Chapter 848 – What If I Kill You? (Fifteen)
“Mother and Father are deeply in love; how could Father possibly kill her? Please find a more credible reason for your slander.”
The woman’s face stiffened, then she burst into tears and cried, “Your mother is a transmigrator… Transmigrators are people from another world… Liu Zhi thought she was possessed by an evil spirit, how could she not be scared? Just ask Xie Qian; when he found out Wang Huijun was a transmigrator, didn’t he become murderous? I’m telling the truth… If I were deliberately stirring the pot between you and your father, may I die an unpeaceful death!”
“Transmigrator? People from another world?” Jiang Pengji feigned ignorance, asking her, “Is what you’re saying true?”
“Absolutely true! The real Gu Min is actually an idiot; even the elderly who served Gu Min knew it—she couldn’t speak properly until she was four.” As the woman silently called out for the system, she shook and spilled the details she knew in an exaggerated manner. “The one who married Liu Zhi wasn’t Gu Min; it should’ve been Gu Min’s bastard younger sister, Gu Zhen… That transmigrator is shameless, using her knowledge of history to steal her own brother-in-law and pushing Gu Zhen onto that beast Meng Zhan… Liu Zhi stumbled upon these truths, so he plotted to assassinate Gu Min… I did kill your two legitimate brothers, but I really didn’t kill you…”
Jiang Pengji seemed swayed; while she didn’t loosen her grip on the woman, her strength visibly lessened.
“Keep talking; tell me everything you know.”
The woman, in despair, realized she couldn’t contact the system anymore. For her life, she could only take a gamble.
“I-I also learned by accident that Gu Min is a transmigrator… Later, I searched her soul and discovered she came from three hundred years in the future… She knows history, so she took the husband that originally belonged to Gu Zhen… She’s the shameless harlot! Liu Zhi is an ancient person; of course, he fears ghosts and gods, so he murdered Gu Min… I’m telling the truth; please don’t kill me…”
Jiang Pengji sneered in mockery.
The woman suddenly remembered something and hurriedly said, “Liu Zhi wants to kill you… In Gu Min’s memories, you will eventually kill Liu Zhi; he knows about this now. If you want to kill him in the future, it won’t be easy—he’ll kill you first…”
In her panic, she spoke in a disordered manner.
Jiang Pengji found it laughable. “You think I’ll believe you? If my father really wanted to kill me, he would’ve done so long ago.”
The woman cried, “Because you are the founding emperor of Jiang Zhao, the future Cheng Emperor, Liu Zhi certainly won’t let you die right now.”
“The founding emperor of Jiang Zhao?”
The woman nodded vigorously, saying, “Yes! The founding Cheng Emperor of Jiang Zhao! I searched Gu Min’s soul and found out she came from three hundred years in the future. The founding emperor of Jiang Zhao’s family surname is Liu, and her given name is Lan Ting. But when Liu Lan Ting was twelve, she encountered bandits, lost her memory, forgot she was Liu Lan Ting, and renamed herself Jiang Pengji. She even killed her own bastard younger brother… I saw all this in Gu Min’s memories… Later, she also killed Liu Zhi, who was captured by the lords on the battlefield, and murdered her own father…”
Seeing Jiang Pengji remain unresponsive, the woman pressed on, “Liu Zhi not killing you now means he will definitely kill you later. After all, you are the daughter of a monstrous being; why wouldn’t he be afraid? But to become emperor, he definitely wants to treat you well now. You have to believe me!”
Jiang Pengji laughed. “If one day I truly become emperor, do you think my father could still kill me? If he hasn’t acted against me now, he definitely won’t later. You’re trying to sow discord and provoke me into killing my father; your intentions are malicious!”
The woman’s expression twisted in fear.
She never expected that despite all her efforts, she still couldn’t sway Jiang Pengji.
After a moment, she said, “You asked me before… if I was the one who almost caused your mother to suffer a calamity…”
Jiang Pengji replied flatly, “I already know the answer to that question. Even if you answer, it holds no value for me.”
“You know?” The woman exclaimed, her eyes wide in disbelief.
Jiang Pengji confirmed, “I know.”
Their gazes locked, and the woman suddenly burst into wild laughter, tears streaming down her face.
“Yes, yes— you’ve figured it out! The fool was me!”
Jiang Pengji added, “Finished? If so, prepare to take your leave.”
The woman’s reckless laughter came to an abrupt stop, her eyes bulging like copper bells, showing vast whites.
“You’re going to kill me?”
Jiang Pengji replied serenely, “I never said I wouldn’t kill you, did I? You were just misguided.”
Her words snuffed out the woman’s last glimmer of hope.
“In your next life, be a decent person.” Jiang Pengji said in a conversational tone, as if speaking to an old friend. “In this world, every life is precious. Poverty refers to wealth, not life. You had advantages that others do not, but that is no excuse for trampling on others’ lives. You think you’ve hit the jackpot with that powerful golden finger, yet who knew the other party might harbor ill intentions?”
Truth be told, Jiang Pengji was somewhat reluctant to kill her.
After all, it had been entertainment all this time; getting rid of her would leave a void.
“Spare me just this once… I won’t harm you again, I truly won’t… I won’t be the main character anymore…”
The woman vaguely realized she had no chance for a reset; her fear of death overshadowed everything else.
“At this point, it’s far too late. Did you ever consider today when you tormented others?”
Facing the threat of death, the woman desperately tried to fight back, but Jiang Pengji had already anticipated her intentions.
“Ugh—”
She elongated her tongue as a strong sense of suffocation clouded her consciousness, thin streaks of blood filling her bulging eyes.
Suddenly, a sharp crack echoed; bright red blood gushed from her mouth, nose, eyes, and ears.
Her struggling body gradually softened; her eyes, open wide, looked unseeing as if she had become a vengeful spirit, losing all semblance of beauty.
Jiang Pengji murmured, “I thought about keeping you around for humor, but… who told you to lay hands on Cheng Jing?”
To this day, Jiang Pengji had miscalculated, but fortunately, it wasn’t too far off; everything was still under her control.
She believed that deliberately using the Ninth-Rank Loyalty Talisman would make the woman focus on her and not act against those around her, but who knew the other party’s greed was insatiable? This person attempted to control Cheng Jing; how could she not be a threat to Wei Ci and others in the future?
The woman had no fear of consequences; Jiang Pengji couldn’t afford to take that risk.
Considering the peril, she decided to resolve this hidden danger once and for all—
Even if now wasn’t the opportune moment to strike.
Dispersing the leftover spiritual waves of the woman, Jiang Pengji’s right hand brushed over the body.
After a moment, another strange source of spiritual energy appeared in the mental realm; it was the woman’s subsystem.
To differentiate between Jiang Pengji and the woman’s system, let’s label them as System One and System Two.
With a playful tone, Jiang Pengji said, “System, I’ve delivered your brother.”
If System One had a face, it would surely be livid; it cursed, “Brother, you shameless brat!”
