The uneasiness that had been hanging in the air for so many days because of Pei Shangze was easily soothed by Jiang Shang, like a gentle tickle from a feather.
Gu Siheng felt a twinge of confusion. He didn't understand where this emotion came from.
He and Jiang Shang were just fiancé and fiancée in name, just putting on a show. Did he really need to pour such emotions into it?
Pei Shangze was so angry that he jumped up on the spot. Thinking of what the elders in his family had said, he swallowed back the harsh words and didn't choose to completely break the ice.
He still had to stop Jiang Shang from marrying into the Gu family.
Looking at Jiang Shang's high - held head, he thought of that haunted villa and suddenly regained his confidence.
Maybe Jiang Shang did have the ability to resolve it, but there were so many fortune - tellers in the world. Could she be the most powerful one?
If she still didn't know her place, he could only fight to the bitter end. He would find a master from Nanyang to cast a curse and turn the female ghost in the villa into a deeply resentful ghost!
"Shangshang, if you don't listen to me, you'll surely regret it."
Watching Pei Shangze's angry departing figure, Jiang Shang had a hunch that he wouldn't let it go easily.
After Pei Shangze left, Gu Siheng came in with a cup of coffee. His face was no longer as gloomy as before. He asked her,
"The day after tomorrow is your birthday. Do you have any plans?"
Jiang Shang was stunned when she heard about her birthday. Her birthday was on the same day as Grandma Jiang's death. Grandma Jiang was the kindest to the original owner in the Jiang family. Since her death, the original owner had stopped celebrating her birthday.
Jiang Shang shook her head. "I won't celebrate it. The engagement banquet is more important now."
Gu Siheng nodded, indicating that he respected her decision.
After saying goodbye to her father, Jiang Shang left Jiang's Real Estate. She had two house - cleansing jobs to handle today.
Gu's Group.
CFO's Office.
Gu Huai stood outside the office and knocked respectfully. The secretary led him in.
The man had his back to him, looking at the rapidly jumping financial data projected on the glass window.
Gu Huai walked up to him and reported the situation of the Gu family in a low voice.
"Bang!"
Gu Ziyao suddenly threw the coffee cup on the desk. The clear sound echoed through the office, making Gu Huai and the secretary's hearts skip a beat.
"Despicable!"
Gu Ziyao cursed out loud, picked up the carefully prepared planning case on the desk, and tore it to pieces.
He knew that Gu Siheng wouldn't be an obedient outcast!
But he didn't expect that Jiang Shang would be the biggest surprise and threat in his battle for the heir.
"Second brother, judging from the current development momentum of Gu Siheng, it won't be long before he regains the favor of the head of the Gu family. Your position is in jeopardy." Gu Huai asked him for advice.
As a side branch of the Gu family, he couldn't get to the core of the Gu family's power. He could only cling to the heirs in the power struggle like a dodder flower and get a share of the pie.
Gu Ziyao had a gloomy face and suddenly asked him, "What do you think the biggest threat is now?"
"Gu Siheng?" Gu Huai thought for a while and quickly denied it. "No, Gu Siheng is only in power because of Jiang Shang."
"Even though Gu Siheng is capable, everyone in the family knows that he's not of the Gu family bloodline. He was able to return home and get the planning case only because of that Jiang Shang."
With Gu Ziyao's hint, Gu Huai was suddenly enlightened, as if his energy channels had been unblocked.
"The head of the Gu family cares most about the family's reputation. If Jiang Shang shames the Gu family, she'll lose her power!"
Gu Huai leaned closer to Gu Ziyao and offered his advice. "At the engagement banquet..."
Gu Ziyao squinted his phoenix eyes. There was a look of determination on his lips. He patted Gu Huai's shoulder approvingly.
"Okay. You'll handle it."
With the authority of the head of the Gu family, Jiang Shang couldn't die, but it didn't mean she couldn't leave the Gu family.
Jiang Shang drove alone to the villa Pei Shangze had given her according to the navigation.
She got out of the car and looked at the European - style villa in front of her. The villa was in a great location, with convenient transportation and close to the bustling area. But because of the haunted presence and the dark clouds hanging over it, the flowers and plants in front of the villa looked desolate even though they were regularly trimmed.
She held the compass and walked slowly towards the villa. As soon as she stepped into the small yard, the glass pointer of the compass trembled violently and pointed straight to the northwest.
Jiang Shang was surprised. The resentment of this female ghost was so deep?
After entering the villa, she slowed down and went upstairs in the direction the compass was pointing.
The little ghosts in the villa saw how brave she was to confront the female ghost head - on. They all shook their heads like rattles and wanted to persuade her to leave.
Jiang Shang fearlessly stepped onto the second floor. The furniture was covered with white cloth, and the air was filled with dust. It seemed that the previous family that had been scared away had left a long time ago.
It was completely silent all around. Jiang Shang put down the compass and, as if she were back in her own home, started rummaging through the refrigerator for food.
The little ghosts were jumping anxiously beside her.
Jiang Shang rummaged out a pack of spicy strips and instant noodles from a corner of the refrigerator and started eating.
Looking at the jumping little ghosts, Jiang Shang gave one a spicy strip. "Good things should be shared."
The little ghosts: ... No, who is this girl? If she stays any longer, she'll be dead!
Jiang Shang finished the instant noodles leisurely. Since the female ghost didn't show up, she started to search for treasures in the villa.
The little ghosts watched her rummaging through everything with extremely complicated looks in their eyes. "Sister, please stop. Once Jiang Siyu comes out, you won't be able to escape."
Jiang Shang ignored them. There were still things of Jiang Siyu's from twenty years ago in the villa. It seemed that she had been quite harsh on the later residents to be able to keep these things for so long.
"Yo, she was a star - chasing girl."
Looking at the old posters and materials, Jiang Shang searched for the man on the poster. Mu Feng, a top - tier male actor twenty years ago, had just passed away a few days ago.
She looked through everything. After having fun, she lay on the sofa, holding a music score, and hummed softly, "La xi mi fa duo la suo..."
She was singing so absorbedly that in the silent villa, suddenly a beautiful piano sound came out, following her tune.
The piano sound was short and powerful, obviously played by someone.
The little ghosts screamed and wailed. They looked at Jiang Shang as if she were already a dead person.
It was too late. Another ghost was coming to compete with them for energy!
Jiang Shang instantly got excited and rushed towards the source of the sound - the attic.
She pushed open the attic door. A shadow fell on her eyes. A female ghost with bulging eyes and a bloody hole in the back of her head was hanging upside down on the attic door, drooling at her.
"I've been waiting for you... little thing..."
A pair of bloody hands rushed straight towards her. Jiang Shang dodged nimbly, but the female ghost kept intercepting her.
Jiang Shang immediately took out a chasing talisman from her pocket and firmly stuck it on the female ghost's forehead. But the female ghost's attacking momentum didn't decrease at all. Her bloody hands climbed onto Jiang Shang's arm and "swished" five bloody fingerprints.
But strangely, because of the female ghost's high cultivation, she actually saw two wisps of black air leaking out from Jiang Shang's arm from the inside!
Those two wisps of black ghostly air were extremely out of place compared with Jiang Shang's boundless righteousness.
Jiang Shang took two steps back in pain and gasped. She silently thought that this villa was truly the female ghost's obsession.
Anyone who tried to occupy the villa wouldn't end well.
She was quickly thinking of a solution, but the female ghost stared at her arm with wide - open eyes.
"You're clearly alive. Why do you have ghostly air on you?"