Chapter 6: Sending the Whole Family to the Crematorium — Beautiful, Ruthless, and Few Words!

Xia Yuwei’s control over the drug was precise to the extreme, leaving not the slightest trace for anyone to detect.

Even if someone noticed in the afternoon and rushed them to the hospital, it would already be too late — the internal organs would have ruptured and bled, leading to death. Watching the three members of the Tang family slowly die… for her, it was also a kind of release.

Sure enough, the first news to come out that afternoon was that her parents-in-law had vomited blood and were rushed straight to the hospital. But after the doctors examined them, the cause of death could only be listed as “unknown.”

The poison was completely colorless and tasteless. It wasn’t instantly fatal — rather, an overdose would cause undigestible crystals to form inside the body. Those crystals would scrape and grind against the internal organs… until death followed.

Soon the public security officers arrived for routine questioning. The surrounding neighbors could all testify to how the Tang family had bullied Xia Yuwei, so in the end, it was ruled that the couple probably died of some sudden illness. No one gave it more thought.

Xia Yuwei immediately requested cremation at the hospital. That very evening, both bodies were reduced to ashes. This way, no one would ever know exactly how they had died.

Holding the urns, Xia Yuwei walked into a public toilet. With a sweeping motion, she poured all the ashes into the cesspit. The moment the pale ash landed on the thick yellow muck below, it was instantly surrounded and devoured by wriggling white maggots.

She watched the maggots squirming up and down, a deep satisfaction filling her heart. Scum like them deserved to rot in a latrine forever, crawling with maggots. She then smashed the urns to pieces and finally left content.

When she got back to the residential block, someone spotted her and hurried over to ask, “Girl, what did you do with your parents-in-law?”

“Thank you for your concern, Auntie. I’ve buried them in a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters.”

“Ai, my dear, you must take it easy. I’ve said it before — a person shouldn’t be too wicked. This is just retribution.”

Lowering her eyes, Xia Yuwei sidestepped the woman and went upstairs. There was still a scene to perform later, and she needed to get into character.

The man upstairs had already been vomiting blood and was ice-cold all over — she’d given him the largest dose at noon.

Hidden in the shadows, Xia Wanwan’s lips curled faintly. Her elder sister never acted unless it was decisive — and when she did, she wiped them all out in one go. Even more ruthless than herself. Perfect.

Not long after Xia Yuwei entered the apartment, a shrill scream tore through the building. She soon stumbled out, crying in panic.

The neighbors all came to watch the commotion. The Tang family’s place had been noisy all day — could it be another beating?

“What’s wrong with the Tang family now?” someone called out.

After all, the parents-in-law had just died in the afternoon. What could have happened now? Everyone was curious.

“Auntie, help! Wendon, he…”

“He’s gone too… wuwuwu…” Xia Yuwei trembled all over, her voice quivering with grief.

“What?!”

“No way?”

“I heard he hit her this morning and accidentally bashed the back of his head. His mother was still cursing her at noon… did he really bash himself to death?”

The neighbors rushed upstairs and were stunned to see the twisted face on the bed, blood everywhere.

Three deaths in a single day — the whole family wiped out.

“Oh heavens, how could this happen to me… wuwu…”

Xia Yuwei sobbed uncontrollably, nearly fainting. Seeing such a young woman in this state stirred pity in many.

Word was her family had all been sent down to the countryside, leaving no one to stand up for her. Truly pitiful.

“Daughter-in-law of the Tang family, you must take it easy. Seems this was heaven’s will.”

“When you live, you must do more good deeds.”

“Girl, do you want someone to help take him to the crematorium?” An older man spoke up, unable to bear the thought of a young woman spending the night with such a gruesome corpse.

Xia Yuwei quickly knelt and kowtowed, her delicate, fragile posture earning even more sympathy. The neighbors kindly wrapped the body in a bedsheet, placed it on a handcart, and accompanied her to the crematorium.

It was her second visit there that day. The staff, hearing her husband had been injured and resting at home in the afternoon, were shocked to see him arrive dead that night.

They secretly thought: This girl must be a jinx, to curse an entire family to death. A shame too — such a pretty face, but who would dare marry her now?

After the helpers left, Xia Yuwei thoughtfully gave them two yuan as a “white gift” — a token to ward off misfortune after assisting in funeral affairs.

Within half an hour, she was walking home in the dark, another warm urn in her arms, the corners of her lips slightly upturned.

It wasn’t that she was weak before — she’d simply been hiding her claws to avoid bringing trouble to her family. But now that she knew these people had harmed her family, there was no reason to hold back.

This urn would go home for now — too many eyes in the family block. And where could she bury it in the middle of the night?

The feeling was exhilarating. Xia Yuwei felt completely refreshed.

That afternoon, Xia Wanwan had secretly come to check. Her brother-in-law had already been dead, but she didn’t see her sister. For a moment, she thought she might have gone too far — until she used her wood-type ability to confirm it had been her sister’s doing.

She knew it — her sister had inherited their mother’s gentle temperament, but in her bones she was just as stubborn and unyielding. Once she set her mind on something, nothing could stop her.

Xia Yuwei sensed someone following her. The figure behind trailed her unhurriedly. At a corner, she quietly hid herself.

Her breathing slowed, body taut, ready to smash the urn in her hands. At the last moment, bathed in moonlight, she saw the person clearly.

Relaxing, she lowered the urn and let out a long breath. “Wanwan, what are you doing here?”

“I’ve been behind you the whole time…”

I said I’d protect you — how could I go back on my word?

“Wanwan~ Sister did it. Everything’s taken care of. Tomorrow, we’ll pack up and leave.”

“Okay!”

“Where will you sleep tonight?”

“The guesthouse, I guess.”

“Come, I’ll go with you. But first, I need to stop by the public toilet. Wait for me a bit.”

Perhaps it was seeing her long-lost sister, or perhaps it was the joy of a fresh start, but Xia Yuwei felt lighter than she had in ages.

Once again, she poured another urn’s worth of ashes into the cesspit. “Now the three of you can be together forever — rotting and molding away in the latrine.”

At the guesthouse, the lights were bright. The sisters leaned quietly against each other, exchanging stories of recent events.

Xia Wanwan shared what she knew — though she didn’t reveal her mind-reading ability, only that some “pig” had slipped up.

Xia Yuwei suddenly remembered the two people she’d seen at the hospital that day. “Was what happened to Second Uncle’s family your doing?”

“No!” Xia Wanwan replied crisply and without hesitation.

“No? Then who? Whoever it was, I owe them thanks.”

Still, she thought, clearing out Second Uncle’s and the Liu family’s assets in one night wasn’t something her younger sister could pull off. But crippling his hands was as good as killing him!

Whoever it was — they sure knew how to get things done.

Xia Wanwan hadn’t expected her sister to ask. Of course she couldn’t admit it. How could one person empty so much in one night?

Then again, she couldn’t help admiring her sister’s style — skipping divorce and going straight to “widowhood.”

Ruthless enough. She liked this sister.