After A Lai's death, Ye Jin, who had just given birth, didn't even have time to rest. She sent people to carry A Lai's body and rushed towards the deep mountains.
Ye Jin's husband, Chen You, led his soldiers to detain Ye Zheng.
On a rainy and slippery night, Chen You held Ye Jin, who was still shivering uncontrollably, and comforted her, "It'll be okay. Grandmother will surely cure A Lai."
Panic was written all over Ye Jin's eyes. "But I severed the relationship with her at that time. Will she really help me? Her secret arts have killed so many people..."
Ye Jin hesitated to speak. Obviously, after seeing her grandmother's methods before, she was still a bit scared even now.
Outside the sedan chair, the sound of the rain mixed with the howling wind. The uneasiness in Ye Jin's heart gradually grew stronger.
The horses galloped fast, splashing the rainwater everywhere.
Finally, they arrived at the mansion specially built by her grandmother's people.
As soon as she dismounted, a cold gust of wind blew over, and Ye Jin couldn't help shivering.
She was extremely nervous. She walked to the door and raised her hand.
The door opened by itself, as if inviting them in.
Ye Jin didn't care about anything else. She gritted her teeth, turned around and instructed the servants, "No matter what you hear or see, don't go in."
She warned the servants and then walked straight up to Chen You. She took A Lai from his hands and resolutely walked into the mansion, heading towards the only room with a light inside.
The door of the inner room was already open. Ye Jin's heart sank, and she quickly stepped in. There was only a woman kneeling on the cushion inside.
She had a graceful figure, wearing gorgeous colorful clothes. Her long sleeves fluttered in the wind. Her peerless beauty exuded a myriad of charm.
Her eyebrows were like crescent moons, her bright eyes were full of amorous feelings. When her red lips parted slightly, two rows of neat and snow - white teeth were revealed. With a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, she looked charming and extremely beautiful.
The woman's thin lips parted slightly. "I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Ye Jin was in a daze for a moment before she realized that the woman in front of her was her grandmother, Ye Erniang.
She didn't want to ask how her grandmother had changed from an old and decrepit appearance to a beautiful and young girl.
She didn't say a word. She just placed the A Lai she was holding in front of Ye Erniang.
Ye Jin knelt down in front of Ye Erniang with a thud, lowering her stance and pleading, "Grandmother, please save my son. It was all my fault before. As long as you're willing to save A Lai, I'm willing to do anything."
Ye Erniang gently stroked A Lai's face and said, "He's my descendant. I'll surely save him. But you should also know the price. To save him, you must inherit my mantle."
Hearing that her son could still live, Ye Jin nodded repeatedly. In the past, she had refused and escaped from here, not wanting to become like her grandmother. But now she had to accept it reluctantly. "Okay, grandmother. As long as you can save A Lai, I'm willing to do anything."
Grandmother sneered disdainfully, looking confident. "You're the chosen witch. You can't escape taking over my position anyway."
Ye Jin slumped on the ground and nodded resignedly.
Ye Erniang picked up the candlestick that had been prepared long ago. She got up, extinguished the lights in the room, knelt down beside A Lai again, lit the candlestick in her hand, and placed it on A Lai's shoulder.
She picked up the dog's blood beside her and poured it on A Lai's body. She dug up some rotten mud and applied it to the wound on A Lai's head.
She held a string of bells in her hand and waved them around A Lai's body. She murmured something. A sudden strong wind blew from nowhere, making the door creak.
The flame in the candlestick turned blue.
When the light in the room came on again, A Lai still had his eyes tightly closed, but like a person who had drowned and was revived, he suddenly took a breath. He had breathing again.
The dead look in Ye Jin's eyes finally regained their luster. She wanted to reach out and touch A Lai.
But Ye Erniang slapped her hand away in mid - air and said seriously, "You can't touch him now. You have the vitality of the living on you."
Although Ye Jin was scolded, she was still extremely happy. A Lai could come back to her side again.
Ye Erniang walked around A Lai and pulled Ye Jin up. "From today on, you'll stay here. You must study hard what I teach you."
However, Ye Jin wasn't the only student. Ye Zheng was also there.
Ye Erniang had known since they were young that they were twin witches, mutually generating and restraining each other. If they cultivated together, they would surely achieve great things in the future.
It was a pity that Ye Jin wasn't willing. She had been scared by Ye Erniang's actions of eating human flesh and drinking blood raw before.
