At that time, with Hu Weichao’s death being a hot topic, Zhu Linya didn’t dare to act personally. She made several detours before finally hiring these people, unaware that several of them were fugitives with outstanding criminal cases. These people were paid by Zhu Linya to search Lou Miao’s home for evidence, but they happened to encounter Lou Miao returning home. Overcome with lust, they raped and then killed her.
Luo Yingbai asked: “Were those people caught?” Lou Miao said: “They were already fugitives with murder cases, impossible to catch from the start. That time was no different. The underworld allowed me to seek revenge, but after dying for over twenty years, I had barely accumulated enough resentment and supernatural power, and most of those men had already died in fights!”
Since the underworld had determined Lou Miao’s grievance and permitted her revenge, if she killed those who violated her, she would not be prevented from reincarnating or thrown into the underworld’s prison. Luo Yingbai said: “You feel unsatisfied for not personally ending those men, and have harmed innocent people?” Lou Miao responded: “Innocent? I don’t care if others are innocent.”
I only know this world has been unfair to me. Since they didn’t die by my hand, I haven’t truly avenged myself. One of them had a son, so I followed the principle of ‘sins of the father,’ and killed his wife and child. After killing those two, I was ready to stop, but then I encountered two meddling Taoist priests, who insisted I was a malevolent ghost indiscriminately killing and needed to be subdued. So I killed that Taoist priest too.
Though her experience was tragic, her character and actions were indeed cruel and extreme. Lou Miao had killed underage children and attacked human practitioners.
Lou Miao was originally imprisoned in a great hell, but the subsequent incident with the rift between the spirit and human worlds gave her a chance to escape.
Lou Miao pointed at Luo Yingbai and said: “What I regret most after being captured by the underworld is not killing Zhu Linya immediately, letting her enjoy a few more years of good life. Don’t think you’re wronged by being trapped here—I’m telling you, wastes like you who can’t distinguish right from wrong, the more that die, the better!”
