My Lady Always Lacks Ambition

Chapter 1277 - 1200: Disgusted (Part 2)

This Cat Soul was discovered by her near the Ancient Well, and when she was threatening the Ancient Well Village, it kept pestering her not to kill the villagers. Annoyed, she casually trapped it in the Soul-locking Bottle.

Unexpectedly, this thing kept crying, and she never thought that Si Mou’s senses were so sensitive that he could actually sense the Cat Soul in the Soul-locking Bottle.

The Cat Soul said, aggrievedly: "What kind of saint? I am the kindest person in the world. I should have been reincarnated into a wealthy family, but unexpectedly ended up in the Animal Path."

"What did you do in your past life?" Qin Liuxi said: "Forget it, there’s no need to tell me."

The Cat Soul was stunned, but saw Qin Liuxi’s hand reaching over, pinching its head.

A real shadow of death loomed over its heart, and the Cat Soul screamed in terror, but soon it couldn’t make a sound.

Qin Liuxi was probing its soul.

In an instant, she let go, laughing angrily.

"You are indeed ’kind’. Falling into the Animal Path, you cannot blame anyone." Qin Liuxi sneered.

The Cat Soul’s face was blank, with intense pain deep within its soul’s Divine Mansion, as something was shattering and leaving it.

She was a good person praised by everyone, and it was deemed right to be so.

Qin Liuxi’s voice was icy: "So-called kindness should not be established on the suffering of others. What you considered kindness was nothing but selfishness, sacrificing your family—including your pitiful pair of daughters—to fulfill your own reputation and satisfy your private desires."

The Cat Soul, perhaps she should be called Li Shan’er; in her past life, she was also a villager in the Ancient Well Village. She married an honest man, and because her parents named her Shan, she was taught to be kind from a young age. How kind did she become?

She could give away her family’s food during a famine, resulting in her mother-in-law starving to death first. They made it through the famine, and because a couple quarreled, out of kindness, she pushed her own husband to intervene, resulting in him being accidentally killed by the other man. And their family, kneeling on the ground with a few children crying for forgiveness and detailing their hardships, she forgave them, taking no compensation.

She lived with her two daughters. Over twenty years ago, because the dry well suddenly gushed out water again, the village believed the well had a Well God and started worshipping it. Within a few years, the well water surged unexpectedly, and the respected villagers received ’dream messages’ from the Well God. They were told that the Ancient Well Village faced a great disaster that would wipe out the village, and to avert it, girl who had just begun menstruation must be sacrificed to serve the Well God to ensure the village’s prosperity.

The village chief decided on the sacrifice.

And the first Goddess chosen was her daughter. Out of kindness and the villagers’ hopeful and earnest looks, and with a stack of compliments, she sent her eldest daughter to the so-called Well God’s temple.

That temple was just a small house not far from the well.

Because of the sacrifice, indeed, everyone experienced great fortune, and the gratitude towards her intensified. Li Shan’er gained the title of a truly virtuous widow, as she didn’t remarry.

Later, it was the village chief’s daughter’s turn for sacrifice, but since his daughter was in love with someone and told a tear-jerking love story, she pleaded not to have her love torn apart and have her second daughter take the place.

Li Shan’er, in all her kindness, ignored her second daughter’s hateful eyes and agreed.

Both daughters became sacrifices, and her reputation for kindness reached its peak, but nothing was spread outside because the act of sacrificing girls was too brutal. If it got out, no one would marry into the village.

To cover up these brutal acts, the village maintained a unified narrative, even allowing men from other villages to marry into theirs; once they drank the well water and were infected with gu, they couldn’t leave and would only become one of them.

People did realize the cruelty and wanted to escape. The year she died, it was because a woman sought her out, asking the kind-hearted her to help leave, and she agreed.

As a result, the village chief sent people to capture them and directly sacrificed them to the Well God as a punishment and deterrent.

Yes, sacrifices indeed used young girls, but additional sacrifices could use women because they inherently carried yin energy, and the Well God favored yin.

Li Shan’er died, and because she caused the death of her daughters and husband, she was cast into the Animal Path, reincarnated as a cat, yet she was reborn with memories of her past life, both surprised and pleased.

She continued her kindness, even though the village chief sacrificed her. Though she resented it, seeing the village chief praying devoutly for her at the altar, she forgave him.

Everything was for the village, and it was all worth it.