Chapter 36 Part 2

Zheng Yongming’s face darkened as he had the bodyguards restrain them before following Chu Yi into the room.

Kui Ya’s room had been transformed into an altar, a thick fishy stench permeating the air. A dark, shadowy figure huddled in one corner of the room, desperately wrapping itself in the bedsheet.

The Zheng Family bodyguards were all scared by this eerie scene and hesitated to approach for a moment. Zheng Danrui was the bold one who stepped forward and yanked off the bedsheet. Kui Ya let out a scream, revealing a face and skin that gleamed with the eerie light of snake scales. Her eyes had also turned into the vertical pupils of a cold-blooded animal, looking utterly terrifying.

Zheng Danrui cried out in shock, “This, what kind of monster is this?”

Chu Yi replied, “She’s Kui Ya. Can’t you tell?”

When Kui Ya saw Chu Yi, she immediately knew he was behind this. Glaring with her snake pupils, she demanded harshly, “It was you! What did you do to me? Why have I become like this?!”

Chu Yi curled his lips. “You cast this vicious curse on the Zheng Family. I merely used the same method on you, transferring the curse’s origin onto the snake swarm.”

“Impossible! How do you understand the Bannai Clan Curse Technique?”

Seeing Old Zheng and Zheng Yongming appear so quickly, Kui Ya knew it was a trap they had set. She had already been exposed, with no room left to struggle, so she simply asked everything she wanted to know.

Chu Yi said, “I know far more than you can imagine. You saw Old Master Zheng and the others recover, so you wanted to continue casting the curse—one part to nourish yourself and maintain your youthful appearance; the other to use it as an excuse to validate the tiger-wolf medicine claim and drive me away. Am I right?”

His earlier guess had been correct. To cast the curse, Kui Ya needed to be very close to the Zheng Family members. After the incident, the family grew vigilant, making it much harder to set up an altar. The Eldest Young Madam had also given her time off under the pretext of her child’s illness.

If not for the Second Young Madam being so foolish—constantly being coaxed by Kui Ya to bring her home—and with Zheng Yongzhou and his brother providing cover, the Zheng Family’s conditions wouldn’t have deteriorated so rapidly.

At this point, Zheng Wenhan and Zheng Wenbin’s families arrived one after another. Hearing Chu Yi’s explanation, Zheng Wenhan and his wife exchanged glances, while Zheng Wenbin was completely stunned. He hadn’t expected the wife he had insisted on marrying despite angering his grandfather to be a accomplice in their family’s misfortune?

“Don’t slander people! When did I ever harm Wenbin’s family? And Little Ya was turned like this by you, this demon daoist! Wenbin, don’t believe him!” The Second Young Madam was still unrepentant at this moment, even defending Kui Ya—she had clearly been brainwashed thoroughly.

“You were indeed unintentional, but your family might not have been. Old Zheng can investigate their dealings with Zheng Yongzhou later.”

After all, Kui Ya herself had said she was from the Bannai Clan—a female clan from Nanyang. Whether Kui Ya was a distant relative of the Second Young Madam’s family, wouldn’t they know?

Chu Yi felt a bit sorry for the Second Young Madam at this thought. Her family probably saw her as having climbed high and wanted her to give back, but the Second Young Madam simply didn’t have the brains for it.

Old Zheng nodded gravely. “I will definitely investigate.”

Zheng Yongzhou and Zheng Yongqi had long panicked. They tried to run but were firmly held by the bodyguards. “Eldest Uncle, it has nothing to do with us! It’s, it’s that woman! She bewitched us; we were inexplicably under her control!”

“Yeah, Eldest Uncle, she was too evil. We were dazed and didn’t even know what we were doing. We really didn’t mean to harm you, Eldest Uncle!”

Kui Ya sneered. “When you two first found me, that wasn’t what you said.”

It turned out that when Old Master Zheng’s younger brother was alive, he had instilled in his two sons the idea that Old Master Zheng had wronged them. Zheng Yongzhou and his brother had already been brainwashed by his twisted worldview, and seeing Old Zheng repeatedly yield only deepened their conviction.

When their old father passed away, he was still cursing Old Zheng on his deathbed. Old Zheng had acted indifferently, not even showing up for his own brother’s funeral, solidifying his image as a heartless villain.

Harboring deep resentment, they later drifted to Nanyang for business and accidentally heard that the Bannai Clan excelled in curses, so they put in great effort to find them.

The one they found was naturally Kui Ya. Since relations between the families were poor, to avoid Zheng Elder’s Family digging into Kui Ya’s background, they had arranged for her to come through the Second Young Madam’s family route.

The Second Young Madam’s family was dissatisfied—enjoying only meager benefits while she lived in luxury. When Zheng Yongzhou said that after success, all of Second Young Master’s assets would go to the Second Young Madam, they grew greedy.

And it wasn’t just that. They held leverage over Zheng Yongzhou and Zheng Yongqi, so they figured they could demand a share later without refusal. It was just sending one person over—what harm was there?

The Second Young Madam was stunned. “Impossible! My family wouldn’t do that!”

The Eldest Young Madam was furious at the moment and didn’t care about saving face for her sister-in-law. She shot back directly, “They even said Kui Ya was your family’s distant relative. Does your family have relatives in Nanyang?”