Evil of all ages

Chapter 108 The Path to Death Has Been Taken
Zhao Guanghe looked Huang Yu'er up and down, and he couldn't help but marvel at how much Huang Yu'er resembled the Holy Maiden; they were practically identical.

He felt much more at ease now. The journey from the capital to here by boat took two days. During those two days, everything was calm and nothing unusual happened.

This shows that the legend of the Ghost King in the Southern City Prison is an exaggeration, and the Ghost King's daughter is just an ordinary girl.

Zhu Qiucai saw the Third Elder give him a look, and he understood, but he still didn't dare to touch the Ghost King's daughter. Instead, he turned to Huang Mang and gave him a look.

Huang Mang understood, and gave Huang Yu'er a push from behind, pushing her forward.

"Why...why did you arrest me?"

Huang Yu'er asked in a panic.

“A substitute, I want you to become her substitute.”

Zhao Guanghe pointed at Wei Qianlan and said to Huang Yu'er.

"I...I don't want to be a substitute, I want to go home, please, let me go home."

Huang Yu'er's performance was incredibly realistic, conveying a range of emotions from tears to a desperate plea born of fear.

"Wipe away your tears for this old man?"

Zhao Guanghe hated crying the most, even though he knew it was normal for a thirteen-year-old girl to cry out of fear after being captured.

But he couldn't stand seeing that Huang Yu'er and the Holy Maiden looked exactly alike.

Hearing the angry shout, Huang Yu'er seemed to be frightened. After she came to her senses, she tremblingly wiped away her tears.

"Now you only have two choices: either become her stand-in, or you can leave, but we'll peel this human face off you."

Zhao Guanghe gave him a choice between two options.

Upon hearing that the face would be peeled off, Huang Yu'er turned pale with fright; this was an effect she had achieved using drugs.

"I'll give you half a quarter of an hour to consider. Answer me immediately when the time is up."

Zhao Guanghe turned his gaze away and gave the Holy Maiden a look. The Holy Maiden shakily sat back down in her study spot and continued doing her homework.

In the blink of an eye, half an hour had passed, and Zhao Guanghe's gaze shifted back to Huang Yu'er.

“I can be her stand-in, but I have two conditions.”

Huang Yu'er said, as if she had suppressed her fear and mustered her courage.

"What conditions?"

Zhao Guanghe originally wanted to refuse, but since the other party had mustered up the courage to say that they wanted two conditions, he wanted to hear what conditions they wanted to propose.

If the conditions he proposes are difficult to meet, he will ignore them directly; if they are simple, he will decide whether to grant them based on the circumstances.

“I want him to be my servant. He must do whatever I want him to do, and he is not allowed to disobey my orders.”

Huang Yu'er pointed at Huang Mang and said.

Upon hearing this, Huang Mang's face turned pale. He thought that Huang Yu'er resented him for capturing her and wanted him to be her servant, but in fact, she wanted to torture him.

"OK"

Upon hearing this condition, Huang Mang, being an insignificant nobody, figured that since Huang Yu'er was so vengeful, why not just send him to her to torment her?

Seeing that his fate had been decided by others and that he could not struggle against it, Huang Mang turned the rice bucket he was carrying on his back to the front.

Eating rice in front of everyone was like being tortured to death; he wanted to die a full-bodied ghost.

In most people's eyes, he was an insignificant person, and they selectively ignored his actions.

Only Huang Yu'er paid close attention to Huang Mang. In his previous life, Huang Mang had talents that others did not have. As long as he could eat his fill, he could make rapid progress.

It's as if he became stronger by eating.

"What's the second condition?"

Zhao Guanghe asked.

“I’m really worried about my third brother going to be a ghostwriter. My second condition is that you have to arrange for a skilled person to protect him in secret.”

Huang Yu'er said.

“Alright, I will arrange for a martial artist at the early stage of the Acquired Realm to protect him in secret.”

Although this would require a lot of manpower, Huang Yu'er's third brother, who was secretly protecting her, also effectively controlled Huang Yu'er's family.

It was used as leverage to coerce Huang Yu'er into obeying.

