After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots' Beloved-Chapter 387: Talking About Your Mom

The flames in Lu Sheng’s palm vanished, and the spacious room plunged into darkness.

The next moment, she raised her hand and snapped her fingers.

However, just as the snap echoed, a voice came from outside the door—it was Shi Suxin speaking:

"What’s going on? Why did the power suddenly go out in the house?"

Perhaps fumbling in the dark made Shi Suxin anxious as her tone grew irritable, "Uncle Li? Where’s Uncle Li?! Hurry and see what’s happening!"

The sudden power outage had obviously caught the people outside off guard.

"Stay here and watch over Grandpa for me, no matter what noises you hear, don’t come out."

Lu Sheng heard Shi Suxin’s words, then tiptoed over and kissed Li Muchen on the lips. "Don’t worry, I’ll be back soon," she said.

Before Li Muchen could respond, the words had just fallen from her lips when the girl vanished before his eyes, as if teleporting.

At this moment, chaos erupted in the Shi family’s living room.

Not only had the sudden power outage occurred, but even their cell phones failed to light up and couldn’t be used for illumination. The housekeeper had gone to check the circuit breaker, yet no one thought to bring any candles.

The entire living room was submerged in darkness so deep that one couldn’t see their own hand in front of their face.

Traveling instantly in the dark, Lu Sheng first arrived at Lin Fangling’s side.

In her hand was the Golden Black Dagger gifted to her by Lu Youming, which she always carried with her.

The blade moved with lightning speed, slashing the back of Lin Fangling’s neck, and in the moment she withdrew the dagger, it left behind a thin trace of blood.

Lin Fangling didn’t react at all, not even realizing the pain until much later. She simply felt a chill on the back of her neck. When she reached up to touch it, she found it damp and slightly painful, causing her eyes to widen instantly.

Upon seeing this, Lu Sheng’s gaze shifted slightly as she gauged the level of the Fox Demon that had possessed Lin Fangling.

The next second, Lu Sheng arrived before Shi Yuwei, dressed in a pure white lace dress.

Without hesitation, she abruptly raised her dagger in the pitch-black darkness and aimed straight for Shi Yuwei’s abdomen.

However, just as the blade tip was about to make contact with Shi Yuwei’s skin, an immense power like a shield repelled the dagger directly.

The dagger flew out of Lu Sheng’s hand, landing against the staircase nearby, embedding itself deeply into the wooden floorboards as the sound echoed.

"Ah!!!"

The sudden loud noise startled Shi Suxin, Shi Erya, and Lin Fangling all at once.

Shi Chengyun and Shi Muchuan couldn’t figure out what was happening either, finding nothing to see in the darkness.

Then, they heard another noise—"bang"—as if someone had been heavily slammed against the wall.

This was followed by the sound of a vase smashing onto something, shattering into pieces with a loud crash.

What on earth was going on?

"Ahhh!!"

Shi Suxin was so frightened by the commotion that her hair stood on end, screaming at the top of her lungs in the darkness.

But in the next moment, the living room lights, which had gone out without warning earlier, abruptly turned back on.

Accompanying this was the sound of the elderly housekeeper walking in: "Young Miss, the house power had tripped earlier, but now it’s al..."

The sentence "it’s all fixed now" was cut short as the now-illuminated living room revealed the scene before them.

The sight before their eyes made everyone gasp sharply.

Shi Suxin and the others saw that Lu Sheng, who had somehow left the room without anyone noticing, was now standing beside Shi Yuwei by the wall.

Both girls appeared calm, their expressions devoid of any visible emotion.

Yet!

Behind Lu Sheng, the wall was visibly dented, as if something had struck it with immense force.

At Shi Yuwei’s feet, shards from the sconce vase lay scattered all over the floor, with blood dripping from her head.

Shi Suxin stared in shock. "Wait, Lu Sheng, when did you come out? Weren’t you treating Grandpa?"

Lin Fangling’s eyes were wide with fear. "Yuwei! Yuwei, what happened to you?!"

Shi Chengyun, Lin Fangling, and Shi Muchuan hurried to Shi Yuwei’s side upon seeing her injuries.

But Shi Chengyun’s gaze unexpectedly caught sight of the back of Lin Fangling’s neck, causing him to shout in alarm: "Fangling! What’s going on with you now?? Your neck’s bleeding!"

The room descended into chaos.

