The Woman in the Wall

Lately, I always feel like there’s someone extra in the room.

It turned out to be my husband’s new little wife.

And I have been built into the wall for 3 years.

By my husband, Shen Duo.

1.

I woke up from the chaos in a daze and found a cute little woman in the room.

Wearing a light yellow dress, she shuttled around the kitchen like a butterfly.

Two dimples appeared on her cheeks, so sweet that even a woman like me felt happy.

I watched her quietly for a long time, watched her almost get splashed by boiling oil, watched her scoop up the grouper that was still bleeding.

It’s obvious that this girl has been spoiled since childhood. I wonder what kind of man she would cook for.

I thought to myself.

He is so lucky.

The door was opened and a tall man walked in.

He put down his briefcase, walked straight towards the woman, and held her in his arms from behind.

“Wanwan, I told you not to work too hard. I’ll take care of this.”

This sound…

Just as I felt a strange sense of familiarity, I saw the man resting his head on the woman’s shoulder.

Half of the face was facing me.

The high nose bridge and firm features reveal a sense of familiarity that is engraved into the bones.

My heart sank.

It’s Shen Duo.

My husband of five years and three years of marriage.

2.

Only then did I realize that the house in front of me… although the decoration is completely different, it exudes a gorgeous and exquisite temperament everywhere.

But the layout is exactly the same as the new home that Shen Duo and I moved into a year ago.

This is my home.

That is the stove where I have stir-fried countless times.

Yet my husband was in my house, hugging another woman.

My eyes almost went red with anger, and I just wanted to pounce on them and tear the faces of those bastards apart.

But it hit something hard, making a dull “bang” sound.

It doesn’t hurt, but there’s a suffocating feeling of being confined.

The woman seemed to tilt her head subconsciously.

I couldn’t help but reach out again.

There is an invisible barrier in front of me.

It was as if Shen Duo, that woman and I were separated into two time and space.

A huge fear rose in my heart. Where… was I?

3.

It seemed like just a brief moment of daze, and when he looked up again, there were already four or five dishes on the table.

Shen Duo took off his apron and gently kissed the corner of the woman’s lips.

Then he took her to me.

For a moment I almost thought he was coming towards me.

I desperately slapped the invisible barrier, roaring and screaming at him.

Then I watched him ignore me and stop in front of me.

Then he turned around and bowed forward with the woman.

The woman turned around and hugged him.

“Don’t be too sad,”

Her voice was faint,

“If she knew you loved her so much, she would definitely be touched.”

“You must come to pay tribute to her before every meal.”

Shen Duo lowered his head, his eyes full of pity.

“I’m sorry. I wronged you.”

The woman buried her face in his chest.

“Although I may be a little jealous and envious, this is why I am attracted to you.”

“A man like you who values ​​love and loyalty is worthy of being with you for life.”

The two of them chattered about something else, but I couldn’t hear them anymore.

Because at the moment when the woman buried her head in his chest, the space blocked by her petite body became empty.

On the mahogany table opposite was a photograph of a woman.

A black and white photo.

The woman still had a smile on her face.

There seemed to be an abyss hidden in his eyes, empty, numb, and chilling.

That woman is me.

4.

My head hurts like crazy.

I finally remembered.

I am already dead.

Died in a car accident.

I still remember the screeching of brakes and the splash of blood.

And…Shen Duo who was running towards me from a distance.

I looked up and saw the clock in front of me.

August 2, 2020.

Already, three years have passed.

So Shen Duo found new happiness.

The woman’s name is Peng Wan, and she grew up in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

As my first impression, she was indeed a delight.

Unlike me, whose voice is as swift as the wind, her voice has a soft and milky taste.

Even if she cut a big watermelon in half in summer, she would scoop out the sweetest part in the center and give it to Shen Duo.

And once…that sweetest bite of watermelon has always been mine.

Looking at the man and woman who were as sweet as swans embracing each other on the sofa, a sour feeling suddenly rushed to my nose and I almost thought I was going to cry.

But when you look into the corner of your eyes, you can see the rough dryness.

It turns out… ghosts don’t cry.

I cast my longing gaze towards Shen Duo lying on the sofa.

Time seemed to be particularly fond of this man. Not only did his face not look a bit weathered, but his whole body exuded a sense of vigor and vitality, making him even more handsome.

I rubbed my eyes, and yes, it was really red.

After becoming a ghost, can you really see the fortune of others?

I turned my gaze back to Peng Wan, but there was nothing.

It seems that Peng Wan’s luck is average.

I couldn’t help but laugh. Shen Duo actually told me that he was told that his fate was “a rough life, with loss of both wealth and longevity”. What kind of blind charlatan could say such a thing against his conscience to such a prosperous red energy?

But somehow, that red energy had an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if it was being torn away from my body.

Even at this moment, I can vaguely feel it calling me silently.

At that time, I thought that because I had been with Shen Duo for too long, this red energy regarded me as half its owner.

But I didn’t expect that this thing really has spirit.

It is here, calling out to its true master.

5.

As the days passed, the red aura on Shen Duo became more and more intense.

He is visibly getting busier.

I know that Shen Duo has always been very ambitious.

But no matter how busy he is, he will always go home every night.

And he will definitely hug Peng Wan for a while.

The same is true today.

