Chapter 3: 灭了你祖宗十八代

The door closed softly, and Yu Mei closed her eyes along with it. She needed to digest this fact thoroughly, very, very thoroughly...

In less than the time it took for half an incense stick to burn, Yu'er entered carrying a pot of water. Yu Mei saw an elderly man over sixty years old following behind her; the old man carried a wooden medical box and squinted his small eyes as he sized her up while she lay on the bed. His unfriendly gaze made Yu Mei feel a wave of discomfort.

"Miss, come, drink some water." Yu'er poured a cup of water and sat by Yu Mei's bedside. She used one hand to prop up Yu Mei's body, letting her lean against her to sit up, and very carefully fed her water sip by sip.

Yu Mei felt a small sense of being moved; no one had ever been this good to her before...

"Doctor, come over and take a look at me. What is wrong with my hand?" Looking at the old man, Yu Mei suppressed the displeasure in her heart and spoke in a pleasant tone.

"Hmph, let's get one thing straight: I only examine patients after being paid." The doctor walked toward the bedside step by step, holding his head higher than the heavens.

Yu Mei's delicate brows furrowed deeply, and the displeasure on her face became obvious. However, in the next second, a smile bloomed upon her face—as soft and enchanting as water and flowers. "You old fossil, a physician should have the heart of a parent. Seeing as you look like someone about to ascend to heaven yourself, aren't you afraid that being so money-grubbing will cause you to fall into the eighteenth level of hell a step ahead of time?"

"You, you!" The old man pointed a finger at her, gasping for breath in rage, his beard trembling uncontrollably. Yu Mei could tell that if she said even one more word, he might actually collapse.

Yu'er supported Yu Mei and sat quietly listening, but questions were rising in her heart. Her Miss had never spoken like this before; she felt that after her Miss had returned from the brink of death, something about her had changed...

"I am very well," Yu Mei said, her smile becoming increasingly tender and seductive.

"Hmph, you—just wait for death! This old man is done treating you!" The old doctor suppressed his fury, indignantly picked up his wooden box, and prepared to walk out. Yu'er nervously wanted to set Yu Mei down and go after him, but she was frozen in place by a single glance from Yu Mei.

"If you dare walk out of this door today, then in the future, I dare to exterminate eighteen generations of your ancestors."

The old man's footsteps halted. He spun around abruptly, staring at the woman on the bed with his squinted eyes in disbelief. She actually dared to speak such words with such wildness and arrogance. For some reason, the old man suddenly felt a flicker of fear; he suddenly believed she wasn't just bluffing...

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What Yu Mei did not know was that at the very instant she opened her eyes, that red light which had originally followed her had actually turned back... It was a red so dazzling that almost everyone in the Kingdom of Tianyao saw that eerie red light racing out from the backyard of the Left Prime Minister's Estate. That was the place where the discarded eldest daughter of the Left Prime Minister's Estate, Mu Yanqing, resided...

"Mother, Mother, look~!"

Outside the Left Prime Minister's Estate, a woman leading a child happened to be passing by. The child suddenly pointed at the red light racing toward the vast blue sky and cried out in wonder. Seeing this, the woman gave a simple smile, leaned down to pat the child's head, and prepared to pull him along to continue walking. However, the child suddenly collapsed to the ground, convulsing and foaming at the mouth, his small face turning sallow and his eyes rolling back, his features twisted in agony...

"Child, child, what's wrong? Don't scare Mother, my child..." The woman sat on the ground in distress, clutching the child's head, weeping and calling out incessantly. She attracted many passersby, but she could not bring the child back...

At the same time, the Empress of the Kingdom of Tianyao, who embodied the grace of the heavens, suddenly fell ill with a mysterious malady and became bedridden. The Emperor of Tianyao was enraged and ordered the execution of all prisoners in the dungeons, whether they were guilty of capital crimes or not...

To the west, the Kingdom of Xiwu was struck by a torrential rain that occurred only once in a hundred years; the heavy rain lasted for three days and three nights, drowning hundreds of people...

The Kingdom of Fengchen to the south suffered even more tragically. In broad daylight, under the clear heavens, several bolts of lightning suddenly appeared, striking and killing the people of an entire town...

To the north, the Kingdom of Zhen was hit by a sudden rebellion, resulting in heavy domestic losses and the cries of suffering commoners...

None of the four great kingdoms of the world were spared. At this moment, in every household of the Kingdom of Tianyao, a nursery rhyme was being passed around

"The Calamity Star is reincarnated, the Disaster Star has descended; the Prime Minister's daughter, possessed by a demon, brings ruin to the nation and woe to the people!"