Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 93 All Things are False, All Things are Empty

To prove she had truly changed and was starting anew, Li Mumu was confined at home for an entire morning, during which she completed a total of ten sets of Chinese language papers.

It was literally Chinese, specifically designed for foreigners learning the Chinese language.

Li Mumu had thought she could easily and happily score full marks, but she was stunned as soon as she looked at the examination paper.

At least half of it consisted of classical Chinese, packed with professional jargon like "Mysterious Female," "Five Aggregates," "Millet," "Black Liver"...

I’m not practicing the Nine Yin Scripture; what use do I have for these?

No, wait, it seems Li Ya did mention something about returning to The East for immortal cultivation...

At that moment, Li Mumu deeply empathized with the pain foreign friends experienced while taking the English CET exams.

What troubled her the most, however, was not the bizarre questions on the exam papers.

It was her biological mother’s strange attitude towards transmigrators.

The Spirit Possession Ceremony, plainly speaking, is a form of sorcery for possessing a physical body.

From the moment a Spirit Possession Ceremony succeeds, it’s hard to say what exactly dwells within that body.

Initially, Li Mumu had wanted to conceal her origin, but Wendy exposed her on the spot.

Although she did not know that Li Mumu was a transmigrator, she was certain that Li Mumu was not the original one.

And she did not show any particular resistance to this.

If it were only her acting ambiguously, Li Mumu could have dismissed her as mentally ill, but her own mother behaving similarly was very thought-provoking.

Unfortunately, she was not as lucky as the protagonists in novels who transmigrated to a world where everyone around them was inexplicably simplified or, alternatively, started off as an orphan with a house and a sister, without arousing any suspicion.

Unable to deceive even Wendy, Li Mumu had no confidence in deceiving her own mother.

The two of them were at best non-mainstream spiritual sisters, while Li Ya was a genuine witch.

I’ve taken over your daughter’s body; aren’t you the least bit angry?

During lunchtime—of course, it wasn’t Li Ya who cooked. She hired a chef, maids, and gardener.

Even though she was a witch, she was unwilling to waste any magic power on issues that could be solved with money.

Purely out of laziness.

Usually, the household ate Western food, but since they had already decided to return to The East, Li Ya had asked the chef to start preparing Chinese cuisine from last week to gradually adapt to Eastern dietary customs.

The dishes for today’s lunch were stir-fried assortment, curried chicken, and seafood chow mein.

Noticing the confusion in Li Mumu’s heart, Li Ya, sitting across the dining table, propped her chin with her hand, tilted her head, and watched her tenderly, saying, "Don’t be nervous, where do you come from? Or rather, who do you think you are?"

Who am I?

Li Mumu was momentarily stunned and, after pondering in her heart for a moment, seriously replied, "I am Li Mumu, coincidentally sharing the same name with your daughter..."

"Do you think such a coincidence really happens in this world?"

Li Ya countered.

"Have you considered another possibility, that you weren’t possessed by any spirit, but instead some memories that were not originally yours appeared in your brain, causing you to split into an entirely new personality?"

Li Mumu’s pupils suddenly contracted.

[That makes sense]

[You have to admit, this explanation is more plausible than the possibility of you transmigrating into a namesake in the Otherworld.]

No, that explanation doesn’t make sense!

Li Mumu instinctively rebutted in her mind.

Memories can be copied, loaded, disguised, and fabricated.

But one’s core views cannot be replaced.

Each person’s outlook on life, their values, and worldview are not entirely dependent on their own memories; even more, they are based on the influence of their environment from childhood, and the logical transformations in thinking brought about by learning and enriching their minds.

In layman’s terms, it’s like some female protagonists in online novels of later generations, who discover overnight that they have become true daughters of top tycoons, and the first thought in their mind is to become an actress and participate in variety shows...

One might say, a wild boar cannot eat fine bran.

Although Li Mumu’s mind had loaded two sets of memories, her mode of thinking was undoubtedly shaped by later generations.

She knew very well who she was.

"But you don’t understand the laws that govern this world."

Li Ya narrowed her eyes, revealing a meaningful smile, "This world is very complex, you had no talent before and didn’t love to study, you would always just follow around the Freud family kids and play wildly, Mommy was truly heartbroken because of you." 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

"But I never expected that you would go crazy enough to play with a Spirit Possession Ceremony, how many times have I told you, even a punctuation mark spoken by a demon cannot be trusted. Give me an honest account, what contract did you sign with the Yellowstone Throne?"

Li Mumu shook her head frantically, "I didn’t sign anything, I’m not stupid."

"Really?"

"Really truly! Father Lyon was going to give me a scholarship, which I didn’t even accept."

"Is it because he offered too little?"

Like mother, like daughter, Li Mumu had no reply.

"Tsk, tsk, it seems Hell is big on business nowadays, every aspect needs to be performance-assessed, not as generous as before."

Li Ya shook her head and sighed.

"Of course, it might also be because you are too useless, not worth the focused investment, you need to learn to feel shame, do you know what ’after shame comes courage’ means?"

Her mother subconsciously started lecture mode again.

"Did you finish the test papers? If you can’t even learn Chinese, how will you keep up with the teaching pace in Penglai after you go back? I have heard that from the very start, Penglai requires writing essays, and not to mention essays, you can’t even write a small composition clearly, you don’t recognize all the characters, when the time comes what will you understand when teachers lecture?"

Halfway through the scolding, she suddenly remembered that Li Mumu might have probably actually studied well today since she indeed had stayed at home and focused on solving papers.

Looking at her daughter who looked as meek as a quail, Li Ya coughed to cover her embarrassment and began to change the subject, "So... who does this new personality of yours think they are? From where do they think they have come?"

Li Mumu didn’t know what to say, as it seemed her mother was now convinced she had schizophrenia.

When others regard you as mentally ill, no matter what you say, they hear only the babblings of madness.

"I... thought I had transmigrated from the future?"

"Is the problem with Shiyan resolved?"

"What Shiyan?"

"You don’t know? This proves that your transmigration memories are fake."

Li Ya stared into Li Mumu’s eyes and said word by word, "Listen to me, daughter, knowledge is toxic."

"You didn’t have any talent before, and I was too lazy to tell you these things, lest you imagine things and scare yourself into insanity. Now that you’ve already gone mad, I might as well reveal some secrets about this world to you."

"This world is fake, time is fake, space is also fake, everything is a sham, everything is an illusion. Between you and me, aside from the physiological kinship of material layer, there are no other connections."