A look of grievance immediately appeared on the young man's face. "How can I just be someone you know? Back then, you hugged me and said we..."

Just then, Li Wenhe walked in, and upon hearing this, his eyes turned cold.

"What is it?" His voice was icy.

The young man, oblivious to the situation, replied, "You said we could be friends. I've been searching for you for so long, and I've had a very uncomfortable stay here, and this is what you say to me."

His sadness seemed genuine; the more he thought about it, the more upset he became, to the point where he almost wanted to burst into tears.

Li Wenhe's expression softened slightly, and he glanced at Ming Zhuo, "When did you provoke him?"

Mingzhuo was baffled: "I didn't provoke them."

Pei Di cracked his knuckles: "Don't try to scam me, or don't blame me for being impolite."

He Wangyao: "What's going on?"

Li Wenhe said calmly, "Perhaps it's something we did in a past life."

Upon hearing this, the young man suddenly realized, "That's right, you look completely different now, you seem even smaller, have you been reincarnated?"

Mingzhuo: "I don't know what you're talking about. Last time at Chengxian Lake, it was the first time we all met."

She explained to the group, "This is the flounder."

Everyone suddenly realized that this guy had actually come all this way.

Young people's emotions come and go quickly. If an old friend is not recognized upon meeting, it's simply because they have been reincarnated, so there's nothing to be sad about.

He introduced himself as Xianze and asked He Wangyao to go back to the hair salon with him to settle the bill, as skipping out on the bill was bad behavior and would cause Tony to be fined by the boss.

This is serious; it could lead to not being able to eat, not being able to pay rent, and not being able to afford a refrigerator.

He Wangyao then realized what she had done; in her haste, she had run away and forgotten to pay.

The two went back to pay, while Mingzhuo and the others went to the hotel they had booked. Gu Xu had already gone there.

"Ah Xu, a new friend is coming over later." Ming Zhuo greeted Gu Xu first, so that Gu Xu wouldn't be surprised when she saw the other person.

She explained the matter of Chengxian Lake to Gu Xu.

Gu Xu had actually heard He Wangyao mention it before, but that didn't stop him from hearing it again. He still found it very interesting. "It sounds like your experiences were quite thrilling."

A monster with beautiful fins lurks at the bottom of the lake, while the human world exists on the surface. The solemn and majestic gates of hell stand tall, and a village overflows with sin.

What was originally a tragic story is transformed into a beautiful and dreamlike tale because of Mingzhuo's presence.

He only regretted that he would never have the chance to meet him.

Mingzhuo: "Actually, the jack mackerel are very simple-minded, otherwise they wouldn't have been hunted and killed by humans."

Pei Di thought for a moment, "The stench of death you just smelled, was it from the Henggong fish?"

"Nonsense, I don't smell at all!" Xianze said angrily.

He walked in, saw Gu Xu, and visibly stiffened, then hid behind He Wangyao.

Gu Xu recognized it. "It's you."

Xianze denied it: "It wasn't me."

Gu Xu paused for a moment, then said nothing more.

He Wangyao suddenly remembered, "You were the one who cut Ah Xu's hair last time, but why are you afraid of Ah Xu?"

Xianze also found it strange. As a great demon of a thousand years, he should not be afraid of a mortal, but the aura emanating from the other party made him tremble with fear.

He hadn't experienced that feeling of bloodline suppression in a long time.

However, since this person is Mingzhuo's friend, he should be safe.

Remembering Pei Di's words, he quickly explained, "I don't smell of decay. The water temperature in the Cold Pool is low, so the body won't decompose. The lake water also has a purifying effect, so it doesn't smell at all. Besides, I've been away from the Cold Pool for several months, so how could I still have a smell?"

Mingzhuo shook his head: "It's not from you."

She was about to go out to check when He Wangyao and Xianze rushed in, and the smell was washed away.

However, this matter should not be taken lightly, so she sent a text message to remind Wu Jiao to arrange for personnel to conduct a thorough investigation in order to avoid causing any trouble.

She turned to look at Xianze, "But what about you? What happened to you? How did you end up working as a hairdresser at a salon?"

"I wanted to see you, so I tried to come to the human world. But people these days are so oblivious; they didn't notice anything wrong with me. So I followed the scent all the way here."

When Xianze talked about what she had experienced in the past month or two, she almost burst into tears.

"But the smell disappeared in the vicinity, and I had no money, no food, and wasn't used to the weather outside. Luckily, a kind person gave me ice! That's when I realized that there are such amazing things as refrigerators in this world!"

When the refrigerator was mentioned, Xianze's eyes lit up.

"What do you mean?" He Wangyao was completely confused.

Gu Xu: "In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Henggong fish lives in Shihu. Shihu is similar to Hantan, with very low water temperature, which freezes into stone, hence the name Shihu (Stone Lake).

Mingzhuo added: "Because the Henggong fish has a low body temperature, people in ancient times would deliberately light a campfire to roast food in order to determine whether someone was an incarnation of the Henggong fish. If the flames would shrink when someone approached the fire, it meant that it was a Henggong fish."

Xianze rested his chin on his hand, "But people these days don't understand these things. I really had no other choice, so someone introduced me to that club, saying I could make money there."

He was thinking that if he earned enough money to buy ice, he could continue to look for Mingzhuo.

But competition in modern society is so fierce that after paying rent, utilities, and food, he barely had any money left.

So he could only frantically take orders at the store every day and had no time to go see Mingzhuo.

Mingzhao: "..."

It's truly unexpected that such a powerful ancient demon would have fallen to such a state in human society.

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