Ch29.1 - It’s actually not that bad!

Bei Quan smiled and took back the photos of the hostess and the interns.

“Now, think about it again.” He asked Mo Yuqing, “Who is ‘Yan Shuangshuang’?”

Mo Yuqing’s lips trembled.

“Yes…” 

She put her hands on her knees and unconsciously fiddled with the hem of her dress.

“No one… ‘Yan Shuangshuang’…” the girl murmured.

“‘Yan Shuangshuang’… doesn’t exist at all…”

Mo Yuqing finally remembered.

From beginning to end, there had never been an intern named ‘Yan Shuangshuang’.

This woman was just someone she had imagined.

Mo Yuqing was attractive, clever, talented and her outstanding beauty empowered her to take advantage of studies and employment opportunities.

She had always been the focus of everyone on occasions where the opposite sex gathered and had been the envy of many ladies her age. 

This made her extremely confident in her appearance, but it also made her rely too much on this congenital condition:

Beautiful people deserve more opportunities…

Beautiful people should be liked by everyone…

Beautiful people could live better… 

In fact, Mo Yuqing understood that her jealousy had ruined the lives of two innocent people.

But she had both inferiority and pride.

When she faced failure and self-reproach, she chose not to face and address her mistakes, but, rather, transfered all kinds of complex and strong negative emotions towards Xu Ziye, who had abandoned her, and Miss Lan Tian, who she believed was inferior to her but was destined to be rich and glorious.

Jealousy, resentment, reluctance, fear and guilt. 

Hui Gui was drawn to her because of these negative emotions.

Thus, ‘Yan Shuangshuang’, a demon girl who only exists in Mo Yuqing’s imagination, was born.

In Mo Yuqing’s opinion, beauty represents everything.

Therefore, ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ was designed to be a beautiful girl, who was weak, pure and lovable. She was like a lily of the valley, swaying in the morning dew. At the same time, she was enchanting and charming in ways that enticed any man who saw her into falling in love with her. 

In reality, Mo Yuqing was completely unaware of it. It’s a result of the guilt she’s been carrying around in her heart. When she created ‘Yan Shuangshuang’, she unintentionally combined the looks of the female anchor and the intern.

Perhaps in Mo Yuqing’s subconscious mind, ‘Yan Shuangshuang’, who had some physical characteristics of the two people, was the embodiment of the female anchor and intern. Perhaps she created ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ to let those two individuals live happily ever after in her imagination and believed that by making ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ more beautiful and popular, her unknown crimes might go unpunished.

In Mo Yuqing’s unconscious rules, in order for “Yan Shuangshuang” to be seen by someone, she had to have been personally introduced and physically described until the other party conjured an ideal, specific image from her words.

This process was time-consuming, so only a few men in such a large Lisa Media company had “seen” ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ with their own eyes. 

Mo Yuqing used those people to prove the charm of the “Daughter of the Devil,” and seduced Xu Ziye with ‘Yan Shuangshuang’, with the goal of destroying the other party’s marriage with Lan Tian.

She succeeded.

But it went too far.

Xu Ziye and Shen Xing were jealous of each other over ‘Yan Shuangshuang’, and Shen Xing ended up slitting Manager Xu’s throat with an art knife. 

When Mo Yuqing learned of Xu Ziye’s death, she truly felt terrified.

A beautiful, weak and innocent face had not only showed the allure of beauty but also caused death.

She felt that she had killed her ex-boyfriend herself.

After that day, Mo Yuqing resigned from Lisa Media in a hurry. 

She dared not go back to the company or even go out.

She was afraid of seeing ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ again.

Bei Quan was satisfied when Mo Yuqing personally affirmed his assessment.

In fact, he had already speculated on the true origin of “Yan Shuangshuang” thanks to Wei Fuyuan, in addition to the clues obtained from the employees of Lisa Media. 

Young Master Wei had seen ‘Yan Shuangshuang’s’ true face in the memory of the prop master, surnamed Xie.

