Chapter 126: Chapter 126: How Could It Be You? Chapter 126: Chapter 126: How Could It Be You? After arriving at the Liu Family’s doorstep, Lu Xun put on his mask and used the Concealing Technique.
Therefore, no one could tell that he was Lu.
Luo Ning knew why he was wearing a mask. The Evil Magician had been causing trouble for a long time and was definitely going to be captured by the special department. If he used his identity as the emperor, it would be exposed.
As soon as she got out of the car, Luo Ning felt the cold air surrounding them.
Upon hearing the car’s arrival, Xiang Bin and his mother came out together.
“Master Luo, you’ve come.”
Then they looked at Lu Xun wearing the mask collectively, “And who might this be?”
Luo Ning responded, “This comrade is from the special department to assist us.”
Xiang Bin and his mother knew of the special department, yet had never had contact with it, only knowing it was very mysterious.
They immediately spoke politely with a smile, “Greetings, comrade, we are in your debt for tonight.”
Lu Xun’s voice was cold as he said, “It’s my duty.”
Luo Ning looked towards two corners of the garden, and dug out a blood-red stone from each of the two flowerpots.
She had discovered these two stones last time, but had not touched them.
Xiang Bin and his mother were wearing the talismans she drew, which temporarily shielded them from the negative energy’s effect on their bodies.
Luo Ning wrapped the two stones with talisman paper and put them in her backpack.
Those things needed to be dealt with, otherwise, wherever they ended up, they could cause great harm.
The four of them walked into the villa and sat down.
Xiang Bin noticed that the previously chilly feeling in the house was gone, replaced by the usual stuffiness.
He turned on the air conditioning, “Master Luo, was it those two stones outside that suddenly made the house cold?”
Luo Ning nodded, “Exactly. The witch your grandma contacted used a ritual, planning to use the negative energy from the stones inside and outside to erode the entire house and continue to harm you.”
“Now, take me upstairs to deal with the other stones as well.”
Xiang Bin couldn’t be more eager to get rid of those ominous items, “Sure!”
Luo Ning used a talisman to wrap the stones Lu Xu found together.
When she returned to the living room, her gaze went towards the entrance.
“Since you’ve come, show yourself.”
As soon as her words fell, the doors and windows that had been closed suddenly opened.
A gust of cold wind blew in from outside the door and windows, causing Xiang Bin and his mother to shiver.
Next, an old woman who looked to be in her sixties walked in.
Seeing the old woman, Liu Hongxue wore a look of surprise and disbelief.
“Why would it be you?”
Hearing her, Luo Ning instantly understood that the Liu Family had a grudge with this Evil Magician, “Do you know her?”
Liu Hongxue took a deep breath and replied, “I do.”
“She was someone my dad met in the countryside when he was sent down as an educated youth. She fell for my dad and insisted that he marry her.”
“But my dad refused and instead married my mom, who was also sent down as an educated youth and was already engaged to him.”
“Then her family married her off to a man in the same village, but that man was abusive, and her child was lost due to it.”
“My dad returned to the city and gradually founded Liu Pharmaceutical. Since the villagers had taken good care of them during their time as ‘sent-down youth’, he turned that village into a medicinal herb planting base.”
“The locals’ lives started to improve because of this, and during one of my dad’s visits to the village to inspect, she suddenly appeared and begged my dad to take her away.”
“But my dad was married, and she had a family of her own too. How could he possibly take her away? He refused her again.”
“It wasn’t long after that my dad heard she’d run away from the village. He didn’t take the matter to heart.”
“Who could have imagined that twenty years ago, she would reappear and somehow destroy all the medicinal herbs planted in the village.”
“Following that, our family’s other bases established elsewhere all suffered the same destruction.”
“At the time, the company had signed contracts for the sale of medicinal herbs with foreign merchants. Her schemes prevented us from delivering the herbs, and with our competitors deliberately causing trouble, we couldn’t make up the shortfall outside, ultimately resulting in a hefty breach of contract penalty.”
“This incident nearly bankrupted Liu Pharmaceutical. My dad naturally wouldn’t let her, the main culprit, get away with it, so he reported it to the police.”
“But who knew she would run again? We, the Liu Family, fell into crisis after that. Then my grandma’s family sold all their assets and scraped together money to help Liu Family, and only then did the company gradually start to recover.”
She had already started working at Liu Pharmaceutical by then, which was why she knew the details so clearly.
Only she hadn’t expected this woman to become a witch, with a relentless vendetta against her and her son.
Luo Ning looked at the old woman. Though she seemed kind and compassionate on the surface, auras of murderous intent and bloodshed circled above her head, indicating she was responsible for many deaths.
Her facial features suggested she was narrow-minded and cruel-hearted.
What’s more, she shared several karmic ties with Liu Hongxue.
Her gaze grew colder as she looked at the old woman, “Aunt Liu, the deaths of my parents and maternal grandparents are related to you, aren’t they?”
Liu Hongxue was taken aback, somewhat incredulous, but then she thought it wasn’t impossible—this woman was skilled in evil magic.
“Why did you do this? Just because my dad rejected you?” She had come to believe what Luo Ning said.
The old woman wore a benign smile, but her eyes were devoid of any warmth, even holding a trace of hatred.
“Yes, I hated him for rejecting me.”
“If he hadn’t rejected me back then, I wouldn’t have married that abusive man, and my children wouldn’t have been repeatedly lost to miscarriage.”
“I just couldn’t take it anymore. Seeing him return to the village for inspection, I begged him to take me away, but he refused me again.”
“That led to me being beaten by that man once more, and losing my ability to have children, dooming me to a life without descendants.”
Unable to bear it any longer, she secretly ran away and then came across a magician.
After enduring torment at his side for some years and learning his techniques, she managed to retaliate and kill him, thereby escaping.
Since then, she had only one thought in her mind: revenge.
“How could I not hate him?”
He was the man she had loved and hated her entire life. Why did he have the right to treat her that way?
She was once the prettiest and most capable girl in the village, far better than his delicate, inexperienced lover.
She loved him so much, yet he rejected her, making her the laughingstock of the village and forcing her into a marriage with that man.
That man, holding a grudge because she had pursued him, would beat her whenever he was drunk or displeased, subjecting her to a lifetime of violence.
“Your vile mother had no skills besides seducing men, so I cursed her to die of venereal disease.”
“Her parents deserved to die for raising a daughter like that, so I caused them to die in a car accident.”
Her face twisted with a touch of madness as she continued, “I just wanted your dad to regret, but I never expected that after the wretched woman died, he would fall ill with grief and follow her in death.”
“He died too easily; it was unsatisfying to me.”
How could she not feel hatred and dissatisfaction? She hadn’t even seen him repent for his treatment of her.