I felt uncomfortable watching this and was just about to look away to divert my attention when I saw Shen Duo gently put Peng Wan down from his arms.

For some reason, I looked up at the clock on the wall.

The pointer will soon point to 12 o’clock.

I frowned unconsciously.

These days…Shen Duo and Peng Wan seem to spend most of their time together around this time.

When did Shen Duo develop this quirk?

The moonlight shone on Peng Wanying’s pale face, creating a soft glow; she seemed to be sleeping soundly.

Shen Duo called softly in her ear,

“Wan Wan.”

Peng Wan did not respond.

She even smacked her lips unconsciously, like a cute little animal.

Even I couldn’t help but feel soft at heart, and I looked towards Shen Duo unconsciously.

Would he be…more compassionate?

I couldn’t help but feel a little sour in my heart.

Shen Duo’s face was half hidden in the shadows, and he slowly raised his head.

The expression on his face at that moment… could even be described as gloomy.

He reached into the crack between the sofas and pulled out something that looked like a box, then opened it.

The next moment, he grasped a small object that shone with a cold silver light in his hand. It was… a silver needle.

Shen Duo gently pinched Peng Wan’s index finger and stabbed it without hesitation.

Bright red blood beads instantly gushed out, covering Peng Wan’s tender, white fingertips.

The moment that glaring red pierced my eyes, I opened my eyes wide…

6.

That needle… also pricked my fingertips.

Three days before I died.

Also when I was fast asleep.

But I am afraid of pain, and the slightest sting is enough to wake me up.

I asked in a daze, and a silver light seemed to flash in my blurred vision:

“What are you doing?”

A kiss landed on my forehead.

Shen Duo stroked my hair and coaxed me as usual:

“Be good, I accidentally pricked you. Go to sleep.”

And now…

I watched as Shen Duo pierced Peng Wan’s finger, then reached in again and took something out from the crack in the sofa.

I squinted for a long time before I could see clearly that it was a bronze mirror.

There seems to be… a Yin-Yang Bagua drawn on it.

Shen Duo carefully held the bronze mirror, held Peng Wan’s hand, and dripped the blood from her fingertips onto the white dot on the black half.

Then he pierced his hand in the same way and dripped the water onto the black spot on the white half.

My heart sank.

What on earth is he going to do?

But this weird scene is not over yet.

Just as Shen Duo took out a pair of small scissors from the tool box and put them next to Peng Wan’s bangs, his cell phone suddenly rang.

A shrill ringing sounded in the empty room, waking up the sleeping Peng Wan in an instant.

Shen Duo quickly stuffed the thing in his hand back into the crack of the sofa before Peng Wan opened her eyes.

Then he picked up the phone.

He habitually takes a few steps outside when he answers the phone.

For example, now.

He walked right in front of me and stopped, with his back to Peng Wan who had just woken up.

So even though there was nothing unusual in his voice, I could see all the undisguised viciousness and hostility in his eyes.

I was so shocked that I took a step back.

What happened to Shen Duo?

7.

Ever since I saw Shen Duo taking blood to feed the Yin-Yang Bronze Mirror that day, my uneasiness has become more and more intense.

But I am always shrouded in a fog and can’t sort out my thoughts.

In the next few days, Shen Duo seemed particularly busy.

I hardly ever went home.

But this house was busier than usual.

I pointed at a ghost approaching Peng Wan for the thirtieth time.

“You! What are you doing? Can’t you see my territory?”

This time it was a hanged ghost. As soon as he turned around and saw me, he immediately started shaking his legs in fear.

“Big sis, you were so quiet that I didn’t even notice you!”

I raised my eyebrows. He was actually a ghost from Northeast China.

“Okay, now you know. Get out of here.”

He disappeared in a flash.

I held my chin with my hand and looked at the little girl who was drawing on the drawing board with her back to me. Half of her face was in the sunlight, and even the tiny hairs were clearly visible.

Ever since Shen Duo stopped returning home, there have been ghosts haunting the house these past few days, all coming for Peng Wan who was in front of them.

It was also a coincidence that the first ghost that came just met my glance as it floated into the door.

He immediately knelt on the ground, trembling with fear.

“I didn’t know that this was your territory. I was so stupid that I dared to tamper with you.”

It was also through his words that I found out that Peng Wan had a pure yin body in the four pillars (born in a yin year, yang month, yin day, and yin hour).

It is the “perfect food” that the ghosts stranded in the human world are flocking to.

And I was filled with hostility, like a vicious and evil ghost.

When the ghosts saw it, they all fled in all directions.

I sneered.

How could I, a person who died accidentally and had no resentment, turn into a ghost?

But I did not waste the power given by God. Since that day on, I helped Peng Wan drive away a lot of annoying things that tried to absorb her negative energy.

Until…that old man showed up.

8.

I scared him as usual.

“This is my territory, hurry up.”

The old man stroked his beard and laughed:

“You are a poor ghost with a trapped soul, and you dare to confront me?”

“I’m not one of those confused little devils. I’m not that easy to fool.”

My heart sank, and the sound seemed to be kneaded into sand.

“What does it mean that the soul is imprisoned?”

He pointed at the memorial tablet on the mahogany table opposite, and then pointed at a white pottery jar next to me.

“The altar on the table is facing the urn to lock the soul.”

“You can’t leave that wall even for a moment? Because your soul is trapped in the wall.”