Although the recollection couldn’t be immediately screenshotted and printed like a film, Zhu Ling was talented enough to draw a vivid portrait of the beauty with Wei Fuyuan’s description.

Bei Quan took this portrait to the girls he met at the wedding photography scene the day before and asked them to identify them.

Several girls had said they did not know the woman. 

Only the makeup artist who’d worked the longest in Lisa Media and had, had contact with the most people, recognized the woman. After careful thinking, she said that the face and eye shape of the woman in the portrait were very similar to the hostess who left the company the previous month because of an injury.

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“Now, let’s go back to the beginning.” 

Bei Quan smiled at Mo Yuqing, “Who are you waiting for here?”

———————————

Mo Yuqing was taken aback by Bei Quan’s question.

“Yeah…”

She muttered to herself.

“What am I doing here?” 

“Who am I waiting for?”

Bei Quan looked down at his watch.

It was five o’clock in the morning, less than an hour before dawn.

——There’s still time. 

He thought to himself.

“Do you remember where you were before you came here?”

Bei Quan smiled and guided Mo Yuqing to help her remember.

“I resigned from the company.” Mo Yuqing said, “Then I stayed at home… Afraid to go out…” 

Bei Quan thought of the leftover takeout lunch boxes he saw in Mo Yuqing’s apartment and added for her, “Yes, you’ve been in the house for a long time. You were so afraid to go out that you dared not even throw away the garbage. ”

He paused, “Then why are you here now?”

Mo Yuqing blinked.

Her memory was like a jigsaw puzzle that had been broken apart and disassembled. One by one, she needed to explore carefully along with the clues and reassemble the messy fragments. 

“Right…”

The girl blinked and finally thought of something, “I received a text message…”

Mo Yuqing reflexively reached into her coat pocket to take out her mobile phone but found it empty.

She was stunned and thought of looking in her handbag. 

But no matter where she looked, she couldn’t find her bag.

Mo Yuqing was surprised that she had nothing but a set of clothes, shoes and socks on her person.

The girl stood up.

“What’s going on? Where’s my bag? Where’s my cell phone? ” 

Her voice was filled with uncontrollable panic, “Why am I here?”

Bei Quan took the mobile phone, handed over by Wei Fuyuan and showed Mo Yuqing the screen.

The screen displayed a screenshot of a short message:

[You bitch, I know what you did!] 

Mo Yuqing: “……”

She stared at the screen lit up in Bei Quan’s hand and remained silent for a long time.

“… Yes…”

Mo Yuqing whispered, “That day… I received a text message from Lan Tian…” 

“… She found the picture of me and Ziye…”

“She knows…”

Bei Quan nodded, “Yes, so Lan Tian asked you to meet.”

After a pause, he said softly, “Then you decided to meet with her and came to the back of Mingtai mountain on the evening of April 9 to meet Lan Tian in this pavilion.” 

Mo Yuqing gave an “um”.

Bei Quan, “And then?”

The girl stopped talking again.

She frowned and thought hard, her fingers gripped her skirt tightly, and her knuckles turned blue from white. 

“I don’t know…”

Mo Yuqing felt a strong uneasiness in her heart.

She had a terrible premonition that what she had forgotten would make her fall into an abyss that she would never be able to crawl back out from.

She was afraid to know the truth, yet, at the same time, was eager to hold on to the relief from knowing the truth. 

Mo Yuqing’s voice let out a faint cry, “I really… really don’t remember…”

Bei Quan’s lips curved.

Then he stretched out his hand and suddenly pushed Mo Yuqing on her back when she was completely unprepared.

——————————–

Mo Yuqing pounced forward without warning.

As she was falling, she closed her eyes reflexively and stretched her hands forward. 

She did fall, but her knee did not feel pain.

“You bitch!”

Mo Yuqing heard a sharp female voice scolding furiously, “I know you did it!”

Mo Yuqing opened her eyes and muttered, “Lan, Lan Tian…” 

She was trembling in front of the woman. Before she knew what was happening, Lan Tian rushed over and stretched out her hand to pull her hair.

