The group's beloved wife: She is the phoenix, she is the king

Stealing a chicken but losing the rice. ——Inscription

I am the only one who is caught in all the outrageous things. It's so divisive. When I first came to this world, I was naive and ignorant of the ways of the world. I might have been more compassionate and turned a blind eye to everything.

But now… I can’t bear it! I won’t bear this humiliation! I’ll kill her when I get the chance! If a dead thing can’t let me rest in peace, she can’t even think about it!

I have to let her know that meeting me is her retribution after death!

The ghost felt his whole body go cold when he saw Fan Nuoxi's eyes, but he didn't dare to do anything. He just stood there with his head lowered, as if he was letting himself be dealt with.

"I'm asking you a question! Why don't you dare to speak? Not only is there poison in your mouth, but also a mute drug? Can't you tell me whether you did it or not?" Fan Nuoxi got angry when she saw how cowardly she was.

The ghost was trembling all over after being scolded by Fan Nuoxi and could hardly maintain his current appearance.

She thought for a while before speaking slowly, "It wasn't me—"

"Who did that? I'll skin him alive if I get the chance!"

A certain ghost trembled even more violently, as if he had foreseen something, and said weakly, "Yes... yes... I can't say..."

Fan Nuoxi took out a pen and paper and handed it to her, "Then write it down!"

A ghost wanted to take it but didn't, "I... I can't take it--"

Fan Nuoxi waved his hand, and an enlarged version of the dictionary floated in front of the two of them. The dictionary was facing a certain ghost, "This dictionary has a catalog, and it will be converted into words you know. If you find a word, tell me to stop and I will write it down."

"Oh, by the way, please tell me your real name so I can write it down point by point."

"I don't believe you have the same name as me. If it is true, you must have changed it on purpose to unlucky me! You are a scammer!"

A certain ghost was trembling even more violently, feeling like he was at the mercy of others. He was clearly dead, but it seemed like he could die again.

Fan Nuoxi was very patient about this matter. After hesitating for most of an hour, Fan Nuoxi finally learned a few names, the relationships between these characters and a summary of the basic events.

"So, what you mean is that you were born with a curse that no one can break, and were picked up and raised by your master Su Hong. For some reason, he named you Cun Xin. After your master raised you, he disappeared. You are naturally carefree and love freedom. You are extremely talented, good at changing your form, and proficient in many abilities that are unknown to the world today."

Cun Xin thought of the past, and a subtle nostalgia flashed in his eyes, which finally turned into loneliness, "Yes."

"When your master Su Hong came back, the curse on you had already begun to come true, and you were poisoned by a very rare poison, right?" Fan Nuoxi looked at the arrows he had drawn on the paper and said thoughtfully, "What happened at that time? What made your curse come true? And under what circumstances did you discover that you were poisoned?"

Although... she told others that she and Fei Yu were from the same origin, but... she didn't know much about Fei Yu's past. This statement of being from the same origin was just to comfort Shao Li, Mi Yu, and even other people.

But now she felt that it might not be from the same source, but just a strange curse that bound several pitiful women together, and she... compared to those women who looked almost the same as her, she just had more luck.

It just so happens...people and things related to them will inexplicably approach her, which enables her to escape danger one by one.

If I think about it this way, it seems that something is still wrong.

For example, she could hear Fei Yu's thoughts, so why couldn't she hear Cun Xin's thoughts? Was it because of the so-called curse?

Or... has Cun Xin been deceiving her since the very beginning?

Or maybe the ghost in front of me is not Cun Xin at all?

Thinking of this, Fan Nuoxi looked at Cun Xin with sharp eyes, and happened to catch the greed and murderous intent in the eyes of this ghost in front of him, as well as a trace of imperceptible panic.

Fan Nuoxi quickly took out a transparent box and put the ghost in front of him into it.

After looking inward at his own meridians and finding nothing unusual, Fan Nuoxi felt relieved, but he still did not let his guard down.

