Xiao Hei, who was beside her, nudged Xiao Bai’s shoulder. “Master’s spiritual eyes have been sealed for a long time. They cannot be opened.”
“Ah… I’m sorry, Master, I forgot.”
“…” Li Qiao rubbed her forehead. She felt the two of them were deliberately playing off each other.
Her celestial eye could perceive all demons and monsters, but the spiritual eye, the only one capable of seeing past lives, had remained sealed since that accident.
The Patriarch had told her that when the time was right, the spiritual eye would open on its own.
She wondered when that would be.
Li Qiao cleared her throat and said, “Well, since you know, go ahead and speak.”
“Qingrou… this is your chance,” Xiao Hei reminded her.
The grievously injured female vengeful ghost, Qingrou, had her ghostly aura and malevolent energy gradually dissipating, revealing a delicate, pretty face.
Qingrou stared fiercely at Gu Yu.
“He is an utterly despicable, petty man—”
The forest was silent, with only Qingrou’s voice echoing through it.
In her past life, Qingrou was the daughter of a prime minister, and Gu Yu was a poor scholar. Their first meeting was a classic case of a hero saving a beauty.
During an outing, Qingrou encountered bandits, and it was then that Gu Yu appeared.
He rescued her and brought her back to a small farmhouse. It was only then that Qingrou learned this highly skilled martial artist, Gu Yu, was a scholar about to take the imperial examinations.
Gu Yu excelled in both literary and martial arts and was quite handsome. Gradually, Qingrou fell in love with him, and their feelings became mutual.
She sponsored him and used her father the prime minister’s influence and power to help Gu Yu!
Qingrou eagerly awaited the day Gu Yu would pass the highest imperial exam and keep his promise to marry her.
Finally—
He lived up to her expectations and truly came first in the exam, becoming the Number One Scholar.
Soon after, they set their wedding date.
Qingrou yearned for it day and night. When the long-awaited wedding day finally arrived, what awaited her wasn’t her beloved lifting her bridal veil, but an imperial edict ordering the execution of her entire family. The person who read the edict aloud was none other than Gu Yu.
He read it expressionlessly. Qingrou simply couldn’t believe it. No matter how she begged, at Gu Yu’s command, her entire family was slaughtered. That night… the smell of blood and murder was thick in the air.
Qingrou screamed herself hoarse, pointing at Gu Yu: “I begged him… begged him to spare my family. He didn’t even spare my youngest brother, who was only three years old! In the end, he ran me through with his sword. I hate him! I was so good to him, why did he kill me? Even in death, he never gave me a reason. I couldn’t accept it. I wanted revenge…”
The more she spoke, the more agitated she became, her ghostly aura growing heavier. Xiao Bai patted her shoulder gently, and only then did Qingrou’s emotions stabilize.
“Master, isn’t a person this heartless, ungrateful, and treacherous deserving of death?”
Faced with her accusation, Li Qiao looked towards Gu Yu.
Their karmic connection was so deep, it was no wonder she couldn’t rest after death and turned into a vengeful ghost, waiting only for this moment of revenge!
“Judging by this story, it truly is infuriating.”
“No… that was a past life, not the current me. You should seek revenge from the Gu Yu of that past life. Why come after me? We are not the same person.” Having heard the whole story, Gu Yu sympathized with Qingrou’s suffering, but the one who did those things was the Gu Yu from a past life, not the him of now.
“Debts from a past life have nothing to do with the present one. The current Gu Yu has never done anything to hurt you.” Li Xinyue defended her beloved. Qingrou sneered coldly, “I don’t care. He is the same Gu Yu from that past life.”
“Wait… you’ve said so much, but I still don’t know why the Gu Yu from that past life killed your entire family?”
“Master, I looked into their past. In that life, Gu Yu’s mother was taken by force by the prime minister. Unable to bear the humiliation, she drowned herself. Gu Yu’s father went to the prime minister’s residence to avenge his wife, but was beaten to death on the spot by the prime minister’s order,” Xiao Bai explained.
“How could that be? How is that possible?” Qingrou couldn’t believe it. If that were true, then they were both each other’s enemies.
