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"This mountain is not a place for the living to reside." An Xiaoshan pointed to the northeast, "Pinglin River's yin energy should have gradually dissipated along the gentle slope of the mountain, but the existence of Cuiping Elegant Garden has blocked this passage, causing the yin energy to stagnate and linger. With the accumulation of yin energy, Cuiping Mountain has become the dwelling place for wandering yin entities."
"And this room is the mountain's energy focal point, naturally attracting yin entities continuously— the footsteps or voices you hear are actually manifestations from another world."
father Xu fell silent. Rationally, he was unwilling to accept An Xiaoshan's words, but the strange occurrences at home forced him to confront this absurd claim.
He did indeed have an affair, just before moving to Cuiping Elegant Garden. The woman was quite ordinary, the only thing worth praising about her was her personality. She was the kind of gentle and considerate woman in the eyes of men. He obtained warmth from her that was difficult to find in his family—his wife was always immersed in the mundane chores of life and had become a vulgar woman. Postpartum depression from her second childbirth had turned her into someone he found completely unappealing.
father Xu does not think he has made a big mistake. In his circle of friends, who doesn't have a few "mistresses" outside? He certainly knows that he's just playing around, and in the end, he will still return to his family - as a successful man, father, and husband.
So when he told that woman that they should break up, he didn't feel much reluctance in his heart. He even had the mood to calculate the cost of an extramarital affair. However, soon he didn't have the mood anymore, because that woman came to him and told him that she was pregnant.
father Xu immediately demanded her to have an abortion. He was very clear that he did not want to take on another "family." Women are delicious delicacies in love, but once they have children, they become a pot of stale cold rice, which is not what he wants.
In the end, he accompanied that woman to a private hospital for an induced abortion, left some money, and then completely cut off contact with her.
After that, father Xu quickly bought Villa No. 18 in Cuiping Elegant Garden. It's hard to say whether this was to make up for the past or out of guilt towards the family, but he moved his family into this top-notch mansion in Peiliu Town.
He thought that moving would be the start of a wonderful new life, and indeed, as he had hoped, his wife's condition improved day by day after the change of environment. She lost a lot of weight, her cheeks became thin, her cheekbones protruded, and her figure became slender, with a hint of the agility of her teenage years. When their son was a little older, she started trying to do business online, and after some time, she made a little money, which greatly encouraged her. After that, his wife seemed to regain the direction of her life. She started to dress herself up, learn baking, and persist in reading. During that time, father Xu felt an unprecedented satisfaction - his wife began to rely on him, using him as a mediator to the outside world. He even helped his wife advertise her homemade cakes to the neighbors and received widespread praise as a "good husband."
Until one day, father Xu noticed that her face had regained a smile.
He suddenly felt a wave of panic. No longer bound by the constraints of family, his wife gradually revealed a resilient and independent charm, while he was plunged into deep fear of losing control. Was his wife smiling for him? He couldn't help but doubt whether this elegant, delicate, and noble woman was dressing up for him now.
father Xu began to pay special attention to the details at home, such as the shifted bed legs, the drawn curtains, and suspicious shoe prints. Every little thing could ignite his anger. When he heard a man's voice in the house, he believed his suspicions were confirmed - his wife was indeed having an affair!
He stormed into the house in a rage, but found nothing. However, he never doubted his judgment; there absolutely must be another man hidden in the house! He frantically searched and smashed things everywhere, completely disregarding his shocked wife and children.
That day, he came back empty-handed, so he immediately installed surveillance cameras at home. When he saw the familiar look of despair in his wife's eyes, he even felt a sense of satisfaction. His wife started crying again, but he was annoyed by her tears. The whole family returned to the darkest time.
However, after a while, he also noticed that something was wrong - for example, he clearly heard footsteps outside the master bedroom door, but saw no one on the surveillance camera; for example, he clearly saw the curtains opening and closing on their own, but there was no record of it on the surveillance.
But father Xu doesn't want to admit his mistake.
"There's something with you too," An Xiaoshan said, throwing out a bombshell lightly as he hesitated, "an infant spirit, it's what caused your son's injury."
father Xu finally showed a look of fear on his face.
He no longer had the position to question. An Xiaoshan spoke a few words, each one stepping on his sore spot. His face turned pale, and his tone carried a hint of awe: "Junior Master, do you have a solution?"
An Xiaoshan stared at him for a while, making father Xu feel extremely uneasy. He asked, "What do you want?"
Seemingly caught off guard, father Xu sighed after a long pause and said, "Let's send it for reincarnation." He looked at An Xiaoshan as if he knew everything, his voice gradually weakening, "What about my son's illness..."
An Xiaoshan replied, "It will be punished in the cycle of reincarnation, and your son will naturally recover."
father Xu fell silent.
Yu Tiantian stood aside, piecing together the situation from their back-and-forth. Seeing father Xu still evading responsibility, she couldn't help but feel more and more disgusted.
An Xiaoshan pondered for a moment, then pulled out a piece of talisman paper from his sleeve. The vermilion ink on the talisman paper emitted a faint glow in the lamplight. Before the other two could read the words on it, he took two steps back, his eyes sharpened, silently reciting an incantation. With a forceful flick of his finger, the talisman paper suspended in mid-air and ignited on its own!
