That night I was stuffed into a dead man's coffin and heard the groom say in my ear: 'You are finally here. I have been waiting for you for three hundred years. ' I'm not crazy, I heard the heartbeats of all the women who were buried alive. When I overturned the mourning hall of the whole clan, the bones in the coffins knelt down and worshiped me. Gu Huaian said that I was the key to the living sacrifice, that Zhou Bantang's embroidered cloth concealed the death forms of twelve deceased people, and that what was offered in Old Mrs. Shen's ancestral hall was my childhood hair. I am no longer a sacrifice, I am the awakened master of the dark marriage.
After Shen Zhaoyue overturned the mourning hall, the corpse's night whispers shook the mountains and fields, and the Yin Marriage Earth Line began to revive. Gu Huaian's investigation revealed that she was not the first 'married to death', but the thirteenth generation of 'living spirit fetus'. Every generation of women who were married into coffins, their souls would be locked in the blood jade coffin in the ancestral tomb to prolong the lives of the elders in the clan. Zhou Bantang's skin embroidery reveals the incantations written by the twelve deceased before they died, pointing to an even more ancient ritual: the souls of twelve women are needed to activate the earth's veins and awaken the 'Yin Wedding God' in exchange for the family's eternal wealth. In order to preserve her own lifespan, Old Mrs. Shen had already made Shen Zhaoyue's biological mother into a 'soul-drawing flag', and the crow raised by Mr. Chen Qi was actually the remnant soul of the twelve generations of women before her. Bai Suyi secretly guided Shen Zhaoyue to devour those wronged souls, intending to use her hands to detonate the earth's veins and massacre the entire Shen family for revenge. In the middle of the night, Shen Zhaoyue finally saw clearly inside her body - there was another 'self' emerging from the bones, saying softly: 'You should have died a long time ago, I have lived for you for three years. ' And the jade pendant on Gu Huaian's waist was engraved with the name of her biological mother.
