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Chapter 228 Xingqiu's Nightmare Life

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The door of the Wangsheng Hall made a sound of time. Thinking that Hu Tao had brought the mysterious guest back, Ruo Jin turned around with some curiosity and looked at the door of the Wangsheng Hall. He saw Xingqiu and Chongyun walking into the Wangsheng Hall with some good wine in their hands.
"Xingqiu, Chongyun, could it be you two that mysterious guest Hu Tao mentioned?"

Ruojin took the good wine from the two people and put it aside. He just couldn't believe that the mysterious guests Hu Tao mentioned would be the good brothers Xingqiu and Chongyun. It's not that Xingqiu and Chongyun have a bad relationship with Hu Tao, but they are too familiar to Hu Tao and Ruojin. The word mysterious is not suitable for Xingqiu and Chongyun.

"Mysterious guest? What is that? Chongyun and I were invited by Hall Master Hu to come over for dinner."

After looking around and not finding the woman he didn't want to see, Xingqiu relaxed and picked up the teapot on the table and poured himself a cup of tea. He had been playing with Ruojin since childhood, and everyone around them was someone he knew, so there was naturally no need for Xingqiu to observe all kinds of etiquette.

Sitting slumped in the chair, Xingqiu, with a face full of fatigue, let out a long sigh. Ah~ It was a long-awaited relaxation. This chair from Hutao was really a good buy. It was so soft and comfortable to sit on.

"What have you been doing at home lately, Xingqiu? I haven't seen you in Liyue Harbor these past few days. Also, why have you exhausted yourself to such an extent? I haven't heard of any big moves by your Guhua sect recently."

Seeing that Xingqiu looked like he was about to fall asleep, Ruojin poured him another cup of tea and asked curiously. In Ruojin's impression, Xingqiu in the past would not be as honest as he was today. Chongyun, who was drinking tea at the side, also pricked up his ears, because the question Ruojin asked was also what he wanted to ask.

Just now when Chongyun went to Xingqiu's home to find Xingqiu, he found that Xingqiu's condition seemed a little abnormal. According to ancient records, people whose yang energy was sucked dry by evil spirits mostly had sunken eye sockets, dull eyes, dull expressions, soft voices, slow reactions, and unsteady steps. These symptoms were 90% similar to those of people who indulged in excessive sexual activity.

Chongyun, who discovered that something was wrong with Xingqiu, silently compared the characteristics recorded in the ancient books in his memory one by one. Combining this with his careful observation, Chongyun found that Xingqiu at this moment was almost exactly the same as those people whose yang energy was sucked dry by the evil spirits as recorded in the books.

Worried that his good brother might be suddenly sucked dry by the evil spirit one day, Chongyun had already made plans for the whole journey. After dinner in the evening, he would find a reason to go home with Xingqiu. He wanted to see what kind of evil spirit dared to bully his brother, Chongyun, and really didn't take him, a member of a family of exorcists, seriously.

It just so happened that he had learned a lot of new talismans from his aunt Shen He in the past few days. Chongyun, who had lived for more than ten years without encountering a single evil spirit, was just worrying about how to test the power of the new talismans. He didn't expect that this opportunity would appear in front of him so soon. This was simply God's will.

Because his mental state was not very good, Xingqiu did not notice that the way his good brother looked at him was different from usual. Originally, Xingqiu did not intend to talk too much about what happened to him in the past few days, but now Ruo Jin suddenly asked, Xingqiu seemed to have found an outlet and complained crazily.

"Ruo Jin, let me tell you, I have been living like a devil these past few days. That woman's methods are really too cruel."

As if he had suffered some inhuman torture, Xingqiu's expression was quite unnatural when he spoke. His pair of hands, as white as a girl's, kept shaking, as if silently telling the fear in his heart.

"Xingqiu, what on earth has happened to you these past few days? Which woman could have bullied you, the second young master of Feiyun Chamber of Commerce, into this state? Please tell me in detail. If you have been bullied by someone, I will ask Chongyun to avenge you."

After quietly using the earth's veins to sense Xingqiu and discovering that he was just a little tired, Ruojin felt relieved and started teasing Xingqiu in a relaxed tone. Ruojin was quite curious about who had the ability to make Xingqiu, the second young master of Feiyun Chamber of Commerce, so tired.

Not noticing that Ruo Jin was asking him to avenge Xingqiu, Chongyun felt both regret for not encountering the evil spirit and happiness that nothing happened to his good brother. With such complicated emotions, Chongyun also became curious about Xingqiu's experience during the days when he followed his aunt to learn talismans. Seeing that the two friends around him were asking about his experience these days, Xingqiu drank another large cup of tea to calm down before speaking.

"It was a sunny morning. After breakfast, I planned to go out with Chongyun to look for some inspiration for writing. But before I could leave, the guards at home suddenly informed me that my father wanted to see me."

"I heard my father was looking for me. Since the Chamber of Commerce has been busy with various things related to the Lantern Festival these days, I thought my father wanted me to go to the Chamber of Commerce to help out. So with the idea of ​​helping out, I followed the guards to the hall, and there, I saw a woman with pink hair and a pair of fox ears chatting and laughing with my father."

"And my nightmare-like experience of the past few days has begun. Chongyun, Ruojin, you two know that I have a hobby of writing novels. I don't know where that woman got my pen name from. In order to get me to update, she actually came to my house to urge me to update."

Hearing Xingqiu say this, Ruojin's mouth twitched a few times. If he didn't know Xingqiu well, Ruojin would have thought that Xingqiu's previous tiredness was just pretending, just to show off his book fans.

"Ruojin, don't think this is a good thing. That woman is not a fan of my books but my editor, the editor of Inazuma who is responsible for publishing the novels I wrote."

Noticing that there was something wrong with Ruojin's look, Xingqiu gave a wry smile and explained, then continued speaking under Ruojin's puzzled look.

"After learning that I hadn't written a single word in the past few days, this editor locked me in the room. Not only that, she also set up a barrier in my room that prevented me from leaving. She then stood outside the barrier and watched me write. If I didn't write 30,000 words in a day, I couldn't even rest."

"What's worse is that once I lose my focus in the middle of writing a novel, a bolt of lightning will strike me. These past few days I've been like a squeezed slime. All I do all day is write novels, except for eating and sleeping."

Having said this, Xingqiu almost cried. Even though the woman named Yae Shenzi had let him go now, the experience of being locked up in a room and typing non-stop for the past few days still made Xingqiu feel terrified. If possible, he didn't want to see this terrible woman, Yae Shenzi, again in his life.

"Huh? So your father doesn't care about that woman?"

Hearing what Xingqiu said about how this pink-haired editor was so cruelly exploiting this poor little author, Ruo Jin immediately felt indignant for Xingqiu. At the same time, Ruo Jin was also a little confused as to why this editor was imprisoning this second young master in Xingqiu's home in disguise but no one cared.

"My father? My father just left me alone after signing some business contract with this editor."

At this point, Xingqiu felt sad. As a disciple of Guhua Sect and possessing the Eye of God, Xingqiu naturally possessed the good character of fearlessness. However, no matter how firm this good character was, it could not withstand the fact that his father and the woman named Yae Shenzi were on the same front.

Before this, Xingqiu had never dreamed that his father, who had always been a conservative man, would one day agree with Yae Shinto's words and urge him to write a novel. When his father talked about this, Xingqiu once thought that his father was possessed by an evil spirit.

(End of this chapter)