Rules of the Strange: I Became a God in a Bizarre World Through Taoist Arts

As Shen Xingzhuo spoke, she raised her hand and gently touched her chest.

After entering the world of ghost stories, she lived out Pei Yin's life under her identity. Although her tone was calm during the narration, she knew that she felt sorry for this girl.

After all, everything she experienced and resolved in the ghost stories was something that actually happened to Pei Yin, but she was powerless to change it.

"The story continues..."

"Liu Jin ruined Pei Yin's reputation, forcing her to endlessly bear children within this mansion. At the same time, Liu Jin also destroyed her only remaining supporter, her own brother Pei Zhao. One of the siblings is mentally impaired, and the other is heartbroken. They will never be able to step out of the Pei mansion again in their lives."

"Pei Yin is unhappy."

Her unhappiness was noticed by her eldest daughter, Pei Xi...

Shen Xingzhuo paused for a moment, then noticed out of the corner of her eye that Pei Xi had a strange expression on her face, as if she was recalling some painful past.

"This is the first time someone in the Pei family has 'awakened'."

"They were not bound by the old customs of the Pei family, nor were they brainwashed by the villain Liu Jin."

So what? Even if she were conscious, it wouldn't make a difference, would it? At most, it would just be another life given to those treacherous and cunning people. Utterly foolish!

The ghost story satirized it.

Shen Xingzhu chuckled softly.

"Her awakening is a new opportunity given to the Pei family by heaven to uphold the old rules. Even if it is like a moth drawn to a flame or a drop in the ocean, the times need pioneers."

"What she did was ultimately seen by the world, and it was you who brought it to the world's attention."

[Shen Xingzhuo, the chosen one, sometimes accepting fate is the true destiny.]

The words in the ghost stories are full of profound meaning.

Shen Xingzhuo held back for a moment, but in the end, she still rolled her eyes in an unseemly manner.

"Xi'er was the first to notice that Pei Yin was unhappy," Shen Xingzhuo's voice softened. "Not because she's smart, but because she cares."

Pei Xi blinked.

"It's a child's nature to care for their mother. But in the Pei household, nature is forbidden. Liu Jin doesn't need children with feelings; he only needs obedient pawns. Xi'er refuses to obey, so—"

Shen Xingzhuo paused for a moment.

"So Liu Jin killed her with his own hands."

Shen Xingzhuo spoke these words in a very calm tone. But Pei Xi's body trembled violently.

"It wasn't an accident, it wasn't a death from illness, it was Liu Jin who did it. He used Xi'er's life to show Pei Yin what happens to disobedient children."

"Xi'er was only six years old when she died."

Shen Xingzhuo's voice finally cracked slightly.

"Before she died, the last thing she looked at wasn't Liu Jin, but Pei Yin. The direction she was looking was in the direction where Pei Yin was imprisoned."

"So her obsession isn't about hating Liu Jin, it's about wanting to grow up."

"She wants to grow up and protect her mother."

Pei Xi's eyes reddened. She didn't cry; the child who died at six had long forgotten how to cry. But her lips trembled, her small body trembled, and she looked like a leaf about to fall apart in the wind.

"After she died, her soul was trapped in the Pei mansion. Liu Jin used evil magic to lock her soul near the secluded courtyard, preventing her from leaving or being reincarnated. She just floated there, watching Pei Yin get pregnant, give birth, and lose her children again and again, watching Liu Jin take away her younger siblings one by one, and watching the people in this mansion rot away one by one."

"There's nothing she can do."

"She's too young."

Shen Xingzhu squatted down to be at eye level with Pei Xi.

"But you didn't give up, did you?"