The Hellborn Heiress​ - chapter 36

“Miss Jiang, thank you, thank you so much…” Zhang Yanfen and her daughter held tightly onto her hand, tears of gratitude streaming down their faces.

Jiang Ci wasn’t used to such enthusiasm. She told them to take care of themselves and quickly left.

Chi Che chased after her and asked, “Why didn’t you let Zhang Yanfen see her daughter?”

Pandi had been following right beside Zhang Yanfen.

Jiang Ci replied, “The Yin-Yang separates them. In this situation, seeing each other again may not be a good thing.”

The four children had died tragically and unexpectedly, their bodies covered in wounds. If Zhang Yanfen saw them, it would only bring back the most painful memories.

“Sister…” Pandi gently grabbed her finger, tears in her eyes. “Thank you for saving my mom. But… what if Dad comes back and hurts Mom and Grandma again?”

Jiang Ci patted her little head. “He won’t. I will send that beast straight to Hell. Go wait at Grandma Hao’s shop.”

Pandi shook her head, her face resolute. “I have to see with my own eyes that he can never hurt Mom again.”

Jiang Ci knew that this little girl had suffered too much. Only by witnessing the beast who threw them into the abyss get his retribution could their wronged Souls finally rest in peace.

“Alright, tonight I’ll take you to see his end.”

Chi Che immediately raised his hand excitedly. “I want to go too!”

Jiang Ci looked at him with a half-smile. “A doctor should have a benevolent heart. Can you really watch a living person die miserably before your eyes and feel nothing?”

Chi Che fell silent.

Indeed, as a doctor, he had the duty to heal and save lives.

He couldn’t just stand by and watch someone die in front of him without doing anything.

“Alright, then I won’t go.”

Chi Che said he wouldn’t go, but he couldn’t suppress his curiosity and secretly followed Jiang Ci.

Night fell.

Li Yong rode the Three-Wheeler back to the Old Factory Area, his head and right hand newly stitched and bandaged, and he’d had some X-rays taken.

The hospital told him to stay for treatment, but when he heard he had to pay five thousand yuan up front, he used the excuse of going to the bathroom and slipped out.

“Five thousand yuan, those heartless bastards! They won’t get a single cent from me!”

Li Yong cursed as he went upstairs.

He’d cracked his head open in fights since he was a kid and was still alive and kicking.

If he hadn’t been worried that Jiang Ci had done something to him, he wouldn’t have even set foot in the hospital.

Now that the test results were out and he wasn’t going to die, he figured he’d just recover slowly at home.

Li Yong shouted angrily, enduring the pain as he climbed the stairs.

The door to his home was still lying on the ground, and the house was pitch black inside.

As soon as he entered, Li Yong habitually shouted, “Zhang Yanfen, get out here!”

No one answered him.

“You wretched woman, you damn brat, just you wait! Once I recover, if I don’t chop you both into pieces, I’m not Li Yong!”

It was only then that Li Yong realized Zhang Yanfen had already moved out. Furious, he kicked a stool hard.

Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a Shadow flitting past the corridor outside.

The slender, familiar figure-wasn’t that the brat who beat him up earlier?

Without a word, Li Yong rushed into the kitchen, grabbed a kitchen knife, and chased after her.

“I only got hurt because I wasn’t on guard. This time, let’s see what you can do!”

Even though his head was injured and his left hand was useless, he still had his right hand!

He didn’t believe that, as a big man, he couldn’t handle a little girl.

Li Yong charged out with the kitchen knife.

He didn’t notice at all that someone was standing in the building across from him.
“Sister, has he gone mad?” Pandi saw the beastly father dash downstairs like a lunatic and asked Jiang Ci in surprise.

Jiang Ci looked down from above as Li Yong ran toward the abandoned factory, the corners of her mouth curving up slightly.

“Those consumed by Resentment are always easily swayed and lose their sanity.”

“Let’s go. The real show is about to begin.”

Jiang Ci leapt down from the second floor.

Pandi floated after her.

Chi Che, hiding in the shadows, hurried to follow.

He also saw Li Yong, crazed, brandishing a kitchen knife and shouting threats as he rushed out the door.

“That direction… isn’t that where Sister Zhang said the pigsty was?”

He seemed to guess just how cruel a method Jiang Ci would use to punish the domestic abuser.

Chi Che shuddered, a chill crawling up his spine.

Watching the girl and the ghost head toward the abandoned factory, his feet suddenly felt as heavy as lead, and he dared not go any further.

“Master Jiang, your ruthlessness is truly on par with Master Bo!”

In the end, Chi Che did not follow and turned to leave.

Jiang Ci stood with Pandi at a high vantage point, overlooking the bloody and brutal feast below.

The screams from the pigsty were gradually drowned out by the sounds of feeding.

Until Li Yong was reduced to nothing but bones, and even those were gone-his Soul floated out.

Li Yong stared at his own shattered remains, his face turning deathly pale with shock.

“Where’s that wretched girl? I was clearly chasing her…”

“Why did I lose all my strength as soon as I got here?”

Li Yong could not understand, even in death, why he had died in such a horrific way.

He had watched, wide-eyed, as the piglets he had raised with his own hands devoured him bit by bit.

That soul-deep agony made him feel, even now, as if every inch of his Soul was being gnawed by ten thousand ants-unbearably excruciating.

Resentment billowed from his Soul like black mist.

Li Yong’s face was grim, but then he realized that now he was dead and had become a ghost-the laws of the Mortal Realm could no longer touch him!

He would haunt Zhang Yanfen’s entire family day and night, and that wretched girl too!

Li Yong’s eyes turned blood-red as he let out a hideous, maniacal laugh: “I’ll make sure every minute and second of your lives is filled with terror! You’ll never know peace for the rest of your days!”

Watching the domestic abuser seethe with Resentment, his level rising straight toward Evil Ghost,

Jiang Ci casually tore down the Talisman stuck to the wall.

She had deliberately lured Li Yong to the pigsty, but if he hadn’t already been guilty at heart, two Talismans alone could never have brought him here.

He was merely reaping what he had sown.

Jiang Ci snapped her fingers.

Below, Li Yong heard the sound and jerked his head up to see her standing above. “Good, you wretched girl! I haven’t even come for you, and you deliver yourself to me! I’ll eat you alive!”

Black mist poured from his body.

Pandi, frightened, hid behind Jiang Ci.

“Give me your life!” Li Yong had just leapt out of the pigsty, not yet able to pounce-

A ghastly white Mourning Stick suddenly struck him from behind.

Li Yong felt a sharp pain at the back of his head and, to his horror, found himself unable to move.

White Impermanence, dressed in white, sprang out from behind him, grinning as he greeted Jiang Ci above. “I came as soon as I received your summons, my lord. How would you like me to deal with him?”

“This man is disloyal, unfilial, cruel, and unjust. He drove his parents to death, abused his wife, harmed his children, and is steeped in evil. Cast him into the Eighteen Hells to suffer punishment layer by layer. After his sentence, send him to the Animal Realm, so that he may never know a good death for all eternity.”

Jiang Ci, high above, pronounced her cold judgment.