Chapter 244 : Petty Ghosts are Hard to Deal With 26 (1/2)

The ghost king slammed Ning Xian against the wall and, when she slid to the ground, stomped on her chest.

“I didn’t! It’s all part of their plot! You can’t believe her!” Ning Xian desperately hugged the ghost king’s leg as she shook her head in terror.

“I heard your every word myself, yet you still want to deceive me?!” The ghost king stepped on her harder.

“Ah!”

Ning Yan had been frozen to his spot by Feng Jin’s talisman and couldn’t speak, so he could only watch Ning Xian suffer.

“Look at her now, she’s with another man! Wake up already! She’ll never like you! Not then, not now!” With an unexpected burst of strength, Ning Xian struggled free from the ghost king’s control and stood, roaring hysterically while pointing at Shi Sheng and Feng Jin.

“Bullshit!” The ghost king ruthlessly slapped Ning Xian across the face.

Ning Xian stumbled and half knelt on the ground. She laughed mockingly with a crazed expression, “Bullshit? Then why don’t you turn around and look at them with your own eyes? Why don’t you dare look at them? Even if I what I said to you back then was a lie, I’m not lying to you now!”

The ghost king angrily beat Ning Xian up. She merely laughed maniacally the whole time without fighting back. ‘A century with him couldn’t even compare to less than two decades with her…’

“You’re a coward!” Ning Xian shouted.

“I’m a coward?” The ghost king seemed to have been shocked by these words as he repeated them in a strange tone.

“What are you if not a coward? Back then, I told you Ning Ying had eloped with someone else. Had you run after her, you might’ve discovered the truth, but you didn’t. All you did was bathe the Ning Clan in blood to vent out your feelings. What are you if not a coward?”

Ning Xian’s voice was hoarse from crazily screaming and laughing, but her words cut straight through his heart. The ghost king glared at Ning Xian with terrifying eyes, but she had clearly decided to go through with it since she was doomed anyway. ‘If he hadn’t heard my words just now, I might’ve still had a chance. But now…’

The moment she saw Ning Ying, Ning Xian knew there were only two outcomes. Either Ning Ying disappeared, or she did.

The viciousness in her eyes flared. She wasn’t willing to see either of these outcomes come true. Ning Xian decided right then and there that the two of them should just perish together, so that neither of them could have him. She suddenly shot towards Shi Sheng.

Shi Sheng, “…” ‘Do you think you’re in a movie where you can go for mutual destruction just because you want to?’

Shi Sheng waved her sword, causing an invisible force to sweep towards Ning Xian. Her body was pushed back uncontrollably and she was smacked against the wall again.

Ning Xian was in complete disbelief. ‘How can she be so powerful? I couldn’t even get close to her…’

At that moment, Ning Xian truly despaired.

All this had happened in the span of a few seconds. By the time the ghost king reacted, Ning Xian had already been thrown against the wall.

“Seeking death!” ‘She dared to attack Ning Ying in front of me!’

The ghost king gave her a ferocious kick, causing her to be unable to get up.

She laid on the ground with a pained expression, but her lips were pulled into a queer smile.

“Ning Ying, the only reason I lost to you was because Father chose you and not me.”

‘Had Father chosen me back then, I would’ve been the one he liked!’

“Then go back and get him to change his choice.” Shi Sheng returned her words with a slight smile, her eyes curving upwards. What should have made her look like a goddess made her feel very obnoxious instead.

Ning Xian was angered to death. Her body slowly dissipated into the air.

……

Only now did the ghost king turn to properly look at Shi Sheng. His gaze was complicated—a mixture of guilt, remorse, suspicion, jealousy… and deep love.

“Ying-Ying…”

Before he could say another word, Feng Jin stepped forward and embraced Shi Sheng in his arms as a gesture of staking his claim as well as protecting her. ‘As a man, how could I always hide behind my woman’s back?’

Shi Sheng turned back to smile at him. “Don’t worry. Even if an angel was standing before me, you’ll still be the only one in my heart.”

Feng Jin’s face was black as a pot and he refused to look at her anymore. ‘She says sweet nothings so easily! Who knows how many people she’s spoken them to?’

But his arms tightened around her.

Shi Sheng rolled her eyes. ‘This tempting little devil! His body is way more honest than his mouth!’