"Not enough, we need two, and both of them must be at the peak of the acquired realm."

Huang Yu'er knew it was impossible to get the White Lotus Sect to send out a Xiantian expert, so she could only ask for the minimum standard.

"Two people at the peak of the day after tomorrow? Do you think that's possible?" Zhao Guanghe's expression turned cold.

“I’m worth the price. I’m not just an ordinary substitute, I’m a substitute for your saintess.”

"I have no freedom, but I'll protect your Holy Maiden from calamities at any time. I'd rather trade my life for two peak-stage acquired martial artists to protect my third brother."

"If even this cannot be met, how can you expect me to dutifully act as a substitute?"

Huang Yu'er said, using herself as a bargaining chip.

"Alright, I agree, but remember what you said: you're trading your life for these."

“If you don’t do a good job as a stand-in, I won’t punish you, but I will cut off your third brother’s toes and fingers as punishment.”

"Make a mistake, cut off one finger; cut off all ten fingers, cut off the toes; cut off all the toes, cut off all the limbs..."

In order to make Huang Yu'er obey, Zhao Guanghe blatantly used Huang Yu'er's third brother to blackmail her.

Huang Yu'er indicated that she understood, but Zhao Guanghe had already decided to die in her eyes.

"follow me"

Zhao Guanghe told the Holy Maiden to continue her studies, and then he took Huang Yu'er to the next room.

"I'll give you three days to memorize all of this information and recognize all the characters."

Zhao Guanghe ordered his assassins to bring over a bunch of documents and portraits, his first step being to have Huang Yu'er identify all the high-ranking members of the White Lotus Cult.

Zhao Guanghe's idea of ​​getting to know everyone in three days was actually a way of making things difficult for Huang Yu'er.

He wanted to use this to establish his prestige, so that Huang Yu'er would fear him and respect him as if he were a god.

Seeing so much information and portraits, Huang Yu'er looked troubled, but in her heart she found it amusing.

Trying to make things difficult for her won't work; she's someone who's lived a second life.

Zhao Guanghe seemed oblivious to the difficulty on Huang Yu'er's face. He pulled out a martial arts manual, saying it was the secret manual of the Holy Maiden's cultivation, and told Huang Yu'er to memorize it within three days.

Memorize it, then teach her how to cultivate.

"From now on, you will eat and sleep with the Holy Maiden. You will have to learn and imitate her interests, hobbies, and mannerisms."

After Zhao Guanghe finished speaking, he left.

After Zhao Guanghe left, Huang Yu'er still pretended to look through the documents and portraits.

"As expected, it's still the seventh floor."

After quickly reviewing the rest, I finally turned to the Imperial Secret Manual left behind by Zhao Guanghe.

Huang Yu'er was disappointed. Just like in her previous life, she was only given seven levels. You should know that the Imperial World Technique has a total of thirteen levels.

"No rush, it's only the first day, there's still a long way to go."

Just as Huang Yu'er was thinking about what to do next.

A tiny head peeked out of the window like a groundhog.

They're incredibly cute.

"Sister, Grand Tutor Zhao is not in the manor. He left by boat. Come out and play with me."

Wei Qianlan called for Huang Yu'er to come out and play.

Upon hearing this, Huang Yu'er felt a strange mix of emotions. How did her target for revenge become this simple, playful little guy?

"Sister, kite, let's fly a kite."

Wei Qianlan stood by the window, holding two kites high and waving them, gesturing for Huang Yu'er to see.

Seeing that Huang Yu'er did not respond, she looked at Huang Yu'er with her big, watery eyes, hoping that Huang Yu'er would play with her.

"Let's see if you're faking it; you really are naive."

This is Huang Yu'er's heartfelt sentiment.

Immediately afterwards, she got up and walked out of the room.

Naïve people are the easiest to deceive, and she wanted to try to trick Wei Qianlan into giving her the next part of the Huangshi Jue cultivation method.

If you can't fool her, then it means Wei Qianlan is faking it; she's still that scheming woman.

If the deception is successful, then...

(End of this chapter)