Li Feibai turned to her and asked, "Have you noticed that Niannian is a little different today than usual?"

Recalling their meeting, Chen Qingqing said, "I think she's just a little disappointed in you. You should go and beg her to make up with her as soon as possible!"

Li Feibai asked in a daze, "Qingqing, after all these years, haven't you felt anything for me?"

Chen Qingqing paused for a moment before saying, "You're Nian Nian's boyfriend, and you've been dating for almost ten years. I... I can't be the third party between you." She then turned her face away, avoiding Li Feibai's gaze.

For the past two years, she had been using this ambiguous, manipulative approach with Li Feibai, making him feel that there was actually a real possibility between them. Otherwise, why would Li Feibai have made this decision?!

Li Feibai thought she was upset, which was why she was acting this way, and said, "We've already broken up. And...and...have you noticed she's a little different than before? Have you noticed she seems cold?"

Chen Qingqing was surprised: "Huh?" She had pulled Chu Nian's arm earlier and hadn't felt cold. What she couldn't understand was that Li Feibai seemed to be... shivering?

She asked with a mixture of curiosity and concern, "Feibai, are you feeling unwell? Should I take you to the hospital?"

Li Feibai's face was pale, his teeth chattering with fear. He struggled to suppress his terror and said, "No need, I...I'm fine." He then left Chen Qingqing's office. He needed to quickly find an Onmyoji, or rather, a Taoist priest, to capture Bai Nian, that female ghost.

But as soon as he got back to his office, his phone rang. When he opened it, he found a WeChat message from Bai Nianlai, urging him to "repay the loan".

He ignored it and quickly contacted someone "in the know". Since he was able to find the haunted house, he was obviously not new to this kind of thing. He had already befriended several well-known figures in the Taoist community.

Chu Nian has a living body, so what is there to fear from any Taoist master? Let him go wherever he wants. It would be best to get the Taoist priest and Lin Jingting to fight, so that Lin Jingting won't follow him around like a tail all day. Once they are both exhausted, he can then reap the benefits.

"You were so happy to find out that Li Feibai was contacting the Celestial Master after you came back!" Lin Jingting said coolly. With his vast experience, how could he not guess what Chu Nian was up to?!

Chu Nian laughed without any attempt to hide her laughter: "Yeah. Someone will take care of you then."

"Heh!" Lin Jingting chuckled lightly, saying lazily, "If those Celestial Masters could do anything to me, I would have ceased to exist long ago."

Chu Nian: "I can join forces with those Celestial Masters."

Lin Jingting: "These days, Taoist priests are only good at fighting minor ghosts."

He does indeed come out every now and then to absorb the spiritual power of some living souls, but the number of living souls he kills is very limited. Moreover, he usually chooses those who have sins from their past lives or whose luck is exhausted to attack. In this way, the sins he suffers from killing are very small and will have little impact on him.

Therefore, those celestial masters were simply unable to use their revered "Heavenly Way" to subdue him.

Having lived for thousands of years, Lin Jingting had long since learned to exploit the gaps in the Heavenly Dao and skillfully play on its fringes, so he wasn't worried at all about Chu Nian's suggestion of "joining forces."

Seeing that he was not worried at all, Chu Nian guessed that this male lead must have a lot of powerful and strange magic at his disposal to ensure his safety. She temporarily suppressed her idea of ​​joining forces with the Celestial Master to take down the male lead.

Speaking of which, the original owner wanted to take revenge, but this male lead was too strong, putting Chu Nian under immense pressure!

She then asked gossipily, "How was Chen Qingqing just now? Did you feel... a spark when you saw her?"

That's how the original plot was written. It said that the male lead was aloof and cool, but he was immediately struck by the female lead's beauty upon first meeting her, then again upon the second, and even more so upon the third... Sigh, although Chen Qingqing is indeed quite beautiful, what kind of beauties hasn't a ghost who has lived for thousands of years seen? Chu Nian felt that it must be the effect of the female lead's halo that made him stand out again and again.

"Chen Qingqing?" Lin Jingting said, "You mean that white lotus? Hmm, it is indeed so white that it makes my eyes light up."

"White Lotus?" Hearing such a trendy term from the mouth of an old man who looked thousands of years old, Chu Nian almost doubted her own ears. Moreover, Lin Jingting's answer didn't match the description in the original plot!

She guessed that Lin Jingting, with his aloof and cool personality, was probably a bit of a repressed flirt, so he was just too embarrassed to admit that he was instantly attracted to beautiful women? Because of her suspicion, she released her spiritual power.

Now, in the apartment, she is separated from Lin Jingting not only by a window but also by a mental energy shield she has set up. However, this shield does not prevent her from probing Lin Jingting.

She tried to understand his feelings by observing his heartbeat and subtle movements, but after probing for a long time, she found nothing.

Lin Jingting noticed that the girl's spiritual energy was scanning him, and asked warily, "What are you doing? What are you trying to find out about me?"

Feeling a bit frustrated for not finding anything, Chu Nian casually replied, "Nothing, I just wanted to know what color underwear you were wearing."

"You..." Lin Jingting suddenly felt speechless, and then vanished in a flash.

Huh, he's gone? He's not following me around anymore? Chu Nian was thrilled; she hadn't expected getting rid of him to be so easy!

Over the next two days, Chu Nian would frequently harass Li Feibai with WeChat messages, urging him to pay up. Through WeChat, she successfully hacked into Li Feibai's phone and computer, discovering that he had already contacted a Taoist master.

However, Chu Nian also discovered that this Taoist master's skills were very limited. Let alone Lin Jingting, he probably couldn't even handle the three little ghosts that Chu Nian saw when he first transmigrated. No wonder Lin Jingting was so disdainful of these Taoist masters.

On the third day after Chu Nian's deadline, Li Feibai arrived with the Taoist priest. Without even knocking, Li Feibai simply unlocked the door and led the priest inside.

As soon as they entered the house, they saw Chu Nian sitting leisurely on the long sofa facing the door in the living room, smiling at them.

Li Feibai was startled and instinctively dodged behind the Celestial Master.

The Taoist master, dressed in a Taoist robe, possessed so little magical power that calling him a charlatan wouldn't be an exaggeration. Yet, he could tell Chu Nian wasn't a ghost, so he blurted out, "Huh, there's someone here!"

The Celestial Master was nearly sixty years old, with gray hair, and was naturally much more composed than Li Feibai. Moreover, he was certain that Chu Nian was a human and not a ghost, so he asked, "Miss, what are you doing in this haunted house?"

Chu Nian pointed her chin at Li Feibai: "This house was a gift from him to me as compensation for our breakup. He also said he would give me a breakup fee of ten million, and today is the deadline."