This...this is the voice of her dead child, Lu Ye!
The next second, the black figure trapped in the golden net revealed its true form.
Standing at the doorway, Lu Zhicheng saw Lu Ye appear and his face showed terror. He screamed in a trembling voice, "A ghost! A ghost!!!"
After shouting, his eyes rolled back and he fainted.
Li Juan also looked shocked, staring in disbelief at the figure struggling inside the golden net: "Xiao Ye...it really is you!"
The next second, without even asking what Lu Ye had done, she rushed forward, grabbed the golden net, and pulled hard, trying to help Lu Ye and let him leave.
No matter how hard she tried, the gold net remained incredibly strong, without showing any signs of damage.
Li Juan panicked. She spread her arms to block Lu Ye, looking at the strangely large and small figures who had suddenly appeared in her house. Her gaze fell on Nan Yuanman, who had thrown out the talisman, and a smile that was more like a grimace appeared on her face: "Little, little Celestial Master, I don't know what our little Ye has done. Please let him go this time."
"He's only eighteen, still very young. If he does something wrong, can I take the blame?"
Li Juan wasn't stupid. Nan Yuanman used talismans right away, and the copper coin sword in her hand was enough to prove that she was no ordinary person. Moreover, the fact that she was able to chase after him here meant that she must have done something bad after Lu Ye's death and was discovered and tracked down.
She didn't know what wrong Lu Ye had done, but as a mother, she instinctively covered for him.
Nan Yuanman's chubby little face was full of seriousness: "Auntie, this brother killed a sister. His hands are stained with blood. He's not the good child you remember."
"Not only that, he also wanted to harm my brother."
As Meng Qinian was huffing and puffing as he dragged the unconscious Lu Zhicheng into the room and closed the door to block the curious gazes of those outside, the corners of his mouth involuntarily turned up when he heard this.
Yuanman calls him brother!
The kind without a prefix!
Li Juan's pupils constricted, and she turned to look at Lu Ye in disbelief. Lu Ye avoided her gaze and spoke harshly to Nan Yuanman: "Don't make false accusations! I didn't kill her! She committed suicide because of her own lack of willpower!"
"Besides, if she were determined, would she commit suicide under my coaxing?"
Lu Ye sneered: "Your claim that I harmed your brother is utter nonsense. If I really harmed him, would he still be standing here perfectly fine? You should at least think before you lie!"
Li Juan believed Lu Ye's words. She turned to Nan Yuanman hesitantly and said, "Xiao Ye said he didn't harm anyone, so isn't there some misunderstanding...?"
“You adults really love to lie,” Nan Yuanman said unhappily. “If you hadn’t possessed Tingting’s phone and bewitched her, she wouldn’t have committed suicide.”
"Don't try to deny it. I smelled your ghostly aura on Sister Tingting's phone, and I also smelled your ghostly aura on my brother's phone."
Nan Yuanman stopped arguing with Lu Ye and summoned the Gates of Hell: "If I've wronged you, you can go to the underworld and complain to King Yama! Let him punish me!"
Lu Ye, who had been feeling somewhat smug, sensed the approaching hell and panicked instantly. He turned to Li Juan and pleaded, "Mom, I don't want to go to the underworld. I want to stay by your side and be with you."
"I know my willfulness hurt you. I've seen how much you miss me this past year. Mom, I was wrong. I shouldn't have impulsively tried to commit suicide. I hurt someone because I wanted to spend more time with you. I didn't mean any harm. Mom, please help me."
Li Juan felt as if her heart was being torn apart, and her dried tears fell again. She turned to look at Nan Yuanman, her legs went weak, and she wanted to kneel down and beg.
But her wrist was grabbed by a large hand, and Meng Qinian’s voice, which was somewhat cold, came: “Auntie, Lu Ye only has time to kill one person now. He won’t be punished too severely in the underworld. If you continue to protect him and help him do evil, he will do even worse things in the future, which will really harm him.”
Li Juan froze, her eyes blurry with tears as she looked up at the person who had arrived.
Meng Qinian looked at Lu Ye and sneered: "I've seen what it means to spout nonsense. You're trying to make your mother kneel down to the child. Aren't you afraid of shortening your mother's lifespan?"
Nan Yuanman nodded in agreement: "If you really loved your parents, you wouldn't have kept your hideout at home."
Ghosts and living people should not be in contact for extended periods.
