Li Qianfan had been in a state of distraction since he entered the bedroom with Chongchong last night.
This was why he was left speechless by the little fox’s retorts.
But he knew that his respected and beloved older sister Wujiang, who deserved filial piety, must have been involved in the conspiracy against them.
Just now.
When Li Qianfan first saw his mother, his eyes lit up because he wanted to know what exactly that conspiracy was.
Li Wujiang, however, did not allow him to speak, and did not even want to acknowledge him as her son.
It was so heartbreaking—
But Li Wujiang did not (dare not) refuse Chongchong’s request to find a place to talk alone.
Li Qianfan also wanted to participate and have a good chat with Sister Wujiang.
However.
Chongchong frowned at him and coldly repeated, "Qianfan, go wait for me in the car."
Alright.
Seeing that Chongchong was about to turn hostile, Li Qianfan could only sigh, nod, and quickly go downstairs.
In the hot water room on the second floor.
“Li Wujiang, tell me, what is going on?”
Chongchong forcefully threw a black ink jade pendant into Li Wujiang’s arms.
As she retracted her hand, she slapped Li Wujiang across the face.
Slap!
Li Wujiang caught her wrist and said with a half-smile, “What, after you’ve eaten and drunk your fill, you’re turning on me?”
You—
Chongchong’s face instantly turned red, and tears flickered in her eyes.
She wasn’t turning on him because she had eaten and drunk her fill.
If she hadn’t wanted to—
No matter how capable Li Qianfan was, he wouldn’t have been able to touch her!
She was turning on him because, upon seeing the micro-carving, she suddenly realized that the Four Phoenixes Surrounding the Pillars formation was not a lie!!
But she, as a party involved, had been kept in the dark by Li Wujiang and others.
“Don’t get angry yet. Listen to me.”
Li Wujiang released her wrist and looked at the ink jade pendant, saying indifferently, “The master who set up the Four Phoenixes Surrounding the Pillars formation was very clear when he gave me this pendant. When the time comes, the jade pendant will naturally shatter. This also signifies that you will understand everything at that moment. But I hope you won’t tell Qianfan. It will do him no good. If you truly like him.”
Chongchong did not speak.
Only then did she realize that a certain master had long predicted that she would come to Li Wujiang for an explanation after the jade broke.
This was why Li Wujiang was telling her all this.
“The master also said that after you throw the jade pendant to me, it must be within 12 hours.”
As Li Wujiang spoke, she leaned close to Chongchong’s ear and whispered a few words.
Chongchong’s face, which was full of anger, flushed red again.
“Remember, this concerns the fate of you, Qianfan, and Jiao Yin. If the minor three talents are not transformed into major three talents within 12 hours of the jade breaking, then the opposing Xuanmen masters can use sorcery and other unorthodox methods to cause you sudden accidents. I’m busy, so I won’t be accompanying you.”
After Li Wujiang finished speaking, she strode out the door.
As she left, she waved her sleeve.
The ink jade pendant, which had been reassembled, was precisely placed on Chongchong’s head.
When she instinctively turned her head, the pendant hung on her neck.
“Even if the jade breaks, it’s still a protective charm. Because this charm was originally in two halves. You can give one half to the person you like the most.”
Li Wujiang said without looking back and quickly went upstairs.
The moon had risen.
The moon was very round tonight.
As Li Qianfan started the small blue car, he looked at Chongchong sitting in the passenger seat.
Chongchong’s expression was vacant.
He didn’t dare to ask any more questions and simply drove out of the compound.
As the car was passing a large hotel, Chongchong suddenly said, “We’re staying at the hotel tonight.”
Staying at the hotel?
What a waste!
More importantly, it was only a five-minute drive from their home.
Li Qianfan glanced at her but obediently drove into the parking lot.
Chongchong linked her arm with his and they walked into the hotel lobby, where they booked a presidential suite.
The presidential suite had a very good environment.
