Chapter 41: Adults Are Too Sly
This, this is her deceased child’s voice, Lu Ye’s voice!
The next second, the black figure trapped by the golden net revealed its form.
Lu Zhicheng standing in the doorway saw Lu Ye materialize, his face showing a flash of terror as he trembled and shrieked: “Ghost, ghost!!!”
After shouting, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted directly.
Li Juan’s face also showed shock. She stared in astonishment at the figure struggling nonstop inside the golden net: “Little Ye… it really is you!”
The next second, she didn’t care to ask what Nan Yuanman had done to Lu Ye. She rushed forward, grabbed the golden net, and yanked hard, trying to help Lu Ye tear open the net and let him leave.
But no matter how hard she pulled, the golden net remained incredibly sturdy, showing no sign of damage at all.
Li Juan panicked. She spread her arms to block in front of Lu Ye, looking at the sudden appearance in her home of this strange big one and small one. Her gaze fell on Nan Yuanman who had thrown out the talisman, and her face showed a smile more ugly than crying: “Little Heavenly Master, I don’t know what our family’s Little Ye did, please let him go this once.”
“He’s only eighteen, still very young. If he did something wrong, let me bear it, okay?”
Li Juan wasn’t stupid. Nan Yuanman had used a talisman right away, and with the copper coin sword in her hand, it proved she wasn’t ordinary. Moreover, for her to chase here, Lu Ye must have done something bad after dying and been tracked down after discovery.
She didn’t know what wrong thing Lu Ye had done, but as his mother, she instinctively sheltered him.
Nan Yuanman’s chubby little face was full of seriousness: “Auntie, this brother killed a sister. His hands are already stained with blood; he’s not the good child you imagine.”
“Not only that, he also wanted to harm my brother.”
Meng Qinian, who was huffing and puffing while dragging the comatose Lu Zhicheng into the room and closing the door to block the curious gazes from outside, heard this and his mouth corners uncontrollably curved up.
Yuanman called him brother!
Without any prefix!
Li Juan’s pupils shrank sharply. She turned her head in disbelief to look at Lu Ye. Lu Ye avoided her gaze, not meeting her eyes, and spoke viciously to Nan Yuanman: “Don’t slander me! I didn’t kill her! She killed herself because her will was weak!”
“Besides, if her will was strong, would she have killed herself under my coaxing?”
Lu Ye sneered: “Saying I harmed your brother is even more nonsense. If I really harmed him, could he still be standing here fine? You should at least draft your lies first!”
Li Juan believed Lu Ye’s words. She hesitated and turned to look at Nan Yuanman: “Little Ye says he didn’t harm anyone, so is there some misunderstanding here…”
“You adults really love to lie.” Nan Yuanman said unhappily: “If you hadn’t possessed Sister Tingting’s mobile phone to bewitch her, she wouldn’t have killed herself.”
“Don’t quibble. I smelled your residual ghost energy on Sister Tingting’s mobile phone, and there’s your residual ghost energy on my brother’s mobile phone too.”
Nan Yuanman stopped arguing with Lu Ye. She raised her hand and summoned the Ghost Gate: “If I’ve wronged you, you can go to the Underworld afterward and complain to King Yama! Let him punish me!”
Lu Ye, who had been somewhat smug, sensed the aura of the Ghost Gate and instantly panicked. He turned his head to beg Li Juan: “Mom, I don’t want to go to the Underworld. I want to stay by your side with you.”
“I know my willfulness hurt you. This year I’ve also seen how much you miss me. Mom, I was wrong. I shouldn’t have impulsively killed myself. I-I harmed people only to buy more time to be with you. I had no malice. Mom, help me.”
Li Juan’s heart felt like it was being cut by knives. Dry tears fell again with a swish. She turned to look at Nan Yuanman, her legs going soft as she wanted to kneel and beg.
But her wrist was grabbed by a large hand. Meng Qinian’s voice came with some coldness: “Aunt, Lu Ye has only had time to kill one person so far. In the Underworld, he won’t receive too heavy a punishment. If you continue to shelter him and aid evildoing, and he commits bigger crimes later, that will truly harm him.”
Li Juan’s figure stiffened. She looked up through tear-blurred eyes at the speaker.
Meng Qinian looked at Lu Ye with a sneer: “I’ve finally seen what full of lies means. You coax your mom to make a child kneel; aren’t you afraid of shortening your mom’s lifespan?”
Nan Yuanman nodded in agreement: “If you really loved your parents, you wouldn’t have made your lair at home.”
Ghosts cannot have long-term contact with the living.
