Tianjin, starting with unorthodox methods to achieve immortality

"Did a woman call you?"

The people inside the room all looked towards the doorway.

Li Jinrong's eyes lit up, and he chuckled in a low voice, "Someone's looking for Chen Mo? Who could it be at this hour?"

"Judging from the voice, it sounds like a woman."

He Songling put down the melon seeds, tiptoed into the yard, and peered outside.

The wall is only a little over a meter high; you can see outside just by standing on tiptoe.

"Women," he turned and waved into the room, his expression exaggerated, "two women!"

Upon hearing this, Li Jinrong disregarded his injuries, scrambled out of bed, and rushed towards the door.

"Let me see! Let me see!"

Shen Bao also joined in.

Several people crowded at the doorway, trying to peek out on tiptoe.

The fat man was only 1.63 meters tall, and even when he stood on tiptoe, he couldn't reach it, so he was so anxious that he kept jumping up and down.

"Never seen a woman before?"

Chen Mo curled his lip in disgust, pushed the group aside and walked out of the courtyard. He wondered who would be looking for him at this time.

As soon as I stepped outside the courtyard gate, I saw Liu Ruyan.

As the setting sun cast its rays, she stood on the bluestone path, holding a cardboard box wrapped in red cloth in her hand. Her face was expressionless, and the tips of her ears were slightly red.

Fang Yingxia hid behind her, peeking into the yard, and met several pairs of sly eyes behind the door. She burst out laughing.

"Chen Mo, Chen Mo from room number seven?" she called out deliberately, drawing out the sound.

Behind the courtyard gate, Li Jinrong lowered his voice and asked He Songling, "Which one is looking for Chen Mo? The one on the left or the one on the right?"

He Songling lowered his voice and replied, "The one carrying the things is obviously the main person, and the one next to him is just a follower."

"When did Brother Chen get involved with Miss Liu?" Li Jinrong clicked his tongue twice, completely baffled.

Can being handsome really straighten out a tomboy?

Chen Mo glanced back at the slightly trembling courtyard gate, then silently looked away, not even afraid of tearing the gate down.

"Did you need something?"

Liu Ruyan handed over the red cloth bundle in her hand, saying, "Li Siqing asked me to return it to you."

Chen Mo took it, lifted a corner of the red cloth, and inside was a cardboard box, which was the original owner's birth chart.

He frowned, glanced at the document, and casually asked, "How did you end up with my birth chart?"

Through the crack in the door, Li Jinrong muttered softly, "A birth chart sticker? What does she need Chen Mo's birth chart sticker for?"

He Songling squinted: "Something's up."

Before Liu Ruyan could speak, Fang Yingxia poked her head out from behind her and interrupted with a grin, "What else could it be? She went home specifically to get it, it took her ages."

Chen Mo ignored Fang Yingxia and stared directly at Liu Ruyan: "Why is this thing on you?"

"You think I care?"

Liu Ruyan met his gaze and said in a calm tone, "Si Qing can't come in, so I can only ask her to return it to you."

"Really?" Chen Mo stared at her suspiciously for a few seconds. The Liu family's soul-carving techniques were bizarre.

He now strongly suspects that the original owner of this body was entangled in Yin energy, which is very likely the work of the other party.

With both ability and motive, this third young lady of the Liu family is highly suspicious.

Liu Ruyan was stunned for a moment when he stared at her like that, and then her expression changed.

"What kind of look is that?"

She took a step forward, tilting her head back to glare at him. "What do you think I wanted to do with it? Curse you with the amulet?"

Chen Mo didn't speak, but just glanced at her with his eyes lowered, his expression clearly saying "No way."

"you......"

Liu Ruyan laughed in exasperation.

She looked him up and down, her gaze sweeping from his face to his feet, then back to his face, before finally letting out a sneer.

"Do you think you're that important?" She crossed her arms, her tone laced with undisguised disdain. "If I wanted to deal with you, would I need to go through all this trouble?"

"Siqing told me that even the small gangs in your county managed to drive you to the brink of despair a while ago. If I wanted to deal with you, wouldn't it be a piece of cake? Why go through all this trouble?"

"If you just had the butler find two gunmen, you would have been thrown into the Blackwater Beach to be fed to the fish long ago."

Chen Mo stared at her, still not saying anything, only his eyebrows twitched slightly.

Through the crack in the door, He Songling muttered softly, "Gunman? What gunman?"

Without turning his head, Li Jinrong slapped him on the back of the head: "Shut up, I can't hear you."

He Songling covered the back of his head, grimacing as he continued to peek from behind the door.

Chen Mo was silent for a few seconds before speaking in a flat tone: "So you really didn't touch it?"

Liu Ruyan rolled her eyes and curled her lip: "Believe it or not."

She turned to leave, but stopped after taking two steps, as if organizing her thoughts.

"I was planning to teach you a lesson."

"Oh? You finally admit it?"

Chen Mo raised an eyebrow, a hint of coldness flashing in his eyes. It really was this woman.

Liu Ruyan glared at him, her eyebrows almost standing on end: "Let me finish what I have to say!"

She took a deep breath and hesitated for a long time before speaking.

"That day I brought your birth date home, intending to have my third uncle help me see if there was any possibility between you and Li Siqing."

"My third uncle is the head of the Liu family. For him, calculating marriage is just a trivial matter, something he can do with a flick of his finger."

"He took your birth chart and spent a long time calculating it, his brows furrowing more and more. I thought he was just annoyed by the trouble, so I urged him a few times. He glared at me and said the birth chart was strange, and told me to shut up."

"Later, he simply went into the secret chamber and used the Liu family's soul-carving secret technique."

Liu Ruyan raised her head, looking at Chen Mo with a complicated expression.

"Do you know what the Soul Engraving Secret Technique is? It's our family's most treasured method, specifically used to deduce the origins of the dead."

"If you're just calculating the fate of the living, you don't need this at all."

Chen Mo didn't speak, but listened quietly.

"He stayed in the secret room for a full hour. When he came out, his face was as white as paper, which startled me."

A flicker of lingering fear crossed Liu Ruyan's eyes.

He asked me where I got this birth chart from, and I said it was from a friend.

"My third uncle was sitting in a chair at the time, staring at that fortune-telling post for a long time, and then he shook his head and recited a passage."

"This person was born with an imbalance of the five elements, with water and fire clashing and neither being complete."

Half of the three souls and seven spirits are missing, occupying separate places in the mortal world and the underworld.

If you are seeking someone to help you with marriage, I advise you not to waste your time and effort.

This person should have been on the road to the underworld long ago, why is he still lingering in this world?

After Liu Ruyan finished reading, she looked up at Chen Mo with an indescribable complexity in her eyes.

"I didn't understand at the time and thought my third uncle was joking with me. I said, 'Third uncle, why are you reciting a rhyme? Just tell me the result directly, that's all!'"

He glared at me and said, "Your friend is either a dead man or a reincarnated soul. His birth chart is that of a dead man; his fate was cut off long ago. Logically speaking, someone like that should be buried with grass three feet tall by now."

Fang Yingxia, who was listening nearby, gasped and subconsciously took a step back. Her gaze towards Chen Mo changed.

"But your destiny seems to be obscured by something, it's blurry and can't be calculated at all."

"But he told me to stay away from you." Liu Ruyan pursed her lips. "He said that someone like you is either extremely unlucky or extremely wealthy, and getting involved with you would be unpredictable, whether it's good or bad."