Chapter 621: Chapter 621 Waste

Originally, Yi Huai just wanted to use Baili Lele’s vitality to nourish Huang Wan’s body. However, things quickly spiraled out of control.

Baili Lele remained comatose, while Huang Wan grew increasingly healthy, even acquiring Baili Lele’s witchcraft talents.

As he looked at Baili Lele’s condition, his heart filled with guilt. He didn’t know if it was to atone or due to some other feeling, but he kept busy dealing with matters concerning Baili Lele.

Everyone thought he was deeply in love with Baili Lele, but only he knew the truth.

After Baili Lele fell into a coma, he didn’t dare to marry Huang Wan immediately. He feared it might raise suspicions and the truth would be exposed.

Later, under his guidance, his parents indeed arranged his marriage to Huang Wan. He put on a resigned act and accepted the arrangement. After the wedding, he continued to visit the Baili Family often and busied himself with Baili Lele’s affairs.

In fact, he did this to be able to gather information and better understand Baili Lele’s real situation.

He didn’t keep any of this from Huang Wan, and she naturally wouldn’t stop him from visiting the Baili Family.

For over twenty years since their marriage, his life with Huang Wan was naturally blissful.

After their wedding, they had two sons and a daughter, living a very contented life.

He had thought their happiness would last forever, but now the appearance of Zhong Niangyao had completely shattered his wonderful life.

Huang Wan had become a terrifying sight to behold, and every day he endured physical agony. Even their whole family faced the prospect of being cast out from the Yi Family to live as ordinary people in the outside world.

Such a drop from grace was something he truly couldn’t accept.

Now, his only hope lay in the woman before him, whose face he couldn’t even see clearly.

He didn’t know who she was. After she had helped them all those years ago, she had disappeared entirely from their lives. She left only a talisman paper, saying he must contact her immediately if any mishap occurred.

After Yi Huai revealed everything, the woman said nothing. But a cold aura emanated from her.

The temperature around them dropped several degrees in an instant. Yi Huai couldn’t help shivering, feeling a chill rise from his feet. He even had the urge to flee.

“Yi Huai, you really are totally useless.”

The cold voice didn’t carry a hint of mockery but seemed to simply state a fact. “A good hand of cards, yet you’ve played them to ruin. Now I even doubt if helping you back then was a mistake.”

“Great one, please calm your anger,” Yi Huai hurriedly said. “I beg you to help me this time. If you help me through this difficulty, then whatever you ask of me in the future, I will never refuse.”

“Hah!” The woman scoffed disdainfully. “What use could a good-for-nothing like you be to me? You’ve summoned me today just to tell me these worthless words, is that it?”

“Great one.”

Yi Huai immediately stood up, then knelt down before the woman. “The only one who can help me now is you. If you don’t help me, my whole family is doomed.”

“What does that have to do with me?” the woman spoke. “What makes you think you have the right to ask me to save you? To be precise, do you believe that you have any value to me?”

“I–” Yi Huai bit his teeth, then kowtowed in the direction of the woman. “Great one, if you agree to save me this time, I will become your slave from then on. If you command me to go east, I will go east; if you command me to go west, I will go west, without any thought of resistance.”

“Who do you think you are?” The dismissive voice rose again. “There are many who wish to be my slave. A waste like you isn’t even fit to carry my shoes.”

The humiliating words made Yi Huai’s face alternate between green and purple, but he couldn’t muster any words to retort.

Finally, he gritted his teeth. “Great one, though I’m not capable of much, if you save me this time, I will definitely help you against the Baili Family.”

“The Baili Family?”

The woman laughed coldly as if she heard some joke. “They’re just a minor family in the mortal world, one that knows a bit of witchcraft. Such a family doesn’t catch my attention; why should I bother with such a trivial clan?”

Her scornful voice made it sound as if she wasn’t talking about a family, but as if she spoke of an ant.

Hearing these words, Yi Huai was shocked. He began to speculate who this woman was and just how powerful she might be!

“You’d better control your mind.”

The icy voice sounded. “My affairs are not for you to pry into. If you still want to speculate about my matters, don’t blame me for not being polite.”

Yi Huai was startled, quickly withdrawing his thoughts, but he couldn’t suppress his inner curiosity. “Then, great one, why did you–”

Before he could finish, he was interrupted.

“I do things as I please; you have no right to question me.” The cold female voice pronounced. “You’ve made such a mess of things and still have the audacity to summon me. Do you have a death wish?”

Suddenly, Yi Huai felt a piercing cold gaze upon him, faint but brimming with a sense of death.

“Great one, spare my life,” Yi Huai pleaded. “Great one, please give me a chance. I’ll prove to you that I can be useful. I… I…”

“What can you do? Even a little Zhong Niangyao reduced you to this state, so of what use are you?”

“I can help you against Zhong Niangyao,” Yi Huai hastily said. “Great one, if you save me, I’m sure I can help you defeat Zhong Niangyao. I will kill her; I truly can. Just give me this chance.”

A moment ago, he had keenly sensed that when mentioning Zhong Niangyao, the woman’s tone seemed to contain an imperceptible note of hatred.

He wasn’t sure if his feeling was correct.

But now that things had come to this point, he could only gamble. If he won, he might still have a chance to continue living comfortably. Even if he lost the bet, the worst outcome would only be his current situation.