Chapter 4

“Stop twisting words and forcing logic.”

Watching Lin Shenyi’s fierce exterior hiding a cowardly heart, I let out a cold laugh and pushed away the longsword with my fingers.

“Lord Heir of the Duke’s estate, holding great power, you can go and investigate. Look into how my father, who committed adultery with his sister-in-law, took the jade pendant back then and gave it to Ren Ruian. You can also investigate how he bribed human traffickers to have me abducted.”

“Investigate it thoroughly. Don’t ruin the prestigious reputation of the Heir to the Duke’s estate.”

After saying these words, my throat itched fiercely.

But I held it in and didn’t cough.

“Lin Shenyi, you should also taste the feeling of having your heart cut by a knife, hating someone to the core, yet being completely powerless to do anything about it.”

“For these past three years, I stayed hidden and endured, surviving near-death experiences. Don’t dream that I will stop, because I won’t. To scumbags like you, I want to watch you be tortured by deadly poison, suffering in agony. Did you think this was over?”

“Hehe…”

“This is only the beginning.”

“Unless every single member of the Lin family dies, I will never stop.”

I laughed coldly out loud.

I turned and walked towards the house.

Blood trickled from the corner of my mouth, running down my chin and dripping onto my collar.

“Ren Ruiyi, hand over the antidote, and I can let bygones be bygones.”

Lin Shenyi was still shamelessly boasting.

I couldn’t even be bothered to respond. “Throw him out.”

I absolutely didn’t need him to let me go.

Now, I was the one who wouldn’t let him go.

The sounds of fighting erupted in the courtyard, covering up my heart-wrenching coughs.

And the blood I spat onto the handkerchief.

I knew my days were numbered.

My great vengeance had not yet been fully avenged. In this world, aside from me, who else remembered that a child had once come into this world?

He had been healthy and strong. He should have lived a long, long life, with boundless prospects and a bright future.

But he only lived for less than five days…

I was so afraid. So afraid that I would just die like this, without even having the chance to clear his grievances.

“Cough, cough, cough!”

A violent fit of coughing brought tears streaming down from the corners of my eyes, drop by drop.

Like pearls from a broken string.

No matter how hard I wiped, I couldn’t wipe them all away.

“Ren Ruiyi! Ren Ruiyi, tell them to stop!”

“What will it take for you to give me the antidote?”

Lin Shenyi’s furious yet pleading voice echoed from outside.

His precious son was crying out in pain day and night, unable to sleep or eat. His heart must be breaking, right?

Everyone in the Lin family, from top to bottom, could never reproduce again. They must be absolutely terrified.

How wonderful…

“Hehehe.” I suddenly started laughing.

Sure enough, the knife has to be stabbed into his own heart for him to know the pain.

When it was someone else’s child, he threw him to his death without a second thought. He had zero humanity…

Retribution, isn’t it?

At least I showed some mercy and didn’t directly send his son to the afterlife.

If he ever meets a divine immortal in the future, maybe the poison can be cured.

He should kneel and thank my great kindness.

Thank me for not sending them all directly to the west.

Lin Shenyi was thrown out like a dead dog, his body crashing heavily to the ground, splashing the rainwater in the puddles.

Miserable and pathetic.

I stood beneath the eaves, watching him through the courtyard gate.

There was no anger or hatred in my eyes, only an indifference as if I were looking at a dead man, someone entirely irrelevant.

But the corners of my mouth slowly curled into a smile.

Extremely cruel.

Lin Shenyi also raised his eyes to look at me, his eyes full of fiery rage and hatred.

“…”

I gently twitched the corners of my mouth.

Can’t take it anymore? We’ve barely even started…

“Ren Ruiyi, leave a line in all things…”

“Close the door.” I commanded deeply.

Lin Shenyi’s disgusting words were shut outside the gates.

Leave a line in all things, so we can meet again in the future.

I didn’t want to see him again at all.

Whether on the road to the Yellow Springs or in the next life, a person like him would only dirty my path of reincarnation.

As I turned around, I felt dizzy and my vision blurred.

My body softly collapsed to the side.

Right before I fell unconscious, I saw Li Jinmu rushing over.

He cried out in alarm, catching me in his embrace. “Ruiyi.”

When I woke up again, before I could even catch my breath, I heard Li Jinmu’s exasperated scolding by my ear.

“Are you trying to meet the King of Hell early? Your revenge isn’t finished, yet you’re torturing yourself to death.”

I looked at him and smiled gently. “I won’t.”

Even if I am in agonizing pain every single day, I will only take my last breath after I have completed my revenge.

When Li Jinmu fed me medicine, I looked at his slightly trembling hands.

I understood in my heart.

He must have known that my days were numbered…

“Li Jinmu, I will take my own revenge. Don’t interfere.”