Xiao Yunying arrived at the Lin family's door, took out the wooden basin that He Hua had left by the river from the supermarket, threw it under the wall, and then grabbed an axe and pounded on the door.

The Lin family members had to get up early to make tofu, so they all went to bed early every day. Only He Hua lay in bed with her eyes open, unable to fall asleep.

The moment she closed her eyes, all she could see in her mind was Xiao Yunying calling her name from the river; how could she possibly fall asleep?

A loud banging on the door startled He Hua.

Could it be Xiao Yunying's ghost coming to seek revenge?

Do ghosts knock on doors?

The knocking on the door continued. He Hua kicked Lin Shi twice, but he didn't wake up. She cursed at him a couple of times, then mustered her courage, put on her coat, and asked at the door, "Who is it?"

"It's me."

Xiao Yunying had made up her mind: if she didn't open the door, she would smash it down with an axe.

Her voice was so hoarse from choking on water that He Hua couldn't recognize whose voice it was. She was relieved to hear someone answer; ghosts probably couldn't speak.

She wasn't afraid of anyone.

Having vented her pent-up fear all night, He Hua cursed and said, "Are you trying to get yourself killed? Why are you banging on my door so late at night instead of sleeping? Can't you talk about it tomorrow? We need to get up early tomorrow to make tofu. Can you afford to compensate us for the time it takes to make money?"

Xiao Yunying didn't answer, but kept banging on the door, which attracted Aunt Lin to come out. Seeing He Hua standing there motionless, she said, "Why are you standing here instead of opening the door?"

In the Lin family, He Hua was most afraid of her mother-in-law. She didn't dare to argue and muttered something under her breath as she opened the courtyard gate.

When she saw Xiao Yunying standing outside the door, soaking wet, pale-faced, with two dried bloodstains on her forehead, she screamed in fright, "Ah! A ghost!"

The screams were so piercing that they caused all the dogs in the nearby dog-owning households to bark, waking up the people who had already gone to sleep. They lit oil lamps and went out to see what had happened.

He Hua trembled as she backed away until she bumped into the wall and stopped, crying out, "Don't come any closer! Don't come any closer!"

Xiao Yunying entered the courtyard and immediately held an axe to her neck: "Are you afraid of me?"

With a cold, sharp blade pressed against her neck, He Hua cried out again, her eyes closed, unable to look at her: "Don't kill me, please don't kill me, I was wrong."

Aunt Lin was also startled by Xiao Yunying's appearance. By the moonlight, she recognized the person and asked, "Yunying? What happened to you?"

"What's wrong with me? You should ask your good daughter-in-law."

After this exchange, He Hua finally came to her senses and opened her eyes, asking, "You...you're not dead?"

"Wrong, I am already dead. The King of Hell said I died unjustly and my resentment was too heavy to be reincarnated, so he allowed me to come up here myself to take revenge!"

Xiao Yunying's expression was so terrifying that He Hua trembled and felt a warm, wet sensation in her lower body. She was so frightened that she lost control of her bladder.

Xiao Yunying stepped back slightly in disgust: "Tell me, why do you want to kill me!"

After much thought, she still felt that He Hua shouldn't have wanted to kill her just because they had a few words exchanged and a fight.

Although He Hua had been spreading rumors about the original owner, she had never dared to do so in front of the original owner; she had only talked about it behind her back. It was only in the last two days that she suddenly started targeting her in person.

There must be some reason she doesn't know.

Several people living nearby brought oil lamps and followed the sound, arriving just in time to hear Xiao Yunying's words.

"Murder? Who wants to kill someone?"

"Who is this guy holding an axe to He Hua?"

Someone standing to the side saw her face clearly: "It's Xiao Yunying. What happened to her? She's soaking wet and her head is bleeding."

Aunt Lin was also surprised and said, "She wants to kill you? Yun Ying, is there some misunderstanding?"

“What misunderstanding is there? I saw with my own eyes that she pushed me into the Xiaqu River. If I hadn’t been lucky enough to be swept ashore, you would have heard the news of my disappearance tomorrow.”

Seeing that she was soaking wet, Aunt Lin called out towards the house, "Old man, bring out one of my clothes."

Lin Shi's father took out an overcoat, and Aunt Lin wanted to put it on Xiao Yunying, but she stopped her.

"Yun Ying, it's quite chilly on this autumn night. You're all wet. Put your clothes on first, put down the axe, and let's talk things out."

“She wanted to kill me, what’s there to say?”

He Hua realized that the person in front of her wasn't a ghost, and stood up straight: "Don't try to frame me. You fell into the river yourself, why are you blaming me? What evidence do you have that I pushed you!"

People around them started whispering again, some saying that Xiao Yunying had fallen into the river and was trying to extort medical expenses from He Hua, with whom she had a conflict.

Some say He Hua is petty and that's the kind of person she's capable of.

Xiao Yunying didn't care what others thought, but she couldn't ignore the Lin family's thoughts, since Lin Shi was her nominal savior.

"You want evidence? Then I'll give you evidence!"