Chapter 2042 - 486: His Brilliance Has Only Just Begun (Part 6)
This woman has changed, yet hasn’t changed; time has been incredibly kind to her. She is even more beautiful and graceful than a decade ago, as proud as she once was.
The difference is, she has become more unpredictable.
"It’s quite ironic, hunting geese all day only to be pecked in the eye by one," Yun Shu sneered, curling her lips.
"I always thought she was too merciful, too kind, but seeing the means she used against you, she really made me see her in a different light."
Ji Lanyi suddenly bent down, holding her chin, smiling and saying, "Yun Shu, you never expected you’d end up like this, did you?"
Yun Shu let out a cold laugh, "I failed, go ahead, kill me and be done with it."
"Don’t worry, I won’t kill you, because that would be too easy for you. For a woman like you, I have a better form of torment, guaranteed to make you long for life and death but attain neither."
Yun Shu’s body suddenly trembled, "What are you going to do?"
"Remember what you did to me back then? Making us siblings commit incest, using us as tools for your revenge. Thinking about it makes me want to tear you apart piece by piece, but I must thank you. If it weren’t for you, how would I have met him... Even if he’s my half-brother, I still love him so...."
Yun Shu looked at her with fear in her eyes, "You lunatic...."
"Compared to you, I’m nothing," the woman laughed loudly, "Rest assured, what you owe me, I’ve kept track, one by one, slowly."
Ji Lanyi carefully examined her, her icy fingers brushed over her eyes and eyebrows, causing Yun Shu to break out in goosebumps.
"His eyes are like yours, his mouth too... I really hate it when someone looks at me with eyes like his...."
In a flash, Ji Lanyi suddenly extended two fingers, swiftly and forcibly inserting them into Yun Shu’s eyes.
"Ah...." Yun Shu let out a scream of agony.
The world turned pitch black.
Beside her ear, the woman’s voice grew increasingly gentle, "Let’s remove the ears too...."
She cradled her bloodied ear, tumbling to the ground.
"Such beautiful hands and legs, wouldn’t it be better to chop them off altogether...."
Pain surged upon her, she desperately shook her head, "Kill me, just kill me...."
A cold hand held her chin, a voice gentle yet gloomy like demons rang murkily by her ear.
"You can still speak, how about the tongue...."
From then on, descending into purgatory, she lived a fate worse than death.
In the end, Ji Lanyi healed her eyes, so she could see the person in the mirror, but that couldn’t be called a person anymore.
It was a person grown inside a jar, with no hands or feet, no hair or ears; she was a monster, a ghost... She screamed in fear, but her mouth could only make indistinct sounds; she seemed wrapped in a cocoon, unable to struggle or resist, other than watching powerlessly.
The woman stood elegantly and gracefully in front of her, gazing at her with pity, "This vast land and prosperous world, there is so much worth cherishing, but you can only watch, never feel again."
From then, she traveled with the circus, through many places, witnessed many landscapes, met many people, but she could only hide inside the jar, using her eyes to see this world’s scenery, yet never able to integrate into this world.
Forever, she could only hide inside this small, cold jar, from birth to death; this jar was her entire world.
She was still alive, but every breath of air felt like a sharp knife, relentlessly stabbing her heart.
She couldn’t cry, couldn’t laugh, no pain, no joy, even memories began to blur; her favorite thing to do now was to gaze at the sky, think nothing, as the days dragged and would eventually end.
After an unknown length of time, the long passage of time filled her heart with weeds.
She was brought to a room; it was warm here, and she curiously observed this world.
Someone came in to deliver meals; though mentally prepared, upon seeing her, his face turned pale, his legs trembled, her eyes widened, causing the young man to screech and flee.
Could she really be that terrifying?
"My god, is that even human? I’ll have nightmares for a lifetime," Yellow Hair patted his chest, though he was mentally prepared, he was still scared witless.
What kind of perverted person could conjure such ways to torture someone; killing with one stroke would be much more merciful, thinking how this person traveled nearly the whole world with the circus, one can’t help but pity them; how much sin must they have committed in a previous life to be tormented like this?