his mouth shut. He didn't know what to say. Her logic actually seemed entirely sound.
