Fortunate to Have You This Lifetime

She was a sorceress, but in reality, she was a very ordinary woman in her sixties. Today she wasn’t wearing her typical sorceress attire- the black silk and cotton jacket, nor did she have talisman paper on her, just an ordinary elderly woman. If Purple Summers hadn’t seen this face just yesterday, she might not have recognized her.

Purple Summers smiled and asked her, “Old lady, how can I help you?”

The sorceress’s expression was eerie, her lips curled in a sarcastic smile as she looked past Purple Summers at the crow inside the room. She grinned, revealing her sparse teeth, “Since the young lady is a fellow practitioner, she should understand the difficulty of nourishing souls. Why bother an old woman like me?”

Purple Summers frowned at these words. She stepped outside, closed the door behind her, and asked, “What do you mean by that?”

“Whatever you think it means is what it means,” said the sorceress.

Purple Summers frowned and replied, “Stop beating around the bush and get to the point.”

The sorceress lowered her eyes, gathered her sleeves with both hands, “Young lady, please show mercy, I cannot leave Peachwater, not even for a single step.”

Purple Summers shook her head and refused her, “Illegally selling prohibited drugs is against the law. The exact sentence depends on the judge’s final decision, and I can’t help you with that.”

The sorceress’s face remained calm and unruffled, as if she was neither surprised nor unprepared for what Purple Summers had to say.

In a steady tone, she said, “Aren’t you good at suing? You can help defend me in court.”

Purple Summers’s eyes widened in surprise!

How did this old woman know about her lawsuits?! In such a remote and secluded mountain village, she wondered how an information-deprived old woman could know about something that happened in distant Clearwater City?

The sorceress saw Purple Summers’s astonishment and sneered, “This old woman can read fortunes. Many things can be learned just by calculating.”

Purple Summers didn’t believe her, and retorted, “If you can really read fortunes, you can make money from it. Why would you take the risk of selling prohibited drugs?”

“One who makes money by exposing the secrets of fate won’t live long,” the sorceress maintained her sarcastic smile and said, “I haven’t lived enough yet.”

Purple Summers’ tone grew colder, “Do you think your current method of making money will let you live longer? Three lives were lost, and someone has to take responsibility for this.”

The sorceress squinted at Purple Summers and laughed, “That small dosage wouldn’t have killed them; their deaths have nothing to do with me.”

“No one can prove the exact dosage in the talisman water you gave them,” Purple Summers replied coldly.

At her words, the sorceress nodded slightly, “That’s why… you’re the one who needs to figure it out.”

Purple Summers felt indignant – this old woman was so shameless, certain that Purple Summers would help her!

Purple Summers purposely said, “Old lady, hiring a lawyer for a lawsuit is very expensive. How much can you offer?”

The sorceress chuckled and shook her head, “The cost of nourishing souls is too high. This old woman has even lost her own coffin money. I don’t have any money to pay you.”

She paused and looked at Purple Summers, “Young lady, although I have no money, I can read your fortune. You’ve been looking for someone, right? I can help.”

Purple Summers’ heart tightened, her throat feeling oddly dry.

She was silent for a while, then said, “The person I was looking for has been found. I appreciate your efforts, but I suggest you turn yourself in sooner rather than later.”

“Have you really found that person?” The sorceress’s smile was cryptic, “Young lady, actually… deep down, you know better than anyone else that this person is just a smokescreen, right?”

Purple Summers felt as if her deepest secret had been exposed, her expression stiffening and her lips turning pale.

The sorceress leaned close to her ear and whispered, word by word, “If you help me, I’ll tell you who the person you’re looking for is.”