The flames flickered, and the red characters on the talisman seemed to dance in the firelight, as if communicating with another world.
"I am... the master of Yin and Yang, knowledgeable of destiny. Tonight, I am here to communicate with the spirits of the netherworld..." An Xiaoshan began speaking, but Yu Tiantian felt as if her ears were muffled, unable to hear clearly. She glanced at father Xu and saw the same perplexed expression on his face.
An Xiaoshan continued, "You... lingering in the mortal realm, is it due to unresolved grievances, or is there some unfinished business? I am willing to listen and help you find release... The ghost messenger... tonight..."
Suddenly, a breeze passed by, and Yu Tiantian had a feeling that something had just passed by.
The talisman quickly burned out.
"It's settled," An Xiaoshan said casually, looking at them, "At three in the morning tonight, the ghost messenger will come to take him for reincarnation."
"Thank you..." father Xu seemed to be in a state of collapse, with sweat on his forehead and pale lips.
"The world operates on cause and effect, all with a predetermined outcome," An Xiaoshan said, turning away without looking back and opening the door in front of him.
Xu Zhihui's room is very dark, with tightly closed curtains and the typical smell of wooden furniture. Yu Tiantian wrinkled her nose, feeling like she could also smell a bad odor, but when she went to look for it again, the smell was gone.
Yu Tiantian didn't pay attention and followed An Xiaoshan inside.
After everyone entered the room, An Xiaoshan closed the door and handed them a stack of yellow paper: "Place these yellow papers in the four corners of the room, then light them."
"From now on, no matter what happens, do not speak," An Xiaoshan instructed. "If you're afraid, just close your eyes."
Both of them felt a tightness in their hearts and nodded in agreement.
In the dimly lit room, faint golden flames quietly rose, resembling flickering candlelight. The flames spread within the fibers of the yellow paper, casting uncertain light and shadow on the faces of the three people.
In the silence, the yellow paper in the four corners gradually turned into ashes under the licking flames.
At the moment when the fire extinguished, Yu Tiantian felt a change - it seemed that something had been added to the room. First came the sound of footsteps, some light and some heavy, as if dozens of people were wandering in the house; then came the sound of knocking, as if someone was urgently tapping on the window; in addition, there was an increasingly noisy murmuring, the frequency of which was very high, sometimes near and sometimes far. Eventually, it became like whispering right next to the ear, making it difficult to shake off.
If it was novel before, Yu Tiantian finally feels a bit of fear now. The temperature in the room has noticeably dropped. She can't help but close her eyes, hold her breath, and the skin on her exposed arms has broken out in goosebumps.
Are there ghosts in the room?
After losing her vision, her other senses became more acute. She remembered what An Xiaoshan had said about the "breath ghost," and she always felt a cool sensation on her neck, but she dared not move. So she stood straighter and straighter, becoming as stiff as a piece of wood.
Yu Tiantian didn't know how long she had been standing there. She seemed to have lost all sense of time, with her mind filled only with incomprehensible murmurs. She had no idea where An Xiaoshan was, what he was doing, or even the presence of father Xu. It was as if in the vast room, she was the only person there.
The darkness amplified the panic in her heart infinitely, and Yu Tiantian couldn't help but open her eyes a crack to see what An Xiaoshan was doing—An Xiaoshan was gone!
More accurately, everyone was gone.
Yu Tiantian For a moment, her heart was pounding wildly, and she dared not make a sound. She turned her head to look around. This was still Xu Zhihui's room, with the door tightly closed and the curtains wide open. There was no one else here except for him.
There was no moon outside, only churning dark clouds.
Yu Tiantian I don't know what to do. She didn't realize that the buzzing in her ears had stopped, and there was a dead silence around her.
Suddenly, there was a violent impact at the window.
"Bang bang—bang bang—"
Yu Tiantian looked at the window in horror, and several white handprints suddenly appeared on the glass!
She quickly stepped back, but was instantly grabbed by a strong force around her throat, lifted into the air, and then heavily slammed to the ground!
Yu Tiantian didn't care about the pain all over her body. She got up from the ground and ran towards the door, only to be thrown down a second and third time!
The distance of a few meters has unexpectedly become so long. Yu Tiantian has bloodshot eyes, difficulty breathing, dizziness, and nausea. Just as she reaches the point of despair, urgent knocking is heard at the door.
"Yu Tiantian!"
"An Xiaoshan is calling her!"
"Yu Tiantian! Are you in there?"
Yu Tiantian almost burst into tears, struggling to respond with a hoarse voice, "I'm here! I'm here!"
The surrounding scene changed instantly, returning to the room with yellow paper ashes in the four corners. Yu Tiantian suddenly realized something was wrong. The lingering murmurs echoed in her ears again, but this time she seemed to discern the emotions in the voice, filled with malicious and triumphant laughter.
Yu Tiantian Suddenly everything went black, and all the images, sounds, and sensations faded away like receding tides, leaving only the abruptly changing eyes of An Xiaoshan in sight.
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