My nails dug into my palms, but I didn’t feel any pain.

His eyes were almost bloodshot.

He paced a few steps, walked to my memorial tablet, and looked at me for a moment.

“It’s made of top-grade golden nanmu wood, but it’s nailed shut with eighteen golden nails.”

“Wood represents life, but gold represents death. The gold nails can seal the spirit tablet and trap the soul of the deceased, trapping it in the ashes.”

He glanced at the words on the memorial tablet and uttered a sound of amazement.

“Boy, there’s more to it than that.”

“The person who did this is truly cruel! So clever!”

He pointed to the two lines of small words under the tablet.

“Look, the four characters ‘Love of a Lifetime’ are not written in the center like the name, but are instead written in two vertical lines, ‘Love’ ‘Lifetime'”

“If you look at it alone, you would think it is a sign of deep affection from the person who made the sign, but the magic is that the word ‘life’ is written in a separate line and in gold powder.”

“A horizontal line above the word ‘life’ cuts off your path to rebirth!”

“Absolute! Absolutely amazing!”

Every word he said was like a sharp sword piercing my empty heart.

Clearly only a soul was left, yet I felt as if my internal organs were twisted in pain.

He turned his head:

“Although the dead don’t care about the things that happened in life, but you are set up with a soul-locking formation. Your hatred is too great, girl.”

“Do you know who did this?”

Hatred swept through my entire consciousness in an instant.

I gritted my teeth and said:

“My husband.”

“Shen Duo.”

9.

Finally, a bit of pity appeared on the old man’s face.

“Why is he so resentful?”

The scene of the Bagua bronze mirror and the silver needle for drawing blood suddenly flashed through my mind.

I have a strong premonition in my heart.

——These must be related to my current experience.

Sure enough, the old man suddenly understood after listening to it.

“I see. That makes sense.”

“The Bagua bronze mirror you mentioned is a yin-yang fish. White is yang and black is yin.”

“The bronze mirror attracts evil spirits. Using it as a carrier, the birth date as a medium, and the blood and hair of the person performing the spell…”

His eyes sparkled.

“It aims to exchange fate.”

The fog of memory cleared away and I remembered an old story.

…

Shen Duo and I started dating in our freshman year.

He is an orphan and grew up eating at many people’s homes, but he is very hardworking and ambitious.

After we got together, he has always been very nice to me and is a model boyfriend in everyone’s eyes.

After graduation, I was lucky enough to get a job in a foreign company with excellent treatment and everything went smoothly, but he had a hard time finding a job.

He was depressed all day long during that period.

I knew that he had believed in Feng Shui since he was a child, so I specially found a day to accompany him to a temple to pray for talismans.

I was stopped by an old monk at the temple gate.

He was actually wearing sunglasses and had a chubby figure, and didn’t look like a hermit at all.

He looked serious.

“The female donor’s fate is extremely glorious and prosperous.”

I just laughed it off.

Another charlatan.

Instead, Shen Duo’s eyes lit up.

I was about to pull him away when I saw him staring at the monk with shining eyes.

“Master, can you take a look for me too?”

The monk glanced at him and immediately frowned.

Nothing more said.

Walk away in anger.

Shen Duo then looked like he was troubled.

I teased him, “Why? Do you have a bad fate? Are you jealous of me?”

Unexpectedly, Shen Duo frowned, his face full of worry.

“The year I was born, a wandering Taoist priest in the village told my fortune.”

“They say I’ve had a rough life, and lost both wealth and longevity.”

I laughed.

“You believe this nonsense. It’s all a scam.”

“Besides, you and I are one. I have a good fate, so won’t you enjoy the same happiness?”

A hint of gloom flashed across Shen Duo’s eyes.

When she saw me looking over, she smiled the familiar gentle smile again.

“Of course. If you’re fine, I’m fine.”

As a result, when I was waiting for Shen Duo to go to the toilet, the monk suddenly appeared beside me again.

I looked around in astonishment. There was only one path leading to this place, but no one had just walked here.

I felt a chill in my heart.

The monk looked solemn and spoke to himself.

“Although your fate is noble, it is doomed to disaster. You need to be careful of the evil people around you who are trying to change the world. You need to…”

He seemed to be about to say something.

Shenduo has already walked towards this direction.

When he saw me standing with the monk, his face looked inexplicably gloomy.

The monk sighed.

“It’s fate… It’s fate… Just take care of yourself…”

I didn’t take that matter to heart at all, but I didn’t expect that someone did.

And because of this, it took my life.

10.

I threw myself on the barrier, my eyes wide open.

“What will be the consequences for those whose fates are changed?”

“The person whose life is replaced will show signs within three days. At the least, they will suffer from bad luck, and at the worst, they will become mentally confused.”

“The greater the difference in fate between the two people being exchanged, the more serious the consequences will be.”

“Death on the streets is a common occurrence.”

It is common to die on the streets… This sentence has been lingering in my mind.

The difference in fate between Shen Duo and I is probably big enough.

The old man continued to speak.

“But if you want to calm the soul… you must collect the soul within the moment it leaves the body, otherwise the effect will be greatly affected.”

If I were still alive at this moment, the corner of my lip would probably be bitten by me.

So that’s how it is… So that’s how it is…

The Shen Duo who ran towards me anxiously was just here to collect my soul.

