"You're talking nonsense. My brother was just chatting with other girls when he was bored at night. And Li Muge, are you kidding me? My brother is a man. It's normal for men to have multiple wives and concubines."
Sun Lianyi said angrily, in her heart her brother had already suffered a grievance by marrying this fool.
What right does this idiot have to look down on her brother? Marrying the regent is simply unchaste.
"Well, Miss Sun, I hope the man you marry in the future will have three wives and four concubines, and that you'll be riding horses every day."
Li Muge loosened Sun Lianyi's hair and offered her sincere blessings.
One sentence left Sun Lianyi speechless.
People came and went in the Taoist temple. Sun Lianyi's hair was almost completely messed up, and her hair looked like a bird's nest.
“Li Muge, I have no…” Sun Lianyi had never suffered such a loss before. Her family, the Sun family, was considered a prominent and wealthy family in the capital.
The maidservant beside her quickly helped her up and whispered a reminder: "Miss, don't argue with her. There are too many people here. You should think about your reputation."
Sun Lianyi and her group slunk away.
When the senior disciple at the Taoist temple heard Li Muge say that he was asked to go to the Regent's Palace to perform a ritual to appease the wronged souls, he confirmed it several times.
Tidy up the things on your desk.
"Young lady, our Taoist temple is about to close. Why don't you go back and wash up and go to bed?"
"No, why? It's not even dark yet, we can't sleep or close the door."
When Li Muge saw that the Taoist priest was about to leave, she quickly stepped forward to stop him.
Seeing her stubbornness, the Taoist disciple sighed: "Young lady, you can't force people to do things against their will. Besides, you're asking me to go to the Regent's Palace to perform a ritual for the deceased."
"Girl, have I offended you?"
"No," Li Muge shook her head, bewildered.
"That's it. You want me to go to the Regent's Palace to perform a ritual for the deceased. Does that mean you want to help the wronged souls or help me? And what if I offend the Regent and end up helping everyone in our Taoist temple?"
"Alright." Li Muge lowered her head in disappointment. Seeing her like this, the disciple kindly added annotations to the Sanskrit text for the salvation in her Taoist book.
"Thank you, Senior Brother." Li Muge bowed to his senior brother and jogged back to the Regent's Palace.
Night fell.
Li Muge set up an altar in the woods to perform a ritual.
Little did she know that her whereabouts were constantly being monitored by Regent Yunqi.
Wei Tao spoke up: "Your Highness, the princess is acting so recklessly, aren't you going to stop her?"
"Why should we stop her?" Yun Qi placed a black piece on the chessboard. "I want to see what this woman is capable of."
The news that the princess was going to hold an exorcism ceremony spread throughout the Regent's Palace, attracting many onlookers.
Li Muge lit the yellow talisman, silently chanted a few incantations, and then used his peach wood sword to throw the lit talisman into the forest.
"Hey, do you think the princess can catch ghosts? Maybe she's doing something stupid again."
"That's right, how could an idiot catch ghosts? He must be just messing around."
"It shouldn't be. I once passed by here and I really heard a woman crying. It was terrifying. If the princess can really catch the ghost in this forest, it would be a good thing."
The servants were talking amongst themselves, but only a very small number of them voiced their support for Li Muge.
But Li Muge pretended not to hear any of this. She only had one year left to help the female ghost pass on to the afterlife.
But the female ghost didn't seem to appreciate Li Muge's kindness, as Li Muge began chanting the Rebirth Mantra.
A strong wind suddenly swept through the woods, even blowing the roof off a nearby pavilion and sending it flying.
"There's a ghost! There really is a ghost."
The servants fled in panic, fearing they would be caught by the ghost.
"Female ghost, it's too hard for you to wander in this world. You should go and be exorcised so you can start anew."
The female ghost laughed shrilly and floated out dressed in opera costume. Judging from her attire, Li Muge knew that she must have been a Peking Opera actress in her past life.
"Little girl, you haven't experienced my pain, which is why you let me pass away so easily."
Li Muge could sense the woman's sorrow, and the next moment, the events before her eyes began to change.
"Come on, Miss Rose, sing another song!" the guests from the pear orchard called out.
“Yueji.” Li Muge lowered her eyes. She had heard of this name before. Yueji was the most famous opera actress in Beijing decades ago, and she was very famous.
But then, for some unknown reason, she disappeared overnight, and the opera troupe sent people out to search for her.
Even powerful figures who enjoyed listening to Yueji Opera joined in, sending people to search almost the entire capital at the time, but they still couldn't find any trace of this actress.
Perhaps because the rose was too popular, it aroused jealousy, and Li Muge found herself in the resentment of the female ghost, the rose.
They discovered that the murderer was not an outsider, and that the man Yueji loved most was also her best friend.
The owner of the opera house and Yueji had been exchanging feelings for each other for three years and had agreed to leave for the capital to get married after the opera was finished.
Unexpectedly, after a play ended, when Yueji went backstage to remove her makeup, she heard some strange noises and followed the sound.
I saw a couple having an affair hiding in the artificial hill. What normal woman could tolerate being betrayed by both her fiancé and her best friend?
Rose directly started fighting with that woman and even threatened the gardener to publicize the incident and ruin the reputation of the two adulterers.
She never imagined that those words would provoke the man who broke his vow to kill her.
The garden owner suddenly picked up a vase and slapped the rose several times on the ears, and then slapped it hard several times on the face.
"Who do you think you are? No matter how well you sing, you're just a nobody. I can find someone who sings better than you to replace you."
"Gardener, why don't you let her go?" The woman who was having an affair with Rose's fiancé seemed to still have some conscience, or perhaps it was out of fear.
Perhaps the way the roses were looking at them was too creepy.
"Look, look again." The man had gone completely mad, picking up the dagger on the ground and gouging out Yueji's eyes.
Then, dragging the blood-soaked rose to the backyard, he buried it alive.
Li Muge stood aside, covering her mouth in astonishment, witnessing this tragedy as an outsider.
When she was buried alive, she noticed that Yueji hadn't even completely died yet.
Suddenly, the rose bush in the pit opened its blood-red pupils, and the next moment Li Muge felt himself being sucked in.
When Li Muge woke up, she found herself buried in the ground in place of the female ghost Yueji.
"Help..." Li Muge opened his mouth to call for help, but a lot of dirt was poured into his mouth.
Vengeful ghosts always like to kill people using their own method of death, because they feel that their method of death and fear are the most painful.
Singer Li Mu kept clutching at the soil, suffocating despair almost overwhelming her.
But perhaps she didn't expect that the Regent was standing right in front of Li Muge being buried alive.
Wei Tao hesitated for a moment: "Regent, should we rescue her?"
Yun Qi held an hourglass in his hand and placed it upside down on the ground.
"We'll rescue her when the sand has all leaked out. She needs to be taught a lesson so she knows the Regent's Palace isn't a place to act recklessly."
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