Three black lines immediately appeared on Qin Kou'er's forehead: Lan Linxue's life is now inseparable from gouging out eyeballs.

The Qu sisters couldn't help but sneer: It's an insult that he found the mechanism so easily!

Lan Linxue tried to pry it open, but although it was hollow inside and felt somewhat smooth, she couldn't pry it open at all. She twisted it left and right, but it still wouldn't budge.

Lan Linxue frowned, leaned forward, and peered inside. It was pitch black; she couldn't see anything clearly.

Turning his head, he saw Qin Kou'er smiling at him without any nervousness, and he instinctively withdrew his hand. Clapping his hands, he knew he must have made a mistake.

"This mechanism is well designed!" Lan Linxue jumped down from the Buddhist shrine, glancing around casually. Finally, her gaze fell on the shoes of the Qu sisters.

"What are you looking at! You lecher! I'll gouge your eyes out!" Qu Ling'er scolded Lan Linxue angrily.

Lan Linxue acted as if she hadn't heard, frowned and thought for a moment, then walked over, took Qin Kou'er's hand with one hand, held the torch in the other, and turned to walk out of the hall.

Qin Kou'er didn't refuse, letting Lan Linxue pull her along, but asked curiously, "Lan Linxue, I remember the Emperor allocates a lot of silver to you every year! That silver is enough for you to spend, even if you're extravagant. Why are you still so obsessed with it? Besides, you're even stingier than a miser when it comes to spending money!"

"What do you know?" Lan Linxue said unconsciously while carefully examining the ground, "You think people will work for you just because you're the crown prince? Bah, that's all a lie! The fifth and third princes all have powerful relatives, so of course they have more money than they can spend, and countless people are vying to give them money. But I only have my father, and he's even stingier than me. Of course, I have to be careful with my money. Shuanghua and the others have squandered all my money. They say they're trying to win people's hearts, but I don't think they've managed to buy a single reliable one!"

Qin Kou'er listened and laughed, "It seems we're really putting our Crown Prince in a difficult position! Although the whole world belongs to your family, there really is a hierarchy when it comes to money! Fine, I'll be generous too. As long as you can find it, you can use any of that money you want!"

Hearing Qin Kou'er say this, Lan Linxue suddenly stopped, blinked, and asked, "Qin Kou'er, does this mean you've fallen for me?"

"This means I've increased my bets on you!" Qin Kou'er said, reaching out to pinch Lan Linxue's high nose. "If you dare make me do something that loses money, you'll be in for it!"

"Tch~!" Lan Linxue glared at Qin Kou'er with disdain, then walked along the path for a while longer.

Finally, after turning the corner to a dilapidated side room, Lan Linxue suddenly stopped.

He looked around again, then down at the soil, and frowned in confusion. "Wait a minute, there's no road here!"

"Yes, there's no road here, so of course there's no money!" Qin Kou'er said casually.

The rain outside was getting heavier, and the sound of the downpour made Lan Linxue a little suspicious. He turned his head away, and suddenly a flash of lightning streaked across the sky, illuminating a tattered New Year's painting behind him.

The New Year picture is very old, the colors have faded a lot, the eyes are empty and lifeless, and the hands are stretched flat and pointing upwards, but there is nothing unusual about them.

Lan Linxue seemed to take an interest in the New Year picture, examining it carefully for a long time before suddenly looking up at the roof beam.

Sure enough, the location was slightly different from other places; there were two spots that were smoother than the others.

Lan Linxue immediately leaped up, one hand on her body, and the other hand touched a round ball.

Lan Linxue took the item down and saw that it was a huge luminous pearl.

"Qin Kou'er, you spendthrift woman! You actually used such an extravagant thing as a hidden weapon!"

After Lan Linxue finished speaking, she turned around and looked around again.

There was no trace whatsoever.

Lan Linxue slowly walked into the courtyard with the luminous pearl in her hand and stood in the wind and rain.

Finally, after an incense stick's time, he discovered a dilapidated carving on the opposite wall that looked like it was about to collapse.

He immediately went over, brushed away the dust with his hand, and a carving of Zhong Kui appeared. However, the place for the eyes was actually two empty holes.

Lan Linxue immediately picked up the bead in her hand, then twisted it hard, splitting the bead in two.

Lan Linxue carefully placed the two halves of the bead into Zhong Kui's eyes. But he didn't press them immediately.

Because he noticed that the corners of Zhong Kui's mouth seemed to move, leaving faint traces.

After carefully examining them, he smiled slightly and gently twisted the two beads in opposite directions towards the center with both hands.

A strange smile appeared on Zhong Kui's lips.

A huge black hole suddenly appeared right where Lan Linxue had just been standing.

A sinister voice came from inside: "Hell has been waiting for you for a long time!"