During those three days, I was often confused and sometimes even fell into a state of unconsciousness for a period of time.

He took me out unnaturally late at night.

He let go of my hand in front of the traffic.

Watching me walk into the traffic…

From the beginning to the end, he just wanted me to die!

I hate…

“Since he has already taken my life, why… does he still want to suppress my soul?”

“People who use this kind of evil formation often suffer backlash, but your fate is too precious, so you can suppress the backlash.”

“But…his descendants may not have such a good fate to withstand the backlash.”

“On the contrary, he used your bones, blood and soul to protect his house…”

The old man paused before continuing, his voice full of pity.

“It can nourish the prosperity of his descendants.”

My whole body was shaking and my head was buzzing.

He has such a cruel heart!

You planned every step and squeezed me till there was nothing left!

He even calculated the time of my death.

July 14th, midnight!

He died when the yin energy was at its strongest, so that his descendants would have more luck!

I nearly crushed my finger bones.

11.

The old man suddenly frowned again.

“That’s strange. Usually, the soul-suppressing formation is set up in a place where the person being cast has lived for a long time or is familiar with. This way, the soul will be at ease and fall into chaos, and guard the house honestly.”

“Why did you wake up?”

How the hell should I know!

I glared at him fiercely.

Am I supposed to be sealed behind this wall and serve as a soul sacrifice for eternity?

The old man touched his nose and glanced around.

“That’s not what I meant…don’t take your anger out on me!”

Suddenly, his gaze stopped.

He stroked his chin.

“I see.”

I followed her gaze to Peng Wan standing by the window.

She was completely oblivious to the dark resentment in this corner, and seemed to be living a peaceful and tranquil life.

I froze, then reacted randomly.

“Is it because of her?”

The old man nodded.

“Your husband’s fate has been changed, which means he has stepped half a step out of the cycle of life and death.”

“So he is the same as us now,” he pointed at Peng Wan, “the yin energy of that girl can nourish his luck.”

The image of Shen Duo hugging Peng Wan in the middle of the night suddenly flashed through my mind.

So…that’s how it is.

At midnight, the yin energy is the heaviest.

“Your husband is a man of character. He really knows a lot about Feng Shui.”

The old man shook his head and smiled somewhat sarcastically.

“But there is always a loophole.”

“He forgot that you are a fierce ghost, born with a pure Yin body, and died at the time of the year when the Yin energy is the heaviest.”

“She nourishes you… a hundred times more.”

I was stunned for a long while.

Suddenly I realized that this strange old man… might be the only chance for me to take revenge.

I looked pleading.

“Master, you know so much, can you tell me how to get rid of this shackles? I…”

He flatly refused.

“You are a fierce ghost. Once you release the barrier, you will bring disaster to the world. I was an Yin-Yang master in my lifetime. I will never help the evil.”

I yelled:

“But I didn’t do anything wrong! Why?”

“Just because I was blind and fell in love with this man, I should be plotted to death, my soul should never be reincarnated after death, and I should even have to protect the descendants of this man who hurt me so much?”

“I won’t accept this!”

“I won’t accept this!”

I rammed the barrier desperately, wishing I could tear it apart.

The pity in the old man’s eyes deepened.

“Kid…I know you feel wronged, but this is your fate. You have to accept it.”

I laughed out loud, then rammed the barrier even more frantically.

“Fate? I don’t accept fate!”

Suddenly, I looked up as if I had sensed something and met Peng Wan’s dazed and lost gaze.

Last time!

The last time I hit the barrier, Peng Wan also turned her head away!

I felt a surge of ecstasy in my heart.

Can she hear?

Can she see me?

I held my breath and stared at her.

But Peng Wan just glanced away like she did last time and her eyes returned to the canvas.

My heart sank.

A great despair overwhelmed me.

No! I can’t give up!

I forced myself to calm down and think.

finally…

I looked up at the old man again.

“This is my fate, you say.”

I raised my hand and pointed at Peng Wan.

“What about her!”

“She was a healthy and living person! Did she deserve to be in this situation? Her life was taken away! She will never be able to be reborn!”

Yes, I’m betting.

That day I saw that red gas, and it turned out to be my luck that had been taken away.

What about Peng Wan? Peng Wan, who has the same four-pillar pure yin body as me, is it as simple as just nourishing Shen Duo?

That night… I clearly saw with my own eyes that Shen Duo was about to take her life!

I’m betting that Peng Wan…also has an invaluable fate!

12.

I stared at the old man.

Afraid of missing any expression on his face.

really.

The old man’s expression changed from astonishment to shock and then to anger.

“Your fate is already extremely noble, enough to make him rich and prosperous for the rest of his life.”

“He’s still not satisfied!”

I bet right!

I approached him through the barrier.

“I have personally seen Shen Duo using the Yin-Yang Bronze Mirror to extract her blood and perform a ritual. If it hadn’t been for an unexpected incident, she would have been buried deep underground with me!”

I broke down his psychological defenses bit by bit.

“If she died right before your eyes, you would be doing nothing to save her!”

I stared at his old face and delivered the final blow.

“She was only 24! If she died, how sad would her parents be?”

The old man was struck by lightning.

Sure enough, this is his weak spot.

Countless expressions flashed through his turbid eyes.

But he remained silent.

There was a long silence.

Tears welled up in my eyes.

