Zhong Ziling was awakened by the water.

Those who can swim see themselves trapped in something like a bamboo basket while submerged in the river.

Hold your breath and rip the bamboo basket with all your might.

After a long while, the bamboo basket was finally ripped open.

A joy blossomed in his heart, his mouth widening. Freed from the bamboo basket's confines, he effortlessly swam ashore.

"Cough cough cough…"

Reaching the shore, I couldn't help but cough violently. My gaze drifted aimlessly around me.

Here is a canyon, with mountains stretching into the distance, like an ink painting.

Shouldn't they have died in the hospital? Why are they suddenly here?

"Ah!" Suddenly, a sharp pain shot through his brain, followed by a memory that didn't belong to him flooding into his mind.

In my memory, little Ling was only sixteen years old. She was the fifth daughter of the Zhong family in Xiushui Village. One day, when she went to cut pig grass on Tianshan Mountain, her uncle tricked her into a secluded mansion where she was abused by another man. Afterward, her second uncle threatened her not to speak out. Unexpectedly, she became pregnant a month later!

The head of the Chung family and the village chief were captured. They asked who his husband was, just as he was about to speak, An made him drink a bowl of water. That bowl of water caused him to become mute and unable to defend himself.

Finally, the village chief and headman sentenced him to be placed in a pig cage for sullying Xiushui Village's reputation...

Zhong Zi Ling was stunned, this was transmigrating!

He was the grandson of a renowned family of physicians. At the age of sixteen, he became famous in the medical world.

It is a pity that doctors are unable to cure themselves.

When I was twenty years old, I got a strange disease. Every year, my functions would decline.

We and our family tried many ways, but in the end it all came to naught.

At the age of twenty-eight, he closed his eyes in the hospital ward.

I thought I would die with regrets, but I didn't expect to have my soul travel into the body of a child who was wrongly executed in ancient times.

If someone has been wronged, one should not simply let the injustice go unaddressed.

First, he removed the poison from himself. After detoxifying, he searched for many things in the mountains and made many preparations, then waited quietly.

According to the book, the ancient punishment of being immersed in a pig cage was extremely cruel. The executioners were afraid that after death, the resentment would linger and the water ghost could harm them in return, so afterwards they would perform Taoist rituals to suppress the soul, preventing it from causing trouble.

This is the right time. I'm going to use the superstitious beliefs of the ancients to stage a play.

As night fell, the people of Xiushui Village did indeed arrive. The dark riverbank was illuminated by torches.

The village head arranged the offering table for the villagers, and then the Taoist priest began the ritual.

The Taoist priest kept waving his wooden sword and muttering to himself. Some children found it amusing and were trying to imitate him from a distance.

After a long while, the Taoist put away his peach wood sword and told the village head and others that it was all done. They could now rest easy.

But at that moment, on the placid river surface, a violent whirlpool suddenly erupted. Then, a disheveled young man slowly rose from the water.

“Mother! Ghost!” someone cried, then turned and ran, but before he’d taken a few steps, he fell to the ground.

"Whoever dares, I'll have them killed!" a cold voice echoed.

The sentence reminded those who had just come to their senses, they turned and ran, but after a few steps, another batch fell down.

This time, no one dared to speak. They trembled and turned their heads toward the river surface.

Zhong Zi-ling walked step by step to the riverbank, soaked through and covered in mud, her face contorted into a ferocious grimace.

“Mother, it’s Xiao Ling, it’s Xiao Ling…” The villagers shouted loudly.

Others looked and saw that the clothing wasn't just what Xiaoling had been wearing when she died. The villagers were terrified, some even wetting themselves.

Zhong Zi-ling's gaze wandered, finally settling on Zhong Jia-da.

"Uncle, you've made my life miserable!"

When the eldest son of the Zhong family heard Xiao Ling, he was so scared that he shit himself. He trembled and hid behind Old Man Zhong, too afraid to come out.

"If you don't come out, I'll have everyone here killed." As soon as Zhong Ziling said this, several other villagers immediately forced Zhong Lao out and pushed him to the middle.

"Uncle, why did you harm me? That day, you lied to me, saying my mother had fainted and that you needed me to go with you to town. As a result, you tricked me into coming to the manor, where that man abused me. How can you live with yourself after doing this to me!"

People on the bank listened in disbelief to Lao Zhong. It turned out that Xiaoling had been defiled this way.

When the eldest of the Zhong family heard this, his whole body trembled even more violently. He stammered, "Little Ling, my elder brother also... there's no way... your older brother... wants to take... the exam..."

"Taking the exam? I have enough for dozens of taels, but you need hundreds. You lack true talent and learning, yet you resort to crooked paths, ruining my reputation and causing me to die unjustly..."

Zhong Zi-ling said here, raised her hand and flicked it, two balls of ghostly fire rose into the air. With a flick of her wrist, she sent them towards Zhong's eldest brother. Then, there was a miserable cry from Zhong's eldest brother before he collapsed to the ground.

This move made all the others who didn't believe it kneel down in awe.

"Lao San, as a father, you can't protect your son. The King of Hell asks me to ask you this: do you still have the face to live?"

Old Zhong was stunned, staring at Zhong Zi-ling. Then, he fell to his knees in despair.

Zhong Ziling then looked at Zhong Linshi: "You are my family, yet you poisoned me to silence the truth. Why..."

Zhong Linshi was so scared that her whole body trembled, she hid behind Zhong Lao.

"Village Chief, Clan Head, you both know I am innocent, yet you still want me to die unjustly." Zhong Zi'ling looked again at the Village Chief and Clan Head.

Both were elderly men in their fifties, they nervously dodged Zhong Zi-ling's gaze.

"I'm so wronged…" Zhong Zi-Ling raised her head and roared, the river behind her even started to boil.

The villagers of Xiushui Village immediately begged for mercy, cursing the Zhong family as inhuman. They also pleaded with Xiao Ling to let them go.

Zhong Zi-ling, seeing the situation, knew it was almost time. She suddenly raised her head and let out a heart-wrenching scream that tore at anyone who heard it.

At the same time, several ghostly fires shot out from his side. The river surface was still, and the sound of... changed to that of a man.

"I am Bai Wuchang, under the throne of the King of Hell. The King of Hell takes pity on Xiaoling's death and orders me to come and avenge him. Unfortunately, my heart is kind and I don't want to harm my own kin. The King of Hell sees my pure goodness and because your lifespan isn't complete, he has especially allowed me to return."

You all listen well, good and evil eventually come to retribution. If not in this life then in the afterlife. Hell's eighteen layers are waiting for you all.

After finishing her words, Zhong Zirin took a deep breath and plunged back into the water.

At the same time, everyone who had just been unconscious woke up unharmed, looking around in confusion.

Before they could even ask, a child floated up on the river surface and drifted all the way to the shore.

The bold ones stepped forward to look. Since the child was Xiao Ling, at this time, her face was rosy and her hair was like ink. Moreover, the clothes she wore were dry and dusty, where was the ferocious appearance just now?

The village head and the chieftain exchanged glances, both sighed. The chieftain said, "Let's go back to the village first."

The people of the Zhong family really didn't want to admit it, but there was no way, they let Zhong Lao San take Zhong Zi Ling away!