“Go take a bath. You’re not allowed out for half an hour.”
After entering the room, Chongchong told Li Qianfan, “I need to make a phone call.”
Seeing her tendency to flip out at any moment, Li Qianfan frowned.
They were in hell anyway, so what couldn’t be said?
Was it necessary to constantly give Li Qianfan a cold shoulder?
“Hurry up.”
Looking at him, Chongchong’s eyes gradually filled with pleading.
Sigh.
Li Qianfan sighed, stopped asking questions, and walked into the bathroom.
Chongchong turned on the TV, found the music channel, and turned the volume to the maximum.
Fortunately, the soundproofing of the presidential suite was excellent, capable of handling a party.
Otherwise, others would have heard the music and knocked on their door to warn them about disturbing the peace.
“She deliberately turned the volume so high so I wouldn’t hear who she was talking to or what she was saying.”
Li Qianfan stood under the showerhead, casually scrubbing himself, and grumbled internally, “My mother even schemes against me. She has no mother-son affection at all.”
Bang bang ka ka.
Ka ka bang bang—
The music outside the bathroom door turned into DJ music, full of rhythm.
It was obvious that Shen Chongchong had turned on the external speakers.
The glass door of the bathroom could only block the view, not the sound.
Li Qianfan had the illusion that he was currently at the Arc de Triomphe disco.
His two legs involuntarily swayed to the beat of the music.
After about half an hour of banging and clattering—
Li Qianfan came out.
The DJ’s voice was even louder.
Then he saw two women, one in a black robe and the other in a purple robe.
One was Shen Chongchong.
The other was none other than Jiao San.
They stood in front of the TV, their bare feet tapping, holding wine glasses in one hand and raising the other high, shaking their hair to the DJ’s melody, looking very enthusiastic.
“What are they doing?”
“Why did they invite Jiao San?”
“Did they get my permission?”
Li Qianfan muttered to himself, like a simple-minded son of a landlord.
Jiao San swayed and spun around, high on the music, and came up to Li Qianfan.
She pushed him against the wall with her back.
Then she began to dance seductively—
This scene had already happened at the Arc de Triomphe that night.
Here we go again!
Gradually, Li Qianfan also began to sway slowly to the extremely rhythmic DJ music.
Finally letting go.
The person dancing intimately with him was sometimes Jiao San, and sometimes Chongchong.
It was like a dream.
Midnight.
The moon at midnight looked exceptionally bright.
Four Nine Baiyun Temple.
The seven bronze lamps that had been lit and never extinguished suddenly flared up!
Daoist Du, who was sitting cross-legged in front of the lamps, suddenly opened his eyes.
He flicked his horsetail whisk with his left hand and exclaimed loudly, “Boundless Heavenly Venerable! Phoenixes and frogs harmonize, and the five grains are abundant.”
Four Nine Li Family Village.
The listless black Xuanlong banner suddenly fluttered in the wind with a rustling sound!
A few minutes later, an ancient voice shouted, “Phoenix and frogs in the same boat, open the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors.”
Lingnan Misty Village.
On the calm sea, under the full moon, countless fish suddenly leaped out of the water.
As the schools of fish landed heavily on the surface of the water, they made loud slapping sounds.
A man stood on a small boat, quietly watching the fish leap out of the water.
Behind him, a white-clothed woman with a gauze mask gently swayed a white fox tail, accompanying him in silence.
After a while, she softly said, “Phoenix and frogs in harmony, during the full moon. It can be said that merit is complete, and it is time to return.”
“Yes. It’s time to return.”
The man looked up at the moon, and after a few dozen seconds of dazed staring, he, along with the white-clothed woman with the fox tail, leaped into the sea along with the schools of fish that continuously leaped out of the water and then fell back down.
The small boat, now devoid of people, gradually sank and disappeared.
Gaul Dragon Ruins.
