Chapter 92: She’s Long Dead
Nan Yuanman saw a lot of scenes from Fang Yunfei’s memory where he was bullied by Lu Weiguo as a child.
Insults and abuse, along with getting the villagers to isolate him, were everyday occurrences. Even more outrageous was leading the village’s big yellow dog to eat the meal that Fang Yunfei had worked so hard to prepare.
The little girl was so angry her cheeks flushed red, and she clenched her fists tightly: “Outrageous! Simply too outrageous!” How could they bully someone like that!
Nan Yuanman instinctively wanted to help Fang Yunfei, but her hand passed right through his body. Only then did she snap back to reality, remembering that this was Fang Yunfei’s memory, something that had happened to him in the past.
Fortunately, Fang Yunfei didn’t just obediently let Lu Weiguo bully him. He fought back, and the two tangled with each other until he was sixteen.
Lu Weiguo’s uncle came to their house to find him, saying he would take him to go into business together. He smugly bragged to Fang Yunfei: “Fang Yunfei, I’m going to do big business. Just wait, when I come back, you’ll have to call me Boss Lu!”
“By then, you and I won’t be in the same world anymore.”
Fang Yunfei was too busy to pay him any attention. After Lu Weiguo’s bragging, he left with his uncle.
By the time he returned, ten years had passed.
Ten years later, the village and the city had developed rapidly. Fang Yunfei had saved up some savings on his own and gotten married.
Compared to Fang Yunfei, who was living a fulfilling and enjoyable small life, Lu Weiguo was in much more dire straits. After ten years, not only had he not become a big boss, but he was drowning in debt, and his wife had divorced him too.
He spent his days moping at home and refusing to go out, letting his blind old mother take care of him.
Fang Yunfei couldn’t stand to see it, so he sent meals to his home several times and advised Lu Weiguo that he was still young and needed to pull himself together.
Lu Weiguo seemed to gradually pull himself together under his persuasion, but he overlooked the way Lu Weiguo occasionally looked at his wife Yang Juan, and the jealousy hidden in his heart when he looked at him.
Out of gratitude for the help from Lu Weiguo’s mother when he was a child, Fang Yunfei introduced some work to Lu Weiguo, who was idling at home.
Lu Weiguo was very grateful for this. He often drank with him and apologized to Fang Yunfei for his ignorance as a child. The two thus buried the hatchet, and their relationship improved.
Half a year after Lu Weiguo returned, Yang Juan got pregnant. Fang Yunfei quit his job to go home and take care of her. But half a month later, Lu Weiguo suddenly sent someone to find him, saying that a machine at the construction site had suddenly stopped working and asking him to come take a look.
Fang Yunfei thought checking a machine wouldn’t take much time, so he went without any suspicion. Little did he know, once he went, he never came back.
In Fang Yunfei’s memory, as soon as he arrived at the construction site, Lu Weiguo hit him on the back of the head with a stick, knocking him unconscious.
When he woke up, he was tied by Lu Weiguo to a pillar in a pit. Lu Weiguo was holding sulfuric acid in his hand, looking at him with a face full of sinister jealousy.
Fang Yunfei’s head was dizzy. He asked him incredulously: “Lu Weiguo?! What, what are you doing?!”
Lu Weiguo laughed haha, full of satisfaction: “So many years have passed, Fang Yunfei, and you’re still as stupid as ever!”
“Did you really think I considered you a brother? How could a nobody like you be worthy of being my brother?”
“Oh heavens! They’re truly blind. Why is someone like you living so well, with such a gentle and kind wife! While my wife abandoned me and left when I went bankrupt!”
Lu Weiguo had always hated Fang Yunfei. He couldn’t understand why, even though his parents had abandoned him and the old man who raised him had died, Fang Yunfei could still live so happily and carefree every day.
Why could an orphan like Fang Yunfei, with nothing to his name, marry such a good wife and have a stable, happy family?
While he, approaching middle age, was on the brink of bankruptcy, and his wife thought he brought bad luck, beat their child, and ran off with another man.
Why!
Someone like Fang Yunfei should stay stuck in the mud forever, never able to rise!
What Lu Weiguo couldn’t accept most was that Fang Yunfei had the nerve to feign sympathy for him!
Ha! That wasn’t sympathy at all—it was just wanting to laugh at him!
Now, seeing Fang Yunfei tied to the pillar, letting him beat and curse him, Lu Weiguo felt a rush of pleasure.
Fang Yunfei was stunned. He looked shocked: “Is that what you thought of me?”
