Chapter 243 : Petty Ghosts are Hard to Deal With 25 (2/2)

Truth Pill

D Grade Item

1,000 Contribution Points

After use, will cause all words spoken to be the absolute truth. Suitable for forcing confessions from undercover spies.

Can be used on all races.

1,000 contribution points. The pill was neither inexpensive nor too expensive. In the end, Shi Sheng still gritted her teeth and bought it. ‘I(bbb) want to flirt with Feng Jin more than waste my(bbb) time with this woman.’

Shi Sheng force fed Ning Xian the Truth Pill.

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The only difference between the two retellings of the past was Ning Ying’s attitude towards the matter of the wedding. All the children of the Ning Clan had received a talisman from the person who helped Father Ning complete the contract that allowed them to see the ghost king.

Ning Ying didn’t hate the ghost king; he’d accompanied her as she’d grown up after all. They were childhood sweethearts who had mutual feelings for each other. Ning Ying had really liked the ghost king, and had always been eagerly awaiting the day she came of age and became his bride. She looked forward to marrying him and spending the rest of eternity with him.

But Ning Xian liked the ghost king too. Adding on the fact that their parents had always doted on Ning Ying more, she grew jealous of her.

So she had secretly sought out that person of unknown origins and hired him using a lot of money. On the day of Ning Ying’s coming of age ceremony, he killed her and brought her sealed soul away with him.

Ning Xian then took Ning Ying’s place.

When the ghost king discovered the person he married wasn’t Ning Ying, he flew into a rage and wanted to kill Ning Xian. Ning Xian had only ever seen the ghost king quietly accompanying Ning Ying or showing her a slight smile—she’d never seen him this angry.

Even under the threat of death, Ning Xian was unwilling to accept defeat, so she lied to the ghost king and told him that Ning Ying didn’t like him at all. She liked someone else and had already eloped with him.

The ghost king didn’t believe her.

Ning Xian then told him that Ning Ying had been putting up a pretence of fondness all these years because she’d known they had a contract. Afraid he would hurt her family if she revealed her true feelings, she had faked her affection for him.

It was precisely because of Ning Xian’s deceitful words that the ghost king had cleansed the Ning Clan with blood out of rage and to force Ning Ying to show herself.

But Ning Ying had already died, and her soul had been sealed, so how could she show herself?

This was the truth behind the events back then.

Ning Xian plotted to kill Ning Ying out of jealousy so she could take her place as the ghost king’s bride. When she was rejected, she then misled the ghost king, causing him to massacre the Ning Clan in a fit of rage. But then what? What had happened after Ning Ying was taken away?

Feng Jin suddenly reached out to take Shi Sheng’s hand in his own as he apologised in a low voice, “Sorry.”

“En?” ‘What’s with this sudden apology? You ill?’

Feng Jin rubbed her head. “I can tell you what happened after that, but… let’s finish our business here first.”

“Is that ghost king still here?” Shi Sheng asked Ning Xian.

Her gaze still dull, Ning Xian nodded.

“Ning Xian! You dared to lie to me!” An enraged roar suddenly burst out.

A pitch-black shadow appeared in the air and grabbed Ning Xian by the neck. Although his expression was extremely ferocious, it was unable to hide his handsomeness.

Ning Xian’s eyes filled with blood and the ice-cold touch around her neck made her regain awareness. The Truth Pill wouldn’t cause the person who ingested it to lose their memories, so she was very clear as to what she had just revealed.