“Please…”

“I was only 27 when I died.”

“My dad…he’s the same age as you.”

Having said this, I finally couldn’t help but burst into tears.

There was a damp heat on the face.

It’s blood and tears.

Blindingly red.

I stroked it with some surprise.

It turns out that when they are sad, even ghosts can shed tears.

Finally, he let out a long sigh.

“Okay. What do you want?”

A strong hatred burst out from my eyes, but I suppressed it very quickly.

“Can I… establish a connection with her?”

I pointed at Peng Wan.

The old man was stunned.

“There were a few times… I bumped into the wall and she seemed to feel it…”

The old man slapped his thigh.

“Yes!”

“You two both have four-pillar pure yin bodies, so there is a connection between you.”

“You just said your husband took her blood?”

I was physically uncomfortable with the word “your husband”. I frowned but said nothing.

“Yes. Her and Shen Duo’s blood has been dripped onto the Yin-Yang bronze mirror.”

He was very happy.

“In this case, even though the method has not yet succeeded, she is also a person who has one foot in the underworld.”

He glanced at the clock on the wall.

“Tomorrow is July 14th.”

“Zi time is the time of the year when the Yin energy is at its strongest. It is also your festival day.”

“If she worships you at this time, maybe…she can see you.”

My hollow chest began to tremble, as if imitating the pounding of my heart when I was alive.

This girl…

She will.

She loved that man so deeply that was worse than a beast.

And has such a pure and kind heart.

She will mourn the wife of her beloved who died “unjustly and unjustly”.

July 14th, midnight.

27 hours left.

I can wait.

I stared out the window.

It was getting dark.

It was like the mouth of an abyss swallowing up all the bright and beautiful things in the daytime.

Shen Duo, you must not come back.

You must not do any practice during this time.

You must be waiting for me… to come and take revenge on you.

13.

Time seems to have never been longer.

Every second seemed to be frying me in a frying pan.

But I always stayed there quietly, waiting.

It’s past midnight.

Shen Duo did not come back.

It’s past twelve noon.

Shen Duo…

The door was opened with a click.

My heart sank.

Shen Duo…is back.

But what surprised me even more was that after Shen Duo entered the room, two hunched figures appeared in front of me behind him.

I fell to the ground in an instant.

The two old people in front of me with silver hair and miserable faces are my parents.

It was three years ago, before I left.

They still have rosy faces and look full of energy.

I covered my mouth tightly to prevent any sobbing from leaking out.

My father stood in the entrance hall, rubbing his hands awkwardly.

“Xiaoduo. We know that you are against Tongtong…”

He glanced at Peng Wan, who was obediently handing them slippers, and shut up again.

Seeing this, Peng Wan spoke obediently:

“Uncle and aunt probably have something to discuss with Shen Duo. I’ll step aside for now.”

After saying that, he hurried into the room and closed the door.

“But you have done your best.”

“In the past three years, no matter how big your business has grown, you have never left this home. This is where Tongtong lived.”

My father looked around the house and finally couldn’t help but tear up.

“But now you have a new family and new happiness. Your uncle and aunt support you.”

“So today…your aunt and I came here specifically to take Tongtong’s ashes.”

He raised his hand and wiped away his tears.

My mother beside me was sobbing with her face covered.

“Your aunt and I… only have one daughter, Tongtong.”

“Just do what we want. Leave something for us two old men to remember!”

Shen Duo’s tall back seemed to bend down in an instant.

He nodded.

“Uncle and aunt, wait for me to light some incense for Tongtong.”

His voice became dry.

“Today…is the anniversary of her death.”

I stared at Shen Duo’s show. He bowed down in front of my spirit tablet, lit a stick of incense, and then bowed devoutly several times.

Then he carefully picked up the urn on the mahogany table and handed it to my mother.

The mother wiped her tears and patted his hands.

“My child, I’m sorry for your hardship.”

The rage in my heart almost consumed me.

Yet so sad.

I slapped myself hard several times.

It’s all your fault! You ignored your parents’ objections and insisted on marrying Shen Duo, a beast in human form!

This is why our parents have fallen into the situation where they have to see their children die and become old overnight.

I hate it so much!

14.

Until his parents left, Peng Wan came out and whispered to comfort the “grieving” Shen Duo.

Then I realized.

My urn was built into the wall.

So what was that urn my parents took away?

The old man’s angry voice suddenly sounded beside me.

“This Shen Duo is too cruel and ruthless!”

I had a bad feeling in my heart.

Ask: “What do you mean?”

His face turned red.

“You are a fierce ghost. After your death, everything that was close to you has a strong evil spirit.”

“The urn that Shen Duo gave to your parents has a particularly strong evil spirit. It’s probably the ashes from the cremation of your underwear.”

“For living people, evil spirits are extremely harmful to the body and shorten lifespan.”

“He gave this to your parents…”

He didn’t say anything else.

But I understand.

If he gives this to your elderly and frail parents, he is going to take their lives!

I clenched my fists tightly.

The scarlet eyes stared at the man on the sofa.

Shen, Duo.

I want him to—die!

15.

It seemed that Shen Duo came back specially for the arrival of my parents, but he left in a hurry not long after.

I continued to wait patiently.

Nine o’clock.

Ten o’clock.

Eleven o’clock.

Finally, the hour hand slowly moved towards twelve o’clock.