She didn't want to become a blood - thirsty demon. But now, she had to force herself not to think about those things.
Ye Erniang needed Ye Zheng and Ye Jin to cultivate together. She wanted them to pave the way for her, a way to become a god.
Ye Zheng, who had stayed in the dark dungeon underground for several days, didn't want to stay there for a single second longer. Naturally, she was willing to do anything to escape the dungeon.
Both of them moved into Ye Erniang's mansion.
Ye Erniang started her day - after - day "teaching".
The two of them disliked each other, but they endured it for their own purposes.
As time passed, sure enough, they made rapid progress.
Within a month, the wound on A Lai's head healed by itself. Ye Jin went to see A Lai every day. He was getting better day by day, and the day when he would wake up was just around the corner.
It seemed that the future was bright.
But something unexpected still happened. It was as if God was punishing Ye Jin for helping Ye Zheng do evil in the first half of her life, and it was destined that she would have to atone for her sins in the second half of her life.
When their abilities reached the peak, Ye Erniang thought the time was right and decided to let them open the passage to ascend to godhood.
She underestimated Ye Zheng's selfishness and overestimated her ability to calculate people's hearts.
What Ye Erniang didn't know was that during this period of time, Ye Zheng had seen Ye Erniang's earth - shattering changes and had long been planning to find out how she regained her beauty and immortality.
She rummaged through all the books in the mansion to learn witchcraft, and she had learned a great deal.
But to achieve immortality, unfortunately, her own ability was not enough. Even as a twin witch, she was the weaker one.
She had blamed all the unfairness on Ye Qianmo before. Now that Ye Qianmo was gone, she blamed it on Ye Jin. Anyway, she thought she could never be wrong.
When they were casting spells for Ye Erniang, Ye Zheng played a dirty trick. According to the witchcraft she had secretly learned in the study, she secretly changed a corner of the magic formation, thus changing the nature of the formation.
She blocked it with her body, and no one noticed.
After the formation was completed, Ye Erniang paid the price for her arrogance. She died.
Ye Jin was backlashed and fell unconscious. Only Ye Zheng, who was standing at the tampered corner, was safe and sound.
When Ye Jin woke up, she realized that she had been tricked.
She rushed to A Lai's room at once. Sure enough, she saw Ye Zheng there.
There was blood on her body. She had cut A Lai's wrist, and there was a porcelain bowl placed between them, with half a bowl of black water in it.
On the bed, except for A Lai's head, none of his limbs were his own. Ye Zheng didn't know where she had found the severed limbs and attached them to A Lai.
Ye Jin was on the verge of collapse when she saw this scene. She glared at Ye Zheng, her voice tearing, "I warn you, stay away from my A Lai."
But Ye Zheng smiled playfully at Ye Jin.
"Doesn't he look good? This is my masterpiece. In order to remove the restrictions the old woman had placed on him, look, I've spent so much effort to turn him from someone who obeyed the old woman into a weapon that belongs only to me."
"You're too late. The ceremony is already over. I'm now connected with your dear A Lai. Come on, kill me. Killing me means killing your own son."
In this game, Ye Jin still lost, completely and thoroughly.
What she didn't expect was that even her grandmother had been scheming against her. She had never intended to revive A Lai, but only wanted to turn him into a handy weapon.
Now A Lai had become Ye Zheng's weapon.
From the moment Ye Jin was unwilling to give up A Lai, it was destined that she would lose. But she would rather give up herself than give up A Lai.
Her newly - born daughter had a loving father, but A Lai only had her. Only she could save him.
Helplessly, Ye Jin agreed to all the conditions Ye Zheng put forward.
Her soul fell into a deep sleep in Ye Zheng's body. From then on, there would no longer be twin witches. Only Ye Zheng would obtain all the power.
If she dared to fight Ye Zheng for control of the body, Ye Zheng would destroy her own soul, and A Lai would perish with her.
But motherly love is always infinitely inclusive. No matter what her child had become, Ye Jin chose to love A Lai.
She watched A Lai wake up, become stronger, and live aimlessly in Ye Zheng's body.
But she couldn't act rashly. She could only watch him.
In the long years, Ye Jin sometimes wondered if her choice to keep A Lai alive was right.
Because she found that she had never asked A Lai's real thoughts. She had just let herself arrange things for him.