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Just when the white silk was about to fall on Lin Lang's neck, the originally closed secret door was opened directly, and Su Mu, Zhu Bieshu with a complicated expression, and Mei Che walked in hurriedly.
The head of the Zhu family raised his head and looked at Zhu Bieshu deeply, his expression changing from gloomy to bright.
"Rebellious son, I didn't expect that locking you up at home wouldn't make you learn your lesson - have you been taught to read all these years? You actually disobeyed your father for a woman!"
"I..."
Zhu Bieshu stood behind Su Mu and Mei Che with a complicated expression. He looked at "Meifang" in red, and couldn't help showing love in his eyes, but he shrank back at his father's cold eyes and silently withdrew his gaze.
For more than 20 years, he had been accustomed to being ordered around by his father. Even when his beloved woman was taken away from him, he had no intention of resisting and could only watch her walk towards death step by step.
Even now, Zhu Bieshu didn't know how he had the courage to show up here. Before this, he felt that his head was in a daze, and an inexplicable force supported his heart. But now that the power dissipated, he once again turned into the useless young master of the Zhu family who was at the mercy of his father.
But Zhubieshu couldn't help but feel a little happy in his heart - he broke the cage that his father had built to keep him, and although he did it unconsciously, he took the first crucial step.
Mei Che was as impulsive as ever. When he saw his sister about to be taken away to Bai Ling, he no longer cared about anything else. He had no time to think about personal safety or disrupting the ceremony. He pulled out a knife from somewhere, waved it around and rushed towards the servants.
The two cameramen, who originally thought it was just a climax scene, were stunned when they saw the knife in Mei Che's hand. For a moment they didn't know whether it was a shooting prop prepared by the props team or a real weapon: the sharpness, the reflection... it doesn't look fake at all!
Seeing that Mei Che's knife was about to fall on the oncoming servant, Su Mu acted in time and dragged Mei Che back.
"Don't hurt anyone." Su Mu said.
"You told me not to hurt anyone in front of a bunch of scum?" Mei Che was furious: "They are going to kill my sister!"
It would be almost the same if your "sister" didn't kill them back.
Su Mu thought to himself, but put on a sincere look on his face: "Calm down, they are scum, but you are not. Don't let yourself be stained with their dirty blood because of a momentary impulse."
"If I can't even protect my sister, I will not hesitate even if I die!" Mei Che was totally unwilling to listen to Su Mu's reasoning and still wanted to rush down, but Su Mu's grip was too strong and he couldn't hold it at all.
Su Mu naturally didn't really want to hold Mei Che back, but this aggressive revenge scene would not pass review at all. It would waste the footage that was shot with great difficulty and would scare the cameraman in charge of the filming.
——Because of being too anxious, Mei Che did not notice that the housekeeper Wu and the bridesmaid, who were about to attack "Mei Fang", had their white silk on "Mei Fang's" neck, but they seemed to have pressed the pause button and did not move. It was like the villain in a TV series who watched the protagonists speak at length, with his hands on the "female lead's" neck, but had to wait until the protagonists finished the last sentence before making the killing.
Su Mu sighed in his heart, always feeling that at this moment he was like a "nanny" who specialized in cleaning up messes.
He used his right hand to pull Mei Che towards him, and with his left hand, he forcibly pulled the dagger out of Mei Che's hand. Before Mei Che could react, he broke the blade with a few "bangs" and showed it to the camera: "It's made of plastic, don't worry."
Mei Che, who brought a real sword: "......"
He stopped struggling and looked at Su Mu awkwardly as he turned his palm over, letting the remaining knife fragments fall to the ground with a crisp sound.
The cameraman had a complicated expression as if to say, "How dare you tell me this sound is from plastic?" Su Mu smiled and repeated to the camera again, "This is a plastic blade. This is just a show. Children watching the show, please don't imitate it!"
Mei Che/Zhu Bie Shu: “???”
Why is this boy talking to himself in the air?
...
After recording a few more words in front of the camera just in case, Su Mu turned around and faced the Zhu family's patriarch and his group again, and the time that had stopped for them was once again released at this moment.
