"This... this is just too tragic." The Fatty looked at the account in the book and instinctively felt pity. Anyone who hadn't lived through that dark age couldn't understand the helplessness and despair people had felt back then.
There was also an illustration in the book. It showed a person hanged from a huge, crooked tree, with a crowd of people holding torches gathered around it.
Miao Qing recognized the tree at once. It was the same crooked tree where she had noticed something amiss.
After that, rumors of hauntings began to spread around the manor. At first, people claimed they had seen numerous shadows hanging from the tree at night, but when they approached, the shadows would mysteriously vanish.
Then people started saying that on rainy days, they could hear women crying inside the manor. It wasn't just one woman, but many women crying together. Their sobs mingled with the sound of the rain, making for a truly chilling scene.
Because the manor's original owner had died a gruesome death, the town took possession of it. After changing hands several times, it was sold to a wealthy businessman from out of town.
But on the very night the businessman's family moved in, strange things began to happen. First, while half-asleep, the businessman heard someone knocking on his bedroom door. But when he opened it, the empty hallway outside was silent. There was no one there.
His wife, who had been sleeping beside him, also said she hadn't heard anyone knocking.
Then there was the businessman's daughter. Ever since she started sleeping in the manor, she often had nightmares. Worse still, she had the same nightmare every night. She would open her eyes in her bed to find all the candles around her extinguished, and the area so quiet it