Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 688: Fate

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

From the moment Lin Xin could think, she could never remember a time her father had smiled.

He was always looking at her with eyes full of worry.

As a child, Lin Xin saw many people going in and out of her home. They wore strange clothes and made all sorts of strange gestures. They looked at her like a monster, their eyes confused, or fearful, or excited.

While some of them brought cheer into Lin Xin's life, most of them brought pain.

Even after a long time, Lin Xin still remembered the pain that came from that Spirit Master cutting off a chunk of her flesh.

This situation lasted for a very long time before finally coming to an end.

Those strange people suddenly stopped coming, and the house of the Lin Clan began to grow more lonely.

The Lin Clan had once been a prestigious clan, but to save its daughter, it had spent far too much money, causing the clan's circumstances to decline. Thus, word quickly spread that the daughter of the Lin Clan was a star of disaster, that she was possessed by a ghost that spread misfortune.

At the height of this rumor's influence, people would even attack Lin Xin.

Whenever Lin Xin went out, she would be assaulted by children, some of them throwing rocks at her and others spitting at her, and she would often break out in tears.

But soon, Lin Xin found that people didn't dare to provoke her.

For those children who had thrown stones either got sick or fell, and one boy even fell into a well while playing and died.

The local people were scared witless.

They no longer dared to bully Lin Xin, or even approach.

Lin Xin grew up in this lonely environment.

Her sixteenth birthday.

This should have been a day worth celebrating. In her area, girls were considered adults at 16, of marriageable age.

But nobody cared about Lin Xin.

There were no celebrations or cheer, for everyone knew that this was a star of calamity. Everyone feared her and so kept their distance.

But there would always be some people who didn't know.

It was

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