Yu Cailan was speechless, but kept quiet because she needed his help. Inwardly, however, she sneered. How could she regret it? That unlucky fellow had probably cursed the entire Xu family to death, and she herself wouldn't live much longer. She would never acknowledge that jinx!
Xu Zifan called in a young Taoist priest and said to Yu Cailan, "Please ask Mrs. Cheng to go to the front to offer incense and pray for blessings. Someone will inform Mrs. Cheng of the results here."
Yu Cailan noticed that he had changed his address from "Ms. Yu Cailan" back to "Mrs. Cheng," as if the previous address was just to call her by her name—it was strange. She quickly got up and followed the young Taoist priest away.
Ever since she gave birth to a jinx, she has been disgusted by all these superstitious things. Of course, it's best to avoid them if possible; she can just wait for the outcome from outside.
She didn't even glance at the little boy.
Xu Zifan propped his head up with his hand and looked at the little boy. "You saw it. She sent me to get rid of you and bring back the obedient son she used to know. You've seen my abilities, so don't waste your energy struggling."
The little boy was very restless in Jiang Tianxin's arms, kicking angrily and saying, "She's dreaming! She'll never have a well-behaved son. She doesn't deserve to be a mother! She doesn't deserve it!"
Xu Zifan nodded in agreement and clapped his hands. "That's right. I also think she doesn't deserve to be a mother. A selfish and cold-blooded woman like her deserves to live a lonely and miserable life."
The little boy was stunned, even forgetting to struggle. After thinking for a moment, he awkwardly asked, "What does 'ragged clothes' mean?"
Xu Zifan curled his lips and said, "They are dressed in tattered clothes, worse off than beggars on the street, which means they are living a very bad life."
"Then she should be dressed in rags! She should die! No, she should suffer worse than death!" The little boy's face was full of hatred again.
Xu Zifan chuckled and waved his index finger in front of him. "No way. Look, although I hate her, she paid me to get rid of you, so I'm helping her now. If you don't have any reason for me to sympathize with you and help you, I won't help you deal with her."
Jiang Tianxin suppressed a laugh, surprised that her master would use such tricks on a child. Seeing Xu Zifan pull out several talismans to scare people, she played along, saying, "What reason do you have to hate your mother so much? If you tell us the bad things she's done, maybe my master will help you. Otherwise, you'll disappear soon, and no matter how much hatred you have, you won't be able to avenge it~"
"She's not my mother!" the little boy shouted angrily, glancing at her and then at Xu Zifan, explaining why he hated Yu Cailan so much.
Yu Cailan was already pregnant when she ran away. At first, she didn't know it. She ran away to a faraway place to make a living. Because the work was too hard and she was very beautiful, she soon started working in the sex trade.
After accidentally stimulating her pregnancy, she realized she was three or four months pregnant. Unwilling to spend the money to go to the hospital, she simply tried to induce a miscarriage.
She ran and jumped, punched her stomach, and ate all sorts of things that are forbidden for pregnant women...
Yu Cailan tried many, many methods, but at most her stomach would hurt; she just couldn't miscarry. In desperation, she bought abortion pills and took them. This time, she finally couldn't save her pregnancy, but medical abortion was dangerous. She bled incessantly and had no choice but to run to a small, unlicensed clinic for treatment. In the end, it was a cold machine that removed the fetus.
Perhaps because it constantly felt its mother's malice and suffered too much pain, this fetus became conscious while still in her womb. After death, it became a vengeful spirit that stayed by her side, unable to be reincarnated.
But babies don't understand anything and are born with a pure body. Even if they harbor resentment, they don't have many complicated thoughts and can't support them becoming vengeful ghosts. Therefore, they can't have a big impact on Yu Cailan and can at most make her a little unlucky.
The baby followed Yu Cailan, watching her earn money through prostitution before trying to make a living elsewhere. However, Yu Cailan, lacking education and experience, lost everything. Forced to return to prostitution, she saved some more money and, feeling she was getting older, wanted to find an honest man to settle down with. But she misjudged him; the seemingly kind-hearted man was a scoundrel who swindled her out of all her money and forced her to work as a prostitute.
She struggled to get rid of that man, then resigned herself to continuing to sell herself. She learned makeup, dressing up, and various ways to seduce men. She also learned to appear dignified and reserved, only occasionally revealing her alluring charm. Then she heard that rich men could live a life of wealth and luxury by keeping mistresses, so she immediately cut off all her previous contact and went to the capital to try and catch a big fish.
She was unlucky; she didn't find any opportunities in the capital for the first two years. Just when she was about to run out of savings, she ran into Cheng's father, who was drunk. She heard someone calling him; he was an official, being fawned over, and apparently unmarried. She immediately seized the opportunity, found a way to sneak into Cheng's father's room, and they consummated their relationship.
She was beautiful and charming, dignified in public and seductive in bed. Cheng's father, having tasted her sweetness, kept her as his mistress in a small apartment. Yu Cailan then lived the life she had always wanted, free from worries about food and clothing, and she was even with a high-ranking official in Beijing. Compared to her previous life, it was like heaven and earth.
She told Cheng's father that she was a widow who had come from the village to work and become self-reliant. Cheng's father did some research and found out where she was from and that she was indeed a widow. However, it wasn't so easy to find out that she had gone to a distant city to work as a prostitute. Cheng's father was inherently arrogant and felt that it was fine to support a village girl and a widow. Yu Cailan knew how to please him, and even though he had had other women over the years, Yu Cailan had always remained steadfast.
She remained his mistress.
But Yu Cailan was not satisfied. She knew that Cheng's father was widowed, and she thought that since she was so good at pleasing Cheng's father, why couldn't she become an official's wife? However, after testing him once, she saw Cheng's father's disdainful look and knew that she was not good enough on her own. She could only rely on her son to gain status. But when she went to the hospital for a check-up, they said that her abortion had damaged her body and it would be difficult for her to get pregnant again.
