The next day, the adoptive parents and their son, having slept through the night, slowly woke up to find themselves lying in the pigsty.
Helping each other up, they quietly crept out of the pigsty, seeing deep resentment and fear reflected in each other’s eyes.
They needed to find a way to escape and report to the Federal Law Enforcement Personnel so they could capture this demonic adoptive daughter.
However, the moment they pushed open the main gate, their blood ran cold!
Jiang Xue stood outside like a door god, looking at them with a mocking expression.
“Three lazy pigs, all you know is eating, shitting, and sleeping. Why don’t you just sleep yourselves to death? If you die, we can feed you to the pigs—clean and simple.”
Thud! Thud! Thud!
With that, Jiang Xue kicked all three of them back into the pigsty!
“Ah! You… you can’t do this to us. This is against the law!” The adoptive father finally couldn’t take it anymore, mustering his courage to lecture Jiang Xue on the law, hoping she would show some restraint.
Jiang Xue burst into laughter, picked up a brick, and smashed it into his face.
Smack! Smack! Smack! After a few bricks, the adoptive father’s face was shattered.
“So you know the law, do you? Then let me ask you, will you talk or not? Will you talk or not?”
Jiang Xue kept hitting him as she questioned him, turning his head into a bloody mess. Then she turned to the adoptive mother.
“Your turn! Will you talk or not?”
“What do you even want us to say? You, ah…” The adoptive mother screamed in hysterical despair, but she too soon met Jiang Xue’s brick.
Smack! Smack! Two more bricks, and the adoptive mother finally learned her lesson.
“I’ll talk, I’ll talk! I deserve to die. I shouldn’t have favored boys over girls, and I shouldn’t have tormented you for over a decade.”
Smack! Smack! Smack! Jiang Xue kept hitting her.
“I’ll talk, I’ll talk! I’m wicked. All three of us are beasts. We shouldn’t have schemed against you or sucked your blood…”
Smack! Smack! Smack! Jiang Xue continued hitting and questioning her, turning her face into a pulpy mess.
She wanted these scum to confess just how vile and wicked they truly were.
“I’ll talk, I’ll talk! We were jealous of how well you studied and how promising you were. We deliberately kept you from going to school so we could trap you by our side, making you work like a slave for us your whole life.”
“We shouldn’t have made you wash clothes by hand when we had a washing machine at home. We shouldn’t have made you eat leftovers or kept you from sitting at the table during meals…”
“We shouldn’t have made you sleep in the storage room or forced you to wash our feet every day…”
Half an hour later.
“I’ve said everything I should. What else do you want? If you have the guts, just kill me!” The adoptive mother, having nothing left to lose, adopted a defiant, unyielding attitude.
Jiang Xue sneered, snapped one of Chen Yaozu’s fingers with a crack, and stuffed it into the adoptive mother’s mouth.
“Ah…”
“Gag…”
Chen Yaozu screamed in agony, while the adoptive mother retched, but the finger had already slid down her throat, impossible to vomit up.
“Keep pretending. If you don’t talk, I’ll dismember this fat pig piece by piece and shove it all into your mouth. Consider it a rebirth of sorts.” Jiang Xue’s tone was calm as she eyed Chen Yaozu’s next finger.
“Yaozu is your own brother! How can you treat him like this? How can you be so cruel? I never should have given birth to… mmm…”
The adoptive mother tried to play the family card, but Jiang Xue couldn’t be bothered to listen to her nonsense.
Once again, Jiang Xue snapped one of Chen Yaozu’s fingers and stuffed it into his foul, lying mouth.
“Ah… I can’t take it anymore, I’ll talk!” Pampered and spoiled, Chen Yaozu couldn’t endure the agony of having his fingers broken. He began loudly confessing every crime he knew.
“It was all this wretched woman—she swapped you with my sister when you were babies. Not only did she feel no remorse, but every time she mentioned it, she would gloat and boast, proudly claiming it was the most correct thing she ever did in her life.”
“Whenever she missed her daughter, she would double down on tormenting you. How laughable, right? She was the one who shamelessly swapped the two of you, yet in the end, she blamed all the faults on you.”
“Recently, she even wanted me to ruin you, to make you work for our family for free, bear children for free, and serve as our family’s beast of burden for a lifetime!”
After spilling everything in one breath, Chen Yaozu seemed to have exhausted all his strength. Gasping for air, he clutched his broken fingers, his face contorted in pain, his flabby flesh trembling uncontrollably.
The adoptive mother watched Chen Yaozu with a complicated expression. As for this son of hers, she naturally chose to forgive him.
She then turned her gaze to Jiang Xue, her expression calm as she said, “Since yesterday, you’ve changed so much. Have you also been reborn? If you don’t answer, I’ll take it as a yes… Since you’ve been reborn too, you should know that in your previous life, you already poisoned our family of three to death. No matter how deep the hatred, it should be settled by now. So, can we…”
Slap!
Jiang Xue struck her with such force that her face twisted to the side.
“You deserved it in your previous life. Since you swapped me in this life, you’ll have to endure it too!”
“For scum like you, killing you for ten lifetimes would still be just punishment.”
With the judgment complete, Jiang Xue crushed the limbs of all three, gouged out their eyes, cut out their tongues, and threw them into the pigsty.
Then, she cast a Dark Energy Shield over the entire Chen household, ensuring that no one but her could ever find it again.
Finally, Jiang Xue grabbed a handful of clay and molded a small figurine.
Once the figurine was complete, she infused it with a surge of Dark Energy. The figurine swelled violently in the wind, growing to the size of an average person before stopping.
The figurine’s gender was indistinguishable. Upon seeing Jiang Xue, it revealed a playful, affectionate expression.
“Mother Goddess, what are your commands?”
Jiang Xue patted the figurine’s head. “I bestow upon you the name Jiu Yin. Go and have a little chat with the one above and the one below. Make sure they don’t get in my way!”
As she spoke, Jiang Xue pointed upward, then in a certain direction.
“The Heavenly Dao and the Lord of Human Dao? Hehe, Mother Goddess, enjoy your leisure. I guarantee they’ll behave!”
“If reasoning doesn’t work, just replace them with someone more reasonable. Don’t force yourself,” Jiang Xue added.
“Thank you for your concern, Mother Goddess.”
With that, Jiu Yin took a single step and vanished from the spot.
(From now on, in this small world, if you ever feel that certain special individuals should appear but don’t, it means Jiu Yin has already reasoned with them. If one or two do appear, it means the female protagonist, Jiang Xue, wants to reason with them personally.)
Soon after, on a certain highway, a team of Federal Law Enforcement Personnel received a phone call. Without a word, they turned their vehicles around and sped away.
Immediately afterward, under a clear, cloudless sky, dry thunder rumbled, and half the sky turned blood-red.
For half an hour, the blood-red hue gradually faded away. At the same time, the entire sky subtly began to feel lighter and more vibrant.
“Interesting. Without the dead weight holding it back, this whole world is showing signs of advancing.” Jiang Xue gazed at the sky, clapping her hands with a smile.
In another three to five years, this Book World will transform into a Lesser Chiliocosm. By then, every supporting character, extra, background figure… will become complete, independent individuals—each the protagonist of their own story.
“Next, it’s time to go find those four scoundrels. Heh, now that they’ve regained their memories, they’re probably anxious to come up with a way to deal with me.”
After all, in her previous life, Li Xue had torn them apart with her bare hands!