“You all have to die! Hahahaha, you all have to die!”  

That pale hand suddenly sprouted nearly twenty-centimeter-long black nails, lunging straight for Huo Ning’s carotid artery.  

Wham! Huo Ning slammed a brick onto the hand, then yanked it hard with her arm. Ignoring the shrill, furious screams, she ruthlessly dragged it out from the crack in the wall.  

A malevolent ghost dressed in a nurse’s uniform, covered in scars on its face and body, shrieked as it crashed to the ground in front of Huo Ning.  

Huo Ning’s expression was cold. “With skills like these, you still dare to play scheming games?”  

She calmly picked up the brick from the floor and smashed it down on the nurse ghost.  

The ghost howled in agony as its spirit body seared as if scalded by molten iron, instantly leaving a charred mark.  

Director Qin, watching from the side, widened his eyes in shock.  

So this is what it means—in the face of absolute power, all schemes are just nonsense!

“Ahhh! You bitch!”  

“Why do you have to meddle in other people’s business?!”  

“Damn it! I was so close to succeeding! I’ll kill you!”  

The ghost roared, black miasma continuously pouring from its body, its resentment reaching the heavens.  

Huo Ning remained indifferent and smashed it with the brick again.  

“Calmed down yet?”  

The nurse ghost: “…”  

Just then, Cheng Shuang, who had gone on a rampage in the emergency department, returned.  

Suddenly seeing another ghost appear before him, Director Qin nearly lost his soul from fright.  

Huo Ning reassured him, “Don’t panic. She’s on our side.”  

Director Qin: “…”  

You call this thing ‘on our side’?!

The malevolent ghost had initially quieted down.  

But when it saw Cheng Shuang—the one Huo Ning referred to as an ally—its mentality shattered instantly.  

“Why?! Why can she cultivate, but I can’t?!”  

“Damn it, you hypocritical bitch! The officials are allowed to set fires, but the commoners can’t even light a lamp!”  

Cheng Shuang frowned.  

She wanted to slap the ghost, but she knew the gap in their strength was too vast. Acting recklessly would only force Huo Ning to save her later.  

Disdainfully, she said, “I’m nothing like you. I repay grievances with grievances and debts with debts—I don’t drag innocents into it.”  

“And you… you’ve killed a lot of people, haven’t you?”  

Weren’t the trapped souls in the hallway under its control?

If it weren’t for Master Huo’s immense strength, who knows how many people would have died tonight.  

As she spoke, Cheng Shuang’s eyes filled with even more disdain.  

“Don’t compare yourself to me—I’m nowhere near as vicious as you!”  

The ghost let out a mad, distorted laugh, her face twisting inch by inch.  

She sneered, her voice shrill and hoarse.  

“Vicious? Hahahahaha! I was kind when I was alive, but did fate treat me kindly in return?!”  

“Kindness is the most useless thing in this world!”  

Huo Ning lowered her gaze slightly, lost in thought.  

[Oh-ho, this female ghost seems to have a story!]

[Sitting here waiting for the tea!]  

[She looks like she’s drowning in resentment, and her body is covered in scars… Oh god, was she a victim of domestic abuse?]  

[Host, just exterminate her already. I don’t care about her tragic backstory or what she went through. Ghosts should just vanish into nothingness!]  

[The comment above perfectly proves that human hearts are scarier than ghosts!]  

Director Qin accidentally caught a glimpse of the ghost’s face, and a wave of familiarity hit him.  

He sucked in a sharp breath and asked uncertainly, “You… are you Xiao Tao?”  

The ghost fell silent for a moment before letting out a twisted, eerie laugh.  

“I’m Jiang Tao. So the director still remembers me, huh?”  

Director Qin was stunned.  

Jiang Tao had been a nurse at their hospital—lively, cheerful, and kind-hearted.  

But one afternoon, she suddenly left her shift early and messaged on WeChat that she was quitting.  

She left in such a hurry that she didn’t even take her belongings from the dormitory.  

After that, no one ever saw Jiang Tao again.  

No one expected that the next time they met, she would be a vengeful ghost drowning in resentment.  

Director Qin sighed heavily. “Xiao Tao… where did you go? Everyone was looking for you back then.”  

Jiang Tao didn’t answer, her hostile gaze fixed on them.  

“What, now that I’m dead, you want me to recount how I died just to satisfy your sick curiosity?!”  

Director Qin’s expression darkened with sorrow. He never imagined that such a sweet-natured girl could become so bitter.  

What had she gone through?  

“I was so close to succeeding!”  

“I was almost free—I could’ve gotten my revenge! Why did you have to show up and ruin everything?!”  

Jiang Tao wailed miserably, her voice thick with resentment and despair.  

Huo Ning quietly put the brick back into her bag.

She glanced at Jiang Tao indifferently. “You practiced dark arts, killed innocent patients, and manipulated other ghosts in the hospital to do evil. Even if you were to vanish into nothingness, it’d be no less than you deserve.”  

“But judging by your state, you must have suffered inhuman abuse while alive. Do you want to tell us who hurt you? I’ll help you report it to the police.”  

“And if the law can’t punish him—”  

Huo Ning smiled faintly and didn’t finish her sentence.  

Jiang Tao abruptly raised her head, her bloodstained face trembling with emotion.  

“You’d help me?”  

Huo Ning tilted her head innocently. “I never said that.”  

[Yeah, right!]  

[Host: Must I spell it out? Must I outright say, ‘If the law can’t punish him, I’ll kill him for you’?!]  

[What the hell happened to her?! My moral compass is broken—I wanna hear the gossip! Please, just tell us!]

Jiang Tao’s expression darkened with sorrow, her face twisting in pain. Just recalling her past made her shudder.  

“During college, my parents died in a natural disaster. I relied on scholarships and student loans to graduate, and after that, I started working at this hospital.”  

Director Qin sighed as he listened.  

“Xiao Tao was such a good kid back then- always smiling and kind to every patient. Several even said they wanted to set her up on dates.”

“That girl had a heart of gold. Having suffered herself, she always wanted to shield others from the rain.”  

Other nurses would privately complain about difficult patients, but Xiao Tao never once grumbled.  

The director still remembered one particularly irritable patient who snapped at everyone—yet when Xiao Tao was around, he’d smile and even lower his voice, afraid of scaring her.  

At this point, the director sighed again.  

“There was a young man named Chen Shuo who often picked Xiao Tao up after work. After she quit, he came to the hospital a few times asking about her.”  

Back then, everyone assumed Chen Shuo was her boyfriend.  

It was heartbreaking to think about—if Xiao Tao hadn’t quit, the two might’ve been married by now.  

They seemed perfect for each other.  

One lively and kind, the other sunny and sociable.  

But Jiang Tao, who had been relatively calm, suddenly contorted with rage when the director mentioned Chen Shuo.  

Her hatred pierced the heavens.  

“Chen Shuo is the monster who ruined me!”  

The director froze.