Tick-tock! Tick-tock!
Li Juan, to be precise, was a face-smearing demon. Her skin was torn apart inch by inch, and blood mixed with water droplets splattered onto the ground, making a crisp sound.
"Holy crap!!"
Li Yaozu opened his mouth wide enough to fit two eggs.
Li Juan has turned into a monster!
He spent half a day with a monster!
Li Yaozu's legs went weak and his limbs gave way. He crawled off the bed like a dog, crying out, "Help!!"
Li Juan stared at him expressionlessly, her eyes filled with hatred, and she threw the medicine bowl away fiercely.
The bowl smashed right on Li Yaozu's head, and shards pierced his skin, causing his entire head to bleed profusely.
"Aaaaaah!!"
Li Yaozu, his face filled with terror, crawled forward desperately, crying out, "Quick, save me, save me..."
No one paid him any attention. The village chief looked at Yaozu on the ground, then at Linxi and the monster. As the head of the village, he needed to figure out the situation.
"Officer, if Li Juan is a monster, then what about Yao Zu?"
All eyes were on Lin Xi, who said calmly, "Except for Yaozu, the entire Li family is dead."
Li Yunda and Pang Li were killed by the face-smearing demon, and Li Juan's body was swollen, which was how she looked before she died.
She drowned, and the demon possessed her body.
Strange, the face-smearing demon likes to eat fresh human skin and hates the skin of dead people, so how did it end up inside a dead person's body and serve Yaozu here?
First, Lin Xi captured the face-smearing demon, then focused his spiritual energy into his fist.
Li Juan felt a powerful force; she was forced into a corner and had nowhere to escape.
Staying inside a dead body for too long will cause your body to reek of the stench of decay.
The skin... needs fresh skin to replenish its strength.
Li Juan's body suddenly grew larger, becoming as fat as a ball, and she flew up from the spot.
The round ball hurtled straight towards Mushroom Green. The village chief, standing in this position, watched helplessly as the white zombie ball flew over.
He was terrified. "Comrade, help!!"
Mushroom Green took a deep breath, her cheeks puffed out, and exhaled a large puff of green gas.
Li Juan felt dizzy. What the hell was this?
She saw a group of tiny people dancing before her eyes, and heard a bewitching voice in her ears.
"Sway to the rhythm~ Sway, sway~~"
The village chief felt this scene was very familiar; this was what happened when villagers ate the wrong mushrooms.
Mushrooms! Holy crap! Could the girl next to me be a mushroom spirit?!
The village chief trembled and retreated, retreating further and further, until he was a meter away from everyone.
Li Juan was stunned for a moment when a yellow talisman appeared in the air, and a thick silver lightning bolt struck her head.
"Aaaaaah!!"
Her round, plump body instantly deflated, her skin wrinkled all over, and Li Juan collapsed to the ground like an eighty-year-old woman, her voice hoarse and weak.
Lin Xi pressed down on her head and pulled out the face-wiping demon.
Li Juan screamed continuously, her face changing rapidly, transforming into a different person's face every second. These were all faces that had been eaten away, eventually settling on the face of a young woman.
She had a round face, a bulbous nose, a slightly dark complexion, two rosy cheeks, and exceptionally bright eyes.
The village chief shouted, "Li Juan!!"
"Village Chief," she called out, tears streaming down her face.
The village chief was shocked. "It really is Li Juan? She's still alive?"
Lin Xi spoke up: "No, Li Juan died long ago, before the face-smearing demon possessed her."
Li Juan lowered her head. "Yes... I died a long time ago. I couldn't stand that kind of life, so I jumped into the river and committed suicide."
The village chief was even more astonished, "Li Juan, why did you commit suicide? At the annual meeting, I said that anyone in Li Family Village could come to me if they had any difficulties..."
Li Juan's parents were scoundrels, and Yao Zu was a sickly man. Li Juan dropped out of school early and stayed at home to work like a slave, serving her parents and Yao Zu.
The village chief spoke to her several times, but she just shook her head.
Li Juan's suicide was more heartbreaking for him than being killed by a monster. The village chief sighed, "Why?"
“Village chief, thank you, but I am already dead.” Li Juan slowly turned her head. “I did it voluntarily; it was just a body.”
“I’ve always known I’m not my parents’ biological child. My demands aren’t high; I just want food to eat and to get married when I grow up, but…”
The village chief was dumbfounded. "Is that rumor true?"
“Hmm.” Li Juan paused for a moment, then said through gritted teeth, “Li Yunda and Pang Li aren’t my parents. They even made me…”
She was a blade of grass, and her younger brother was Yaozu, Yaozu with an extra piece of flesh.
Li Juan took on all the household chores from a young age: feeding chickens and pigs, mopping the floor, cooking, washing clothes, brewing medicine for Yaozu, and getting a beating for every little mistake she made.
She didn't understand why her younger brother could lie down while she had to do so many things.
Once, she was five minutes late in preparing medicine, and her father beat and kicked her while her mother watched coldly.
"You brat! You're a waste of money! We've raised you for so long, and you can't even do this simple thing right. We shouldn't have bought you in the first place! You cost me a fortune!"
"Calm down. Yaozu only came because of her. Wait a few more years until she grows up and gets married. The bride price will be quite high."
Li Juan understood; she wasn't her biological daughter.
There used to be a saying that if a couple had been unable to conceive for many years, adopting someone else's child could bring them good luck in getting pregnant.
Li Yunda and Pang Li had been married for ten years without children. He bought her and she became pregnant that same year, giving birth to Yaozu.
Yaozu was born weak and needed medication every day to stay alive. The two of them treated him like a treasure and spent all their money on his medical treatment.
Li Juan has had a tough time these past few years, but she's made it through. She has one hope: that once she gets married, she can escape her suffocating home.
She often went up the mountain to collect medicinal herbs, and that's how she met Li Qunshan, who was from the same village.
Li Qunshan's parents and grandparents had all died, leaving her all alone. She made a living by hunting and had helped her many times.
Li Juan was tempted. If she married him, she wouldn't have any messy relatives in her family, which was the happy life she had always dreamed of.
Li Qunshan, a rough and tumble man, directly expressed his feelings to her, "Juanjuan, I like you."
Li Juan blushed. If she married him, she could get rid of Yaozu and escape this family.
Her father accidentally discovered this and grabbed her ear, yelling, "Well, Li Juan, you've grown up! You think you're all that now! You're actually going out and fooling around with men! Let me tell you, you're one of our family! Don't even think about doing anything funny!"
Li Juan explained, "Dad, Brother Qunshan said the bride price should be according to your wishes..."
"Shut up!" Her father slapped her. "Li Juan, you'll never leave."
Li Juan couldn't understand why her father, who constantly scolded her as a "money-losing girl" and had said things like he would marry her off to get a dowry, was now unwilling to do so.
She soon learned the answer: Yaozu's health was deteriorating day by day, the family's money was running out, and no girl was willing to marry him.
The father wanted to find a means to carry on the family line.
“Li Juan, you have no relation to Yaozu, why don’t you marry him?”
Her father made her marry Yaozu, binding her to this family for life.
Li Juan was definitely unwilling, saying, "Yaozu is my younger brother, we can't."
"That's not the case now."
Her father's casual remark sealed her fate. Li Juan felt as if struck by lightning; her head was buzzing. How could this be?!
She was not only Yaozu's servant, but also his child bride.
They thought they could escape immediately, but instead they fell into an endless abyss.
There's no escaping it, you can never escape it...
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