Chapter 249

Chapter 249: Skipping Decades of Struggle

“Who in their right mind would give away their only son?” Qiu Ji Chen complained. “It is not like they have so many sons that they can spare one. They only have one, and they are still thinking of giving him to someone else. Their motives are clearly bad.”

He had just finished grumbling when Du An Rao calmly gave the answer: “Because they are about to die.”

Everyone: “!!!”

“There is a saying. The people who wrong you know better than anyone how wronged you are. In the same way, the people who want to harm you know better than anyone when you are going to die,” she said.

“They know that once you add the life fate swap to the little ghost’s backlash, the two stacked together mean they hardly need to do anything more for you to be close to death. At that time, all they have to do is temporarily have their only son adopted into your household. After you both die one after another, their son can inherit all the wealth you have worked for your whole lives without lifting a finger and skip a few decades of struggle.”

The couple felt their temples pounding. Their heads buzzed and hurt badly.

“But you did not want to adopt their grown son. You preferred to adopt a child whose background was unknown. If that happened, according to the law, after you died, your estate would most likely be inherited by the adopted child.”

“Even if they could use the excuse that the child is still young, and the uncle should manage things for him and seize your property that way, they have schemed for so many years. At the key moment, someone else would take the prize. What should have belonged to them would have to take a big detour before reaching their hands, and even then it would not be proper or justified. How could they accept that?”

“So they might as well make you die early, before you adopt any child. In that case, as his own brothers, your brother would also have inheritance rights,” she went on.

“Then they would only need to guard against Ms. Qi’s family fighting over the inheritance. But that is not a big problem. As long as they forge a will in advance, saying that all your assets are to be given to their older son, that would be enough.

“When the time comes, there would be no adopted child to share a piece of the pie. Everything would naturally fall into place.”

Mr. Liu and his wife turned as pale as paper. They felt that the shock they had taken in this single day was more than all the blows of their last thirty or forty years added together.

Ms. Qiu and the others were shocked again when they heard this. From what Du An Rao said, this matter already threatened the couple’s lives.

“An An, do you know how Little Liu’s family plans to make this couple die as soon as possible?” Ms. Qiu asked.

“It is simple. They just have to use that little ghost to do more evil. It died unjustly to begin with. Once it starts doing evil, not only will it carry more karma, but the killing aura on it will slowly eat away at its reason and turn it into a fierce ghost that only knows how to hurt people. When that happens, the first people it will want to harm will be…” Du An Rao looked at the couple, leaving the rest unsaid.

The reason they had not used it to harm anyone at first was that they wanted Mr. and Mrs. Liu to be their ATM and blood bag, helping them gather wealth.

Now the time was ripe, and the two of them were no longer useful. Naturally, they no longer needed to hold back. They could freely use that little ghost to hurt anyone who annoyed them or had offended them.

When Mr. Liu thought of how, in the near future, their own son would, under the orders of evil people, personally send them down to the Yellow Springs, he could not stop trembling.

Separated flesh and blood, kin killing kin, the whole family wiped out in the end. So this was what he got from his so-called blood family and brothers.

Madam Qi only heard the word “karma” in what Du An Rao said. Her poor child had been killed before he even had the chance to open his eyes and see this world. Even after death, he still could not rest, used by the same people who killed him, forced to bear sin and endless torment.

Every time she thought of this, Madam Qi felt as if her heart were being ripped into two pieces. The pain made her wish she were dead.

“Master Du, I beg you, I beg you, please help my child, help my child,” Madam Qi cried. In her extreme grief, she fell to her knees in front of Du An Rao with a loud thump, startling everyone.

Du An Rao instinctively stepped back two steps to avoid Madam Qi’s kowtow.

“I said I will not ignore this. But you have to find the little ghost’s body first. Only then can I help free him and make the people who did evil suffer the backlash and pay the price. Otherwise, no matter how much we talk now, it is just empty words,” she said.

“You are right. We have to find the child first. I am going to their house right now to look,” Ms. Qi said. She turned to run out as she spoke.

Mr. Liu snapped out of his daze and hurried to grab her hand: “Calm down. Do not act on impulse.”

“Calm down? How am I supposed to calm down? They killed my child, and they even want to use him to hurt me and my husband, to drag our whole family to hell. How am I supposed to calm down? He is a piece of my own flesh! How can they treat him like this? How can they treat us like this?”

At the end, Ms. Qi could not hold it in anymore and burst into loud sobs. Mr. Liu’s eyes turned red too, his heart full of bitterness.

“I know, I know…” he said.

“No, you do not know. These years, we had no children. Every time I saw you with the two kids next door, especially when you were with that boy Tian Yuan, I felt so guilty. I kept thinking that if I had not insisted on going out to buy something that day, there would not have been a car accident. Our child would not have died in my belly before he even got to take a single step in this world,” she choked.

“No, it was not your fault,” Mr. Liu said. He had never known that his wife had been thinking this way all these years. He was full of regret and heartache, blaming himself for not noticing her inner struggle for so long.

Ms. Qi ignored him and went on through sobs: “And now I am being told that my child was actually murdered. The one who killed him lives just one wall away from us, spending our money, enjoying our favor, living a happy, rich, and complete family life.

“And my poor child not only had his rightful happy days stolen from him, he is also being enslaved and tortured by them, forced to do bad things and bear the consequences for them. Why? Tell me, why?”

“Calm down? Calm down? I have been calm my whole life. I do not want to be calm anymore. Today I am going to get my child back, and no one is going to stop me. If they dare block me, good, I will settle the new grudges and the old grudges together. At worst we break all ties and drag each other down. Fish dead, net torn!”

Blinded by rage and hot blood, Madam Qi looked like she wanted to kill gods if gods blocked her and kill Buddhas if Buddhas blocked her, ready to die together with anyone who stood in her way.

Mr. Liu could not hold her back. Ms. Qiu and her son had to step up to help, and the private room fell into chaos again.

In all this noisy mess, only Xi Jing Yue noticed how, when Madam Qi mentioned the name of Mr. Liu’s brother’s older son, Du An Rao’s whole body shook, and her big round eyes widened.

This familiar odd reaction made Xi Jing Yue’s heart stir. Sure enough, the next second she heard Du An Rao quietly ask: “What did you say your brother’s older son was called just now?”