The yin energy emanating from ghosts can affect the living, causing them to experience bad luck, become irritable, easily angered, and prone to illness, resulting in a loss of vitality and lifespan.
Judging from Li Juan's dark circles under her eyes, her grayish-brown forehead, and the dimming of the three flames on her body, if she had arrived any later, in a couple of days, Li Juan would have definitely had an accident due to her mental confusion.
When Lu Ye saw that Li Juan was stopped, his expression gradually turned gloomy. He sneered, his face full of resentment and sarcasm: "Useless thing."
"You forced me to study while I was alive, leaving me no time to breathe. You can't help me after I die. You are such a failed mother."
Li Juan's body trembled violently, her eyes filled with tears, her face filled with disbelief: "Xiao Ye...you..."
"The thing I regret most in my life is being born as your child." Knowing he couldn't escape, Lu Ye decided to throw caution to the wind and said to Li Juan with exceptional malice, "If I had the chance, I'd rather be born a dog than be you..."
Before he could finish speaking, Nan Yuanman interrupted him loudly: "You've gone too far!"
With a gloomy expression, Meng Qinian looked down at her. The little girl clenched her fists tightly, her big eyes shining brightly with anger, like an angry bird: "Auntie has been so good to you! She wasn't afraid when she saw how ugly you were, and she was still thinking about protecting you even though you've become a demon!"
"Your aunt doesn't owe you anything! She's the one who's really unlucky to have given birth to a child like you!"
After scolding Lu Ye, she toddled over to Li Juan, reached out and wiped away her tears, and comforted her in a childish voice: "Auntie, don't be sad. If there's a chance in the next life, I'll... I'll let my brother be your child!"
"My brother is tall and handsome! He's definitely a hundred times better than this unfilial son!"
After saying that, Nan Yuanman glanced at Meng Qinian guiltily, gave him a fawning smile, and said that Yuanman wanted to be her mother's child again in her next life, so she could only let her brother Qinian be her aunt's child for a little while.
Meng Qinian was both amused and exasperated. He reached out and tapped her, wondering if this little one was using him as a favor.
Li Juan, whose heart had been hurt by Lu Ye's words, was somewhat comforted by Nan Yuanman's childlike words. She choked up and said, "Thank you... thank you, little celestial master."
Lu Ye's chest heaved with rage as he glared at Nan Yuanman and roared, "What do you know! You know absolutely nothing!"
Li Juan raised her red and swollen eyes, looked at Lu Ye, and tried to speak calmly: "Indeed, she didn't understand anything, but Xiao Ye, your mother did make some mistakes when you were alive, but your mother doesn't owe you anything."
"Whatever you want, whatever you want to play, whatever you want to buy, Mom has tried her best to make it happen for you."
"Mom really... shouldn't have pressured you." She couldn't hold back her tears again, apologizing sobbing, "I'm sorry."
Upon hearing these three words, Lu Ye, who had been glaring angrily with wide eyes, had his pupils shrink slightly, and the resentment he felt towards Li Juan was slowly dissipating.
Before and after his death, all he wanted was for Li Juan to say "I'm sorry."
But adults are too cunning; they always have a thousand reasons to justify themselves and never think they have done anything wrong.
Lu Ye quieted down. The gates of hell behind him were slowly opening, and the rustling of chains and heavy footsteps came from inside. The temperature in the room suddenly dropped.
Goosebumps rose all over Meng Qinian's body. He couldn't help but move closer to Nan Yuanman. He looked around furtively and asked her in a low voice, "Yuanman, has the gate of hell opened?"
Nan Yuanman nodded: "Yes! The underworld messenger is about to come out!"
As soon as she finished speaking, a ghostly messenger wearing a tall black hat with the words "You've come too" written on it walked out from inside, holding a soul-reaping rope.
He nodded slightly to Nan Yuanman in greeting, then raised his hand and placed the Soul-Hooking Rope around Lu Ye's neck.
Lu Ye's soul trembled slightly from the pressure of the Yin Messenger. Just before his soul was taken away, he spoke in a trembling voice, "I...I didn't commit suicide because you forced me. Someone online tempted me, and I couldn't think straight for a moment..."
As the underworld officials dragged Lu Ye's soul into the gates of hell, he finally spoke in a hoarse voice: "I have never blamed you, and what I said just now was not what I truly felt... I'm sorry, Mom."
If there is a next life, I still want to be your child.
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