Every household-intrigue story has one indispensable character: the young lady who is a cousin.
There are generally two kinds of cousin-ladies:
One is the vicious female supporting character who looks pure as a white lotus but has a scorpion's heart, and seduces her cousin.
The other is the miserable female supporting character who is introverted, swallows every insult, and never gets a happy ending.
Feng Runian, a gifted young exorcist, transmigrated into the life of one such cousin-lady. She had been bullied mercilessly and then schemed against, but her attempts to scheme against others failed, and she ended up drowning. In everyone else's eyes, the original owner's so-called schemes had been nothing but entertainment from beginning to end. Those who watched her had seen her get bullied, seen her try her little tricks, and then seen her die.
Feng Runian gave a light laugh. "Silly girl. Of course the wicked should be left to the evil ghosts to torment."
And so the people of the Song household noticed that their cousin-lady had been acting rather strangely lately, always muttering nonsense:
"Grandmother, there's a woman standing beside you, watching you. She says you killed her so you could take the position of principal wife..." Grandmother felt guilty. You little wretch. So what if I killed your son, and then killed you too?
"Second Uncle, why is there a woman in blue behind you? She seems to be having trouble breathing..." His chopsticks clattered to the floor. He had strangled Linglong, but what could he do? She was the daughter of a disgraced official.
"Oh my, Auntie, why is your room full of people, everywhere I look? I think I'll stay out." Auntie: To stay secure, you have to be ruthless!
"Second Cousin, Miss Xiangsi asked me to tell you that she's waiting for you on the road to the Yellow Springs. She wants to be with you for all eternity..." Second Cousin: Mother, didn't Xiangsi die of syphilis ages ago? I was the one who caught it from her...
"Elder Cousin, Tonghua says it's so cold in the snow. She doesn't want to kneel as punishment anymore. She wants you to let her in." Elder Cousin trembled. "Nonsense! Tonghua knelt in the snow for half the night that winter, and then she died of illness."
Five months later, the pillars of the powerful Song household, who held immense influence at court, were dead, ill, or insane. More than half of them were gone. Everyone said the cousin-lady was possessed by ghosts, so they sought help from the Imperial Preceptor, Yan Qi.
The Imperial Preceptor personally went to the Song residence to investigate and declared that there were indeed ghosts in the Song family.
Then he picked her up and carried her away.
Feng Runian hooked a finger under his chin and leaned close, her alluring eyes shimmering as she said, "So this is how the Imperial Preceptor exorcises ghosts~~"
Theme: Keep yourself upright, and fear neither ghosts nor gods.
