NOVEL NEXT Chapter 75.1
The sharp nails stretched out, piercing the skin on the back of his neck, and were about to penetrate his throat. Finally!
The words on the tablet were displayed, “Wu Zixin!!”
The moment he saw the name clearly, Yu Qing immediately shouted it out.
The ghost brides surrounded him, and their bright red nails had already pierced a deep wound on the back of his neck. Pain swept through him, and the boy’s knuckles tightened as a layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
But… after the words were spoken, the deep piercing sensation finally stopped.
Safe for now!
Yu Qing continued installing the tablets, “Zhang Miao!”
“Wang Yuning!”
“Li Panpan!”
Gradually, the ghost brides calmed down. With only the last bit of his strength, the young man moved forward tentatively and continued to help these ghosts restore their names one by one.
He saw clearly, in the entire Wedding Hall, all the rules, were oppressive to women.
The remote village was isolated from the world. Although they wore clothes that were close to modern times, they were still controlled by old ideas and suppressed to the extreme.
These poor brides were bound by more than 700 rules, and their lives were trapped by these regulations. Even after death, they had no names on their tablets.
No… they shouldn’t without a name…
They were not just someone’s daughter-in-law, nor someone’s mother. They should have belonged only to themselves!
Therefore, when the tablets were restored and they found their names one by one, these rules should have disappeared.
Click, click, click…
The pain in the back of his neck became more and more severe. Yu Qing gritted his teeth and persisted, placing each name one by one. Each time he placed a tablet, he could hear a bride crying behind him.
They stepped forward, looking at these names with sadness or regret. Some remained silent for a long time, raising their hands to touch them, unfamiliar with their real names.
Finally, he installed the last one, click—
With wide eyes, Yu Qing saw an all-too-familiar name—Lin Xiaojing, his girlfriend?!
No! It was the girlfriend he was playing in this identity; the girl forced to become a deity on stage; the ghost who had just tried to stab him with her nails without hesitation… Crash!
As soon as the tablet was revealed, a pale hand struck at him again.
Yu Qing immediately dodged, but just as he took a step, [beep-beep—]
The alarm for his stamina reaching zero suddenly went off, making his heart race. Then, the young man’s legs gave out, and he collapsed to the ground without warning.
Raising his eyes, Yu Qing saw Lin Xiaojing smiling, slowly approaching him, her cold hands touching his neck.
The movements were ambiguous, but the sharp nails grazed his skin, as if… they could end him at any moment.
“Haha, hahahaha.” Not long after, the bride in front of him suddenly laughed. Her red lips curled all the way back to her ears, and her pupils were almost entirely consumed by a frightening blackness.
Her smile was right in front of him. Yu Qing held his breath, reaching out to the system mall with one hand to observe her reaction. Suddenly, her sharp nails were raised again, “Liar! You can’t save me! You can’t save my child!!”
“I can!”
Just as the nail was about to pierce his neck, Yu Qing suddenly shouted, “I can do it!”
His voice trembled slightly, but thankfully, the vengeful ghost in front of him stopped.
Yu Qing immediately withdrew his hand from the system screen and handed over the copper hairpin that had triggered the side mission, “Is this yours?”
He boldly guessed, “I went to your house and saw your child. He is very smart and beautiful, and he played hide and seek with me.”
Hiss… The live broadcast room took a collective breath, [Forgive my ignorance, but is the ‘smart and beautiful’ child he’s talking about the one with its eyes nearly falling out and blood pouring from all its orifices?]
[Playing hide-and-seek? Maybe he won’t see the baby the next second?]
[This is a mix of truth and lies. I really can’t tell which part of what the host said is true and which part is false.]
However, Lin Xiaojing seemed to believe him.
The hand with sharp nails stopped pricking downwards. The woman’s lips trembled as she stared at the half of the copper hairpin. For a long time, two lines of blood and tears fell from her eyes.
Very good.
Yu Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief; among these brides, she was the one with the most resentment. She wore the latest clothes and was probably the owner of the hairpin. Guessed it!
Letting go of his hand, Yu Qing took a few deep breaths. When he raised his eyes again, he found that Lin Xiaojing in front of him had a friendly attitude. “You…have you seen them? They’re cute, aren’t they?”
“Them?”
There was only one baby under the bed, and this “they” was…
However, Yu Qing blinked and continued, “Yes, they are very similar to you. I came here to find you and save them.”
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…”
After the words fell, the next second, the ghost bride in front of him actually covered her face and started crying.
She cried heartily, seemingly blaming herself for her incompetence and her inability to protect her children.
“I’m sorry… I’m sorry,” Lin Xiaojing cried. “Qingqing, I lied to you. Marriage is done early in our village, and I already had children. I shouldn’t have agreed to it from the beginning when you chased me.”
“I’m sorry, all the mistakes were my fault. You didn’t have to love me, but please save my children, save the children, wuwuwu…”
Her words were incoherent, the tips of her ears were red, and she was even a bit unspeakable. It was difficult to ask question and… it was difficult to sort out the information.
There was no other way, so Yu Qing had no choice but to help her up and comfort her with a gentle voice.
The tablets had been installed, all the ghost brides had names, and countless disgusting rules had disappeared, so…
The boy looked at the door again—he could go out now.
But before going out…