"Later I sought him out, but he reneged!" The female ghost's sorrow grew as she spoke, and her voice swelled with resentment. "He knelt before me, begging for my forgiveness, begging for his life, saying he didn't want to die. He also promised me that he wouldn't take any girl in this lifetime and that he would burn paper offerings and incense for me on holidays. I didn't agree, I said he had to be with me and gave him three days to decide. Actually, if he was willing to take his own life, I would still have been willing to be ghostly spouses with him; if he truly didn't want to, I would have let it be, only able to blame my own foolishness! Who knew..."

Suddenly, the female ghost sobbed uncontrollably, her wails eerie and resentful, causing the old man standing by to feel his skin crawl.

After crying for a while, the female ghost coughed lightly and continued, "Who knew when I came to find him three days later, he had already taken on an Onmyoji passing through the area as his master. He lied to his master, telling him I had been pestering him for months, so I was subdued by his master and sealed inside the well."

"He's a real scumbag!" Tang Jing said indignantly.

Chen Hao sighed sympathetically, feeling a bit sorry for the pitiful female ghost before him. After a moment of grief, Chen Hao noticed something amiss and asked, "If you were sealed at the bottom of the well, how did you know he didn't die later on?"

"His master told me!" the female ghost explained, her tone returning to the icy coldness of before.

"His master? Wasn't it his master who sealed you in the well initially? How did he end up telling you all this?" Chen Hao asked, utterly puzzled.

"That was ten years after I had been sealed in the well!" the female ghost recalled. "One day, his master's Yin Soul suddenly appeared at the edge of the well to find me. He said he had come to apologize for being misled all those years ago and for sealing me in the well, also confessing that he had been poisoned by him and had all his Yang Energy taken away."

"He poisoned and killed his own master?" Chen Hao was shocked. He hadn't expected the man spoken of by the female ghost to have not only broken his promise but also committed the heinous act of betraying and murdering his benefactor—a man who embodies every conceivable vice. If, as the female ghost claimed, that man was still alive today, then he must have committed numerous unspeakable deeds.

"Exactly!" the female ghost's voice had shed all traces of sadness and had become unmistakably angry. "His master told me that not long before, he had discovered that the man was secretly practicing a forbidden spell that would grant eternal life. His original plan was to strip away the man's Yang Energy and expel him from the sect, but he was unexpectedly poisoned by him and had all his Mana taken away before dying."

"Bastard!" Tang Jing shouted furiously.

Chen Hao's eyes gleamed as he turned to Tang Jing with a somewhat bewildered look and asked, "Tang Jing, you?"

"I'm cursing that man, not calling you!"

Chen Hao gave an embarrassed, wry smile.

At that moment, Ye Yuqiao could not help laughing out loud, internally mocking Chen Hao, "Have you come to associate yourself with the word 'bastard'?"

Chen Hao turned his head towards Ye Yuqiao, putting on an unhappy face, and then reached out to pinch Ye Yuqiao's cheek, thinking to himself, "What's so funny? If I'm a bastard, then you're the bastard's girlfriend, and you'll have to be the bastard's wife in the future."

Ye Yuqiao suddenly stopped laughing, her expression turning strange as she stared at Chen Hao. Then, a faint sadness crossed her face.

"What's wrong? Girlfriend, did I say something wrong?"

Ye Yuqiao pursed her lips, shook her head and looked at Chen Hao affectionately, "If possible, I would be willing to be the bastard's wife someday."

Hearing Ye Yuqiao's unexpected confession, Chen Hao's heart blossomed with joy, but soon a frown crossed his face. He became uneasy at her words "if possible," feeling as though Ye Yuqiao was hiding something from him.

"Don't overthink it," Ye Yuqiao said with a faint smile on her face, "Boyfriend, I believe we will be together until our eternity belongs to us."

"What's the name of that scumbag?" Tang Jing asked the female vengeful spirit, her tone still full of anger.

The female ghost snorted angrily, then screamed, "His surname is Lu, first name Jin, courtesy name Pengfei."

"Lu Jin?" Tang Jing muttered the name, falling into deep thought. After a while, she looked towards Chen Hao and asked, "Bastard, is there any forbidden yin-yang magic that can make someone immortal in this world?"

"Wasn't the Five Elements Reincarnation cycle that Wang Chuan launched recently just that?"

"Looks like this scumbag named Lu Jin practices Yin Yang Five Elements Magic, same as Xie Xiaofeng, no wonder people who practice this kind of spell are up to no good," Tang Jing muttered angrily. As she spoke, suddenly a sharp light flashed in her eyes and, looking around, she asked, "By the way, where is Xie Xiaofeng? Hasn't he come up from the well yet?"

"Oh right!" Chen Hao also realized this problem, "Oh no, he didn't drown in the well, did he?"

"Are you talking about the young man who could transform into water and fire just now?" the female vengeful spirit asked.

"Yes, yes, that's him, did you see him just now?"

"Had it not been for him, I wouldn't have been forced to flee the well and manage to catch that mermaid," the female ghost said coldly, "He's probably gone to chase that mermaid by now, right?"

At this moment, Chen Hao's gaze had pierced through the bottom of the well, looking in the direction of the dark current.

After a long time, he still hadn't seen Xie Xiaofeng's figure and guessed whether Xie Xiaofeng really had gone after the mermaid.

"It's also possible he was captured by the mermaid," Ye Yuqiao said thoughtfully, "Boyfriend, I can remember the scent on that fish person's body. Let's handle this female ghost first, and then we can search for Xie Xiaofeng at the bottom of the well."

"Hmm!" Chen Hao agreed, his brow deeply furrowed. Then, leading Ye Yuqiao towards the female ghost, he asked, "By the way, do you know what's the deal with this mermaid?"

"Mermaid? You mean that mermaid spirit? I don't know much about her, only that she comes here every seven days, as if she's looking for someone. If not for her, the villagers wouldn't have mistaken it for a haunting, and that Onmyoji wouldn't have accidentally released the seal that had been locking me up for over three hundred years, would he?"

"What!" the old man suddenly exclaimed in alarm, "Are you saying that you weren't exorcised by that Onmyoji that day, but rather he accidentally released you?"

The female ghost laughed grimly up at the sky, saying, "With his little skill, he wished to exorcise me. If not for that mermaid spirit coming out to stop me that day, I would've drowned him in the well long ago."

"Old fellow, we weren't wrong, that Wu surname guy is just a half-baked Onmyoji. He not only failed to get rid of the ghost, but he also caused the death of a villager!" Chen Hao said to the old man.

The old man was so angry that he stomped his feet.

After a pause, Chen Hao extended his right hand palm towards the female ghost, readying to send her spirit to the afterlife...

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