The boy couldn't answer.
Government officials did come, but they were all scared away by him pretending to be a ghost.
Moreover, too many people had died in this house, making it eerie and unlucky. Over time, no one went near it anymore.
Even the neighbors on the left and right followed suit and moved away one after another.
Jiang Shumiao saw the evasiveness and guilt in his eyes, and after thinking about it carefully, she understood.
"You said you came to repay a debt of gratitude, but your way of repaying that debt is to steal your benefactor's sweetheart?"
The boy was immediately filled with shame.
Jiang Shumiao couldn't understand why human desires could make gods and demons so obsessed, and now even ghosts were unable to extricate themselves from their love.
"Your possession of the dead body may conceal your demonic aura, but you will be overwhelmed by the malevolent energy emanating from him, making it difficult to advance your cultivation any further."
The boy said, "I know."
Jiang Shumiao tilted her head, still puzzled.
"But you will hurt her."
The boy was startled.
Jiang Shumiao said, "She can't leave this house because the resentment here is too strong, trapping her firmly. Qiao Yue must have come back after his death and had contact with her, so she has the yin energy of Qiao Yue after his death. Even if you take Qiao Yue's body and marry her, you can never get close to her."
The boy's fingers curled, his gaze shifting from shock to pain; in an instant, he seemed to shatter.
What is forced cannot last.
Jiang Shumiao thought of Shen Qinghe and Wen Zhixuan and couldn't help but sigh.
Qiao Yue and Lin Tingwan were first separated by their parents, one dying and the other injured. The cat demon's act of repaying a debt of gratitude was a good deed, but its hatred of evil led it to commit murder, creating a karmic consequence. Furthermore, due to its attachment, it possessed the body of the deceased and fell in love with and stayed with the human, causing Lin Tingwan to suffer from a prolonged illness.
This is evil.
The boy's face was contorted with pain.
"I... I just wanted to take good care of her. I didn't mean to hurt her, I..."
I like her.
He couldn't bring himself to say the last three words.
He knew in his heart that this was just wishful thinking on his part.
Lin Tingwan loves Qiao Yue, not the cat demon disguised as Qiao Yue.
He was afraid she would regain her senses, afraid he would be exposed, afraid of losing her. He even considered abandoning his centuries of cultivation, forever trapped in Qiao Yue's body. That way, he could stay with her forever.
Jiang Shumiao's eyes held a hint of regret. "You can even take human form with your soul, which shows you have a destiny to become an immortal. If you don't commit any murders and continue to cultivate diligently, you might be able to become a ghost immortal and serve in the underworld in the future."
The boy remained silent.
Jiang Shumiao knew he hadn't listened, or rather, hadn't taken it to heart at all, so she continued, "The yin energy belonging to Qiao Yue on her body has dissipated, but after Qiao Yue died, his remains were dug up and you possessed his body. The resentment is all because you attached yourself to her, causing her soul to become unstable, which is why she's gone mad and confused. To completely remove the resentment, you must personally bury Qiao Yue's remains."
In this way, his six-year lie could no longer be fabricated.
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