“You killed Ziye, didn’t you?”

“You’re responsible for so many things in the company!”

“I don’t know how you did it, but it must’ve been you!” 

Mo Yuqing screamed and tried to cover her head, struggling to break free from Lan Tian’s grip.

She was so scared that she couldn’t think rationally. Aside from crying and screaming, she had forgotten how to defend herself.

“You also planned the stage accident, didn’t you?”

Lan Tian beat and scolded, “How many more people do you want to hurt? How many more people will you kill? ” 

Mo Yuqing felt her ears buzzing.

Only one thought filled her mind, that was—— Lan Tian knew everything!

In an extreme panic, Mo Yuqing instinctively struggled violently.

Two girls of the same age and shape naturally had similar strength. It was difficult for one party to subdue the other when fighting. 

When Mo Yuqing began to resist fiercely, Lan Tian finally let go of her hair.

Mo Yuqing didn’t care much. Like a cornered animal forced into a desperate situation, she ran in a panicked state towards an uncertain direction.

Her right shoe came loose and she ran staggeringly, utterly blind to the directions of East, West, North, and South.

When Mo Yuqing realized that there was a fence in front and a cliff below the fence, she had no way out. 

She suddenly stopped and looked back at Lan Tian,

But the long, messy hair stuck to her face and blocked her view.

Mo Yuqing heard a sharp scream.

“Bitch, die!” 

The next second, a force hit her back heavily.

Mo Yuqing fell forward uncontrollably, crossed the low railing fence and plunged straight down…

—————————- 

Just when Mo Yuqing thought she was going to fall down the cliff, someone grabbed her arm with one hand and dragged her back from the edge of the fall.

The girl sat down on the ground.

She looked dazedly at Bei Quan, who had just pulled her back from falling… 

“So it’s like this…”

Mo Yuqing’s lips murmured:

“I’m dead…”

Wei Fuyuan, who had been watching all this silently, found that the girl’s appearance had completely changed in an instant. 

She was no longer as bright as she was at first.

Mo Yuqing’s hair was scattered, covered with blood, fallen leaves and mud, and her dress was dirty. There was a big hole in the silk stockings. Without shoes, her right foot twisted at an abnormal angle, and a white fractured bone protruded from the distorted incision.

“I’m dead… I’m really dead…”

Wei Fuyuan turned on the flashlight on his mobile phone and took a picture under the railing. 

Below was a dark cliff with verdant vegetation. If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes just now, it would have been impossible to imagine that a corpse that had been dead for more than 20 days was hidden underneath.

Yes, Mo Yuqing had died long ago.

As early as the 9th of last month, she and Lan Tian met here. They had a serious altercation, and Lan Tian ended up pushing Mo Yuqing down the cliff between all the tearing and chasing.

The back of Mingtai mountain was usually uninhabited. In addition, the day of the incident was not a holiday, and it was dusk. The noise made by Mo Yuqing and Lan Tian did not manage to disturb anyone. 

When Mo Yuqing fell off the cliff, Lan Tian quickly woke up from her anger. After she realized what she had just done, her blood turned cold and she felt extremely frightened.

The vegetation on the cliff was lush. Looking down from the railing, let alone confirming if the other party was alive or dead, Lan Tian couldn’t even see a corner of Mo Yuqing’s clothes.

She didn’t dare to climb down to find out, and she didn’t dare to call the police.

Lan Tian fled the scene and didn’t forget to take away the handbag and shoes that Mo Yuqing left on the ground when she ran away. 

As for Mo Yuqing, she hadn’t even realized she had died.

People who die suddenly in accidents often become earth-bound spirits.

If no one told them or if they didn’t see their own body, the memory of the dead person would often stay stuck on before the accident and they wouldn’t become aware that they had died.

This was the case with Mo Yuqing. 

She forgot why she came here. Her soul stayed in the pavilion waiting to meet someone she couldn’t remember.