Seeing that the butler was about to pull the white silk, Su Mu shook the handle of the dagger in his hand, quietly integrated a trace of magic power, and threw it hard in the direction of Butler Wu.
The handle of the dagger drew a beautiful parabola in the air and landed accurately on Wu Butler's forehead. Wu Butler staggered a bit, rolled his eyes, and fell to the ground with a "click", fainting.
Su Mu's grip was extremely powerful. If he hadn't deliberately controlled the strength, this blow would have caused Butler Wu to suffer a bloody head.
Unexpectedly, Su Mu would use this method to stop Butler Wu. The head of the Zhu family was stunned for a moment, then immediately frowned and ordered the servants: "Give me..."
Before he finished speaking, another beautiful parabola appeared - the mobile phone that Su Mu had placed in his arm bag was thrown out directly by Su Mu and hit the head of the Zhu family on the forehead.
Before Zhu Bieshu could say anything, the cameraman and the director behind the monitor screamed first.
"That's the sponsor's phone—"
Su Mu: “…”
He coughed awkwardly, "Well, how about we start over from the beginning? Master Zhu, can you stand up and let me hit you hard again?"
Mei Che looked at Su Mu speechlessly, wondering what on earth was this guy talking about?
However, the Zhu family patriarch stood up from the ground swiftly and nodded to Su Mu in cooperation: "Please cut out that scene just now."
"Don't worry, I've controlled my strength, they won't get hurt." Su Mu even said in a friendly tone, "Is it not hurting you?"
The head of the Zhu family also said in a friendly manner: "It's okay, it's okay, we are just cooperating with each other."
Even Butler Wu, who was lying on the ground, sat up and smiled towards the camera, saying that he was not injured at all. Then he lay back on the ground and pretended to faint.
"What...what are you talking about?"
Mei Che and Zhu Bieshu looked confused.
Why did they suddenly not understand? Wasn't it "Ghost Marriage"? Why did it seem like everyone had known each other for a long time and was acting together?
Equally confused were the directors sitting behind the monitors who knew the "truth".
This, this is not haunted? Why are they so friendly? Is it possible that I am just overthinking, and it is really just the actors performing?
Little did they know that the real "Master Zhu" had already fainted on the ground because of Su Mu's attack, and the same was true for Butler Wu.
This friendly appearance was just an illusion created by Lin Lang.
Considering that Mei Che and Zhu Bieshu were the resentment brought by the mutants and there was no need to treat them specially, it was a good idea to let them fall into chaos and avoid unnecessary trouble. Therefore, Lin Lang did not create a double illusion, which led to the scene just now.
Under the control of the illusion, Su Mu took back his phone and returned to his original position. Even Mei Che and Zhu Bieshu's expressions "returned" to their original emotions under the cover of the illusion.
This time, "Su Mu" threw something at the "head of the Zhu family" again, but it was no longer a mobile phone, but an arm bag containing the mobile phone.
The small arm bag was not very heavy, so even if it was thrown hard, it would not cause any danger at this distance. The "Patriarch of the Zhu Family" in the illusion fell to the ground at the moment when the arm bag hit his forehead, pretending to be unconscious.
After doing all this, Lin Lang finally resolved the illusion and allowed reality and fantasy to overlap.
Ignoring Mei Che and Zhu Bieshu who were standing there in a daze, confused by the "current situation", Su Mu walked directly towards the tablet of Master Zhu Er.
The servants at the side wanted to come up to stop him, but Su Mu said calmly: "Before, because you were ordered by the head of the Zhu family, I thought you were being used, so I let you go. Now that the head of the Zhu family has been brought to justice, if you continue to be accomplices to the evil, I will not let you go easily."
As he spoke, a faint sense of pressure emanated from Su Mu. He used his power with extreme restraint, and only the few servants standing in front of him could feel the terrifying pressure.
The wooden stick in his hand fell to the ground with a "click", and all the servants (under the pressure of absolute power) gave up trying to stop Su Mu in shame and dispersed to both sides.
After making sure that he had enough highlight shots in this variety show, Su Mu took out the last talisman and pasted it on the second master's tablet.
The "Second Master Zhu" made of incense ash stretched out his hand desperately to stop Su Mu's action, but how could he do it without even a physical body? Su Mu gently waved his right hand, and the Second Master Zhu let out a desperate roar, and then disappeared into the ground as the ashes dispersed.
