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After a long pause, the Taoist priest slowly spoke: "If you wish to resolve your karmic debts, in addition to sincerely repenting, you must also have your blood relatives kowtow every three steps, bowing over the 999 stone steps of Changhua Mountain, and request the Purple Yang Master of Baiyun Temple to personally draw a talisman for you."

"I only have one thing to say: there are gods watching from above. What people do is seen by Heaven. If your heart is not sincere, calamity may strike again at any time!"

Jiang Ruining looked up at the bright sun.

Gods?

The original owner did make many mistakes in his life, but the mental abuse and madness caused by Madam Jiang was the root cause. She drove the original owner insane and ruined him!

The results of it?

The original owner died tragically in a filthy place, with no one to claim her body, while Madam Jiang, the culprit, became a first-rank noblewoman, flattered and fawned upon by the ladies of noble families, enjoying boundless glory.

The gods did not see this evil, did they?

Since the gods can't see it, let them expose it and bring down the punishment!

Madam Jiang nodded repeatedly, her devotion absolute: "I know, I will do it!"

Granny Song presented the hardship fee she had prepared beforehand with both hands: "If my mistress recovers, there will be a greater reward."

The young Taoist priest took it and put it into his satchel pocket.

Before leaving, the Taoist priest's gaze fell upon Jiang Ruining under the shade of a tree. His eyes fixed on her, filled with inquiry and suspicion, he approached her: "Young benefactor, may I have my palm read?"

Jiang Ruining stretched out her hand in front of him.

The Taoist priest looked closely, but the more he looked, the more alarmed he became. There was a living person standing in front of him, surrounded by a faint golden light that only people with extremely noble destinies would have, and his face was quite clear, but his palms clearly showed signs of gloom and a short life... This was completely illogical!

Jiang Ruining raised an eyebrow: "Taoist Master, can't you see my fortune from my face? And what about my palm? Am I a short-lived demon, or a goddess of wealth and fortune?"

The Taoist priest honestly shook his head: "Young benefactor, your destiny is extraordinary. My Taoist cultivation is too shallow to see through it."

Jiang Ruining was taken aback: "Can't see through it?"

He said he couldn't see through it, but on the contrary, he saw through it!

Because the person beneath this skin has long since changed, and so has their fate of life and death.

As the soul takes over, the appearance of this body changes, which she can observe herself, but the lines on her hands remain unchanged.

Therefore, the future predicted by palmistry and face reading conflicted.

now it's right!

Her fate was beyond the control of the plot!

"It's better if you can't see through things! Who wants their fate to be completely predictable?"

The Taoist priest admired her composure.

If it were a young person of this age, upon hearing that their fate was unusual, they would have been terrified!

"Young benefactor, always leave yourself a way out; good fortune will come your way!"

Jiang Ruining smiled: "I have remembered your guidance, Daoist Master."

The Taoist priest observed her for a couple more times, then turned and glanced at Madam Jiang.

This mother and daughter's fates are in conflict, one good, one bad.

It was destined.

With a soft sigh, and with steps that seemed to have seen through the illusions of the world, she slowly departed.

Madam Jiang felt a chill run down her spine from the last look the Taoist priest gave her.

It felt like she was being sentenced.

Her heart pounded with panic. Despite the excruciating pain in her body, she asked Jiang Ruining with trembling lips, "What did he say to you? What are you talking about?"

Jiang Ruining didn't answer her. The more unanswered her questions were, the more her mind would dwindle.

She deserves it.

"Baiyun Temple, Mother, do you want your cousin to go, or should I go? Emotionally speaking, your cousin is your closest relative, but by blood, I am your biological daughter. This concerns your health, so please make a decision as soon as possible!"

"Go!" Madam Jiang blurted out without thinking, because she knew that both of them were in debt. If Jiang Ruining's visit was useless, Chu Jin would still have to make the trip. But she was in too much pain and didn't want to suffer for even a second longer!

"If everyone goes, it'll be good to have someone to look after you."

Chu Jin was spoiled by her aunt, so naturally she went. But the Taoist priest just said that it was a karmic debt she owed. Could there be some unknown cause and effect between her aunt and her?

Jiang Ruining talked about why she said that selfish people will always put their own interests first. So-called favor is just an empty shell disguised by layers of hypocrisy and fragile veneer!

"My cousin and I will set off early tomorrow morning. To show our sincerity, we will each go back to our lodgings today to fast and burn incense."

Madam Jiang nodded hastily, "Yes! Yes! You two, quickly go back and fast and burn incense!"

The two sisters left the South Courtyard.

The summer morning sun was already scorching, and even with an umbrella, walking under the shade of the trees, I quickly broke out in a light sweat.

Chu Jin stopped under a lush sycamore tree: "Ningning, do you... know something?"

Jiang Ruining rubbed the fine sweat from her temples with a handkerchief: "What kind of question do you want to ask?"

Chu Jin: "You are your aunt's biological daughter, why does she insist on driving you crazy? I used to think that she always took care of me and favored me because she pitied me and was afraid of being gossiped about, but later I found that what my aunt gave me was more like..."

She didn't know how to say those two words.

If she said it out loud, she would seem like an ungrateful wretch.

Jiang Ruining finished for her: "It's like you're apologizing, as if I owe your whole family their lives, as if I've taken away the honor and wealth that rightfully belonged to you. Only by killing me can you repay the debt you owe me, is that it?"

Chu Jin remained silent.

Yes, that's the feeling!

She didn't understand when she was little, but these past few days, as she carefully recalled the events of the past few years, this feeling has become clearer and clearer!

But when her family was massacred, Ningning was only seven years old. What did it have to do with her?

"Now you know why, so you're completely disappointed in your aunt, aren't you?"

Jiang Ruining did not deny it.

Throughout the book, she never knew why, nor did she ever think about the question.

Therefore, she accepted all the resources and support from the Jiang family without a second thought, never feeling that she had obtained this enviable life by stepping on the original owner's corpse and injustice.

"The reason is ridiculous and somewhat cruel; perhaps it would be better not to know."

Chu Jin's pure face was filled with determination: "This concerns me, and I have the right to know the truth, no matter how outrageous or ridiculous it may seem, I still want to know."

Jiang Ruining waved her hand, dismissing all the maids and servants who were attending to her.

Holding the umbrella, gazing at a distant point in the void, she sighed softly: "It was your mother who should have married into the Jiang family back then."

"My mother felt that the Jiang family was of higher social standing and that my father was more handsome and virtuous. My maternal grandparents were biased and didn't give her anything good. They even went on a hunger strike and self-harmed, forcing them to agree to a temporary marriage change right before she was to be married off."

"When both of them were doing well, my mother felt that she had made the right choice, but then came the news that the Chu family had been massacred... My maternal grandmother was heartbroken and scolded my mother a few times, mostly because she had killed my aunt and made you an orphan."

"She started to feel uneasy and guilty, feeling that everyone was talking behind her back. After bringing you back to Beijing, she started to abuse me..."

Chu Jin was taken aback.

I never knew that the previous generation had such outrageous stories.

"But why? You are innocent, you did nothing wrong."