Hearing Xie Xiaofeng praise his painting as not bad, the ghost boy, who had been hostile towards him and the world, was momentarily stunned, and by the time he came to, tears were streaming down his face.

"Do you really think I painted well?" the ghost boy asked, looking at Xie Xiaofeng. His eyes were filled with a longing for affirmation.

Xie Xiaofeng nodded firmly, "I really think so, especially the eyes, they're so lifelike, I don't know how you managed to do it."

The ghost boy scratched his head and laughed awkwardly; it was the first time Xie Xiaofeng had seen him smile, and also the first time he had smiled since becoming a ghost.

Xie Xiaofeng, Ye Yuqiao, and Chen Hao, who was watching from a distance with Nether Vision, had not expected that a malevolent ghost with such deep resentment could smile so innocently and purely, especially after it had killed so many people.

Indeed, children will always be children, no matter when, and no matter whether they are human or ghost, their hearts always remain pure and simple.

At that moment, Ye Yuqiao could feel that the resentment around the ghost boy had suddenly decreased by dozens of times.

All he had ever needed was just an affirmation and an encouragement. Regrettably, during his lifetime, his mom and dad never fulfilled such a simple request, leading to such a great tragedy.

After smiling, the ghost boy explained to Xie Xiaofeng, "Because ever since I was little, my teacher told me that the eyes are the windows to the soul, that the eyes are always sincere, so I've always liked to observe people's eyes."

"If you're so good at observing people's eyes, then you should know that my compliment about your painting came from the heart."

The ghost boy nodded with a smile, "I know, that's why I'm very happy."

"Then can you tell big brother how you hide inside people's eyes? Are people's eyes like a door? And you can just open that door?"

The ghost boy shook his head blankly, and said disheartenedly, "Big brother, I'm sorry, I don't know either. Whenever I look into eyes, I can see the world inside them, and then I just go in, but I don't know how I go in."

"This is probably because you've been observing people's eyes for a long time," Xie Xiaofeng explained while stroking the ghost boy's head.

The ghost boy nodded with a smile. Suddenly, his face darkened, and he asked in a low, ashamed voice, "Big brother, I've done so many wrong things, are you all going to punish me now?"

"This..." Xie Xiaofeng did not know how to answer. He felt reluctant to send the ghost boy to Hell to be punished; however, if he just let the ghost boy off, he felt it would be unfair to the innocent young people who had died at his hands.

Thus, Xie Xiaofeng turned his gaze to Ye Yuqiao, leaving the decision to the cold-hearted Ye Yuqiao.

Ye Yuqiao glared at Xie Xiaofeng, then sent a secret message to Chen Hao, "Boyfriend, what do you think we should do?"

"This..." Chen Hao was equally troubled.

"Hurry up and say something. You're my most admired boyfriend. Think of a perfect solution that will make the best of both worlds, don't let me down!"

"Naughty, when have you ever admired me!" Chen Hao muttered. But quickly, he thought of a solution.

"The Zhao Residence should be able to support a future painter, right?"

"You mean to hand him over to Zhao Chong?"

"Yeah, exactly, just punish him so he cannot be reincarnated, and let him be a painter in the Zhao Residence."

Ye Yuqiao's eyebrows furrowed slightly.

...

A quarter of an hour later, Ye Yuqiao and Xie Xiaofeng brought the ghost boy to the hospital room where Li Xiulian was, where three doctors in the office had already fainted from fear.

"Pengpeng!" Seeing the Yin Soul of her son approaching, Li Xiulian was very excited.

Just as Xie Xiaofeng was about to remove the vines from Li Xiulian, the ghost child hurriedly grabbed his arm to stop him, saying, "Brother, please let me say goodbye to my mother like this!"

Startled, Xie Xiaofeng realized the ghost child still harbored resentment towards his mother.

Thereafter, the ghost child took two steps forward, stopping about a meter away from Li Xiulian.

He didn't want to get too close to her!

"Mom, I'm going to leave now. This sister promised me that she would take me to a place where I can draw and play every day," the ghost child said politely and respectfully to Li Xiulian as he bid her farewell.

It was precisely this politeness and respect that betrayed the resentment he held in his heart towards Li Xiulian. However, for an eleven-year-old child, he had acted maturely and done well enough.

"Pengpeng, come over here and let Mom take a good look at you one last time, let Mom hug you once more!" Li Xiulian pleaded.

The ghost child shook his head, smiling, "Mom, I'm sorry, I can't agree to that. Every time you come near, I get scared, I always feel like you're about to scold me or hit me."

"Pengpeng, I'm sorry, it was Mom who wronged you before! I shouldn't have put so much pressure and restriction on you; your grades were already good enough, I should have been proud of you! Mom was wrong, truly wrong, please, let Mom hug you one more time?" Li Xiulian sobbed.

After hearing this, Xie Xiaofeng couldn't help but sigh. He thought if only Li Xiulian had realized this earlier, they wouldn't be facing such a heartbreaking ending now.

But there was no medicine for regret in this world, one must act sooner rather than later.

After a moment of hesitation, the ghost child still shook his head and then looked at Xie Xiaofeng, saying, "Brother, take me away!"

"Are you really set on leaving just like that?" Xie Xiaofeng questioned.

"Yes!" the ghost child said with a smile, nodding his head, "Everyone who does something wrong must face punishment, Mom did wrong, so she must accept her punishment, this is her punishment."

"You really make a convincing case!" Xie Xiaofeng said with a laugh, then he took out a Soul-collecting Bottle and sucked the ghost child into it.

He needed to cleanse the resentment off the ghost child with the Soul-collecting Bottle before handing him over to Zhao Chong, otherwise the child's resentment in the Netherworld would arouse suspicion.

Watching the ghost child being gradually sucked into the Soul-collecting Bottle, Li Xiulian screamed in agony, "No!"

..

Ten minutes later.

After leaving the psychiatric hospital with the ghost child's Yin Soul, Xie Xiaofeng drove to the edge of the Yang Wood Forest where Chen Hao was cultivating.

After parking the car, Xie Xiaofeng turned to Ye Yuqiao and said, "Goddess, would you like to get out of the car and see Chen Hao?"

Ye Yuqiao shook her head.

"We're here already, you should go see him. Moreover, he contributed to this case too, so you could give him our compliments on our behalf. It's really bizarre, the guy is in seclusion and he's still involved in our affairs, next time we definitely should keep him in the dark."

"I didn't say I wasn't going to see him," Ye Yuqiao said expressionlessly, "Let's go to the town first and buy some food, he hasn't eaten anything for three days."

"That's what I thought, how could lovers in the heat of passion not meet."

Before long, Ye Yuqiao walked into the Yang Wood Forest alone with a bag of food.

At this time, danger was slowly drawing near to her and Chen Hao in the Yang Wood Forest.

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