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◎Deception◎
Mu and Qing didn't expect to get the answers from them; she just needed to get the answers from each guy's attitude.
It was obvious that Li Shi knew that Bao Yan had found her, and that they hadn't told her what they wanted to do. However, their expressions were so obvious that Mu and Qing felt it was a trap.
She couldn't tell whether she should continue searching for what they were hiding or do something else. It was possible they were doing this on purpose to lure her into further contact with them.
What is the right way to do it?
It's possible that whatever you do will be wrong.
Li Shi returned to the high platform once again.
The carved gate opened again, and two more people entered.
Mu Heqing turned her head to look at the two people who entered the room, and her expression froze. She saw a very familiar face.
The familiar faces didn't see her; she was hiding in the shadows.
She didn't know the other person; she guessed he was a friend of a close acquaintance.
The familiar face was the only one among all the people who came in who was looking around aimlessly; the other person was probably his friend.
His gaze drifted to Li Shi, then quickly returned, and then seemed to look around, or perhaps he didn't see anything at all.
Li Shi seemed to have lost patience. The person Mu and Qing didn't recognize spoke a few words to him, but Li Shi didn't respond.
The two left quickly, and Mu and Qing followed them after they left.
Li Shi didn't stop him. If he stopped him once, Mu Heqing wouldn't be angry. But if he stopped him twice, she would lose her temper. At that point, forget about him coming to him on his own; she could just have Bao Yan kill him every time he saw him.
That Nightmare guy is just too obedient.
Li Shi rested his chin on his hand and watched Mu Heqing leave. He didn't pay attention to the two people who had just come in. To him, everyone was pretty much the same, except for Mu Heqing.
Thinking about that guy's plan, Li Shi felt a little expectant.
After saying goodbye to his close acquaintance and companion, Mu and Qing went into a small door, which led to a rest room.
Whether intentionally or not, the door was not closed.
Mu and Qing went in and closed the door.
"Jiang Mu?" she called softly.
There was a recliner in the room, and Jiang Mu leaned against it, seemingly unaware that Mu Heqing was calling him.
Mu Heqing walked quickly to Jiang Mu and found that he had his eyes closed, his brows slightly furrowed, and his usually neat clothes were somewhat disheveled.
Hearing the noise, he slightly opened his eyes, seemingly surprised. "He Qing, what are you doing here?"
"I was just about to ask you, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?" Mu Heqing asked with concern.
When I first met him, he didn't seem to be in any discomfort.
Jiang Mu nodded slightly, then hesitated and said, "He Qing, I think I just saw your high school classmate in there, the one I saw at the Qingcheng Hospital last time."
He had one more thing he didn't say: about the one who looks like a mannequin.
"Let's not talk about that now, are you feeling unwell?"
"There's one thing, the smell in that room is really strong, I can't stand the smell." Jiang Mu propped herself up, her expression not as cheerful as usual.
"Then let's leave here first."
Anyway, Mu and Qing didn't want to stay here, so finding out about one club was already a gain.
Jiang Mu nodded, stood up, but seemed to lose his balance and fell straight to the ground.
Without thinking much, Mu and Qing reached out and hugged Jiang Mu.
Jiang Mu's hair brushed against Mu Heqing's face, and his faint, warm fragrance wafted over her cheek.
His fall was real; he may look thin, but he's solid inside.
Mu and Qing almost couldn't hold him.
Jiang Mu leaned his upper body against Mu Heqing and asked anxiously, "Heqing, are you alright? I lost my balance."
Mu and Qing could only make him sit down again and give him a glass of lemon iced water to drink.
Jiang Mu paused for a moment, then looked at the half-finished lemon iced water on the table and said to Mu Heqing, "Heqing, I didn't know that your high school classmates were in there. I didn't break my promise to you. It's just that I was surprised that my friend invited me here."
"It's alright, I'm just glad you're okay." Mu Heqing's tone was very gentle.
How could Jiang Mu not know that Li Shi was here? Mu Heqing had told him from the beginning that Li Shi was the son of the owner of Kyushu Manor, and that he would most likely meet Li Shi if he came here.
Mu and Qing didn't expose him. Jiang Mu entered that room, probably because he was overwhelmed by the bloody smell of animal remains. He probably hadn't seen that kind of scene before, so it's normal for him to feel uncomfortable.
"No wonder you don't want me to meet with your high school classmates. The last one seemed to have violent tendencies, and this one seems to be playing tricks?"
Violent tendencies? Playing the supernatural?
Mu and Qing thought that the violent tendency should refer to the Nightmare, and the supernatural act should refer to the Li Shi.
He is right to say so.
"He Qing, they're bothering you. Are you in danger?" Jiang Mu suddenly asked, his light-colored eyes filled with worry.
Mu and Qing paused for a moment, then said, "Ah, it's okay. I'll try to avoid them too."
"You're lying to me. Then how did you end up here?"
Mu Heqing suddenly smiled slightly. Jiang Mu's move was called turning the tables.
He secretly came over and questioned Mu and Qing.
Seeing Mu and Qing smile, Jiang Mu knew the reason, and he couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth as well.
Who would have thought it would be such a coincidence? He just wanted to take a look, but he still ended up running into Mu and Qing.
Jiang Mu wasn't actually feeling unwell; rather than physically, he was more psychologically distressed. He had seen animal skeletons, and Mu and Qing standing among them.
