novelraw Chapter 216 - 217: Sticking to the Back
Chapter 216 - 217: Sticking to the Back
As if sensing Su Nian’s gaze, the girl also turned her head to look at Su Nian.
Her body was completely stiff and deathly pale.
What was more eye-catching were the strange clothes she wore. It looked like a simple white t-shirt, but Su Nian noticed the dirt staining it.
’Is this... grave dirt?’
Su Nian understood. ’This man is truly disgusting to the core. To suppress his own daughter, he even found clothes worn by a dead person to put on her.’
The dead person’s resentment had been strong enough to keep the girl suppressed.
But now, the original owner of the clothes must have been reincarnated, or their soul had completely dissipated.
That was what allowed this girl to awaken.
Receiving no response from his wife, the man grew more anxious. It seemed he was the only one left in the pitch-black house.
"Master Qingran! Master Su! I know I was wrong, save me! I know I was wrong, I shouldn’t have killed her! Please, save me!"
Su Nian ignored him, instead looking at the woman who had been choked unconscious by the girl.
The girl was about to move again, but Su Nian had already started the livestream.
A faint glow suddenly appeared in the darkness. For the man, the fear outweighed any surprise. In an instant, he leaped far away.
Su Nian’s camera was pointed at the man’s face.
"What’s your name?"
When the man first heard Su Nian’s voice, he was tense and afraid, but that was quickly followed by disbelieving joy.
"My name is Yang An! I’m Yang An!"
He thought Su Nian was just trying to scare him to extort more money.
After composing himself, he quickly introduced himself.
"I’m the boss of the Yang Group, Yang Real Estate! I have lots and lots of money. As long as you’re willing to save me, all my money is yours!"
[What’s going on?]
[I don’t know. It’s pitch-black. It almost gave me a heart attack when I just tuned in.]
[Looks like this CEO is in some kind of danger.]
[Our Heavenly Venerate really has some serious clout. This guy is a real big shot, super powerful! Like, *really* powerful!]
Some curious netizens heard this and took screenshots to look him up. Without exception, they were all shocked by Yang An’s identity.
Su Nian nodded in the darkness.
She then continued, "But this situation of yours is a bit tricky. Why don’t you tell me what happened from beginning to end?"
Yang An froze. He was a very calculating man, and now he was a bit reluctant.
But after hesitating for a few seconds, with a chilling aura seemingly lingering around him, he swallowed hard and began to speak.
"It’s about my unfilial daughter. Even though she was accomplished, she was never good to me and only ever thought of herself. I knew she was destined for great things, but she didn’t care about us, so her great destiny would have had nothing to do with us."
Su Nian noticed that the delicate-looking young girl was now standing silently behind Yang An in the darkness, but she didn’t make a single sound.
She tilted her head, looking at Su Nian with a puzzled expression.
[My brain just short-circuited. I am confusion.]
[A quick search says Yang An does have a daughter, but didn’t she die three years ago?]
[She didn’t die. She was just in a really bad car accident and ended up in a vegetative state.]
[Yeah, yeah, I even saw reports that Yang An insisted on reading her stories and feeding her milk every day to try and wake her up.]
Su Nian nodded. "Keep talking."
"She was just a little girl, but she dared to yell at me at home, telling me this was wrong and that was wrong. But what could I do? I was doing it all to make money, to provide for her."
"Heh..."
A hint of sarcasm crossed Su Nian’s brow.
"I didn’t want to do anything to her at first, but I don’t have long to live. I asked a master, and he said I could use my child’s lifespan to extend mine. But I don’t have a son, only her. I had no other choice, so I had to use hers."
As Yang An said this, he still looked aggrieved, as if he had been forced into it.
The disgust in Su Nian’s eyes deepened.
[What, what? I feel like this is some huge conspiracy!]
[Use hers? Use her what?!]
[I just looked it up. Yang An’s daughter was a real genius. She was bringing honor to the country at a young age, won a bunch of math olympiads. Super, super smart.]
[Yeah, and I saw she was inventing little gadgets and toys when she was just twelve! A total prodigy!]
"I didn’t want to harm her at first, but she wouldn’t agree! I’m her father! I was about to die, and she wasn’t even willing to share a bit of her life with me!"
"I was really at my wit’s end. She refused to cooperate, and I just wanted to Stay Alive so badly. So I asked that master from Thailand, and he said I could turn her into a Little Ghost and absorb her lifespan and destiny."
[Did I hear that right?! He turned his own daughter into a Little Ghost?]
[What is this piece of filth? Listening to him makes me want to curse!]
[What kind of fucking moron is this?! I’m so pissed!]
[I want to kill someone, I want to kill someone!]
[How can there be such a selfish father? To live a little longer, he actually turned his own daughter into a Little Ghost!]
Su Nian asked, "Then why did you have to kill her with your own hands?"
"I was forced into it! I didn’t want to do it myself at first. The master advised me to do it myself, but she was my daughter, after all. I just couldn’t bring myself to do it."
"But I hired several groups of people, and to my surprise, none of them could kill her. That’s when I learned she had a blessed fate and wouldn’t die easily. I had no choice but to do it myself. She still had some conscience, though. When she saw it was me, she didn’t resist. Maybe she understood the painful choice I had to make."
[????]
[What kind of twisted logic is that?!]
[So his daughter was actually killed by her own father?]
[What brand of animal is this guy? Fuck!]
Seeing Su Nian’s face grow colder, he hastily explained, "Her mother was holding her down with me! I was about to stop, but her mom kept insisting, so I dealt the final blow!"
The girl’s neck continued to bend sideways until, with a CRACK, her head hung upside down against her chest.
"Daddy..."
A sudden cold wind blew past, and the hairs on the back of Yang An’s neck stood on end.
It seemed his daughter had come back again, come back for him.
"Master Su, Master Su, I’m so cold! So cold! I think she’s coming!"
His shrill voice rang out, but Su Nian just shook her head in the darkness.
"Mhm, that’s right. She’s standing right behind you."
Hearing this, Yang An’s face instantly became deathly pale, and beads of sweat dripped from his forehead.
The chilling coldness behind him drew closer and closer, making him scramble uncontrollably in the direction of Su Nian’s voice.
And in that very instant, the faint light from the phone, which had just been visible, vanished.
His vision was plunged back into pitch-blackness. It seemed that in this moment, he was the only person left in the entire world.
CRICK... CRACK...
The sound of twisting bones and joints rang out. The sound was very, very close, as if it were coming from right up against his back.