Chapter 74: A tragic ending

But love, no matter how much you believe in it, will never change.

While you are rejoicing in love, you must also learn one thing in your heart, and that is to learn to let it go when it leaves.

Fate brings people together and then separates them, like flowing water. This simple phrase contains a sense of helplessness that you must see through.

Being too persistent only hurts yourself and others.

Yucui Zi was a woman who was too persistent. She had experienced the warmth of love from her parents and learned how to love someone from Chen Nuo, but she had forgotten how a woman should love herself.

She could ignore the neighbors’ words and Chen Nuo’s indifference, but she could not escape the moment when Chen Nuo told her the truth: “I’ve fallen in love with someone else, and I want a child. I don’t want anything else, and I’m a virgin! In addition, I will be your friend for life and will continue to take care of you for life.”

He had already been spoiled by her. In that relatively conservative era, she said that they were breaking up so confidently!

Who is taking care of whom? Do they still need to be friends? She was willing to have a child, even if it meant risking her life!

However, Yu Cuizi’s persistent silence and her increasingly good treatment of Chen Nuo could not win back the man’s heart. He became more and more outrageous, and even stayed away from home for several days in a row. When he returned, he was cold and indifferent. After eating, he went to bed without talking to Yu Cuizi.

Finally, one day, Yu Cuizi, who had always kept herself low in the dust and was so silent that she was almost pitiful, stopped Chen Nuo.

At this time, Chen Nuo had just returned in the middle of the night and was preparing to rush out again. He would rather sleep in the office than face Yu Cuizi again.

Once love is gone, does everything have to look so hideous?

Chen Nuo turned his head impatiently, frowned, and his eyes were so cold!

Yu Cuizi felt a pang of pain in her heart. She was in a daze, and kept thinking about the first day she went to the countryside. The big boy with a bright smile who asked her if she still remembered him was so strange at the moment.

“Do you love her?” she asked.

“Yes!” he simply replied.

“Why do you love her?” Her tears fell silently.

“She may not be as pretty as you, but her mind is so unique and always full of light. She can discuss literature, military affairs, and even many other issues with me. She is not the kind of person who only knows gossip and gossip at home with a group of women. Do you understand? Let me go.”

“You loved me very much. You said it yourself, you’ve been in love with me since elementary school.” Yu Cuizi cried silently, tears streaming down her face, but she asked quietly.

If it were before, he would see her like this, feel sorry for her, dry her tears, hold her, and comfort her. Now, she saw boredom in his eyes.

“That was in the past. You didn’t want to improve yourself, and I said I wanted a child.” Chen Nuo’s words were hard.

“I will improve, okay? I will start reading from tomorrow, and I will have a child for you. I am not infertile.” At that moment, she sank back into the dust.

“I’m sorry, I’ve fallen in love with someone else. It’s too late! I won’t have a child with you either. Who will be responsible if something goes wrong?”

“Chen Nuo…”

“Don’t say anymore. I loved you as much as I love her now. Let me go!” he said.

This was the second time he had said that he would let her go. The once shining love was now probably no better than a pile of garbage on the side of the road. He even resisted her kindness to him. Everyone knew that this man’s heart could never be returned.

Even if she doesn’t make a fuss, even if she weeps every night, she still makes his favorite orange peel soup and prepares a cup of warm milk for him…

“Okay, I’ll let you go!” Yu Cuizi dried her tears and looked at Chen Nuo’s frown, which had relaxed, with a heartache. She said, “I can sign the divorce papers with you tomorrow. I only have one request. You can have one more meal of the food I make, as a farewell dinner.” Yu Cuizi’s words were even more calm, as if at that moment she had really let go.

Chen Nuo had no reason to refuse, or perhaps he was too eager to get away. He agreed to stay with Yu Cuizi late at night to have a farewell dinner.

Yucuizi seemed to have been prepared, and she even took out some already-prepared, cold food from the cupboard and began to prepare this farewell meal.

After eating that meal, Chen Nuo never left the house again, because Yu Cuizi had put a sleeping pill in the wine she poured for Chen Nuo. The dose was not fatal, but the wine mixed with the sleeping pill was enough to make Chen Nuo fall into a deep sleep.

The next step was that Yu Cuizi remained calm. She killed Chen Nuo, but she did not say how she killed him during the interrogation. No one could reconstruct the process.

In short, Chen Nu died in his own home, at the hands of the woman who loved him most. His promise was not fulfilled, and in the end he got his just deserts!

It was winter, near the Chinese New Year. Yu Cuizi was not at all flustered. That night, she dismembered Chen Nu in a very calm manner. Large chunks of meat were cut off, the bones were cleaned and prepared, and the internal organs were also collected and cooked!

She was busy with these bloody things one night, but in her interrogation file, she said, “It’s not more difficult than killing a pig. When I went to the countryside, I also saw pigs being killed and helped to dispose of the pig offal.”

Reading this, I felt a chill run down my spine. What kind of love is this? Love to this extent should no longer be called love, but rather obsession. Chen Nuo was certainly hateful, but was Yu Cuizi not also pathetic? Obsessive love turned into obsessive hatred.

In her statement, she said that when she did all this, she felt fulfilled and had no tears because she was no longer afraid that Chen would leave.

But it was not the end. The next day, Yucuizi bought a large amount of sauce and pork and began to make sausages and bacon according to tradition. She said she was moving and wanted to thank everyone for their care by making more than usual to share with everyone this year.

Why was she moving? No one asked. Everyone in the courtyard knew about her and Chen Nuo’s affair! It was probably because she was getting a divorce and leaving. As for Chen Nuo’s absence, no one cared. He had been absent since the beginning of the affair.

So Chen Nuo’s meat was mixed with pork to make the so-called sausages, bacon… and distributed to all the neighbors.

What about the entrails? Yucui said that she had cooked and thrown away everything that should be thrown away, except for one heart, which she fried and ate! As for the bones, in the cold weather, they didn’t smell bad after being washed, so she chopped them up and made soup every day, and then threw them away…

I was so shocked that I couldn’t imagine that a woman could do such a thing when she hated a man so much!

“This is only for revenge, not to escape the law,” said Yucuizi, who divided his meat among everyone, but only to take the deepest revenge on this man, letting him be devoured by thousands of people. When his soul was waiting for reincarnation, it would become a wandering lonely ghost without any support!

This is a ridiculous explanation from Yu Cuizi. His father was obsessed with studying some folk stories and some folk methods. Yu Cuizi also had some contact with them, and she still remembers this.

But I was sweating. This explanation is actually not without basis. Otherwise, why would there be a corpse-carrying person who would bring the body back to the homeland even if he died? As a Taoist priest, I of course know these taboos!

The final outcome was that Yucui was arrested. After all, Chen Nuo had been missing for too long. At her home, the police found a skull that had been washed clean!

Yu Cuizi confessed very calmly. This method was so cruel that the final outcome was of course the death penalty!

Before the execution, she did not make any demands, except that she wanted to wear a red outfit. Before the execution, there was a secret that was not publicized, and that was that before the execution, she suddenly bit her tongue and smeared her face with blood. This madness scared the executioner.

One of the prisoners who had taken care of her before her execution said that Yucui Zi said that there were still people who had not been avenged, and that she would become a ghost after her death!

The story of the ghost Rakshasa ends here, but I was so lost in thought for a long time with the file in my hand that the wind blew the photo off!

I picked it up gently, and it was still the same loving frame. I flipped through the photo, and found several lines of text at the back.

“Everyone said that I took care of him too much and wanted him to be considerate for once. He was drunk and had to feed me my food. Fool! – Yucuizi on X/X/X.”