Chapter 499

Chapter 499: Even in Death, the Heart Aches

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“Whether an evil spirit or a rebellious soul, since you are my younger brother, you must listen to my fists…”

“Pah, no, I’m not that domineering.” Lu Chao Chao coughed lightly. “You must listen to my reasoning.”

Since this is your first time being human, as your elder sister, I shall personally teach you the principles of life!

They must be a loving pair of siblings.

Suddenly, a commotion erupted outside the Reincarnation Platform.

“Who dares to be so noisy here? Beware of disturbing our esteemed guest!” The Judge furrowed his brows and quickly strode toward the door.

There, he saw the underworld guards escorting a group of shackled criminals—those sentenced to the Eighteen Levels of Hell to atone for their grave sins.

The Judge frowned as he approached. “Get lost at once! Today, the Great Emperor himself is hosting a distinguished guest. If you offend them, no one will be able to save you!”

The guards grimaced and quickly nodded. “Yes, yes, we are leaving immediately! These are criminals sentenced to suffer punishments in the Eighteen Levels of Hell. But, Lord Judge, who is inside that warrants even the Ten Yama Kings and the Great Emperor to personally receive them…?”

“Could it be someone from the Celestial Realm?”

The Judge shot him a sharp glance. “The Celestial Realm? They are not worthy of the Great Emperor’s company.”

“Take them away immediately. Do not let them taint the honored guest’s sight.” The Judge’s cold gaze landed on the source of the commotion—a weeping mother and her son.

The woman knelt on the ground, wailing with sorrow.

“My son! My son! He only committed a sin that every man in the world would make! Why must he suffer all the punishments of the Eighteen Levels of Hell? He merely kept a mistress…”

“That mistress was malicious and cuckolded my son! She made him raise another man’s child!” The Old Madam clung to Lu Yuan Ze, crying hysterically. He had suffered greatly in life, yet even in death, he could not escape punishment!

Lu Yuan Ze no longer had his past arrogance. He knelt in disgrace. “Please, please, Lord Guard, have mercy on me… I cannot endure it any longer…”

“I have already been boiled in oil 3,628 times and climbed the Mountain of Blades over a thousand times! Let me be reborn as a beast! I am willing to take the Animal Path! I admit my wrongs!”

The man kowtowed desperately, his body covered in wounds, with no part left unscathed.

“I have suffered every punishment in the Eighteen Levels of Hell! I have learned my lesson!” Lu Yuan Ze continued to knock his forehead against the ground.

The guard sighed and pulled out a ledger. “Lu Yuan Ze, you still have 130 years of punishment left.”

“Not a day less.”

“You betrayed your wife and favored your concubine while discarding the lawful spouse. Initially, your sins were not this severe. However, your greatest crime stems from your daughter.”

“Ah, you fool! You missed a great fortune! Your daughter was blessed with immense merit. Had you cherished her, you would have been free from worries for lifetimes.”

“Yet, time and time again, you sought to harm her.”

“Tsk, tsk…”

“You had the grace of giving her life, or else your soul would have been scattered in the mortal realm, never to reincarnate.”

The Old Madam clutched Lu Yuan Ze, wailing. “My son! Who is Lu Chao Chao?! How did she doom our entire family?!”

Even in death, they found no peace.

Suddenly, silence fell over the crowd.

The highest ruler of the Netherworld, the Great Emperor of Feng Du, emerged with a wide, ingratiating smile, as if leading an esteemed guest. His demeanor was almost sycophantic.

The underworld guards immediately knelt, not daring to look up.

The Old Madam, brimming with audacity, sneaked a peek. Just who was this great figure?

If she could gain their favor… she inwardly lamented.

That single glance—

“Ah!” She froze in place, her shock turning into a shrill scream.

The underworld guards paled in horror. “Silence!”

The Old Madam’s eyes widened to their limit. The aged woman shrieked like a madwoman, pointing at Lu Chao Chao. “Ah! Ah!!”

She gripped Lu Yuan Ze’s arm in terror, shaking him violently.

“Mother! Have you gone mad?! Don’t drag me down with you if you want to die!” Lu Yuan Ze trembled in sheer dread.

This was the Netherworld.

Here, there were countless ways to make one suffer fates worse than death.

The Great Emperor of Feng Du commanded the Ten Yama Kings and an army of hundreds of thousands of underworld soldiers. How could he dare show even the slightest disrespect?

He pressed his forehead to the ground, not daring to look up.

Yet, the Old Madam wailed, pointing frantically at Lu Chao Chao. “Look! Look! Who is that?!”

The Old Madam had long known Lu Chao Chao was someone extraordinary. Otherwise, why would Abbot Shi Kong have given such a prophecy all those years ago?

But never had she imagined that Lu Chao Chao’s status was this unfathomably high!

It exceeded all of her expectations.

Lu Yuan Ze, trembling, dared to lift his gaze. When he saw the Great Emperor of Feng Du standing beside her in reverence, his legs gave way.

His eyes widened in sheer disbelief, his mind refusing to comprehend.

She…

She was the honored guest personally received by the Great Emperor of Feng Du?!

The Ten Yama Kings accompanied her. The entire Netherworld was placed under lockdown!

“Chao… Chao Chao… Is that really you?” Lu Yuan Ze stammered.

“Did you die at four years old?” he asked, his voice trembling.

The Judge kicked him. “What nonsense! The honored guest is perfectly alive and entered the Netherworld with her mortal body!”

“Who gave you the audacity to look directly at her? Get back to your punishment!”

To Lu Yuan Ze, the Judge was already a high official. Yet at this moment… the Judge was not even qualified to stand beside Lu Chao Chao.

The Great Emperor of Feng Du glanced at her. “Do you know him?”

Before Lu Chao Chao could respond, the Old Madam screamed hysterically, “Yes! Yes! We know her! I am her grandmother, her real, legitimate grandmother!”

“And this is her father, her own flesh and blood!”

“Chao Chao, save your grandmother! Save your father! We admit our mistakes!”

“We were deceived by that wretched woman! Chao Chao, save me! I don’t want to stay in this wretched place any longer!”

Her little granddaughter had made the entire Netherworld bow before her. She was the honored guest of the Great Emperor of Feng Du!

Abbot Shi Kong was right!

This child was supposed to be the Lu family’s great blessing!

Yet she had been blinded by greed and let a true pearl be buried in the dust.

Lu Chao Chao furrowed her brows, looking at her as if she were filth.

“I am the Empress of the Southern Kingdom. What are you to me? You dare claim to be my grandmother? My father?”

She chuckled. “Oh, you didn’t know, did you?”

“My mother was the lost princess of the Southern Kingdom. I have since inherited the throne.”

“You could have had a princess as a daughter-in-law and an empress as a granddaughter. But alas… you lacked the fortune to enjoy it.”

“Oh, by the way, my mother is expecting. She and Father Rong are having a little brother for me. Their days are blissful, and people call them an immortal couple.”

“As for my three elder brothers… My eldest brother is now a regent, my second brother commands the military, and my third brother… well, I heard he is likely to become the top scholar. Ah, people say the Rong family’s ancestors must be blessing them—they are envied to tears.”

“These are all the children you abandoned.”

“The Rong family sure got lucky.”

Lu Chao Chao let out a low chuckle, shattering the Old Madam’s mind.

“It was mine… all mine… it should have been mine…” The Old Madam wailed in despair, drowning in regret.

The Great Emperor of Feng Du gently tapped her forehead. “Mischievous.”

Being her enemy was truly miserable.

In life, she pierced the heart.

Even in death, she still did the same.