He pointed to the blood-covered ghost of the woman and said, "A man who could plot to kill his own wife is truly wicked and deserves to die."
Upon hearing this, Lu Qingyuan recalled their past and laughed.
“When we played games together back then, I felt that you were more like a devil than an angel. Now that you have been reborn, you have actually become a devil. I don’t know whether to be happy or sad.”
He said to Yu Tang, "However, I know you've always been very rational. So even if you say you'll kill him, you probably already have a better plan in mind, right?"
Yu Tang raised an eyebrow, gave him a "you're so smart" look, and snapped his fingers.
"Yes, it is."
"Why don't you try to guess? Let's see if you can guess correctly."
Chapter 3
The villain is resurrected for the fifth time (03)
Lu Qingyuan looked at Yu Tang with a smile, his eyes sparkling, and asked, "If I guess right, what's the reward?"
Yu Tang asked him, "What reward do you want?"
"I hope you can grant me one wish."
"Sure..." Yu Tang asked curiously, "What's your wish?"
"I haven't thought about it yet, but I want you to promise me that whatever wish I make in the future, you must grant it."
Lu Qingyuan said this because he knew that after their identities were switched, Yu Tang might one day face the same backlash as him.
If there really is no other way to solve the problem, he will sacrifice himself, just like Yu Tang did back then.
Anyway, he's already had enough of living.
His nearly two hundred years of life were incredibly boring. As a human, he was bullied constantly. He made a pact with the God of Darkness and became his puppet. He finally met Yu Tang, who gave him a sense of life, but in the end, he killed him with his own hands.
His life then turned gray again, leaving him with nothing but unbearable pain.
Therefore, he was naturally happy that Yu Tang had returned.
He can enjoy this final moment of brilliance, and then return everything to Yutang, leaving in peace.
Let's pretend the two of them never met.
If someone has to die, then he will try his best to get that man's life back on track.
"Hmm...okay then..." Yu Tang didn't know what Lu Qingyuan was thinking. He figured that even if the kid made a request, it would probably be something like asking for a kiss or eating fish, so he said, "You have to guess right first."
"Angels and demons cannot interfere too much in the affairs of the human world, but they can guide from the sidelines."
When Lu Qingyuan heard him agree, his expression relaxed, and he said, "In the human world, there are ways to deal with criminal behavior, namely the law."
"I guess you're planning to resolve this incident through legal means, right?" he said. "After all, the laws of the human world today are no longer as flawed as they were in the days when I was born."
"Oh, not bad." Yu Tang leaned closer to Lu Qingyuan, looking the man with a holy aura up and down, and said, "You actually guessed right."
He ruffled Lu Qingyuan's slightly curly black hair: "Sure enough, you've really grown a lot while I was gone. All the hostility on you is gone."
“But I…” Yu Tang conjured wings, a tail, and horns on his head, and said, “Now I can clearly feel that I crave blood and souls. Is this what you felt before?”
"Besides blood and souls?" Lu Qingyuan's eyes darkened slightly when he saw him like this. He stepped forward and grabbed the wagging tail!
"Uh..." Yu Tang felt a surge of electricity coursing through his body from his tailbone, a tingling and numb sensation that made him blush.
Realizing what had happened, she quickly covered her mouth, grabbed Lu Qingyuan's wrist with her other hand, and her eyes turned red: "Let go!"
"Angels are indifferent to desire, demons are obsessed with desire, and the most sensitive part of a person's body is this tail..."
Lu Qingyuan gently rubbed the tail in his hand with his fingers and smiled happily: "That's why demons usually don't let their tails out, for fear of letting this weakness fall into the hands of others."
"Man, you're so careless. It's lucky you ran into me. If it were anyone else..."
He grabbed Yu Tang's chin with his other hand, his smile utterly childish: "I'm afraid we won't let you off so easily."
Yu Tang was initially quite ashamed, but upon hearing Lu Qingyuan's words, she instantly calmed down.
He felt that Lu Qingyuan, who uttered those lines from a 2000s domineering CEO novel, should be the one who felt ashamed!
He twisted his fingers hard, causing Lu Qingyuan to release his grip in pain.
In the blink of an eye, the tail disappeared, and Yu Tang said to him, "Thanks for the reminder."
"If you catch me red-handed again, I'll change my surname from Yu."
Lu Qingyuan rubbed his wrist and replied, "Tsk, violent angel."
"So, the devil is your true nature after all!"
“You reminded me.” Yu Tang leaned closer, lifted Lu Qingyuan’s chin with a flirtatious expression, and said to him, “You can’t call me Old Angel anymore, you should call me Great Demon.”
“And you…” he smiled, “I’ll call you Little Angel.”
Lu Qingyuan retorted, "How come it's big when it comes to you, but small when it comes to me? Where am I small?"
Yu Tang looked down and asked mischievously, "What do you think?"
Just as Lu Qingyuan's face turned red and he was about to get angry, he pressed down on the other's forehead with his right hand, forcibly bringing the topic back to the point: "Alright, stop fooling around, let's get down to business."
The two men chatted with the woman's ghost.
The woman's name is Li Cuilan. She is 42 years old. Her father passed away many years ago, and she only has an elderly mother at home.
She and the man on the ground, Zhang Hai, were in their second marriage.
The two each have their own children, but Zhang Hai's children are always cared for by his ex-wife.
He himself devoted himself to taking care of Li Cuilan and her child.
Zhang Hai said he owns a restaurant in City B and makes a lot of money.
