Mu Tiantian took a deep breath and slowly exhaled.

She's an exorcist master, possessing powerful mystical arts; there's nothing to be afraid of.

Mu Tiantian took out her newly bought peach wood sword and a compass for detecting ghosts, and went up the elevator.

She pressed the button for the fifth floor.

The hotel's first to fourth floors are mainly for leisure and entertainment, while the guest rooms are located on the fifth floor and above.

The elevator did not stop after reaching the fifth floor, but instead rushed to the thirteenth floor at top speed.

The pointer on Mu Tiantian's compass began to shake violently.

Laughter echoed from the cramped space; the voices were sly, grating, and chilling.

She couldn't help but swallow hard, silently praying, "I must give her a hallucination."

Otherwise, you're doomed.

bite--

The elevator doors opened.

A ghostly face suddenly appeared before Mu Tiantian's eyes.

"Holy crap, a ghost!" Mu Tiantian screamed, instinctively throwing herself at Huo Jixiu and hugging him tightly, cursing as she did so, "You damned Qitong, you could have just left, but you didn't even know to activate the illusion for me, you scared me to death."

She sat on Huo Jixiu's lap, their bodies pressed tightly together.

He could clearly feel the person in his arms trembling.

Normally, if he encountered this situation, he would definitely throw the person out.

But seeing her like this, he actually felt a pang of...heartache...

And she was shouting "Seven Unifications," which he felt he had heard somewhere before.

A scene flashed through my mind.

He chased after a woman, who shouted as she ran, "Seven Tong, Seven Tong, quickly activate illusion mode for me!"

Not long after she shouted those words, she turned around and threw all the talismans in her hand at him, showing no fear whatsoever.

But the image flashed by so quickly that he couldn't remember what she looked like.

However, his intuition told him that the two years he was in a coma must have been related to the woman in his arms.

He put one arm around Mu Tiantian's waist and gently stroked her head with the other, his eyes coldly fixed on the disfigured female ghost in front of him.

The female ghost tried to rush into the elevator, but when she saw the Buddhist prayer beads in the man's hand, her pupil-less eyes widened slightly. Dressed in a long red dress, she lingered at the elevator entrance, too afraid to enter, yet unwilling to leave.

Seeing that the female ghost remained motionless, Huo Jixiu raised his hand and took off the Buddhist beads. The powerful resentment emanating from the surroundings terrified the female ghost.

The intense sense of oppression made the female ghost extremely uncomfortable.

"Get lost." Huo Jixiu's voice was low and cold, and the female ghost immediately disappeared, and the surroundings returned to silence.

His hand continued to soothe Mu Tiantian. Seeing that her body had stopped trembling, he chuckled and teased, "How could a dignified exorcist be afraid of ghosts?"

Mu Tiantian's head was still buried in Huo Jixiu's neck. She blinked, her long eyelashes gently brushing against the skin of his neck and shoulders.

A slight itch... inevitably drew Huo Jixiu's attention to this.

Mu Tiantian slowly raised her head, her nose, lips, chin... sweeping across his neck in turn.

The tingling, itchy sensation made him swallow hard, and he tightened his grip around her waist.

After regaining her senses, Mu Tiantian was filled with regret.

So embarrassing! So embarrassing!

She released her arms from Huo Jixiu's neck, placed her hands on his shoulders, moved her upper body back a few feet, and faced him directly, looking him straight in the eye.

Huo Jixiu's beautiful, sapphire-like eyes were full of laughter, and his sexy, pale red lips were slightly upturned—an expression he rarely showed.

"Actually, I... need an adjustment period every time I catch a ghost," Mu Tiantian said with a straight face, "So, it's normal for me to behave this way. Don't worry, I can definitely help you get rid of the ghost."

"Then... can you sit up now?" Huo Jixiu asked.

Mu Tiantian then realized that she was sitting on him intimately, and quickly blushed and got up.

The movement was a little too forceful, and Huo Jixiu's expression stiffened slightly.

Mu Tiantian picked up the compass, the peach wood sword, and the backpack that had fallen outside the elevator.

Huo Jixiu asked, "What would have happened if I hadn't come along?"

Being chased by a ghost all over the hotel, but then figuring out how to get rid of the ghost.

Mu Tiantian thought this to herself, but said something else entirely: "I only need a few seconds to get used to it, and I'll be able to subdue the ghost."

Seeing her stubborn expression, Huo Jixiu couldn't help but smile. "Then it seems I'm getting in the way of the Celestial Master's exorcism. Shall I leave?"

"No need, no need." Mu Tiantian quickly pulled his wheelchair back, saying with righteous indignation, "I have to protect you, so that those evil spirits won't get into your body."

Huo Jixiu remotely controlled the wheelchair to face Mu Tiantian completely, then glanced at the empty, dark stairwell behind her and said seriously, "There is a horrible ghost behind you, bleeding from all seven orifices and with a long tongue sticking out. It looks extremely terrifying."

Upon hearing this, Mu Tiantian closed her eyes, picked up the peach wood sword, and swung it behind her. She didn't feel like she had hit anything, which was strange, but she didn't dare to open her eyes.

He asked, "Did I chase that ghost away?"

Huo Jixiu approached her, looked up at her tightly closed eyes, smiled faintly, and reminded her, "No, take a step forward before swinging your sword."

Mu Tiantian actually took a step forward as he instructed.

Unexpectedly, her foot bumped into the side wheel of his wheelchair, causing her to lose her balance and fall onto Huo Jixiu.

Huo Jixiu scooped her up and held her tightly in his arms.

Mu Tiantian held his shoulder, opened her eyes and met a pair of smiling eyes. Composing herself, she pouted, "You lied to me."

"Didn't you lie to me first?" Huo Jixiu stared at her.

He found that her every move and every word felt incredibly familiar to him.

Mu Tiantian stood up guiltily and rummaged through her bag.

This won't do. If I don't get rid of this instinctive fear of ghosts soon, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch a single ghost and will become a laughing stock for Huo Jixiu.

She took out a piece of yellow paper and a brush dipped in cinnabar, and drew talismans on the paper.

Immediately afterwards, she closed her eyes and chanted a spell, and the yellow talisman instantly burst into flames.

Mu Tiantian opened her eyes, gathered the fire into a ball, wrapped it in the yellow talisman, and quickly threw it into her mouth and swallowed it.

Huo Jixiu frowned slightly and asked worriedly, "What are you doing?"

Mu Tiantian didn't answer. Instead, she took out a small mirror, stared at her own eyes in the mirror, her lips slightly parted, as if she were muttering something.

However, Huo Jixiu still heard one of the names: Mu Tiantian.

The way she's acting now is as if she's hypnotizing herself.

Therefore, her real name is Mu Tiantian, not Mu Mu.