A cold rain started to fall outside the house.
From time to time, white lightning flashed across the sky, making a wailing thunder sound, which was creepy.
Matthew was in a state of self-doubt. Could he really be dead? But he was just praying in the temple, why did he die so suddenly?
Just when he was at a loss for words, a familiar female voice with a drawn-out melody suddenly came from behind him in an eerie voice.
"Matthew, why do you want to kill me? Why do you want to kill me?"
When Matthew heard this voice, his hair stood on end and his heart almost stopped with fear.
Suddenly, a burst of thunder sounded outside the house.
Yingxiang seemed to be emitting green light all over her body, and suddenly stood in front of him. Her eyes were like a pair of bottomless black holes, eerie and terrifying, and even scarlet blood was flowing from the corners of her eyes, which was so dazzling that it was terrifying.
Matthew was so frightened that his heart was beating rapidly, his body was stiff in place, and cold sweat kept coming out of his palms.
"Aren't you already dead? Why are you still here?"
Looking at the other person's pale face, but pretending to be calm, Yingxiang laughed, and the cold voice echoed throughout the room, accompanied by the cold wind blowing in, making his back wet.
"Why am I here? Shouldn't you know best?"
Matthew's body was as stiff as a piece of wood, and he looked around with fear and disbelief.
Did he really come to the underworld?
So he is really dead?
A sense of terror surged up from the depths of his heart. His legs, which were as stiff as stone, were finally able to move, but he retreated again and again, still unable to believe it.
"Impossible! Don't try any tricks here! I won't believe it! How could I die? I still have so many things to do, I can't die! You are not Yingxiang, that's right! You are not Yingxiang!"
As he spoke, Matthew pointed at Yingxiang frantically, denying her existence, his face filled with wild rage.
There was another sharp roar of thunder, followed by a streak of white light, illuminating the room for a moment.
The dazzling white light illuminated Yingxiang's pale face with incredible clarity.
At this moment, Ma Xiuzhi saw Yingxiang's face completely and fell to the ground in fear. His legs went weak and he kept muttering, "Impossible, impossible..."
What an ironic scene. Yingxiang looked at the man in front of her who was sitting on the ground like a coward, with an expression of fear and inability to face the situation. In that instant, she felt happy and sad at the same time.
She felt ridiculous that she had ever fallen in love with such a shameful and hypocritical man.
A low and terrifying sound of laughter came out of Yingxiang's mouth, which scared Matthew so much that he stopped whispering. He looked at Yingxiang with fear on his face, and his body couldn't help shaking.
"Matthew, tell me, have you ever loved me, just for a moment!"
She wanted to get an answer from this man that would make her give up.
Matthew was already frightened by what he saw and was in a trance. He blurted out subconsciously: "Love you? Who would fall in love with a lowly slave?"
Yes, who would love a lowly and humble slave?
Yingxiang actually already had the answer in her heart, but she was unable to admit it or believe it, and was still thinking about that glimmer of luck and expectation.
With a thud, the sound of a heavy wooden stick hitting the floor rang out.
Matthew was so frightened that his body trembled, and he looked up at the statue of the judge, which had been silent for a long time.
"Sinner Matthew! Do you know your sin now?"
Matthew seemed to have recognized everything in front of him, and responded with his head lowered in a daze.
"Know your guilt? What crime have I committed?"
Although he looked dejected and lost, he actually had no intention of admitting what he had done.
There was another loud knock, followed by the sound of wooden sticks hitting the floor. Under these sounds, Matthew felt tinnitus and brain confusion, and his body and mind were seriously affected.
At this moment, the statue spoke again majestically: "I ask you again! Do you admit your guilt?"
Matthew was now in a state of illusory confusion, his mind becoming distracted.
But he remained as stubborn as a rock and refused to confess his guilt.
"I am innocent, how can I be guilty..."
Rong Su, who was hiding behind the statue, frowned immediately and turned to look at Xiao Huan who was still unconscious. Seeing that Xiao Huan was about to wake up, it would be bad if this guy didn't confess his guilt.
She looked at Shen Peiqing beside her and nodded to him.
Shen Peiqing seemed to understand, and then spoke again in a rough voice.
"You've come to Hades' Hall, yet you refuse to confess. Don't think I don't know what you did in the human world. If you want to be thrown into the animal realm, then you must deny your sins! Come, make Matthew suffer the agony of being strangled to death a hundred times before you throw him into the animal realm!"