The yin energy on ghosts affects the living, making their luck low, prone to irritability, anger, and illness, with life force and lifespan both consumed.
Just look at Li Juan now with dark circles under her eyes, her glabella dimly gray, and the three lamps on her body already dimmed. If it had been a bit later, in just two more days, Li Juan would surely have had an accident due to mental confusion.
Seeing Li Juan stopped, Lu Ye’s expression gradually turned gloomy. He sneered with a face full of resentment: “Useless thing.”
“When I was alive, you forced me to study, not giving me a moment to breathe. After I died, you still can’t help me. You’re truly a failed mother.”
Li Juan’s body trembled violently. Her eyes held tears, her face full of disbelief: “Little Ye… you…”
“The thing I regret most in this life is being born as your child.” Lu Ye seemed to know he couldn’t escape, so he simply broke the jar and spoke especially viciously to Li Juan: “If there’s a chance, even if I reincarnate as a dog, I won’t be your…”
Before he finished speaking, Nan Yuanman loudly interrupted him: “You’re going too far!”
Meng Qinian, with a gloomy face, lowered his gaze to look at her. The little girl clenched her fists tightly, her big eyes especially bright from anger, just like an angry little bird: “Auntie has already been very good to you! She wasn’t scared seeing such an ugly you and still wanted to protect you after you’ve become an evil ghost!”
“Auntie doesn’t owe you! She’s the truly unlucky one for giving birth to a child like you!”
After scolding Lu Ye, she trotted over to Li Juan on her short legs, raised her hand to diligently wipe her tears, and comforted her in her childish voice: “Auntie, don’t be sad. If there’s a chance next life, just-let brother be your child!”
“Brother is tall and handsome! Absolutely a hundred times better than this unfilial son!”
After saying that, Nan Yuanman guiltily glanced at Meng Qinian and gave him a fawning smile. Yuanman still wanted to be mom’s child next life, so she could only temporarily let Brother Qinian be auntie’s child for a little while next life.
Meng Qinian felt both amused and annoyed inside. He reached out and poked her. This little one was using him to do a favor?
Li Juan, whose heart had been stung by Lu Ye’s words, was slightly comforted by Nan Yuanman’s childish words. She choked up and said: “Thank you… thank you, Little Heavenly Master.”
Lu Ye was so angry his chest heaved up and down. He glared furiously at Nan Yuanman and roared: “What do you know! You don’t understand anything!”
Li Juan raised her cry-swollen eyes to look at Lu Ye and tried to speak calmly: “Indeed, she doesn’t understand anything. But Little Ye, while Mom did make some mistakes while you were alive, Mom doesn’t owe you anything.”
“Whatever you wanted, whatever you wanted to play, whatever you wanted to buy, Mom tried her best to make it happen for you.”
“Mom indeed… shouldn’t have forced you.” She couldn’t hold back the tears again and sobbed out an apology: “I’m sorry.”
Lu Ye, who had been glaring angrily with wide eyes, heard these three words and his pupils shrank slightly. The resentment in his heart toward Li Juan was slowly dissipating.
Both before and after death, what he wanted most was just a “I’m sorry” from Li Juan.
But adults are too cunning, always having a thousand reasons to explain, never thinking they did anything wrong.
Lu Ye quieted down. The Ghost Gate behind him was slowly opening, with rustling chain sounds and heavy footsteps coming from inside. The temperature in the room suddenly dropped.
Goosebumps rose all over Meng Qinian’s body. He couldn’t help moving closer to Nan Yuanman. He sneakily looked around left and right, lowered his voice, and asked her: “Yuanman, has the Ghost Gate opened?”
Nan Yuanman nodded: “Yeah! Uncle Underworld official is about to come out!”
Just as she finished speaking, the Underworld official wearing a black tall hat with the four big characters “You’ve come too” on it walked out holding the soul-hook rope.
He nodded slightly to Nan Yuanman in greeting, raised his hand, and looped the soul-hook rope around Lu Ye’s neck.
Lu Ye’s soul body trembled slightly from fear of the Underworld official’s pressure. Just before his soul was hooked away, he spoke with a trembling voice: “I… I didn’t kill myself because you forced me. Someone online lured me, and I acted on impulse…”
When the Underworld official hooked Lu Ye’s soul body into the Ghost Gate, he hoarsely said: “I never blamed you. Those earlier words weren’t from the heart… I’m sorry, Mom.”
If there’s a next life, I still want to be your child.
On PK again, humbly begging don’t stockpile, love you all(*￣3)(ε￣*)
