No shit, Li Zongsheng thought. Anyone would run! Who could stomach the sight of someone crunching people up?!
He sprinted again, and by the time he reached the mountainside, he was gasping for breath.
His legs felt filled with lead. Unable to lift them, he tripped over the tangled roots and fell flat on his face.
With his mouth full of dirt, he was about to get up when he spotted a figure looming over him.
Li Zongsheng froze. Slowly raising his head, he forced an awkward but polite smile. "A-Auntie?"
"I came back to marry Liu Ying."
"Please give us your blessing."
Mother Liu looked sinister and menacing. Her lips twitched. "Do you think... you're still in time?"
Li Zongsheng froze, an ominous feeling rising in his heart. "Auntie, has... Liu Ying already married someone else?!"
Mother Liu sneered. "I think you know perfectly well and are just playing dumb."
"Haven't you already seen Ying'er? What did you think?"
Kneeling in the dirt, Li Zongsheng suddenly struggled to get his words out. "I-I saw her."
"No, no, no, I didn't. That wasn't Liu Ying at all!"
Mother Liu snorted, then suddenly turned and shouted, "Ying'er, did you hear that? This is the faithless man you've been waiting for!"
"If you won't kill him now to vent your hatred, what are you waiting for?!"
If this man hadn't barged into the village and ruined her own daughter like this,
how could everything afterward have happened?
Li Zongsheng was the culprit.
Unless he died,
the resentment would remain inside Ying'er, and her flesh probably wouldn't last much longer.
The moment Mother Liu finished speaking, rustling sounded all around them. An eerie wind swept between the trees, whipping up grit from the ground and into Li Zongsheng's eyes.
He rubbed them hard