Late at night, Chu Yang felt that someone was watching her, and as soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Chi Yan's round eyes staring at her intently.
Chu Yang was startled, "What are you doing?"
Chu Yang immediately sat up. What was he doing staring at her in the middle of the night without sleeping?
Chi Yan hugged her tightly, "I had a nightmare that you disappeared." So he suddenly woke up, and then just kept watching her, for fear that she would disappear. In fact, it was because of recent events that made him feel insecure.
Chu Yang let out a sigh of relief and comforted him, "It was just a dream, I'm here."
"I feel like I'm useless." He felt like he couldn't do anything for her, even if there were enemies, he couldn't help her fight them. He was too weak. For the first time, Chi Yan felt his own helplessness.
But Chu Yang didn't think so. She stroked his head, "Why would you think that? You have money, don't you? It seems like I've made a lot of money since I met you."
Chi Yan: "..." He felt even more dejected.
"But having money isn't really useful." There were many rich people, and with Chu Yang's abilities, having money was not an advantage at all.
Chu Yang continued, "You're also handsome, you know? Seeing your face cheers me up."
Chi Yan stared at her with hopeful eyes, "Anything else? Anything else?" He wanted to know what Chu Yang thought of him.
"You're also a good student, great at basketball, and all kinds of sports. You can endure hardship, respect my parents, are polite, and can even help with farm work at my home without complaining. Most importantly, you have strong yang energy that complements me. Didn't the Mingwu Daoist say? Your yang complements my yin, we're a perfect match."
Chu Yang counted off on her fingers, and the more she said, the more she felt she had found a great boyfriend. Her boyfriend was so outstanding! Just a little clingy, that's all.
"What, what? What yin, what yang? What complement?" Chi Yan latched onto that. So he and Chu Yang were a match made in heaven?
Chu Yang: "...That's all you heard? When we went to see Mingwu Daoist before, didn't he look at you and me and say something about yin and yang? And in the antique street, didn't he say you have strong yang energy and told you to buy some talismans?"
Chi Yan recalled that it seemed to be the case, "Yeah, I do have quite a lot of energy." Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to play so many sports.
Chu Yang: "But it seems like you haven't exercised much since I met you, right?" It felt like this person was always either at the library with her or eating.
Chi Yan snuggled up to her, "Yeah. I've been expending all my energy on you."
Chu Yang: ?? This sounds so dirty?
Chi Yan added, "Being by your side makes me feel settled down, I rarely get restless anymore. Perhaps this is what they call complementing each other." Anyway, being with her made him happy, he didn't have any excess energy to burn off, all his heart and mind was focused on her.
Chu Yang patted his head, "Okay, okay, don't overthink it, let's go to sleep." She then lay back down.
Chi Yan kissed her forehead, then lay back down, but still didn't fall asleep. He turned to the side, stroked her face with his hand, then held her hand tightly before closing his eyes.
The next morning, Chi Yan woke up and was dazed for a moment before suddenly realizing, where was Chu Yang? Where was his Chu Yang? Chu Yang wasn't in bed?
Chi Yan was about to go out to look for her without even putting on his shoes when Chu Yang came out of the bathroom, "You're awake?"
Chi Yan froze, then took two or three strides to reach Chu Yang and hugged her tightly, sounding aggrieved, "I thought you were gone."
Chu Yang let out an "Ah" sound, "You're hurting my wound."
Chi Yan immediately let go of her, "Sorry, sorry, I was too excited."
Chu Yang shook her head, "It's okay. Why aren't you wearing shoes? Hurry up and put your shoes on, go wash up, and then go buy something to eat."
"I'll go right away."
Chi Yan put on his shoes, went into the bathroom, and then quickly left to buy food, he couldn't let his Chu Yang go hungry.
When Chi Yan left, Chi Xin came over with some fruit, "Where's Xiao Yan?"
Chu Yang: "Chi Yan went to buy breakfast."
Chi Xin took a chair and sat down, "Chu... lady."
Chu Yang: "...Just call me Chu Yang, uncle. 'Lady' is too formal."
Chi Xin: "That's not important, I came to ask you about some things at the villa, because my men found some things there, so I wanted to understand the situation from you." Chi Xin kept observing her expression.
Chu Yang nodded: "No problem, I can tell you anything you want to know."
"Good. May I ask why you went there? Do you know Zhu Ying?"
Chu Yang shook her head: "I don't know him. I only know Zhu Ruxin, she came to bother me before."
Hearing this, Chi Xin felt a bit embarrassed, "That was Xiao Yan's fault."
But Chu Yang didn't think it was Chi Yan's fault. Zhu Ying's target was her, even without Chi Yan, she felt that Zhu Ying would still have come after her.
Chu Yang shook her head: "It has nothing to do with Chi Yan, Zhu Ying's target was me. I feel like he practiced some evil arts and needed my blood for sacrifice. You should be able to see the sacrificial altar in the basement of that villa. And I suspect Zhu Ruxin was his backup blood bank or food?" Chu Yang frowned as she thought of the sacrificial altar, "That altar... smelled heavily of blood. I felt... like many people had died there."
Anyway, the black mist in that basement was extremely heavy, and the resentful energy was also very strong. Her own abilities had not yet reached the level of being able to summon the dead, which was also prohibited in her studies. And her crystal ball was broken, so she couldn't summon anything to ask about it either.
Chi Xin's expression also became grave, "You're right, our men found that many people had died there. We're still trying to identify who they were through DNA comparisons and such."
Chu Yang thought of the birth date and time, so she mentioned it, "You can check if the missing people match that birth date and time."
Chi Xin nodded, making a mental note of this. He would also go to Ming Wu to ask more questions. Even though that person always talked about destiny and only told half the story, this time Chi Xin would try to pry more information out of him.
"Uncle, why did you come here?" Chi Yan had returned with food.
Chi Xin stood up, he had learned more or less what he needed to know, "I came to check on you two, but since there's nothing else, I'll take my leave now."
Chi Xin patted Chi Yan's shoulder, then left.
Chi Yan was puzzled, he put down the food he had brought and opened it, then asked Chu Yang, "What did my uncle come here for? When did he arrive?"
"He's been here for a while, brought some fruit and flowers, over there."
Chi Yan saw them, "Did he say anything?"
Chu Yang: "He just came to understand the situation, because it seems like many people had died at that villa."
At the time, Chi Yan had only been concerned about Chu Yang and paid no attention to anything else. But hearing that many people had died there, he was scared and started to break out in goosebumps, feeling a sense of lingering fear.
