Chapter 53: An Unreliable Adult
After Lin Chenyi finished speaking, he looked at the dazed Nan Yuanman, afraid she wouldn’t understand what “dump” meant, so he raised both hands and made a separating gesture: “It means separated from her, do you understand?”
“I know.” Nan Yuanman crossed her short arms over her chest and nodded. Previously, when Aunt Zheng and the others were chatting, they often mentioned which girl from the neighboring village dumped which boy.
She knew that “dump” in the context of romance meant to separate.
Nan Yuanman was full of confusion: “But didn’t you say before that you wanted three kids? It was hard to find a girl willing to have children with you, so why did you separate from her?”
Lin Chenyi gave an embarrassed laugh, scratched his head, and said sheepishly: “That was when I was young and hot-headed, hadn’t seen much of the world, just thinking of following my old man and old lady’s arrangements, get married and have kids at the right age, live life step by step…”
But after he joined Mad Hunter Studio and participated in game competitions, seeing so many new things, how could he be willing to be tied down by kids so early.
“Besides, isn’t there a saying going around now? Marriage is the grave of love, I don’t want to enter the grave so early.”
So even if that girl was ever so gentle and kind, ever so considerate and homemaking, Lin Chenyi still painfully separated from her.
“It’s just…” Lin Chenyi said with a face full of hesitation: “After I separated from her, she… got into a car accident and passed away.”
Lin Chenyi touched his nose and continued: “When she had the accident, I was still competing. By the time I got the news and rushed over, it was too late. Her corpse had already been properly collected by the police.”
“Master.” Lin Chenyi pursed his lips and asked: “Do you think it’s possible that… she’s that animal seeking official recognition I met in the countryside?”
“Because I wasn’t by her side when she had the accident, she resents me in her heart, so she’s come to haunt me now.”
After hearing Lin Chenyi’s account, a look of realization appeared on Nan Yuanman’s chubby little face. No wonder there was a red thread between the weasel on this big brother’s back and him.
So that’s how it was.
Her plump little hand touched her chin as she tried hard to put on an adult thinking pose: “That possibility can’t be ruled out, but if this weasel had such a history with you, it would be hard to send away.”
“Because what you did was really too unethical, big brother!”
Nan Yuanman imagined: if she had cultivated so hard, but when seeking official recognition, she met a guy full of nonsense who said she was his gentle and kind wife who gave birth to triplets for him.
Just because of his words, she had karma with him.
She had to complete everything this man said before she could possibly succeed in seeking official recognition.
She finally got close to that man, became his girlfriend, his wife, and when she wanted to further complete the step of having children, she faced his strong opposition, even leading to their separation, causing her seeking official recognition to fail, her cultivation to regress, and her death…
It was her kindness that she didn’t just kill Lin Chenyi outright.
Lin Chenyi had a bitter face, a bit of regret rising in his heart: “Then what to do? I didn’t do it on purpose… who knew animal seeking official recognition was real?”
Nan Yuanman looked up again at the ferocious weasel on his back. Her little hand waved in front of it, but it acted like it didn’t see, still staring fixedly at Lin Chenyi.
Nan Yuanman frowned tightly: “Big brother, what was the name of that girl who was going to have children for you?”
“Huang Xueyan, her name was Huang Xueyan.”
“I’ll try to awaken her consciousness and chat with her.” While flipping through her small shoulder bag and taking out her working tools, Nan Yuanman asked him: “Big brother, are you sure you’ve told me everything? No holding back anything?”
Lin Chenyi touched his nose, a flash of guilt in his eyes, and forced a smile: “No.”
Before Nan Yuanman could ask further, Lin Chenyi hurriedly asked: “Master, do I need to do anything?”
“No need, just sit on the bed.” Nan Yuanman took out a talisman and a thin red rope.
Her fingers nimbly folded the talisman into a triangle, tied it in the middle with the red rope, leaving lengths on both sides.
Then she stepped forward, tiptoed to have Lin Chenyi extend his left hand, and tied one end of the red rope to Lin Chenyi’s pinky. Lin Chenyi looked puzzled: “This is…?”
“Oh, because this is just a strand of the weasel’s soul, it has no consciousness. To communicate with it, I need to use your body as a bridge.”
As she spoke, Nan Yuanman tied the other end of the red rope to her own pinky.
Next, she took out a small bowl the size of her palm and grabbed a handful of white rice from the cloth bag, putting it into the small bowl.
She also took out three purple incense sticks and lit them.
Lin Chenyi watched as she kept pulling things out from outside, couldn’t help but curiously glance at her small shoulder bag. This small shoulder bag could hold quite a lot, just like Doraemon’s treasure bag.
If Nan Yuanman heard his inner thoughts, she would definitely tell him that what could hold things wasn’t the small shoulder bag, but her small coffin.
Most of her working tools were kept in the small coffin; the shoulder bag was just camouflage.
After doing all this, Nan Yuanman started chanting an incantation with her little mouth mumbling. Lin Chenyi nervously reached out and grabbed her mouth: “Wait!”
Nan Yuanman with pursed lips: “?”
Lin Chenyi swallowed and asked her: “I won’t have anything happen to me, right?”
Nan Yuanman shook her head. With the hand not tied to the red rope, she pulled his hand off, patting her little chest with a thump thump: “Relax, with me here, I guarantee nothing will happen to you.”
She emphasized again: “As long as you haven’t hidden any other matters from me.”
Lin Chenyi touched his nose and coughed lightly: “Relax, I absolutely haven’t hidden anything.”
Nan Yuanman’s dark and bright eyes stared at him for a good while, until Lin Chenyi felt unnatural, before she spoke faintly: “Then I’ll believe you once, big brother.”
Lin Chenyi forced a smile.
Nan Yuanman’s little face was serious. She pinched her fingers in a mudra and murmured an incantation: “Heaven and earth yin yang, all living things… with talisman for balance, with incense to guide, summon ghost as beginning…”
As the childish chanting voice slowly rose, the blood-red, somewhat dull eyes of the weasel originally lying on Lin Chenyi’s back became much more lively.
Its soul was also gradually drawn by the curling incense smoke lit by Nan Yuanman into Lin Chenyi’s body.
It was Lin Chenyi’s first time contacting such ghostly things. His body tensed up tightly, he couldn’t help holding his breath, staring fixedly at Nan Yuanman.
His vision also gradually blurred with Nan Yuanman’s chanted incantation, until it went completely black and his consciousness fully disappeared.
Nan Yuanman watched the rapidly burning purple incense smoke, knowing the soul guiding and possession had succeeded, and stared tightly at Lin Chenyi with closed eyes.
She opened her mouth, just about to speak, but saw Lin Chenyi with closed eyes suddenly open them. Those eyes with a bit of brown were filled with beastliness.
Nan Yuanman hurriedly greeted: “Sister Huang Xueyan——!!”
Before she finished speaking, she saw Huang Xueyan possessing ‘Lin Chenyi’ suddenly reach for the fruit knife on the bedside table and cleanly stab it into her abdomen.
Nan Yuanman: “!!!”
Feng Yuli, who happened to pass by: “!!!”
Shen Mengjie, who returned after buying drinks: “!!!”