Another bond connecting the mutants was released, and this century-long resentment and nightmare was finally resolved quietly in another way.
In an instant, a vast amount of magical power surged into the mutant's body, her magic power surged again, and her eyes gradually changed from the initial confusion to clarity.
"It really makes sense that the whitewashed are three points weaker." Su Mu said: "It is much smaller than the power of the mutant's physical energy surge after completing the Hades Marriage Ritual."
"After all, most of the resentment and anger used to enhance its strength have disappeared." Lin Lang said: "But if we let it complete the ritual, I'm afraid we will have to destroy the mutant right here."
...
She had forgotten how much time had passed, the warmth of the sun, the aroma of food, and was wandering in the ruins like a ghost. The air was filled with a pungent smell of burning, and under her feet were the ruins of a fire.
A blood moon hung quietly in the sky. As time passed, it sank into the east and then turned into a blue sun that slowly rose.
As a new day arrives, the ruins around it seem as if the rewind button has been pressed, and they are being repaired at a speed that cannot be captured by the naked eye.
She opened her eyes and found herself lying in the familiar house again.
She heard her parents and younger brother arguing outside the door - if that couple was qualified to be called her "parents".
After her biological mother died early, she lost her position in the family. Her father favored his concubine and made that woman his "main wife". From then on, beating, scolding and mocking her became commonplace.
The stepmother was jealous and an old-fashioned woman. She couldn't stand her because she had been exposed to new-style education, and she looked down on her as a "woman".
In order to be accepted by her stepmother and gain her father's approval, she tried to let go of her grudges and treat her half-brother with sincerity.
The teacher in the school said that if you want to gain the sincerity of others, you must also give your sincerity.
And her sincerity was not in vain, her younger brother, the little boy became the only comfort and warmth in the cold home.
She thought that when her brother grew up a little, she would send him to a new-style school - the best place in the world where there was equality, freedom, and respect, and where her loved ones were there.
But she didn't live to see that day. Her father's business went bankrupt due to the turbulent situation. They moved out of their original house and moved into a run-down courtyard. Her father and stepmother didn't want her to continue studying, and they couldn't stand her showing up in public. They just wanted to "sell" her as soon as possible for a good betrothal gift.
In order to protect her, her brother began to quarrel and rebel against their parents. She also tried to leave home to find a job and run away with her brother, but she failed again and again and was locked up back home again and again.
Her stepmother despised her, saying that no one would be interested in a woman who was out in the limelight. Even the man who said he loved her was just playing along. They were from a wealthy family, so even if they wanted to marry a wife, they would marry a lady from a wealthy family. How could they possibly marry a woman who didn't observe the virtues of a woman? Her best outcome now was to find a rich man and become a concubine.
Her father disdained to say these words, and he was never too lazy to preach. He was a "man", a "head of the family" who was high above everyone else, and he had to be tall and majestic forever, but he let women stand in front of him, charging into battle for him, showing his greed and indifference.
After an unknown amount of time, her "parents" suddenly told her happily that her marriage was settled.
——He was not her lover, not the son or master of a wealthy family, nor a wealthy businessman, but the second uncle of the person she loved, who died suddenly a month ago and had not yet married.
——It was a ghost marriage.
She needs to marry a tablet, and live alone in an empty room until the end of her life.
"From now on, you are the second wife!" Her "parents" were beaming with joy, as if they had found a family for her to entrust her life to, and it couldn't be any better: "The Feng Shui master has calculated it, your birth date is very good, this is a great blessing! What kind of family is that? You can't even enter as a concubine!"
They sent her to that family and imprisoned her in the courtyard despite her brother's resistance.
She expected her lover to bring her out of the sea of suffering, but in the end she found that she was the ridiculous person. Her stepmother had told her long ago that the young master of a wealthy family would marry a lady from a wealthy family.
Even though her lover received a new-style education, the old-style education was engraved into his bones, oppressing him so much that he dared not, and was unwilling to, resist.
She was so disheartened that she committed suicide in the courtyard, but the owner of the house was overjoyed and held a grand wedding with her corpse.
