Just as Bai Yuzhi had predicted, the instant the contract was dissolved and the power of merit on Jing's body was absorbed into Bai Yuzhi's body by Di Yang, Bai Lingxi almost instantly felt what it meant to experience a sudden chill in her hands and feet.

That bone-chilling cold was like a maggot clinging to the bone, impossible to escape.

This was something Bai Lingxi used to feel every day.

Bai Lingxi's pupils constricted as her memory returned to the time before she was recognized by the Bai family.

For some reason, Bai Lingxi was an unlucky child from a young age.

No matter what kind of lottery event it is, she will never win. No matter how important the location or occasion, as long as it is something that Bai Lingxi values, she will definitely mess it up.

Bad luck seemed to be something she was born with, clinging tightly to Bai Lingxi.

From major incidents like her adoptive parents going bankrupt and her car having a brake failure leading to an accident, to minor ones like her constantly encountering strange and unlucky events for no apparent reason.

Bai Lingxi used to feel guilty for the losses caused by various accidents, but over time, this guilt turned into resentment, especially when she learned that she was not her adoptive parents' biological daughter but the daughter of the richest man.

The turning point came on the day Bai Lingxi met the Taoist priest. She obtained a book containing the methods of the Xuanmen (mystical sects). In the book, she learned how to use metaphysical methods to change her bad luck and how to seize other people's opportunities and turn them into her own.

Since she cast the substitution spell on Bai Yuzhi, she hadn't felt this kind of bad luck for a long time.

But what's even more terrifying is that her previous misfortunes were just minor incidents; the suffering wasn't limited to her, but also had a greater impact on those around her. Now, with the resurgence of spiritual energy and rampant ghosts, if she's plagued by bad luck again, Bai Lingxi will face omnipresent vengeful spirits.

Now, her contract with Jing has been forcibly erased. She has lost her powerful natal ghost messenger and is also restrained by the white jade. It is conceivable that even if she doesn't die, she will definitely not have a good life.

Having experienced good times and been a genius girl, how could Bai Lingxi so calmly accept her impending return to mediocrity?

Her eyes were bloodshot as she glared at Bai Yuzhi with a fierce look: "What exactly have you done?"

Bai Yuzhi watched quietly as Bai Lingxi went mad.

The curve of her lips widened, finally revealing a stunningly beautiful smile: "How is it, my dear sister? Does it feel terrible to have your luck forcibly taken away?"

Her smile vanished abruptly, and Bai Yuzhi coldly looked at the distraught Bai Lingxi: "I used to feel this way too. How come you break down like this when it happens to you?"

In Bai Lingxi's eyes, Bai Yuzhi was now so repulsive that her beautiful appearance had become a venomous snake with bared fangs and claws.

"What you owe me, what I took is what you should pay back!"

That's utterly absurd.

What exactly did the original owner of this body owe Bai Lingxi?

Those twenty years of wealth and glory?

If this messy debt can be clearly settled, then ultimately it is because of Bai Lingxi's "cursed" bad luck that her original parents died tragically. Who owes whom this debt of life and death?

Since no one's subjective will caused this accident, there is no absolute right or wrong.

Bai Lingxi's ambition and unwillingness to submit to fate are admirable, but Bai Yuzhi cannot accept that her ambition requires her own life to fulfill it.

If she harbored resentment, why didn't she resent the Heavenly Dao? Instead, she targeted the weak and innocent original body of herself.

When Bai Lingxi, believing she had control over the original owner's fate, tormented her in every way, she herself became no different from the cruel and merciless destiny.

However, Bai Yuzhi didn't want to waste her breath arguing with Bai Lingxi, and Bai Lingxi wouldn't accept such a statement either.

As the female protagonist controlled by fate, Bai Lingxi naturally undergoes a change in mindset after gaining extraordinary talent and unparalleled strength in the later stages. However, without Bai Yuzhi's life as a stepping stone, she will never be able to climb that ladder to heaven in her lifetime.

Their fates were sealed, and their fortunes were inextricably linked, a fight to the death.

Bai Yuzhi coldly observed Bai Lingxi's current disheveled state. The discomfort in her body had subsided, but when Bai Yuzhi tried to move her calves, they remained numb and weak.

This means that as long as Bai Lingxi is not suppressed to the bottom, Bai Yuzhi will not be able to completely restore its original appearance.

If it weren't for...

As Bai Yuzhi sensed the disappearance of energy around her, Di Yang returned to the totem once again because of her unstable energy field, and Bai Lingxi was startled.

"Why?"

She thought the white jade would take her life.

At this moment, a slight noise suddenly came from downstairs. Bai Yuzhi looked at Bai Lingxi.

The only people who could be at home at this time, and who could open the door so easily, are the Bai couple.

Bai Lingxi thought that Bai Yuzhi stopped because he sensed the sudden return of the Bai family couple, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as she doesn't die, there's still a chance.

Bai Yuzhi saw that Bai Lingxi had quickly regained her composure and knew that she had misunderstood something.

In fact, Bai Yuzhi didn't care whether the Bai family couple were home or not, because she was fully capable of faking Bai Lingxi's death to make it look like she was killed by an unknown ghost.

Originally, Bai Yuzhi would not have taken action himself. If he really killed Bai Lingxi, it would have been Di Yang, whom she had summoned, who would have done it.

If it weren't for the instability of the energy field...

However, Bai Yuzhi liked this beautiful misunderstanding, as it meant that Bai Lingxi was unaware of her fatal weakness.

That's good.

In the brief moment of confrontation with Bai Lingxi, Bai Yuzhi realized that this female protagonist, who was destined to ascend to immortality in the original world, was quite different from the fools of the previous worlds.

As expected of a world with nightmare difficulty, even those with a knack for arrogance become more cautious.

Bai Lingxi is definitely not a fool.

Those destined to obstruct the mission are difficult to deal with, and the elusive mission objectives are also difficult to conquer.

For the first time, Bai Yuzhi felt that the mission world was so difficult and baffling.

Bai Lingxi had already left her room and gone downstairs to greet the Bai family couple. She thought the Bai family couple had saved her life, while Bai Yuzhi was still sitting on the soft bed, looking at the dragon holding a pearl on her calf.

After a tense standoff, she felt tired, a weariness a result of her unhealthy body.

Perhaps Bai Lingxi can be put aside for now; the most important thing is to win over Di Yang.

With eyes closed, feeling the energy surge from emptiness to calm, the white jade cleared the clutter from his mind.

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