Married Eight Times by 35, Now Paralyzed

Lin Xiaohua, 35, is infamous throughout the surrounding villages as a “husband-killing curse.” She has married eight times, and all eight husbands died mysteriously on their wedding nights, each death more sinister than the last. For her ninth marriage, she is sold to an old bachelor as a good-luck bride. During the wedding ceremony, she drinks a cup of poison and is left paralyzed, with only one finger able to move.

Everyone thinks she’s helpless and dumps her in a rundown house at the edge of the village to wait for death.

No one knows she isn’t paralyzed at all.

All eight marriages were schemes orchestrated by the village chief, the spirit medium, and those eight “husbands”: to swindle her bride price, collect insurance money, and take her life. Her reputation as a husband-killer was carefully cultivated; each marriage was a human sacrifice with a price tag.

By day, she lets them hurl insults at her. At night, she taps on the bed with the only finger she can move, directing a mute boy to dig up graves, steal account books, and record confessions.

Her former husbands “come back to life” one after another, gathering by her bed at night to discuss how to dismember her. When the village chief pours poison into her mouth, she smiles and swallows it, then turns away and makes herself throw it up.

Until the seventh “late husband” climbs onto the bed and grips her by the throat with a vicious grin. “Xiaohua, it’s time to send you off.”

She suddenly opens her eyes and clamps her fingertips onto his vital point. “Not so fast. None of you eight are getting away.”

She isn’t a husband-killing curse. She’s the King of Hell come to claim their lives.