Mo Yuqing crouched on the ground, and lifted her pale blood-stained hand, brushed her tangled hair that was clinging to her blood-stained cheeks, and stared up at Bei Quan.

“If ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ is just a person I imagined, what is she…?”

The best way to eliminate the resentment of a person who died suddenly was to let her know clearly how she died. 

Bei Quan’s patience with Mo Yuqing was surprisingly good.

“It’s a ghost attached to you… Well, you can think of it as a kind of evil spirit.”

He explained concisely, “The ghost feeds on your negative emotions, so it will do everything to enhance your obsession, desire, or any other strong negative emotions. On the surface, it was fulfilling your wishes, but in fact, it just treats you like a buffet table. ”

Bei Quan paused and added, “You told us about your situation in some way. That’s why we showed up here to finish it for you.” 

Mo Yuqing nodded numbly, wondering if she understood.

The girl died twenty days ago.

When she had called the hotline for [Thriller Night Talk] last Thursday night, she was already an earth-bound spirit stranded in this place.

A moment later, Mo Yuqing blinked and asked slowly, “So is she still there?” 

Bei Quan knew who this “she” meant, so he replied with a smile.

“Yes.”

Mo Yuqing blinked.

“… where is she?” 

Bei Quan was still smiling.

The Young Master Wei, who was listening to the conversation between the two, felt goosebumps appear all over.

Bei Quan slowly and clearly said the answer, “‘Yan Shuangshuang’, she is behind you now.”

Mo Yuqing was stunned. 

She lowered her head and glanced over her shoulder.

Two snow-white and slender arms were wrapped around her shoulders and loosely around her chest.

Mo Yuqing turned back slowly.

A melon-faced, almond-eyed beauty was hugging her back, smiling sweetly, with heart-shaped lips, and a pair of playful dimples visible on her cheeks. 

This scene was very strange.

A dirty ghost, covered with mud and blood, knelt on the ground and behind her was a pure and beautiful girl. The latter also hugged the former with two arms, just like a pair of girlfriends with great feelings.

The appearance of the ghost “Yan Shuangshuang” was designed by Mo Yuqing.

The condition for “seeing” her like this was that Mo Yuqing describe the other party in words. 

The reason Bei Quan and Wei Fuyuan could see the Hui Gui as a frail, tiny white blossom now was because they had heard “Xiaoqing” describe ‘Yan Shuangshuang’s’ appearance and clothing on the [Thriller Night Talk] hotline.

“Well, it’s actually quite good this way.”

Bei Quan gently comforted his poor assistant, who was already covered in sweat.

“Otherwise, you’d see a swarm of dark shadows behind her right now.” 

After all, “Yan Shuangshuang” could make men fall in love at first sight. In terms of senses, it was much better than the real body of the Hui Gui.

Wei Fuyuan glanced at Bei Quan silently.

He didn’t feel comforted at all.

Ch29.2 - It’s actually not that bad!

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Bei Quan’s tone was calm, but his spirit and mind felt as strained as a bowstring pulled taut.

He was several steps away from Mo Yuqing, who was kneeling. The smile on his face dimmed as he stared at the ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ embracing the girl’s shoulder.

The Hui Gui returned his gaze. Its pupils were as deep and black as a bottomless ocean.

It was a silent confrontation between one person and one ghost. 

‘Yan Shuangshuang’s’ left hand slightly moved, seemingly more attuned to upward movement.

Bei Quan took a step sideways and squared himself in front of Wei Fuyuan like a shield.

Even for someone quite bold and fearless of death like Bei Quan, one would have to admit that they had encountered a tough situation this time.

Even though it was a Hui Gui, the cultivation of this Hui Gui was not to be underestimated.

If the “Executioner” they met last week was scum with a combat effectiveness of about 10 who even Wei Fuyuan, an ordinary man who hadn’t even opened his Yin and Yang eyes, could compete against with a pair of fists, then the ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ he faced this time had a combat effectiveness of at least 5000.

