The Correct Way Of Feeding The Sick And Delicate Villain

Someone Let It in on Purpose (2)

The system said with a flat formality: You can choose something or you can choose nothing.

So there was no choice in the first place huh?!

Ding Yi rolled her eyes while reluctantly choosing the first skill.

The system was pleased with Ding Yi’s sensibility, so it offered her a bit more info: The true sight skill has been upgraded. To avoid inconveniencing the host’s daily life, the skill will normally be off. When necessary, you will be allowed to see even more things that people normally can’t see.

Oh.

So it was a user-friendly skill.

Ding Yi was stone-faced: Thanks, but no thanks.

It was enough to be able to see ghosts, but instead you want me to see even more things that other people shouldn’t see. You’re just trying to make my life miserable!

Ding Yi dragged her exhausted body back into the room. She held her chin while pondering the piece of bark, but she could not recall anything from the original story about it.

So this hidden quest was also not part of the main storyline?

Ding Yi felt anxious. She struggled all night to think of a way to catch the mastermind, catching not a wink of sleep.

At the same time, in a dark room somewhere in the city, a man who was sitting, eyes shut, inside a magic formation furrowed his brow. A bit of blood seeped out from the corner of his mouth.

Snap, the piece of wood located at the center of the formation suddenly broke.

The man slowly opened his eyes. His expression was calm, but his eyes revealed a vicious glare.

It seems that the person who went in this time wasn’t so easy to deal with.

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Ding Yi struggled to think of a way to find where the enemy was, but unexpectedly, someone showed up at her doorsteps soon after.

And even more unexpectedly, the person who showed up was a servant of the Esquire Liu that the old lady was talking about.

It was easy to guess that the man who tricked her into buying the house did so at Esquire Liu’s command. The gall Esquire Liu had to come to her when she should be the one looking for him!

The old butler got on his knees as soon as he saw her, saying: “Young miss, please save our master!”

Ding Yi: ??!!!

Bro, what are you trying!

Ding Yi felt her skull go numb, and she hurriedly said: “Wait! Old sir, why are you doing this? Why are you kneeling for me out of the blue? Get up, get up, get up!”

The old butler stubbornly refused to get up. He pleaded with a shaky voice: “Young miss, please save our master! If the young miss can chase that cursed thing away, the Liu family will reward you handsomely! Very handsomely!”

As soon as she heard about a cursed thing, Ding Yi’s embarrassed countenance froze.

Her expression turned stern: “What do you mean by that? Please explain yourself.”

It seems that it wasn’t as simple as she thought.

As soon as she chased the “ghost” away, it immediately switched targets.

Ding Yi gradually calmed down and told the old butler to tell her the entire story from the beginning.

He told her that the haunted house was originally property of the Liu family, and they spent an enormous effort to get rid of it. In the end, it was sold to the outlander Ding Yi in an act of desperation, but they felt terrible about it, yada, yada…

Ding Yi’s patience wore thin: “Say only what’s important!”

Having made up his mind to ask for help, the old butler did away with his reservations and continued on.

Before the ghost appeared, the house was occupied by members of the Liu family. It was only after the incident that they moved out, but even when they left, things didn’t end there. The vengeful spirit followed them and caused several more deaths.

The Liu family was seized by terror and could only turn to cultivators for help. In the end, the cultivators managed to seal the spirit, but the house was no longer livable.

The cultivators told the Liu family to do good deeds to repent for their sins, and the Liu family carefully followed their advice.

It seemed that things should’ve ended there, but they didn’t. Even though nobody from the Liu family died anymore, the house remained haunted! Anyone that stepped inside ended up dead!

Having heard this, Ding Yi was furious: “So you knew that somebody might get hurt, but you still sold the house to innocents?!”

This Liu family was utter scum!

Did they think other peoples’ lives were worthless?

“No, no, no!” The old butler fervently denied: “The people who died before all went in on their own volition! The Liu family had nothing to do with them!”

Ding Yi managed to catch what was wrong. She narrowed her eyes, asking: “Before?”

“Ye… yes, before… We just let it be, but a few days ago, that vengeful spirit somehow got free…” The old butler’s forehead was drenched in cold sweat, forcing him to wipe it off as he spoke: “It invaded master’s dreams every night, telling master to pay back with his life… the cultivators were nowhere to be found, and the ghost was too powerful, so master had no choice…”

Ding Yi’s gaze went cold as she scoffed at the old man: “So you stopped at nothing to send someone to the house?”

Sacrificing someone else’s life to save their own, this Liu family was a bunch of scoundrels who deserved to be hounded by the ghost.

Trash should just explode!

She didn’t even want to waste her breath with them.

“No can do! You should seek someone more skilled,” she said indifferently, turning around to leave.

The kneeling butler’s expression contorted as he grit his teeth.

“That might not be up to you to decide, young lady,” he said menacingly.