"Xiao Yi, come down for dinner!" a voice suddenly called from downstairs.
Before Xing Yuan could react, the girl sobbed again, "I, I'm sorry to my parents! How heartbroken they'll be if they find out I'm dead!" She then looked pleadingly at Xing Yuan, "Can you help me? My name is Wu Yi, and I'm an only child. I only chose to end my life on impulse."
Xing Yuan wasn't particularly interested in why Wu Yi had died. She now regretted choosing such a body; she should have investigated the person thoroughly before possessing them.
But the voice downstairs grew louder and louder. Hearing no response from above, Wu Yi's mother began to walk upstairs. Xing Yuan, with no other choice, opened the door and replied, "Coming right down!"
They shared the same body, with identical physical characteristics, which did not arouse any suspicion from Wu Yi's mother. No one would have imagined that their daughter, after a night's sleep, had been eerily possessed and transformed into someone else.
As Xing Yuan walked downstairs, Wu Yi, inside the body's mind, chattered on about her habits, even trying to teach her how to eat. Xing Yuan, at her wit's end, directly kicked Wu Yi out.
Wu Yi's vision went black, and soon, light returned. Wu Yi looked at her hands and feet. Had she regained control of her body? Wu Yi looked at her gentle mother and couldn't help but rush forward and hug her tightly.
Her voice was muffled, and her eyes were red. "Mom, I was wrong!"
Wu Yi's mother gently hugged her back. After a long moment, they separated.
Wu Yi's mother said with a face full of tenderness, "Alright! Mom knows Xiao Yi loves braised pork the most, so I made it especially for you. Mom was also impulsive yesterday. Xiao Yi, please forgive your mother! If you truly like him, then go for it! Mom supports you!"
Hearing this, Wu Yi's guilt deepened. Her mother was so good to her, yet she argued with her all day because of Qi Ling. Yesterday, after seeing Qi Ling cheat, she couldn't bear it and chose to commit suicide. From today onwards, her love had died.
"Speak quickly if you have something to say. Your soul is too weak to occupy a body for too long, or you'll vanish into thin air. Don't say I didn't warn you." Xing Yuan didn't consider herself a good person, but she wouldn't casually take someone's life.
In their cultivation world, the stronger one's power, the more they valued karma. During tribulation, all the wrongdoings one had committed would come back to haunt them. Therefore, no one would kill indiscriminately without reason, as what goes around comes around.
"Got it!" Wu Yi wiped her tears and replied instinctively.
"Xiao Yi, you, who were you talking to just now?" Wu Yi's mother looked at the inexplicably behaving Wu Yi, feeling a bit worried. Had some unclean entity entered the house?
"It's nothing. I mean, I know how to handle my relationship with Qi Ling. I'm going to talk to him properly!" Wu Yi quickly covered up her tracks.
Wu Yi's mother nodded, believing her. The mother and daughter sat at the dining table and began to eat.
After only a few bites, Wu Yi felt another wave of dizziness, and then she was once again trapped within the body.
However, this time she felt no resentment, but rather gratitude. If not for this strange entity, she might never have avenged herself and would have only brought sorrow to her loved ones and joy to her enemies.
Xing Yuan ate a few bites and then put down her chopsticks, returning upstairs.
"Can you help me get revenge?" Wu Yi asked cautiously. The only one who could help her now was likely this strange entity that had inexplicably appeared and brought her back from the dead.
"Yes, but I have a condition!" Xing Yuan agreed. Since she had occupied someone's body, helping them get revenge was only right.
"What condition? Can I do it?" Wu Yi lowered her head in self-deprecation. What did she have that could be traded?
"After I help you get revenge, this body will be mine to use. In exchange, I promise to return the body to you after I've done what I need to do."
Xing Yuan wasn't entirely satisfied with this body herself, but with limited options, she had to make do. Once she successfully condensed a new body, she would return this one to her.
Wu Yi nodded in surprise and joy. Even if Xing Yuan forcibly occupied her body, she would have no power to resist. The fact that Xing Yuan was willing to help her get revenge already made her happy, let alone the promise to return the body later.
Although Wu Yi didn't know how long Xing Yuan would take to finish her business, she was willing to wait!
"Alright! The contract is made! Tell me! What revenge do you want me to help you with?"
Though it was difficult to speak of, Wu Yi recounted her story. Wu Yi had been a model student since childhood, with excellent grades! In high school, she met a school bully, Qi Ling, and they secretly started dating, hiding it from their families.
At first, Wu Yi was terrified, but she felt happy with Qi Ling. However, after Wu Yi went to college, their relationship gradually faded.
After the resurgence of supernatural beings, Qi Ling, through some unknown opportunity, became a ghost catcher. Although he didn't get into the Ghost Extermination Division, he did possess some ability. In this era, ghost catchers held a status above all other professions, and Qi Ling's personality gradually became arrogant, surrounded by various beautiful women.
Wu Yi, naturally introverted, became increasingly insecure under the scrutinizing gazes of those around her. Just yesterday, Wu Yi received a text message stating Qi Ling's location at a hotel, room number, with another woman.
Even though Wu Yi knew this was likely a provocation from that woman, and knew that if she went, there would be no possibility left between her and Qi Ling, she still went. Perhaps she had long realized their relationship had soured and wanted to end it.
Therefore, after catching Qi Ling in the act, Wu Yi resolutely broke up with him.
Qi Ling, naked, slowly lit a cigarette and looked at Wu Yi without any remorse, his words chilling her to the bone. "Xiao Yi, stop making a scene! With my current status and position, I can't possibly have only one woman. Just accept it! At most, I'll buy you a few more bags. Don't women like these things?"
Wu Yi trembled, looking at the man she had loved for years, feeling like her sincere affection had been wasted.
"Scumbag! You compare me to these people?" Wu Yi, tears streaming down her face, ran home.
Wu Yi's mother was already in a bad mood that day due to work. Seeing her daughter so weak and incompetent, she scolded Wu Yi harshly again.
Normally, Wu Yi wouldn't have taken it to heart, but at that moment, having just accepted that the man she loved was a scumbag, her heart was already fragile. After returning to her room, she became more and more distraught and eventually committed suicide by slitting her wrists.