Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 665: More Guilty Than Death (4)

"Who am I? Don’t you recognize me? I am Shuhua, the one you once tried to force into marriage, which led to the slaughter of my entire family. That’s right, I am that woman. What, you can’t recognize me? Hahaha, this is karma, isn’t it? Back then you caused the destruction of my family, and who would have thought that, years later, you would also suffer the extermination of your own clan."

"You... it’s you!" Chen Lin said, his mouth agape in surprise. He had committed many evils in his life, but this one he remembered clearly—involving over a hundred souls, both young and old. He could still recall among them a child under five years old, repeatedly crying ’Daddy’, ’Mommy’. The scene was indeed too horrible to witness, yet at the time he was still the Execution Supervisor, and the memory remained fresh in his mind.

"Yes, it’s me, what about it? Didn’t expect this, did you?" She stopped laughing and her gaze fixed on him, deadly serious.

Chen Lin hung his head and leaned against the prison wall in despair, speaking slowly, "I truly didn’t expect it, never thought you would come to avenge yourself after so many years."

"The vengeance for a father’s death is a vengeance that cannot be shared under the sky. How could I forget?"

As he recalled the past, Chen Lin strained against the wall behind him, gradually shuffled to his feet, and began to edge towards the edge of the cell, his eyes wide open, brown and lacking any luster, as he stared at Feng Shuhua: "Hehehe, it wasn’t me who killed your father, he deserved his death, he is...,"

Feng Shuhua covered her ears, glaring at him with eyes full of hate, and shouted emotionally, "Shut your mouth! When you dream back at midnight, do you ever think of my father? When you see so many heads chopped off before you, blood splattering everywhere, do you ever feel panic? When the cries of injustice ring out, does your conscience ever feel the reproach? When you see your grandson, do you ever think of the child under five you killed? When you massacred over three hundred people and blood flowed like a river, did you ever feel any disquiet? In your midnight dreams, have you ever thought...,"

"No, no, no more, no more talking," Chen Lin retreated slowly, his eyes round with panic, fear, unease, agitation, astonishment, and horror, all reflecting in those fading pupils.

Just as Feng Shuhua was feeling satisfied watching his panic, in the blink of an eye, she heard a ’thud’; Chen Lin’s body fell slowly, and a fist-sized bloodstain splattered on the wall. The red blood trickled down the stain, dripping to the base of the wall.

Chen Lin’s forehead had smashed open a large wound the size of a small bowl. Warm blood streamed down over his eyebrows, lashes, and eyes. Gradually, his face was covered by the warm, red liquid, more and more, his shaking hand pointing at her, his mouth trembling, "Shu... Shuhua, back then... back then I was... driven by... but it was too late when I knew... there was no turning back... hehehe, I... uh, I... I should... should..." His breath did not come up, his neck tilted, and he died.

Feng Shuhua’s tears gushed madly; she knelt on the ground, raising her head and howling, "Father, mother, little brother, I have avenged you, your spirits in heaven can finally rest."

Huang Yi witnessed all of this, and though he inwardly resented his father for his duplicity, he felt pity for her, and urged in an indifferent tone, "Let’s go, Chen Lin is dead, and his whole family has been decimated too. You have your revenge."

Feng Shuhua nodded, wiped the tears from her face, and said sorrowfully, "May I go in? I want one last look at my enemy. I worry he might only be pretending to be dead; after all, he was very cunning." 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

Huang Yi looked at the body inside, which clearly showed no sign of life, but seeing her disbelief, he finally nodded assent. The prison guard took out a key, opened the great prison door, and let Feng Shuhua in.

Feng Shuhua looked at the lifeless body on the ground, closed her eyes in despair.

"Don’t." An unexpected voice cut through the prison, reaching Feng Shuhua’s ears.