Fearing that Nan Yuanman would hang up, Jiang Lixuan hurriedly told her what had happened before she could reply.

After suffering a setback in Beijing, Jiang Lixuan returned to S City, unwilling to continue disturbing Nan Yuanman's peaceful life.

He returned to S City with the intention of selling his studio and settling in Batang Village, where he would spend the rest of his life tending Bai Wenying's grave and never leaving the village.

Unfortunately, Ge Peiyao had not yet fully recovered, and someone needed to handle Jiang Tianzong's funeral arrangements, so he had no choice but to stay in S City to take care of Ge Peiyao.

During this period, Jiang Lixuan inevitably came into contact with Jiang Xinxin, but he could no longer treat her with the same attitude as before, and his attitude towards her was lukewarm.

One day, Jiang Juncheng suddenly brought Jiang Xinxin back to the villa, saying that she had nowhere to stay outside and asked her to stay there temporarily.

Jiang Lixuan couldn't bring himself to kick out a five-year-old child, so he acquiesced.

But he soon discovered that Jiang Juncheng and Jiang Hengzhi, who were always busy outside, and Jiang Chuyun, who was running around doing promotional work, suddenly started coming home more often.

Moreover, no matter what they did, they always kept Jiang Xinxin by their side, as if nothing had ever happened between them.

Jiang Lixuan watched, feeling uneasy. He couldn't help but compare their attitude towards Jiang Xinxin with their attitude towards Nan Yuanman, and felt that they were heartless.

He could accept that Jiang Xinxin was his father's illegitimate daughter, but he couldn't accept Nan Yuanman, his own niece.

Jiang Lixuan couldn't help but talk to Jiang Juncheng privately several times, but Jiang Juncheng's attitude remained very cold: "Does Nan Yuanman need us uncles? She doesn't. Besides, she has already chosen her biological father, so why should we uncles bother her?"

“Zhen’er is different from Yuanman. Yuanman still has her father, but Zhen’er only has us.”

Jiang Lixuan felt that they were being unreasonable and illogical. After a big argument with them, he moved out of the villa and went to the hospital to take care of Ge Peiyao.

In the few days after he moved out, the Jiang family's company, which was originally on the verge of bankruptcy, suddenly stabilized, and various collaborations followed one after another. Jiang Juncheng, who was usually low-key, became high-profile and even sold a kind of miraculous medicine that was said to be very good for the body!

The families and companies in City S that participated in dividing up the profits of the Jiang family's company have all encountered various accidents, big and small, and one of them even suffered a lot of deaths.

Jiang Lixuan initially thought that Nan Yuanman was soft-hearted and didn't let the Feng family continue to target them. This miraculous medicine was also developed by his fourth brother. However, when he returned to the villa to get Ge Peiyao's change of clothes, he discovered something strange about the house.

The once clean and tidy villa has been covered in red, spiderweb-like things, and the temperature inside has dropped considerably. There's also a lot of raw meat in the refrigerator.

Jiang Hengzhi, who was working from home, turned unusually pale, and his eyes were blank, as if he had lost his soul.

He could still answer questions, but Jiang Lixuan was a little worried, so he stayed in the villa for one night.

He felt thirsty in the middle of the night and got up to drink water. He heard someone rummaging through the refrigerator, so he reminded them that there was no cooked food in the refrigerator, only raw meat, which had to be cooked before eating.

The man did not respond to him.

Half a minute later, Jiang Lixuan, who was still a little sleepy, suddenly heard a crunching sound.

Jiang Lixuan felt a chill run down his spine, thinking that a stray cat had run in and was stealing leftovers from the trash can. When he mustered up his courage and walked towards the kitchen, he suddenly discovered that Jiang Hengzhi was lying on the ground on all fours like a dog!

Jiang Hengzhi noticed someone had entered. He slowly and mechanically raised his head and asked, word by word, "Do you want to eat?"

Jiang Lixuan couldn't help but vomit on the spot, and even now, when he recalls that scene, he can't help but gag twice.

Nan Yuanman, worried that he might vomit into his watch, couldn't help but move it a little further away, frowning as she asked, "Jiang Xinxin, isn't she already dead?"

"And who is Zhen'er?"

Jiang Lixuan, who was retching on the other end of the watch, was stunned. A chill suddenly ran down his spine, but he still subconsciously answered Nan Yuanman's question: "Zhen'er is Jiang Xinxin. She changed her name."

"Wait, wait a minute, Yuanman, you...you said Jiang Xinxin is...dead?"

"So who is living in the house now?"

Nan Yuanman said definitively, "She's dead. I even fought with her ghost."

"It's likely that her body was possessed by another ghost when she died. You can find a Taoist priest in the area to help you catch the ghost that's possessing her body."

"As for Jiang Hengzhi's situation, it looks like he was attacked by some animal. You should find someone in the local area to handle it."

Even though Jiang Lixuan was mentally prepared to be rejected by Nan Yuanman, he still couldn't help but feel disappointed when he heard her say that.

He opened his mouth and said, "You...you can come to S City to help..."

"No." Nan Yuanman interrupted him, refusing him: "I'm very busy, I don't have time to go to S City."

Nan Yuanman is not a good child who repays evil with kindness. She knows that it is her responsibility to eliminate evil and protect the righteous, but... when faced with a group of murderers who killed her mother, she still cannot lend a helping hand.

Not to mention that during the days she stayed at the Jiang family's house, she didn't feel any favoritism from them. Instead, she felt annoyed and calculating.

So she wanted to be willful this once, follow her heart, and not offer any help.

She had already done more than enough by reminding Jiang Lixuan to seek help from a local sorcerer; she didn't want to do anything more.

Jiang Lixuan was unwilling to give up and wanted to try again: "Perfect, I don't trust the local sorcerers, so please, please let me be your uncle's plea."

"Please do your uncle one last favor, okay? We're the only family your mother left behind in this world!"

“You’re wrong!” Nan Yuanman said, “My mother’s family includes me. If she were still alive, she definitely wouldn’t want to acknowledge any of you as her relatives.”

"Jiang Lixuan, don't try to morally blackmail me. I'm not buying it. Good luck to you!"

After saying that, Nan Yuanman hung up the phone.

As Jiang Lixuan listened to the dial tone, the words Nan Yuanman had just said seemed to still echo in his ears, and he felt particularly uneasy.

He couldn't help but regret it again. If he hadn't been so rude when he went to pick up Nan Yuanman in the first place, would she have helped him this time out of consideration for him...?

He couldn't help but wonder if the Jiang family would have avoided such a disaster if he hadn't been the silent executioner and hadn't driven Bai Wenying out of the Jiang family in the first place.

The more Jiang Lixuan thought about it, the more regretful he felt. His heart felt like it was being squeezed tightly by a large hand, making it hard to breathe.

As Jiang Lixuan was lost in regret, Jiang Hengzhi's voice suddenly rang out behind him: "What are you doing?"

Jiang Lixuan was startled and turned around abruptly, meeting Jiang Hengzhi's dark, lifeless eyes.

He mechanically rolled his eyes, which landed on his hand, and a strange smile curled at the corner of his mouth: "Ah...you're calling Nan Yuanman?"