Li Huilin failed to notice Jiang Juncai's odd behavior and continued to threaten him with a fierce expression.

"If you go back on your word, don't blame me for being impolite. I will definitely tell everyone about your soul-absorbing activities."

She stared stubbornly at Jiang Juncai, refusing to back down. She had finally gotten a chance to marry into a wealthy family, and naturally, she wasn't willing to give it up. She believed that Jiang Juncai didn't want anyone to know about this, so he would definitely agree to her request.

Jiang Juncai felt that ferocious thing inside his body again. That ferocious thing was running wildly inside him, rushing straight to the top of his head. His murderous thoughts grew stronger and stronger, and he looked at Li Huilin with murderous intent.

Li Huilin was also frightened when she saw Jiang Juncai's murderous gaze. However, she was unwilling to back down, and she still held her head high: "I mean what I say. If you don't agree, I'll tell everyone about you and let everyone know you're a monster! You'd better watch out!"

Jiang Juncai's killing intent surged even more fiercely, striking straight to his heart.

He remembered the talisman that Yuan Qi had given him to ward off evil spirits, so he walked towards the bedside in the bedroom. He had taken off the talisman when he was about to lie down and rest.

But before he even got close to the bedroom, the urge to kill completely overwhelmed him, and he lost control of his own mind.

Jiang Juncai slowly turned around and walked towards Li Huilin step by step.

His deep brown pupils were tinged with black. He slowly raised his hand, and black mist overflowed from his fingertips, forming a thick wisp that stretched and spread toward Li Huilin.

Li Huilin looked on in horror. In an instant, she understood that Jiang Juncai had turned into a monster again and was now going to kill her and absorb his soul.

The door was so close, yet she couldn't move her feet; they felt as if they were nailed to the ground, unable to take a single step.

She screamed, "Help! Murder!"

But her voice could only linger in her throat and she couldn't make it out at all. She found that she couldn't move her hands either. She was terrified and instinctively wanted to beg for mercy.

She was wrong; she shouldn't have threatened Jiang Juncai.

But the black mist was already upon her, wrapping around her neck. She discovered that she could move her limbs again. She reached out to pry the black mist apart, but the black mist was invisible, and she couldn't touch it at all.

The black mist tightened, making it difficult for her to breathe. Her feet left the ground, and she felt as if her chest was about to explode. She reached out a hand to grab Jiang Juncai, but he ignored her completely. Black mist continued to emanate from his hand, binding her tighter and tighter. She felt her consciousness fading.

All the bad things she had done in her life flashed before her eyes, especially the thing she did to coerce Jiang Juncai, which was the thing she regretted the most.

If she hadn't been so greedy and had obediently waited for her parents to arrange her marriage to Jiang Junjing, she might not have died.

Seeing Jiang Juncai's cold and ruthless face, Li Huilin regretted it and shed tears.

The next second, her soul overflowed from her body, forming a wisp of smoke that Jiang Juncai inhaled into his mouth.

More and more black mist overflowed from Jiang Juncai's hands, completely enveloping Li Huilin's corpse.

The door opened by itself, and thick black fog enveloped Li Huilin's body, drifting out and heading towards the well in the garden. Soon after, Li Huilin's body fell precisely into the well.

"Hahaha..." Jiang Juncai laughed arrogantly, his voice deep, "It won't be long before I have complete control over you! I'll be able to do whatever I want, hahaha..."

As the black mist gradually dissipated, Jiang Jun regained consciousness. He realized he had lost control of his body and was in a panic. He didn't know what had just happened; Li Huilin was gone from the chair, and the door was open.

He staggered to the door, but there was no one outside. The courtyard was very quiet, and there was still light coming from Jiang Junjing's room. He looked around the courtyard but found nothing unusual.

"Could it be that Li Huilin has left?"

Jiang Jun only then learned about the two maids he had killed last time, and he was afraid that he would do the same thing this time, killing someone in a moment of loss of control.

He didn't dare to make a sound and went back to his room.

Jiang Juncai sat on the edge of the bed, holding the two jade talismans tightly for a long time, not daring to let go. He decided that no matter what he did in the future, he must never let go of these two jade talismans.

Nothing happened that night.

The next morning, Jiang Jiulu got up early as usual to pay her respects to her grandmother, without waking Li Huilin.

Li Huilin was not a member of the Jiang family, so she didn't need to pay her respects to Old Madam Bai morning and evening, and thus she slept until she naturally woke up every day.

Jiang Jiulu assumed she was asleep, so she didn't wake her.

When she returned from Old Madam Bai's place, Xiao He, who served Li Huilin, was still waiting in the corridor with his men.

Jiang Jiulu asked in surprise, "Miss, are you still not up?"

Xiao He shook his head: "There's not a sound from inside the house."

Jiang Jiulu was very dissatisfied. The Jiang family was of a much higher social standing than the Li family, and none of their children dared to sleep in so much. Even Yuan Qi got up early every day to practice martial arts without fail.

"Cousin, it's time to get up." Jiang Jiulu knocked on her door, but there was no response.

In the past, Li Huilin would respond irritably, telling the servants not to disturb her.

Jiang Jiulu knocked several times, but no one answered. She then realized something was wrong and had her maid break down the door.

The bedding on the bed was neatly made, as if no one had slept there.

Jiang Jiulu looked at him for a while before asking Xiao He, "Do you think she went out last night and didn't come back, or did she go out early this morning?"

Xiao He quickly called over Xiao Man, who had served Li Huilin by washing her feet the night before, and asked, "What did Miss Li do after washing her feet last night?"

Xiaoman was terrified, thinking that she had committed a serious crime this time, so she told the whole story: "Last night, after I served Miss Biao by washing her feet, Miss Biao said that she didn't need me to serve her anymore, so I left. I don't know where Miss Biao went after that."

Xiao He reminded Jiang Jiulu: "Miss, don't panic. There are old women guarding the second gate when you go out at night. Just go and ask. Maybe Miss is just going out for a stroll early in the morning."

Jiang Jiulu thought it made sense, so she ordered someone to search the inner quarters.

However, Jiang Jiulu mobilized all her maids and servants to search, and they searched almost the entire inner quarters, but they still couldn't find Li Huilin.

She panicked and told Concubine Li that Li Huilin was missing. She then sought out Yuan Qi, intending to calculate where Li Huilin had gone.

Old Mrs. Bai disliked Yuan Qi, her illegitimate daughter, and forbade her from paying her respects to her husband morning and evening. Yuan Qi was too lazy to argue with Old Mrs. Bai and was happy to be carefree.

Yuan Qi calculated with his fingers and said, "She's dead. Let's go find her body."

Jiang Jiulu suddenly felt as if the sky had fallen and something terrible had happened.

Soon, Xiangli Mingzhu was also alerted. The Jiang residence was very large, making the search difficult. The artificial lake was so big and deep that checking for anyone inside would be a massive undertaking. The Jiang residence also had several wells, making the search quite troublesome as well.

There are so many corners and edges too.

By the time someone discovered there was someone in the well, it was already noon.