Who You Are

Chapter 39 - Torture

~*Mature content, Gore, advise not to eat while reading this chapter*>
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Wang LingJiao sat up from her bed with a scream. Wen Chao, who was reading a letter by the desk, slammed its surface, enraged, "What are you howling at again in the middle of the night?!"

Wang LingJiao panted as if she still hadn't overcome the shock, "I... I dreamed of that Wei again, I dreamed of him again!"

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"Oh, what's this?" Wen Ruohan asked intrigued, "my drunk bastard of a son and his scared paranoid mistress? What a sight."

"That would be my doing," Wei Ying said, "the start of my demonic cultivation has arrived."

"Interesting," Wen Ruohan said, "I can't wait to see just how messed up these two can get."

"Oh, I showed up later with Lan Wangji, it was a sight to behold," Jiang Cheng informed.

Wen Ruohan was now even more intrigued and curious.

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Wen Chao, "It's been three months since I threw him into Burial Mound. Why are you still having dreams of him? Just how many times has it been?!"

Wang LingJiao, "I... I don't know why either. These days I've been dreaming of him a lot."

Wen Chao had already been annoyed while he was reading the letter. He didn't have the time to pay attention to her. He didn't care much for holding her and comforting her like he had used to do either.

He spoke impatiently, "Then don't sleep!"

She got out of bed and threw herself over to Wen Chao's desk, "Young Master Wen, I... The more I think about it, the more scared I am. I feel like... back then, did we make a big mistake? ... He was thrown into Burial Mound, but is it possible that he didn't die? Is it possible that he..."

The vein by Wen Chao's temple pulsated, "How could it be possible? Before this, how many cultivators have our sect sent to clean Burial Mound up? Did any one of them come back alive? Now that he's been thrown inside, his corpse has probably rotted away already."

Wang LingJiao, "It's scary even if he's dead! If he really did what he said and became a ferocious ghost and comes back to haunt us..."

As she spoke, both of them remembered that day, what Wei Ying's face was like as he fell, what his expression was like. Both of them shivered involuntarily.

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"Now that is what I call torture," Wen Ruohan stated, "driving them mad before killing them. You are a genius, Wei Wuxian."

"Ugh, It may have a good thing to kill the two but my methods were way too much. I am still haunted by them," Wei Ying responded.

"Don't take it to much to heart," Jiang Cheng stated, "seeing all this happening is kind of interesting...gruesome but interesting."

Wei Wuxian grew concerned for some of the people in the room. He knows by law and justice Wen Chao and his mistress should have died with the proper method.

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Wen Chao immediately refuted her, "It's impossible even if he's dead! The people who died in Burial Mound, all of their souls would be shackled there. Don't scare yourself. Can't you see that I'm annoyed?!" He crumpled up the letter in his hand into a ball and tossed it out, his voice filled with hatred, "What Sunshot Campaign? Some Sunshot it is. Want to shoot down the sun? Dream on!"