The Ghost Insists on Giving Me a Beautiful and Powerful Wife! - Chapter 41.2

Jiang Huaining grew anxious and frantically searched Yu Ruoyin’s body, fearing there was some wound she couldn’t see.

Jiang Huaining’s fingers brushed over her arms, grazed her sensitive neck, the shoulder mostly uncovered by her tattered clothes, and her shoulder bone. As the hand slid down from the shoulder bone, Yu Ruoyin’s breathing suddenly hitched. She struggled hard to lean back. With little strength, realizing she couldn’t evade, she immediately grabbed Jiang Huaining’s hand: “N-N-Ning Aunt!”

Yu Ruoyin was gasping anxiously, her neck completely flushed.

Jiang Huaining looked up, following her voice, and touched her shoulder bone again, this time much lighter: “Does it hurt here?”

She actually thought that her voice was so high-pitched and urgent because she had accidentally hurt her!

Such a serious inquiry made it seem like Yu Ruoyin was the one with all the inappropriate thoughts.

Yu Ruoyin didn’t dare to speak. Jiang Huaining stared at her shoulder tenderly: “Ah Yin, you just started drawing Witch… you don’t need to push yourself so hard. When your body is ghostified, it will…”

“I want to be stronger.” This was one of the few things she could answer: “I need to be stronger!”

Yu Ruoyin’s obsession stung Jiang Huaining: “You don’t have to be so strong. I will protect you. Next time… next time I will definitely be earlier…”

“No, no.” Yu Ruoyin interrupted Jiang Huaining: “You shouldn’t push yourself, either. I feel like I need to be stronger. You are willing to protect me, and I want to protect you too.”

“…” Jiang Huaining clenched her hand so tightly that sweat beaded on her palm: “No!”

Yu Ruoyin was somewhat confused. She felt that Jiang Huaining seemed unhappy with her idea of protecting her.

Her tired nerves and chaotic thoughts didn’t allow her to analyze every single word of Jiang Huaining, so she could only change her words, expressing a thought closer to the truth: “Aunt Ning, I want to be a better match for you.”

Jiang Huaining finally realized that Yu Ruoyin might have been subjected to sarcasm from others again without her knowing, and this person was very likely…

She hadn’t intended to lash out at Mei Jingwan. Although Mei Jingwan had committed evil deeds, she was a person from the Underworld, and an established Underworld Official, who should rightfully be dealt with by the King of the Underworld. However, she had instilled such an unnecessary thought in Yu Ruoyin, and all Jiang Huaining wanted to do was sentence her.

“Little Mei.”

Neither Yu Ruoyin nor the others saw Jiang Huaining make a move. She merely called Mei Jingwan’s name and looked at her coldly. Mei Jingwan’s body suddenly and bizarrely collapsed, suffering the exact same fate as her destroyed arm. The bone and blood support beneath her skin seemed to have completely fractured, and even her yin energy dispersed, leaving only a soft pile of skin on the ground.

Only Mei Jingwan’s head remained full; the rest of her body had sunken in, leaving only thin ghost skin clinging to the floor.

She relied on her jaw to barely lift her head slightly: “Your Honored One!”

Jiang Huaining’s defense of Yu Ruoyin had damaged her imposing image somewhat. The fear in Mei Jingwan’s eyes was gone, and she was less respectful: “Your Honored One, I am an Underworld Official of the Underworld after all. I used to be King Zhuanlun’s personal attendant, and I have some standing with King Zhuanlun. If you deal with me privately like this, even if the King of the Underworld allows it, King Zhuanlun will not agree.”

“You still remember that you followed Yingzhu. I just heard Ah Yin say that you wanted Zhuang Huaishu to summon her. Weren’t you trying to scheme against her?”

Mei Jingwan’s pupils contracted, and her gaze momentarily flickered: “You… you’re talking nonsense!”

