Chapter 168 Stripped of the Halo, You're Nothing But a Bastard

Yu Zhiyi, the woman, and Du Ziheng and the others all looked over.

Liu Feiyang quickly waved his hand and explained with an embarrassed smile, "I didn't mean anything by it, really, I just felt strange."

Yu Zhiyi didn't say much, looking at the woman's head injury with a compassionate gaze: "She was indeed beaten to death, but not because of this incident."

Cao Zhaodi was eventually given to Cao Dali's family as their daughter-in-law.

Although she found it hard to accept the outcome, she comforted herself by thinking that Sister Fan had a five-year-old son. She said it was okay and that she could atone for taking care of Sister Fan's son.

However, she wanted to take care of Miss Fan's son, but the son did not want her to take care of him.

After that day, everyone in the village said that she had killed Sister Fan and caused Cao Yaozu to lose his mother.

Although Cao Yaozu was only five years old, he took these words to heart.

Don't underestimate the malice of a five-year-old child.

He hated Cao Zhaodi to the core. In addition, Cao Dali's family treated Cao Zhaodi badly, often beating and scolding her. She had no status in the family, and Cao Yaozu was even less respectful of her, always instigating his family to beat her.

Sometimes he would deliberately find fault with Cao Zhaodi. If her clothes weren't washed properly, if she didn't cook the meal on time and he was hungry, or even if she accidentally ate a little too much... these would become reasons for Cao Yaozu to attack her.

She stayed at Cao Dali's house for two years, and her body was covered in bruises.

She hated Cao Dali's family and the people in the village, but she didn't hate Cao Yaozu because he was Sister Fan's child.

But it was this child, whom she didn't hate, who caused her to lose her life.

Cao Yaozu had always hated Cao Zhaodi for killing his mother, and he repeatedly instigated Cao Dali's family, all in order to get Cao Dali's husband to beat Cao Zhaodi to death.

But two years have passed, and Cao Zhaodi is still alive and well.

Cao Yaozu was unwilling to accept this.

One day, when he was playing with his friends, he heard that a girl in town had been drowned in a pond because she eloped with a man.

He didn't know what eloping meant, but he heard the women say that the woman who drowned herself in the pond had died.

So he came up with an idea and ran home to tell Cao Dali and his son that Cao Zhaodi was going to elope with a stranger.

And so, without any evidence, the villagers decided to drown her in the pond.

That evening, Cao Zhaodi's younger sister secretly ran into the ancestral hall in Caonan Village, untied the ropes binding Cao Zhaodi, and allowed her to escape.

Unfortunately, fate was not kind to this unfortunate girl. It was the same man from two years ago who saw Cao Zhaodi in the outhouse in the middle of the night.

This time, Cao Zhaodi didn't want to live anymore. After being surrounded, she first shouted at the top of her lungs that she hadn't killed Cao Yaozu's mother. She also told him that his mother and uncle were originally the children of a high-ranking official and had a bright future, but because of the selfish, greedy, ignorant, and vicious people in Caojia Village, his mother and uncle had both died here.

She also told him that if his mother escaped that day, he would be taken away to live a good life.

But all of this was destroyed by the people of Caojia Village!

He then glared hatefully at everyone in the village, as if trying to memorize their every face.

She cursed the heavens, vowing that even in death she would not let go of everyone who had killed the Fan siblings.

She wanted to kill herself by crashing into that old locust tree like Sister Fan, but the villagers were prepared this time and stopped her.

Then, before dawn, they threw her into the river at the entrance of the village.

Liu Feiyang was stunned: "Is it really that outrageous?"

He was somewhat skeptical: "I didn't mean to offend you, but... you're talking as if you saw it with your own eyes."

The response she received was a gruff voice: "She's right, these really did happen to me!"

As memories of the past resurfaced, the murderous aura surrounding her surged even more fiercely: "These vicious people, I will make them die! I will kill them to avenge Sister Fan!"

She laughed wildly, looking up at the sky: "Not only will I kill them, I will also sow the seeds of hatred in them!"

The words she spoke before she died were meant to plant the seeds of hatred in Cao Yaozu's heart.

In this way, even if she cannot become a vengeful ghost after her death, she can still help Cao Yaozu avenge his father and uncle out of hatred.

"Afterwards, Cao Yaozu indeed became suspicious." She smiled coldly: "After stripping away the halo of being Sister Fan's son, he's nothing more than a spoiled, vicious, and selfish bastard who grew up in Caonan Village!"

"He was preoccupied with the fact that his mother was the daughter of a high-ranking official. Afterwards, he went to ask his father and grandfather, but neither of them would say anything."

“This kid has been scheming since he was a child. When he was only five years old, he was able to lie low for two years in order to kill me. In order to live a good life, he chose to lie low again. This time, he lay low for a full eight years.”

"When he was fifteen, he got his father drunk and got him to reveal the truth about what happened back then."

"Then……"

She suddenly grinned: "Guess how he plans to get revenge?"

Seeing that the woman didn't cause any trouble and seemed quite agreeable, the group wasn't so afraid anymore. You Bingyue said, "Could it be that she's using the concept of ghosts and gods to kill people?"

The woman chuckled again: "You guessed right!"

"He's only fifteen years old, and he's already thinking of using me to kill people!"

"Actually, I hadn't woken up yet at that time. He led me to the river at the entrance of the village, pushed me in, and brought me offerings, which forcibly woke me up."

"I later learned that he had learned the art of summoning spirits from somewhere back then."

“He said he had investigated the matter back then and found that I had indeed been wronged. He also knew that his mother and uncle had indeed been killed by the whole village. However, he was powerless and alone and could not take revenge, so he wanted to use me.”

"Finally, he asked me if I knew what official position his grandfather held?"

It laughed again, this time with an even more hoarse and unpleasant laugh, filled with endless sorrow.

"Of course I know, how could I not know? But I don't want to tell him."

“I know very well that what he wanted to recruit was never my soul, but Sister Fan and Young Master Fan! But he couldn’t recruit them, so he had no choice but to choose me in the end.”

“He helped me lure those people to the riverbank, not to seek revenge, but to please me and make me believe that he truly loved his mother and genuinely wanted to avenge her and my uncle.”

It suddenly raised its voice: "I'll just watch him perform quietly!"

“I may be ignorant, but I’m not stupid. He killed those people not for Sister Fan and Young Master Fan, but to please me. So I watched as he killed his own grandfather, grandmother, father, Cao San’er who caused Sister Fan and me to run away, as well as the village chief and his wife and their three-year-old grandson.”

"In the end, in order to clear himself of suspicion, he staged an accidental fall into the river, making everyone believe that he had also been killed by the female ghost in the river."