Chapter 33: Chapter 33: I’ll Die, I’ll Die Right Now

The hauntings in the village began after Chen Letong died.

At first, the villagers thought someone was just playing pranks and told everyone not to spread rumors.

But then, a series of strange events began to occur in the village.

The ones who led the bullying against Chen Letong began to develop dark red talismans on their bodies, and their flesh started to rot away. They grew paranoid, sometimes breaking into sorrowful sobs, other times bursting into loud laughter.

Eventually, red marks began to appear on everyone in the village.

The villagers hired a master to suppress the entity, but they failed.

Afterward, the wealthy left the village in waves, while all the poor died in Chen Family Village.

The village was then cordoned off, declared uninhabitable, and only then did the hauntings gradually subside.

During this period, masters from Xuanmen also came to purify the place.

The resentment of Chen Letong’s ghost soul never faded, but once suppressed, she could no longer emerge to cause trouble.

That’s why all the paranormal streamers who came to investigate left empty-handed.

Not long ago, a group of thrill-seeking bloggers went to the Chen Family Village ancestral hall and foolishly tore the Suppression Talisman off Chen Letong…

Perhaps it was fate.

Last month, Li Ruonan’s daughter was on school break. Arriving at the entrance to Chen Family Village, she was drawn in by a red light. She eagerly rushed into the village, where she was promptly possessed by Chen Letong.

The strange things that started happening to Li Ruonan’s daughter—self-harm, eating incense ash, standing out in the rain—were all things Chen Letong had experienced in her life.

When they treated their own cruel actions as a joke, they had no idea how desperate their victim felt.

But only when all this befalls a loved one can you understand the depths of Chen Letong’s despair back then.

These were all Chen Letong’s methods of revenge.

“Streamer, you said you would help me with the exorcism! Please help my daughter, she’s innocent! Send her away, quickly! I’ll give you ten million! I’ll transfer it to you right now!”

Shen Zhiyao said calmly, “Everyone in this village was a culprit in Chen Letong’s death. You are the only one left alive, which is why her resentment has yet to fade. If you want her to let your daughter go, you must resolve the resentment within her.”

Li Ruonan asked urgently, “Then what do I have to do to resolve her resentment?”

Shen Zhiyao tossed a knife to Li Ruonan. “In front of her, disembowel yourself. Feel yourself die from blood loss.”

Li Ruonan grew angry. “I called you here to save a life, not to tell me to disembowel myself in front of her! If I do that, I’ll die!”

Shen Zhiyao said, “Then you can try begging for her forgiveness. If she’s no longer angry, she won’t harm you both.”

At this point, with her daughter’s life hanging by a thread, Li Ruonan was out of options.

She faced Chen Letong, knelt down, and begged:

“Chen Letong, I was wrong in the past. I shouldn’t have been the one to start spreading those vile rumors about you. I know I was wrong, I really know I was wrong. Please, I’m begging you, let my daughter go! She’s innocent, she never hurt you. Please, let her go, let her go…”

As she spoke, Li Ruonan kowtowed to Chen Letong repeatedly.

But this apology was eighteen years too late. Chen Letong no longer cared for it…

“Heh heh…” The girl standing on the rooftop began to laugh, and as she laughed, her gaze grew more and more venomous.

“Do you see the bones on the ground? Everyone in Chen Family Village is dead. Why are you still alive? Do you think you deserve to live?”

“You were the one who started the rumors. You’re the one who killed me, yet you got to live a good life, even get married and have a child. You’ve played the part of a good person for nineteen years, treated well by everyone! On what grounds? You tell me, on what grounds!”

As she spoke, she started laughing again. “Back then, when you all cornered me in the bathroom of the ancestral hall, disemboweled me, tore my child out, and then beat me to death, did you ever think that I was a person, too?! Back then, I only had one path. Now, I’ll give you two choices. One: you pick up that knife and cut open your own abdomen in front of me. Two: I disembowel your daughter in front of you and let her know what a fate worse than death feels like. Hee hee, isn’t this fun?”

“Streamer, save us! Aren’t you omnipotent? You have to save us!” Li Ruonan knew there was no reasoning with a ghost soul and turned to Shen Zhiyao for help.

Shen Zhiyao shrugged. “She’s already stated her terms. The choice is yours.”

Li Ruonan said through her tears, “But how can I choose! I can’t just watch my daughter die, but I don’t want to die either! Streamer… save me! Please… save me…”

Shen Zhiyao said, “She was able to remain in Chen Family Village and slaughter the villagers because her resentment is immense. Because of this, the Buddha Mother turned a blind eye, allowing the Spiritual Child to wreak havoc on the mortal world. You are the last person she needs revenge on. Once you are dead and her resentment has faded, she will naturally choose to leave. Therefore, you must make a choice quickly. If you delay any longer, you will both die.”

Just then, Li Jiajun suddenly moved, the knife continuously tracing lines across her own stomach.

Li Jiajun watched the knife that kept tracing lines over her stomach. She wanted to push it away, but her body was completely out of her control. All she could do was scream helplessly, “Mom… Mom, save me! I can’t control my body… Mom, save me!”

Suddenly, her tone shifted, her expression turning sinister. “Make your choice! Or I’ll kill your daughter right now!”

Li Ruonan completely broke down. Sobbing, she crawled toward the knife. “I’ll die! Let me die! I’ll pay for it with my life! Please, just let my daughter go!”

She picked up the knife from the ground, her hands trembling. She traced it over her stomach again and again, but for a long time, she couldn’t bring herself to do it. She was so scared. She was afraid of the pain. She was extremely sensitive to pain, and she really, really didn’t want to die in agony…

Gusts of eerie wind swept by, tangling her hair. Clumps of it stuck to her face, plastered by the tears that streamed relentlessly down her cheeks.

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry!” Li Ruonan choked out between sobs. With a surge of strength in both hands, she slashed the knife across her abdomen. A searing, stabbing pain instantly shot through her, and her body trembled. She gritted her teeth, forced her hands to drag the blade across her stomach, and blood pooled on the ground.

Only then did she truly understand how wrong she had been…

She truly knew she was wrong…

’Why did I have to slander her with those rumors? We were neighbors, both so young, in the bloom of our youth.’

She regretted it. She truly regretted it.

’If I hadn’t been so vicious eighteen years ago, Chen Letong wouldn’t have died, and the entire village wouldn’t have been massacred.’

’It was all my sin! A sin I committed, and now it has implicated my own daughter!’

“Chen Letong, I was wrong. I’m sorry. It was because I spread those rumors that you were killed. I was wrong! I really know I was wrong now! It’s all my fault! After I die, I only hope you can let my daughter go…” After so many years, her repentance was truly sincere.

“Streamer.” Li Ruonan looked at Shen Zhiyao through blurry, tear-filled eyes. “After I die, can you really save my daughter?”

Shen Zhiyao answered, “Yes.”

Things had already come to this. She had no other choice but to trust Shen Zhiyao.

She slowly closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and thrust down with all her might.

But the pain she expected never came. A hand grabbed her arm forcefully, stopping the blade’s descent…

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