Chapter 18

"You like Liu Wanqing, you treat her as the bright moon in the sky. But in my eyes, she is nothing, she is just a plaything for me to tease and have fun with, just like you."

"I didn't want to marry her either, it was purely for fun."

"But my mother accidentally saw us... or rather, your correspondence with her, and decided to discuss the marriage with the Liu family."

"Look, the woman who is high and unreachable to you is within my reach."

Lin Rufeng leaned into Shen Mo's ear and said triumphantly: "Actually, I like men, I don't like women. Marrying her in the future is just to keep her at home as a decoration. Hahaha..."

Shen Mo cried, he crawled at Lin Rufeng's feet and begged:

"You can humiliate me however you want, just please let Miss Liu go! I beg you, Young Master Lin, I beg you! I beg you!"

They say there is gold under a man's knees, but that day Shen Mo put down the pride of a scholar and knelt humbly at Lin Rufeng's feet, kowtowing until his head was broken and bleeding.

Lin Rufeng's eyes rolled, and he suddenly thought of a fun idea.

"I heard there is a Guiku Ridge twenty miles south of the city. You coward, if you can survive there for three days and three nights, dead or alive, I promise to break off the engagement with Miss Liu. How about it?"

"Are you serious?"

"Naturally serious. I have always kept my word. Didn't I keep my promise not to bully you when I asked you to write letters for me before? Today you were the one who acted first, so I fought back."

Guiku Ridge is a place where the government strictly forbids people from approaching. It is said that there are not only tigers in the mountains but also mountain spirits and monsters. Every night, you can hear the sound of ghosts crying and wolves howling under the mountain, which is very terrifying.

Shen Mo was also afraid, and hesitated again and again when he reached the foot of the mountain.

But when he thought about how he had wrongly connected the marriage for Miss Liu, he was full of remorse, preferring to make up for it with his life rather than let Miss Liu's life be ruined by a beast!

He gritted his teeth and entered Guiku Ridge.

No miracle happened, and on the first night, he was swallowed alive by a snake demon.

I don't know how long after he died, his soul, carrying his obsession from his lifetime, came to the Lin family.

The Lin family was holding a grand wedding banquet—the wedding banquet of Lin Rufeng and Liu Wanqing.

Outside the bridal chamber, a playboy asked Lin Rufeng: "I thought you wouldn't marry Miss Liu. After all, you promised Shen Mo that as long as he went to Guiku Ridge, dead or alive, you would break off the engagement with Miss Liu."

Lin Rufeng laughed loudly: "You actually believe the ghost stories used to fool Shen Mo? I said that on purpose just to make Shen Mo go to his death! Lest he talk nonsense in front of Miss Liu and ruin our two families' alliance. Although I don't like Miss Liu, her family background is good and she is simple, she is easy to handle. Hey, stop talking nonsense, let's go, let's go to Shuangyanxiang to find some male prostitutes to have fun with."

"Hahaha, Young Master Lin, you are actually leaving the bridal chamber to go whoring? Aren't you afraid your wife will be angry?"

"If she dares to nag, I'll greet her with my fists!"

Just like that, Shen Mo watched helplessly as Liu Wanqing was tortured by her husband and mother-in-law in the Lin family. She changed bit by bit from a bright and lively young girl into a resentful woman in the deep boudoir.

Countless times, Shen Mo hated that he couldn't tear Lin Rufeng apart! But he couldn't indulge his resentment, not only could he not, but he had to try hard to control the resentment from eroding his humanity.

Because that snake, the snake that swallowed his body, also came.

That was not an ordinary snake, but the remnant soul of a snake demon suppressed in Guiku Ridge. After swallowing Shen Mo, it broke through the seal with his resentment and ghost soul and hid in the Lin family together.

If Shen Mo indulged his resentment and went to take revenge regardless of everything, then with the tyrannical nature of the snake demon, it would inevitably slaughter the entire Lin Mansion, and even Liu Wanqing would not be able to escape death.

He had already harmed Liu Wanqing, he couldn't let her die innocently again.

For Liu Wanqing's sake, for the past three years, he had struggled against the remnant soul of the snake demon.

Until yesterday, when Liu Wanqing learned about Lin Rufeng's hidden illness and preferences from Lin Qingyue, she completely gave up on him and left the Lin family.

Shen Mo gave up the struggle, let the resentment drive him, merged with the snake demon soul, found Lin Rufeng to take revenge, and turned the Lin family into chaos.

A night wind blew, and the scene projected in the void disappeared like a mirage.

But everything just now had been seen clearly by everyone.

Even the soldiers of the City Guard Battalion who came to support were furious:

"Young Master Lin is really bullying people too much, no wonder Shen Mo wants to take revenge on him!"

"If I were Shen Mo, I would have killed Lin Rufeng long ago. Shen Mo is still kind after all."

"If you like men, go find men! To cover up, you ruin a good girl!"

"If such a person were in our barracks, he would have been beaten to death with sticks long ago!"

Even Dongfang Yan couldn't help but say: "So this is the family style of the Changning Hou Mansion, it really is eye-opening."

But then he thought of his own wedding night, didn't he also abandon his new wife to seek another beauty?

—No, I am not the same kind of person as Lin Rufeng!

Besides, the marriage between them was also calculated by Lin Qingyue using means.

It seems that the Lin family are all insidious and vicious. Only Zhen'er is untainted by the mud.

When the truth was bloodily stripped away, the face that the Changning Hou Mansion had maintained for many years was lost completely.

And Lin Xiao was still trying to save face: "My son is young and doesn't know the serious consequences. I will definitely educate him well in the future! Shen Mo, Young Master Shen! I beg you, spare his life. I know you are a good person and won't kill indiscriminately! We all know about your grievances. Tomorrow I will give you a grand funeral and hold a ritual for seven days and seven nights to let you ascend to bliss early. Please be magnanimous and forgive my son once!"

"Forgive?" Shen Mo laughed, "Back then in school, he bullied me, humiliated me, and tricked me to Guiku Ridge, where I was swallowed alive by a snake demon. Do you know how desperate and painful I was when I died?"

"But what about Lin Rufeng? He did all kinds of evil, yet he can still live with peace of mind. Why? Why should I forgive scum like him?"

His eyes turned into vertical pupils again, and snake-like curved fangs grew out of his mouth.

The blood-colored threads binding him also began to break inch by inch.

"Not good, he's going to demonize!" Xie Shouzheng ordered decisively: "Brothers of the Xuanjing Division, start the fire array!"

Previously, they were considerate of Lin Rufeng and didn't use their real killing moves. But once the fire array started, whether it was a ghost, a living person, or an evil demon, they would all be destroyed together, their souls scattered, and they would never be reincarnated.

Zhou Shi couldn't bear to see her son die, so she cried and begged Lin Qingyue: "Daughter, save your brother! The dead cannot come back to life, not to mention Shen Mo was killed by a snake demon, it shouldn't be counted on your brother's head!"