Volume One, Chapter 19: I Beg You

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[Oh my God, is the streamer really that fierce? I never would have guessed!]

[Seeing the streamer beat them up like that is kind of terrifying. What should I do?]

[That scared the life out of me! I’m so frightened!]

[Now that you mention it, she really doesn’t look like the type! Who would have thought this master was so formidable?]

[Miss Streamer, I just want to ask one thing: does your hand hurt? Is it really okay to beat people up like that?]

[For crying out loud, what are you talking about? She isn’t beating up a person, all right? That’s an evil creature—an ugly, messed-up thing that isn’t even human!]

[Stop arguing and watch! The streamer looks so mighty and domineering that she’s already buried herself deep in my heart. I think…I might…possibly have fallen in love.]

[I just want to ask one thing, Streamer: I want to marry you and have your babies. How does that sound? I just don’t know whether the gender issue is a deal-breaker.]

[Get lost! The streamer is mine. I’m lovesick for her, crazy about her, and I’d smash my head against a wall for her!]

[Serves you right, you bastard. Hmph.]

The viewers in the livestream had gone completely wild. When had they ever seen Jiang Rui act so ferociously? In the past, all she had done was sway her hips and sing a song, or dance a little.

They never could have imagined that the seemingly delicate and gentle Jiang Rui possessed such a brutal side. Truly, one could never judge a person by appearances, nor measure the sea with a bushel!

At that moment, Jiang Rui was completely unaware of the viewers’ discussion. All she felt was comfortable—wonderfully comfortable.

With one hand, Jiang Rui grabbed Yu Ping by the hair and drove her knee into his chest. A large mouthful of blood burst from him.

“Great Master, Great Master, please show mercy! We won’t dare do it again! Please treat us like a fart and let us go!”

Jiang Rui kicked Yu Ping in the waist. He spun through the air another three hundred and sixty degrees before landing headfirst.

“You? Did I give you too much face? Weren’t you the one who wanted to test me? Now that you’ve finished testing me, how did it feel? Want to try again?

“If that wasn’t enough for you, we can keep going. We can continue testing each other. I don’t mind. I really don’t mind.”

Jiang Rui wore an entirely harmless expression, blinking her large, dark eyes. She looked unbelievably adorable.

With a loud thud, Yu Ping struggled to get up from the ground, only to kneel before Jiang Rui again.

“Mother, you’re my real mother! Grandmother, you’re my real grandmother! Please treat me like a fart and let me go. Every mistake was my fault. I was reckless, I was reckless! I shouldn’t have spoken that way. Great Master, could you please give me a chance to reorganize my words and say it again?”

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Jiang Rui stretched, then sat down in a chair with her legs crossed. Smiling, she looked at Yu Ping, who was kneeling before her.

“You’re a great master of souls—oh, no, you’re a vengeful spirit, to be precise.

“Is it really appropriate for you to beg me so humbly? You’re a mighty evil spirit, after all. How could a humble girl like me dare accept such treatment?”

The two ghosts within Yu Ping’s body wanted nothing more than to die when they heard this. They desperately wanted to shout, “Is it really appropriate for you to say that?”

“You’ve beaten us into a pair of swollen-headed pigs, and you still have the nerve to say that? This woman really is the sort who takes advantage of us and then pretends to be modest.”

The two spirits were utterly speechless. This was simply too much!

“No, no, no… You’re the mighty one! You’re our grandmother, our honored ancestor! If you don’t mind, how about we follow your lead from now on?

“Please don’t despise us, Grandmother. We beg you to give us the opportunity to serve you.”

Seeing the spirit’s servile expression, Jiang Rui almost wanted to ask: Where are your faces? Where is your courage? Have you thrown everything away?

These two spineless cowards truly embodied the saying: the soft are easy to squeeze, while the hard must be cut.

Jiang Rui rolled her eyes at them and said coldly, “Hurry up and get out of his body. Or do you need me to do it myself?”

The two spirits trembled violently. They would never dare let this little ancestor make another move. If she struck them again, they would truly be scattered into oblivion.

“The Great Master is right, absolutely right. We’ll come out at once. There’s no need for you to trouble yourself.”

Jiang Rui said nothing. She merely glanced at Yu Ping.

The two vengeful spirits understood that the person before them was someone they absolutely could not afford to provoke. When faced with a powerful and capable master like this, one had to bow when necessary. Bowing was not shameful. If one was not clever enough and insisted on confronting such a person head-on, the tragic ending would happen only to oneself.

[Good heavens, our Great Master is so cool! She’s unbelievably cool!]

[Oh my God! Am I really allowed to watch something like this for free?]

[I’ve learned something new. Even ghosts understand human relationships and worldly ways, and they get scared too. I thought they would at least put up a fight with the young lady, but this is just…]

[What do you mean, “just this”? What else could they do? Once they realized they couldn’t win, they stopped pretending. If they kept going, they’d end up having their souls scattered, all right?]

At that moment, many viewers recorded the scene of Jiang Rui brutally beating Yu Ping and uploaded it to various platforms.

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In no time, videos of Jiang Rui battling the evil spirits swept across the entire internet.

Breaking News: Metaphysics Expert Bravely Battles Evil Spirits!

Breaking News: Metaphysics Master Exorcises Ghosts and Destroys Demons!

Video after video circulated online. Before long, Jiang Rui had been pushed to third place on the trending searches, and her ranking was still climbing rapidly.

Jiang Rui, of course, knew nothing about any of this.

The number of followers in her livestream rose from the original two or three thousand to five or six thousand, then eight thousand, and finally broke through ten thousand, reaching fifteen thousand.

The number continued increasing at a frightening speed. Naturally, Jiang Rui remained unaware. At that moment, she sat there with her legs crossed, humming a song and occasionally lifting the cup on the table to take a sip of water.

She did not look as though she had come to capture ghosts and solve a problem. She seemed to have merely dropped by for a leisurely stroll, as relaxed and comfortable as could be.

Two dark shadows slowly drifted out of Yu Ping’s body and floated toward Jiang Rui. Naturally, the viewers could not see what the shadows truly looked like. All they could vaguely make out were two black masses emerging from Yu Ping’s body.

As for their actual appearance, the viewers had no way of knowing.

The two shadows drifted before Jiang Rui and, with another loud thud, knelt before her once more.

“Grandmother, we are willing to follow you loyally and wholeheartedly, Great Master. Please give us a chance!”

Jiang Rui glanced at them. One was a middle-aged man with a head as large as a bushel basket; the other was a huge, gleaming-furred rat. The rat was nearly as large as a cat.

“Why were you harassing him? Tell me. And since you’re already dead, why didn’t you report to the Underworld?

“Why remain in the human world? What exactly do you think you’re doing? Who gave you the nerve to stay here?”

At Jiang Rui’s questions, both spirits began trembling violently from head to toe, as though shaken in a sieve.

They looked like mice that had spotted a cat, their entire bodies quivering uncontrollably. They did not want to be so utterly useless. They wanted to stand tall too, but their strength simply did not allow it…

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