When she got home, she launched into a tirade against the child she had aborted, blaming him for causing her health problems and calling him a jinx, just like his brother, who was said to bring misfortune to his mother. She also cursed her deceased husband, saying that the two children she had conceived with him were a curse.
Whenever Yu Cailan was in a bad mood or had been mistreated by Chengfu, she would privately berate her two sons. The baby heard this every day, and his resentment grew stronger and stronger. After several years, he finally accumulated enough resentment and suddenly rushed into Yu Cailan's womb, forcibly becoming her son.
Doesn't she want a son? He'll be her son and torment her to death!
Yu Cailan became pregnant because of this, and after the pregnancy test revealed it was a son, Cheng's father, not wanting to be embroiled in the scandal of having a child out of wedlock and being irresponsible, quickly married her. Although he wasn't as kind to her as before, he doted on their youngest son, giving her some face in the Cheng family. Unfortunately, after the baby was born, his memories as a vengeful spirit were sealed away, and he became a real child.
Later, Yu Cailan used the child to win Cheng's father's favor and to put Cheng Zhuang down, causing the relationship between Cheng Zhuang and his father to deteriorate. Cheng Zhuang even deliberately became a star to anger his father and often stayed away from home. Yu Cailan became the true mistress of the Cheng family.
Just then, Cheng Zhuang was possessed by a ghost and returned home carrying a heavy ghostly aura, bumping into the little boy. The little boy suddenly remembered everything, thinking about the good life he had helped Yu Cailan get over the years, and his resentment grew stronger. He was too young to know how to make Yu Cailan suffer, and just then he heard about a major human trafficking case and saw on television how much those who lost their children suffered.
This gave him an idea: Yu Cailan owes everything to her son, so he should be kidnapped and killed while Yu Cailan is supposed to be watching him. Cheng's father would never forgive Yu Cailan!
The little boy was simple-minded. Although he was now human, his soul still carried a hint of ghostly energy. Lacking strong abilities, he could only deliberately run to deserted places. After several such encounters, he was spotted and kidnapped by the kidnappers. He then tricked them into fainting, intending to kill himself. Unexpectedly, he was rescued!
He couldn't keep up the act any longer, so he started causing trouble at home all day long, taking every opportunity to transfer his ghostly aura onto Yu Cailan. Since his ghostly aura was almost gone, he couldn't use any other methods, so he could only act as if he particularly disliked Yu Cailan in front of Cheng's father, making a scene whenever Yu Cailan appeared, and falsely accusing Yu Cailan of hitting and scolding him.
Cheng's father was so angry that he told Yu Cailan to go back to her room and stay away from home. This made Yu Cailan anxious, so she took him to Qingfeng Temple when no one was home.
If this disturbance isn't resolved soon, Yu Cailan might have to move out of the Cheng family home. Cheng's father cares far more about his son than Yu Cailan.
Jiang Tianxin was furious after hearing this, and Xu Zifan also put away his expression, his smile gone.
Yu Cailan is a selfish, vain, and petty person. In order to live a good life for herself, she can abandon her son, use him, and even hire a master to clean up his messes. She only loves herself and has no feelings for anyone, including her own child.
The original owner was alright because Yu Cailan ran away early, so he had no memory of his mother. But this little boy endured all of Yu Cailan's malice. The first time he was born to her, she aborted him; the second time, she used him. He was just a child in both lives and couldn't have complex thoughts, so his methods of revenge against Yu Cailan were simple and direct, without any tact. If a true master were willing to help Yu Cailan, he would be finished.
Compared to the original owner, it was impossible to tell who was more miserable. Although the little boy's body was Chengjia's bloodline, the little boy who now possessed memories of two lifetimes could be considered the original owner's younger brother, that is, Xu Zifan's younger brother. They were brothers who were both betrayed by their birth mother.
Xu Zifan picked up the little boy, stroked his hair, and whispered, "Don't be afraid, no one can hurt you, and that woman won't have a good ending either. From now on, follow your brother, and no one will be able to hurt you again."
The little boy wanted to run away, but felt a sense of security in his arms. After hearing his words, he suddenly broke down in tears, which was heartbreaking.
Jiang Tianxin quickly turned her head away, but tears still welled up in her eyes. She hadn't expected that the child's soul was actually her master's younger brother, and that he had suffered so much.
When he chose to take revenge by reincarnating, was it because the infant still had a lingering attachment to his mother in his subconscious? Perhaps his memories were automatically sealed after birth, because he simply hoped to truly receive maternal love. After all, he was the son that Yu Cailan had been begging for for so long. What reason would Yu Cailan have not to treat him well?
But in the end, Yu Cailan remained selfish, only using him and showing him no affection. Whenever he failed to meet Yu Cailan's expectations, she would turn on him and scold him, leaving a deep shadow on the young child's psyche.
How heartbroken and distressed must the little boy be to have such a strong resentment after his memories were unexpectedly awakened by ghostly energy? And how could he be so intolerant of Yu Cailan?
The little boy cried for a long time. When he was tired from crying, he nestled in Xu Zifan's arms and fell asleep, still sobbing. His curled-up posture looked like an extremely insecure little animal.
He hadn't seen the world's splendor or understood its beauty, yet he had been immersed in endless malice for so many years. If Xu Zifan hadn't happened to be there, he might have really killed himself. Such an extreme act might have prevented him from being reincarnated after death, leaving him only as a wandering ghost.
Xu Zifan held his younger brother in his arms, his voice soft yet chillingly cold, "Good deeds are rewarded, and evil deeds are punished, Yu..."
Cailan's retribution has come.