Yu Zhiyuan was stunned, still not quite understanding what had happened: "Didn't you come in?"

Mu Wenxi suggested, "I suggest that everyone first talk about what happened to them."

Xia spoke first: "Lan and I originally followed you into the hanging flower gate, but seeing you continue to walk forward, Lan and I also stepped in, but we were stuck in the same place and couldn't get into the inner courtyard. Then we found that you had disappeared at some point. We guessed that we had probably encountered a ghost wall."

Lan nodded: "I was studying those patterns, but I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, only Xia was left by my side."

Mu Wenxi: "Where's Han Chao? The three of you were together when we came out."

Han Chao: "I met Xia and Lan later. I went in with you guys. There was a water vat in the inner courtyard with some kind of pattern on it. I was curious, so I went over to take a look. But in the blink of an eye, they were gone. I quickly left and looked around but didn't see you. I thought maybe you had already come out, so I went to the gate to wait. That's when I saw Xia and Lan."

Xia and Lan nodded and looked at Jiang Qi.

Jiang Qi: "I saw a tombstone and wanted to call out to you, but no one was there. Then I turned around and a ghost kept following me. I kept running and ran until I met Mu Wenxi, and then I met Yu Zhiyuan wandering around."

Yu Zhiyuan frowned: "I wasn't shaking. I thought you were missing and kept looking for you. But after a while, the two of them appeared and told me that I was under an illusion."

Mu Wenxi: "I discovered you were missing after I entered the main room, so I immediately came out to look for you. I first met Jiang Qi and then saw Yu Zhiyuan. Luckily, I brought my talisman with me today."

Jiang Qi: "We've encountered a ghost wall and a ghost today."

Yu Zhiyuan shook her head: "I don't understand why I'm the only one who fell into the illusion."

Han Chao belatedly realized that he had also entered an illusion.

Xia and Lan shook their heads.

Mu Wenxi thought for a moment and said, "I suspect it's the water vat."

Yu Zhiyuan: "The water tank in the yard?"

Xia: "A water tank?"

Mu Wenxi: "That's right, it should be the water vat. Yu Zhiyuan was in a dream after seeing the water vat and kept looking for us. Han Chao was in a dream after seeing the water vat and thought we had disappeared. It wasn't until he went out of the outer courtyard that he saw Xia and Lan. Xia and Lan thought we had disappeared because they saw the water vat and encountered a ghost wall."

Jiang Qi: "What about me?"

Mu Wenxi: "You too, first you found that everyone else had disappeared, and then you saw me because you saw the ghost, so you came out of the illusion."

Yu Zhiyuan suddenly got goosebumps: "How scary..."

Jiang Qi: "Wow, so that ghost was real, and the tombstone I saw was real too..."

The others were also pale.

Mu Wenxi: "I don't know, but it seems that the ghost can't get close to me because of my amulet, and judging from its color, it shouldn't be an evil spirit."

Xia and Lan exchanged a glance: "We suddenly have an idea."

Mu Wenxi: "What?"

Lan pushed up her glasses: "Is it possible that this old house was just an illusion from the beginning? I remember when we went in, we asked why such a historic old house wasn't being protected."

Xia: "Unless it doesn't exist in the first place or it's fake in the first place."

Han Chao: "Hehe, that's unlikely, we really did go to that place today."

“Yes, and it was recommended to me by netizens at the time,” Yu Zhiyuan took out her phone from her pocket to check the records. “Impossible, how come it’s gone?”

Jiang Qi: "No way, let me see."

The two were huddled together in front of their phones when suddenly Yu Zhiyuan's phone fell to the ground: "It's really gone."

The others took a deep breath.

Yu Zhiyuan: "How is that possible?"

Mu Wenxi's eyes were filled with doubt. Why was she being asked to go to the old house and see the illusion of the old house?

Han Chao looked around and asked, "There aren't any ghosts in our car, are there?"

The group immediately tensed up.

Yu Zhiyuan: "Don't scare me, hehe."

Mu Wenxi: "Everything today must be kept secret."

Everyone: "Of course."

Yu Zhiyuan looked at Mu Wenxi: "Are you going back to the dormitory? I... I'll go with you."

Mu Wenxi nodded.

Yu Zhiyuan stammered, "Weren't you...very scared? You don't seem scared at all today."

Mu Wenxi: "It's probably because I have a talisman; ghosts can't get close to me."

Yu Zhiyuan: "Where did you buy it? I want to buy one too."

Mu Wenxi: "It's an heirloom."

The others also got off the bus, and the group huddled together to go back to their dorm. Fortunately, it wasn't late at night, and the school was still brightly lit. The group looked dejected and had no thoughts; they just wanted to get a good night's sleep.

Some questions lingered in Mu Wenxi's mind, but Xiao Chang'an was not there.

She was curious about the old house and the ghost.

Dong Lihua was a little curious about Mu Wenxi's adventure today, but Mu Wenxi casually said a few words to brush it off.

Mu Wenxi had a dream that night.

She didn't know how many times she had come to this palace, but this time the dream was a little strange; Xiao Chang'an wasn't in it, but someone else.

She dreamt of a couple falling in love, and how the woman, who was originally cheerful, became taciturn after arriving at the palace.

Autumn had arrived, and the ground was covered in golden leaves. Mu Wenxi saw a woman sitting on a swing, swaying back and forth. She looked at the woman's bare feet with some curiosity and asked, "Aren't you cold?"

The woman seemed to hear something and looked around before continuing to swing. Soon, a dignified-looking man appeared in front of her.

The next second, the man squatted down and put shoes on the woman in front of him: "It's so cold, why did you run out without shoes?"

The woman giggled, and her laughter dazzled the man, who then simply picked her up and carried her away.

Soon the woman's belly grew bigger, and she would touch her belly from time to time with a smile on her face.

Mu Wenxi was also infected by her smile.

The man treated the woman very well, and he would take time to visit her every day, but the woman never left the place.

One day, another woman appeared in the woman's courtyard. The woman had a similar demeanor to the man and a somewhat fierce appearance.

"Are you the treasure he's been protecting all these days?"

"Who are you?"

"I am the current empress, and also the wife of the man who sleeps next to you every day."

"Your Majesty the Empress?"

"Your belly is quite big now. I wonder if you can really gain status through having a child."

The empress left gracefully, leaving the woman with a sorrowful expression.

Mu Wenxi touched her belly: "Don't be sad."

The woman glanced back, then quickly left, somewhat puzzled. The day of her delivery soon arrived.