Chapter 170 – Seasons Pass, The Disappearance of Yan Yu - Part 2
In the dream, someone was banging on the wooden door of that small house.
THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! Whoever it was didn’t wait for an answer. The sound soon became the violent pounding of someone trying to force their way in.
Inside, Yan Yu and Sheng'er watched the door warily. For a long time, it held fast—until suddenly, with a creak, it swung open. A thin line of darkness seeped into the room, and a peddler with a grotesque grin peeked around the door frame.
Everything fell eerily silent.
By the window, the white figure remained as before, back turned, unmoving.
Then, all at once, the peddler slipped into the room, that unsettling smile frozen on his face. He dashed straight for Sheng'er, hands outstretched to grab her. Sheng'er raised her walking stick, trying to fend him off. The peddler caught hold of it, and in that moment, everything seemed to freeze in place.
After a brief standstill, Sheng'er’s expression twisted in pain. She opened her mouth to cry out, but no sound emerged.
Yan Yu could hold back no longer. She clenched her fists and swung at the peddler. Even before her blow could land, a suffocating aura of death rushed at her. Yet, she never made contact with him. Just then, the white figure intercepted, blocking her path and also stopping the peddler’s outstretched hand from grabbing Yan Yu.
Behind them, the house’s door groaned and juddered, as though someone on one side was struggling to shut it while someone—or something—on the other side fought to keep it open.
Sheng'er’s strained expression finally eased a bit, yet the stalemate among the three parties persisted. Gradually, though, the little girl’s look of agony returned.
Yan Yu readied her fist again, determined to strike the back of the peddler’s skull, ignoring the creeping dread that made her soul tremble. At this point, she had already grasped the rules of Feng’er’s lingering regret.
Feng’er would never allow her to die. Anyone who became a threat to Yan Yu would be killed. It wasn’t really vengeance that led Feng’er to kill Bear earlier; it was simply that he had harbored the intent to kill Yan Yu. And so, in a twisted stroke of fortune, her revenge had been taken care of incidentally.