As long as it was an otherworldly item, I knew how to deal with it! 

Wang Ping was still crying

 and 

clutching her face. Slowly, bleeding bites appeared on her body. The boy just stood and held the cloth tiger

 tightly.

H

is cold eyes 

watched

 everything. 

I deliberately let Wang Ping endure this pain to give her a lesson.

I the

n

 slowly got down the tree. Until she 

was

 hurt enough, I pushed the door open

 and entered 

the house. 

T

he moment I pushed the door open, I splashed rooster blood. 

A rooster

 was a good

 tool

 to expel evil spirits and beckon Yang energy. In China, whether it was a happy or mournful event, the rooster was an indispensable 

animal

. In many places, people believed that they could use 

a

 rooster 

instead of the

 deceased groom.  

It was mainly because 

a

 rooster could 

beckon

 the sun. It was in the animal’s nature to be a spiritual living being. The rooster’s crow 

attracted 

Yang energy

, so t

he rooster’s blood also had the same function. Moreover, I had added cinnabar 

to

 the blood. 

When rooster blood splashed on the crying faces, they shrank as if they were electrified

. They retreated 

to the boy. The entire room was filled with shrill cries, 

which gave

 me a splitting headache. 

I opened the Yin and Yang Umbrella but didn’t do anything else. The boy gazed at me hostilely. I flinched

 and felt 

a squeeze in my heart as I saw the red hand mark on his cheek. 

Wang Ping had stopped screeching. After I had confirmed that she wouldn’t die, I 

no longer

cared

 about her. I couldn’t pity her 

after

 what she had just done. 

I tried to talk to the boy in 

hopes

 that he would hand me the cloth tiger so that I could handle it. Looking at the dark energy lingering on the toy, I was afraid that the spirit would possess the boy. 

When the boy heard me, he hugged the cloth tiger tighter

. H

is voice was resolute. “Even if I die, I won’t let you hurt Aji! You are a bad guy! A big bad guy!” 

It seemed Aji was the name of the

spirit. Unfortunately, he wasn’t 

a

 famous historical figure, so I

 needed mor

e 

clues

 to 

figure out how to deal with

 him. 

“Rest assured boy! I just want to help Aji,” I convincingly told him. 

A moment later, the boy seemed to recognize that I didn’t want to hurt his friend. He 

gestured to the

 dark shadow to approach me. 

I took out a set of Han 

children’s 

clothes that 

were

 made of gold paper from my bag. They looked realistic. 

Since Aji had died early, I guessed he 

had

 never

 worn

 such good clothes. Even 

though

 he 

was

 a spirit now, he was still a kid. He wouldn’t be able to resist the enticement of having new clothes. 

Indeed, when I offered him the clothes, the tattered Aji couldn’t wait

 and entered 

the clothes. 

However, as soon as he got in, he screamed painfully. The boy’s face changed. He waved the cloth tiger

 in an attempt 

to retrieve the spirit! 

I had prepared everything. Th

ese

 paper Han clothes had cost me a lot of effort. The gold threads on the clothes were made 

from 

the powder of Buddhist 

prayer

 beads that had been blessed. The boy couldn’t rescue his friend.  

The gold threads started to shrink and Aji screamed louder. The more he screeched, the thinner the dark smoke 

around

 his body had become. 

The

 smooth face of a child was finally revealed. However, his eyes were still blood-red. 

It seemed he hated everything, and that his hatred came from the grievances he had suffered! 

I sighed and read a spell to retrieve Aji into a small jade bottle gourd. 

This kid had just stood still and watched his mother 

in pain

. But now, he 

was

 restless

 and jumped 

toward me without thinking. Without Aji’s help, he was just an 

eight-year-old

 kid. He couldn’t do anything other than 

scratch

 me. In the end, he helplessly sat on the ground

 and cried

. 

Things

 should end here

, but

 I wanted to do something for Aji. I wanted to know what kind of grudge he had that had made him linger in this world with hatred for thousands of years. 

I lifted the kid and put him on the sofa. I called 

an ambulance and had

 Wang Ping taken to the hospital. Afterward, I talked to the kid. 

He didn’t react to me at first. But 

w

hen I told him that I would like to help Aji reincarnate, his eyes sparkled. With red eyes, he nodded. 

While helping him clean his wound, I asked him to tell me about Aji. He could feel that I was different from Wang Ping

. H

e sobbed

 and told 

me Aji’s old story.  

