Chapter 188: with translation of chapter title: 188

188 "Leave immediately."

As Tushan Jiu's words fell, a gust of yin wind blew up inside the house.

Everyone's faces changed; Shen Zui stepped forward two steps, standing in front of Jiang Shu and Nie Lan.

Meanwhile, Jiang Han wanted to hide behind Bai Yu, not for any other reason, just because this side was closer.

A wind rose inside the house, making Huo Lin's heart pound nonstop, and cold sweat poured down his back.

He believed in the talk of gods and spirits; after that incident years ago, he had asked a master to subdue and directly sent Xiao Mei's soul away.

Once this ghost enters the Underworld, it is impossible to return to the mortal realm.

After all these years, shouldn't Xiao Mei have been reincarnated by now?

He hesitated for a moment, and Tushan Jiu had already withdrawn her hand, her gaze shifting from Huo Lin to behind him.

She backhandedly took out the rhino horn incense.

After Xiao Mei entered the Underworld, she became an ordinary citizen with no ghostly power; thus, even if summoned up, ordinary people cannot see her.

Only she can see her.

Oh, no, she forgot; Bai Yu's fox spirit can also see her.

No one expected Tushan Jiu to actually summon a spirit directly.

Meanwhile, Bai Yu already had an understanding with her, silently taking out his phone and opening the video function.

Once this ghost appears, the evidence naturally comes out!

He felt he was really clever, then gazed eagerly at Tushan Jiu, waiting for her to look back at him so he could lift his proud chin.

Tushan Jiu lit the rhino horn incense.

Everyone smelled a strange fragrance, and the scene before their eyes changed.

Suddenly, an extra person appeared in the house.

It was someone they all knew—Xiao Mei.

Xiao Mei, who had been playing mahjong just a second ago, was summoned to the living world the next second.

But as she tilted her head, she saw the nightmare beside her, and she instinctively let out a scream.

But seeing Huo Lin's fearful gaze, she quickly realized that she was now his nightmare!

In an instant, her yin energy rose, and her deathly appearance manifested.

The skin on her face began to turn purple, her eyes bulged, her face was covered in blood, the ligature marks on her neck emitted black energy; further down, her abdomen was sunken flat, her intestines had protruded, the bones on her arms and ribs were broken, her arms were broken, and even her right leg was deformed and twisted.

Jiang Han tightly covered his own mouth, and Shen Zui shifted toward Jiang Shu to block her view.

It's not horror; it's cruelty.

Anyone who sees this scene cannot help but shudder.

Bai Yu also put away his joking expression, his brows furrowed tightly, and he held his phone more steadily, because this scene was too heavy.

At this moment, Huo Lin's pupils trembled violently—this was the moment Xiao Mei breathed her last.

He fell to his knees with a thud, shaking his head desperately at Xiao Mei: "No, Xiao Mei, listen to me—you know I was drunk that day, I wasn't sober, I didn't want it like that, I didn't mean to, after you died I've regretted it every day, I know I was wrong, I..."

Xiao Mei went up and slapped him hard, cutting off his words.

When a ghost strikes a person, it strikes the soul.

Xiao Mei never expected she could actually touch him; just now it was merely her instinctive reaction.

She really wanted to kill him!

She turned to look at Tushan Jiu, and Tushan Jiu gave her a faint smile.

Xiao Mei turned back, grabbed one of her own intestines from the ground, flashed behind Huo Lin, looped it around his neck, and pulled hard backward.

The intense feeling of suffocation forced Huo Lin to lift his head, meeting Xiao Mei's hateful gaze.

He struggled to pull at Xiao Mei's intestines.

But at that moment Xiao Mei released her grip and then spat a mouthful of saliva (yin energy) at him: "Huo Lin, you truly deserve to die, but I will make you carry this pain and live a long life, never finding peace in your remaining years!"

Next came another round of brutal beating.

Huo Lin didn't make a sound at all, because even after his neck was released, he still felt the sensation of suffocation.

It was as if he had clearly taken a big breath, but his lungs had absorbed hardly any of it.

He desperately tried to call for help from the Jiang family, but at that moment Jiang Zhengguo had already hidden in a corner, wishing to stay far away from him.

Until the ghostly power faded, Xiao Mei nodded at Tushan Jiu and vanished inside the house.

Bai Yu looked at Tushan Jiu in confusion; according to his knowledge, ghosts that enter the Underworld have no ghostly power, so how could Xiao Mei, having come up, strike Huo Lin?

Feeling his gaze, Tushan Jiu lifted her chin slightly toward the rhino horn incense of a different color in her hand.

Tushan Jiu curled her lips, saying that while other rhino horn incense is rare, none are as rare as the one she holds.

This is rhino horn incense transformed by ghostly power; when lit, it carries a faint ghostly power that briefly attaches to a ghost, granting it the ability to touch a person.

Moreover, besides the one in Tushan Jiu's hand, there is no second one in the world; it can be said to be out of print.

One might ask how such a special thing came to be.

Naturally, it was passed down from ancestors.

Her great-great-grandfather was a lover of incense; while others extract ghostly power into food, he turned it into incense.

This special rhino horn incense is what he researched and produced.

As for why it's out of print, it's because after his death he chose to follow his wife... grandmother into reincarnation.

With a "ding," Bai Yu pressed the stop button on the recording.

Upon hearing it, Tushan Jiu turned to glance at him, then revealed a relieved expression.

Bai Yu: "........" He felt that Tushan Jiu's gaze just now resembled his mother's.

Tushan Jiu walked up to Huo Lin, who was lying on the ground panting heavily, looked down at him, and asked: "Regarding Jiang Shu's marriage, will your Huo family divorce or not?"

Huo Lin was now in a sorry state, curled up on the ground; where was there any trace of his former arrogant bearing?

After a while, he barely managed to utter a few words: "Divorce now."

Upon hearing this, everyone in the room showed delight.

Jiang Shu did not look at Huo Lin on the ground; instead, she gratefully looked toward Tushan Jiu.

She knew that if it weren't for Tushan Jiu's intervention, the divorce could still happen, but it would take great effort, and in the end she might even have to pay a price.

She never expected that when she bought water back then, encountering that old man selling knives on credit, she had merely seen the old man struggling to sell knives and, as a courtesy, bought him an extra bottle of mineral water, yet this ended up creating such a significant bond.

She wiped her tears, turned to get the divorce agreement; there was a ready-made template on the computer, she just needed to modify it for a proxy signature.

Within two minutes, Huo Lin, in the proxy signer's column, painstakingly wrote his own name.

And Jiang Shu also wrote her name.

The divorce matter was thus settled.

Jiang Shu looked at the hard-won divorce agreement in her hand; the first thing she did upon turning around was to ask Shen Zui.

"I'm divorced, Shen Zui."

Shen Zui looked at her face full of wounds, but light returned to his eyes; he forced a tug at the corners of his mouth, his tone uncontrollably tinged with heartache: "Well, congratulations, Miss."

Jiang Shu smiled slightly, her gaze meeting his, and she called out to him again:

"Shen Zui..."

Shen Zui looked at her.

"Will you marry me?"