Stop pretending, the fake heiress is actually a master of metaphysics.

Chapter 82 Ghost Banner

Just as she was about to strike a second time, Shen Yingjia suddenly opened her eyes.

His eyes became clear.

"Are you awake now?"

Shen Nian asked.

"I'm awake, I'm awake, stop hitting me, it hurts!"

Shen Yingjia covered half of her face and staggered to her feet.

"Sis... could you wake me up in a gentler way next time?"

Shen Nian gave him a cold glance, and Shen Yingjia didn't dare to speak.

"What's going on?"

Shen Nian asked.

Shen Yingjia shrank her neck: "Uh... well, they insisted on seeing ghosts, and Shen Yingwei said there was a way to do it."

"What method?"

"A... game of hide-and-seek."

"Playing hide-and-seek with ghosts? Are you guys crazy?"

Shen Nian scolded, "Didn't I tell you before I left not to play those kinds of games?"

"Shen Yingwei said she could protect us, and everyone except me agreed. I'm just afraid that something might happen and I won't be able to leave, but I can't argue with them..."

"So you got into trouble with them? Should I praise your righteousness or call you stupid?"

Shen Nian was at a loss for words.

Where is Shen Yingwei?

"I don't know, I haven't seen her since the game started."

Shen Nian then looked at the other people and found that they all had wooden plaques attached to their bodies as substitutes for their lives.

Now that things have come to this point, this matter is no longer just a grudge between Shen Nian and Shen Yingwei.

"Go and take the wooden plaques off them and put them in this bag."

As Shen Nian spoke, she took out an incense stick from her storage ring and lit it.

A wisp of smoke drifted out, carrying a refreshing fragrance that was completely different from the cold, damp, rotten, and musty smell inside the teaching building.

As soon as Shen Yingjia took away the protective talismans from them, she saw that the people on the ground had regained their senses.

"Shen Yingjia? You saved us?"

Shen Yingjia sneered: "I didn't save you, she did."

He felt a little resentful—why could these people be woken up so gently by Shen Nian just because they were lying on the ground?

He's clearly Shen Nian's younger brother!

Upon hearing this, the group looked up and gazed at Shen Nian, who was standing to the side.

One glance was enough to amaze me with her divine beauty.

If Shen Yingwei is already a beauty in the conventional sense, then Shen Nian's beauty transcends the conventional and is not something they can approach or defile.

"And this is...?"

Shen Yingjia snorted twice: "This is the person you just said you wanted to teach Shen Nian a lesson."

In an instant, their faces were like spilled condiments, a mixture of embarrassment, shock, and bewilderment.

Shen Nian raised an eyebrow: "Oh, is that so? Looks like Shen Yingwei has been trying to sow discord between me and others."

The group laughed awkwardly, "It was our fault. We believed her one-sided story. Miss Shen saved us today. We are deeply grateful and can never repay her kindness."

Shen Nian didn't have time for formalities and shoved the new talisman into Shen Yingjia's hands: "Get out of here, you netizens with your sister Yingwei. Don't get in the way."

"Don't go anywhere after you leave the teaching building, just wait for me on the playground."

That way, she won't cause trouble again if I don't keep an eye on her for a while.

Shen Yingjia took the protective charm and clutched it tightly in her hand: "Okay, we promise we won't run around!"

After saying that, he led the others and ran away in a flash.

Shen Nian rubbed her forehead, turned around, and pushed open the small door leading to the rooftop.

In my memory, this small door has been locked by the school since Zhou Wanqing jumped to her death, prohibiting anyone from entering.

Yes, Zhou Wanqing.

She told Shen Yu the name he replied with.

The original owner, Shen Nian, was a junior high school classmate of Shen Leyao.

Oh, saying they were classmates isn't quite accurate.

She and Shen Leyao used to be quite close.

She would help Shen Leyao bully Shen Nian, and no matter what Shen Leyao did, she would be the first to stand up for her and praise her.

In other words, he's a follower with a lot of emotional value and a good eye for people.

Shen Leyao treated her well too. She would buy luxury bags for herself and casually give the used ones to Zhou Wanqing, even though the so-called "used ones" were only used twice.

Zhou Wanqing came from a poor family, but she managed to thrive at school by clinging to Shen Leyao's coattails. Many of her classmates' parents' hard-earned annual salary was probably less than the value of a single bag that Shen Leyao gave her.

The better Shen Leyao treated her, the more hard she worked to bully Shen Nian.

She was very clever and knew how to use the wind to her advantage. The only mistake she ever made in her life was probably liking Shen Yu Hui, confessing her feelings to him, and trying to become the eldest daughter-in-law of the Shen family.

She thought that because she had been hanging out with Shen Leyao for so long, Shen Leyao would really start to treat her like a human being.

But for Shen Leyao, this was like a dog you casually fed a few buns suddenly having to become a human being, eat at the table, and even be your sister-in-law.

How could someone as proud as Shen Leyao tolerate this?

Although Shen Yu would never accept a middle school student's confession—even though he was only in high school at the time.

Even though they could never be together.

Zhou Wanqing also received retaliation from Shen Leyao, and it was quite severe.

At that time, she was even more miserable than Shen Nian had been, but Shen Nian did not sympathize with her.

Just because she herself becomes miserable doesn't erase the harm she caused Shen Nian in the past.

In the end, Zhou Wanqing dropped out of school, but Shen Leyao still felt it wasn't enough, so she spent money to hire a few thugs to ambush Zhou Wanqing.

Then... Zhou Wanqing got pregnant.

Perhaps out of sheer despair, she took a list of crimes—some of which were Shen Leyao's, and some of which were her own—in her pocket and climbed to the top floor of the junior high school building.

But reality disappointed her.

Her body was hastily sent for cremation. The Shen family only needed to pay a small amount of money to suppress the matter and prevent it from causing any trouble.

After all, Zhou Wanqing did commit suicide by jumping off the building—if Shen Leyao had pushed her, the Shen family might have had a headache for a while, but the fact is that she went up to the rooftop herself and jumped off.

Shen Leyao was unharmed and carefree, playing the role of the beautiful and innocent Miss Shen.

until……

Shen Nian regained her destiny, but she lost the protection it brought. Zhou Wanqing was finally able to get close to her and torment her little by little until she went mad.

Shen Nian originally didn't intend to get involved in this matter.

But to her surprise, Shen Yingwei brought a group of people who had nothing to do with the matter to the place where Zhou Wanqing died.

What does she want to do? Resurrect Zhou Wanqing?

The dead cannot be brought back to life, and besides, what was she after?

Or is she going to use these lives to appease Zhou Wanqing's ghost?

She was already a vengeful ghost; if she were to take a few more lives, even many Taoist priests today would be unable to subdue her.

Is she raising a vengeful ghost?

But why did she do this?

Shen Nian recalled the scene of her and her master refining the female ghost that day, and suddenly had some guesses in her heart.

Shen Nian arrived at the rooftop, only to find it completely deserted.

She frowned, then suddenly sensed something.

"Go to hell!!!"