Aji was a son of an official in the Han Dynasty. His father h

eld 

a low position, but he could make end meets. However, Aji’s father had great ambition. He had always been busy around other higher-rank officials

 and gave 

them welcome part

ies

 or gifts in hopes 

of getting 

promoted. He had ignored his son while doing all this. 

Eventually, Aji’s father succeeded. But then, he changed. He began to party hard and when he got drunk, he 

went

 home to abuse Aji and his mother. 

It had happened for a long time. Aji’s mother couldn’t put up with 

her

 violent husband anymore. She jumped into a well to commit suicide. Before she killed herself, she made a cloth tiger for Aji

 and told 

little Aji that this friend would always be with him. 

Without his mother to care for him, Aji’s life became even worse. More often than not, he didn’t have meals to eat. One day, during a banquet, Aji made his father lose face. His father locked him up. He was imprisoned for seven days,

and he only had the cloth tiger to accompany him throughout the horrible period.  

After seven days, when Aji’s father remembered that he still had a son, Aji was starved to death… 

Aji’s unwilling soul had lingered in this mortal world and taken shelter in the cloth tiger. Wang Ping’s son happened to find the toy one day when he 

went

 out to play

,

releasing

 the spirit. 

Little Aji 

swore

 to bring 

retribution

 to the bad mothers and fathers. That’s how the corpse-chopping serial cases had started. 

I 

heaved

 a deep sigh after listening to the story. I stroked the jade bottle gourd

 and felt 

like crying. I took the boy back to his room to rest then went to the hospital to see Wang Ping. 

Wang Ping only

 had

 minor injuries on her body. It seemed the boy had shown mercy to his mother. 

I went to the hospital to talk to Wang Ping and advised her to treat her son better. 

With h

er behavior

, she could be accused of

 child abuse

. 

Unexpectedly, as soon as she saw me, she wept

 and asked 

if her son was all right. 

Oh, this woman cares about her son now. Did she change her mind? 

After listening to her, I understood that she had interpreted her son coldly standing and watching her last night as 

an act of courage, just as if he

wanted to

 stay with her 

until

 the very end. 

It was a 

convenient

 misunderstanding

, so

 I didn’t tell her the truth. With her interpretation of the situation, Wang Ping pledged to treat her son better. She 

would

make up for all of her previous deeds.

I considered it then simply said, “I

’ve 

subdued the spirit

. Th

at spirit had come to you because you abused your son.” 

Wang Ping felt guilty. “I swear I will never harm my son again.” 

Afterward, I took Wang Ping to her house. We saw her husband there. Seeing his wounded wife, he regretted 

his actions

 a lot. “I’m so sorry. I should have trusted you.” 

I then learned that they had 

fought

 because her husband didn’t believe that ghosts existed. 

Wang Ping wasn’t mad anymore as her husband had apologized to her. She went upstairs to see her son. I followed her and saw her 

hug

 the boy

. She was cr

ying. 

The hatred on the boy’s face slowly faded and disappeared while his mother was weeping and telling him that she was sorry and she would treat him 

better

. In the end, he sank into his mother’s embrac

e and sobbed

. 

I 

felt

 somewhat happy. I had been worried 

about

 the boy’s life, but now I knew I had been

 overthinking

. 

However, I pitied the kids of the other eight victims. They didn’t have the love they deserved

and they would have to struggle a lot later. 

But it was fate

. O

therworldly merchants had to follow the will of Heaven. They should never go against 

it

. I just hoped that those children would soon learn to accept their fates and optimistically face everything that would come 

in

 their lives. 

I had been waiting downstairs for a while before Wang Ping came down with red, swelling eyes. She held the cloth tiger

 and gave 

it to me. “It’s a gift from my son to you.” 

I smiled

 and thought 

that the boy was smart enough! 

After that, I looked around and found an abandoned factory where I would help Aji ascend. I wanted this little boy who had held his grudge for thousands of years to have a place to go to. 

It wasn’t hard to help Aji ascend. Aji hated his father the most. At the same time, he desired his father’s love and care the most. As long as I could smoothen this knot, he would be willing to go. 

I put on a Han suit and a wig. After more than one thousand years, I guessed he had forgotten what his father looked like. Only the hatred that stayed in his heart made him linger here. 

That’s right, I

 wore this to

 cosplay as Aji’s father!