He repeatedly warned himself that he could no longer get involved with these people. A wise person knows when to yield. In any case, Mu and Qing didn't want him to get involved. Wouldn't it be better to just be friends with Mu and Qing on the surface?
But he couldn't help it, he just couldn't resist wanting to peek into her world a little more.
After pretending to recover, Jiang Mu left the Kyushu Manor with Mu and Qing.
By the time Li Shi stepped out of the room, Mu and Qing had already left.
"Why did He Qing leave so quickly?" Li Shi looked at the empty manor, puzzled.
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The vehicle drove smoothly on the roads of Ancheng, with the scenery outside the window constantly changing.
Mu Heqing felt that Jiang Mu was about to become her personal driver.
Jiang Mu said, "Not long after you left Ancheng, a friend of mine contacted me. He said he had joined a club and asked if I was interested, so I came along to check it out."
There were many things he didn't say, such as the address his friend mentioned being at Kyushu Manor, and the fact that he also wanted to come to Ancheng.
Mu Heqing asked, "How did your friend introduce this club to you?"
"He said that this club can help you achieve anything, as long as you are sincere and willing to pay the price. Your high school classmate must be helping this club to deceive people. He could never do anything like that, no exchange."
"Really? What if it works?"
“I’ve seen plenty of con artists, Qing, don’t be fooled by him. Your high school classmate is definitely not an ordinary person. Sometimes, two people are better than one.”
While waiting at a red light, Jiang Mu turned to look at Mu Heqing in the back seat.
He wanted to tell her that he wasn't as weak as she thought, but he didn't know how to say it.
Was he going to tell Qing about his past? Tell her about his Machiavellian tactics in the workplace?
Will this affect his image in Qing's heart?
Jiang Mu hesitated.
Mu and Qing asked, "What if it's all true?"
Jiang Mu shook his head: "He Qing, I'm more inclined to believe they're lying to you. I've seen far too many scams."
Really, that's impossible. They must have some clever trick up their sleeve.
They must have deceived Mu and Qing.
"I also hope that all of this is fake." Mu Heqing hopes that her experience seven years ago was fake, and that everything she is experiencing now is not real.
Jiang Mu didn't speak. He knew that Mu Heqing must firmly believe in her experience. She didn't want him to have contact with her because she was afraid he would get hurt. He couldn't be too hasty.
He wanted to slowly expose the true faces of these swindlers.
"Jiang Mu, have you ever read novels? Fantasy, supernatural, urban fantasy, or anything like that?" Mu Heqing suddenly asked a question she didn't really want to ask.
"Ah, no." Jiang Mu was busy socializing and making money; reading novels wasn't on his agenda.
He remembered that once he saw a recommendation on his phone for something about a dragon king or a young master evil. He clicked on the first chapter, but fell asleep before he finished reading it.
"What about TV series?"
"I've seen the documentary." Jiang Mu thought Mu Heqing was asking about his hobbies.
"For example?"
"Capital Decoding, Digital Empire, Legal Tracking, Strange News Exploration, and Mysterious Phenomena Unveiled, that seems to be all. I haven't read many others."
Jiang Mu listed a series of financial, legal, and science programs and documentaries.
Mu Heqing's lips twitched. She suddenly realized that Jiang Mu must have agreed to what she had said to him on the surface, but he must have been completely skeptical in his heart.
His sudden appearance at Kyushu Manor is the best example.
Even if Mu Heqing were to grab him by the collar now and say that those guys are dangerous and have some weird and incomprehensible abilities, and tell him not to get involved, he would only agree on the surface, but in his heart he would feel that Mu Heqing had been deceived.
"He Qing, I met a so-called master before..."
At this moment, Jiang Mu was still talking about how many scams there are in the world. He began to popularize the knowledge he had seen in the documentary to Mu and Qing, and at the same time combined it with his real-life experiences, his friends' real-life experiences, and the real-life experiences of everyone he knew. His arguments were reasonable and irrefutable.
How many scammers has Jiang Mu encountered in his life?
"Later, I found out that the master couldn't even tell east from west, yet he was talking to me about feng shui. I exposed him, and he actually wanted to give me money."
Jiang Mu finished telling the story of the third swindler he had encountered, and successfully delivered Mu and Qing home.
Being with Jiang Mu, you never have to worry about awkward silences.
Mu and Qing got out of the car. She suddenly became curious about Jiang Mu's past. How could he have such a rich history of being deceived? If he and Jiang Kaicheng were half-brothers, their family conditions should not be too bad. Could he be an experiential learner?
I don't understand.
However, being with Jiang Mu is quite interesting.
Compared to the farewell at Mu and Qing's doorstep last time, this farewell was much warmer.
Mu Heqing smiled and said goodbye to Jiang Mu.
Jiang Mu got into the car, in a good mood.
He thought he wouldn't leave Ancheng for the time being.
Next time, perhaps we can invite Mu Heqing to his home in Ancheng.
Jiang Mu excitedly stepped on the gas, ignoring the dejected man across the street who had been staring at them.
Standing across the street was Ding Bao, who had been punched twice by Deng Qian and had been looking for food ever since.
His reputation was so bad that no one in the area wanted to hire him.
He couldn't find the Nightmare, but he found Mu and Qing's address.
"As long as I regain that power." Ding Bao's face was gaunt, and his expression was crazed.
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