Chapter 5: Dirt Thousands of years later, I heard my name from her mouth...

When Qi Zhao's image disappeared from the TV, Su Jing heard a faint voice behind her. She glared at her fiercely, "Do you think you can call Qi Zhao by his name?"

Qi Xunsheng ignored her, his brain working rapidly, comparing the person he had just seen on TV with the person in his dream. The face shape and facial features were correct, but the mole on the body was uncertain.

"What are you looking at! You are not allowed to look at it!" Seeing that she was still staring at the TV without moving, Su Jing stood up and opened her arms to block her.

Qi Xunsheng was used to her domineering and unreasonable behavior and would not bother with her in the past, but now it was different.

She curled her lips, bent down slightly and looked at her: "You like her."

Qi Xunsheng is 1.68 meters tall, a few centimeters taller than Su Jing, so he wins in terms of momentum.

"What's it got to do with you?" Su Jing stood on tiptoe with her hands on her hips and looked at her straight in the eye.

In the past, her sister Su Yun always helped her to control Qi Xunsheng, and at worst, her mother would help her. Usually, Qi Xunsheng always avoided her. She didn't know what went wrong today that he not only came home but also tried to get close to her.

"She is very beautiful, I want her." Qi Xunsheng smiled with his lips curved.

Su Jing rarely saw her so confident. In her memory, Qi Xunsheng had been bullied by them since she was a child.

When Qi Yushuang was alive, Lu Qinglian was her good friend, so she often brought Su Jing and Su Yun to her house to play. At that time, she and her sister did not like Qi Xunsheng, so they liked to target her since childhood.

Qi Xunsheng was very obedient at that time and never resisted them.

Did she hear it right?

Qi Xunsheng actually declared war on her?

"That's Qi Zhao. What makes you think you're worthy of her?" Su Jing bit her back teeth, almost breaking them. She had only met Qi Zhao once, at a friend's house. Although Qi Zhao came yesterday, he didn't enter the house. I heard that he drove away before even getting out of the car.

I don’t know if it’s an emergency.

"And don't you know that Sister Qi Zhao has someone she likes?" Su Jing's cheeks gradually flushed as she said this.

Qi Xunsheng didn't want to pay attention to her, but seeing her cute and shy look, he couldn't help laughing: "You're not going to say she likes you, are you?"

"Exactly!" Su Jing's lips were almost grinning to her ears, her eyes full of complacency. "You know, Sister Qi Zhao never accepts invitations from others, but she accepted mine."

Qi Xunsheng seemed to be thinking: "Did you invite him?"

Su Jing looked at him with disdain: "What else? Could it be that he came to see you?"

Qi Xunsheng let out a long "oh", the smile on the corner of his mouth grew wider and wider. He lifted his hair and his face quickly flushed. He looked shy and said, "Didn't she tell you about us?"

"Why are you blushing? What nonsense are you talking about?" Su Jing's face quickly turned ugly, and she didn't believe her nonsense.

"She was with me last night and said she wanted to marry me~" Qi Xunsheng pretended to be troubled, "I didn't expect my sister likes her too. I really don't know what to do."

No one will tell Qi Zhao anyway.

Making Su Jing unhappy is her greatest pleasure.

As expected, Su Jing's eyes turned fierce as soon as she said that, as if she was going to hit her with the guy next to her to tell her to stop talking nonsense. Two dogs that had been watching her for a long time quickly ran in front of her to block Su Jing, and their violent jumps scared Su Jing.

Su Tongming and Lu Qinglian, who were upstairs, heard the noise and immediately came down to check. Seeing that the backer had arrived, Su Jing immediately cried and threw herself into Lu Qinglian's arms, pointing at Qi Xunsheng and saying, "Mom, she bullied me!"

Su Tongming also showed a distressed expression. He went over to comfort Su Jing, but when he turned to look at Qi Xunsheng, his distress had turned into blame. Qi Xunsheng had seen this kind of look many times.

If she hadn't grown up, she would have faced more than just a fierce look at this moment.

No matter how strong Qi Xunsheng is, she is only nineteen years old, and she is the only one who doesn't fit in in this family.

Su Tongming originally wanted to blame her to make Su Jing happy, but she had already turned and left. He could only curse at the air: "I raised you to this age in vain, and all you can do is bully your sister."

