Chapter 411: Chapter 411 The Ungrateful Servant_1
Qin Sisi looked at the sorrowful and indignant expression on Shu Wanyi’s face, and speculated in her heart. She carefully asked, "Did he kill you?"
Shu Wanyi let out a deep sigh. She nodded her head slowly, and continued, "One night, he silently entered my room. He...He actually attempted to force himself upon me, to possess my body by force and then compel me to marry him. I am the only daughter in the family. Marrying me would allow him to inherit all of our family’s assets."
I was terrified, but I refused to accept this fate easily. I resisted desperately and screamed for help."
He probably hadn’t anticipated that I would resist so fiercely, and out of fear that it might alarm others, he choked my neck in panic to prevent me from making a sound. The more I struggled, the tighter he choked me."
In the end, I died at his hands."
He covered up his crime by prying open the floorboards and hiding my body in there. When we first moved in, our apartment was freshly renovated, and the wooden floors were new. Moreover, the re-decoration was overseen by him."
For aesthetics and moisture-proofing, a hollow layer was set between the floor of the upper level and the ceiling of the lower one."
He was in charge of the renovation and was aware of this hollow layer, but nobody else, including my father, knew about it. He concealed me there, out of sight and out of mind."
Qin Sisi couldn’t help but curse angrily, "He’s truly ruthless!"
Shu Wanyi sadly pursed her lips, trapped here for so many years, her fury and resentment had somewhat subsided, only leaving an intense sadness and helplessness at the swings and roundabouts of fate.
She continued, "Just as he had anticipated, I simply disappeared in the eyes of my father and servants, neither alive nor dead. "
No one could have imagined that my corpse was hidden underneath the floorboards of my room."
My father hired people to search the entirety of City S, but no clues were discovered. My poor mother fell ill due to anxiety, and in a matter of days, both their heads of hair turned fully gray."
I screamed and called out to them, but they couldn’t hear me. A newly departed ghost does not have the spiritual power necessary to make people feel her presence."
Not long after, as if war was about to break out, City S became unsafe. My father had no choice but to take the family and return southwards, including Ah Tian. Only I was forever left here."
The sound of Shu Wanyi’s voice ceased, and Qin Sisi returned to reality amidst her mournful narrative. She mused for a moment and then asked, perplexed, "I’m not quite clear on one thing. If your corpse was concealed in the crevices of the floorboards, why was your spirit also trapped? Logically, a spirit is a virtual body and it shouldn’t be trapped."
Before Shu Wanyi could reply, Ye You explained, "The wooden floors in this room are mostly made of locust tree wood, which has a restraining effect on spirits."
Only then, did Qin Sisi understand a bit more.
Shu Wanyi also added, "I only discovered this later. When my father delegated the renovation to Ah Tian, he asked him to use rosewood flooring. But he embezzled the renovation funds and mixed locust tree wood into the flooring.
He feared that my father would discover it, so he used rosewood flooring in the living room and my parents’ bedroom, while my room and the adjacent guest room have mostly locust tree floors.
The chances of my father discovering this were lower, considering he seldom entered these two rooms.
Locust tree wood has a restraining effect on spirits, so my spirit couldn’t leave this place. If it hadn’t been for you, I would have continued being trapped."
It turned out that Shu Wanyi’s spirit being trapped had also something to do with Ah Tian."
Qin Sisi looked at Shu Wanyi and said with a sigh, "His heart is truly despicable."
Shu Wanyi responded with a bitter smile, "He stole my life, and his fleeting greed made my spirit be trapped for almost a hundred years. I really want to take revenge, I truly do. But he must have already died long ago, perhaps he is also reduced to a pile of bones just like me. I’m really not reconciled!"
By the time an opportunity for revenge arose, there was no one left to enact the revenge upon. Shu Wanyi’s life could be said to have been wasted in vain."
Qin Sisi felt moved inside but she quickly thought of another ghost - Zhuang Qin.
Zhuang Qin was also an "old ghost" who had been dead for hundreds of years and logically also had no one left to take revenge upon. However, he had Qin Sisi assist him in finding the person who was the reincarnation of his enemy.
That person also happened to be despicable, and although in the end he was not killed by Zhuang Qin, Zhuang Qin could be considered as having avenged himself."
Therefore, Qin Sisi said to Shu Wanyi, "I can help you find the person Ah Tian reincarnated as."
Shu Wanyi’s eyes widened in surprise: "You mean..."
Qin Sisi carefully chose her words, "What I mean is, Ah Tian should have been reincarnated as a human again. After we find him, if he is still as ruthless in this life as he was before, I will help you take your revenge. However, if he is an ordinary person who hasn’t done any wrong, then I must ask you to let him go."
Shu Wanyi hesitated for a moment, and then nodded and replied, "Alright, I agree. If he lives a decent life in this reincarnation, I will give up on my revenge. Let’s just say...it’s just my ill fate!"
Seeing Shu Wanyi’s agreement, Qin Sisi sighed in relief, but then she immediately remembered another matter and hurriedly asked, "Do you know Ah Tian’s birth date and time? We need these to find him."
Shu Wanyi thought about it and then shook her head despairingly. Then a second later, her facial expression changed abruptly, as she utter in a hurry, "Wait, let me think."
Shu Wanyi closed her eyes, and began to recall carefully.
Back then, in order to get closer to her, Ah Tian had once taken their birth information to a fortune teller.
Then he had come back to her grinning ear to ear, holding a note with their birth information and told her, "I’ve had a fortune teller look into our compatibility, it seems we’re a match made in heaven. Look, my birth information is year X, month X, day X, hour X, and yours is year X, month X, day X, hour X..."
Shu Wanyi, who had received a modern education, didn’t care about these things at all. She replied impatiently, "Ah Tian, I’ve already told you we’re impossible. If you bring this up again, I’ll have to tell my father."
Having said that, Shu Wanyi turned around and left, not noticing Ah Tian crumpling up the note in his hand, his veins popping on the back of his hand.
Shu Wanyi had never even glanced at that note, yet each word Ah Tian spoke, she had recalled over and over again after her death.
Not out of nostalgia, but out of resentment.
Qin Sisi watched as Shu Wanyi was deep in thought, feeling great sympathy for this woman with such a tragic fate.
After a long time, Shu Wanyi finally opened her eyes and quickly said to Qin Sisi, "I remember now."
Shu Wanyi stated a date of birth and time, which Qin Sisi kept in mind. She then said to Shu Wanyi, "Alright, for now you should come with me. We will discuss the plan once we find him."
However, Shu Wanyi looked hesitant again. Her gaze landed on the skeleton beneath the floor, and she quietly said, "Mage, I have another request."