And I finally saw that petite figure in front of the memorial tablet.

Peng Wan also lit a stick of incense and whispered to my spirit tablet:

“Sister, although I am a little jealous of you, you must be a very good and gentle person, that’s why Shen Duo loves you so much.”

“You must be doing well in heaven, please bless us.”

I felt like I had heard the biggest joke in the world.

But I don’t want to say anything, I’m waiting…

After Peng Wan finished speaking, she bowed three times upright towards the tablet.

I finally waited for it.

I heard my own voice tearing through the silent night, so mute as if it had been filled with sulfuric acid:

“Peng Wan.”

In those few short seconds, I never felt that time was so long.

As my pupils contracted violently, Peng Wan turned her face slowly.

She almost fell to the ground.

“Who are you?!”

I took a deep breath.

He even curled the corners of his lips.

“Hello Peng Wan, I’m Xie Tong.”

16.

As expected, Peng Wan didn’t believe what I said at all.

She just felt that she had encountered an evil spirit.

“You may not believe what I said, but you can look in the cracks of the sofa to see if there is anything I said.”

Peng Wan reached her trembling hands into the crack of the sofa.

The next moment, an expression of disbelief appeared on her face.

I lowered my voice, with temptation,

“You can take it for testing to see if this is your and Shen Duo’s blood.”

“You can also look under the mahogany table to see if there is a similar Bagua plate. Besides blood, there may also be my and Shen Duo’s hair.”

Sure enough, after groping for a long time, Peng Wan finally found the Bagua plate that was exactly the same but obviously older in the secret compartment.

In addition to two drops of still bright red blood, there were also two small strands of hair attached to it.

Peng Wan sat on the sofa in a daze, her expression frozen.

I decided to up the ante.

“Peng Wan, your parents should be about the same age as mine, right?”

“But you saw them today. Are they much older than your parents?”

I stared at her intently.

“You are the next me.”

“If you die, your parents will become like mine.”

I let out a weird laugh from my throat.

“More importantly, your good husband will give them the evil urn as well, so that they can go to heaven together with you and reunite.”

Peng Wan’s eyes widened suddenly. She seemed to remember something and her expression changed suddenly.

“Shut up!” she snapped.

But I won’t.

I laughed louder and louder.

“Oh no, you can’t be reunited.”

My eyes seem to be filled with poison,

“Because you will be sealed in this wall like me, and you will never be able to reincarnate, and you will always be fertilizer for Shen Duo, the scum!”

Peng Wan covered her ears and screamed.

I let her scream.

The louder the better.

Finally, Peng Wan raised her eyes again. They were bloodshot and inexplicably scary.

“Tomorrow, I will check what you said.”

17.

The next afternoon, Peng Wan opened the door in a daze.

She stood in front of me for a long time.

Not a word.

About a century had passed.

She finally spoke:

“What are you going to do?”

I laughed.

Through her dark pupils I saw my own curved eyebrows.

“I want him dead.”

“The kind that will never be reborn.”

18.

My plan was to ask Peng Wan to help me remove the eighteen steel nails from the memorial tablet.

And smashed the spirit tablet into pieces.

This way I won’t be subject to the spell of sedition.

And once I escape from the barrier, I will eat Shen Duo’s flesh alive and drink his blood.

My fate and his were originally locked together because of the exchange of the Bagua plate.

Once I take his life, I will eat his flesh and draw his blood.

His soul will be devoured by me.

I am a ghost who went to the eighteenth level of hell after death.

I will take that beast Shen Duo with me and destroy him under the scorching sun, with no hope of reincarnation.

This was obviously a very simple plan. All they had to do was drug Shen Duo or knock him out while he was at home.

It can be implemented.

But Peng Wan just kept dragging it on.

Said the time has not come yet.

Although I am anxious.

But I can’t.

Peng Wan works as an illustrator. She used to stay at home every day and wouldn’t go out for most of half a month.

But these days, he would leave home as soon as Shen Duo went out and would not return until the evening.

When asked, she was also mysterious.

It makes me suspect something has happened.

Fortunately, Shen Duo will never stop his suicidal steps.

He tried several times to continue his formation while Peng Wan was asleep.

But they were all avoided by the alert Peng Wan.

I watched through the barrier and saw that the hatred in Peng Wan’s eyes was growing stronger day by day.

very good.

So I waited patiently.

19.

I still remember that morning, Peng Wan was wearing a beautiful white dress with the hem embroidered with delicate white chrysanthemums.

Half of her face was in the sun, and the fluff around her ears was shining golden.

She smiled at me.

“Sister, today is the day.”

She pulled Shen Duo out of the room and sat him on the sofa, then smiled and handed him a glass of honey water.

“You drank too much again last night. Drink some honey water quickly to stop feeling dizzy.”

Shen Duo looked at her with gentle eyes and drank it in big gulps.

Peng Wan lowered her eyes and leaned obediently into Shen Duo’s arms.

“Aduo, I heard from your friends that Sister Xie Tong treats you wholeheartedly.”

When he heard my name, Shen Duo froze.

There was a hint of unnaturalness in his expression.

“Why are you suddenly… talking about her?”

Peng Wan ignored him and continued:

“Sister Xie Tong gave up her good job for you and started a business with you from scratch. In order to save money, she did all the dirty work herself.”

