The protagonist chased the villain, and Tiandao screamed in anger

The stepmother who was taken as a concubine for Xiao Yu was originally Xiao's father's concubine. After the original wife passed away, she was promoted to be the main wife in order to take care of the sick Xiao Yu.

The stepmother is the best at appearing kind but having a snake heart. She is the most devoted among all the concubines and her superb acting skills deceived everyone. She always has a kind face but a hateful heart.

When Xiao's father was in good health, he personally prepared Xiao Yu's food and medicinal meals. Although his stepmother was jealous of Xiao Yu's favoritism, fortunately Xiao Yu had become a sickly person and did not pose much of a threat.

And because it was Xiao's father who took care of things, she couldn't get involved in anything concerning Xiao Yu, and they lived in peace for a while.

However, Xiao's father was old, and he fell ill after returning from a long business trip. During this period, when his stepmother heard Xiao's father's mumbling, she learned that he was going to leave most of the family assets to Xiao Yu, a sickly man. She felt aggrieved and wanted to kill Xiao Yu.

She wanted to kill Xiao Yu before Xiao's father died and divided the family property, so that the huge assets of the Xiao family would belong to her and her son alone.

In fact, there was nothing wrong with Xiao's father's distribution. Most of the Xiao family's assets were left to Xiao Yu by Xiao Yu's grandfather, not owned by Xiao's father.

Madam Xiao secretly increased the dosage of a strong medicine in the soup, but after a long time, Xiao Yu did not show any signs of dying.

She secretly thought that Xiao Yu was very lucky as he had not died twice in a row. Seeing that Xiao's father seemed to be planning to split up the family business, she became more and more anxious.

But her son was sixteen years old and was about to take part in the autumn examination to pass the imperial examination. Mrs. Xiao was worried that if she poisoned and killed him directly, it would leave traces and affect her son's future career. After much thought, she came up with the theory of ghosts and gods.

She believed in Taoism and had heard of some of the mysterious techniques, so she sought out an old Taoist priest to seek a perfect and unskilled method.

Xiao Yu also had a difficult life. The old Taoist priest that his stepmother found was an evil person who made a living by taming ghost slaves.

He was surprised and curious when he heard Xiao Yu's horoscope. According to the hexagram, the eldest son of the Xiao family should have drowned in the lake sixteen years ago. How could he have lived for so many more years?

The old Taoist became interested and thought that perhaps the eldest young master of the Xiao family was the best candidate he had been looking for to create zombies.

While his mind was turning, the old Taoist gave Madam Xiao a plan that would allow her to kill two birds with one stone - to arrange a ghost marriage for Xiao Yu.

Of course, this ghost marriage was not with a dead person who had already turned into dry bones, but to find a ghost woman whose horoscope was in conflict with Xiao Yu's.

On the day when the moon sets, on the wedding night, at 1:30 am, in the wedding room, the person must be poisoned and tortured to death, before he or she can transform into a wedding dress ghost and take people's lives.

The old Taoist priest used their wedding hair as a hook to control the resentful female ghost to demand Xiao Yu's life.

The old Taoist's plan is to borrow the step-wife's financial resources and connections to find a female ghost and tame her into an evil spirit to use as a ghost slave. He will also use this female ghost to investigate the situation of the eldest young master of the Xiao family. Maybe he can even get another evil spirit and put it into the Soul-Locking Banner to improve his Taoism.

However, according to the normal development of the story, Xiao Yu was naturally unwilling to get married. Risking the charge of being unfilial and disrespectful, he had a huge quarrel with Mrs. Xiao and said that he was unwilling to get married no matter what.

Madam Xiao was at a loss and felt that ghost marriage was not feasible. Besides, Master Xiao was still alive and she couldn't force Xiao Yu to take a concubine.

She once again secretly found the old Taoist priest. The old Taoist priest was unwilling to give up the Yin Girl, a powerful tool for cultivation. He persuaded the stepmother that she only needed to find the Yin Girl and he would take care of the rest.

In the end, the peasant girl died. She died in the Taoist's formation while wearing her wedding dress. She bled from all her orifices and died in an extremely tragic way.

