Holding a lantern, guiding souls across, Lady Hou comes from the underworld.

Under the cold moon, snow fell heavily.

The group then began searching the room for the next clue.

However, after searching the entire room, they found nothing.

Xia Ximo stared intently at the stove for a while, then suddenly stepped forward and stretched out his right hand.

Because of her action, Ren Fengjue's heart skipped a beat.

Just as I was about to stop her, I saw her place her hand on the flame and gently shake it.

There was no burning sensation...

Then, to everyone's horror, she reached her hand directly into the stove and pulled out a booklet.

"..."

Xia Ximo remained expressionless: "It's just an illusion."

After the booklet was taken out, the "roasted rabbit" and the stove immediately disappeared into thin air.

Ren Fengjue nervously examined her hand, and only breathed a slight sigh of relief when he found nothing amiss.

Yu Lang quickly praised, "Miss Xia is so thoughtful."

Xia Ximo's lips twitched slightly, but she handed the booklet to him.

"You do it."

Yu Shaoqing didn't stand on ceremony; he opened the booklet and started flipping through it.

-

"Your name is Changsheng, this is the name given to you by the young lady, do you remember it?"

"Um."

At the foot of the mountains in northern Vietnam, the night was already deep.

A young boy followed an old man into Mingyue Manor.

The place was unusually quiet. Although the two of them deliberately slowed their pace, they could still hear their footsteps clearly.

The boy followed closely behind, and after walking for a while, he couldn't help but ask, "Uncle, besides you and me, are there any other people here?"

"And Miss."

"Is it just the three of us?"

"Yes."

The old man stopped and turned around. Perhaps because he was backlit, his eyes were dark, empty, and lifeless, almost like a living thing.

"Here, speak less and do more, and don't upset the young lady."

He had repeated this sentence many times.

Although the boy still had many questions, he didn't dare to ask any more and simply responded with a soft "Mm".

The old man led him into a spacious room and instructed him, "This is your room. See that rope bell? If you hear it, that's the young lady calling you."

He then pointed upstairs, "The young lady lives upstairs."

"You need to go up there immediately and ask the young lady what she needs."

The boy listened intently to these words and kept them in mind.

Suddenly, he swallowed hard and asked, "Will the young lady hit me? What if I don't do well?"

The old man looked at him, then suddenly revealed a strange smile, and said in a low voice, "The young lady won't hit you, but if you don't behave well, you'll become fertilizer in the garden..."

"Got it?"

The boy immediately thought of the flowerbed in the front yard; even in the dim light of night, the flowers there looked absolutely beautiful…

A wave of fear washed over him, and he immediately nodded. "Uncle, I'll try my best..."

The old man seemed satisfied, patted his cheek, and continued to lead him: "Come on, Uncle will take you to get something to eat."

The boy's eyes lit up at the mention of food.

Having traveled all the way from Liangzhou City, we were starving. Now that we've entered this "wealthy family's home," we're hoping to have a good meal.

However, what lay before him was a bowl of white paste and a bowl of thick honey soup.

The boy couldn't help but ask, "Uncle, what is this?"

"food."

The old man replied with two words, then poured the honey soup over the white paste-like substance. "Eat it."

The boy's hand trembled. Although he had many questions in his mind, he dared not ask any more.

He simply imitated the old man, stirred the "food" in the bowl, and slowly put it into his mouth.

As expected, it tasted like chewing wax…

He even suspected that what he was eating was actually a candle.

Strangely, after swallowing it, a feeling of fullness immediately came over me, and I was no longer hungry at all.

After he finished eating, the old man led him into the bathing room and made him wash himself thoroughly, making sure there was no dirt left. Finally, he changed into clean clothes.

He put a jade pendant around his neck, on which two characters were engraved.

"From this day forward, you are Miss's servant. Your name is engraved here, Changsheng. Remember that?"

"Um."

On the first night, the boy murmured his new name and fell into a deep sleep.

When I woke up, it was still dark outside.

He heard the soft ringing of a rope bell, which was somewhat eerie in the pitch-black darkness.

The boy quickly sat up and climbed the wooden ladder to the upper attic...

There were no lights on in the attic.

But the boy discovered that his eyes could inexplicably adapt to the darkness.

He saw a woman sitting on the ground, dressed in snow-white clothes and with snow-white skin.

Her hair was extremely long, trailing on the spotless ground, yet possessing a chilling beauty…

"Miss... what do you need?"

The boy hurriedly knelt on the ground, trembling.

The woman slowly turned her head, revealing a small face with a pointed chin, which was also deathly pale.

She whispered, "My rabbit is lost. Go out and find it for me."

The boy responded as if he had received a royal decree, "Yes, I'll go find it right away..."

In his panic, he turned around and, without thinking, tumbled down the stairs...

He fell heavily to the ground, but ignoring the pain, he got up and tried to go out.

Suddenly, he noticed a person standing silently beside him.

"Little...Miss..."

The woman suddenly appeared beside him, looking completely devoid of any human presence.

The boy was terrified.

Remembering the old man's words of advice, he immediately knelt on the ground again and kept kowtowing and apologizing.

"Miss, please don't be angry. I... I'm so stupid. I'll find you a rabbit right away."

The woman stared at him intently, then asked, "And who are you?"

The boy hurriedly held up the plaque around his neck with both hands and presented it, saying, "I am Changsheng... Miss, I am your servant—Changsheng."

"Longevity."

The woman suddenly smiled, and with her withered hand gently stroked his face.

The cold touch sent shivers down the boy's spine.

He didn't dare to move an inch.

"Chang Sheng, come with me to find the rabbit."

The woman suddenly grabbed his hand and started walking outside.

The boy could not refuse, nor dared he refuse, so he could only let her pull him out of Mingyue Manor together.

In the vast darkness, only the faint outline of the northern mountains could be seen…

The feeling he was experiencing now made the boy feel as if he were in a dream.

He even began to wonder if the woman in front of him was a human or a ghost...

"Miss, what does your rabbit look like?"

After walking for a while in the mountains, the boy was terrified, but he still mustered up the courage to ask a question.

The woman paused for a moment, then pointed to a spot not far away and said, "I can feel it, my rabbit... is right there."

The boy glanced in the direction she was pointing and found it to be an abandoned post station.

Although it was once a government-owned property, it has been abandoned and no one has been stationed there for some time now.

"I...I'll go check on your behalf, Miss."