“I’ve been trying to get you the bill. All the red, white and yellow wines are on the table. I drink and vomit, and my stomach is ruined.”

Shen Duo’s hands at his side curled up unconsciously, and a trace of nostalgia flashed across his eyes.

He responded softly, “She is a good wife.”

Peng Wan also looked at him tenderly.

“Yes, she was also spoiled by her family like me. She fought for you outside and cooked for you at home, with her head and face covered in cooking fumes.”

“She’s so good… When you killed her, did you feel any reluctance?”

Shen Duo tried to sit up suddenly, but fell back onto the sofa just as he was about to do so.

Peng Wan covered her mouth and laughed, then continued to ask.

“When you built her into the wall, did your conscience ever pang?”

Her voice is still in the soft and gentle Jiangnan Wu dialect.

But it was like a poisonous snake spitting out its tongue, every word and sentence was poisonous.

“Are you out of strength, Aduo? I put drugs in your honey water.”

She brushed her fingertips across Shen Duo’s wide-open eyes.

“Don’t be so scared, Aduo. After all…” She still had a naive smile on her face, “The fun has just begun~”

Even I was shocked by her face-changing performance which was comparable to Sichuan Opera.

But I didn’t have time to think about it, the desire for revenge almost made me burn with anger.

I broke my voice with excitement.

“Go and remove that nail and destroy the spirit tablet. Go now!”

Peng Wan looked at me deeply.

Sure enough, he stood up and picked up the spirit tablet.

My heart seemed to be suspended in the air as the spirit tablet was hung in the air.

But Peng Wan didn’t do what I said.

She gracefully held my spirit tablet in front of Shen Duo.

“Didn’t Aduo miss Sister Xie Tong just now? Why don’t you tell her in person?”

When Shen Duo saw my spirit tablet, he acted as if he had seen a ghost and tried to shrink back.

Peng Wan smiled sweetly.

“Aduo obviously has to look at his sister when he eats every day. Why is he so scared today?”

“I see. It must be the wrong posture.”

After saying that, she pushed Shen Duo hard from behind, and Shen Duo immediately knelt on the ground like mud.

Peng Wan straightened my tablet and placed it in front of him.

Then he clapped his hands and said happily: “It’s better for Aduo to kneel down and talk.”

20.

I didn’t want to see Shen Duo live even one more second in this world. I just wanted to pounce on him and tear him apart right away.

“Peng Wan, what are you doing? Hurry up and do it.”

Peng Wan finally turned to me.

She shook her head slowly but firmly.

“No, sister, if you kill him, you will commit murder.”

“You will fall into the Avici Hell, where you will never be able to escape rebirth.”

She looked at the man on the ground.

The disgust in his eyes almost overflowed.

“I won’t let you dirty the road of reincarnation for such a person.”

I was stunned.

But the one who reacted faster than me was Shen Duo.

There was fear in his eyes, but it turned into hope in the end.

“Tongtong…Tongtong…are you in there?”

Peng Wan slapped him hard on the face.

“How dare you call her by her name!”

Shen Duo ignored her. He staggered and tried to crawl towards me, but because he was too weak, he fell heavily to the ground with his face on the ground like a dead dog.

He was crying, and turned his face towards me. His empty eyes seemed to touch mine.

“Tongtong, Tongtong, you are in there, right?”

“Tongtong, I was wrong. I shouldn’t have been so obsessed.”

“My original intention, my original intention… was just to provide you with a better life.”

“I didn’t know… I really didn’t know you were going to die…”

“I love you. I really do.”

“Tongtong, don’t… don’t hurt me, you still have an afterlife…”

“I burn paper for you and pray for you…”

“If you only let me go, if you only let me go…”

Peng Wan stepped on his mouth with her foot, and her high heels pierced Shen Duo’s mouth, leaving it bloody.

He uttered a single word and was unable to utter a word.

“There is an afterlife?” Peng Wan sneered and held my spirit tablet in front of him, “Wasn’t Sister Xie Tong’s afterlife nailed to death by these eighteen golden nails of yours?”

There was a hint of disbelief in Shen Duo’s eyes. He probably couldn’t understand how Peng Wan knew so much.

Peng Wan reached out from the crack in the sofa and took out the Yin-Yang plate.

“You’re still planning on making me the next Sister Xie Tong, right?”

Shen Duo’s mouth was blocked and he couldn’t speak.

He just sobbed and shook his head.

His face was covered with snot and tears.

His eyes were full of begging.

I was disgusted by his appearance.

How could I fall in love with such a man back then?

I turned my face away, feeling somewhat powerless.

“Peng Wan, what on earth do you want to do?”

twenty one,

Peng Wan looked at me with tears in her eyes:

“Sister, your life has been ruined by this scumbag.”

“I can’t let him destroy you in my next life!”

Her voice seemed a little hoarse.

I looked at her red eyes.

Suddenly it was as if a balloon was punctured.

I leaned weakly against the wall behind me.

“So what? So we’re just going to let him get away with it?”

I yelled.

“He did something like that, are we going to let him get away with it?!”

“Besides, I don’t even have a next life.”

I slammed my head against the wall, “Peng Wan, I can’t accept this!”

“I won’t accept this!”

Peng Wan suddenly sat up straight.

She used a handkerchief to carefully wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes.

Put on an impeccable smile.

“Sister, don’t be impatient.”