Afterwards, she vaguely remembered that she had entered the cycle of reincarnation, but her consciousness for some reason still remained at her feet, allowing her to see the "future" in a daze.
Not long after her death, her beloved man married the girl her father had arranged for him, but he was unhappy after the marriage because of guilt. Her brother broke off relations with the family completely after her death, and was obsessed with revenge. In the end, he disguised himself as her and frightened her "lover" to death, as well as the head of the family who killed her. In the end, he set the mansion on fire, and all the resentment and despair, along with everyone in the mansion, died in the blazing fire.
She wanted to stop her brother's madness and change their fate, but she was powerless and could only watch everyone go to the end. Then the sun rose and the moon set, and everything returned to the starting point again. Another reincarnation began, and she once again experienced the despair before death.
She didn't know how much time had passed before a magical force suddenly appeared, allowing her brain, which had become increasingly confused over time, to become momentarily clear.
She began to have the power to hear the voices from another world.
Somehow, she felt that she was connected to a story - the darkness that was once hidden in history did not disappear with the passage of time. Those who survived by chance turned her despair into a story and spread it on the streets. Eventually, it fell into the ears of some people.
They overturned and adapted this story, trying to perform a completely new story in this town built from ruins.
A story that she once longed for, but went against her.
In the story, her lover rebelled for love and took her away from the family. Her brother tried to rescue her again and again, and finally watched her enter happiness and had a good ending. Those who had hurt her also received their punishment in the story.
She began to fantasize about how great it would be if all this could become "reality", even for just one day, to replace that repetitive, desperate nightmare.
She no longer loved the cowardly man. She was just a little unwilling to accept that she loved the wrong person, unwilling to accept that her long-term efforts had finally become empty talk, unwilling to accept that her sincerity had gone to waste, and unwilling to accept that her beloved brother could not have a bright future and had died in vain for her.
New desires extend from resentment and transform into new power.
Until one day, a girl with a sly smile held her hand and pulled her back to the bright world.
...
Lin Lang lifted the veil on her heads and looked at the woman beside her with a smile - she had facial features that were slightly similar to "Mei Fang" and her skin had faded from its dark blue color to its original fair color, and she looked pretty and lovely.
Lin Lang used illusion again to block the mutant born from "Mei Fang's" resentment.
"Thank you." The mutant said sincerely.
At this moment, she was conscious and articulate, completely different from the mutants that the students of Class 9 had encountered in the past. Rather than being born of resentment, she was more like a complete soul.
"Can you tell me your name?" Lin Lang curled his eyes.
"Xu Qingyin." The woman said, "But maybe I prefer the name 'Mei Fang'."
Although the name was born with a hint of teasing and playfulness, it did not give her the heavy story and desperate fate that her original name had.
"In that case, I will call you 'Meifang'." Lin Lang said.
Mei Fang nodded, her eyes swept over "Zhu Bieshu" and "Mei Che", revealing a trace of nostalgia. She waved her hand gently, and the two of them suddenly shattered like bubbles, turning into energy and flowing back into Mei Fang's body.
"Can I trouble you with one last thing?" Mei Fang asked.
Su Mu walked forward and fought alongside Lin Lang, nodding and saying, "Just speak up."
"Can you help me find my body?" Mei Fang's eyes showed a little sadness and relief, which then turned into expectation: "I can feel that it is in this town. Can you take it to the old house and burn it? My brother is sleeping there, and I want to accompany him forever."
Su Mu was a little embarrassed: "This land is private property. It is illegal to burn it casually."
Mei Fang: “…”
"But we can help you find another solution." Su Mu said as he closed his eyes and spread his mental power around. He quickly captured the remaining resentment of "Mei Che", who had completely lost consciousness and thinking after losing the support of magic power.
At the same time, Lin Lang held Mei Fang's hand and tacitly drew out the magic power from Mei Fang's body. With the cooperation of his own magic power and Su Mu's magic power, he integrated this magic power, which was mainly composed of Mei Fang's power, into the remaining resentment of "Mei Che".
With the infusion of magic power, a human figure was quickly outlined in the air, and in Mei Fang's surprised eyes, it turned into the appearance of her brother.