So they asked Li Cuilan to quit her job and stay home to take care of the children.
Before the car accident, Li Cuilan was still thinking about discussing pregnancy with Zhang Hai.
Even though being an older mother carries risks, she still wanted to give Zhang Haisheng a child.
"The accident was caused by heavy rain. The car skidded while turning, hit the guardrail, and rolled into the river."
After Zhang Hai managed to pry open the car door, he no longer had the strength to pull Li Cuilan out. Firefighters arrived and rescued both of them to the shore. Zhang Hai sustained minor injuries, while Li Cuilan suffered multiple bleeding wounds due to the impact of the car hitting the guardrail on the passenger side.
Coupled with prolonged oxygen deprivation, he eventually drowned in the river.
Yu Tang summarized the incident, and Lu Qingyuan chuckled, "Looking at it this way, it really was a perfect 'accidental car crash.'"
"It was pouring rain that day when he suddenly said there was an emergency at the restaurant that he needed to deal with."
Because I used to work in accounting, which would be helpful to him, he pulled me into the passenger seat.
Li Cuilan recalled: "I have had epilepsy since I was a child. Although I hadn't had a seizure in a long time, I felt particularly unwell for those few days and took the medicine he had prepared for me."
Not only did my condition not improve, it worsened. Later, I drifted off to sleep in the car. When I woke up again, I was already dead…
“After he died, I followed him and discovered that although he was crying and wailing on the surface, seemingly deeply in love with me, he was actually secretly calling his brother to take a box from our place. Inside the box were all the accidental death insurance policies he had bought for me. That’s when I realized that he was the first beneficiary, and my son and my mother were not included!”
"With these insurance policies he tricked me into buying, he can get tens of millions in compensation!"
Chapter 4
The villain is resurrected for the fifth time (04)
"Moreover, what I fear even more now is that he will harm my child and my mother." The female ghost's voice was filled with resentment and deep worry: "My mother is from City B. My father was the director of a state-owned enterprise before he died. The two of them had two houses under their control. One was registered in my son's name, and the other was sold before. They specially bought a big house for me and Zhang Hai, and registered it in both our names."
My mother's health isn't good either; she has high blood pressure and needs to take medication regularly. But I know Zhang Hai manages all our medications. The medication he gave me this time is clearly problematic, and I'm afraid he might one day use the same methods he used against me, and then against my mother.
She looked at Yu Tang and said, "Demon Lord, you promised me you would help me kill him. Now that he's right in front of you, why aren't you making your move?"
"This beast even mentioned to my mother today that he wanted me to be buried properly, and he also asked my mother to refuse the police's request for an autopsy. On the surface, he was respecting me, but in reality, he just wanted to prevent his murder plan from being exposed!"
If you don't kill him, aren't you just letting this bastard continue to harm my family?
"I'm willing to offer my soul to you, I beg you to help me kill him!"
"Shh—" Before Yu Tang could speak, Lu Qingyuan conjured a cane and gently tapped the female ghost's forehead, instantly calming her down.
The bloodstains and water stains on his body disappeared, and he returned to his original appearance.
"Don't make a sound..." Lu Qingyuan put his arm around Yu Tang beside him, his cold gaze sweeping over Li Cuilan.
Although he was dressed in holy robes, his demeanor was anything but gentle as he said, "We understand the principles."
“Zhang Hai, a scumbag who is worse than a pig or a dog, doesn’t deserve to live, but we have to be tactful.”
"If we kill Zhang Hai now as you wish, your mother, your children, and the people around you will even think he is a good husband and a good father."
The idea that you committed suicide because you were so deeply in love with me—even you yourself find that disgusting, right?
As soon as Lu Qingyuan said that, Li Cuilan's face turned extremely ugly.
"Yes! It's disgusting!"
Yu Tang gave Lu Qingyuan an approving look and said to Li Cuilan, "So what we need to do now is to try our best to help the police investigate your case and get Zhang Hai sentenced to death by law."
"Also, I don't need your soul anymore." He pointed to the angelic halo above Lu Qingyuan's head and said, "You can see it too, this kid is an angel. With the angel supervising him, I, as a demon, can only do my job for you fairly and impartially for free."
Li Cuilan was slightly taken aback when she heard this.
After a long pause, she rubbed her moist eyes and said, "Thank you so much, really, thank you for helping me."
Half an hour later, Zhang Hai was found by hospital staff and taken back to his ward. When he woke up, he was told about his actions and thought he had just had a nightmare.
But that nightmare felt so real.
A demon with bone wings threw him off a tall building; the biting wind howled in his ears, nearly scaring him to death.
A vague unease began to creep into my heart.
That evening, Li Cuilan's mother, Zhao Xiaohong, came to see him. His eyes were red, and he held Zhao Xiaohong's hand and said, "Mom, I dreamed about Cuilan. She told me that she was afraid of autopsies and that the morgue was too cold. She wanted to leave so that we could bury her as soon as possible."
Although Zhao Xiaohong cannot see ghosts, she still believes in them.
The death of her daughter, a tragedy of a parent outliving their child, had been a heavy blow to her these past few days, her eyes constantly red and swollen. Upon hearing Zhang Hai's words, she burst into tears and nodded, saying, "Okay, okay, I also feel we can't wait any longer."
“I’ve looked into it these past few days. They say the autopsy involves cutting Xiaolan’s body with that knife. I can’t bear to see my daughter suffer like that again…”
After Zhao Xiaohong left, Zhang Hai's phone rang. He answered it and heard a voice from the bank reminding him to pay his loan.