“This solution of yours means you’ll be taking my son’s life! And making him your son instead!” Song Lihua said furiously.
Ever since she discovered Zhou Liangsheng’s betrayal, Song Lihua never once lost her composure and maintained her calm all this time, even until just a moment ago when she heard what Li Zhixiao said.
However, it was impossible for Song Lihua to keep her composure when this matter had implicated her son’s life.
“Sis!” Zheng Binzhou rushed to hold and support Song Lihua. “Everything’s fine now. They can’t harm your child. But if you get angry right now, you and your child will get hurt, rather than them. For the sake of your child and yourself, you shouldn’t get so worked up. It’ll be bad if you experience symptoms of a miscarriage.”
“It will be really dangerous if you go into labor prematurely. Sis, you absolutely need to calm down!” Zheng Binzhou urged.
After being reminded by Zheng Binzhou, Song Lihua hurriedly forced herself to calm down.
But how exactly was she supposed to be calm while dealing with such a matter?!
For the sake of her child, Song Lihua could only tell herself repeatedly to bear with it in order to allow herself to calm down.
However, she soon felt some pain in her belly and covered it with her hand. Her face had become pale.
“Sis!” Zheng Binzhou’s expression turned grim. “I’ll go call the doctor!”
Xie Jiling rushed to take out a purifying talisman from her bag and stuffed it into Song Lihua’s hand. “Hold this!”
The pain in Song Lihua’s belly began to subside and eventually disappeared. She sensed that the child in her belly had stabilized.
Her initially explosive rage had quelled as well.
She had calmed down completely.
Song Lihua looked at Xie Jiling with an amazed expression.
Xie Jiling just smiled at her.
Zheng Binzhou then said to Zhou Liangsheng, “Zhou Liangsheng, are you even human?! You actually wanted to kill your own flesh and blood! You wanted my nephew’s life just because Li Zhixiao lost her child? Is he not even your son?”
Unexpectedly, Zhou Liangsheng said shamelessly, “But Xiaoxiao will never be able to give birth ever again. However, your older sister’s different. She will just lose this child. She can have another in the future. Won’t it be fine if I just have another child with her?”
“Scoundrel!” Zheng Binzhou punched Zhou Liangsheng’s face, sending him straight to the floor.
“Have another child? That child won’t be this nephew of mine! You want to let an infant spirit possess my nephew’s body! You’re simply malicious!” Zheng Binzhou got so angry that he threw another punch—this time, on the other side of Zhou Liangsheng’s face.
“Have another child with you? You disgusting man, why should my sis have another child with you?!” Zheng Binzhou raged.
Song Lihua sat on a chair with reddened eyes.
It was fortunate that her child was fine.
Zheng Binzhou was young, but he was extremely reliable at this moment.
He wanted to hit Zhou Liangsheng some more, but Ren Linna stopped him.
“It’s fine if you want to hit him, but don’t hit him so hard. He might make you pay for damages. It’s not worth it,” Ren Linna said.
“That’s right!” Song Lihua said hurriedly. “Binzhou, don’t dirty your hands! This kind of person—just let him be with Li Zhixiao. Just taking one glance at him now makes me feel disgusted. When I think about how I once had a life together with him, it makes me feel extremely disgusted.”
“Binzhou, don’t let him implicate you,” Song Lihua said.
Upon seeing this, Cheng Xin and He Yuliang also hurried to help stop Zheng Binzhou.
Zheng Binzhou was panting with rage, but he still heeded everyone’s advice.
He stood up and withdrew his hand, hating that he could not flay Zhou Liangsheng.
Yet, it was at this moment that Xie Jiling asked Zhou Liangsheng, “So the two of you want to place the spirit of that dead child into the body of this child? In that case, where have you contained that child’s spirit?”
Zhou Liangsheng looked at Lu Penghai unconsciously.
“You should release it,” Xie Jiling said.
Lu Penghai had a rather client-oriented approach.
He first looked at Li Zhixiao.
However, he saw that she was actually still hesitating at this moment.
Song Lihua already knew their intention. Furthermore, with Xie Jiling present, there was no way she would let Li Zhixiao’s plan happen.
Yet, Li Zhixiao was still refusing to give up.
Xie Jiling said coldly, “Is your heart truly aching for your dead child?”
“He’s my child. Why wouldn’t my heart ache?” Li Zhixiao had a pained expression. “Do you know how painful it was when I saw him come out? Although he was just a small little thing, he was already alive!”
“I could even see his facial features! But… But he died just like that! My child! How could my heart not ache for him?!” Li Zhixiao said while she cried.
“Since your heart aches for your child, why do you want to let him turn into an infant spirit?” Xie Jiling questioned coldly.
“Do you not know that becoming an infant spirit is a curse for him?” Xie Jiling said. “Initially, he could have been reincarnated immediately. He died before being born, so he wouldn’t have to queue up when he entered the underworld.”
“Moreover, due to his tragic death, he had the chance to be born into an extremely blessed family that will treat him extremely well in his next life. He would have been born into riches and honor and have a smooth-sailing life. This would have been the compensation for his tragic death in this life.”
“But because you let someone imprison his soul and turn him into an infant spirit, he now carries resentment. It’s impossible for him to have such a good reincarnation in the next life.”
“If you succeeded in letting him possess that child’s body… This child’s body isn’t his in the first place. Additionally, he frightened Song Lihua in her dreams and affected that innocent child’s life. Even if your child possesses that child’s body, there’s a very high possibility that he will die in a miscarriage.”
“Because this is a violation of the heavens’ peace, the Mandate of Heaven won’t let him be born so easily. Even if he is born, he will still have a seventy percent chance of being disabled. Mentally challenged, blind, deaf, and dumb, all four limbs atrophied—these are possible,” Xie Jiling said coldly.
“You think that you’re giving your child a second life. But in truth, you’re giving him a second round of suffering.”
“Dying in childbirth put him through suffering once, but at least it was only for a short time. But if he is born, his suffering will be for a lifetime. The longer he possesses that child’s body, the greater his sins will be.”
“Even if he is born, he will definitely have a bad ending. After he enters the underworld, his sins will be recorded in the book of life and death. Once he’s in the underworld, he will be punished for each and every one of his sins. It’s hard to say for sure what his incarnation in the next life will become. It’s even doubtful whether he will be a human or livestock, and what sort of environment he will be reincarnated into, as all these will be decided by his sins.”
“Did this Great Master Lu tell you all these?” Xie Jiling’s finger was pointing at the already powerless Lu Penghai.
Li Zhixiao looked at Lu Penghai in astonishment.
Lu Penghai truly hadn’t told her all that before.
“I… I had no idea…” Lu Penghai felt very wronged.
He truly had no idea.
No one had ever sought him out to do this sort of spell, so he had no experience with it.
Moreover, he had never met anyone from the underworld, so who would he have heard about it from?
Xie Jiling let out a cold laugh. “Even if you didn’t lose all of your ability due to the backlash today, I wouldn’t have let you continue being an exorcist. With a degenerate like you around, who knows how many innocent souls would be harmed?”