She indeed turned into an irrational ghost and, under the control of the old Taoist priest, went to Xiao's house to claim his life.

As for Xiao Yu, it’s not that he is really unlucky, but his life was once changed by someone against the will of heaven. Naturally, he cannot die before the end of his life.

When he was six years old, Xiao Yu fell into an ice cave in the cold winter. He was about to die, but was saved by a wandering Taoist priest.

The Taoist priest had almost starved to death during his hard training in the mortal world, and he owed Xiao Yu's biological mother a meal. This was his way of repaying the karma.

However, he was not well-trained and only knew the method of exchanging lives. Under the earnest pleading of Xiao's mother, he agreed to perform the ritual for the dying Xiao Yu.

In exchange for life, this is the real reason why Xiao's mother passed away.

Xiao Yu became a person of mixed yin and yang only because the wandering Taoist's formation was copied from various places in the scriptures and had many drawbacks. In order to prevent Xiao Yu from becoming an evil creature, the Taoist deliberately cast an illusion in Xiao Yu's eyes to prevent him from seeing ghosts.

Xiao Yu could sense that the female ghost was haunting him, but he could not see it. Because of the life-exchange incident, he was not killed directly by the female ghost. Instead, she put pressure on him and demanded his life, causing him to linger on the brink of life and death.

Finally, when Xiao Yu was on the verge of death, he found a way to fight back. He tore the female ghost's soul apart and swallowed it into his stomach like a madman. The magic in front of him was broken, and the pain and torture he had been suffering from was healed by absorbing the ghost's soul.

The stepmother was horrified by what she saw and hurriedly asked the evildoer to subdue her.

After all, he was confined to his mortal body. Xiao Yu was suppressed and trapped by the formation and could not escape. He was subjected to the temptation and research of the evildoers by having his heart gouged out and his blood drained every day.

After the evildoers discovered his secret skills, he was used as a key to getting promoted and making money, which consumed his lifespan day by day. In the end, he died and turned into a fierce ghost.

But he was a newborn evil spirit after all, and after fighting with the old Taoist several times, he could only die together with him.

When Xiao's father discovered his stepmother's conspiracy, he was cruelly pushed into the lake and drowned by her.

It was still early when You Mu came over. Because of the blinding technique, Xiao Yu could not see him and could only communicate through slight movements.

But fortunately, the innocent girl who was wrongly victimized in the story is still alive and well.

You Muben was not a kind-hearted person, but the peasant girl's experience reminded him of the past, and he felt a sense of sympathy for her, so he wanted to save her.

It is not easy to just save this poor girl and keep Xiao Yu from going too far.

He didn't know the girl's name before, and the Heavenly Dao wouldn't care about the identity of a marginal character. There were too many poor families in Lingcheng, and it would be difficult for him to search even if he was a ghost.

The way of heaven is just watching and doing nothing, so you can't rely on it.

Worried that the old Taoist priest would trap the girl in advance, he simply let Xiao Yu agree. On the one hand, he would have time to let the girl go, and on the other hand, Xiao Yu would not have to bear the stigma of being disrespectful and disobedient to his elders for no reason.

While his thoughts were swirling, the sedan chair had already entered the Xiao family's mansion through the small door at the back.

Madam Xiao did not even show up. She only sent someone to bring a bowl of sweet soup with magic water to the bride, and then ordered the servants to support the "bride" and send her to the eldest young master's bedroom.

"Mother, what do you mean... cough, marriages must be arranged through three matchmakers and six betrothals... cough cough... cough cough... Even if she was obtained from a human trafficker, she was once a girl from a respectable family. How could... how could she be sent here in such an unclear way?"

Xiao Yu was really frightened. He didn't receive any prompt at all. It was just rest time and he had even taken off his coat. Unexpectedly, someone from Furong Courtyard knocked on the door and brought in a girl in a wedding dress.

He did agree, but that was also... he had no intention of getting married.

"Master, Madam said that tonight is an auspicious time, and it's normal to hurry up and let the bride in!" The old woman persuaded and pulled the door to prevent Xiao Yu from closing it.

"Yes, yes, madam means well, young master, you must appreciate it!"