After Death, I Discovered My Wife Was the Villainess of a Supernatural Novel - Chapter 3

“How unlucky. Why is it so chilly inside? It’s like seeing a ghost!”

“Pah, pah, pah. Don’t mention ghosts in a place like this. How unlucky. Just like the second daughter of the Fu family! Maybe Fu Yushu was the one who cursed her sister-in-law to death!”

“Fuck! What the hell? I’m going to smash their mouths in!”

Beside the funeral home was a low-key black car. The driver happened to hear the conversation between the two men in suits walking past. His face turned livid with anger, and he was about to rush out of the car and beat them up on the spot.

“Come back! You’re a police officer, not a thug!” The woman sitting in the back seat, half-hidden in the shadows, gave a cold shout. The large, burly man immediately froze and did not dare move.

“But Director Fu, they’re slandering you!”

“All right, all right, say less. Director Fu doesn’t feel good either.” A thin man sitting in the passenger seat quickly calmed his companion, then looked at the motionless woman in the back seat and hesitantly reminded her.

“Director Fu… you’ve been sitting here for a long time. Aren’t you going in? The final farewell ceremony will probably begin soon.”

The woman in the back seat said nothing. She buried her face in her hands, and only after a long while did she grit her teeth and squeeze out a few words.

“I have no face to go in.”

Because of her negligence, her younger sister’s wife had died. Even now, the murderers had not been found. What face did she have to enter her sister-in-law’s mourning hall?

The two grown men looked at each other. In the end, it was the thin man who spoke.

“That won’t be the case. Your sister is a reasonable person. It’s all the fault of those criminals. It has nothing to do with you!”

“…You don’t understand.”

Outsiders could not understand. Fu Yushu truly had no face to see her younger sister again. She knew how deeply her sister loved her wife.

Back then, although same-sex marriage had long since been legalized, the old master of the family was an old-fashioned man. For the sake of that marriage, her younger sister had knelt before their grandfather until her knees were nearly ruined before finally obtaining his consent.

During the few days after her sister-in-law agreed to the marriage, her younger sister had been so happy that she walked into doors several times while distracted, like a fool. Fu Yushu had never seen her sister wear her emotions so openly before.

She had truly been happy for her younger sister. Her sister-in-law was also a good person. They should have been a perfect couple who could stay together until old age, yet because of her own negligence! She should not have lent the car to her sister-in-law. Why had she lent it to her?

This strong woman, who had always been decisive and ruthless at work, blamed herself again and again for the first time, regretting everything.

Fu Yushu could not forget the sight of her younger sister vomiting blood on the spot and being sent to the hospital after the identification results came out, confirming that the bones belonged to her sister-in-law.

She had no face to see her younger sister. After she died, she would have even less face to see her sister-in-law.

Fu Yushu bit her thumb joint until it bled. No matter what price she had to pay, she would bring those people to justice!

“Director Fu! Something seems wrong inside the mourning hall. Someone is causing trouble!”

Bang! The car door was nearly kicked off.

Fu Yushu, who had just said she did not dare see her younger sister, hurriedly rushed into the mourning hall.

“…All the houses, cars, jewelry, and shares under my name… were gifts from my wife, Fu Yushang. Therefore, after my death, this portion of my estate shall be inherited solely by my wife, Fu Yushang… As for the savings I have earned from work over the years, totaling a little over one hundred thousand yuan, after my death, half shall be inherited by my wife, and half shall be inherited by my parents…”

After the will was read aloud, the Mu parents were nearly dumbfounded. They had never expected that, in the end, this daughter who always sided with outsiders would only leave them tens of thousands in assets! And half of that tiny amount had even been given to her wife!

“Ms. Fu, when your wife made the will, she said that she had already left the two elders money for their retirement, so you do not need to worry about their food and living expenses in the future. You also have no obligation to support them, and the two families no longer need to keep in contact.”

When Fu Yushu rushed into the mourning hall, she heard the lawyer reading the will…

“Impossible! How is that possible!”