“Are you going to lie even to me?” Jiang Huaining looked at her with utter disappointment: “Spiritual exchange requires mutual affection and connected hearts. Talismans can control the mind and the body, but they absolutely cannot control emotions. So, you weren’t planning a spiritual exchange at all; you were preparing to strip others of their power, not share it. That’s why you modified that dead person’s body, wanting to use that dead person’s body to hold ten thousand ghosts, forcibly taking the power of ten thousand ghosts, right?”

A dead person!

Yu Ruoyin was stunned. She immediately looked in Nan He’s direction.

Sure enough, Lu Qichun, whom she was holding, had long since stopped breathing, and Nan He was currently holding Lu Qichun’s corpse, continuously transmitting spiritual energy into it, trying to wake her up.

Yu Ruoyin felt strange as soon as she reached the altar, having heard no breathing sounds. As it turned out… Lu Qichun was truly dead.

No wonder Jiang Huaining destroyed the altar directly; it was because she had sensed there were no living people left there.

They had arrived too late.

A chosen vessel has no right to live.

Yu Ruoyin felt an unprecedented surge of anger. She stomped on Mei Jingwan’s head. Although she didn’t have much strength, it did vent some of her frustration: “You truly deserve to die.”

She struggled to leave Jiang Huaining’s embrace and ran toward the room. Souls were still continuously floating out from the shattered corpses. They had been forcibly nourished to produce ghost blood for Lu Qichun’s corpse and Mei Jingwan to absorb, leaving the souls unstable.

Yu Ruoyin couldn’t stand very steadily, and she fell to the ground before she even got close.

She took a breath and shouted loudly towards the group of souls: “Lu Qichun, Lu Qichun!”

Yu Ruoyin’s heart grew more frantic. She had come for Lu Qichun. If Lu Qichun was dead, had her entire journey been meaningless?

She wasn’t afraid of Nan He knowing her purpose; this was a transaction from the start.

If the transaction failed, what was the point of all this trouble?

It was her!

It was her stubborn belief that she could handle everything, but she ran into this situation, dragging down Nan He, Zhuang Huaishu, and also Zhuang Ciyue.

She was also the one who brought Jiang Huaining here, causing her to lose a finger, causing her to endure hardships, but now she had gained nothing.

Yu Ruoyin didn’t know how she had become like this. After the brief anger and pain upon hearing of a life’s passing, the emotion she felt was the despair of a failed transaction. Her heart seemed to have hardened without her realizing it, or perhaps… perhaps too many people had died, and she could no longer feel heartbreak.

Her past self was bad, and her current self was also bad.

She was just bad all around.

Her character flaw reappeared, and Yu Ruoyin fell into endless self-recrimination.

Jiang Huaining walked over and helped her up: “The soul is still here, it just hasn’t been expelled yet.”

There were too many souls crammed into the blood corpses; less than half had drifted out so far, and the room was already overflowing.

Yu Ruoyin blindly walked forward two steps: “Lu Qichun.”

The moment she took half a step forward, her chest suddenly felt intensely hot. Yu Ruoyin abruptly pulled her foot back and turned to run.

This was her body’s instinct.

Jiang Huaining held her down, wrapping her arms around her to prevent her from moving. She was dragged in front of Mei Jingwan, while Jiang Huaining gently called out to Nan He: “Nan He, over there.”

She pointed a direction for Nan He, and Nan He looked where she was pointing.

There was a confused, muddled soul. Her consciousness was not clear; she seemed to not yet realize where she was.

“Nan Chun.” Nan He passively accepted the fact of Lu Qichun’s death. She put down the corpse in her arms and slowly walked towards Lu Qichun’s soul.

Yu Ruoyin struggled fiercely in Jiang Huaining’s arms. Jiang Huaining held her, and her cool voice slowly sounded: “Ah Yin, you have pushed me away three times since I woke up.”

Three times?

Was she holding her accountable?

