On the wedding day, my wife was abnormal

Every word she uttered seemed to be ripped out from her heart, carrying a bloody smell.

"That old woman used her as a tool to vent her lust! Often... often she'd break into our side room in the dead of night! Mother could only cover my ears tightly... and my brother's eyes... but I could hear... I could hear her suppressed, intermittent sobs... That sound was like a knife! It cut my heart day and night!!"

She let out a low howl like a wild beast, tears mixed with endless grief and anger streaming down her face.

"But the truth will eventually come to light! Finally... my father... that honest father his whole life, he saw it with his own eyes late one night!"

Youmeng's voice was filled with tearing pain. "Father has gone mad! He rushed in like a desperate lion to question that old beast! He demanded, 'Dad! How could you do this to us! Like this to her?!' He wanted to fight that old bastard to the death!"

Youmeng stood up suddenly, her body swaying due to the intense emotions, and Wan'er hurriedly supported her.

"Pushing? Fighting? Pulling?" She laughed miserably, tears blurring her vision. "I didn't see clearly. I just know that in the chaos, that old bastard who had been dominating his entire life slipped... and hit the back of his head on the corner of the altar in his room!"

Youmeng's body twitched violently, as if she were actually there. "Just like that... she died right there!!"

Wan'er's heart sank to the bottom, and she held Youmeng's iron-cold hand tightly.

"It's over! Everything is over!" Youmeng's voice became weak and filled with great fear.

"That old witch... my grandmother! She didn't ask any questions at all! She cried and screamed and reported it to the authorities! She called my father a beast who murdered his father! She was the witness, and the physical evidence was my father who died in my grandfather's room... We have no way to defend ourselves!"

The light in Youmeng's eyes completely disappeared, leaving only cold despair.

"The county magistrate... that county magistrate! He sat high up in the hall, dressed in the uniform of a judge, with a face full of hypocrisy! He... he simply refused to listen to my father's explanation! My father wept bitterly in the hall, kneeling and crying, 'Sir! It was him... it was him who defiled my wife for years first!' My father wanted to tell the truth! He was like a drowning man grasping at straws!"

"But that bastard official! He actually slammed the gavel! He roared, 'Asshole! What nonsense! How dare you slander my deceased father's good name! This is unfilial! Patricide is against heaven and earth! This is unkind! Both crimes must be punished together, and he must be executed according to the law!' He actually directly convicted my father of patricide! My mother... my poor mother, that woman who had been insulted and harmed for years, who had suffered terribly... That bastard official actually sentenced her to 'disobeying human ethics and committing adultery with her father-in-law'! He sentenced her to death with a stick in court!"

You Meng let out a shrill scream, as if the killing stick was hitting her mother!

Wan'er felt cold all over when she heard this. The huge anger and sadness strangled her throat and tears silently rolled down her face.

You Meng trembled all over, collapsing into a chair as if every bone had been pulled out of her. Her voice was as soft as a mosquito's, yet every word was filled with tears and blood. "My parents were beaten to death in that filthy courtroom... both of them dead. That county magistrate... that scoundrel! He even hypocritically claimed to want to 'scare away evil and purify the village'! He actually ordered my parents' bodies... to be left exposed for three days! At the entrance of our Xilin Village! Under the big locust tree at the entrance! A tall stone archway was erected!"

"The archway... the archway... is engraved... engraved... with blood-red words..."

Every time she spoke, it was like enduring the pain of being tortured to death. Those few words seemed to carry a deadly poison, tearing at her soul:

"—'Father-killing and adultery are forsaken by both men and gods!'"

These eight words, like the most vicious curse, were branded deep into Youmeng's soul like a scorching hot iron!

This is the infamy hanging over the filthy corpses of her parents!

"Wu ...

Youmeng finally broke down completely and threw herself into Wan'er's arms, crying loudly!

The cry was heart-wrenching, full of childish helplessness, anger and despair that destroyed everything!

Twenty years of coldness, depression, blood and tears burst out at this moment!

"I watched as the bodies of my parents were dragged away by the government officials... I knelt at the village entrance... facing the stone memorial archway... What could I do?! I was only six years old, I couldn't protect them. I could only watch helplessly as the humiliating stone tablet stood there, engraved with those vicious words!"

"Day and night! Every moment! It reminds me! How my parents died! What an unfair and heinous stigma they bear!!"

Her fists pounded Wan'er's back frantically (Wan'er just endured it silently and hugged her tightly), and her voice was broken and hoarse.

"My father wasn't a scumbag! My mother wasn't a bitch! They were forced to death! They were wrongly accused to death! It was that old, man-eating beast! It was that incompetent, foolish official! It was this world!"

The overwhelming grief and powerlessness made Youmeng cry in Wan'er's arms until her whole body was convulsing and tears were streaming down her face. The immense hatred and tears accumulated over the years burst out like a flood that broke through a dam!

It was unknown how long it was before she finally stopped crying in Wan'er's warm embrace, as if she had exhausted all her strength, leaving only slight, desperate sobs.

She raised her head, her red eyes seemed to be soaked in blood, leaving only cold numbness and utter despair towards the world.

"After that, I took my younger brother and fled into the mountains like wild dogs... A few years later, I joined the Heavenly Dao..."

"I know Tiandao is a killer organization, but do you know why I still joined? Because I hate them! I hate all those people who wear those official uniforms. They are indiscriminate, they bend the law for personal gain, they take human life lightly, they destroyed my parents' innocence, and they even carved a stigma in stone! I killed them, one by one, and used their dirty blood to wash away the hatred in my heart!"

She suddenly grabbed Wan'er's hand, and a last glimmer of unwillingness flashed in her eyes.

"But...but sister..."

Her voice trembled again, filled with a huge sense of powerlessness. The remaining lucidity after the collapse made her even more painful:

"I killed every official in Cangzhou. Cangzhou wasn't enough, so I went to other places to kill. But what could I do? No matter how many I killed, I couldn't wash away the stigma on my parents! That stone archway with the inscription 'patricide and adultery'... it's still there! It will always stand there! Like a huge slap in the face! It slapped me hard in the face! It told me... everything I did... was useless!"

"Wuwu..." She leaned on Wan'er's shoulder and cried again, this time with a deep, desperate feeling of powerlessness.

Even if she possessed the strength of a top assassin, even if she could kill those direct and indirect enemies who had harmed her parents, she would never be able to fight against the cold and heavy stone archway forged by power and prejudice!

It was not just a tombstone, but also a pillar of shame that would forever weigh on her parents' graves and on her heart!

Wan'er hugged Youmeng tightly in her arms as she cried inconsolably, and her own tears had already wet her clothes.

The pain and anger in her heart were no less than Youmeng's.

She fully understood the significance of Lin Zhen's words, "I'll send someone to take care of it."

This is not a simple reversal of a verdict, but a war against the injustice of the world, against deep-rooted bad habits, and against the stigmatized stone archway!

It is to summon the souls of the dead!

It is to use true law and justice to smash the stone tablet stained with blood and slander!

This is a redemption that is a hundred times more difficult than killing hundreds of officials!