The shadow of the moon flickered, and the black aura slowly drifted up from the ground. Slowly, the silhouette of a woman emerged.

A gust of cold wind blew in from the gap in the window, raising up the woman’s messy hair, and Shi Mu could see her face clearly.

It was a terrifying and ferocious face. There was a large cut on her forehead, and the blood, which was unpleasant to smell, continued to ooze from the wound. The corners of her mouth curled up in a strange arc. She had no pupils but only the whites of her eyes, which were frightening.

Shi Mu saw that there were more than a dozen bloody holes on her body, and maggot blood gushed out. She had never seen such a disgusting ghost and felt a little nauseous for a moment. She could not even imagine how Fu Yunshen, who saw the ghost of his stepmother every day, went through the past seven years.

“Woo…” The feet of his stepmother left the ground and slowly approached Fu Yunshen.

Shi Mu pulled up the quilt, squinting her eyes, and peeked at the situation over there.

“Yun…shen…”

His stepmother approached him while calling out Fu Yunshen’s name. Soon, she stood beside Fu Yunshen’s bed.

Under the dim moonlight, she slowly raised the blade in her hand and stabbed at Fu Yunshen’s shoulder. There was no emotion in Fu Yunshen’s brows and eyes, so his grief and hatred turned into calmness. He just remained motionless as he watched her quietly.

When he was five years old, his parents divorced, and his mother chose his younger brother for custody. On the other hand, he lived with his father. His father had always been a weak man and spent his days in a corner of the city with a huge amount of divorce assets. He did not let him go to school, make friends, or meet anyone.

Fu Yunshen did not know why when he was a child, but later he understood.

——Father was afraid of him or feared that he would bring misfortune to innocent people.

Not long after, a woman named Liu Ailian appeared in his and his father’s lives, and she became his new mother.

Liu Ailian was very beautiful and elegant, and she would not ignore him like his biological mother. She would teach him to read and write, cook a lavish dinner at night, and occasionally read him bedtime stories. That was the first time Fu Yunshen felt the kindness of a mother. However, when his father fell ill three years later, his stepmother finally revealed her evil nature.

During the day, Liu Ailian took good care of him. At night, she would punch and kick him. When she had enough, she put him in shackles, sealed his mouth, and stuffed him into the cramped closet. At that time, Liu Ailian’s lover would come to have an affair with her.

Compared to abuse, the sexual scenes he saw were the scariest.

The young Fu Yunshen understood that the reason she concealed it for so long was to obtain the property under her father’s name.

His father gradually became seriously ill and could no longer bear any more news, so he chose to hide it. He endured it year after year, day after day. He never despaired, as he believed that one day he would see the warm sun again.

On December 30, his father passed away, and all the property was inherited by his beloved son, Fu Yunshen. This year, Fu Yunshen just turned ten years old.

On January 1, the New Year, Liu Ailian broke into his bedroom with a knife, leaving a deep and imperishable scar on his shoulder.

He grabbed the knife and scratched Liu Ailian’s forehead. Taking this opportunity, he turned over and stabbed her fifteen times in a row. There was a lot of blood. In his eyes and in his world, it was only scarlet red, which filled his nose, his eyeballs, and his whole body.

At 12:00, Fu Yunshen called the police.

Someone set off fireworks outside the window, and the colorful lights burst into the dark sky and then quickly dissipated. At that moment, he understood that there was no sun in this world.

Thinking of all the things he had suffered, Fu Yunshen felt calmer than ever before.

He fumbled out the mahogany sword from under the pillow, and the moment Liu Ailian approached, he pierced the sword between her eyebrows without any hesitation. His movements were neat and without any hesitation, just like the night on January 1st.

After the sword was fully inserted, a blood-red light burst out from Liu Ailian’s body, and Shi Mu squinted his eyes and quickly pulled the quilt up.

In the ear, the ghost screamed shrilly, “Fu Yunshen, how dare you—!”

“Do you think I will die? Do you think you can kill me a second time?”

“I curse you! I curse you to live with no love and reason in every life. I curse you with nothing to rely on in life and nothing to depend on in old age!”

“Fu Yunshen!!!”

Liu Ailian hated him terribly and cast all kinds of vicious curses on him.

Fu Yunshen smiled coldly. “Do you think I care?”

With that said, he drew his knife and stabbed again.

“Ah–!”

She screamed, and there was no more movement. After the golden light dispersed, Shi Mu carefully pulled back the quilt.

Liu Ailian’s obsession was deep, and even though she was hit by a fatal sword, it did not completely dissipate. She struggled painfully in midair. Her body was torn into countless pieces, sometimes gathered, sometimes split. The scene was horrific and gruesome.

Suddenly, Liu Ailian’s scarlet eyeballs stared at Shi Mu, and she gritted her teeth: “It’s you—!”

Unwilling, Liu Ailian opened her teeth and claws and rushed towards Shi Mu with all her strength. She was clearly prepared to die, and even if she lost her soul, she would take one away and make Fu Yunshen regret it for the rest of her life.

[Eat her…]

[Eat her…]

[Master, eat her.]

The low and alluring voice echoed in her mind; her heart was beating wildly, and her consciousness gradually became blurred.

Just as Liu Ailian was approaching the next second, Shi Mu uncontrollably cuddled her head, and then she made a movement that she could not have imagined.

Shi Mu squeezed the opponent’s body into a ball with both hands and swallowed the opponent into her stomach amidst screams.

Gollum.

The world fell into silence.

Fu Yunshen, who was sitting on the opposite bed, was dumbfounded. His hand was unsteady, and the mahogany sword fell to the ground.