"Good girl, don't cry. Birth, aging, sickness, and death are all part of life." Grandma Wang touched Kui Kui's little face, her expression full of heartache.
She turned to look at the closed door, her brows furrowed with anger.
Old Mrs. Wang cursed inwardly: What a terrible thing Kui Ziyu has done!
An'an shouldn't have died so young! If I hadn't left so early, wouldn't I be burying my child now?
With a wave of her hand, Old Lady Wang unleashed a gust of cold wind that smashed open the door.
Kui Ziyu stood up and was surprised to see that the approaching underworld messenger was actually Old Lady Wang.
"mom."
"Hmm." Old Mrs. Wang responded, and immediately noticed the red thread on Kui Ziyu's wrist, and couldn't help but frown.
Upon noticing this, Kui Ziyu immediately covered her left wrist.
He chuckled awkwardly and said, "Mom's here to take me away, right? I'm ready."
As he spoke, he made a move to lie down next to Yan Shi'an.
"Get out of the way! Don't touch my daughter!" Old Mrs. Wang's voice rose involuntarily.
Kui Ziyu shuddered, bent her knees, hunched her back, and froze on the spot.
Kui Kui followed her into the house and heard Old Lady Wang scolding, "Kui Ziyu, do you think I'm old and blind?"
"Or do you think all the ghost messengers are blind?"
"Are you just planning to use a substitute and get away with this?"
"Do you know that once this gets out, it won't just be you who suffers, but also An'an? Disregarding the law like this, do you want to drag my daughter down to the deepest hell with you?"
Looking at Kui Ziyu, who looked aggrieved and as if she was about to cry at any moment, Kui Kui immediately understood.
Her father never gave up, there was no way out, he just didn't want to involve her.
Kui Ziyu had already devised a plan: to exchange one life for another, using a smokescreen to have Yan Shi'an die in his place.
"Mom, I can't bear to see An'an go. It's all my fault, I'm the one who brought her to her death. She shouldn't have left so soon, I'm the one who should have left."
"I thought you were just unlucky, but now it seems you're not smart either! It's a good thing I died early, otherwise I would have been driven crazy by you by now!" Old Mrs. Wang got angrier and angrier as she spoke, and slapped Kui Ziyu on the head.
Kui Ziyu's bottom rubbed against the edge of the bed before she fell to the ground.
"Don't you know how much my daughter loves you? If you die in her place, how could she possibly live on alone?"
"She will live on. She can't bear to leave Kui Kui alone." Kui Ziyu lowered her head, not daring to look at Old Lady Wang, much less at Kui Kui.
"The one who is alive suffers the most. You, a grown man, are too afraid to face this and instead pass this problem on to my daughter? You coward, how cruel of you!"
Kui Ziyu trembled, neither refuting nor speaking, her eyes reddening as she let her tears fall onto the dusty ground, turning into tiny, broken flowers.
A man doesn't easily shed tears, unless he's truly heartbroken.
Grandma Wang's chest rose and fell slowly as she sighed, saying, "Kui Ziyu, let An'an go, and let yourself go too."
Kui Ziyu nodded with difficulty, tore off the red rope on her left wrist, tried to stand up, but fell back to the ground.
Finally, with Kui Kui's help, he stood up, looking as if he had aged ten years.
The red rope fell to the ground and disappeared.
A figure then appeared; it was Yan Shi'an.
Looking at the father and daughter who were already crying their eyes out, and then at Old Lady Wang, she understood everything perfectly.
She reached out and hugged Kui Ziyu and Kui Kui, saying softly, "Take good care of yourselves."
"Ziyu, I am so happy to have met you in this life."
She then looked at Old Lady Wang.
"Mom, I'm sorry." As he spoke, he slightly bent his knees and was about to kneel down, but was stopped by Old Mrs. Wang.
"Silly girl, would your mother really get angry with you? Let's go, don't be late."
Yan Shi'an nodded, waved to Kui Ziyu and Kui Kui, and then drifted away with Old Lady Wang.
As the figure disappeared, Kui Ziyu could no longer suppress her emotions and burst into tears.
As the sun rose in the east, the wailing sounds, like pigs being slaughtered, drowned out the crowing of roosters and echoed throughout the Shangqing Temple.
Yan Shi'an did good deeds throughout his life. Apart from committing the sin of killing in order to have a child, he had done nothing wrong and was soon arranged to be reincarnated.
Before leaving, Grandma Wang saw her off for a while, thus ending their mother-daughter bond.
When a soul enters the cycle of reincarnation, it is enveloped in golden light and then disappears.
With a flash of golden light, Yan Shi'an disappeared.
No one noticed that Yan Shi'an did not enter the cycle of reincarnation, but was taken away by another Yan Shi'an.
Yan Shi'an looked at the stunned soul in front of him, waved his hand, and said, "Hello, Yan Shi'an. Let me introduce myself first. I am the immortal you summoned last time. My name is also Yan Shi'an."
"Ever since I visited your world last time, I've been trying to go again, but I haven't succeeded. Unexpectedly, I had a surprise today. Although I couldn't get through, I brought you back. I really want to know if your world is the same as mine. Tell me about your world. Last time we were too rushed to talk much. By the way, how are your husband and children?"
Looking at the incessantly chattering fairy in front of her, Kui Kui's mother was unsure which question to answer first.
"It's alright, speak slowly. Oh, is it because your ghostly power is too weak to speak? Sigh! Look at my brain, I forcibly dragged you over here without giving you time to recover. No rush, we have plenty of time. This is a ghost cultivation technique, practice it first, and we'll talk again when you've recovered. Maybe we can even go back in the future!"
Kui Kui's mother was about to say no, but when she heard about cultivation techniques, practice, and going back, her eyes lit up and she nodded vigorously.
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