Master Kongkong, who had received a call from Li Wujiang and was standing at the top of the Bronze Sparrow Platform, looked at the golden sunset glow (six hours time difference) instantly change. He clasped his hands together and bowed, “Namo Amitabha. Phoenix and frogs united can forge a hundred-year body.”
Island Province.
The sea where Lan Fenghuang had been reduced to ashes. The originally calm full moon on the surface of the water was quickly engulfed by the rising mist.
Layer upon layer, hazy and indistinct.
Waves began to roar within the mist.
But the mist—
Could not be dispersed by the wind!!
Could not be broken by the waves!!
In the Ranfeng Pool in a mountain valley.
Suddenly, the water surface began to boil as if it were a pot. Schools of frogs cried out in unison, “Guagua guagua!”
Bang!
The door of a nearby house was pushed open.
Several elders, led by Cai Wangzu, looked at the Ranfeng Pool with drastically changed expressions.
Fear filled their eyes.
Although they had long predicted this and were psychologically prepared, they couldn’t help but feel fear after it happened: “The Eastern Phoenix has finally spread her wings without restraint. The frogs are singing her praises because of her!”
On a mountain several kilometers away from the Ranfeng Pool, there was a Taoist temple.
An old man on the verge of death finally exhaled the breath that had been stuck in his throat and refused to come out.
He vaguely said, “One husband looks up, one woman.”
One woman what?
Before the old man could finish speaking, he breathed his last.
That night.
Zhang Tianri, the patriarch of the Xuanmen in the Island Province, passed away.
Seoul.
By the Han River.
Zhuang Wujian, her face covered with a black veil, afraid of revealing her black fox mask, gazed towards the East and murmured, “The minor three talents have finally transformed into major three talents. The leader of the four phoenixes has already spread her wings, are the other three phoenixes far behind?”
Behind her stood a petite girl.
The girl wore a hat and a large mask.
Her appearance could not be seen.
Only her large, Barbie doll-like eyes were visible.
Her figure was such that Wang Zhe and Chen Dong, who were walking quickly towards them with late-night snacks, couldn’t help but mutter to themselves after a glance: “I really don’t know how Tang Xiaoni was born. She’s so small, yet her figure is incredibly good. I also don’t know what this old witch is doing by the river in the middle of the night. We still have to go buy her late-night snacks.”
Tang Xiaoni’s left pinky finger hooked down her mask. She looked back at the barbecue in Wang Zhe’s hand and subconsciously swallowed.
She was hungry too.
Let’s eat something quickly.
But as soon as she took a bite, she suddenly raised her hand to cover her mouth, bent over, and vomited loudly.
Chen Dong quickly asked Wang Zhe what was wrong with her.
Wang Zhe coolly replied, “How should I know? You bought the barbecue.”
“Two idiots.”
Zhuang Wujian disdainfully cursed, “She’s pregnant.”
She’s pregnant?
What is she pregnant with?
We didn’t see anything.
Wang Zhe and Chen Dong looked at Tang Xiaoni, their four wide eyes filled with a capital ‘ignorance.’
Daylight arrived.
Li Qianfan, who didn’t know how long he had slept (perhaps five minutes, perhaps three hours), slowly opened his eyes.
————
Let’s talk about Su Nanyin.
Her role was significant in the beginning because she was very important. Although the main storyline progressed, it could actually be bypassed.
But later, she became uncontrollable, as if she had a life of her own, leading the plot step by step.
Even when I repeatedly pondered how to make her reasonably exit the double-female protagonist storyline, I would always dream of many plots of her and Li Qianfan together (this is definitely not nonsense).
It sounds quite fantastical, and it was even painful to write plots unrelated to her.
But after a sigh, I felt relieved.
Perhaps Su Nanyin had a wicked life—
She was guiding the main plot forward, making it difficult to control. Maybe only by letting Qianfan speed up his pace towards the end could it be resolved.
I apologize for not portraying the double Su female protagonists well.