Chapter 8: Chapter 3.4: The Burden of Blood
At the hotel, Shi Mu checked in and was shown to her room. After staying so long in a dusty attic, the soft bed and clean bathroom felt like luxury.
She took a shower, rolled around the bed like a free child, and finally calmed down.
Then she turned to the system. "Hey, can you pull up Fu Yunshen's file?"
[Would you like to use the system's search function?]
"Yes."
[That'll be 100 Brotherhood Points.]
Shi Mu's eyelid twitched. "Are you scamming me again?"
[I'm a professional system. I never joke.]
"I haven't even touched Fu Yunshen's hand yet—where am I supposed to get Brotherhood Points?"
[We offer loans. Interest rate: 10%.]
Shi Mu jumped to her feet. "Are you a system or a loan shark?! I'll commit suicide right now if you keep this up!"
After a pause, the system replied with a flat tone: [So… do you want the loan or not?]
She clenched her jaw. "…Loan."
Immediately, the system projected a file in front of her.
In the original comic, Fu Yunshen was described vaguely—a mysterious youth who killed his stepmother at age ten and eventually became a dark, bloodthirsty figure.
Now, all his details were laid bare before her.
Fu Yunshen and Fu Yunrui were fraternal twins. While Fu Yunrui was bright and mild, Fu Yunshen had always been cold and aloof. Their mother, Fu Qian, heavily favored Yunrui and neglected Yunshen.
At five, their parents divorced. Fu Yunshen went to live with their father, who soon remarried.
The stepmother was cruel. Though she acted kind in public, she secretly beat and manipulated him. After their father died, she inherited nothing—everything had been left to Fu Yunshen.
Driven by greed, she and her lover planned to kill him.
One night, she crept into his room with a knife.
She failed.
He woke, overpowered her, and stabbed her to death.
The case made headlines, but because he was under fourteen, Fu Yunshen wasn't charged.
But the nightmare didn't end there.
The media's twisted narrative turned him into a monster. Classmates avoided him. Neighbors whispered behind his back. Alone and haunted by the ghost of his stepmother, he became withdrawn and dangerous.
At thirteen, his uncle finally found him and brought him to Lingcheng. He enrolled at Yingnan High School.