Suddenly, Yue Hua looked outside the courtyard in shock, her lips constantly moving, but no sound could be uttered.
Zi Lin Ling, in her soul state, followed her gaze and noticed two figures outside the courtyard, who had appeared at some point without them realizing.
A man and a woman, holding hands intimately, with happy smiles radiating from their faces, walked slowly past the fence.
The man looked exactly like Chi Lang from more than twenty years ago, showing no signs of aging. Su Dan Novel Network
This is… Chi Lang's reincarnation?!
It must be!
After all, Yue Hua had personally buried Chi Lang more than twenty years ago, so there was no other explanation than reincarnation.
The woman beside Chi Lang was very beautiful and exuded a gentle aura.
Indeed, the couple was a perfect match, a beautiful bride and a talented groom.
Watching them being so affectionate, tears welled up in Yue Hua's eyes, blurring her vision.
Soon, tears streamed down her cheeks, forming droplets that hung from her chin.
The tears grew larger and larger, eventually falling to the ground uncontrollably.
"Plop!"
The teardrops landed on the ground, scattering and making a clear sound.
Immediately after, the tears that had filled Yue Hua's eyes surged like a breached dam, each one shattering on the ground, instantly soaking a patch of the ground.
"Chi... Chi... Chi Lang..."
A trembling voice escaped her throat and reached the ears of the two figures outside the courtyard.
Chi Lang's body stiffened noticeably.
He looked in their direction, his eyes filled with unfamiliarity and confusion.
Yue Hua lunged forward.
She wanted to embrace the man she had longed for for twenty years and pour out the waiting and affection of these past years.
However...
She grasped at empty air!
The moment she lunged, Chi Lang dodged.
Chi Lang looked at Yue Hua coldly and said, "Young lady, I do not know you. Please have some self-respect!"
Upon hearing this, Yue Hua stumbled back two steps, disbelief etched on her face. "Chi Lang, what... what are you saying? You... don't recognize me?"
Chi Lang nodded. "Young lady, I truly do not know you!"
"..."
Yue Hua's vision went black, and she nearly collapsed to the ground.
Her heart ached as if being torn apart. "Chi Ming Yan, I waited for you for twenty years, and you say you don't know me?"
A flicker of displeasure crossed Chi Ming Yan's eyes. He said righteously, "Young lady, you have the wrong person. My name is indeed Chi Ming Yan, but twenty years ago, I was still in swaddling clothes. How could I possibly know you?"
Yue Hua paused, her heart filled with bitterness. "Twenty years ago, I personally buried your remains. If you reincarnated immediately, what would be impossible about that?"
Chi Ming Yan was taken aback, then said indignantly, "Nonsense! Young lady, do not provoke the love between my wife and me here!"
"Furthermore, even if there was a connection between us in a past life, what of it? Now that I have been reborn, I have no ties to my past life. Therefore, please have some self-respect!"
The light in Yue Hua's eyes completely dimmed.
"Through this life and the next, never apart!"
The vows of eternal love still echoed in her ears, but the present betrayal was a bitter mockery.
"Ha! Haha! Hahaha!"
Yue Hua's sorrowful laughter echoed above the bamboo hut.
Her true love had been misplaced, and her tears were uncontrollable!
Twenty years of waiting, twenty years of longing, were nothing but a joke!
Chi Ming Yan was so unnerved by the laughter that he cursed, "Crazy woman," and moved to pull his current wife away.
Yue Hua's laughter abruptly stopped. She coldly called out, "Chi Ming Yan, stop!"
Chi Ming Yan turned back, enraged. "Crazy woman, what do you want?"
Yue Hua said sternly, "I ask you one more time, do you acknowledge everything from your past life? Do you acknowledge your daughter?"
Chi Ming Yan angrily replied, "Past events vanished like smoke the moment I reincarnated. How can I acknowledge them?"
Yue Hua sneered, "Very well! Since that is the case, then you must repay what you owe me!"
As she spoke, the temperature around her rapidly dropped.
Her elaborately pinned hair instantly unraveled and, at a visible rate, turned blood red.
Her ruby-red lips were covered by ink-black color, and wisps of dark demonic energy surged from her body.
"Chi Ming Yan, I could abandon my demonic nature and become human for you back then. Today, I can transform into a demon once more! Since you have forgotten our vows, you must bear the price of betraying them."
"In the name of the Witch, I decree the creation of the City of Repentance, where all faithless men in the world shall be imprisoned to atone for their sins for all eternity!"
As Yue Hua's voice faded, the bamboo hut behind her transformed into a colossal city.
"Chi Ming Yan, you shall repent well within the City of Repentance!"
As Yue Hua finished speaking, four black chains shot out from the City of Repentance.
Before Chi Ming Yan could react, he was tightly bound by the chains and dragged deep into the City of Repentance.
"Chi Lang..."
Chi Ming Yan's current wife, jolted back to reality, cried out anxiously and lunged towards the City of Repentance.
"You want to join him in there? Dream on!"
Yue Hua grabbed the woman by the neck and ended her life.
"You Niang!"
Chi Ming Yan's heartbroken cry echoed from within the City of Repentance. "Crazy woman, you will die a terrible death!"
Yue Hua sneered, "Die a terrible death? Chi Ming Yan, let me show you something!"
She said, flicking her finger to send out a beam of ethereal light.
The light, hitting its mark perfectly, struck Chi Ming Yan in the center of his brow.
Chi Ming Yan's head felt as if it had been shattered, and blood streamed from his eyes from the intense pain.
Then, memories of his past life surged back like a tide.
Chi Ming Yan finally recalled that Yue Hua was no mortal; she was the granddaughter of the Witch.
It turned out that shortly after the Nine Guardians sealed the Thirty-Three Demons with the Chaos Array, Feng Li Xi gave birth to a daughter named Witch.
And after the battle at the Ghost Altar, the Witch perished, leaving behind a posthumous daughter.
However, this posthumous daughter's heart was corrupted by demonic energy. Although saved by her grandmother, Feng Li Xi, she met a tragic end. After giving birth to Yue Hua, she too returned to the heavens.
Due to the influence of her mother's constitution, Yue Hua was born with the ability to transform into a demon.
Later, her mother, Feng Li Xi, was busy refining the Five-Colored Heaven Mending Stone and left the infant Yue Hua alone in the Feng Xi Space.
However, the maid who was supposed to look after Yue Hua accidentally lost her.
By the time Feng Li Xi finished refining the Five-Colored Heaven Mending Stone, Yue Hua had grown into an adult and had fallen in love with Chi Ming Yan. Furthermore, she had directly sealed her own aura.
Because of this, the two lived a life like ordinary people and vowed never to be separated in this life and the next.
Now, Chi Ming Yan's betrayal had completely ignited the demonic nature within Yue Hua.