‘Yan Shuangshuang’ didn’t know how many negative human emotions it had absorbed, but it’s Taoist practice was quite profound. The strong black Qi faintly glowed with a purple light all over his body.

Bei Quan could sense the resentment and Yin Qi that radiated off of it just by gazing at it—— it was like an invisible pressure that wanted to crush his spine under its sheer weight.

—— It’s really troublesome this time. 

Bei Quan thought in his heart.

‘Yan Shuangshuang’ was a rare and ferocious ghost, even among the Hui Guis.

Since he took over the [Thriller Night Talk], he had met his fair share of opponents, but this one’s cultivation had to, at least, be in the top two.

Bei Quan estimated that with his strength, he should just barely be able to compete with the opponent. 

If his partner was a practitioner who had received orthodox training since childhood, he could have assisted him by protecting him while he was vulnerable. However, at this time, he only had Young Master Wei, who didn’t even have an inkling of knowledge about anything like that.

Bei Quan quickly assessed the situation in his mind.

From the corner of his eye, he glanced at the foolish Wei Fuyuan beside him.

——If I have to fight, I have to get rid of this boy. 

Bei Quan thought.

——If something happens to this boy here, Zhu Ling wouldn’t hesitate to kill me on the spot.

But if he was the only one, even if he fought with everything he had, how would he seal it into the Lost God Banner alone?

Bei Quan’s original magical weapon was called the Qingguang Vientiane Brush. 

While using it, one needs to use their own blood as a medium to draw the various talismans into the void, then inject their true vitality to activate the spell.

The talisman that sealed the Hui Gui into the Lost God Banner, however, was very complex. Bei Quan couldn’t move when drawing the talisman because a single mistake would be deadly. But if he couldn’t move, for a Hui Gui with incomparable strength, it was undoubtedly the best time for the enemy to attack and kill its opponent in a single blow.

What’s more, the Qingguang Vientiane Pen was quite difficult to use. The more powerful the talisman, the more profound the caster’s magic had to be.

With Bei Quan’s current ability, facing a ghost with cultivation like ‘Yan Shuangshuang’s’, he’d likely not get a second chance, if he failed to seal it in one attempt. 

So Bei Quan needed an assistant or a partner.

He used to work with others when dealing with Hui Gui before.

Unfortunately, every partner of his failed to last long, and he would have no choice but to face a formidable opponent on his own.

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——He didn’t want Wei Fuyuan to end up the same, so he couldn’t let him get involved! 

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——If there’s really no choice, he would just have to go all out.

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Pa vlv cba ufa lcab jcs jaajmx qbrlalbc. Pa bcis ufcais qea lar tjcv bc jvjhfv Zb Tedlcu’r rtbeivfg. 

Then it spoke.

‘Yan Shuangshuang’s’ voice was as sweet and gentle as Mo Yuqing had described it, with a soft, coquettish, nasal tone.

But its words surprised Bei Quan.

“I won’t run away.” After a pause, it added, “I won’t attack or resist. You can rest assured.” 

Bei Quan dared not relax his vigilance.

He was still standing in front of Wei Fuyuan.

“What do you want?”

‘Yan Shuangshuang’ smiled, “You’re from the secret realm, aren’t you?” 

This was a Hui Gui, who had crossed the threshold into half immortality. This Hui Gui could utterly destroy any “Executors” who depended solely on a primal hunting instinct.

“I know what you’re going to do.” It said, “I will allow you to seal me back into the Lost God Banner, but I have one request.”

It smiled and tightened its hands around Mo Yuqing’s shoulders, “I want her to go in with me.”

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Mo Yuqing had been dead for a long time. It was reasonable to say that her soul turned into an earthbound spirit and would no longer feel pain.

But when ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ pinched her shoulder, Mo Yuqing trembled as if she was in pain. She raised her head, widened her eyes and stared at the delicate beauty formed by her own imagination. 

She did not understand what ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ was saying but intuitively felt uneasy and at a loss.

