Chapter 40

I didn't hesitate for a moment, and nodded, saying, "My grandfather once said that when you meet someone, it's fate, and if you can help, you should lend a hand! Although I don't know if doing this will cost me my life, I will do my utmost to help."

These words also indirectly told Song Liuyan that if it really came to risking my life, I would still run.

Song Liuyan understood and nodded, saying, "Alright, then I'll tell you! My soul is fused with Wang Shuo's body, but his body can't bear my soul. As it is now, I can't control myself when I wake up at this time. He needs to marry me and become a true couple with me, so that we can truly become a yin-yang entity. To become a couple, he needs my bones; he needs to wear my bones for my soul to be under my control."

"Now, I need someone to find my bones. Only by finding my bones will this fusion be truly complete! Otherwise, I will turn to ashes as you just said."

I nodded in understanding and said, "I understand. How did you die? Where are your bones? Do you remember?"

This is indeed a very difficult task, as she has been wandering for many years, being a wandering ghost for too long!

I roughly guessed that she must have died several hundred years ago, and was likely brutally killed and left in the wilderness. Given such a long time, it would indeed be very difficult to find the bones!

Not to mention whether she can remember where her bones are, even if she does remember, it's another matter whether they can be found.

Doing such a thing is undoubtedly like looking for a needle in the sea!

But even if it's like looking for a needle in the sea, I won't give up now that I've come this far.

Song Liuyan fell into deep thought for a moment, and then murmured, "Hujiawan! I heard someone mention it before, that place is called Hujiawan."

Hujiawan, I don't know where Hujiawan is, but I will remember it. I don't know, but maybe others do.

"How did you die? Do you remember?" The memory of ghosts is different from that of humans. Some ghosts have weak consciousness after death and don't even know their own names or why they did certain things.

In fact, many things they do are done unconsciously!

Song Liuyan knew, and she nodded firmly, her gaze turning fierce, "I remember, of course I remember! How could I forget! Even if I were to be a ghost for a thousand or ten thousand years, I would never forget how I died."

At this point, Song Liuyan's expression became abnormally agitated, and the light above her head began to flicker, making a buzzing sound. But after a while of agitation, she gradually calmed herself down.

She sat back in her previous position, calmed her emotions, and then murmured, "I was born during the reign of Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty. I was the second daughter of the wealthy merchant Song Shichang. When I was sixteen, I went with my brother to the south to collect a batch of goods! On the way back, we encountered bandits. The bandits took all our money and goods, killed everyone in our caravan, and captured me and two maids to sell to an old man who made medicine."

"That old man was very scary, with only one eye and one ear. After he bought us, I begged him to let us go, but he not only didn't let us go, he did unspeakable things to us. I thought he was just venting, but after he was done, he threw us into a cage, which was full of bones, all women's bones."

"At that moment, I knew we would never get out, never in this life! I thought about committing suicide in that cage. But I was afraid of death, I didn't know how to die! So I could only let him do as he pleased. At first, he still gave us food, but later, he stopped giving us food and only gave us some medicine. I don't know what kind of medicine it was, there were pills and herbs. I don't know how long we ate it before we gradually died."

"After I died, my soul was locked in a cell, and I wasn't the only one in that cell; there were many others who were killed by him. Some were daughters of noble families, some were courtesans, and some were children of common people. No matter their background, we all searched for a way out, but we could never find an exit."

"Later, the medicine maker died, and his soul also came to that cell! He became our king, ruling over our souls, making us serve him for life, as his slaves, generation after generation, forever. Some resisted and were brutally beaten. We suffered at his hands even in life, and we never thought that after death, we would still have to try to please him. If he was happy, he would sleep with us; if he was unhappy, he would beat and scold us! We were souls, we couldn't die, but the pain of being tortured was worse than being a ghost."

"Later, I escaped by pretending to buy a guzheng. I returned home by following my consciousness, but my home was unrecognizable, and my parents were gone. I didn't know what had happened to our family, and everyone was gone! After that, my soul began a long, long journey of wandering. I was hunted by yin-yang masters and captured, but I always managed to escape. I also learned from them that to be reborn, one must borrow a body."

"Borrowing a body has two methods: one is to take over the soul, and the other is to become a yin-yang entity! Taking over the soul would kill the person and take over their body, but I couldn't do that. Even after being a ghost for so long, I couldn't bear to harm another person. So I chose the second method, becoming a yin-yang entity! I tried several times before, but I never succeeded because I was always discovered halfway through and driven away or hunted."

"Eleven years ago, I met Wang Shuo! He was a very ruthless person, and even at the age of nine, he could kill a nest of snakes on his own. It was his ninth year, a year when the heavens and the earth paid little attention, so I seized the opportunity to bewitch him, asking if he would marry me. He agreed."

"After that, I stayed with Wang Shuo. I was very afraid of being discovered, but I was lucky to encounter some incompetent people! They didn't know how to truly exorcise ghosts. Later, as you know, I successfully entered Wang Shuo's body, but because I didn't have my own bones, I couldn't become a true couple with him, and even if he agreed, I couldn't fully control my soul."