…

She walked quickly, and only turned her head to look at the villa behind her when the sound behind her completely disappeared from her ears.

This is her home and she will come back one day.

-

On the other side, in the ancient artistic villa castle, Qi Zhao lay in a rocking chair, shaking the red wine glass in his hand, his eyes half open, and said lazily: "Did she really say that?"

A flying insect buzzed around her ear, "Yes, yes."

She took a sip of red wine, looking thoughtful.

"Master, master, when can I come back?" Qi Zhao raised Fei Chong to protect the Rose Manor. She didn't expect that one day she would fly out of the manor to protect such a child. This made her very dissatisfied.

Qi Zhao sipped the red wine, and her frosty beauty smiled. She murmured, "It's almost there."

-

As the saying goes, only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win every battle. Qi Xunsheng searched a lot of information about Qi Zhao on the Internet and spent two days compiling a file of the information he searched.

One page of paper.

After working hard for two days and two nights, I only got one page of information.

Qi Zhao is such a mysterious person. He controls the business lifeline of the entire Luocheng, but no extra information is leaked out.

No one knows her family situation or the specific properties under her name. Even reporters who want to interview her can only visit her at her home without permission.

The news Qi Xunsheng saw that day was not an interview that Qi Zhao voluntarily accepted, but a reporter who came uninvited, so the camera only captured part of Qi Zhao's face.

She said, how could someone be so pretentious, letting reporters come, hiding in the car, and half-covering his face, thinking he was a big shot.

Although she is indeed a character.

Qi Xunsheng flicked the paper in his hand, and found half a news photo of Qi Zhao printed at the bottom corner.

She didn't have such a dream again in the past two nights.

Although it is not clear whether Qi Zhao is the "female ghost" in her dream, the fact that the two look exactly the same must be suspicious.

To get the answer, we must start with Qi Zhao.

But Qi Zhao is not an ordinary person, and it is difficult for her to get close to him. The only two pieces of information about Qi Zhao that the world knows are Xiyue Building and the Rose Manor worth tens of millions.

Xiyue Building is easy to enter. If Qi Zhao appears there, no one would have seen Qi Zhao's true face over the years.

Therefore, she could only place her hopes on Rose Manor.

Flowers bloom and fall, but this rose manor is in full bloom all year round. It once caused a sensation on the entire Internet, attracting many people to visit Los Angeles just to see the rose manor.

But later, several people returned with high fever that day, and rumors began to spread online that Rose Manor was unlucky.

There were people guarding outside the Rose Manor, and no one would be allowed in even when it was the busiest. These people sneaked in in the middle of the night.

But he didn't expect that after returning from there, he would have a high fever that wouldn't go away. He told everyone he met that he had seen a ghost. When he asked them about it, he couldn't remember anything. He only told others that there was a ghost there and going there would only bring disaster.

There were also people who didn't believe in it, but they all met the same fate in the end. Even those who just watched from afar caught a cold and a fever when they returned home.

The story became more and more outrageous, and in the end the words "Rose Manor" became a taboo and no one mentioned it again.

This news interview brought Rose Manor back into the public eye.

Qi Xunsheng had heard of this Rose Manor a long time ago, but at that time she was busy with the college entrance examination and did not pay too much attention to the rumor. Now when she heard it again, she just felt it was false.

"Is it really that weird?" Qi Xunsheng muttered to himself and subconsciously touched his wrist.

Her bracelet hadn't been found yet, so it didn't seem a good idea to rush over like that.

Qi Xunsheng has been trying to contact the hermit these past two days, but she seemed to have disappeared out of thin air and he couldn't get in touch with her no matter what.

"bite--"

The doorbell of her house rang. Through the surveillance camera, she saw Shan Xianmin standing outside the door. Aunt Zhang opened the door for her.

Qi Xunsheng came out of the room and went downstairs.

Shan Xianmin was already sitting on the sofa in her living room waiting for her, and her eyes lit up when she saw her.

"Have you watched the news?"

"What news?"

Shan Xianmin turned on her phone and switched to the news: "Don't you think this Rose Manor is beautiful?"

"good."

"Look, this is Qi Zhao. Isn't she beautiful? Like a fairy." Shan Xianmin clasped her hands together, and her whole body was filled with pink bubbles.

