This villain has become a ghost

Dongdu.

Shuhua Palace.

Thunder roared, lightning streaked across the mountains and rivers. As the lightning illuminated the night sky, the door suddenly burst open.

Luo Tong slowly got up from the bed and looked at Ye Zhaoxi who was walking towards him like a zombie.

With a "click", the oil-paper umbrella fell to the ground.

Ye Zhaoxi's eyes were empty, and he rested his head on Luo Tong's shoulder. His tears mixed with the rain, and his whole body was cold. The smell was washed away by the rain.

"Where have you been?" Luo Tong asked in a low voice with concern.

Ye Zhaoxi murmured, "I'm going to kill someone."

"I went... to kill someone..."

"kill?"

Before Luo Tong could ask further questions, Ye Zhaoxi's head drooped, his eyes closed tightly, and he fell into a coma.

Luo Tong was startled and touched her forehead, which was frighteningly hot.

She quickly helped Ye Zhaoxi lie down on the bed, covered her with a quilt, put on a piece of clothing, hurriedly filled a basin with cold water, and started to reduce her fever. She also picked out medicine for treating colds from her pile of medicines and asked her personal maid to secretly boil it.

Ye Zhaoxi's face was pale, with cold sweat on his forehead, and he clutched the quilt tightly.

Just like Luo Tong at the beginning, she was also trapped in an endless nightmare.

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The night swallows people up.

Fear envelops people.

There were charred corpses everywhere.

The beams had already collapsed.

Men, women, children, the elderly... some were burnt to charcoal beyond recognition, some were struggling in twisted and painful postures, some were crying out silently to the sky with their mouths open, some were curled up on the ground with their hands on their chests, all of them exuded the distinctive smell of burnt flesh and were scattered all over the palace.

Even though every corpse was burned to the point of having no torso and no facial features, the postures solidified from the strange distortions, struggles, and squirming of the bodies before death were miserable and terrifying.

Something rolled down the jade steps and landed at Ye Mingyan's feet.

Ye Mingyan lowered her head numbly. A burnt face was facing her. The cold moonlight slanted over, shining through the burnt roof onto the dark head.

Ye Mingyan couldn't recognize who he was.

She couldn't recognize which of these people was her father, which was her mother, which was her brother...

She knelt in the middle, wailing until her voice became hoarse, and then a dull hatred slowly rose in her heart.

Her father and mother were so kind-hearted that they took in all the refugees that other cities were unwilling to take in, lived frugally, and used their food to help the refugees.

...and rescued a dying boy from the bamboo forest around Yizhou.

It happened that the old emperor came to Yizhou for a private visit. He was temporarily staying in the governor's mansion and actually recognized the young man just by his appearance.

The young man's name is Nangong Qianshang. He is the old emperor's son, who lives among the people.

Seeing Nangong Qianshang covered in wounds and unconscious, the old emperor flew into a rage and inexplicably accused him of "abusing the prince."

Then, there was a light sentence: "The whole family will be executed."

...In fact, the old emperor didn't seem to be that angry.

He just doesn't care.

Don't care about their lives.

With just a few words from him, they could die without a burial place.

That day, her mother and brother tried their best to send her away secretly, and then burned down the entire governor's mansion to cover up the fact that she had escaped.

It was Yanagisawa and the others who came back with her.

…She has no home anymore.

Her brother died.

Seven people became six.

After the death of the Yizhou governor and his family, Yizhou changed from the most comfortable and safest place in the entire Daying to the most chaotic, disorderly and darkest place.

Chiyu and Daying have been fighting.

The number of refugees is increasing.

The six of them have been traveling around.

If the other five people had not been protecting her, she would have become a "vegetable person", turned into a bloody corpse, and eaten alive.

But even so, they were still subjected to humiliation and were dragged to the beggars' group several times and almost had to share food.

And they went from being timid at first to being able to kill people without batting an eyelid, and then to... being able to eat rotten and smelly human flesh without any psychological burden.

This world has been rotten from the root.

They wallowed in darkness and mud, and were filthy to their very bones.

At first, Jiang Wenjin got separated from them.

Six people became five.

In the end... she got separated from them.

She was the only one left.

She traveled all the way and, relying on her own little cleverness, finally arrived at Dongdu, which was known as the most prosperous place in Daying.

bustling?

Behind the prosperity lies a rotten and disgusting ugliness.

While the rich wine and meat smell, the road with frozen bone.

The high-ranking officials in the Eastern Capital were living in luxury, while the people in the border areas and other cities were starving and resorting to cannibalism. Corpses piled up, plagues were rampant, and the dead and wounded were everywhere. It was a living hell...

She actually doesn't have too many lofty ambitions.

I originally wanted to live a good life.

After arriving in Dongdu, she found a job copying books for others, which was enough to make a living.

After a long time, she actually got used to this ordinary life.

She gave herself a new name, Ye Zhaoxi.

Zhao means light and Xi means hope.

perhaps……

She is still young and can start over.

The sunshine every morning, the fresh smell of fruits and vegetables sold in the market, the extra money given by the buyers... all support her hope to live a good life.

but.

This balance was broken again.

Because of her outstanding appearance, she was noticed by a minor official and sent to the palace, becoming one of the old emperor's playthings in the harem.

She would never forget that night.

In the brightly lit luxurious palace, the old emperor stared at her with his murky eyes and laughed sharply and piercingly. He pressed her on the bed and abused her repeatedly. The pain in her body and heart made her almost suffocate.

Anxious.

Being trampled upon by her own enemy, she did not dare to cry or even resist.

That would be a dead end.

...But what happens after you survive?

It was the crazy squeeze from other concubines in the harem.

It was Empress Zhou and Concubine Xiao who tortured and whipped her in different ways.

She was forced to drink contraceptive soup which caused her to bleed profusely.

It's a purgatory where every day is worse than death.

Her only chance to live a good life and start over was wiped out again.

Ye Mingyan was completely dead.

This person who is still wandering in this world has an extremely ironic name, Ye Zhaoxi.

A crazy idea suddenly popped up in her mind.

This thought had been clamoring in her mind for countless dark days and nights, but she had suppressed it. Now, no matter what she did, she couldn't suppress it anymore, and it occupied her entire soul.

...Let this rotten and stinking world burn down.