She kicked Shen Duo on the ground with her toes.

The voice is so gentle that it almost drips.

“Aduo, don’t you like changing your fate?”

“Then I will let you have a taste of what it feels like to have your fate changed.”

She stood up and took out a cage from the second bedroom.

There is a cat inside.

A cat with one eye blind, one leg missing, and a big hole scratched on its belly.

Its fur was dirty and it lay in the cage, dying.

It was obvious that he would not live long.

Peng Wan put the cage in front of Shen Duo.

“Aduo, look, this is a dying stray cat I found especially for you.”

“What’s even more coincidental is that this cat once had an owner, and I was able to find its birth date.”

“Look, it’s blind in one eye and lame in one leg. It has a terminal illness. Do you think its fate is good?”

Shen Duo seemed to realize something and tried desperately to crawl back.

However, Peng Wan held his finger tightly, and pierced his fingertip in front of his desperate eyes.

Peng Wan’s voice was still soft and slow, like the whispers of lovers.

While drawing blood, she whispered in Shen Duo’s ear:

“After exchanging fate with it, you will become as dumb as a newborn baby within three days.”

“And maybe one day I’ll be hit by a car while crossing the road and die.”

“Or he might fall down the stairs and die.”

“Or maybe, I will just stay stupid like this for the rest of my life.”

She smiled with two crescent-shaped eyes.

“Aduo, which one do you like?”

Shen Duo did not respond to her.

In extreme shock and fear, Shen Duo fainted.

twenty two,

I watched quietly as Peng Wan carefully took out a Yin-Yang Bagua mirror of the same model that she had gotten from somewhere.

He performed a ritual for Shen Duo and the cat with concentration and seriousness.

I don’t know why, but I just found the scene in front of me a little funny.

So I actually laughed out loud.

Peng Wan looked up. She had finished the ritual. Her big eyes, with clear black and white, stared straight at me.

“So you’ve been leaving early and coming back late these days. Did you go to see the Yin Yang Master?”

She looked a little proud.

“Yes, is it possible that Shen Duo is the only one who can find a good Onmyoji?”

“So can I.”

I sighed.

“But even if you do so much, it still won’t change anything. I am a ghost, and ghosts cannot be reincarnated.”

She raised the corners of her lips and smiled slyly.

“No, it’s not like that. I asked a lot of people before I realized that this formation is not unsolvable.”

She trotted into the second bedroom again and brought out a large bowl of thick black liquid.

The smell was so strong that I subconsciously wanted to avoid it.

Peng Wan took down the Yin-Yang Bagua mirror from Shen Duo and me, and poured everything in the bowl onto the mirror.

Hot steam began to rise from the mirror surface, and after bursts of pungent white smoke, Peng Wan used a cloth to wipe off the black dog blood on it, and the bronze mirror unexpectedly returned to its original smooth appearance.

I was shocked.

“This is…”

“Shen Duo is greedy and wants to swallow an elephant. If he didn’t want to save my life for the second time, the dirty things he did would have to be buried deep in the ground with your death.”

She smiled sarcastically again.

“But because of his greedy nature, he is doomed to be unable to stop.”

“I asked a master, and he said that if the person who stole the fate exchanged the fate with another person or creature, it would destroy the conservation of luck.

Then the previous formation is no longer indestructible, but can be broken.”

She raised the empty bowl in her hand.

“This is a powerful weapon for breaking the formation. Simple, but effective.”

It turned out to be black dog blood.

“After breaking the formation, the evil spirit in you will disappear. You will no longer be a fierce ghost and will be able to reincarnate again naturally.”

I couldn’t help but laugh.

My eyes fell on her bright little face, and I blurted out unconsciously.

“uncertain.”

She was surprised, “Not necessarily what?”

I shook my head and said nothing more.

Perhaps all the darkness will eventually be driven away by light, just like you to Shen Duo.

I said silently in my heart.

twenty three,

One day later.

Peng Wan carefully carried my urn to a temple.

A group of monks surrounded me and prayed for my soul to be reborn.

Shen Duo looked insane after waking up in the morning. Perhaps the backlash from swapping fates with the cat was even greater.

Peng Wan deliberately left the door wide open, and Shen Duo rushed out at some point and disappeared without a trace.

Peng Wan stood outside the formation, her brows still bent and her tone soft.

“Sister, don’t worry. When you enter reincarnation, I will go to my uncle and aunt’s house and secretly exchange your ashes for them. I will let you accompany them for the rest of your life.”

I whispered, “Thank you.”

The monks have already started chanting the mantra for rebirth.

Peng Wan suddenly shouted at me:

“Sister, in your next life, you must meet a good man!”

“Of course you can be beautiful on your own.”

“Please, please, please don’t let yourself be harmed again!”

Her hair seemed to shine with golden light in the sunlight, and the white chrysanthemums at the corners of her skirt danced in the wind.

The tears at the corners of my eyes finally fell.

This time it’s transparent.

I smiled at her.

“Bye, Peng Wan.”

Just before everything was about to return to chaos, I couldn’t help but ask the question that had been lingering in my mind:

“Why are you going to all that trouble to help me?”

The sight was shrouded by the rising white mist, and the only sound in my ears was the girl’s silver bell-like laughter:

“Girls help girls!”

I raised the corners of my lips.

Slowly closed his eyes.