Bai Wei was dragged away from the Sheng family's banquet by her father.
This so - called "harmless prank" finally ended in an unseemly way.
Cheng Rui thanked me. I waved my hand and told her that since I had received her money, she was my client. It was only natural for me to handle things well for her. She didn't need to take it to heart. If she had any insoluble problems in the future, she could come to me.
Cheng Rui still wanted to get closer to me, but was rebuffed by Zhao Zifeng's half - soft, half - tough words. She had no choice but to walk away dejectedly with her boyfriend to the other side of the banquet hall.
Seeing that the show was over, with the persuasion of Sheng Shixun and his friends, everyone left the lounge one after another and went to find topics that interested them.
Finally, the lounge quieted down. Only Zhao Zifeng, her boyfriend Du Peilin and I were left.
"Xinghe, where's your boyfriend?"
Zhao Zifeng became even more affectionate towards me. She held my arm and asked with a smile, "Leaving a beautiful girl alone. Isn't he afraid you'll be abducted?"
"Who would dare to abduct her?"
Du Peilin on the side glanced at me sideways. "She always has little ghosts around. Staying with her for too long won't lead to a long life."
This man was good - looking, but his poisonous tongue was really annoying.
I gave him a cold look.
"Give it back to me!"
I've never had a good attitude towards men who speak rudely. I turned around and reached out my hand in front of him.
"What?" Unexpectedly, that guy pretended not to know. He stuffed the little ghost directly into his shirt sleeve.
"The little ghost I raised!!"
Although I wasn't the one who killed those little ghosts, now that I was providing for them, they were naturally the little ghosts I raised!
"See!" Du Peilin had an "I knew it" look on his face. He looked at Zhao Zifeng. "I saw from afar that she was surrounded by yin energy. You didn't believe me. Now she admits it herself!"
"Uncle Du, what did you take from her? Hurry up and give it back!"
Unexpectedly, Zhao Zifeng didn't listen to what Du Peilin was saying at all. She grabbed his sleeve and tried to put it into my hand. "Hurry up and give it back to her!"
At this moment, Du Peilin's finger just touched my wrist. He suddenly let out an "eh" sound. His face changed greatly. He grabbed my wrist with his backhand.
"What are you doing?!"
I was greatly surprised and quickly tried to pull my wrist back.
Du Peilin's fingers were extremely hot. They were pressing on my pulse point, almost making me scream from the heat.
Zhao Zifeng beside me didn't expect this situation either. She raised her hand to help me pull Du Peilin's fingers away, but Du Peilin hissed in a low voice, "Stay aside! Are you crazy?!"
Then, he grabbed Zhao Zifeng's arm like grabbing a chicken with his other hand and dragged her behind him.
He looked as if I was some kind of terrifying monster.
The heat from my wrist was like magma, quickly spreading through my veins to all parts of my body.
Just when I thought I was going to be burned to ashes, suddenly a hand reached out from behind and landed on Du Peilin's arm. Without much effort, it shook off the fingers that were holding my wrist.
I fell backward weakly and was caught in someone's arms.
"Stay away from her!"
Du Peilin's eyes were extremely cold. He stared coldly at the person behind me.
"Hehe..."
I heard Si Jiangchen's low laugh above my head. "She's my girlfriend. I can't get close enough to her."
Saying that, his thin lips with a faint smell of tobacco leaned over to my cheek and gave it a gentle kiss. "Right, Xiao He?"
"Si... Where have you been?!"
Originally, I was like a puffed - up little rooster with the courage to fight the world. But the moment I heard Si Jiangchen's voice, all my courage disappeared, turning into full - fledged grievance. My voice even trembled.
"I won't leave you again."
Si Jiangchen didn't explain much. He supported my waist and helped me up.
Du Peilin on the opposite side waved his hand. Unexpectedly, he took out a small, pale - blue talisman from somewhere and slapped it in our direction.
"Ah?!"
Just as I was helped up by Si Jiangchen, I saw that talisman hurtling towards us with a faint thunderous momentum.
This was a blue talisman, a very powerful talisman in Taoism. It carried the strong spiritual consciousness of the Thunder Department officials.
Si Jiangchen was right behind me. How could I let him be hit by such a talisman?!
"The great Tai Shang star responds to changes without pause, driving away evil and binding demons, protecting life and body..."
I quickly made a hand gesture with my right hand and recited the "Heart - Clearing Incantation" as I faced the thunder talisman.
Unexpectedly, Si Jiangchen behind me was faster than me. He gave a cold snort, stretched out his long arm, and pinched the talisman paper with just two fingers. In an instant, he crumpled it into ashes.
"Eh?!"
Du Peilin looked at Si Jiangchen in surprise. "You... Since you're from the Taoist sect, how can you be with a... "
Before he could finish his sentence, Si Jiangchen, who was holding me, changed his expression slightly. The gentle smile on his face disappeared in an instant. A powerful aura emanated from him, making my heart cold and I couldn't help shivering.
"Shut up!"
These two words came out softly from Si Jiangchen's thin lips, but they carried a thunderous momentum. He took a small step forward with his long legs, squinted his eyes and looked at Du Peilin. "Stinky Taoist priest, who said we're of the same sect? If you want this banquet to be filled with blood and ghosts, you can try your skills!"
I was startled by his cold words. I quickly looked up and saw that there was a thick killing aura lingering between Si Jiangchen's slightly raised eyebrows. His pair of pitch - black eyes were faintly glowing with a crimson flame in the soft, yellowish light of the lounge.
Du Peilin was also quite surprised. He raised his hand to protect Zhao Zifeng behind him. Suddenly, he sneered and murmured to himself, "No wonder, no wonder they asked me to come here. It seems that the monster has grown powerful, so they had to ask me to step in!"
After mumbling to himself, he then turned to me and said, "Du Xinghe, today, for the sake of you helping Zifeng a great deal, I won't make things difficult for you."
He paused for a moment and then continued, "No matter where you are, I'll come to you personally and get rid of you!"
I was shocked. I had been so focused on helping Zhao Zifeng deal with Bai Wei that it was only now that I belatedly realized that this Du Peilin in front of me... was probably closely related to Du Peiyun, the head of the Du family in northern Henan!
Judging from his words, originally he didn't want to follow the Du family's arrangement, but now that he had seen me, he had changed his mind!!
"Du Peilin! What are you going crazy about?!"
Zhao Zifeng, who had been pushed behind, struggled but couldn't break free from Du Peilin's arm. She had no choice but to poke her boyfriend's lower back desperately. "Xinghe is a good person! Don't make things difficult for her!!"
"Humph!"
Du Peilin sneered. "A good person?! Zifeng, have you heard of 'The Painted Skin'?"
"What do you mean?!"
Zhao Zifeng looked surprised.
The story of "The Painted Skin" was well - known to all Chinese people. It was a story about an ugly ghost who put on the skin of a beautiful woman to seduce a scholar...