What Shan Xianmin showed her was the news footage she saw at home that day. She still felt uncomfortable seeing Qi Zhao's face again.

"She," Qi Xunsheng pointed at the person on the phone, "is she beautiful?"

Shan Xianmin nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

Qi Xunsheng sneered: "What if I tell you that the person in my dream is her?"

Shan Xianmin was petrified. He looked at his phone, then at Qi Xunsheng, and finally confirmed, "Are you suffering from paranoia?"

Seeing that she didn't believe him, Qi Xunsheng didn't explain. Who would believe it if he told her that the world-famous business tycoon Qi Zhao looked exactly like the female ghost in her dream?

"This is Qi Zhao! Qi Zhao, who founded the Xiyue Group at the age of fifteen. And you told me she was the ghost girl in your dream?"

Qi Xunsheng still didn't say anything.

Shan Xianmin finally calmed down and asked again uncertainly, "You didn't lie to me, did you?"

Qi Xunsheng nodded.

In an instant, all the pink bubbles on Shan Xianmin's body disappeared, replaced by anger: "Then she took advantage of you! How could she sleep with you and then run away!"

As far as she knew, Qi Xunsheng not only had such a dream, but the two of them actually had sex in real life.

Qi Xunsheng retorted: "I slept with her."

Shan Xianmin: "It's all the same."

"Aren't you looking for her?"

"Didn't I find it?"

Qi Xunsheng handed her a page of paper he had sorted out. Shan Xianmin read it carefully twice and made sure that there was no useful information on it except the photos.

"I originally wanted to go directly to Rose Manor to stop her, but..."

Before Qi Xunsheng finished speaking, Shan Xianmin stood up, took her arm and said, "Let's go! Before it gets dark."

"But they say it's haunted."

"You've already encountered the biggest ghost, and you're still afraid of these things."

“…”

Shan Xianmin was a man of action. He said he was going and took her to Rose Manor in a taxi.

Shan Xianmin originally wanted to drive his own car, but thought it would be too troublesome without a parking space and it would also be too blatant, so he gave up.

The Rose Manor is located in a remote area, in the wilderness. That is why no one came to disturb this quiet place when the Internet was not well developed.

When they arrived, it was already dark, with layers of dark clouds in the sky that made them feel breathless.

Shan Xianmin paused and hesitated: "Why do I feel it's chilly here?"

"Because this area is sparsely populated?"

"Maybe."

Shan Xianmin thought of her good friend's experience, and immediately encouraged herself in her heart. She took Qi Xunsheng's arm and walked inside.

Endless roses were in full bloom, blown by the evening breeze, and the fragrance filled the air, blowing in my face and driving away some of my uneasiness and fear.

Shan Xianmin paused, smelled the fragrance of flowers in the air, and then smelled the scent of Qi Xunsheng.

“That’s the taste.”

"Um?"

"The perfume you've been wearing lately is so fragrant, several of my friends have asked me what you're using."

"I don't wear perfume?"

Qi Xunsheng had been so annoyed these past two days that she had no time to spray perfume. Besides, she had heard the little yellow dog say the same thing before. She lowered her head and sniffed herself, only to smell the scent of the roses in the manor, but it didn't belong to her.

Shan Xianmin sniffed again to make sure she was not mistaken.

Qi Xunsheng felt a chill in his heart instantly.

If it's the same rose scent as in this manor, then it can only be related to Qi Zhao.

If Qi Zhao is really the "female ghost" in the dream.

So, could this fragrance be her mark?

There was a fence outside the Rose Manor, and it was not easy for the two to climb over the fence. They walked around the manor for a long time before they found a way. There was a broken fence that they could pass through.

They walked along the road, where roses stretched as far as the eye could see, and the scent grew stronger the deeper they went.

"Why do I feel like these roses look so strange, and their smell is different from usual ones."

"What's strange about that?"

"I can't say."

It is said that there are people guarding the outside of Rose Manor, but the two did not encounter anyone along the way from climbing over the fence to walking deeper into the manor, but they did encounter many insects.

Strangely, Qi Xunsheng couldn't hear them talking.

She looked back at the road she came from, and it was already very far away.

"Do you know what lies deep within the rose?"