“She has been possessed by me for a long time. In the past, she has taken a human being’s life. Her hands are covered in blood, and she carries deep karma and resentment.”

The ghost tightly grasped Mo Yuqing’s shoulder and said to Bei Quan.

“Even after transcendence, she will not be able to enter reincarnation again. She will either suffer in hell or reincarnate as an animal—— never to be a human being again.” 

It smiled slightly. “Then she might as well come with me. Stay with me in nothingness… I don’t know if there will be another chance some day in the future.”

Bei Quan knew that ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ was telling the truth.

Mo Yuqing’s cause and effect had been too deeply involved. Even if she gave her soul to the eminent monk to help her, she would never be able to completely clear her karma.

And, the Lost God Banner was a magical weapon used to seal the soul. If even a ghost could be sealed, then it wouldn’t matter if a little human soul was also sealed; it’d be no different from adding a single grain of rice into a giant rice jar. 

But, Bei Quan was curious as to why this Hui Gui didn’t hesitate to exchange itself for Mo Yuqing, but instead chose to take Mo Yuqing with it.

He shrugged at ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ and pointed at Mo Yuqing.

“Why don’t you ask her if she wants to?”

When Hui Gui heard this, it bent down and approached Mo Yuqing. A strand of stray hair on the temple gently brushed the other’s cheek. 

“Will you come with me?”

Mo Yuqing looked at it confused.

As an earthbound spirit, who had just learned that she was dead, she didn’t know where to go.

She vaguely felt that if she followed ‘Yan Shuangshuang’, she would embark on a road completely different from everything she had known in the past, and she wondered if she would regret it. 

But at the same time, Mo Yuqing knew that she was sinful and was more afraid of falling into hell.

And…

Her fingers curled up and loosened unconsciously, her lips trembled and she squeezed out a wailing cry, “I, I’m afraid…”

She raised her hand and grasped ‘Yan Shuangshuang’s’ that was pressing on her shoulder. 

“Don’t leave me alone…”

————————————

When Bei Quan and Wei Fuyuan left Mingtai Mountain Park and drove back to “Sāntúchuān,” it was already 7:20 a.m. on May 3rd.

This time, Bei Quan’s process for dealing with the Hui Gui was easier than ever before. He just summoned the Lost God Banner, and then drew a sealing spell with the Qingguang Vientiane Pen, and sealed ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ and Mo Yuqing together.

The Young Master Wei, who was watching, was stunned to silence the whole time. From beginning to end, he didn’t know that he had faced a powerful Hui Gui who had stepped onto the threshold of becoming half immortal.

On the way back, Wei Fuyuan was still a little dubious. 

“Is this the end?”

While driving, he repeatedly confirmed to Bei Quan, “Hui Gui… and Mo Yuqing, entered your banner?”

“Yes.”

Bei Quan, sitting in the front passenger’s seat, patiently replied, “They’ve been sealed.” 

Wei Fuyuan still seems unable to let it go.

“What do you think of ‘Yan Shuangshuang’? Why didn’t it resist?”

This time, Bei Quan just smiled and didn’t answer his assistant’s questions.

In fact, he also felt very confused. 

In Bei Quan’s opinion, ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ was indeed the most special Hui Gui he had ever encountered.

It was very powerful, with a cultivation base capable of annihilating most of its kind, and it should be able to defend itself against Bei Quan.

But ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ chose to be sealed by him without resistance. In exchange, it’s only request was to take away a human soul that had once been its prey.

Bei Quan couldn’t guess what ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ was thinking. 

Since childhood, he’d been capable of seeing through and understanding most things, but there were a few times when he couldn’t see through something.

Although ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ had been sealed, why it chose to get sealed made Bei Quan feel like he had been stabbed by a soft thorn. It did not hurt, but as long as you touched it gently, it felt like a strange sensation that was hard to let go of.

Taking advantage of the red lights, Wei Fuyuan glanced sideways at Bei Quan and saw that the other party just smiled without saying a word, and turned his face away silently.