Yu Ruoyin froze, fear keeping her huddled in Jiang Huaining’s arms, no longer daring to move recklessly.

“Aunt Ning, I’m scared…”

Scared of all her efforts being in vain, scared of Jiang Huaining getting hurt, scared of dragging others down… She seemed to have too many fears, too many to count. Even her body had inherited the heart’s timidity, instinctively running away without knowing exactly what she was avoiding.

Jiang Huaining was always soft-hearted. Her voice involuntarily softened: “Ah Yin, you have me.”

Her lips descended to the corner of Yu Ruoyin’s eye. The feather-light touch made her eyes feel even more sore.

After finding a safe harbor, even the slightest emotions would instinctively be magnified, especially since everything she had encountered on this journey had been major events.

They exceeded not only her capability but also her cognitive scope.

She had stumbled her way through. The wind and waves had pushed her across a long river before she could even roll up her pants legs, leaving not a single clean piece of cloth on her.

The grievance turned into a river that breached its banks, and she finally cried out loud, tucked away in Jiang Huaining’s arms.

Mei Jingwan watched coldly as Yu Ruoyin’s tears wet Jiang Huaining’s clothes, watching Jiang Huaining patiently comfort her, and sneered: “Your Honored One, is this your wife, or your child?”

Jiang Huaining paused the hand that was wiping Yu Ruoyin’s tears, her mind slightly troubled.

The expression on her face didn’t change much. She maintained her gentleness towards Yu Ruoyin and her indifference towards Mei Jingwan: “Speaking of your capabilities, I know them quite well. I will only ask you once: who exactly gave you the audacity to set up such a large scheme? A barrier like this… even you alone wouldn’t be enough.”

Mei Jingwan raised her eyes: “You guess.”

There was mockery in her eyes, but Jiang Huaining wasn’t fooled. Her tone was flat: “Yingzhu will find a way to get your memories.”

Jiang Huaining knew exactly what she was afraid of. Mei Jingwan immediately thought of the terrifying punishments of the Underworld, and her head snapped up: “I followed King Zhuanlun for so long, she won’t treat me like that.”

“If she knew you dared to scheme even for her life, she would probably be eager to strip your bones and extract your soul.”

“Your Honored One, you can’t just fabricate things. I would absolutely never betray King Zhuanlun…”

As she tried to defend herself, Jiang Huaining shook her head: “I can already guess what you’ve done. Even if she was a spirit medium in life, with your modifications, the corpse could hold a maximum of a hundred ghosts. So, you forced the souls to generate ghost blood and integrate it into the corpse, using the ghost blood to connect the power of those souls. Then, you forced the powerful souls into the corpse, just waiting for the contract with you to be complete. You could then absorb the ghost blood and take all their power. You were probably waiting for Yingzhu to arrive here, and relying on your past relationship to trick her out of a drop of ghost blood, dissolving it into that corpse to swallow her power.”

“You are too greedy and too selfish. Yingzhu was your former master.”

“Former master, former master… Since she was my former master, she should show me some mercy. This formation has been destroyed by you after all, so she should spare my life.”

Jiang Huaining stopped looking at her. She refocused on comforting Yu Ruoyin: “Be good. Crying too much will make you feel bad.”

She seemed to only have the one important task of comforting her young girlfriend. She didn’t care about the turmoil outside, the barrier, or even Mei Jingwan’s scheme.

“Your Honored One is truly…”

Mei Jingwan was cut off before she could finish by Jiang Huaining: “Don’t talk to me. Your master has arrived.”

The moment Jiang Huaining’s voice fell, a voice came from the hallway outside: “I said… I clearly felt Boss Jiang’s aura. She’s awake! You insisted that I come to deal with the barrier. Could it be that you miss me?”

Jiang Huaining’s hand, which was wiping Yu Ruoyin’s tears, paused slightly, and she murmured softly: “Ah Yin shouldn’t be scared by me.”

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