After Death, I Discovered My Wife Was the Villainess of a Supernatural Novel - Chapter 6

“Luckily, she was brought in on time. It didn’t develop into pneumonia. After she’s discharged, she needs to rest properly. Work and all that can be put aside for a while. The company won’t stop running just because she’s gone for a bit. You’re her older sister, so advise her more often.” The doctor was an old friend of Fu Yushu’s, so he said a few extra words to her.

“I’ll definitely talk to her later.” Fu Yushu nodded repeatedly.

“Then I still have things to do, so I’ll leave first. If anything happens, just come find me.”

“All right. Thank you, Old Yu.”

“As long as you’re not the one coming in next time, I’ll thank the heavens.”

After the doctor left, Fu Yushu tiredly closed her eyes. After calming herself for a moment, she said to Aunt Liu, who was sitting on a chair, “This time, it’s all thanks to you, Aunt Liu. Otherwise, who knows how long my sister would’ve stayed sick before anyone discovered it.”

Aunt Liu wiped her tears and shook her head. “It was Madam watching over her.”

Fu Yushu did not believe in ghosts or gods, but she also understood that an elderly person’s beliefs could not be changed so easily, so she went along with her words. “If Zhaozhao were here, she definitely wouldn’t let Yushang ruin her health like this.”

“Sigh… Second Miss, you too. I heard you’ve been investigating the murderer nonstop. You must also take care of your health!” Aunt Liu held Fu Yushu’s hand and reminded her worriedly. “You’ve become much more haggard these past few days too!”

“Don’t worry. My health is much better than hers. It’s already late. Do you want me to have someone send you back to rest?” Making an elderly person stay up and run around in the middle of the night made Fu Yushu feel rather guilty.

“No need, no need. I’ll wait until Miss wakes up and see what she wants to eat. Then I’ll make some breakfast and bring it over. The food in the hospital definitely won’t suit her taste as well as food from home.” The elderly woman refused, insisting on waiting until Fu Yushang woke up.

Fu Yushu could not persuade her, so she let it be and could only entrust Aunt Liu with taking good care of her sister.

Fu Yushang woke up amid the strong smell of disinfectant. Looking at the pale white ceiling, her expression was somewhat unfocused. She had just had a dream. She dreamed that Zhaozhao had come back. Zhaozhao had held her hand, and that hand had been freezing cold. Zhaozhao had kept crying, saying that she hurt so much.

“Why am I here?”

“You were very sick last night. You almost developed pneumonia. Fortunately, you called me in the middle of the night. You didn’t say anything on the phone the whole time, so I was worried something had happened to you and hurried back,” Aunt Liu said. Seeing that Fu Yushang had finally woken up, she also breathed a sigh of relief.

“Called you? I didn’t make any call.” Fu Yushang had no memory of calling anyone at all.

“Maybe you were muddled from the fever. After I answered the call, you never said anything. I was worried something had happened, so I hurried over to take a look.” Aunt Liu had always been very cautious. Receiving a call from Fu Yushang at that time, without a single word spoken on the other end, had left her uneasy. After all, with things being the way they were right now, even if it was just an accidental tap, she still had to come over and check before she could feel at ease.

The facts proved that it was fortunate she had come to take a look.

“Sorry to trouble you.” Fu Yushang buried her doubts deep in her heart.

“It’s no trouble, no trouble. How about this? I’ll go back and make some breakfast to bring over. What would you like to eat?”

Knock, knock, knock.

At that moment, a woman dressed in an especially fashionable outfit, though her hair was a little messy as if she had run wildly through the wind, knocked on the door.

“Plain congee is fine. Thank you.”

“What trouble? Then I’ll go back and prepare it. You chat with Miss Lan first.” When Aunt Liu left, she thoughtfully closed the door behind her.

“Fuck!” The moment the door closed, the beautiful woman immediately cursed furiously. “Something this huge happened to your wife, and you still didn’t fucking tell me!”

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“Ah-choo!” Mu Zhao rubbed her nose at home.

She had originally wanted to follow the ambulance to the hospital, but then she remembered what had happened at the cemetery. To avoid being surrounded by a group of “big cuties” in the middle of the night, Mu Zhao rationally chose to stay at home.

Mu Zhao faced Coal Ball and worked hard to concentrate. Slowly, slowly, she reached toward his fur, imagining in her heart that she could touch him. In the next second, she felt a fluffy sensation in her palm!

“Coal Ball…” Mu Zhao picked up the kitten, so excited that she almost cried.

However, after a short while, she felt mentally exhausted and could barely hold onto Coal Ball anymore, so she hurriedly put him down.

“Growl, growl…” Mu Zhao touched her stomach. So ghosts’ stomachs could growl when they were hungry too?

She turned back and ate a few mouthfuls of incense smoke, and then she felt like she could do it again.

She quietly waited for the sun to rise. At around eight o’clock, the torrential rain that had fallen for an entire day finally stopped. Sunlight once again spilled over the human world, and countless specks of brightness gathered into a colorful mortal realm.

This brightness did not belong to the dead. But for some unknown reason, Mu Zhao could drift freely beneath the sunlight. And it was probably not her imagination—before, basking in a bit of sunlight had made her feel somewhat listless, but today, standing under the sun did not make her uncomfortable at all.

With the sun so bright, there probably would not be any strange ghosts running around outside, right? Then could she go to the hospital to see Senior?

Mu Zhao first carefully made a round outside. Seeing that there were no ghosts appearing anywhere in the neighborhood, she finally gathered her courage and prepared to head out.

Last night, it was Sister Yushu who had come to pick Senior up. There was only one hospital she would have gone to, so Mu Zhao did not need to look everywhere.

