Rose Hotel 19

Su Man could not care less about whether her expression was gloomy or not. She pointed at the unconscious Su Yuye. "Save her, unless you want her to die."

After saying that, without bothering to check whether her mother-in-law would comply, she walked into the hotel on her own.

The moment she stepped back into her room, she instantly felt a chilling gust of wind slashing toward her neck.

Reacting with lightning speed, she pulled out her dagger to parry. It was a strand of black hair.

Fresh blood began to stream down the mirror once more. "Why are you helping her?!"

It was unclear whether "she" referred to Su Yuye or Bei Jia.

"All of you betrayed me!"

"I will never forgive you!"

"Su Man, there is no forgiveness! I am going to kill you!"

"I am going to kill all of you!!"

As these bloody characters materialized, every piece of glass in the room shattered into fragments in a split second.

Although Su Man heard no sound, she felt as if she had been struck by a sonic shockwave. She thrust her dagger forward to defend herself at once. Upon colliding with the invisible and intangible attack, the blade emitted a crisp *clang*.

Following several rounds of resurrection and physical modification, her body had grown much stronger, enabling her to barely withstand the onslaught, though she still could not escape the fate of coughing up blood.

Half-kneeling by the door, her gaze scanned the room intently. Lin Hui's trace seemed to have vanished from the mirror. Where was she?

From where would the next attack come?

A sudden prickling sensation tingled across her scalp. With a nimble roll along the floor—it was coming from above!

Lifting her dagger in a swift block, she caught sight of a mass of black hair about to wrap around her neck. Switching defense for offense, she cleanly sliced through the entire bundle of hair.

Leaning against the doorframe, she maintained her vigilance while speaking up. "Lin Hui, calm down. I think we can still talk this over."

However, Lin Hui had no desire to listen. "There is nothing left for us to talk about. Every single one of you has betrayed me! I hate all of you. One by one, you only say you love me with your mouths, but clearly not a single person loves me! You were all lying to me!"

"Su Yuye clearly said she was willing to give me her body of her own accord, but now she has taken her body back, and they are trying to force me back into that dark, sunless mirror!"

Lin Hui's voice exploded into the air, laden with a tremendous accumulation of pent-up rage.

Yet Su Man's focus lay elsewhere. "Lin Hui, can you speak now?"

"That's right, so what if I can speak? Is it an eyesore to you again? You people simply cannot bear to see me do well!" Lin Hui's words were laced with barbs and arrows, stinging everything around her like a hedgehog.

Although Lin Hui did not answer her question, Su Man guessed that it was likely the influence of the hexagram.

"I have nothing left. I can never get out again. Even if I were to leave inside Mother's vegetable basket, I could never contact Kang Fu again! It was all of them who abandoned me!"

As she spoke, Lin Hui shrieked in a breakdown. "I have nothing left! Kang Fu completely belongs to me no longer. Without the help of others, I can never leave this place again! I am locked here, my entire life is locked right here, and I have to watch Bei Jia and Kang Fu be happy with my own eyes. Why are you all so cruel to me?!"

The already cracked windows around the room suffered further damage, and the entire building seemed to vibrate under the impact.

It was at this moment that the mother-in-law rushed upstairs, bringing Li Xing with her. Feeling the tremor of the building, she hurried straight to Su Man's room.

"Huihui! Huihui, oh god, my Huihui, are you in so much pain? Don't be afraid, Mother is right here."

Even though she could not see Lin Hui at all, her eyes still reddened with worry, and she stood at the doorway at a complete loss.

Yet right then, Lin Hui—who had never once manifested in front of Su Man—unexpectedly revealed her physical form. Staring with utter disbelief at the pale-faced Li Xing standing behind Su Man, her expression instantly twisted, and she glared viciously at her mother-in-law. "You actually let this man stay!"

She pointed angrily at Li Xing. "Do you have any idea that he is the one who caused me to lose my body?"

The mother-in-law panicked slightly as well. "Huihui, listen to Mother. Mother didn't mean to. It was Yuye, Yuye begged Mother..."

"Su Yuye?" Lin Hui interrupted her with a shrill cry. "You said Su Yuye? As expected, she is your most beloved stepdaughter, isn't she? Because she begged you, you brought someone inside?"

"No, that's not it, Mother didn't mean that." The mother-in-law was poor with words, and no matter how she tried to explain, she only succeeded in angering Lin Hui further.

"Mother did it for you." The mother-in-law's eyes shimmered with tears, and she was on the verge of crying. "Huihui, everything Mother did was for you. Mother did it for your own good. Mother never felt that Yuye was more important than you."

"It was just that before Yuye left for the hospital, she told me that this man must be brought in to rest..." she offered a pale explanation.

Yet Lin Hui could no longer process a single word. In her mind, every syllable uttered by the mother-in-law was merely sophistry. "You don't need to explain anymore! I will never believe you again! I am so disappointed in you! You always think Yuye is more important than me. I knew it, I've always known."

She looked straight into her mother-in-law's eyes. "The candy you bought for Su Yuye when we were children was always more than mine. It was the same when we went to college; you let her go to college, but you didn't let me."

"I knew it all. And it's still the same now. I thought you had changed, but you're still the same. I am truly so disappointed. You are all liars, all liars!" Lin Hui's eyes were burning red. "I am going to kill all of you! All of you!! Everyone who has betrayed me must die!"

With that, carrying a look of deep-seated hatred, Lin Hui vanished from the room.

The mother-in-law collapsed onto her knees, looking as though she had suffered a catastrophic blow, her gaze vacant as she murmured, "How could this happen? Huihui..."

Su Man stepped forward to help her up. "It seems Lin Hui holds some misunderstandings about you."

The mother-in-law looked at her sluggishly, her expression still blank from the overwhelming shock. "Misunderstandings..."

She murmured the word twice, then suddenly buried her face in her hands and burst into tears. "Huihui, Mother did all of that for your own good. How could you think of Mother that way?"

Seeing that she looked on the verge of fainting, Su Man supported her into the room and helped her lie down.

Lying on the bed with her eyes staring blankly at the ceiling, silent tears streamed down the mother-in-law's face.

Perhaps she was wounded by Lin Hui's words, or perhaps there was simply too much pent-up grievance in her heart yearning for release. Without waiting for Su Man to prompt her, the mother-in-law began to recount past events on her own.

"To be honest, when I first met Yuye, I had no intention of raising her. I was a single woman with a child of my own to feed and raise; how could I possibly afford to raise another?"

"However, Huihui's constitution was extremely frail, and no amount of medicine seemed to help. A certain master happened to give me some cryptic guidance. He told me that if I wanted Huihui to get better, I needed another girl with a similar destiny to lend her fate to her."