Chapter 242 : Petty Ghosts are Hard to Deal With 24 (2/2)

Ning Ying’s attempt to escape failed and she was locked up instead. She wasn’t allowed to take a step out of her room until the day of the marriage.

She’d tried everything from shouting and crying to threatening to go on a hunger strike. But her struggles only resulted in being tied up and forced to eat.

On the day of her coming of age ceremony, she was forced to put on a wedding gown and wait till night fell. But it was during this hour of despair that Ning Xian appeared.

As Ning Xian was Ning Ying’s older sister, she was naturally allowed to enter the room. She also dismissed all the others with the excuse that she wanted to have a private word with Ning Ying.

Ning Xian helped Ning Ying loosen her bindings and swapped their clothes. Ning Xian planned on getting married to the ghost king in her sister’s stead. Ning Ying was extremely scared at this point and only had thoughts of escaping. Hence, when Ning Xian raised this suggestion, though she had hesitated, Ning Yingstill agreed.

Both sisters had at least a 70% resemblance to each other, and their figures were also roughly the same. So when Ning Ying covered her face with a handkerchief and ran out sobbing, no one realised it was her.

Ning Xian successfully got married off that night. But when the ghost king discovered the person he married wasn’t Ning Ying, he massacred the entire Ning Clan in a single night, causing rivers of blood to flow. Not a single person escaped.

“Ning Ying, I really regret it. If we hadn’t swapped places back then, our parents wouldn’t have died,” Ning Xian choked out these words through her sobs.

“Oh?” Shi Sheng’s expression was exceedingly cold.

Ning Xian’s expression was slightly startled, probably thrown off balance by Shi Sheng’s lack of response.

Based on her expectations, even though Ning Ying had lost her memories, she should have revealed some sort of emotion upon hearing the tragic story of her past, right?

But Shi Sheng hadn’t, and merely stared at her calmly. As if the entire story of her devastating past that she had told was really just a story—a story that had nothing to do with her.

At that moment, Shi Sheng suddenly bared her teeth in a strange smile, drew her sword, and slashed at Ning Xian.

Shock and alarm surfaced in Ning Xian’s eyes. She leapt to the side and questioned angrily, “Ning Ying, what are you doing?!”

“Killing you, duh. What else?” Shi Sheng looked at Ning Xian like she was an idiot.

“Why?” Ning Xian’s expression turned pained. “Why do you want to kill me?”

“Why? Does you wearing all red count as a reason?” Shi Sheng looked at Ning Xian with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile.

Ning Xian’s felt her heart plummet as panic flashed on her face. But before she could suppress that panic, Shi Sheng’s sword was already slashing down on her.

“Big Sis!” Ning Yan suddenly appeared and blocked Ning Xian with his body, shouting in a panicked voice, “Don’t hurt Big Sis!”

“Move.” Shi Sheng stared coldly at Ning Yan.

“I won’t! Second Sis, what did Big Sis do to make you want to kill her?!”

“Ning Ying…” Ning Xian’s body was still trembling. Her already pale face was turning even paler. “You didn’t lose your memories, did you?”

“Now why would you say that?” The slight hook of Shi Sheng’s lips seemed to be mocking Ning Xian. “Was that whole story you told just a lie?”

Ning Xian couldn’t tell if the person in front of her had truly lost her memories or not, so she just fell silent for a long while.

“Second Sis, come back to us, okay? The past isn’t important; we’re family, so why does it have to come to this?” Ning Yan’s face scrunched up in distress.

“Since you’re so sure that your Big Sis cares about you so much, tell me why she hasn’t let you enter the cycle of reincarnation?”

Ning Yan was just a normal ghost, so he was still capable of being reincarnated.

Shi Sheng’s question caused Ning Yan to be stunned for a moment before he loudly defended, “I was the one who wanted to be with Big Sis!”