Mei Che, or Xu Ruwen, murmured and slowly opened his eyes.
His eyes still had a hint of confusion after being reborn. He blinked and looked around in a trance, and his eyes soon stopped on Mei Fang, his eyes completely filled with disbelief and surprise.
"elder sister?"
Xu Ruwen let out a cry of surprise and pounced towards the woman he had been thinking about day and night.
They were born from the resentment of the dead, but inherited their will and emotions.
Mei Fang hugged her beloved brother tightly. Her emotions and memories flowed into Xu Ruwen's mind along with magic power, allowing him to quickly understand everything.
He loosened his arms and said gratefully to Su Mu and Lin Lang: "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Lin Lang smiled and said, "You were born with the power of Mei Fang. As long as she exists, you can exist. And now you have your own consciousness. You no longer need to rely on this land to survive."
——The spell used to break the ghost marriage actually came from Lin Lang. What was destroyed was not the ghost marriage, but her remaining in this land, which was also the resentment and shackles that bound her and prevented her from leaving.
"And everything we do is not free." Su Mu followed up, "You have to work for us."
"No problem!" Mei Fang didn't care about this little thing at all. She was willing to do anything to help her wake up, get rid of hatred and this nightmare-like land, and more importantly, to reunite with her brother.
Mei Fang could feel that the two people in front of her had pure hearts. They would not let her fall into despair again, nor would they force her to do something she was unwilling to do.
Now she needed a new place to live for herself and her brother, and it would be perfect for her to follow Lin Lang and Su Mu.
"Then as an employee benefit, I'll give you a special discount first."
Su Mu closed his eyes again as he spoke. Light blue magic surged around him, and a song seemed to sound in an instant. As the magic circle unfolded under his feet, the magic quickly spread to the surroundings. Wherever it went, all the water molecules turned into his eyes.
In less than half a minute, Su Mu said, "Found it."
Using the levitation technique at the same time, Su Mu and Lin Lang took Mei Fang and her brother and sister and flew towards the direction of the interruption space.
The captured players were being held there, their expressions dull, as if their souls had been sucked out.
Lin Lang's mind moved, and the magic circle left on everyone was activated, allowing their souls protected in the magic circle to return to their bodies.
The break room suddenly became lively. Su Mu listened to their noisy voices and led everyone to a place not far from the break room, northeast of the film and television base, in front of a ginkgo tree that was said to have been planted a hundred years ago.
The sand under my feet surged under the control of water molecules, revealing the dead bones entangled and protected by the roots of the ginkgo tree.
One hundred years ago, Xu Qingyin was buried here. Her bones, blood, and hatred were integrated into the soil, and took root and sprouted under the nourishment of time. Now it has grown into a towering canopy.
...
On the other side, in the illusion recorded by the camera, the actress who was supposed to play "Mei Fang" in wedding clothes walked out of the darkness, opened her arms to Lin Lang, and gave her a sincere hug.
"Thank you for saving me." Mei Fang said, "I thought I couldn't escape my fate and wanted to die, but you changed my fate."
Lin Lang held Mei Fang's hand and put it into Mei Che's hand.
"You siblings should live a good life from now on."
The two nodded sincerely, and Zhu Bieshu, who was left alone, knew that he was no longer qualified to return to Meifang. He supported his still unconscious father and slowly walked towards the Zhu family's old house. But his steps were lighter than when he came. Maybe one day, he would break the shackles from his father and family and bravely pursue his own happiness.
At the end of the story, the brother and sister Mei Fang and Mei Che are preparing to leave this city that has left them with so much sadness but also brought them so much hope.
They came to the ginkgo tree in the northeast, near the middle, and decided to bury their childhood belongings here, bid farewell to their identities as Mei Fang and Mei Che, and face a new life together.
But just after they dug up the soil, a skeleton suddenly appeared in the camera.
A piece of text also appeared on the program screen.
"After verification, the skeleton is the prototype of "Mei Fang", Xu Qingyin herself. "
What follows is a story about Xu Qingyin's life.
The last scene in the video is an open book. It is Xu Qingyin's favorite book and also the last gift she gave to her brother.
"They are all corrupt and weak, and they are all put together and are no match for you." - "The Great Gatsby"
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