Qin Xin nodded, "You're right! After my father brought me here, everyone in the village greeted us with smiles and eagerly came to talk to him."

"At first, my father really thought he had found a paradise. He worked at sunrise and rested at sunset. In his spare time, he made friends through music, and every day was filled with unspeakable joy."

"Back then, my father's favorite saying was: 'We made the right choice coming here!'"

"But we soon discovered that this village could only be entered, not exited. If you wanted to leave, you had to defeat the Yellow Turban Warriors (Huangjin lishi) at the foot of the mountain. No one in the village had that ability."

"The people here were most afraid of getting sick because there were no doctors. If you got sick, you either had to tough it out on your own or die from the illness."

"At first, my father was very uneasy, but later he realized that other than not being able to leave the village, there was nothing wrong with this place."

"The villagers went on with their lives as usual, with birth, old age, sickness, and death, weddings and funerals. So, he settled down to making his qin (zither)."

"Until one day, a person came to the village. The whole village went out to welcome him. Many even brought their children."

"I remember that person's appearance very clearly..."

As Qin Xin spoke, her body trembled uncontrollably. That person was her nightmare.

I gripped the steering wheel with one hand and gently patted Qin Xin's back with the other.

I didn't know how to comfort people, so I just said, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."

Tears streamed down Qin Xin's face unconsciously. "Thank you!"

"That person looked at each of the children in the village, but kept shaking his head. I could tell he was very disappointed. The way he looked at those children even contained hatred and killing intent."

"Although he spoke, I felt that if those children weren't useful, he would have killed them all to vent his anger."

"Until he saw me, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he impatiently asked for my birthdate and time."

"After he learned my birthdate from my father, he laughed loudly and said, 'In seven days, I will come to marry her. When she gets married, you can all follow her down the mountain.'"

"That person didn't allow my father to object and turned around and left the village."

"My father chased after him, shouting that he didn't want me to get married, but he was stopped by the villagers. Actually, my father didn't not want me to get married, he just didn't want me to marry that person. That person was frightening."

"Although he was dressed as a scholar, the evil aura on his body was too strong. In his life, my father had seen all kinds of people, if not a thousand, then eight hundred. He felt that that person was not a good person."

"But the villagers didn't think so. They just wanted to leave this place. So, they tried every possible way to force my father. That's when I learned what it meant to use both soft and hard tactics."

"My father refused to let me marry that person no matter what, so they attacked him."

"When they came to tell me that your father had accidentally fallen down the mountain, I knew that they had killed my father."

"Regardless of how much I cried, they forced me to put on a wedding dress, tied me up, and specially 'arranged' parents for me, saying that it was the order of my parents and the words of a matchmaker, which were essential."

"That person came on the day of my wedding. After he saw me, he used the Wuxin Lianhun Nail (Heartless Soul Refining Nail) to nail me to the kang (brick bed)!"

"Ah—" Zhao Yuezhu exclaimed in shock when she heard this, "You're not...you're not..."

Qin Xin said sadly, "I'm not a ghost who was nailed up, but a person who was nailed up."

"At that time, I was nailed to the kang and couldn't move at all. That person put a new wedding dress on me again. He told me: He established this village in order to get 'Qin Xin (zither heart)'."

"He said my father was a fool. Qin Xin, is the spirit of the qin. Waiting for the qin to produce a spirit body on its own, I'm afraid you can only wait until the Year of the Monkey."

"But, the qin can be infused with a spirit. He doesn't want a spirit qin, doesn't want a celestial qin, he only wants a demonic qin that can kill ghosts and kill people. Therefore, he only wants vengeful ghosts."

"And my birthdate is someone who is born to become a spirit. The most suitable to be a spirit. Unfortunately, I don't have enough resentment or ferocity. Not the Qin Xin he wants. So, I can only wrong myself and become a vengeful ghost."

"After that person said these words, he shouted outside: Kill!"

"I heard the sound of knives everywhere outside, crying, and begging for mercy. I saw blood splattered on the windows, and I saw people covered in blood crawling in from outside, begging that person to spare their lives, but they were dragged out of the door by his subordinates and had their heads chopped off."

"That person said: Throw all the corpses into the pond behind the village. I also heard the sound of corpses being thrown into the water."

"That person finally told me: I can let you see what human nature is, you will soon see the purest and most evil human nature!"

"That person pushed open the window and said: I know, you died unwillingly. But you can't blame others, you can only blame this bitch for refusing to marry me, she has to die, and you have to die too."

After saying that, that person left with his subordinates.