As the words fell, the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons suddenly appeared beside Matthew, each holding a very thick and long rope in their hands.
Seeing the long and thick rope, Matthew's face completely lost its color and his whole body trembled. He wanted to step back, but found that his legs could not move again.
The fear spread like vines all over his body.
The Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Devil came in front of him, and the thick rope was about to be put around his neck. The next second, he knelt down in fear and kowtowed to the statues, begging for mercy.
"Judge! Please, spare me! Please, spare me!"
Snap! A heavy knock sounded again.
Accompanied by the statue's oppressive anger.
"How dare you! I gave you the opportunity to explain your guilt! You didn't cherish it, and you still expect me to forgive you?"
Seeing that the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons were approaching again, Ma Xiuzhi no longer dared to deny his guilt and kowtowed desperately in panic.
"I plead guilty! I plead guilty! I plead guilty!"
The statue spoke solemnly, "Then tell me all your crimes, and I will record them in my book and judge you!"
This time, Matthew no longer dared to deny it and spoke with his head lowered.
"I deliberately plotted to take over the Xiao family's fortune and poisoned the old lady of the Xiao family."
"But is there anything else?"
"I also killed Yingxiang."
As soon as these words were spoken, Yingxiang's trembling, tightly clenched fingers suddenly relaxed and looked at Matthew with cold eyes.
"But is there anything else?"
"Also, I first poisoned Xiao Huan, then gradually approached her, and finally used poison to heal her face, married her, and then used a slow-acting poison to kill her."
"Are you going to use this method to seize the Xiao family's assets?"
Matthew hung his head, believing that he had really arrived in the underworld, so he no longer tried to make excuses for what he had done.
"Yes."
At this moment, Xiao Huan, who was actually already awake, also learned all the truth from Matthew.
She was stunned in disbelief, her eyes gradually became moist, she covered her mouth, and her body began to tremble.
When Ma Xiuzhi's words proved correct, Xiao Huan's eyes were filled with anger and grief. She suddenly pushed away Rong Su who was blocking her way and angrily cursed at Ma Xiuzhi: "Ma Xiuzhi! You are a scum worse than an animal!"
Ma Xiuzhi was stunned for a moment when he heard Xiao Huan's scolding, but then he thought Xiao Huan had also come to the underworld, so he refuted her nonchalantly: "Xiao Huan, if you hadn't offended someone you shouldn't have, that would be your fate."
At this moment, Xiao Huan was already immersed in the pain of being betrayed and deceived. She angrily shouted at Ma Xiuzhi, "Ma Xiuzhi! Do you have a heart?! Grandmother loves you so much and treats you like a family member, but how could you be so cruel next time?"
These questions did not make Matthew feel any remorse. Instead, he felt that Xiao Huan was being unreasonable.
"Haha. I'm doing all this just for the Xiao family's fortune. Isn't it normal for an old woman who's about to go into a coffin to make way for me?"
Xiao Huan's eyes widened in shock, and her shoulders trembled with anger. She had never thought that such words would come out of the mouth of the gentle and polite man in front of her.
Ma Xiuzhi now felt like he was already dead, so he didn't care at all. He smiled sinisterly at Xiao Huan, "Oh, and, do you know how disgusting I felt when I touched you? Looking at that ugly face of yours, I almost want to vomit."
Such words were like an extremely sharp needle that pierced Xiao Huan's bleeding heart, suffocating her with pain.
Seeing Xiao Huan's angry and hateful expression, Matthew only felt happy and laughed wildly. Then he looked regretful and sighed softly.
"It's a pity that I couldn't complete Lady Feng's mission."
Although the sound was very small, Rong Su, who had sensitive ears, caught it instantly.
A hint of coldness flashed across Rong Su's eyes. She suddenly walked out of the statue quickly, stretched out her hand and grabbed Ma Xiuzhi's collar. Her eyes widened as she asked in a cold voice, "What did you just say? What about not being able to complete Lady Fengnu's task? Is the Lady Fengnu you were talking about Rong Yingxin?"
Suddenly a person walked out of the statue. Matthew was stunned for a moment, and then he suddenly realized what was going on.