Staring intently at the thing in the box that could not maintain a human shape, Fan Nuoxi vaguely saw the blue-black mist that he had seen when constructing the boundary wall before.

"You are not Cun Xin--" Fan Nuoxi said affirmatively.

The mass in the box trembled subconsciously.

"You deliberately took so long, you wanted to rely on me, right? But you couldn't succeed, so you wanted to say some insignificant things to gain my trust." Fan Nuoxi used his current strength to hit the box, and found that the mass seemed to have an instinctive fear, "It seems that my power can suppress you."

"Now that you're in my hands, you'd better confess honestly. Even if you're immortal, I can make you suffer." Seeing that the thing still refused to confess, Fan Nuoxi exerted force again, causing it to shrink even more.

But this box is not an ordinary object. It has its own secrets inside, which makes it difficult for it to move. It can hear Fan Nuoxi's voice but cannot see Fan Nuoxi's appearance. It can only feel fear from the bottom of its heart.

Just as it was about to confess, Fan Nuoxi threatened, "If you dare to harm me, you'd better suffer first. If you still try to harm me with other means in this box, you will be in big trouble!"

The thing seemed to have lost all its strength and means, and began to play dead, "..."

After Fan Nuoxi set up many punitive and monitoring restrictions on the box, he threw it into one box after another like a nesting doll. There were also many restrictions and seals set in each box, so that the thing could not get out even if it tried its best.

"No wonder I can't bear to hear your voice. It turns out that you don't belong to the living world, nor to any realm. You are thinking about my power, my body and my soul. Are you worthy?" Fan Nuoxi looked straight at the mass through the box.

"I heard that there are methods in this world that can refine certain curses into artifacts, elixirs, etc., which are extremely powerful, and can firmly control the curse, and can also use the curse as a slave, and it will not backfire on the person who uses it. What do you think - if these methods are used on you, will it be extremely useful?"

A wicked smile appeared on Fan Nuoxi's lips, and there was a hint of mockery in his eyes.

The thing heard this through the box, and trembled even more violently under the multiple tortures.

"You...are...simply...a devil...a demon!" Its voice was intermittent, and it was obviously experiencing great pain.

"You have already thrown the butcher knife at me, do you still expect me to be grateful to you?" Fan Nuoxi said coldly, "Let me ask you - is there any dirt like you on my lover Dongfang Junyan?"

"Yes...and...and...what?" The thing asked provocatively, as if it had grasped Fan Nuoxi's weak spot.

"Okay, okay - you have some backbone, you'd better tell me how to remove it, otherwise... I will have more ways to make you live a life worse than death... and - don't wear a face that looks like mine in the future, you don't deserve it, and I think it's dirty!" Fan Nuoxi couldn't help but kick the box again and again as if it were a ball.

The thing was knocked around in a daze but still insisted, "You... dare... dare to do this to me, you will... will regret it!"

"You want to threaten me with my lover? Unfortunately, you will be in trouble!"

Next, Fan Nuoxi used his own strength to beat up the mass of things through the box, and then kicked it back and forth, until his emotions gradually calmed down. Then he put it into a storage ring as if nothing had happened. After setting multiple restrictions, he added several more storage bags, and each storage bag also had a lot of restrictions set.

After doing all this, Fan Nuoxi began to consider where to place this thing.

If I put it in her spirit ring, it would be a fire in the backyard that would be difficult to clean up. If I put it in the Punishment Prison of Yunmeng Abyss, what if this damn thing adds a bunch of buffs to Zhong Yao and Xi Huanyu? It would only cause trouble for myself and create a more powerful enemy.

This wouldn't be appropriate on anyone, and it wouldn't be appropriate to bury it here either.

Refining curses and the like, this was just something she said on a whim, she had never seen these methods before. However, that thing seemed quite scary, maybe there really is such a method.

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This chapter's screenwriter: Fan Nuoxi

Art Direction: The author

Friendly Performance: Dictionary