"What a load of rubbish! She's just like her mother, all she has is a pretty face. She was only three years old then. When I killed her parents, this girl was still sleeping on the kang (a heated brick bed). Humph, they deserved it. Who the hell told him not to lend us money? He was so stingy with so much money. It's just a pity that we still haven't found the bankbook that madman hid..." Li Fugui was still so angry when he thought about what happened back then.

"Let me tell you, they deserved to die. Fifteen years ago, the Xia family made money running a small business in the county town. They came back to the village driving a 'March 8th Red Flag' car. That was quite a spectacle back then, the whole village was in an uproar. I just wanted to borrow some money, but who would have thought they wouldn't lend it to me? Heh, I just chopped an axe at them! Haha!"

Li Fugui was still smugly recounting his "great achievements" from back then.

However, neither of them could have imagined that their conversation had been overheard by Xia Yixin on the rooftop.

She heard the system notification: "Congratulations, host, for uncovering the truth behind the original owner's parents' deaths. You have successfully gained 1000 points. Your total points are currently -3000."

She narrowed her phoenix eyes slightly and landed silently on the ground.

"System, are there any missions to punish this village or help the original owner avenge their family?" Her eyes gleamed with murderous intent.

"This system is very touched that the host took the initiative to ask for a mission, but unfortunately there isn't one, because the original owner never knew the truth until his death."

Although it was a bit of a pity, Xia Yixin was not prepared to let Li Fugui or anyone else from back then off the hook.

"Host, are you planning to kill someone? That's not right..." The system was a little frightened.

"Kill them? That's too easy on them. Some people's consciences won't let them off the hook." Xia Yixin's voice was extremely cold.

With a thought, she took out the Black Yama Spear in its military dagger form from her storage ring. She remembered that the system had said before that the resentment wrapped around this Black Yama Spear could affect a person's mind, and those with weak willpower would be haunted by vengeful spirits and suffer from nightmares.

The system doesn't understand what she means yet, but she'll find out soon enough.

That night, Li Fugui was woken up by the cold.

He shivered, stood up, and ran, but the forest seemed to have no end. Cold sweat broke out on his brow. Then, a pair of feet appeared in front of him. He trembled as he looked up and saw a red-clad female ghost with her face slashed.

"Ah!!" Li Fugui was so frightened that he lost control of his bladder.

He knew this female ghost. Three years ago, a girl who had been abducted was disobedient, and he accidentally killed her by hitting her too hard. To avoid being discovered, he slashed her face and buried her in the mountains.

Li Fugui got up and tried to run, but he found that more and more people he had murdered and tormented were surging out. They entangled him, as if knives were cutting his flesh bit by bit, or as if they were roasting him over a fire.

This is a nightmare from which I will never wake up.

However, his own body was still in the young widow's room, though both of them were in a daze.

The system watched as Xia Yixin merely touched the hearts of the two men with the blade of the Black Yama Spear, which had been shortened to the size of a dagger, and the two men were in this state, gasping for breath.

"Host, is this Black Yama Spear really that powerful...?"

Xia Yixin also felt that the effect was beyond her expectations. They would still wake up tomorrow morning, but they would be plagued by nightmares every night from then on, and these nightmares were all created by their conscience.

Xia Yixin put away the Black Yama Spear. "It's because they've done too many bad things. Extremes beget their opposites. Doing too many bad things will bring them vengeful spirits."

"Host, are you going to deal with the other households tonight?"

Xia Yixin pondered for a moment and shook her head. "Let's not alert them yet. Aren't there other buyers tomorrow? Let's teach them a lesson together."

Since the Black Yama Spear, this "punishment of conscience," is so effective, Xia Yixin is going to take down both the top and bottom lines.

With a thought, she transformed into Li Fugui's appearance, and, suppressing her nausea, put on the shirt and pants that were still lying by the bedside. After all, it wouldn't be very noticeable at night.

When she left the young widow's house, she locked the door from the outside so that no one would discover the two fools inside before the deed was done tomorrow.

This was the darkest hour before dawn.

Xia Yixin walked towards Li Fugui's house, which was the only two-story building in this mountain village.

Before they even got close, a girl's cry for help came from the backyard of the two-story building.

"Ding! Congratulations, host, for activating the side quest: Protect the chastity of the female protagonist in the Marriage Pet Dimension. Time limit: 3 minutes. Completion will earn you 1000 points. Failure is possible. Do you accept?" The system exclaimed, "As expected of a collection of thirteen dimensions, the side quests are one after another, tsk tsk."

"A world of marriage and romance? Zhao Jie!?"

This girl isn't in the capital city, so when did she get here? And what kind of constitution does she have?!

Zhao Jie hadn't expected this either.

She never expected that the person who abducted and sold her was actually her own sister.

Three days ago, after Zhao Qing's suicide attempt failed and she returned home, she seemed to have forgotten everything. Her last memory was before she met that married man. The doctor said she had selective amnesia.

She seemed like a completely different person, cheerful, optimistic, and gentle.

Especially after Xiao Yunting immediately.

To be honest, when Zhao Jie heard this, she breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, she felt a strong sense of guilt.

Zhao Qing's previous words seemed to have brought out all the things that Zhao Jie had kept hidden in her heart.

She suddenly realized that for more than 20 years she had been so willful in wasting her family's tolerance. She even thought discouragedly that, just as Zhao Qing said, no one else knew her true colors.

Zhao Jie hesitated for a long time before she could say "I'm sorry."

Instead, Zhao Qing patted the top of her head and said, "Let bygones be bygones."

Zhao Jie genuinely believed she was telling the truth; however, she failed to see the resentment swirling in Zhao Qing's eyes.

The next day, Zhao Qing gave her a spiked juice while the two were out. When Zhao Jie woke up, she was locked in a mud-brick house, which was airtight with only a small window and a door, and there were three girls with blank expressions.

She learned from them, bit by bit, that she had been "abducted," that she "might be sold to a remote mountain village to marry an old man," and that she "would never be able to escape home."

"Impossible, impossible... I didn't go with anyone else, I went out with my sister, how could that be!" Zhao Jie retorted subconsciously.

The other girls exchanged glances, and finally one of the bolder girls said coldly, "The day you were brought in, I did see a woman with that scumbag. She sold you to him..."

She sold her?! How could that be? She's her own sister.

But why is that impossible?

In the depths of her being, she heard a voice inside her telling her, "You deserve it." However, she didn't expect that an even bigger nightmare was about to begin.