He glanced at everything around him angrily, and seemed to gradually become more sober. The furnishings of this room were obviously similar to those of some of the rooms in the temple, except that there was an extra statue in the middle, but he had been deceived!
"You actually lied to me!"
Rong Su obviously didn't care whether Ma Xiuzhi already knew that all this was planned by them. She only cared about one thing now, and that was about Rong Yingxin!
She clutched Ma Xiuzhi's collar tightly, her face mad with murderous intent, and pressed him again: "I'll ask you again! Is the Lady Feng you're talking about Rong Yingxin?"
Matthew had been poisoned by knockout drug and paralyzing powder before, so he still didn't have much strength to break free from Rong Su's grip on his collar. She was holding the collar so tightly that he almost couldn't breathe, and his face turned pale as if he had lost his breath.
Shen Peiqing felt something was wrong. As soon as he walked out from behind the statue, he saw Rong Su holding Ma Xiuzhi's collar tightly, as if he wanted to kill him. He frowned.
Seeing that Matthew was about to be killed by Rong Su, he walked over quickly and said to him, "Rong Su, you will kill him like this!"
Just then, Gu Yun and Gu Yuer were about to change their clothes when they saw this scene and hurried forward to dissuade them.
Rong Su seemed to be possessed and refused to listen. She still held the hand tightly and continued to question Matthew.
"Speak! Tell me! Is it Rong Yingxin?"
But Matthew was grabbed by the collar by her, almost suffocating, with his eyes rolled back. It was obvious that he had no way of answering her questions.
Shen Peiqing couldn't bear it any longer, so he raised his knife and knocked Rong Su unconscious, then reached out and hugged her.
Matthew also fell to the ground and fainted due to temporary lack of oxygen due to being strangled.
Shen Peiqing glanced sideways at a dark corner closer to the inside of the room and said, "Your Excellency has heard clearly that Ma Xiuzhi has already confessed all his crimes."
As soon as he finished speaking, a man in official uniform walked out from the darkness, his face stern and solemn, and nodded to Shen Peiqing.
The man shouted seriously outside the house: "Come in!"
After a while, several yamen runners broke in and then, according to the man's instructions, arrested Matthew who had fainted on the ground.
The man looked at Xiao Huan, who looked numb and sad, and said, "Miss Xiao, I still need your cooperation in this matter. Please accompany me to the provincial government first."
Xiao Huan's eyes were filled with sadness, and she could only nod silently to the man.
When Xiao Huan was about to leave, Yingxiang called out to her.
Xiao Huan looked at her in surprise. Ying Xiang didn't hesitate and said to Xiao Huan apologetically, "Miss, I'm sorry. I'm the one who let you down."
It would be a lie to say that she had no resentment towards Yingxiang, but the instigator of all this was Matthew Zhi, so no matter how much she blamed Yingxiang, it would be useless.
Xiao Huan shook her head and said with a wry smile, "You and I are both pitiful people who have been deceived."
Then, Xiao Huan left Nanyun Temple with the governor of Ningcheng.
Yingxiang looked at Xiao Huan's back as she left, and couldn't help but shed tears of self-blame and shame.
A palace in the capital of Zhongzhou.
The sound of porcelain bottles being smashed to the ground shook the entire palace.
Accompanied by an angry and unhappy soft voice.
"You're useless! You actually failed! You're just a piece of shit!"
Rong Yingxin looked at the screen that popped up in front of her, which showed that her small task had failed and 100 points had been deducted from her!
His heart was filled with rage, he bit his lip and paced back and forth in the palace.
Matthew was such an unreliable guy that he actually caused her to be deducted 100 points!
She had worked so hard to save up this money by doing some tasks, and now she had lost a hundred dollars for no reason because of him. She had to pay him back!
Rong Yingxin stepped barefoot on the soft and delicate animal carpet, turned around and leaned on the bench, calling out softly.
"Jade."
A shadow suddenly flashed in front of her from outside and knelt down in front of her.
Rong Yingxin put on a cruel and murderous smile, playing with her fingers, and said in a calm voice: "Go to Ningcheng and kill Ma Xiuzhi. Don't leave any traces."
As the words fell, the figure disappeared instantly, and Rong Yingxin narrowed her eyes slightly with a cold smile.
Matthew must not reveal any information about her.
Then she looked regretful and sighed softly: "What a pity. Why didn't the Xiao family's business be destroyed~"
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