The man, already scared stiff, remained dazed. He couldn't see, but he could imagine it.
His own sister had invited their dead sister home?
"Get out of my way! Don't try to stop me!" The woman shoved Liu Xiaohua aside, a hint of hatred in her eyes.
Liu Xiaohua was shocked. "You can't..."
The woman ignored Liu Xiaohua and, as if carrying something on her back, walked out the door step by step. After a moment's hesitation, the man followed her out.
"Boss, why didn't you make a move?" Liu Xiaohua asked.
Fang Zhiyi glanced at her anxious face. "In our line of work, we have to follow principles. You using your talents to do these things is normally accumulating virtue, but you also have to remember: don't meddle in other people's karma. If she's looking for death, I can't stop her."
"But this..."
Seeing Fang Zhiyi's expression, Liu Xiaohua ultimately didn't say anything more.
"This is also her fate," Fang Zhiyi said, looking at the distressed young girl. "If I hadn't captured that ghost beforehand, it would have eventually killed an innocent person anyway. In other words, that ghost was bound to have a life on its hands. Compared to some innocent bystander, her sister is actually quite fitting."
Che Lei, who had followed his sister home, found her eerie movements utterly hair-raising. She kept talking to Che Xiaohong—as if she could actually see her.
And her appearance was also kind of creepy.
In Che Lei's view, Che Xiaohong's death was entirely her own fault. From childhood, their eldest sister had doted on her, and because of that, Che Xiaohong's personality had grown increasingly spoiled. The day she died, their eldest sister had simply said she didn't have much money lately, and Che Xiaohong started smashing things and throwing a tantrum. He wanted to teach her a lesson but was stopped by their eldest sister, and he ended up watching her run out of the house.
"Big Sis... like this, Xiaohong won't be able to reincarnate," Che Lei said cautiously.
But Che Dɑhong suddenly turned her head, her eyes utterly venomous.
"You want to tear me and my sister apart too? Don't you know she's your sister too? Mom and Dad said we had to take care of her—have you forgotten?"
Seeing his eldest sister's twisted face, Che Lei shrunk back.
For the rest of the time, Che Lei felt nothing but dread. His sister set an extra set of chopsticks on the table, smiling at the empty seat, and ignored him when he spoke to her. Late at night, he got up to use the bathroom and was startled by the sight of his sister sitting in the living room, staring at the TV filled with static.
She was actually laughing at a screen showing nothing at all?
Che Lei was completely terrified.
Luckily, neither his dead sister nor his now-unhinged sister paid him any attention. Che Lei opened the door and ran straight out.
With nowhere to go, he ended up squatting by the roadside until a female voice spoke up.
"Excuse me... are you okay?"
Che Lei looked up and saw a man and a woman staring at him. The man had striking brows and piercing eyes, his brow slightly furrowed.
"Don't be afraid. We are Taoist masters. My name is Li Chenxue," the woman said gently. "I can see some... ghostly aura on you. Did something happen at your house?"
Che Lei suddenly became excited. "You... you can help me?"
"Yes, we can help you!" Li Chenxue smiled. Even though she had been inexplicably targeted lately and even scolded severely by a fellow practitioner a few days ago, she remained kind-hearted.
When he led the two Taoist masters into the house, pushing the door open, they saw his sister holding a pair of scissors, slashing at her own wrist. Blood dripped from the scissors onto the floor, but she seemed not to feel it, her face twisted in a eerie grin.
"Wicked creature!" The man named Qin Shaoqing, who had been silent, shouted. He was about to step forward but was stopped by Li Chenxue.
"Senior brother, let me handle this."
Li Chenxue stepped forward and grabbed the woman's wrist.
She could naturally see the red-dressed female ghost lying on the woman's back. The ghost looked at her, and she looked back.
"It must have hurt a lot when you died, right?"
"Your sister loves you so much. How could you hurt her?"
"Such a lovely girl couldn't be a bad ghost, right? Give me the scissors. Get off of her..."
Qin Shaoqing frowned. "Junior sister, step aside."
"Why do you always have to be so extreme? She's just a girl who died unjustly!" Li Chenxue was discontent. Lately, she had been constantly targeted, forcing her to stay only with her senior brother. But the longer they stayed together, the more she found him utterly unreasonable!
Under what seemed to be her influence, the female ghost's face gradually softened, even taking on her living appearance.
"See? She has humanity too! Senior brother, you can't always..."
Li Chenxue was a bit smug, but in the moment she turned her head, the ghost lunged at her!
Fortunately, Qin Shaoqing had been paying close attention. Just as the ghost moved, his ritual implement shot toward her. The ghost took a hit just before reaching Li Chenxue and let out a piercing scream.
"Senior brother! What are you doing!" Li Chenxue was furious.
"It was clearly afraid of us and feigned weakness to ambush you. Junior sister, stop being so naive!" Qin Shaoqing drew his peachwood sword.
"No! How can you still be like this!"
As they argued, the ghost realized its chance was lost. It shot a hateful glance at the unconscious sister and, clenching its teeth, leaped out the window.
It would be back.
And because Li Chenxue blocked him, Qin Shaoqing couldn't give chase.
But the moment the ghost shot outside, someone grabbed it by the hair. Several vicious ghosts tackled it and quickly carried it away.
Inside the house, Qin Shaoqing seemed to sense something. His brow furrowed. "Get out of the way!"
His voice was so loud that even Li Chenxue was startled. Her senior brother had never spoken to her so harshly before.
"You... you're yelling at me?"
Qin Shaoqing had clearly sensed the ghostly aura from that moment—there was more than one fierce ghost outside the window! Without explaining, he shoved Li Chenxue aside and rushed to the window, but by the time he looked out, Liu Sandao and his crew had already fled far away.
"You think I'm a burden, don't you!" Li Chenxue shouted, ignoring the outsider present. "I knew it! Ever since I started messing up lately, you must be disgusted with me! Fine, I'm leaving! I don't want to be a Taoist master with someone as cold-hearted as you!"
She turned and walked away. Qin Shaoqing, who had wanted to ask about the situation, weighed his options, sighed, and quickly chased after her.
Che Lei stared at his unconscious sister and the chaotic mess of a home, then sat down hard on the floor.
These so-called experts—why were they all so crazy?
"Whoa, did you see that? That Taoist master inside was pretty fierce!"
"Didn't even need to see him—just his aura was terrifying."
"Like the kind who'd beat ghosts into oblivion."
"Yeah, yeah."
"Think we should report back to the boss?"
"Move it! Behave, or you're done for!" A ghost found time to kick the uncooperative red-dressed female ghost.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