“What else? Idiot! What did you think you were to me? A friend? Ha! Don’t make me laugh! Are you even qualified to be my friend?” Lu Weiguo sneered, then decisively splashed the sulfuric acid in his hand onto Fang Yunfei.
Fang Yunfei was tied up and couldn’t dodge at all. He watched helplessly as the highly corrosive sulfuric acid drenched him from head to toe.
Fang Yunfei’s screams echoed throughout the construction site. Seeing him in such a miserable state, Lu Weiguo showed a gleeful smile on his face: “Yunfei ah Yunfei, didn’t you treat me like a brother? Then help your brother with one last thing.”
“Don’t worry, your wife and child—I will take good care of them.”
Lu Weiguo burst out laughing, started the machine for mixing the slurry, poured cement into the pit, and buried the painfully wailing Fang Yunfei alive.
The moment he was submerged in cement and lost his vital signs, Fang Yunfei’s ghost soul floated out in a daze.
He saw Lu Weiguo groveling before the contractor boss, smiling as he said: “Boss, don’t worry. He has no relatives. There’s only a wife at home. I’ll handle his wife. She absolutely won’t come to the construction site to make trouble.”
“Even if she does come to make trouble, she won’t recognize Fang Yunfei anymore. I’ve already destroyed his face with sulfuric acid.”
The contractor boss showed a satisfied smile on his face and gave Lu Weiguo a stack of money: “This is your reward. With this living sacrifice, this engineering project should go smoothly now.”
“Yes, yes.” Lu Weiguo nodded and bowed, then added: “But a living sacrifice still carries some grievance. Boss, you’d better hire a master to completely trap his soul here, so he can never be reborn. Perfectly, he can also serve as the guardian spirit for our construction site.”
Contractor boss: “Alright, I’ll figure something out.”
Fang Yunfei was furious, baring his teeth and claws as he rushed forward to kill these two beasts. But as a newborn ghost, he had no power at all and couldn’t harm them.
He could only watch helplessly as Lu Weiguo went home and, using the excuse that he had been taken out of town on a business trip by the boss, deceived his wife who was six months pregnant. Then, while she was asleep, he broke into the room and forced himself on her, causing her to hemorrhage heavily from her lower body. Their six-month child was gone just like that.
His wife was barely saved after emergency treatment, but he threatened her into submitting to him, or else he would tell the whole village about their affair, tell him, tell her workplace.
Forcing his wife to have no choice but to obey him.
Fang Yunfei knew Nan Yuanman could also see his memory. The part where his wife was coerced, he didn’t let her see.
But just seeing that sister being threatened by Lu Weiguo made Nan Yuanman extremely angry. Her steamed bun face puffed up with rage, and flames of fury seemed ready to burst from her eyes.
Later, the contractor boss really found a master, who trapped Fang Yunfei at the construction site.
Then later, Lu Weiguo’s grandson Lu Xu went to the building that had been built on the old construction site for work reasons, and by a twist of fate, accidentally triggered the formation trapping Fang Yunfei, causing Fang Yunfei—who had been trapped at the construction site for years—to follow him.
Fang Yunfei’s memory faded.
Amid the thick grievance, Fang Yunfei grabbed Lu Weiguo’s neck, who had a face full of terror and fear, and lifted his whole body up: “Tell me, did I wrong you?!”
Lu Weiguo kicked his legs in mid-air, struggling desperately. His face turned red from being choked, and he was terrified. At the moment when Fang Yunfei was about to strangle him to death, he shouted with difficulty: “Fang Yunfei! D-don’t you want to know where Yang, Yang Juan is now?!”
Yang Juan was Fang Yunfei’s wife’s name.
Lu Weiguo knew Fang Yunfei cared about her and wanted to use her to restrain Fang Yunfei.
Lu Weiguo’s face was flushed red as he said word by word: “She, she’s still, still alive.”
Hearing this long-lost name, Fang Yunfei froze for a moment, and the hand choking his neck subconsciously loosened a bit.
But at that moment, he heard Nan Yuanman’s voice: “He’s lying to you!”
Nan Yuanman was so angry her eyes were red-rimmed. She clenched her little fists tightly and said: “That sister… she’s already dead.”
Lu Weiguo’s heart sank. He glared at Nan Yuanman and cursed her: “What does a money-losing thing like you know! Shut your damn mouth!”
Lu Xu on the hospital bed suddenly spoke up: “What she said is true.”
“Grandma… she died long ago.”
