After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots' Beloved novel Chapter 388

Chapter 388: Chapter 388: If I Die, You Won’t Live Either

When Lu Sheng spat out the words "Talk to your damn mother" and suddenly conjured a half-meter-long broadsword, Shi Yuwei’s eyes widened in shock.

Is this Qiangwei out of her mind?!

She’d already told her that if they fought, it would be an even match, a fifty-fifty split, and the outcome would only be mutual destruction. Yet she was still ready to throw down?

Shi Yuwei didn’t have time to say another word before Lu Sheng’s massive blade came slicing through the air, aiming straight for her head in the very first strike!

"...Wait a minute!"

Shi Yuwei instinctively tilted her head to the side.

The tip of Lu Sheng’s blade skimmed past her neck, just shy of genuinely cutting into her flesh. That sudden gust of chilling wind left every hair on edge.

Barely dodging such a swift and ferocious blow, Shi Yuwei staggered back a step, but Lu Sheng’s second strike came down immediately after.

A relentless assault, giving her no time to catch her breath, let alone speak.

Fuck!

Shi Yuwei’s teeth clenched in fury!

Back in her prime, she would never have let this Qiangwei—this nobody—attempt to take her head. She’d have squashed her like an insect with a flick of her finger. But now? All she could do was dodge!

Earlier, she had told Lu Sheng that even though her current Soul Power was less than half of what it once was, it still made them evenly matched—neither had any advantage over the other.

But the truth was, this claim had been a bluff, a last-ditch attempt to avoid a fight with Lu Sheng.

That day, at that foreign chapel, You Yi’s Soul-devouring nail had plunged into her body, shattering nine-tenths of her soul on the spot.

All she had left was the final fraction of her soul wrapped around her Essence Stabilizing Pill. She’d barely survived, managing to escape from You Yi with her last breath.

But with her soul so damaged and reduced to a mere fragment, even hijacking a human body for rebirth was out of the question. She had been left to aimlessly drift around the Human Realm, clinging to life by a thread.

It took her years, years of painstaking effort, to finally piece together her fractured soul and gain enough strength to possess a new human host. Only then had she taken over this current body.

But her Soul Power now? It wasn’t just a shadow of its former self—it was weaker than even the petty Demons she used to scorn. She was no better than a common human: powerless, incapable of achieving anything.

To rapidly restore her Soul Power, she needed to absorb human Essence. To do that directly, she’d have to engage in intercourse with men.

But as the pampered Shi Family heiress she now was, her so-called father—Shi Chengyun—insisted on protecting her fragile health. She was chauffeured to and from school, trailed by bodyguards when venturing outdoors, and strictly forbidden to leave the house at night. Finding a man to sleep with was utterly impossible.

The Shi Family did house some exceptionally high-quality male specimens brimming with Essence, but unfortunately for her, they were all her brothers. Even if she entertained the depraved thought of incest, seducing any of those three wasn’t an option—they would never fall for her tricks.

That left her with just one method—an indirect one. She would raise a Gu Worm and have it parasitize the oldest member of the Shi Family, the upright and fundamentally virtuous Old Mr. Shi.

After all, the old man was advanced in age; his physical decline would be deemed natural. If he fell ill and passed away, it wouldn’t raise any suspicions.

As the Gu Worm slowly devoured Old Mr. Shi’s Essence over time, her Soul Power would, in turn, be quietly nourished and restored.

Now that the old man was on the verge of being entirely drained and nearing death, Shi Yuwei felt nothing. The only thought in her mind was that once the old man finally kicked the bucket, she’d need to find her next parasitic host.

Adding to all this, ever since the gaokao results had been released half a month ago and she’d basked in the admiration of countless interviewers, her Soul Power had grown significantly stronger.

But she hadn’t expected that at such a crucial moment, she’d run into her mortal enemy from the past.

Back then, Shi Yuwei had always suspected Lu Sheng of orchestrating You Yi’s arrival.

After all, Lu Sheng hadn’t shown the slightest hint of surprise when You Yi turned up. She even left in a hurry while Shi Yuwei was caught off guard, never to be seen again afterward.

The moment she stepped into the room and saw Lu Sheng, her eyes immediately fell on the bracelet on Lu Sheng’s wrist—

A bracelet adorned with a bell that had jingled the moment she and Lin Fangling entered. That bell was none other than the Demon Hunter Clan’s Magic Artifact, the Death Seeking Bell!

At that moment, her heart had raced in panic. She thought that perhaps Lu Sheng had come to the Shi Family as a Demon Hunter.

However, when the power went out and they crossed blows briefly, she quickly sensed that familiar aura and recognized who Lu Sheng truly was.

That brief clash within the barrier had already drained most of Shi Yuwei’s Soul Power.

She knew she was no match for Lu Sheng, which was why she’d tried claiming she just wanted to talk civilly.

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