Shocking! The female protagonist unlocked her powers by killing people!

Ling Yi placed his parents' bodies into the ice coffin, and after doing all this, he turned to leave.

"Yi Ya..." Seeing Ling Yi about to leave, the people around finally snapped out of their daze at the sight of her brushing her hand over the corpse and disappearing. With a hint of disbelief, they cautiously asked, "Yi Ya, did you put your parents into some kind of storage artifact that those cultivators talk about?"

Ling nodded: "Mm."

Upon hearing Ling Yi's admission, the person who asked the question became even more agitated: "Then, could it be that you can cultivate?"

Upon hearing this, the others also realized what was happening and looked at Ling Yi. If Ling Yi were a cultivator, he wouldn't need to ask his family for help; he could do it all by himself!

Ling Yi's gaze swept across everyone's faces: "I will avenge my parents, but this has nothing to do with you. If you want to live a good life, then sever ties with me."

No matter how much Lin Tianliang hated her, he wouldn't go so far as to kidnap these villagers to blackmail her.

After Ling Yi finished speaking, he turned and left.

Everyone watched Ling Yi leave. After she had walked a distance, someone asked, "What did that girl mean by that?"

"I don't know. When the girl came back, she was like a completely different person."

"Regardless of what she means, her decision to take revenge is a good thing for us." Someone said, "The people who killed Yi Ya's parents are also the people who killed our relatives. If Yi Ya can really kill those people, it will be a way of avenging us."

"Yes."

"This girl must succeed in getting revenge."

"Although we don't quite understand what Yi Yatou meant by those words, since she said them, she won't harm us. We should just do as she instructed."

The sound of villagers talking drifted on the wind as Ling Yi mounted his horse and headed towards the capital.

...

Linfu, the capital of the country.

Lin Chengze brought Lin Chengyu's body back to the Lin residence. Madam Lin rushed over upon receiving the news and, upon seeing Lin Chengyu's body, was overcome with grief and fainted from crying.

Lin Chengze was too busy to take care of his mother, so he had the maid help her back first, while he and his men went to Lin Tianliang's courtyard.

Lin Tianliang had been tormented by Ling Yi that morning, and his whole demeanor was frighteningly gloomy. When Lin Chengze brought Lin Chengyu into the courtyard, the noise irritated Lin Tianliang: "What's all the noise about?"

"You all want to be punished, don't you?"

The noise stopped for a moment, but then the door was kicked open. Before Lin Tianliang could even get angry, he saw Erzi, whose face was even more unpleasant than his own.

Upon closer inspection, Erzi was also holding Sizi in his arms.

Seeing this, Lin Tianliang frowned: "Why are you holding your brother? Is he injured?"

Lin Chengze didn't speak, but carried Lin Chengyu to the edge of the bed and placed him on it. Lin Chengyu remained motionless throughout, completely letting himself be. Lin Tianliang had a bad feeling, but before he could confirm it, Lin Chengze spoke up: "Father, Fourth Brother is dead. Are you satisfied now?"

"What did you say?" Lin Tianliang stared at Lin Chengze in disbelief. "What did you say happened to your brother?"

"died!"

Lin Chengze stared at Lin Tianliang with bloodshot eyes: "Fourth brother is dead, killed by Ling Yi. Are you satisfied, Father?"

Upon hearing that his fourth son was dead, Lin Tianliang was filled with disbelief, but seeing the child motionless with his own eyes, Lin Tianliang had no choice but to believe it.

It would be a lie to say Lin Tianliang wasn't heartbroken by his son's death, but...

"Lin Chengze!" Lin Tianliang said sternly, "Is this how you talk to your father?"

"It was Ling Yi who killed Yu'er, not me!"

"It's true that Ling Yi killed Yu'er, but it was all your fault, Father!" Lin Chengze pointed at Lin Tianliang, then at Lin Zhuyu: "If you hadn't switched Ling Yi and Lin Zhuyu, none of this would have happened!"

"You switched them, fine, but after the Third Prince became crippled, you couldn't bear to marry Zhuyu to him, so you brought her back and forced her to marry him!"

"When she first arrived at the manor, she was so lively, but we all disliked her, thinking she lacked manners. We also spoke harshly to her because of Lin Zhuyu's occasional expressions of grievance. Gradually, she went from being lively to being timid and submissive. We all bullied and oppressed her. Even the Third Prince could insult her in the manor!"

“This is clearly her home, and we are clearly her family, yet she is bullied by her family members at home, and by outsiders at home, and no one speaks up for her!”

“The Third Prince humiliated her. She didn’t want to marry him and begged you, Mother, and us again and again, but none of us spoke up for her. We all thought it was her good fortune to marry a prince, but was it really a good fortune?”

“Everyone knows it’s not true!” Lin Chengze pointed at Lin Zhuyu: “You don’t want to marry, and your father doesn’t want you to marry, but you can’t openly tell the Third Prince that you are crippled and that you can’t marry your carefully raised daughter to a prince who has lost power. You can only reveal that Lin Zhuyu is not a daughter of the Lin family so that Ling Yi can marry the Third Prince.”

"The Third Prince's willingness to compromise and replace him is already a great act of mercy. Even if he is crippled, he is still a prince if he doesn't marry off any of his daughters. The Lin family is unwilling to offend the Third Prince, so they sacrificed Ling Yi."

"We know all of this, so does it matter whether Ling Yi wants to or is willing?"

"So she wanted to die, she jumped into the pond, but none of us went to save her that day, we were all just watching from the shore. In the end, she came up on her own. What did we do?"

"We mocked her for wanting to die, so why isn't she dying now?"

"With all these things happening, isn't it understandable that she hates us?" Lin Chengze understood everything after Lin Chengyu's death: "She didn't even make us feel sorry for her when she died. Is it wrong for her not to feel sorry for us?"

"She killed Yu'er. I hate her, but I also hate myself. If I had been kinder to her when she came back, would she have listened to me when I pleaded for her?"

“But I wasn’t good to her, none of us were good to her, so it’s understandable that she hates us, and it’s understandable that she hates us so much that she wants to kill us. But it’s all your fault, Father.” Lin Chengze looked at Lin Tianliang: “If you hadn’t replaced her, she would have grown up by our side. We only have this one sister, and we would have doted on her like we would on a precious jade. How could all of this have happened?”

After finishing his speech, Lin Chengze burst into tears, both for his brother's death and for the mistakes he had made.

Lin Chengze knew he was wrong, knew they were all wrong. He was heartbroken by his brother's death, but he also wanted to take this opportunity to clarify everything and make everyone realize their mistakes, otherwise Ling Yi would not let the others off the hook.

He wanted to save the Lin family.

But apart from himself, no one else present thought so. Lin Tianliang said coldly, "The marriage was arranged by her parents. Is it unfair to make her marry the Third Prince?"

"So many people want to marry a prince but can't. If she marries him, she'll have the status of the Lin family's legitimate daughter and we'll be there for her. As long as she's obedient and well-behaved, will her life be bad?"