Chapter 159: The Strange Human Face—Are the Grievous Souls Unyielding?

At the dining table.

Song Mo, Song Wanrou, Dushima Yingxue, Adiesi, Xia Yu and Xia Rou were all present.

Song Mo coughed twice.

Announced something.

"Uh, after we discussed it, Xia Yu and Xia Rou will be living at home from now on."

"As for classes, a driver will pick them up and drop them off."

"The round trip only takes half an hour total."

"As for lodging, they'll stay right next to my room!"

Song Mo solemnly announced this matter.

Among the girls present, apart from Xia Rou, who blushed shyly, and Xia Yu, who had expected it, everyone else looked coldly indifferent.

Song Wanrou sat beside Xia Rou, her fingernails nearly digging into her palms.

She had thought her heart was prepared, but she never imagined that when this day arrived, it would still hurt so deeply.

So her gaze, faint and sorrowful, fixed on Xia Rou.

Made Xia Rou, who had been lowering her head in shyness,

Suddenly feel a chill along her arms.

【What's abnormal about this? Ever since my brother started dating, I've ceased to be the closest person to him.】

【They're just beginning to date, and it's been barely a short while; by the time they're deep in love, there'll be no room for anyone else.】

【I and my brother are destined to drift farther and farther apart…】

Song Wanrou refused to accept it.

Had she schemed and plotted all this time, just so Xia Yu and Xia Rou could reap the rewards?

Song Wanrou wanted to fly into a rage.

She wished Xia Yu and Xia Rou would just leave the Song Family—but of course, that could only remain a fantasy.

Song Wanrou held her temper.

Her blank eyes swept over the others at the table.

Dushima Yingxue, Adelin…

Even if she employed the strategy of using one tiger to devour another,

she would never let Xia Yu and Xia Rou have their way.

…

Song Mo was considering how to deal with the An Family.

The Song Family still lagged behind the An Family in strength, but due to the strategic alignment achieved, surpassing the An Family was inevitable.

But could he really wait three or five years before retaliating against the An Family?

The saying goes: a gentleman does not let a grudge linger overnight.

It means a gentleman cannot tolerate even a slight insult—he must retaliate immediately; if he waits until the next day, it's unacceptable.

The An Family's main business is real estate.

It's a very hard industry to disrupt.

Unless policy changes.

But Song Mo couldn't just demand policy changes targeting the An Family's real estate solely to get revenge.

【But according to An Chenglan, An Yinuo is suffering from severe depression.】

【Truly, reaping what one sows—this at least counts as collecting a little interest.】

For behemoths like the An Family and Lin Family, it's no longer a matter of simply targeting them.

Yet in business, cutting off someone's livelihood is equivalent to killing them.

Song Mo therefore gave orders to closely monitor the An Family and Lin Family—whenever they attempted to expand into a new industry, he would insert himself into it.

Thanks to the system, Song Mo had no concern whatsoever about product competitiveness.

…

In the prison cell.

A female inmate in striped prison garb huddled in the corner.

The inmate was strikingly beautiful; though her hair had been cut short and her long nails removed,

traces of her former allure still lingered in her mannerisms.

This female inmate was naturally Liu Meiyun.

Liu Meiyun's gaze was faint and sorrowful.

After killing Chen Xi, she had planned to use force to take Song Mo away, but before she could react, a large number of police stormed in.

They swept up her entire organization in one stroke.

Liu Meiyun knew that from the moment she was arrested,

her fate was sealed.

At the time of her capture, she sighed faintly, then revealed everything she knew.

When a man is about to die, his words are good.

She had no chance of escaping; no matter how defiant she remained, it would only bring her more suffering.

Why should she protect those death-row criminals and make herself suffer?

"But I still can't understand."

"Where exactly did I get exposed?"

"Could it be Chen Xi? Does he want to save himself?"

"No, that's not right. Chen Xi has already completely twisted and become perverse. He's like a pug dog, desperately wanting to know what happened between me and Song Mo."

"I didn't understand why before, but after Song Mo told me about the STD on his body, I clearly understood what Chen Xi was scheming."

"He wants me and Song Mo to be buried with him."

Perhaps a person is about to die.

Because of that, Liu Meiyun has been dreaming a lot lately.

Bizarre, far-fetched nightmares.

She dreamed of her past life.

In her past life, it seemed she had also met Chen Xi, met Song Mo.

They got to know each other a few years later.

Only in her past life, she was the one obsessed with Chen Xi.

For Chen Xi's sake, she engineered a car accident and seriously injured Song Mo.

Then, after tormenting Song Mo, she killed him.

Liu Meiyun jolted awake from her sleep.

"Hoo—"

A great deal of cold sweat broke out on her forehead.

Her back was also completely soaked.

The dreams before were still relatively vague.

But as the execution date draws closer and closer.

The dreams she has become more and more vivid.

She dreamed of fleeing with Chen Xi.

And during the process, she even had a quarrel with Chen Xi.

Liu Meiyun has been suffering terribly during this period.

She raised her head wanting to look at the sky.

But she only saw the pitch-black ceiling of the cell.

It was the dead of night, the lights were off, and in the unseen darkness, it was as if monsters were hiding.

"Ah!"

Liu Meiyun shrieked.

In the dark of night, she dimly caught sight of a human face.

It looked like Chen Xi's face!

Liu Meiyun's whole body trembled.

Her eyes fixedly stared into the darkness.

Little by little, she groped her way over there.

Liu Meiyun mustered her courage, drew close, and reached out to touch—only touching the icy-cold floor.

That was close! That was close!

Liu Meiyun let out a long breath of relief.

Looks like it was merely her own illusion.

Chen Xi is already dead.

He couldn't even be pieced together into a complete corpse.

A guy who died such a miserable death—even if he became a ghost, what kind of ghost could he possibly be?

Rotting into a puddle?

Liu Meiyun couldn't help but start giggling.

"What an ugly thing~"

"Even if there really is a past life, I still wouldn't fall for a piece of trash like that."

"Giggle giggle giggle~"

Laughing and laughing, Liu Meiyun began to feel afraid again.

She suddenly thought,

In the legends,

People who die miserable deaths, because of the extremely heavy resentment on their bodies,

Have a very high chance of becoming Fierce Ghosts.

This……

Chen Xi wouldn't have become a Fierce Ghost, would he?

When other people become ghosts, at the very least they still look like a human body—for example, hanging ghosts, drowning ghosts, that sort of thing.

If Chen Xi became a monster, wouldn't he not even be able to piece together a human form?

Looking like a puddle of rotten mud.

Maybe his eyes hanging under his nose, his little fellow growing inside his mouth……

Liu Meiyun was both scared and amused.

Her mind had already become somewhat unhinged.

Under the moonlight, faintly,

There really seemed to be a face full of bitter hatred.

Staring at Liu Meiyun…

(End of this chapter)