My face flushed slightly, and as I glanced up, Hou Shaowen was staring at me dumbfounded.

“What are you looking at? My brother asked you a question!” I frowned and spoke.

“Oh… Oh! Either one is fine, as long as it’s genuine.” Hou Shaowen quickly walked over to the counter.

My brother lazily said, “Genuine or not, you wouldn’t be able to tell. If I say it’s genuine, would you believe it?”

Hou Shaowen gritted his teeth, “The reputation of the Mu family surely wouldn’t be about substituting inferior products as superior ones, right?”

“Cheap goods aren’t good quality, it depends on what you’re looking for,” my brother said like a true merchant.

Hou Shaowen caught on and quickly wrote out a check with a number on it.

My brother nodded, “Deal, you’re straightforward! Wait here, I’ll go fetch the real thing.”

Eh? These two are fakes?!

Well, thinking about it, the genuine items of my father couldn’t just be displayed openly in the shop. Probably only the Five Emperors coins are real. No wonder the other day when I threw so many things, only the Five Emperors coins worked, the rest were fakes.

As my brother went to the storeroom, Hou Shaowen immediately turned to me with a smiling face.

I shivered, hearing a disdainful “hmph” in my ear.

Turning around, I saw Jiang Qiyun with his arms crossed, sitting beside me and coldly watching Hou Shaowen.

Hou Shaowen couldn’t see him, just shivered and laughed, “Why is it suddenly so cold? Too much air conditioning is bad for your health, Miss Mu.”

I thought to myself: Master Hou, if you keep talking, you might really be in trouble.

My brother quickly returned with a black box, and Jiang Qiyun immediately squinted, “Your dad really knows his stuff.”

“What?”

“This item came from a ghost market, it has a heavy ghostly aura! Seems like your dad is quite skilled.”

The box opened to reveal an ancient bronze statue.

The statue was of a Wrathful King, with numerous arms raised high holding ritual instruments, and a ring of fire behind him.

A nude woman clung with both hands, her legs wrapped around the King’s waist, the joining spot exaggeratedly prominent.

The bronze surface was patchy, the styling lavish and fierce. At first glance, it gave the illusion that the statue was moving.

Hou Shaowen, his throat dry, swallowed hard and said to my brother, “The aura of a genuine item is truly different!”

My brother put it back in the box, laughing, “This thing wasn’t hard to find, but a real virgin these days, that’s hard to find.”

Hou Shaowen laughed loudly, “There will be one, money is not an issue.”

He hurriedly took the box and said goodbye, apparently eager to claim his success.

“Does this method really work?” I asked Jiang Qiyun, frowning.

Jiang Qiyun coldly gave me two words: Evil path.

“Doing harm under the guise of good, that’s people’s own business. Having karmic obstacles and not resolving them, but instead using even more sinister methods to try to cover them up, in the end, it’s all… hmph, it’s because of too many fools like that, that I’m so busy!” he added.

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When I visited my dad at the hospital, I ran into Hou Shaowen in the corridor.

He was followed by several bodyguards and nodded at me.

I saw him with a short-haired girl, who looked like a high school student, glance at me briefly with her head down, hurrying past.

That must be the virgin they found? People actually believe in such heretical practices.

Maybe she was doing it for the money, to do that sort of thing with a senile old man in the hospital, under the guidance of a spiritualist, just thinking about it felt incredibly shameful.

But at least she was doing it voluntarily.

Better than me, I was blindfolded and thrown into a coffin.

“You actually envy that?” An annoyed voice came from beside me.

I turned around speechlessly, “Jiang Qiyun, aren’t you busy? Why do you keep appearing and disappearing? And which eye of yours saw me envying?”

Jiang Qiyun appeared grimly behind me; he wouldn’t materialize when he didn’t want to be seen.

“Isn’t it? Everyone loves money, you think that girl, being compensated, has it better than you, right?”

“…I despise her compensated actions, but she’s doing it voluntarily, whereas I can only cry and beg you to leave me some dignity.” I was annoyed with his tone and turned back to my dad’s hospital room.

I’m not afraid of him violating me anymore, he appears almost every day, always staring at my belly. He’s so nervous, why should I fear him doing anything?

As I was leaving the hospital, I encountered that girl again. It had been over three hours since she entered the patient’s room. Was she still under the spiritualist’s guidance doing that “ritual”?

She looked dazed and unsteady, nearly tripping as she exited the elevator.

What a pity…

On the weekend, as the evening lights began to glow, my neighborhood’s commercial district was bustling, while I sat in my room reading obscure books, Jiang Qiyun by my side mocking relentlessly.

I received a call from Song Wei, saying her brother had an accident, and after hanging up, I quickly put on a coat ready to find her.

“Where are you going?” Jiang Qiyun asked coldly.

“Song Wei’s brother is missing, I’m going to help look for him; she’s near the bar street close to my house.”

“…That woman has pure Yang blood, she can’t see ghosts, but you’re different, you attract them. It’s better if you don’t go out at night.” Jiang Qiyun grabbed my shoulder.

His grip was so strong, it made my anger surge.

“Yes! I attract ghosts! Why don’t you care about me?!” I shouted angrily. “Song Wei is my friend, of course, I should help when she needs me.”

Being pregnant really makes one irritable, I find myself getting angry at the sight of Jiang Qiyun.

Why exactly I’m angry, I can’t quite figure out.

Maybe because he’s such a jerk?

I’m hot-headed, but Jiang Qiyun’s temper is even bigger—he is the Lord of the Underworld after all.

Seeing that I didn’t appreciate his concern, he yelled, “Stay home!”

Then he disappeared.

Good riddance! Scram!

I stormed out of the house, checking my phone for Song Wei’s location.

The commercial district around my house has complex roads, and the bar street area is especially sketchy. How could I let Song Wei search there alone?

After we met up, she anxiously said that her high school brother had a crush on a girl, and after she scolded him today, he ran off. She suspected he went to find that girl, who apparently works at a bar here.

“Underage working at a bar? Can’t be up to any good!” She stomped her foot angrily. “Xiaoqiao, let’s split up and look for him. If you find him, don’t be nice, just slap him twice for me!”

Helplessly, it’s really hard to find someone in such a place. I could only ask around as I walked by. Passing a narrow alley, I saw two shadows moving chaotically.

“Heaven, are you really a high school student? So thirsty!”

Hearing the words ‘high school student,’ I immediately became alert and hid in the shadows.

“Mmm… as genuine as it gets… ah… come on, let me make it a bit harder…” a woman’s voice sounded.

Then there was a series of “tsk tsk” wet sounds, along with strange sucking noises.

“Damn… even professional hookers aren’t as good at sucking as you! Fuck, be gentle! How am I supposed to enjoy it if you disarm me! Oh… you’re gonna suck my soul out!”