Meanwhile, the two girls who were the focus of everyone’s attention remained eerily calm.

Lu Sheng’s face didn’t change. "The power went out earlier, so I came out to find a candle and accidentally ran into the wall."

Shi Yuwei wiped at the blood on her head, speaking softly, "I slipped and fell, hitting a vase earlier. Mom, Dad, don’t worry, Lu Sheng’s a Divine Doctor. I asked her to take me upstairs for some bandages."

With just a few words, the two girls explained away the otherwise inexplicable situation.

As the crowd remained puzzled by what had just happened, Lu Sheng and Shi Yuwei were already making their way upstairs together.

These two kids had only just met. They hadn’t exchanged a single word earlier.

How did they suddenly seem so familiar?

The second floor of the old mansion contained numerous guest rooms.

As if perfectly in sync, Lu Sheng and Shi Yuwei entered the room closest to the staircase’s corner, closing the door behind them as they went inside.

In the next moment, Shi Yuwei turned around, locking eyes with Lu Sheng. Their gazes collided.

"Well, what a surprise to bump into an old acquaintance here,"

Shi Yuwei suddenly smiled, her innocent expression reminiscent of a cherubic child. "It’s been a while, Qiangwei. Guess you didn’t die after all?"

Lu Sheng’s eyes were sharp as daggers, and her tone frosty like ice: "That’s a question I should be asking you, Red Fox."

Lu Sheng wasn’t the type of Demon who glorified violence.

But at this moment, she truly understood the phrase "an enemy met in battle burns brightly with hatred."

Earlier, in the darkness, when she had attempted to stab Shi Yuwei only to have her dagger forcibly repelled—

She’d felt the other’s Soul Power and sensed the familiar essence lingering within it.

In that instant, she knew exactly who had resurrected themselves by possessing Shi Yuwei’s body.

The Red Fox.

Once the most formidable Fox Demon, indulgent in chaos, unbridled cruelty, and downright ruthless, its strength in Soul Power had been unparalleled even among its kind.

Several years ago, the Red Fox had slaughtered an entire orphanage of children simply for their pure, unsullied souls. After draining the children’s bodies of all their Essence, it escaped just before the Demon Hunters arrived.

That evening, when Lu Sheng entered the orphanage where she had long volunteered, she was greeted by the sight of numerous lifeless children—the same ones she had played with daily. Her hands trembled uncontrollably.

For days, Lu Sheng tracked the Red Fox relentlessly, eventually finding it within a chapel. The two clashed at once.

But back in those days, Lu Sheng lived a low-profile life, concealing her true identity, abstaining from harming others for Soul Power, and hadn’t yet consumed the Essence Stabilizing Pill.

Her strength was nowhere near that of the Red Fox, and she barely escaped being gutted then and there.

Yet, at the critical moment, You Yi—who she’d anonymously contacted for help—arrived just in time.

During You Yi’s battle with the Red Fox, Lu Sheng took the chance to flee. But before leaving, she had caught sight of You Yi driving the soul-devouring nail directly into the Red Fox’s shoulder.

Once a soul-devouring nail pierces a body, the Demon’s soul is nearly broken beyond repair. If driven into the heart, it shatters their soul indefinitely.

Lu Sheng was unsure whether You Yi had finished off the Red Fox or if it escaped gravely injured. But since then, the Fox had disappeared completely.

Evidently, it had been the latter scenario.

"Qiangwei, you’re not planning to fight me, are you?"

Shi Yuwei eyed Lu Sheng’s clenched fist. "Earlier when you went at me, you must’ve felt it too. Although my Soul Power is barely half of what it once was, with you lacking the Stabilizing Pill, we’re evenly matched."

"If we fight again, neither of us will gain anything."

Shi Yuwei raised her brows. "It’s been years. We’ve both taken on new identities. By blood, we’re even sisters now. Why not let bygones be bygones and talk calmly?"

Talk calmly?

First, she’d slaughtered the entire orphanage full of children that mattered to Lu Sheng. And now she’d placed the Parasitic Gu on her grandpa, draining him to the brink of complete Essence depletion.

And she still had the audacity to propose a "calm conversation"?

Lu Sheng nearly let out a cold laugh. In the next moment, a half-meter-long broadsword materialized out of thin air in her hand, its heavy blade dragging ominously against the floor as it gleamed coldly.

"Talk to your mother."

All she wanted was to kill her.