"What?"

"There's a castle."

Before coming, Shan Xianmin wanted to take her to see the Rose Manor, so she asked a lot of questions in advance. When she heard that there was a castle deep in the Rose Manor, she couldn't help but find Qi Xunsheng immediately.

Shan Xianmin's social circle is wider than hers, and she can find out more things than her. She originally thought that when she came here, she would encounter someone to stop them and take the opportunity to ask to see Qi Zhao, but the journey was smoother than she imagined.

Roses have thorns, and both of you should be careful not to get scratched.

As she got closer, Qi Xunsheng's heartbeat became stronger, her breathing became rapid, and her thoughts became increasingly confused, as if something was calling her.

"Looking for the sound——"

"Looking for the sound——"

"Find the sound!"

Shan Xianmin's sudden voice startled her. Qi Xunsheng's rapid breathing woke her up from her trance and looked at her: "What's wrong?"

Shan Xianmin covered her arm and whispered, "I got scratched. What happened to you?"

Qi Xunsheng then noticed the bloodstains on Shan Xianmin's arm. She hurriedly took out a tissue from her pocket and said, "Let's go out."

The bright moon in the sky was half blocked by dark clouds. At first, the two of them walked forward in the moonlight. When they found that there was no one guarding the place, they became bolder and turned on the flashlights.

"It's okay, it doesn't hurt," Shan Xianmin complained, "These roses are like they're sick, they're leaning against me, there's no breeze, huh?"

Qi Xunsheng looked ahead and saw that the roses were all facing to the sides, not towards the path where they were. The order was weird.

"Eh—" Shan Xianmin rubbed his eyes, "They weren't like this just now."

"Why do I feel like they know you?"

Qi Xunsheng was silent.

She thought this rose manor might be quite evil, and Shan Xianmin had started talking nonsense.

It was the first time she heard that plants could recognize people.

"Let's go back—"

"I see it! There is light ahead!" Shan Xianmin pulled Qi Xunsheng forward as if possessed.

Qi Xunsheng had no choice but to follow her. This time she was extremely alert and made sure not to get distracted.

The two walked for a long time, so long that everything was quiet and the sounds of insects completely disappeared from their ears.

"There really is a castle," Qi Xunsheng looked at the ancient and artistic castle in front of him and couldn't help but admire it, "It's so beautiful."

This is the most beautiful castle Qi Xunsheng has ever seen. Perhaps it is because of the embellishment of roses that the castle looks very special.

After a long while without hearing Shan Xianmin's answer, Qi Xunsheng turned around to look, but found that there was no one behind her. In the vast Rose Manor, there was no one except her.

“Minmin!”

Qi Xunsheng called her name for a long time but no one responded. There was only her own echo in front and behind. The dark clouded sky suddenly became clear, and the bright moon was in the sky. She could see every blade of grass and every tree clearly.

It was another flower garden. Under a large tree, someone was lying in a rocking chair. Her long red skirt fell along the rocking chair and onto the ground. Her fair legs were lazily draped over the other end of the chair. She waved the fan in her hand, brushed her messy hair, and spoke lazily and casually, glancing at her.

"Whose child is so ignorant of etiquette?"

"Qi Zhao!"

Qi Xunsheng gritted his teeth. He had finally found the culprit, but she still had the nerve to pretend not to know him.

The fan that was still swaying stopped the moment she called out her name, and the nonchalant smile on the corner of her mouth gradually faded.

A thousand years.

Finally I heard my name from her mouth again, with such a strange and cold expression, which I haven't seen in such a long time.

Still infuriating.

Qi Zhao waved his fan and waved at her: "Come here."

Qi Xunsheng remained silent. Who knew what she was planning? She asked, "Where's my friend? Where did you take her?"

Qi Zhao curved his lips and smiled coldly: "Why are you asking me about others when we first meet?"

Qi Xunsheng pursed her lips and stopped talking, asking herself if this was the first time they met.

"Since you are here, wash your hands thoroughly and get rid of the dirt on your body."

At some point, someone brought a basin of hot water and placed it in front of her.

Qi Xunsheng looked down at her hands. They were very clean. Even after walking through such a long Rose Manor, her hands were not dirty. The only trace was from when she helped Shan Xianmin wipe the bloodstains.