noveldepot Chapter 43 She's here for revenge!
Chapter 43 She's here for revenge!
"boom--"
An expensive antique ornament crashed into the center of the vanity mirror. With a loud crash, the mirror shattered, and spiderweb-like cracks spread instantly, with countless fragments exploding like ice crystals.
Large, sharp-edged fragments flew out and clattered all over the ground.
At the same time, with a "buzzing" sound of electricity, the expensive antique crystal chandelier in the room also exploded without warning with a "bang".
Tiny fragments fell like rain, and the pungent smell of burning electricity spread throughout the room.
Without the lights, darkness descended like a thick black velvet cloth, engulfing everything in the room. The only sound in the room was Tanya Jun's heavy breathing.
Tanya Jun stood in the center of the darkness, her hands still in the motion of throwing something, her chest heaving violently.
The shards of mirror that had been flying earlier, or the falling crystal fragments, had scratched her arms, calves, and even cheeks, causing a fine, sharp stinging pain; warm liquid, whether sweat or blood, trickled down her skin, sticking to it stickily, but Tanya Jun didn't care about it at the moment.
Because that feeling of being noticed, of being watched, didn't disappear with the shattering of the mirror. On the contrary, it became clearer and more omnipresent in this deathly darkness.
She's still here.
She's still in this house.
Tan Yajun could only stare with her eyes, which were now bloodshot, tense and nervously looking around, trying to find "Jiang Yi's" location.
no……
no……
no……
Where did she go?
A silver reflection flashed across the ground, and Tan Yajun looked over reflexively.
Then, her pupils suddenly contracted—
Although the room was completely dark, Tanya Jun was horrified to find that she could see the scattered shards of mirror on the ground with perfect clarity. No matter how big or small, near or far, every single shard of mirror reflected a clear red color.
Countless "shes," countless "Jiang Yis," are silently watching her from every fragment in all directions, their smiles as "bright" as before.
Especially in the shards closest to her, not far from her feet, the "Jiang Yi" inside even curled her fingers and tapped the mirror surface from within, looking as if she were... knocking on a door?
"Knock knock..."
"Knock knock..."
A dull knocking sound came from the mirror, and besides the smell of burning, there was also a strange, faint, sweet, and fishy smell in the air.
"Second Aunt..."
Tan Yajun heard the "Jiang Yi" in the mirror open her mouth, her voice soft and wistful: "Long time no see..."
"Aaaaaahh ...
The screams completely spiraled out of control, and the string in Tan Yajun's mind snapped with a "bang."
She could no longer control her emotions and slammed her head against the thick door behind her.
……
"Jiang Shu, didn't I tell you to go upstairs and call your mother down?"
Jiang Lifeng raised his wrist to check the time, then turned to look at Jiang Shu with a hint of displeasure: "Where is he?"
"Hasn't she come down yet?"
Jiang Shu defended himself: "Dad, I already went there."
"Mom just said she'll be down soon..." As for why she hasn't come down yet, Jiang Shu doesn't know either.
He glanced at the time and suggested, "How about I go up again and bring Mom down directly?"
"No."
Jiang Lifeng interrupted him bluntly. He glanced around the banquet hall, then looked up at the second floor, his brow furrowed as he made a firm decision: "The banquet is about to begin; you cannot leave now."
"Since she likes to dawdle so much, let her dawdle..."
"Anyway, it doesn't matter whether your mother is here or not, let's begin!"
As he spoke, he gestured towards the corner, and the lights in the banquet hall slowly dimmed. The guests who had been gathered in twos and threes stopped chatting and began to gather in the center where the beam of light was shining.
Jiang Lifeng straightened his clothes and stepped into the spotlight.
"Welcome everyone to the Jiang family's banquet."
"I, Jiang Lifeng, am able to stand here today entirely thanks to the support of all my relatives and friends present..."
As Jiang Lifeng looked at the faces below the stage, which required people to crane their necks to see him, there were elders who had previously been indifferent to him, other wealthy families who had previously treated him with indifference, and some nobles he had never been able to speak to before... A surge of pride welled up in his heart.
God knows how long he had been waiting for this moment!
All of this... is thanks to his deceased brother!
In his enthusiasm, he even started talking about things that weren't originally in his prepared speech—
"Although today, it is I, Jiang Lifeng, who has inherited the Jiang family name, I will always remember—"
"This position should have originally belonged to my younger brother."
"He is the one on whom everyone has high hopes, the one who was born to stand in this position."
"The blueprint for the future of the Jiang family should have been drawn up by him personally."
Where no one could see, Jiang Lifeng clenched his fists so tightly that his nails dug into his flesh.
"I just didn't expect..."
Jiang Lifeng abruptly changed his tone, his voice slightly choked with emotion, and he even lightly wiped away non-existent tears from the corners of his eyes with his sleeve, "Fate is cruel..."
"My younger brother and sister-in-law...both had an accident."
"Fate bestowed upon them astonishing talent and pure goodness, yet so cruelly took it all away!"
"And my niece, my brother's heir, Jiang Yi, also encountered an accident on her way to retrieve my third brother's belongings."
"I was heartbroken when I received this news!"
"Therefore, I, Jiang Lifeng, hereby swear that I will never let those who harmed my niece go unpunished."
"Bang!"
A loud crash from the second floor interrupted Jiang Lifeng's tearful speech.
Jiang Lifeng looked up in displeasure, about to see what was going on upstairs, when he heard a familiar voice screaming wildly, "Husband! Husband!"
"Honey, something terrible has happened!"
"Jiang Yi!"
"Jiang Yi is back!"
"Jiang Yi is not dead!"
"She came from the mirror to take revenge on us!"
The sharp voice fell, and the already quiet banquet hall was suddenly plunged into a vacuum-like silence, as if the pause button had been pressed.
The guests looked up, dumbfounded, at Tan Yajun, who appeared in a disheveled state on the second-floor observation deck.
Her once meticulously styled hair was now disheveled, with a few strands clinging to her sweaty forehead and neck, trembling slightly with her rapid and unsteady breathing.
Her gorgeous and expensive dress was covered in snags and wrinkles, making the color seem somewhat dull; the shawl on her shoulders was nowhere to be seen, and blood was slowly seeping from the exposed skin, with bloodstains and dust visible on the hem of her skirt.
Of course, what's most eye-catching is Tanya Jun's expression at this moment—
Her face was filled with terror, her eyes were bloodshot, and her pupils were shrunken. She kept glancing nervously behind her, as if she were hiding from something or as if someone was chasing her...
Wait a minute? Hiding, being chased... Tanya Jun just said, who wants revenge?
"Honey, Shu, why aren't you saying anything...?"
The silence, coupled with the lack of response, finally calmed Tanya Jun down a little from her terror.
At least, she no longer kept looking back to see if Jiang Yi was chasing after her in the mirror.
So when Tanya turned her head back, she met the gaze of all the guests in the banquet hall on the first floor, who were all looking up.
She also saw her husband standing under the light, his face ashen, and her son standing beside him, looking hesitant and anxious.
Finally snapping out of her daze, Tanya Jun realized where she was and what she had just said, and she shuddered, letting out another fierce scream.
Then, her eyes rolled back, and her body slumped backward as if all her bones had been removed.
With a thud, Tan Yajun fell to the cold floor and remained motionless.