Chapter 353
Su Bao tilted her little head, studying the oddly-dressed ghost before her.
"So the dark circles and black lips are from bad luck!"
The Jinx flicked his bangs away from his eyes. "This is called fashion. What would a kid know?"
Su Bao blinked in confusion. "Fashion?"
The older generation's aesthetic sense was truly baffling!
Ji Chang's voice turned icy. "You deliberately tormented Wei Wan to lure us here?"
The Jinx gave an awkward chuckle. "Not entirely...I just really disliked her..."
Ji Chang snorted. "You've been trapped here for decades at least. Why only act now after Su Bao visited yesterday?"
Seeing he couldn't lie his way out, the Jinx confessed.
He'd been imprisoned in this jail for nearly a century. Even after becoming a malevolent spirit, he couldn't escape.
Prisoners came and went, but none matched his required birth chart.
The day he finally cultivated enough power to become a full-fledged ghost, he excitedly tried scaling the walls—only to get fried by the electric fence.
When attempting the front gate, guard dogs chased him around the compound five full laps.
"It took me ten years to become a ghost...and seven more trying to escape..."
Every escape attempt met with fresh disasters.
"Yesterday when I saw you arrive...I was overjoyed..."
Just as he tried slipping out with them, an elderly visitor's rooster pecked him back inside!
Su Bao asked curiously, "You're afraid of chickens?"
The Jinx stammered, "Roosters carry too much yang energy..."
Su Bao eyed him skeptically. "Really?"
Flipping his bangs, the Jinx changed subjects. "Of course it's true!"
He'd never admit his poultry phobia.
As Su Bao opened her mouth for more questions, the Jinx rushed out, "Take me with you! I'll do anything!"
Su Bao glanced at Ji Chang, who nodded for her to decide.
"There's too many people here!" Su Bao tugged Uncle Yichen's hand. "Let's go, Uncle!"
Without hesitation, Yichen scooped up Su Bao and left.
Wei Wan: "???"
After her tearful pleas, Yichen hadn't even glanced her way, while Su Bao kept talking to thin air.
What was their purpose in coming?!
Wei Wan had never felt so humiliated. She couldn't stay in this cursed place!
"Su Bao!"
She scrambled after them, only to trip when Su JinYu suddenly materialized before her.
JinYu crawled forward with a twisted body. "Sister-in-law...I broke in half..."
Wei Wan shrieked and scrambled backward, kicking wildly even at approaching guards.
"Get away! Don't touch me!"
A guard tased her unconscious.
Before blacking out, Wei Wan thought despairingly: Why am I always the victim?!
As they left, a guard reminded them, "Family visits have limits. Given Wei Wan's poor behavior, wait longer before returning."
Yichen gave a terse acknowledgment.
Su Bao chirped sweetly, "Don't worry officer, we won't come back!"
The guard looked thoroughly confused.
The car rolled past the prison gates.
The moment they crossed the boundary, the Jinx trembled with excitement.
"I'm free! Hahaha!"
"Seventeen years! A full seventeen years!"
"Dragon Pride has returned! No one can stop me now!"
He unleashed a surge of dark energy, bursting through the window to escape.
Ji Chang's eyes turned frosty. "Trying to run?"
Su Bao shouted fiercely, "Stop!"
The Jinx sneered.
With freedom so close, why would he stay?
CRACK!
A lightning bolt struck him mid-flight, slamming him back onto the electric fence for another crispy roasting.
He landed with a splat at a guard dog's feet.
The urinating canine paused.
This scent...wasn't this the shadow it chased five laps last time?
After sniffing cautiously, the dog resumed its business.
Splash...
The drenched Jinx tried rising—only to get golden showered.
Jinx: "......"
The car stopped outside. Su Bao hopped out, squatting to observe him curiously.
"Master, he really can't leave!"
Ji Chang opened the Book of Life. "Ask his birth details."
What sin could bind a spirit to a prison for a century?
Smoking slightly, the Jinx lamented to the skies.
He'd celebrated too soon!
"Wahhh..."
He bawled like an oversized toddler.
Su Bao reached to poke him, but withdrew her tiny finger upon noticing the dog's "artwork."
"Dragon Pride, when were you born? How did you die?"
Defeated, the Jinx mumbled, "January 1988...died in 2005..."
"Pecked to death by a rooster."
Su Bao: "?"
JinYu floated closer. "Details please?"
The Jinx gave the mother-daughter pair a resentful look.
...No use resisting.
"That year I was obsessed with internet cafes. During holiday break, I returned to my rural hometown."
"Mom told me to feed the chickens. Exhausted, I just tossed some feed randomly."
"I stepped in chicken poop, so I scraped my shoe against the wall..."
"The feed bucket fell, hitting me. I stumbled backward onto a hen..."
Su Bao blinked. "Then the rooster killed you?"
JinYu analyzed, "That doesn't sound fatal."
Both stared intently.
Jinx: "......"