In broad daylight, the road was full of people coming and going. Mu Zhao carefully weaved through the crowd, preventing herself from getting distracted and having an intimate “fusion” encounter with someone.

“Huff… Brother, how about her?”

“Mm… She’ll do.”

Mu Zhao was walking along the wall when she accidentally heard the conversation between two flashy delinquents.

Even the most prosperous city had dark corners. One of the delinquents was fat and the other thin. Both of them had cigarettes dangling from their mouths, their lecherous eyes fixed on a woman in a red dress inside the alley.

“She’s really pretty.” The fat one took a heavy drag from his cigarette, his expression gradually turning obscene.

“Useless thing. Why don’t you look at the gold necklace around her neck instead? No wonder you’re still the lowest-level lackey even after all this time.” The thin man, who was called Boss, tossed away his cigarette and headed into the alley.

However, before he had taken more than two steps, he seemed to trip over something and fell flat on his face.

“Ow!” Before he could get up, the fat man behind him also tripped right after him, landing squarely on top of the thin man.

At the instant of being crushed as if by Mount Tai, the thin man felt as though he had seen the gates of hell. His internal organs were almost squeezed out!

“You damn fatty! Go lose weight when we get back!” This commotion had definitely alerted the prey ahead. The duck already in their hands had flown away!

“Sorry, Boss!” The fat man hurriedly scrambled up.

“Get off me!” After escaping the heavy pressure, the thin man almost could not stand.

“Boss, that woman doesn’t seem to have noticed us,” the fat man suddenly lowered his voice and said.

The thin man focused his eyes and saw that the woman in red seemed to have earphones hanging from her ears. No wonder she had not noticed the commotion here.

“Be careful this time. Don’t mess it up again!”

“Then… Boss, don’t fall again either?”

“Shut your crow mouth!”

“Oh.”

After the thin man finished speaking, he had not taken more than two steps before he fell flat on his face again. Immediately after, an enormous black shadow pressed down on top of him once more. The previous scene repeated itself. This time, the thin man felt as though he had seen the Bridge of Helplessness.

“Miss, hurry and leave!” Mu Zhao blocked them twice, and when she realized that the woman being targeted still had not noticed the movement behind her, she was so anxious she was about to die.

Suddenly, the woman finally moved. She took off her earphones and turned around, looking at the two people lying on the ground and howling. The corners of her lips curved into an eerie smile. Then her gaze landed beside the two delinquents, as though she were looking at something in that spot.

Mu Zhao’s heart suddenly rose to her throat. What this woman was looking at… was her?

The woman in the red dress walked over to the two delinquents and crouched down, placing her necklace and ring into their hands respectively.

“This is what you wanted, right?” the woman said, her voice full of temptation.

“Yes, yes, yes!” The two men seemed as though their minds had been bewitched, completely unconcerned by the strange scene.

“Then if I give them to you, you’ll have to pay the corresponding price too, right?”

“Yes, yes, yes!” The two men were still nodding desperately.

In the next second, Mu Zhao was so frightened she nearly screamed.

The woman in the red dress suddenly seized both men by the neck. The complexions of the two delinquents rapidly withered, and their lecherous, satisfied smiles were frozen on their faces by death.

Dead…

This woman… what was she…?

Mu Zhao’s legs went weak with fright. In any case, the other party was definitely not human. What should she do?

“Little one, you’re so cute. You were just born, weren’t you?” The woman in red licked her lips in satisfaction, dragged the frightened-stiff Mu Zhao deeper into the alley, and then stuffed her behind a trash bin.

Although she could not touch the trash, this place really gave people a kind of instinctive disgust! Was this super scary-looking woman trying to disgust her to death?

Mu Zhao instinctively wanted to struggle, but the woman in red actually hid together with her and made a quiet gesture at her, signaling for her to secretly look outside.

Not long after, the sky that had been bright just moments ago suddenly darkened. Mu Zhao could clearly feel an aura that made her extremely uncomfortable condensing.

Rumble, rumble…

A muffled thunder-like sound trembled against the tip of Mu Zhao’s heart.

The pedestrians outside did not notice anything unusual. They only thought the sun had been covered by clouds.

But Mu Zhao was horrified to discover that what covered the sun was not clouds, but black energy that had suddenly gathered together!

“What is this?”

“Yin energy. A big guy is about to come out. If you don’t want to be eaten, don’t talk.”

Mu Zhao immediately covered her mouth.

As the trembling sound grew louder and louder, a huge creature appeared above Mu Zhao’s head. The moment she saw that thing, Mu Zhao wished this red-clothed young lady had stuffed her directly into the trash bin and closed the lid just now. That would have been a little safer.

“Mu… Mu Zhao… Mu… Zhao… where…” A gigantic ghost that looked like a savage moved forward slowly while carrying a blood-red axe. Wherever it went, the axe dripped blood. A string of chains was attached to the axe handle and dragged along the ground, making a clack, clack sound. Occasionally, its long arm moved, grabbing a ghost from some corner and putting it into its mouth to chew with cracking sounds, as casually as if it were eating snacks.

Mu Zhao’s eyes widened in terror.

What was it saying?

As that dangerous monster gradually walked farther away, Mu Zhao asked while trembling, “What was that? Just now, it seemed to be calling a… name?”

“I heard he was a defeated general from several thousand years ago. After he died, his soul was refined into that form by his ruler.” The woman in red smiled with a hint of pity. “As for Mu Zhao, I heard she’s wanted by some big shot. They’ve already been searching for her for several days.”

“That Mu Zhao… wouldn’t happen to be you, would it?” The woman in red was frighteningly sharp. Mu Zhao hurriedly shook her head in denial.

“I’m not! My name is… my name is Fu… Fu Yuzhao!”

Sorry, Senior. Please allow me to add a daughter to your family without permission!