The red light turned green. He stepped on the accelerator and drove to the old city of Fèng Xīngchéng city. 

“I understand Mo Yuqing’s thoughts a little bit…”

Wei Fuyuan murmured to himself as he drove.

Bei Quan was interested, “Oh?” He turned to his assistant, “What do you think she thinks?”

“I think Mo Yuqing used her apparent self-esteem and confidence to hide her selfishness and inferiority.” 

Wei Fuyuan organized the following wording, “Her parents died early, and her relationship with her surviving relatives was cold. In her world, she considered herself as the center of the whole world. So she has a clear goal and a strong sense of utilitarianism. She wanted to pursue the ideal life that she had created in her mind… ”

Bei Quan smiled, “You mean to say that she lacked love since childhood and had no one to rely on, right?”

Wei Fuyuan looked ahead and nodded.

“So when ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ offered to take her along with it, even if she knew that it was a Hui Gui, she decided to follow like a drowning man clinging to the last straw.” 

Bei Quan smiled, “Because ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ is currently the existence who is the most familiar to her, and the only one she felt she could depend on, right?”

Wei Fuyuan made an “um” sound, and there was no more speaking.

On the contrary, Bei Quan was intrigued by him, saying, “I didn’t anticipate Xiao Wei, who hasn’t even graduated from college yet and is still very young, to know a lot about the psychology of girls.”

He laughed and joked, “You must be good at picking up all the girls. Right?” 

Hearing this, Wei Fuyuan almost mistakenly stepped on the accelerator as the brake.

If it weren’t for the wrong time, he wanted to yell at Bei Quan, “With which eye did you see me pick up girls?”

It’s unfortunate that Young Master Wei, who came out of the closet to his parents, could only define his attitude toward the opposite sex of the same age with the word “Gao Leng” from the moment he discovered his sexual orientation.

“But it’s interesting.” 

“Isn’t ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ known as the ‘Daughter of the Devil’ who can make any man fall in love with her?”

Bei Quan raised his elbow and gently touched Wei Fuyuan’s arm, “But why does its charm seem to have had little effect on you?”

Wei Fuyuan felt panic for no reason.

He had thought about it before. 

After he realized that he was comparing Bei Quan with ‘Yan Shuangshuang’, he came to the terrible conclusion that his black-hearted boss was more attractive than a charming devil’s daughter,Young Master Wei knew that he was bent thoroughly.

Wei Fuyuan secretly bit his lower lip, forced himself stop to thinking with the pain, and pretended to cough,

“Of course, it’s because my concentration is amazing.”

Bei Quan smiled and thought Wei Fuyuan might be right. 

He knew he himself would never be charmed by ghosts.

Because he was a lonely ghost without a “heart,” so how could he be confused by anyone’s sex appeal?

As for Young Master Wei, Bei Quan guessed that maybe he had golden light to protect his body, so he was much more resistant than ordinary people in the face of the illusion of ghosts and immortals.

Bei Quan stopped talking, turned his head and cast his gaze out the car window. 

The sky was already bright, and the traffic on the road gradually increased.

Suddenly, Bei Quan remembered what he had seen as he sealed the ghost.

The black air around ‘Yan Shuangshuang’ tightly wrapped around Mo Yuqing’s soul. The souls of the immortal and mortal become one and were sealed into the endless mustard space within a snow-white banner.

The corners of Bei Quan’s lips twitched. ——It was actually not that bad. 

PerpetualMreow’s Rambles:

I don’t even know how to feel anymore… is this heading towards unrequited love or not!? (please say it’s not– my glass heart will shatter)

Translator’s Note- We are done with the 2nd arc of the novel and a little hint of what our Bei Quan might be is sprinkled, did you guys get the hints? Also from the next arc we are gonna enter into more serious and complicated cases and slow revelation of our Sāntúchuān folk’s origin.Things are gonna become more interesting.( ¬ ‿¬) So stay tune with our radio FM [Thriller Night Talk]