"If you ask me, just beat him up and force a confession out of him. He's the one who broke the rules first, we don't need to waste time talking about martial virtue," Yu Longting said with a wicked smile, increasing the pressure from the tip of his foot, grinding it down harder.
Lin Gang wailed like a butchered pig, presumably with his finger bones crushed to dust.
The faces of the people of the Lin family in the room all showed their inability to bear watching.
"Impudent scoundrel! How dare the Lin family tolerate such abuse of private punishment?" Lin Huan shouted angrily, "I can punish Lin Gang, but Snake Lord, you have no right to do so."
I knew it would come to this and urged Yu Longting, "Time is of the essence, let's not start a pointless quarrel."
"I'm just worried that dog might try to harm you secretly," Yu Longting replied, his eyes filled with a malignant light, but he slowly removed his foot from Lin Gang's fingers at my behest.
All five of Lin Gang's fingers were deformed, and the pain made his entire arm shake.
I grabbed Yu Longting's hand and gave it a light squeeze, "I'll be careful, look, he tried to harm me secretly just now, and even you didn't notice, wasn't it caught by me?"
"Mmhmm, my wife is the smartest and most capable, with keen insight," Yu Longting finally agreed.
I helped my mother up and made a cloth puppet with a strand of my hair, "Mom, you and Yu Longting go out first, my Puppet will stay outside with you."
"You're treating me like a kid," my mother said, helplessly cajoled out the door by me.
Lin Huan's disciples also filed out one after another.
After the dormitory door was closed.
Lin Huan's aged and broad hands lifted.
More than a dozen Spirit Talismans were affixed behind the door all at once.
"Lin Gang, it was you who cursed Beichen, wasn't it?" I glared furiously at Lin Gang, who lay prostrated on the ground.
Lin Gang puffed out his chest with righteous indignation, "What about it if it was me?"
"Break the Blood Curse now," I commanded Lin Gang.
Lin Gang sneered coldly, "Dream on!"
"Lin Gang!" Lin Huan strode over, about to kick Lin Gang again.
Lin Gang clung to Lin Huan's leg, "Father, Beichen is Snake Lord's servant; killing him is carrying out Heaven's will."
"Snake Lord is revered as one of the Immortal Clan; what 'Heaven's will' are you carrying out? What kind of path are you claiming to walk?" I really had it with Lin Gang, speaking with such brazen lies and distortion of the truth.
Lin Gang's eyes were bloodshot as he glared at me, "That's right, to others he is of the Immortal Clan, but in the eyes of us, the people of the Lin family, he is a Demon Head who not only defiled you, Wanwan, but also forced you to bear his child!! The Lin family cannot coexist under the same sky with him."
"Bear a child..." reminded by Lin Gang, Lin Huan squinted at my stomach.
His gaunt gaze flickered with a hint of murderous intent.
I supported my stomach and took a half-step back, "Senior Lin, you'd better stay clear-headed and not be misled by Lin Gang."
"Misled... is there even a single untrue word in what he said?"
Lin Huan drew the Money Sword strapped to his back, "Wanwan, listen to your grandfather, while Yu Longting is not monitoring you, let me help you get rid of the evil spawn."
"Lin Huan! You are not my grandfather, you're fucking insane!"
I was livid with rage.
Retreating further would bring me against the door covered in talisman paper.
My womb's Little Dumpling bears the blood of a snake; any hasty contact might harm him, forcing me to abandon the idea of leaving, "Lin Huan, when Lin Gang cursed Beichen, he forced a young girl to fall from a high building. Isn't such a sin worse than forcing me to get pregnant?"
"Lin Gang, you killed someone?" Lin Huan rebuked angrily.
Lin Gang defended himself by waving his hands, "No, it was Wanwan!! Wanwan is bewitched by the Snake Lord; she's deluded by the fox and deliberately framing me."
"I'm framing you? Lin Huan, take a look at this surveillance footage for yourself," I said, pulling up the video on my phone and handing it to Lin Huan.
The entire surveillance was edited, preserving only the scenes of Beichen attempting to subdue the extortion and the girl falling from the building.
Lin Huan, being an expert, understood in an instant and slapped Lin Gang's face, "You beast, that girl was so young, and you conspired with the Demon Fox to push her from the building. How could I have fathered such a curse like you."