Chapter 187: Let Me Devour You, And We’ll Be Together For Eternity
Zhuang Jiayao spoke without hesitation: “I choose the first one!”
“Okay.” Nan Yuanman rummaged in her small shoulder bag, skillfully took out the small incense burner, lit the incense, and asked Zhuang Jiayao for Qi Rongxuan’s Eight Characters.
Wei Junchen coughed lightly and said weakly: “Um… should I avoid this?”
After all, the ghost to be summoned in a moment was his great-great-great-grandpa, and as his great-great-great-grandson, it wouldn’t be good to watch him make a fool of himself.
Zhuang Jiayao sneered: “You’re not his own grandson, why avoid it?”
Wei Junchen: “…” That makes sense.
He silently stood beside Xiao Qidong, and the four entered quiet gossip mode.
Nan Yuanman lit the incense, set out the food, lit the paper with Qi Rongxuan’s Eight Characters written on it, and her childish voice carried a touch of solemnity: “Qi Rongxuan, come quickly!”
The next moment, the lights in the room dimmed instantly, a faint yin energy swept through every corner of the room, the temperature gradually dropped, a gray mist slowly rose, and a skinny figure faintly appeared in the mist.
Zhuang Jiayao stared dead at the skinny figure in the mist, her eyes gradually turning crimson, her fingernails rapidly lengthening, the grievance on her body roaring and surging, as if in the next second she would rush out and bite that skinny figure to death.
Qi Rongxuan’s soul was weaker than Zhuang Jiayao’s, and with Zhuang Jiayao deliberately restraining her aura, he hadn’t noticed her presence for the time being.
Qi Rongxuan in the mist straightened his back, striking the pose of an ancestor, his voice cold and majestic: “Who summons me?”
Hearing this voice etched into her bones and deeply etched in her memory, Zhuang Jiayao could no longer hold back and pounced straight at him, snarling lowly: “It’s your grandma!”
The mist enveloping Qi Rongxuan dissipated instantly. When he saw Zhuang Jiayao in her red wedding dress pouncing at him, the air of a superior master he had deliberately put on shattered, and he turned in horrified panic and fled.
But how could he be a match for Zhuang Jiayao, who had become a red wedding dress fierce ghost? In the blink of an eye, she caught up to him and lifted him up, slamming him viciously to the ground.
Zhuang Jiayao stepped on his chest, looking down at him from above. That face, slashed beyond recognition, suddenly thrust close to his face, and she gritted out word by word: “Qi Rongxuan, take a good look at me. Do you still recognize me? Who am I?!”
Qi Rongxuan’s soul body shook, pain forcing a muffled grunt from him. He looked up at Zhuang Jiayao with a twisted face, a flash of extreme terror swiftly passing through his eyes.
Soon, that terror turned into surprise and astonishment: “Jiayao! You, how could you be here?!”
Qi Rongxuan anxiously gripped her ankle, gazing at her with full greed: “Do you know, I’ve been looking for you for so long. After going to the Underworld, I didn’t go reincarnate; I specially waited for you in the Underworld!”
“Heaven has not treated me badly; finally, I’ve found you!”
Zhuang Jiayao stared dead at Qi Rongxuan, seemingly moved by his strong emotions: “You really waited for me in the Underworld all this time?”
“Of course! When we got married, we said that even in death, in the Underworld we’d be a ghost couple!” Qi Rongxuan looked deeply affectionate: “Jiayao, see, I didn’t break our vow.”
Feng Jingcheng and the other three, along with Nan Yuanman, showed expressions as if they had seen a ghost. Was this full of lies? If they hadn’t heard Zhuang Jiayao’s story before, they really would have thought Qi Rongxuan was a devoted man!
Nan Yuanman furrowed her little brows, just about to speak, when she saw Zhuang Jiayao let out a cold laugh, raise her hand, and viciously slap Qi Rongxuan.
It spun his head 360 degrees, then she fiercely grabbed his collar, sneering as she questioned: “Qi Rongxuan, do you think I’m still that foolish sweet girl who was easy to deceive? Do you think I don’t remember… what happened in life?”
Qi Rongxuan’s expression changed slightly; that was indeed what he thought. After all, he had been dead for nearly three hundred years. If Zhuang Jiayao remembered what happened in life, she would have gone to the Underworld long ago to seek revenge on him.
But he had cowered in hiding in the Underworld for so many years without seeing Zhuang Jiayao come looking for him, so he thought she had long since scattered her soul or gone to reincarnate.
Qi Rongxuan knew well the deep sins on him; to reincarnate, he had to go through hell, so he had always huddled in this no-man’s-land of the Middle Yin Mirror in the Underworld, devouring some weak lonesome ghosts for cultivation, not daring to enter Fengdu City.
In these three hundred years, Qi Rongxuan hadn’t lacked worship from his descendants, so he lived quite freely in the Middle Yin Mirror, even once summoned by descendants to help with some matters.
Having been a ghost for so long, he didn’t want to be human anymore.
He wanted to cultivate, to become a ghost immortal dominating one side! So when Nan Yuanman summoned him just now, he didn’t refuse her summons.
Who knew… Zhuang Jiayao hadn’t gone to reincarnate! She still existed in the world! Even… fallen into a red wedding dress fierce ghost!
He could feel that Zhuang Jiayao’s current cultivation was higher than his! No matter how unwilling, he had to face the fact that he couldn’t beat the current Zhuang Jiayao!
So he could only appeal to emotion and reason, praying Zhuang Jiayao didn’t remember what happened in life, continue to deceive her, and make her his blood bag.
But now reality told him that not only did Zhuang Jiayao remember, she hated him to the bone!
Qi Rongxuan’s face changed, he lowered his head with a bitter laugh, and hoarsely said: “Jiayao, I knew you still resent me, but… but I really had no choice back then!”
“I didn’t want to send you to the Prince; it was he who threatened me! If I didn’t send you out, he would smash the business left by your father-in-law and mother-in-law, kill my son, and kill you too… so I…”
He covered his face and wept bitterly, seeming extremely pained: “Jiayao, I really had no choice, I didn’t want to. You loved me so much, you can understand me, right?”
“I did it for you, to protect what your father-in-law and mother-in-law left behind!”
Zhuang Jiayao’s face showed some touching emotion, her voice trembling as she asked: “So, everything you did was for my own good?”
“My father dying to mountain bandits back then, my mother taking poison to end her life, had nothing to do with you, right?”
“Of course!” Qi Rongxuan gazed at her with utmost devotion. He still retained his youthful appearance from life, handsome in countenance, wearing ancient robes. This devoted look was indeed easy to beguile the heart.
His hand slowly stroked up to Zhuang Jiayao’s ankle, gripping her foot as he slowly stood: “Jiayao, you must believe me; I’m the one who loves you most in this world, whether in life or death… I… urgh!”
Qi Rongxuan’s eyes suddenly widened, incredulously lowering his head to look at the black claw piercing through his chest, a crack splitting in his soul body.
“Jia… Jiayao? Why… why?”
“Didn’t you say you love me most?” Zhuang Jiayao’s other hand gently stroked his cheek, equally devoted: “Then you must want to be with me life after life, right? As long as you let me devour you, we’ll never be apart.”
“We’ve missed each other for so many years; from now on, let’s be together properly, no more missing.”
With those words, Zhuang Jiayao’s grievance erupted fiercely, swallowing Qi Rongxuan whole in one bite.
Qi Rongxuan’s eyes bulged: “!!! No——!!”
