Ning Rongrong's Tears and Shouts Were Useless! Betrayed by Blood Relatives and Met with the Indifference of an Entire Village, Revenge Was Finally Born

"Yes, look at the way they see each other." Tang Ya also smiled in relief. "There's no wariness, no distance—only the purest trust and dependence. They are each other's salvation."

Watching this scene, Hai Long unusually set aside his frivolous expression and sighed softly. "One is a rebellious saintess, the other an isolated shrine maiden. They belonged to two different worlds, yet in this tiny village, they found a resonance between their souls. Perhaps this is fate."

Just as everyone was moved by this fleeting warmth, Kallen, lying in Sakura's arms on the Light Screen, asked curiously, "Sakura, it seems like you've always been alone. Where is your family?"

That single question seemed to trigger some forbidden switch.

The smile on Yae Sakura's face instantly froze. A sorrow too deep to dissolve—and... hatred—flashed through her eyes.

[An unhealed scar is about to be torn open.]

[The whispers of corruption are searching for the deepest cracks in their host.]

Boom!

The scene abruptly shifted, plunging into a suffocating black-and-white memory!

In the memory, Yae Village was suffering through its worst drought in a century. The earth was cracked, the riverbeds had run dry, and the villagers had become ignorant and frenzied in their despair.

The village elder, the old man revered and feared by every villager, declared in a cold voice that they had to offer a sacrifice to calm down the mountain god's wrath.

And the chosen sacrifice was Yae Sakura's young sister—Yae Rin.

In the scene, little Rin was roughly dragged onto the altar by the villagers. Her father, the man Sakura had once loved and respected most, held a rusty knife in his own hand and, amid Rin's shrill cries, mercilessly... severed her Achilles tendons!

"Ah—!"

Inside Shrek Academy, Xiao Xiao screamed in terror and immediately covered her