Chapter 316

Chapter 316: I Didn’t Come for You

Yu Zhi Yi lifted her eyes and looked coolly at Juan’er: “If you try this again, I won’t mind making your soul scatter.”

She didn’t strike a flashy pose or act fierce; it sounded like a plain sentence. But Juan’er shuddered as if she saw something terrifying. The dark, killing aura around her folded away, and she went still like a quail.

Seeing this, Jiang Liu Shuang was speechless: “…” [No one told me Second Sister was this scary!]

On the other side, after Jiang Liu Bin drank the tea, his blind eyes quickly cleared. He said in surprise: “Sister, what kind of tea is this? It’s amazing! I’m really cured!”

Yu Zhi Yi smiled: “I made it myself.”

Jiang Liu Bin gazed at her with open worship.

Jiang Liu Shuang only felt a toothache of envy. If he remembered right, a few days ago Fourth Brother was the one most against Second Sister’s return, right? In just a few days, how did he act like he was under a spell and turn into a total Second Sister loyalist? And it wasn’t even his real sister-he was obsessed with the cousin who just came back.

Catching the subdued look on Juan’er, he had to admit it was…understandable.

Yu Zhi Yi ignored what the others were thinking and said to Juan’er: “Every grievance has its source. You’ve taken your revenge; now it’s time to go where you should go.”

Juan’er’s face changed: “I won’t! I killed people-if I go to the underworld, I’ll suffer endless torment!”

Yu Zhi Yi lifted a brow: “So you do know you can’t kill at will?”

She said calmly: “Heaven’s order and human ethics have their own rules. When a wicked person does evil, even if human law can’t punish her, the underworld’s law will. But you stepped over human law and took lives as you pleased. Hate blinded you. You didn’t only kill the ones who bullied you; you killed the innocent too, even their family members. Such sin must be repaid.”

The ones Juan’er took revenge on were not only Hong Yan but also the brothel madam, certain clients with strange tastes, and those clients’ family members.

“They deserved it! Who told them to be family to beasts!” snarled Juan’er, full of hate.

After she started taking clients, quite a few lawful wives had come to make trouble for her. Those women didn’t blame themselves for failing to control their husbands. Instead, they blamed her-the pitiful girl forced to sell her body. They stormed into the brothel to hit and curse her, and they shouted in the street, calling her every filthy name they could think of. Women like that could live well-why couldn’t she?

At first, she only wanted to buy her freedom and find a place to live quietly.

Yu Zhi Yi said, voice still level: “Only one of those wives actually humiliated you, but you killed the family members of sixteen households. Did the other fifteen wives humiliate you too?”

Juan’er fell silent. A fierce light flared in her eyes-then she suddenly struck a palm at Li Yu.

Li Yu raised a hand to counter, but Juan’er’s real aim wasn’t to fight. She flung that eerie, ghostly palm and then spun to run.

“Bastard!” Li Yu hadn’t expected the little ghost to be this cunning and cursed in anger. This was the first task her master had sent her on. If she messed it up, how could she ask her master to keep her?

Li Yu was about to give chase when Juan’er, who had dashed to the bedside, let out a piercing scream. In the next breath, her whole figure turned into a strip of black light and crumbled away, inch by inch, before everyone’s eyes.

Li Yu shivered and looked at Yu Zhi Yi: “Master, this…”

Yu Zhi Yi said evenly: “She completely lost her conscience. She could only scatter into nothing.”

Juan’er’s past was pitiful-no doubt. But that wasn’t a reason for killing the innocent. If she hadn’t harmed bystanders, Yu Zhi Yi could have tried to clear her resentment. Even though, after killing, she would still have to suffer dozens or even hundreds of years of punishment in hell, she would at least have a chance to reincarnate. And, considering she was a victim and those people were abusers, the underworld might even reduce her sentence. But she chose mass murder. Sixteen households-over a hundred people. Aside from the sixteen men who were the true culprits and one wife among them, the rest were innocent.

Li Yu’s already pale face turned even uglier. She had heard the phrase “scatter into nothing” before, but this was the first time she truly saw what it meant. A female ghost who had formed her own awareness, who could have had a chance to be reborn, was gone-no present, no future, erased from the world.

She had never felt so thankful-thankful that she kept a clear head, that she took advice, and most of all, that she backed the right person.

The Jiang Clan brothers were stunned. It was Jiang Liu Shuang’s first time seeing a ghost at all, and only the second time for Jiang Liu Bin. Before this, they always thought “scatter into nothing” was just some made-up death in stories. In fact, before meeting Yu Zhi Yi, they believed people died and that was it-no ghosts, no next life. They had barely stepped into this hidden world and had already witnessed a death that only existed in legends.

Jiang Liu Shuang’s scalp tingled. He looked at Yu Zhi Yi with awe-and relief. He was lucky she had returned; if not, he would have died today for sure. He said sincerely: “Second Sister, thank you for coming all this way to save me.”

Yu Zhi Yi glanced at him: “Oh, I didn’t come especially to save you. I came for Fourth Brother.”

“!” went Jiang Liu Bin.

“?!” went Jiang Liu Shuang.

Jiang Liu Bin forgot his fear and tossed away his faint pity in a blink. Grinning wide, he said: “Thank you, Sister!”

Jiang Liu Shuang was depressed. He had never suffered a loss because of a woman-no, to be exact, his charm with women never failed him. [I never imagined it would stop working in front of my own cousin.]

With the matter settled, Yu Zhi Yi was ready to return to Mount Ming. But the two brothers, just after being battered by a female ghost, didn’t want to travel at night. Especially Jiang Liu Shuang-although the ghost hadn’t drained him, he’d been up close to her, and that cold yin energy had slipped into his body, leaving him weak.

Yu Zhi Yi did a good deed to the end and handed Jiang Liu Shuang a cup of tea. He had already been curious about this tea. Earlier, Fourth Brother’s eyes were reddened by the ghost’s voice, and after one cup, they were fine again. Privately, he felt this wasn’t tea at all but an elixir.

The moment the tea touched his tongue, a clear, mellow taste spread. He felt something rush through his body, pushing out the chill and weariness, and his strength came back fast.

“Great tea!” he said.

“I didn’t tell Father and the others that I was going out,” said Yu Zhi Yi. “So I won’t wait for you.”

If her father came looking for her in the morning and found her room empty, he would worry.

“Second Sister, wait for me!” cried Jiang Liu Shuang.

Seeing she meant to leave, Jiang Liu Shuang didn’t put on any airs. Jiang Liu Bin had no objection either.

So, in the middle of the night, Mount Ming grew lively. Many people learned that the two young masters of the Jiang Clan had taken the just-returned Second Miss out, and they all came back only at midnight.