Another night.
Tang Rui always felt, perhaps mistakenly, that the rain tonight was exactly the same as the night many years ago when Wen Xishu invited her to unleash chaos...
Identical.
When she and Wen Xishu prepared to go out, she felt as though she had been transported back in time.
...
...
Jiangcheng.
As the rain poured down across the city, amidst the lights of a thousand homes, the family of three from the Li family were happily enjoying their hot pot.
At this moment, suddenly someone knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" the daughter naturally asked.
"Did you order delivery?" Mr. Li’s wife asked.
Mr. Li shook his head:
"In this weather, who would be delivering food."
A woman’s voice came from outside the door:
"I’m your elder sister."
The first reaction from Mr. Li and his wife was one of shock — what sister?
But clearly, the voice was responding to the daughter’s "Who is it." Only the daughter’s expression immediately shifted from puzzled to dazed.
She suddenly stood up, like a sleepwalker, and ran to open the door with vacant eyes.
The door soon opened, revealing a young girl soaked by the rain standing outside, looking somewhat downcast, yet her eyes carried an inscrutable charm.
"Sister, did you miss me?"
"Sister, welcome."
The daughter’s expression became even more vacant, as she walked back like a marionette, lifelessly.
The steam rising from the hot pot, the boiling soup, and the fragrance in the room made the mysterious young girl salivate.
"Dad, mom."
She suddenly spoke.
With just those words, Mr. Li and his wife’s expressions froze similarly, and their eyes dulled.
After a while, the family of four began to eat.
What’s even more bizarre is that Mr. Li and his wife’s expressions gradually returned to normal.
Only the daughter’s expression remained vacant.
The young girl, after changing into clean clothes, suddenly laughed humorously:
"Who are you?"
She looked at the daughter.
The daughter’s gaze gradually ceased to be vacant and became rather astonished:
"Ah... why am I here?"
"You got it wrong, you don’t belong here. I am the one who belongs here. You pathetic wretch that no one wants." The girl sneered darkly.
At this moment, Mr. Li and his wife, as if completely overwritten by a different data set, changed their countenances:
"How did you get here!"
"Get out!"
Even the wife completely forgot this was her daughter:
"Get out!"
The daughter herself felt no abnormality.
She began to struggle to recall her past... finding she had no father or mother, she was a wandering orphan in Jiangcheng.
Her memory bore no warmth belonging to a family, only the penetrating cold of Jiangcheng’s rain.
She looked at the man and woman directing her to leave, a deep panic arose from within her, tears welling up in her eyes.
It felt like she shouldn’t leave, like something very important was about to be lost.
But her body began to move, thinking she should leave other people’s home and not be a bother.
Clearly, the intruder Jiang Kenren was already "integrated" into the new family.
In a very short time, she had transferred Mr. and Mrs. Li’s love for their daughter to herself, this stranger. Conversely, the original daughter became an outsider.
Due to Jiang Kenren’s grim childhood experiences, she was mocked as being raised by many "wild fathers." She envied others’ families a great deal, envied those with stable family relations.
Now, she could integrate into any family, steal anyone’s father and mother.
Once bored with this family, she’d move on to the next.
The original daughter had reached the door, turned the doorknob, about to leave her home.
But at the instant she opened the door, she saw two people standing outside.
Standing outside were a man and a woman.
The man spoke with a smile:
"Tang Rui, please help us."
The arrivals were Tang Rui and Wen Xishu.
With Ding Dong’s Compass, the hunt for supernatural phenomena became much faster.
After all, Jiang Kenren’s ability was Spiritual Invasion, but compared to Spiritual Power, how could such a story compare with Tang Rui?
With just a glance, Tang Rui’s overpowering Spiritual Power combined with myriad emotions, allowing the daughter to instantly recall everything.
"Dad, mom..."
She suddenly turned her head.
She saw the similarly astonished Mr. and Mrs. Li, as well as Jiang Kenren’s somewhat fearful look.
Soon, the family of three lost consciousness, falling into a coma.
Only Wen Xishu, Tang Rui, and Jiang Kenren remained, the atmosphere somewhat eerie.
"Who... are you?" Jiang Kenren asked cautiously.
Because in the previous round, the supernatural event hadn’t killed anyone, this round’s Jiang Kenren, although a supernatural phenomenon, lacked significant lethality.
Though it broke families apart, leading them astray, it didn’t ultimately kill.
Hence controlling supernatural occurrences is an effective behavior.
Wen Xishu said:
"Jiang Kenren, targeting these ordinary people is pointless."
Wen Xishu didn’t exactly dislike this supernatural occurrence, and neither did Tang Rui.
Nowadays, many kids want to escape their original families; their parents compare them with other kids, and gradually, they begin to awaken ideas, comparing their parents with others’.
Jiang Kenren’s ability is perhaps a manifestation of escaping the family.
According to her experience, the child’s father is a thorough coward, letting his wife fool around. The child’s mother doesn’t preserve herself, enjoying trading her body for resources.