[This is for your brain; don't use your brain to read it. Just enjoy it for fun. Don't take it too seriously; it can't withstand scrutiny!]
In a basement in an old district of H City, a girl covered in blood stares blankly at the ceiling, lifeless, clearly a corpse.
Suddenly, the girl's chest heaved violently, and she sat up abruptly.
Looking at the old, dilapidated room in front of her, damp and smelling musty, resembling a garbage dump, Jiang Yuan was stunned.
What happened?
Where is this place?
Her name is Jiang Yuan, and she is Yama, the King of Hell.
Because her subordinates accidentally broke the spirit of the myriad lamps that suppressed the evil spirits, the evil spirits of the underworld tried to break the seal. She used her own body to weave the spirit of the lamps, but unexpectedly, her merits were exhausted, her body felt light, and she fainted.
I woke up here.
Jiang Yuan touched her wrist; it was warm, the temperature of a living person.
Suddenly, a strange memory rushed into my mind.
Jiang Yuan frowned slightly, then realized that she had transmigrated.
The original owner of this body was also named Jiang Yuan, and she was the eldest daughter of the Jiang family.
Before she turned eighteen, she was happy, carefree, and had a harmonious family.
Five years ago, the Jiang family took in a girl who was the same age as her, named Jiang Yusi.
Only then did the original owner realize that Jiang Yusi was the true eldest daughter of the Jiang family, and that she had been mistakenly adopted.
After Jiang Yusi regained her status as the eldest daughter, she used the original owner's biological mother's medical expenses as a deal to let the original owner be her playmate. The original owner stayed in the Jiang family as the second young lady and could visit her biological mother once every six months.
However, the bad news for the original owner began from there.
During college, Jiang Yusi and her classmates bullied and humiliated the original owner of the body, causing her to suffer daily insults and live a life of hell.
After graduation, the original owner was discovered by a talent scout and entered the entertainment industry. Jiang Yusi secretly sabotaged her by smearing and spreading rumors, causing the original owner to be cyberbullied and forced to leave the industry, while Jiang Yusi became a popular celebrity.
The original owner lived under someone else's roof for five years.
For five years, I endured the wrath of the Jiang family.
Last week, the original owner overheard Jiang Yusi's conversation with the doctor. It turned out that Jiang Yusi had stopped paying for her biological mother's treatment, which led to her mother's death four months ago.
The original owner of this body was agitated and confronted Jiang Yusi on the spot.
During the confrontation, the two pushed and pulled each other, and Jiang Yusi deliberately fell down the stairs, a scene that was witnessed by Jiang's mother.
Jiang's mother already felt guilty because Jiang Yusi had been living away from home for eighteen years. When she saw her fall down the stairs, she treated the original owner of the body harshly and kicked her out of the Jiang family.
The original owner of this body returned to the basement where her biological mother used to live, destitute and staying indoors all day long.
Just an hour ago, a group of masked men broke into her house, beat her up without saying a word, and smashed her things.
The original owner was pushed down while trying to stop them, and hit the back of her head on the glass. She bled too much and died because she couldn't get timely treatment.
The masked men, fearing involvement in the murder, fled in panic.
Then, a wisp of her soul traveled from the underworld to the human world, and by some twist of fate, entered the original body.
"May you be able to continue your mother-daughter bond with your biological mother in your next life," Jiang Yuan murmured, reciting a Ksitigarbha Sutra to help the original body pass on.
What sustained the original owner of this body all these years was the ability to see her biological mother every six months. After her mother died, the original owner lost all faith and the will to live.
She was still alive enough to call an ambulance when she lost blood, but the original owner of this body didn't do that because she didn't want to live.
Even on her deathbed, all she could think about was finally seeing her mother. She never harbored any resentment towards those who had bullied her.
The original owner of this body was gentle and kind throughout her life, but those people wantonly trampled on her gentleness, and even went so far as to do so.
A surge of anger welled up in Jiang Yuan's heart, angered by all the things those people had done to the original owner of this body.
"What they owe you, they will repay in full one day." Jiang Yuan's thin lips moved slightly, her eyes filled with coldness.
She couldn't deal with the debts she incurred in life, but she could make them pay back double after she died!
However, she doesn't have the ability to return to the underworld or leave this body for the time being, so she can only live on as the original owner.
She is now alive. When a living person enters a dark and turbid place, they will wander there, lose themselves, and never be able to return.
Furthermore, she has exhausted her merits and has no spiritual power left, making her extremely vulnerable now.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan sighed and quickly composed herself.
Things will work themselves out in the end; we can only take it one step at a time and deal with the immediate issues first.
Jiang Yuan got up and pulled out the glass shards stuck in her skin, and a sharp pain immediately followed.
From the time she can remember, she has been the King of Hell in the underworld, without warmth, without substance, and without the ability to feel pain.
This was the first time she had ever truly experienced what pain felt like.
Afterwards, Jiang Yuan retrieved the first-aid kit from the cabinet based on her memory, gave the wound a simple treatment, wrapped a layer of gauze around her head, and then went to the bathroom to wash her face. Since the wounds on her body could not get wet, she only wiped the blood off her body with a wet towel, and then changed her clothes to look cleaner.
A beautiful face was reflected in the mirror.
She has delicate features, eyelashes like palm leaves, large, bright, and dark eyes, and lips like cherry blossoms, but she is a little malnourished.
Even Jiang Yuan, who had seen countless beautiful ghosts, was amazed by this face and understood why the person named Jiang Yusi was jealous of the original owner.
If it weren't for Jiang Yusi's interference, with her face, she could have become an overnight sensation even if she were just a pretty face in the entertainment industry, simply standing on the sidelines.
"Jiang Yuan, I'll give you two more days. If you still can't pay the rent, get out!" A furious voice rang out from outside the door.
The iron gate shook violently, as if it were about to break down at any moment.
After calling for a long time and receiving no response from inside, the landlord left angrily cursing.
After the original owner's mother collapsed, in order to ensure that her mother had a place to live after recovering and being discharged from the hospital, the original owner started paying the rent for her mother here five years ago, year after year.
This place is an old neighborhood. The basement is damp and never sees sunlight. Things left there for a long time will get moldy. Usually, no one will rent it.
When the original owner proposed paying annually, the landlord readily agreed and immediately prepared the contract.
Every year when the time came, she would immediately ask the original owner for rent and then ask her to renew the contract. Seeing that the original owner was clumsy with words and easy to trick, she would raise the rent year after year.
The rent for basement rooms was already about the same as that for apartments with sunlight outside when the first rent increase took place.
The subsequent price increases were essentially price gouging.
The contract just expired yesterday, and the landlord came to urge me twice, but to no avail.
Today, she probably saw someone come out of the inner room, knew she was at home, and then came to her door.
The original owner also wanted to provide her mother with a better place to live, but she had limited abilities and was a pushover, allowing the Jiang family to manipulate her. When Jiang Yusi withheld her original salary, she didn't dare to utter a sound. She saved up her wages by living frugally and then handed them over to the landlord in one lump sum. That's how she lived for five years.
Because she was kind-hearted, they thought she was easy to bully.
But she was not a kind person, nor did she have the same good heart as the original owner of this body.
She believed in repaying kindness and avenging wrongs.
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