In the mountains, Huo Zheng glanced at the message he received on his phone and stood up.

"Let's go, the people are here, let's go up the mountain."

Four bodyguards covered the hunting rifle with long black cloth bags they carried with them. One of them led the way, while the other three followed Huo Zheng out of the forest and then trailed behind at a certain distance.

As soon as Huo Zheng reached the mountain path, he saw three familiar figures ahead. A smile immediately appeared on his face. Who could have known that he would orchestrate three chance encounters for a woman, and not three in a row?

Sometimes, a chance encounter is a necessary way to flirt with girls. He wouldn't go through the trouble of a low-level hero saving the damsel in distress. The first chance encounter was just a fleeting moment, the second one involved a brief conversation with Yang Mi, and the third one should be the right time, especially since there was a camping trip involved.

Huo Zheng, accompanied by a bodyguard, maintained a normal walking pace. The people ahead of him were a bit weak in the legs after walking for a while, and they met each other just as they reached the top of the mountain.

The timing was quite precise; just as Lin Hongluan and the other two reached the mountaintop and breathed a sigh of relief, Huo Zheng arrived.

"Hi! Hello, ladies! What a coincidence that we meet like this! We're really destined to meet! Did you just come up here too?" Huo Zheng greeted Yang Mi naturally, and then said, "I thought your backs looked familiar, but I didn't think it would be such a coincidence. I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence!"

Huo Zheng wasn't actually a talkative person, but with prey in front of him, he was excited and wanted to express himself more.

"Ah! What a coincidence, are you here to check in too?" Yang Mi also felt that this person was too destined, having run into him several times in just over a month.

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Li Mu had been enjoying the breeze on the mountaintop for a while, and he even took out the hairband Cheng Jiawei had given him to tie up his wind-blown hair. Having watched the sunset, he prepared to enter the desolate forest from the other side of the mountain to see if there were any spiritual resources or other opportunities.

Turning around, I saw the person I had previously encountered being protected talking to someone. But the next moment, my heart pounded wildly.

"Hongluan! Is that you?"

Li Mu shouted loudly, his voice filled with excitement. Seeing Lin Hongluan at that moment, Li Mu's heart was struck hard.

When Lin Hongluan heard someone call her name, she looked up and recognized Li Mu at a glance, but she did not go forward or respond.

Isn't this the same playboy Li Mu I met briefly in Jiangcheng a while ago? I was worried he'd been beaten to death, but then Yang Mi told me he wasn't. I haven't bothered to find out what happened to him since.

"Li Mu, what are you doing here? Were you following us?"

Yang Mi looked at Li Mu with curiosity, even suspecting that he had followed them.

When Li Mu called out Lin Hongluan's name, memories from both lifetimes flooded into his mind, leaving him stunned and unable to respond to Yang Mi's question.

Lin Hongluan, the only Daoist partner she deeply loved in her past life, spent over a hundred years together, but left without saying goodbye due to some man-made misunderstandings. They were separated for hundreds of years, and she didn't see him until she was reborn. She never expected to see him again after being reborn. Are you still you, Hongluan?

In this life, Lin Hongluan is the only daughter of Lin Yuhang, a wealthy real estate tycoon in Xiangzhou. The day Li Mu was reborn happened to be the day they met for the first time. How could it be such a coincidence? Li Mu couldn't help but ask the heavens, "I've finally met my lover! A reunion across lifetimes—is this real?"

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Looking at Li Mu, who was staring straight at her, Lin Hongluan was puzzled. They had only met once, but why did he look at her as if she were an old acquaintance? Given her personality, she wouldn't normally pay attention to someone so overly familiar, yet she felt a strange urge to get to know him.

"Do you know this friend?" Huo Zheng asked Yang Mi.

"We knew each other before, but we weren't very close."

Yang Mi felt conflicted. She was fairly familiar with Li Mu, after all, they had slept together. She had thought she had found a long-term meal ticket, but after Li Mu accidentally met Lin Hongluan, he became indifferent to her and later even asked her to introduce her best friend to him.

As her best friend, how could she possibly agree to such a thing? However, Li Mu offered so much; just agreeing to make the connection would earn her a check for a million. Later, he took her best friend to that karaoke room, then made an excuse to leave first. She had no idea what happened after that.

"Hello, friend! Let me introduce myself. I am Huo Zheng, from Yunnan Province."

After asking Yang Mi, Huo Zheng extended his hand and walked gracefully toward Li Mu. He had everything prepared, and the prize was almost within his grasp; he couldn't let this unexpected obstacle ruin it.

"There's no need."

Li Mu looked at the man who called himself Huo Zheng approaching. If he hadn't met him in the wilderness before, he might have actually gotten to know him. Now he realized that this guy was scheming because of Lin Hongluan. It was good enough that he wasn't killed, but he even wanted to get to know him.

"Uh... friend, let's find an open space to camp later. I've prepared some wild game and food. Come and have some with us later." Although Huo Zheng was furious at Li Mu's ignoring, he still pretended to be charming and invited Li Mu.

In his view, as long as Yang Mi and Lin Hongluan are appeased first, everything else is a minor matter and there is plenty of time to resolve it. He will not let Li Mu get away with this.

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"Yang Mi, let's go."

Lin Hongluan felt there was no need to stay there any longer and lost interest in camping. She simply walked down the mountain, glanced back at Li Mu who was still in a daze, and nodded to him as a sign of politeness.

Li Mu snapped out of his reverie of both lifetimes and saw Lin Hongluan about to leave, but he had no reason to stop her. The excitement of seeing his beloved again had subsided, and he even felt he had been a bit rash.

This Lin Hongluan is not the same Lin Hongluan as the previous one. Although she is still the same person with a charming spirit, her cold and aloof demeanor is not an act. If she wants to continue her previous relationship, she must start over.

Li Mu recalled the woman in red in his dream. Even after waking up, he couldn't see her face clearly. Also, he clearly remembered her, so why did it have to wait until he saw her in person for it to be activated? Was this fate playing tricks on him?

"Young Master Huo, that person seems to be called Li Mu, probably the Li Mu that Young Master Xiong mentioned," Huo Zheng's bodyguard whispered.

"Oh! You mean that Li Mu? Since we've run into him, let's make some arrangements and resolve this sooner rather than later."

Huo Zheng thought for a moment and remembered who the bodyguard was talking about. His good mood had already been ruined, so he wasn't going to let that person get away with it. Now that Li Mu was involved with his cousin, he couldn't let him off the hook.

Previously, when Lin Hongluan left, Huo Zheng only felt a slight regret. High-end hunters are never short of patience. He had to think about how to arrange to meet Lin Hongluan next time, and he absolutely could not let them run into each other again.

"Young Master Xiong!?" Although the bodyguard spoke very softly, Li Mu could hear everything the two were saying in hushed tones. However, he didn't know what the relationship was between Huo Zheng and Chen Jiaxiong.