Chapter 114: The Mistake

Bai Xiaoli had long understood what Chen Zhiqiang was up to. After hearing Chen’s words, she wanted to retort, but I grabbed her hand and shook my head at her.

Although Bai Ranhe was impatient, upon hearing Chen Zhiqiang’s remark, he looked at me with some doubt and said, “Piyangxi, is there really such a thing?”

Naturally, I denied it outright, claiming that Chen Zhiqiang was slandering me.

Chen Zhiqiang snorted coldly, then glanced at Chen Yetian. Chen Yetian counted the time with his fingers, then looked at the moon outside and held up three fingers to Chen Zhiqiang.

Upon seeing this, Chen Zhiqiang’s face lit up with a triumphant expression. “Whether I’m lying or not, the truth will reveal itself in three minutes.”

“Is this even possible? The grandson of the Dragon King of the Yellow River acting like this?”

“Who can say for sure? Young people nowadays like to cause trouble. Let’s just wait and see.”

“Yes, indeed. Chen Zhiqiang isn’t one to make baseless claims. Let’s see what really happened.”

Those who had planned to leave early after the ceremony all returned to their seats upon hearing Chen Zhiqiang’s words.

The moonlight was cold and desolate. Suddenly, a gust of wind swept through the clear night, sounding like someone weeping outside the window. The temperature in the air seemed to drop significantly.

I silently stared out the window. To the west stood an ancient locust tree, wildly swaying in the night wind. Its shadow under the moonlight twisted and clawed like a demon, as if it could pounce into the room at any moment.

Strange, how did the weather change so quickly?

A few entrepreneurs tightened their clothes against the chill, thinking the weather had turned.

The feng shui masters present all furrowed their brows. They, like me, knew this was not mere coldness, but the ominous aura of malevolent energy.

The sinister qi was coming!

Just as Granny Wan had said, on the night of the full moon, Xu Yingying’s malevolent energy surged fiercely—much stronger than the first time I met her.

As the dark energy crept closer, the feng shui ornaments in Bai Ranhe’s house began to crack under its intensity—an utterly terrifying sight.

“Xiaoli, go back to your room first.” Worried something might happen to Bai Xiaoli, I urged her to leave.

“I’m not afraid, Yangxi. Don’t forget, I’m a feng shui master too,” Bai Xiaoli refused.

My tone hardened. I told her to take her mother away first because the dark aura around Li Xiaojuan’s face was growing thicker. Though I didn’t care much for Li Xiaojuan, she was still my mother-in-law, and I couldn’t stand by and watch her suffer. After telling Bai Xiaoli that Li Xiaojuan’s blackened forehead was a bad sign and that she shouldn’t stay, Bai Xiaoli finally obeyed and led Li Xiaojuan out through the back room.

Not long after they left, a piercing, ghostly scream rang out. All the feng shui decorations in Bai Ranhe’s house shattered violently.

At the same time, a window on the west side of the hall suddenly crashed open with a thunderous bang. Disheveled and wild-haired, Xu Yingying broke through and lunged straight at me. Her fierce face was nearly pressed against mine.

“Ghost!”

None of the businessmen present had ever witnessed such a scene. They screamed in terror and scrambled to flee outside. Some timid female entrepreneurs even burst into tears, losing all their commanding presence in the workplace.

After those inexperienced entrepreneurs fled, only about a few dozen people remained inside the hall.

Lu Jiu and the men seated at the groom’s table didn’t leave, nor did a dozen or so other feng shui masters from Duhe City with some capability—they could protect themselves and were not easily frightened away.

Although I had faced Xu Yingying several times before, seeing her again now still unsettled me. Her face was completely swollen and waterlogged, her entire body bloated like a fat man, utterly lacking the striking beauty she had the first time I met her.

“Child’s father, come back with me. The child and I miss you,” Xu Yingying’s eyes, filled with malevolent energy, stared intently at me.

Hearing those words, my heart sank, chilled to the core. This was not what I had expected—why did Xu Yingying still consider me the child’s father?