“We are her biological parents! How could she only leave us this little money? Only tens of thousands? Isn’t there also marital property or something?” Father Mu could not bring himself to lose face too badly, but Mother Mu rushed forward and nearly snatched the will from the lawyer’s hand.

That was right. Tens of thousands of yuan could not even buy the watch on Father Mu’s wrist or the bag Mother Mu was carrying. It was obvious that the little money Mu Zhao had left them was purely meant to disgust them!

“I’m sorry. Miss Mu and Miss Fu signed the relevant agreement before marriage, so… the two of you cannot inherit that portion.” Lawyer Li pushed up his glasses and shattered their final fantasy.

“Only tens of thousands? Hah. Zhaozhao’s savings from all those years only amounted to a little over one hundred thousand, and you’re still not satisfied after getting half? In my opinion, certain people who sold their daughter for glory shouldn’t have been left a single cent! What kind of things are you…” Although the people beside her tried to stop her, Qian Youyu still vented all the resentment she had been holding in.

“Then what about the apartment and car we gave her?”

“Do you have dementia? Before the marriage, you took back everything Zhaozhao owned and made her enter the Fu family with only one suitcase. Have you forgotten that?” Qian Youyu looked at them strangely.

They really had forgotten. It was quite embarrassing when spoken aloud, so Father Mu could only change the subject.

“You! The daughter of the Qian family really has no upbringing!”

“Then go find my dad if you have the guts! Hah, you two shameless old things. Zhaozhao must have had eight lifetimes of bloody bad luck to end up with parents like you!”

“Oh~ I just thought of something. Back then, Zhaozhao rushed to make a will so urgently. Could it be because she knew something? Was it you two old things who killed Zhaozhao for money?” Qian Youyu was only speaking out of anger, but the speaker had no intention while the listener took it to heart. Fu Yushu, who had many years of experience handling cases, felt her heart jump.

“You’re talking nonsense! How could we possibly kill our own biological daughter!” Father Mu pointed at Qian Youyu’s nose and shouted angrily.

“Who knows? You’ve done so many disgusting things before. Do you want me to expose them one by one in front of Zhaozhao? In front of her, would you dare deny them?”

My goodness. I knew Yuyu was impressive, but I didn’t expect her combat power to be this strong! The reason she couldn’t win against my mom before must have been because she was hiding her true strength!

Mu Zhao felt as though she were meeting her best friend for the first time.

The Mu parents were indeed somewhat guilty about this. In the mourning hall, their backs felt gloomy and cold, and the coffin was only two steps away from them…

“We raised her to adulthood! Do you know how much money we spent raising and educating her? Just because of that, ask her if she would dare say no!”

Tsk… Mu Zhao lowered her head. She felt embarrassed.

Look. These were her parents, who had already changed beyond recognition. She remembered that when she was young, her family had not been so wealthy, but they had been very happy. Ever since her parents gradually expanded their business, the family had spent more and more time apart. Their familial affection slowly faded, replaced by more entanglements of profit.

Especially after that bankruptcy crisis, her parents had suddenly become even more frightening. How was she still their daughter? She was clearly a debt collector, a commodity that could be traded.

“Fu Yushang! Your family caused my daughter’s death! She only wrote this thing because she didn’t know your family would kill her! You think this can end just like that? Impossible, I’m telling you! I’m going to sue you!” Mother Mu pointed at Fu Yushang and screamed hysterically.

“Oh my, you old lady actually know about the law? Then go sue! You’re killing me with laughter. Just make sure you don’t expose all the dirty things you’ve done yourself. Otherwise, entering prison at your age wouldn’t be very good, would it? Hahahaha!” Qian Youyu remained the strongest verbal attacker on the scene.

People in the mourning hall began whispering too. After doing such things, were they not afraid the deceased would come looking for them in the middle of the night?

Bang! Suddenly, the ice coffin holding the body made a loud crash, shaking so hard that even the coffin seemed to move.

“Holy shit!”

“Mu Zhao’s soul returned?”

“Mom!”

