"She wasn't killed but accidentally fell to her death while trying to escape—"
The one being discussed was Guan Xiu'ai, who, perhaps out of a guilty conscience or something, met with an accident and died after leaving the investigation office.
"Why would they let her go in the middle of the night?"
"It was said that they conducted an investigation later, didn't find out anything, and released her. She could have stayed in the guesthouse next door but chose not to. Instead, she tried to flag down a car, didn't manage to hail one, and fell into a ditch and died."
Out of fear of alerting the suspect, they had not sent anyone to follow Guan Xiu'ai, but this news was indeed shocking.
From the doorstep, snippets of voices were heard, Manman understood only bits and pieces. She later came to know what had transpired between Jiang Yue and her mother that afternoon, never expecting it would end with someone's death.
