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Chapter 606 The Woman's Face

"Waaah, Daddy, Mommy, I'm so afraid of the dark."

"Dad, Mom. Where are you? Yuanyuan is so scared..."

The little girl's voice trembled, filled with fear of her situation. The darkness of the night was like the sea, omnipresent and relentlessly eroding one's mind.

Jiang Wen walked up to the little girl, held up a candle, and quietly looked at her.

The little girl sensed something, looked up at him with teary eyes.

"Big, big brother. You're still here."

“I’ve always been here,” Jiang Wen said gently.

"But, but, my parents are gone..." the little girl sobbed. "Big brother, have you seen my parents?"

“They might have gone on business,” Jiang Wen comforted him. “Get a good night’s sleep; they’ll be back the next day.”

"Really?" the little girl asked, blinking her big eyes.

“It’s true.” Jiang Wen nodded.

"But I miss my parents so much. Big brother, can you take me to find them? I'm so scared. I feel like something is going to eat me." The little girl hugged her knees and muttered to herself, trembling all over and covered in cold sweat.

Just as Jiang Wen was about to say something more, he suddenly heard a banging sound outside the door.

The little girl screamed in fright and ran behind Jiang Wen: "Big, big brother. They're here! They've come to find me!"

"Who's looking for you?" Jiang Wen's face darkened as he looked towards the locked door.

The door, which appeared flimsy, was now tightly shut. No matter how much something outside tried to break it open, it couldn't.

"It's them, those horrible things. They pretend to be my parents and trick me into opening the door," the girl explained softly.

Sure enough, a hoarse voice came from outside. It was a voice that could mimic the homeowner's speech, calling out to the people inside.

"Yuanyuan, my Yuanyuan. Daddy's back, open the door for Daddy quickly."

"Yuan'er, it's your mother. Your father and mother want to go home, please open the door for them."

The voice was similar, but a bit hoarse. It didn't resemble the homeowner's at all, and instead seemed rather strange.

The little girl, hiding behind Jiang Wen, seemed to feel a little safer. She mustered her courage and shouted at the things outside, "Get away from me! You're not my parents, you're bad things! You want to eat me!"

There was silence outside, followed by more rapid thuds.

Even the pillars supporting the gate were pushed back repeatedly, barely able to withstand the violent impact.

The little girl was so frightened that she grabbed Jiang Wen's sleeve and buried her head behind him.

"How scary, how scary. Yuanyuan misses her parents. Why haven't they come back yet?"

Listening to the little girl's mutterings, Jiang Wen frowned. He knew the situation would only worsen, and eventually, the door wouldn't be able to be locked.

We must find a way to break the spell and awaken Liang Yuan's senses.

He tried to comfort the little girl, but she seemed not to hear him and continued talking to herself.

She kept calling out for her parents, constantly telling them that she wanted to go out and find them. That seemed to be her anchor, the unwavering conviction in her heart.

"Could something have happened that makes Liang Yuan keep thinking about this?" Jiang Wen pondered, and an idea came to him.

He looked out at the night sky and gently stroked the little girl's head, saying, "Since you miss your parents so much, let's go out and look for them."

"Really?!" The little girl looked up, her eyes sparkling. She was overjoyed and rubbed her red, tear-filled eyes vigorously.

"Big brother, are you really willing to take me to find my parents?" "Yes." Jiang Wen nodded and held up his little finger. "Pinky promise, big brother will definitely help you find your parents."

"Hook!"

The little girl hooked her pinky finger with hers, and the two of them swayed as they made a promise.

"Hang yourself with a hook, and it won't change for a hundred years."

After making the pinky promise, Jiang Wen couldn't help but ruffle the little girl's hair. Her hair was fluffy and felt really nice to the touch. It was hard to imagine that such a girl had been so adorable as a child.

After doing all that, he looked outside.

The sounds of banging outside the door had stopped; those things seemed to know that the people inside were about to come out.

They lurk in the darkness, quietly waiting for their chance.

Jiang Wen picked up the candle, took the little girl's hand, and walked to the door. Slowly, he pushed open the door, and the biting wind of the cold night rushed in.

"Hold your brother's hand tightly, and never let go no matter what," Jiang Wenchao said to the little girl.

"Yes, yes, Yuanyuan knows. Yuanyuan made a pinky promise with big brother, and she will never let go of big brother's hand." The little girl hugged Jiang Wen's hands tightly, as if she were holding the whole world in her hands. There was a bit of tension on her little face, but she relaxed a lot when she saw the candlelight.

Jiang Wen led the little girl slowly out of the house; outside, it was still endless darkness.

Only the candle in his hand, only this candle, can illuminate this small area.

Step by step, the two slowly walked towards the outside of the courtyard. Jiang Wen didn't know where Liang Yuan's parents were, so he could only grope his way through the darkness.

Perhaps in the darkness of night, he will find the answer he seeks.

Just as Jiang Wen opened the courtyard gate, a huge, fat woman's face appeared.

The face looked as if it had been sculpted with a knife, the skin and flesh clinging tightly to the jagged bones.

His skin was sallow, but his cheeks were unusually flushed with two oily red patches, like cheap rouge mixed with greasy sweat.

Her eyes drooped sharply at the corners, her eye bags were puffy and bluish-black, and her pupils were extremely small with too much white showing.

His eyes were cloudy, yet like poisoned needles, and when he looked at Jiang Wen and the little girl, he did so with undisguised calculation and disgust, as if looking at either of them was an act of charity.

Her lips were so thin they looked like two slits cut with a razor blade, pale in color, and were tightly pursed together. The corners of her mouth turned down in a deep, resentful, and contemptuous arc, as if everything in the world owed her a huge debt.

Several deep, knife-like nasolabial folds extended down from the sides of his nose, as if firmly imprisoning all the vicious curses that were about to escape his lips.

His entire face was etched with years of bitterness and meanness, every line of which held a deep-seated malice, making him look like someone who had crawled out of the deepest corner of a nightmare.

Jiang Wen's heart sank slightly as he looked at the enormous, vicious face. He raised the candle to meet its gaze, but saw only disgust and hatred on its face.

Before he could do anything, the fat, sharp-tongued woman spoke up: "My dear niece, where are you going? Your parents are gone, why don't you come to my house and be my son's child bride?"

"No, no, I don't want to!" the little girl cried out. "I don't want to be a child bride, I only want my parents."

"Your parents don't want you anymore, you can only stay with your aunt. Your aunt will definitely love you, as long as you become her child bride." The giant face said, grinning with a strange smile. Its huge mouth opened, and then a small head popped out.

It was a deformed, fat face with white eyes and spitting saliva. Its face twitched and bounced in the darkness, creating an incredibly bizarre sight.

"Hehe, okay, hehe, Sister Yuan will be my wife."

The fat man grinned foolishly as he continued to approach the two of them.

"Be my wife, be my wife—"

(End of this chapter)