“Ghost…”

Mu Zhao, who had also been frightened by the atmosphere and shouted “Ghost!” with everyone else, came back to her senses and thought about it. Wait, wasn’t she the ghost?

Everyone with a guilty conscience stepped back one after another, cold sweat instantly rising along their backs.

Mother Mu even fell down the steps. One could imagine how frightened she was.

As the saying went, if you had done no wrong, you would not fear ghosts knocking at your door at midnight.

After her younger sister rushed over, Fu Yushu was the second to arrive beside the ice coffin to inspect it. The staff arrived late. After observing it, they said there might have been a problem with the electrical circuit, but it was almost time for the cremation anyway, and asked Fu Yushang whether they should proceed with it now.

The Mu couple had been badly frightened and hurriedly said, “Cremate her! Cremate her! Hurry and push her in for cremation!”

Fu Yushang broke free from her sister’s support, walked to the ice coffin, and lifted the white cloth covering it, taking one last look at the mangled corpse inside.

“There’s nothing good to see. I’ve already become like this. It’s pretty scary. Senior, aren’t you afraid of having nightmares?” The corpse had been blown into fragments and had barely been pieced together into a human shape by the forensic doctors. Even her parents knew to cover it with a layer of white cloth before lying on top of it to cry. Senior was just looking at it like this. Did she not find it terrifying?

After a long while, Fu Yushang finally nodded.

The staff member, who had been questioned relentlessly by Qian Youyu, felt as though he had been pardoned and hurried over to carry out the next step of the process.

“What kind of funeral home is this? How could you make such a low-level mistake? You earned so much money from Fu Yushang and still chose a place like this!” Qian Youyu was so angry that she redirected her fire at the Mu couple.

Fu Yushu, who had been pushed away by her younger sister, stood desolately in place for a while. Then, expressionless, she walked up to the Mu parents and said, “After this, please come to the bureau with us.”

“The… the bureau… Fu Yushu! We haven’t even come to trouble you yet, and now you’re trying to accuse us first? As a police officer, are you trying to abuse your position for personal revenge?”

“This is for official business. It is related to this case. Please make sure the two of you come to the bureau after the funeral ends.” Fu Yushu had interrogated countless criminals. For people with guilty consciences, it was very difficult for them not to avoid her gaze.

And both members of the Mu family shifted their eyes away, not daring to meet her gaze. The more she thought about it, the stranger this seemed. After all, the reactions of this couple, as the deceased’s parents, had been far too odd just now. The reason for such behavior was nothing more than guilt.

Throughout the entire funeral… no, more accurately, from the time her wife passed away until now, Fu Yushang had always silently endured the questioning and scolding from her wife’s parents without saying a word. But now, she suddenly walked up to the two of them.

After being treated preferentially for three whole years, the two of them had become too arrogant. They had forgotten how humble and trembling they had once been when they saw Fu Yushang. Now, they could not say a word. It was as if they were once again seeing the President Fu from before, not their daughter-in-law.

“Do not let me find out that the two of you are connected to this matter. Otherwise, everything Zhaozhao experienced, I will make both of you taste it once.” Fu Yushang’s utterly emotionless gaze made people shudder.

It was a naked threat, and even Father Mu’s sagging facial skin trembled several times.

“Director Fu, are you just going to watch your sister threaten and intimidate us?”

Fu Yushu glanced at her younger sister, then at Father Mu, and said, “When dealing with criminal suspects, we understand if the family members’ emotions get somewhat out of control.”

“Fine, fine, fine. Now we’ve become criminal suspects. You people protect each other and bully two old people who just lost their daughter, is that it!” Seeing that Mother Mu was about to pound her chest and collapse to the ground again, Mu Zhao sighed.

If she had the ability, she would personally drag those two old shrews out.

Fu Yushu said, “Cause any more trouble and I’ll cuff you and take you away directly!”

That sentence was still effective. After she said it, the person who had just been about to faint was suddenly able to stand perfectly straight, wasn’t she?

The funeral had turned into a farce. But under Fu Yushu’s intimidation, they behaved themselves for a while, allowing the ceremony to continue.