Years ago, Xu Yao had once asked the "Granny Xu" of the time, "Our family is already so wealthy. Why do we have to keep doing things that harm people?"
Granny Xu had said, "If we don't do it, they'll make someone else do it. If we can't give them what they want, they won't respect or revere us anymore, and we won't be able to keep our footing here."
Once the engine of sin was started, it could no longer be stopped. For the sake of a comfortable life, generation after generation of the Xu Family's descendants discarded their own names and took up the mask called "Granny Xu," sacrificing innocent victims like shamans in an ancient ritual.
If nothing unexpected happened, Xu Yao would one day become the new "Granny Xu," enjoying the wealth brought by sin with a clear conscience. Through day after day and year after year of exposure, she would grow accustomed to harming others for her own gain and drinking blood like a savage.
But Xu Yao did not want that.
Call her naïve or foolish, but she had dreamed of ending the cycle of sin in her generation. She had even used "love at first sight" as an excuse to save a county deputy who had come to investigate Double Happiness Town from the townspeople.
She and the county deputy delayed for time under the pretense of preparing for a wedding, eventually gathering enough evidence. She sent the county deputy out of town while voluntarily drawing the pursuers away herself.
Forced into a corner, she jumped into the dry well. She had thought that would be the end of it, only to discover in terror that death was not the end of everything.
Her soul was trapped at the bottom of the well,