Free Web NovelChapter 39: Chapter 39: Dad, You Really Got the Wrong Person!
She wanted to punish her a bit more, use every trick she could, but then saw Ya’s eyes roll back and she fainted right there under her.
Fear still crawled all over Ya, but her eyes were tightly shut.
Tuantuan let out a mocking laugh, pretending to be dead?
The viewers watching the livestream were stunned, too,
[She fainted just like that?]
[Pretending to be dead, huh? You can tell from her breathing right away.]
[Isn’t there a general guide for this dungeon? Don’t play dead in front of evil spirits, don’t fake unconsciousness either, because it doesn’t work.]
[I mean, who knows how these spirits figure out if someone’s faking, but honestly, she’s got no other choice right now, right?]
...
The audience watched her chest rise and fall. No matter how hard Ya tried to adjust her breathing, everyone could easily spot the clues.
Tuantuan looked down at the unconscious Ya on the floor—pretending to be dead, huh?
She grinned, then jabbed a finger right between Ya’s brows.
Ya really was scared out of her mind. At this point, she couldn’t run, so playing dead was all she had left.
She could feel that her limbs weren’t getting attacked anymore and hoped this little brat would be easy to fool.
But the very next second, she felt a cold finger press against her forehead.
No pain, no harm.
Just as she thought she’d passed the evil spirit’s death check, she realized she couldn’t move a single muscle.
The fact that her chest couldn’t move with breathing made her super uncomfortable.
"Daddy will be really sad when he finds out Auntie Ya is dead," Tuantuan crouched next to her, whispering in her ear. "Then Tuantuan will help Daddy bury Auntie Ya, okay!"
Even so, Ya still didn’t move a muscle.
The audience saw that after Tuantuan poked her, the restless eyeballs under her eyelids and the rise and fall of her chest totally stopped.
But her livestream was still online, which meant she wasn’t actually dead yet.
When Tuantuan said she’d bury her, people instantly got it: Ya’s fake death got busted, but this evil spirit decided to play along!
[These spirits are really vicious, huh? You wanna play dead? As you wish.]
[Being buried alive and silenced is the worst torture.]
[It must be that finger just now. You think, after she’s buried, unable to move, Tuantuan will suddenly lift the restriction later?]
[Haven’t you been watching? Over on Jiang Che’s side, another female spirit is pretending to be his wife.]
[Heh, Jiang Che is such a hot commodity, so many evil spirits fighting over him?]
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Everyone watched Ya lying there, motionless, looking just like a real corpse.
Tuantuan stared at Ya on the ground and sighed softly. She said she’d bury her together with Daddy, but this time, she really couldn’t show up in front of Jiang Che and play this game of bonding over burying people again.
Mom would be scared of me, right? Mom would be terrified of me, right?
I don’t want that, and I really don’t want to see anyone beside Jiang Che look at me with fear.
She stood right where she was, not daring to switch to Jiang Che’s camera.
「Tuantuan, Daddy brought Mom over to look for you!」
「Found you!」 Jiang Che’s telepathic voice was brimming with joy, totally uncontrollable.
Just one look...
Just one look...
One look at the kind of person Jiang Che likes, then I’ll leave at peace and go find whoever’s in charge of this area, beg them to let Jiang Che go.
She switched into Jiang Che’s perspective. He was still running towards her, but seemed caught in a trap in the manor, stuck in an endless loop.
Tuantuan sighed.
Humans are so stupid—she actually needs to rescue him!
Told him not to barge in alone!
The thought of having to rescue Jiang Che, see him face-to-face, made Tuantuan tilt her head and snort.
Scared? Whatever. It’s just a human woman. Like she cared how this human chick felt about her.
She saw Jiang Che carrying a skinny woman on his back—must be his wife. So weak!
Even this bit of walking needs Daddy to carry her! And now they’re trapped so he has to keep running!
Tuantuan felt a surge of anger inside, completely forgetting that Jiang Che carried her all the way before, too.
Even thinking about that, she had a valid excuse: she had no weight, humans have weight, it’s exhausting, not even close!
The woman lay quietly on Jiang Che’s back, holding a Crystal Ball in her hand.
Tuantuan shifted her view bit by bit, aiming at the woman’s face.
When she saw those classic grey eyes, Tuantuan’s eyes widened in shock.
In a flash, she saw the woman glance at her Crystal Ball, and in the ball’s reflection was Tuantuan’s shadow. The woman grinned right at her.
That instant, Tuantuan felt locked on! Watched! An icy chill ran down her back, and she felt that smile!
This is—!
Even as an evil spirit, Tuantuan couldn’t help feeling scared. This wasn’t Jiang Che’s wife at all!
Dad, you seriously picked the wrong person!
Tuantuan glanced at the motionless Ya on the floor, ditched her there, and rushed straight to where Jiang Che was.
She had thought the "wife" Jiang Che talked about would be some frail human, never expected it was that person in disguise!
No way—
Let me think—
Tuantuan was sprinting, but noticed the road in front of her start to rearrange.
She and Jiang Che were both racing towards each other, but could never actually meet.
Tuantuan remembered the dark blue Spirit Body she’d left for Jiang Che, tried to shift her consciousness instantly—no luck.
Ding Ning lay on Jiang Che’s back, directing their path. If she didn’t want it, those two could roam this region forever and never meet.
She used to think some evil spirit was pretending to be Jiang Che’s daughter just to mess with this human, but seeing their desperate mutual chase, the father-daughter bond felt real now.
"Please, madam, let my daddy go, I’ll do anything," Tuantuan immediately realized what was happening when she got blocked.
She dropped to her knees without hesitation, begging into the void.
She knew the other side could hear, knew exactly what she was doing.
"You two... are father and daughter?" A voice sounded in Tuantuan’s mind—light, pleasant, confused.
"Yeah!" Tuantuan kneeled on the ground, accepting that relationship instantly, zero hesitation.
"You recovered your memories from before you were a spirit?"
"No." Tuantuan shook her head. She hadn’t.
After becoming a spirit, her old memories were basically gone. No way to get them back.
Besides, she was a composite of countless Spirit Bodies, she never actually had a human life.
"Then why?" Ding Ning asked, puzzled, since there wasn’t any reason she should treat a human differently.
Wasn’t it just for fun?
"Because... he treats me so well, he’s so pure..." Tuantuan’s smile was bitter. Jiang Che came here to save her, risking offending that "madam".
She had to get Jiang Che out.
"Please, madam, let him go. I’ll hunt more humans for you in return, to repay your kindness."
