# 1687
Chapter 1687
Chapter 1680: Torment
Seeing the familiar face before him, Chen Skinflint froze on the spot.
"You... you... are you human or ghost?!"
"A ghost." Gongyang Wan coldly laughed. "A vengeful ghost who came to kill you all!"
One hand of Gongyang Wan's gripped Chen Skinflint's throat, lifting his entire body off the ground and pressing him against the wall. His feet dangled in the air as he struggled futilely, unable to break free from that iron grip.
Her face had returned to its original appearance. Her eyes narrowed slightly:
"Assassination, poison, stirring conflict, life-and-death combat... It took me two years to kill everyone at Qinglong Bandit Lair. I hung the four leaders on the banners and tortured them one by one, while feeding them just enough to keep them alive... Every month, I would torture one of them to the brink of death right before the others' eyes, then devour them alive.
"I castrated the eldest leader who violated my brother. I carved 312 cuts into his body, and by the time I ate him, he had turned into mush... I fried the second leader in a wok of oil until his skin looked like pigskin ready for slaughter, though it burned my tongue... I drowned the third leader in boiling water six times, until he was so bloated and swollen that swallowing him took considerable effort... I punctured over a thousand holes in the fourth leader's body and soaked her in a vinegar pool, so sour that I had to drink two barrels of water to stomach it all...
"Do you know what expression they wore at the end?"
Gongyang Wan's voice rang in Chen Skinflint's ear like a demon's. His face turned ashen, and his entire body trembled uncontrollably.
"They begged me... They were willing to do anything, begging me to end their suffering quickly... They knelt, they kowtowed, their dignity and arrogance had turned completely to mud! They were like dogs, using every means possible to please me!
"But how could I possibly grant their wish?
"Just as they were about to find release, I ate them all... From now on, their suffering would continue inside my body... They couldn't even die even if they wanted to!" Gongyang Wan's expression grew increasingly savage and mad.
"They deserved it! These beasts deserved to die!! A Zhuo was only fourteen years old!! How could they do those inhumane things?! I恨不得现在就把他们从我体内挖出来！再折磨他们十天十夜！！"
"The people of Qinglong Bandit Lair have paid the price! But what about you?"
"If it weren't for you, Chen Skinflint, how would I have been sold to Liuqing Fang?! How would those beasts have set their eyes on me? A Zhuo was fortunate enough to awaken his power and came to rescue me, but you people tortured him to death... Isn't all of this your fault, Chen Skinflint?!"
Gongyang Wan virtually howled these words. The hand gripping Chen Skinflint's throat tightened further, strangling him until he couldn't draw a breath, his entire face turning crimson.
Just as Chen Skinflint was about to be choked to death, Gongyang Wan released her grip. He collapsed to the ground like a pile of mud, gasping violently.
"Killing you like this would be too merciful..." Gongyang Wan slowly leaned down to his ear, her voice calm. "Tell me... how should I torment you?"
A bone-chilling coldness surged into Chen Skinflint's mind, his entire body feeling as though he had fallen into an ice pit!
"I was wrong... I was truly wrong." Chen Skinflint stammered. "Gong... no, Sister Wan! This had nothing to do with me... I was just running a business, I had no choice..."
Gongyang Wan slowly stood up, her gaze sweeping across the surroundings. Noticing the scattered stone fragments on the ground, an idea seemed to strike her. Her eyes narrowed.
"No choice? Then weren't all those girls you sold to Liuqing Fang also 'having no choice'?"
"Chen Skinflint, what do you think... would dying from choking on stone fragments be an appropriate death for you?"
Looking at the handful of stone fragments in Gongyang Wan's hand, terror flooded Chen Skinflint's eyes. Just as he opened his mouth to continue begging for mercy, a palm pressed down hard on his face!
Dry, icy stone fragments疯狂地涌入他的喉咙，穿过他的食道和气管。 Chen Skinflint瞪大了眼睛，本能地想要起身咳嗽，但Gongyang Wan把他死死地摁在地上。在这个角度下，即使他努力想把石屑从气管里咳出来，它们也会很快倒灌回去。
几次之后室息感涌上心头，他的整个头都憋得红肿，开始翻起白眼。
就在这时，Gongyang Wan拉着他的领子，把他提起来坐着，一巴掌拍在他背上。石屑剧烈地从气管里咳了出来。
Chen Skinflint瞪大眼睛疯狂地喘息着。就在他以为自己逃过一劫时，又是一捧石屑塞进了他的嘴里……
"One." Gongyang Wan indifferently gazed down at the agonizing Chen Skinflint, her voice flat.
Flying snow drifted down upon Qingshan County. The warmth and song-and-dance of Liuqing Fang resembled flames, while in the desolate backyard, a despair that bordered on madness spread.
"Two."
"..."
"Three."
"..."
"Four."
"..."
"Five."
After the fifth round of stone fragments were forced into Chen Skinflint's mouth, he had completely lost all strength. He lay on the ground like a pile of mud, his eyes hollow and despairing as he stared at the gray sky. Stone fragments blocked his trachea—no breath entered or left anymore.
After a moment, he was a corpse.
"Only managed five rounds, huh..." Gongyang Wan calmly rose to her feet. She coldly glanced at the corpse, then turned to walk back toward Liuqing Fang.
However, she had barely taken a step when she stopped.
She frowned at the man in the winter-green hanfu, holding an oil-paper umbrella. Her gaze instantly turned icy.
"Were you following me?"
"That's right." Lin Qiye readily admitted. "I already thought it strange that you suddenly wanted to come to this place. Now it seems you planned from the start to trick us into coming here, looking for an opportunity to seek revenge."
"How much did you see?"
"Everything."
"If that's the case, why didn't you stop me?"
"The Marquis forbade killing, but scoundrels don't fall under that category." Lin Qiye calmly glanced at the corpse on the ground. "However, I didn't expect you to be this ruthless..."
"In those hellish years I've been through, I only learned one thing—as a woman, if you're not ruthless, you'll only be bullied by others." Gongyang Wan coldly smiled. "Whether people call me a demoness or a cannibal, I don't care what the world thinks of me..."
She reached out and gently placed her hand over her chest. Amid the dancing snow, those eyes sparkled with intense light:
"A Zhuo suffered endless torment for me while he was alive... After merging with him, I will never let him suffer even the slightest grievance! I, Gongyang Wan, will carry him and stand at the very top of this world!!"