832: All of It Was Made the Lord Bear (Part Two) [Requesting Monthly Tickets]

Crack—

In her daze, Yu Zi seemed to hear a faint sound like glass shattering. Listening carefully, it also resembled the hum of a bowstring pulled taut to its limit and then released. The scene before her swayed and rapidly receded from her, along with their voices, which grew so distant they seemed to come from the farthest reaches of the sky. Yu Zi felt dizzy and lightheaded, her face deathly pale. She instinctively tried to raise a hand and find something to keep herself from losing her balance.

[Wei Heng?]

[Wei Heng!]

[You money-losing dead girl, why aren't you coming over here?]

The sharp, grating voice pierced her eardrums like a needle.

Yu Zi abruptly opened her eyes, and a face she had not thought of in many years appeared before her. The old woman had a kindly, benevolent face, with gentle brows and eyes and no sharp angles at all. Her eyes were somewhat round, and the corners of her lips carried a naturally affectionate smile. Dressed in coarse hempen clothes and carrying a bamboo basket, she looked at first glance like an ordinary family's kind old matriarch...

There was also a man beside the old woman.

The man had regular features, a broad, full forehead, and a naturally honest, simple-minded face. With the old couple standing shoulder to shoulder, who would not call them fair and benevolent heads of a great household? The sort who would surely enjoy their twilight years and die peacefully in old age!

Yet Yu Zi could not stop her whole body from trembling!

Her heart screamed for her to draw her sword and hack these two old beasts to death.

But her hands and feet would not obey her. The old woman's finger kept jabbing her between the brows, each blow heavier