Under the night sky, I was shining with golden light.

Xiaowen and Youqing each held me on one side and went to the side of Xiaowen's grandfather's coffin.

I quickly shouted:

"No, no, Third Uncle, there's a problem with our ancestral grave. It's the mischief of the Diao family. They're trying to harm me!"

Golden Third Uncle chuckled.

"They want to disturb the grave? Don't worry, I'll send them back."

Then he looked into my eyes and said:

"I promise you, I'll turn your grave into the most ferocious one on this mountain, and crush them all! You'll be the eternal money-making ghost for our family."

Xiaowen laughed beside us.

"You're the top scholar in the county when you're alive, and the ghost top scholar when you're dead."

Youqing and Xiaowen held me and headed towards the grave circle.

Inside the grave circle, there was an uncovered coffin, and Xiaowen's grandfather lay inside.

He was the older brother of my grandfather and, according to customs, my great-grandfather as well.

Although he had been buried for more than ten years, he looked lifelike.

I quickly said:

"No, no, just look at how well-preserved Great-Grandfather is. This is definitely an auspicious burial site. Xiaowen, you must have good fortune."

I shouted again:

"Our ancestors are watching, isn't this inappropriate?"

Golden Third Uncle held me at knifepoint.

"If your great-grandfather were alive, he would agree to this as well."

Xiaowen and Youqing climbed into the coffin and lifted Great-Grandfather out.

After placing him on the ground, the two of them began stripping off his burial clothes.

Great-Grandfather was poor when he died, and there was nothing decent for his burial. His clothes were made from sacks.

But they were still sturdy.

Xiaowen and Youqing stripped Great-Grandfather bare.

Under the moonlight, there stood a pale and withered corpse.

Xiaowen came over with burial clothes, dressed me in a jacket and trousers, and then took out an iron chain, wrapping it around me several times before finally locking it.

This iron chain was peculiar. It was made by twisting coffin nails into a round loop; I don't know its purpose.

Then Xiaowen and Youqing lifted me into the coffin.

I couldn't move my hands or feet, I could only twist back and forth.

They placed me inside the coffin.

Golden Third Uncle looked up at the sky.

The moon gradually revealed a small crescent shape, tinged with red.

Xiaowen and Youqing's faces showed greedy smiles, a smile that sent shivers down my spine.

I grew up with Xiaowen since childhood, and Youqing and Golden Third Uncle have always treated me well.

But I never expected them to become so unfamiliar.

Xiaowen looked at the moon in the sky and muttered:

"When the celestial dog devours the moon, and the dark phoenix returns to its nest, sir, your calculations are accurate!"

"This phoenix branch is about to soar into our home."

Then she looked at me and said:

"If you hadn't come running over here so late at night, we wouldn't have caught up to this moment. Chaoyang, don't blame anyone else, this is your fate!"