As soon as she finished speaking, Feng Jie floated out with Shi Heyan within seconds.
Inside the room, the aroma of rhinoceros horn incense rose gently, and through the smoke, the spirits of two vengeful ghosts were revealed.
In just one night, Feng Jie devoured half of Shi Heyan's soul, and her soul body became transparent.
Upon seeing Lu Qing, Shi Heyan immediately cried for help:
"Lu Qing! Save me!"
"Sister!" Shi Hexuan was about to step forward, but Lu Qing stopped him.
"Your sister's soul is in her hands. Do you want to cause her soul to be scattered and unable to be reincarnated?"
Shi Hexuan then stopped.
Feng Jie straddled Shi Heyan, gripping her neck, and coldly stared at Lu Qing:
"Who are you? Why are you meddling in other people's business?"
Lu Qing: "I am a Taoist priest and also an advisor to the Investigation Bureau. Preventing vengeful ghosts from harming people is not a trivial matter for me."
"Do you even know the truth? And you're still helping her?" Feng Jie roared.
"I know! I know she killed you, and I know you're not reconciled."
Lu Qing looked intently at Feng Jie with her clear eyes:
“I knew you wanted revenge all along. The law couldn’t give you the justice you wanted, so you killed her yourself. She gave you her life back, and now you’re even.”
Feng Jie: "If that's the case, then why did you come to arrest me in the first place?"
Lu Qing: "I'm arresting you because you shouldn't have devoured Shi Heyan's soul and shouldn't have lingered in the mortal realm. Now you only have one path—go to the underworld, that's where you should be."
"I don't want to!!" Feng Jie suddenly became agitated.
"I don't want to go to the underworld, I don't want to be a ghost!"
"I still have my younger sister and my grandmother. How can I abandon them and go to the underworld?"
Lu Qing: "But you're already a ghost. Staying by their side will only harm them. Haven't you noticed how much your sister and grandmother have aged lately?"
Feng Jie turned to look at Feng Rou and the old lady; they were indeed much weaker than before.
The young woman had more gray hair, her lips were purple, and her eyes were cloudy, not to mention the elderly grandmother.
"how so?"
Lu Qing: "You are a ghost now. Humans and ghosts are on different paths. You will consume their yang energy. If you continue to stay, your grandmother will die within two years, and your sister will not live past fifty."
Feng Jie stared wide-eyed in disbelief:
"No! No! I didn't mean to hurt them!"
"You're a ghost! You don't want to hurt them, but you will definitely hurt them!"
Lu Qing looked at Feng Rouhe and the old lady:
"Actually, they all know in their hearts that they will feel uncomfortable being close to you, but they just don't want to tell you because they are afraid of upsetting you!"
Feng Rou: "Enough! Stop talking! Sis, don't listen to her nonsense, I don't mind!"
The old lady said, "Xiaojie, as long as you can stay, what does it matter if Grandma lives a few years less?"
Feng Jie shook her head with tears in her eyes: "Xiao Rou, Grandma, I'm sorry!"
If she had known earlier that she would affect her family, she would never have stayed by their side.
"So, do you still want to stay in the human world?" Lu Qing asked.
Feng Jie immediately shook her head:
"I don't want to! I'm not staying here, I'm going to the underworld!"
"Then let Shi Heyan go. Her life is yours. If you really swallow her soul, you'll be punished in the underworld."
After a moment's thought, Feng Jie finally released Shi Heyan.
Shi Heyan looked at Feng Jie and bowed deeply to her:
"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!"
Feng Jie did not accept her apology. If it weren't for Lu Qing, she would have devoured Shi Heyan's soul and condemned her to eternal damnation.
"Alright! Say goodbye to your sister and grandma. I'll send you to the underworld when it gets dark."
Lu Qing led the others away, and also found a room for Shi Heyan and Shi Hexuan.
"You two should say goodbye too. I'll come back after dark."
Lu Qing put Shi Heyan into the room and set up barriers in both rooms to prevent anyone from having any thoughts of running away.
Lu Qing and Gu Xicheng went out for a meal.
Lu Qing hasn't had a drop of water since this morning. If she hadn't eaten so much last night, she probably would have fainted from hunger by now.
After dinner, we explored the island for a while before heading back home as it got dark.
After seeing Feng Jie and Shi Heyan off, Feng Rou and the old lady left with Feng Jie's ashes.
Lu Qing and Gu Xicheng were about to leave when Shi Hexuan called them back.
"I'm sorry!" Shi Hexuan said to Lu Qing.
Lu Qing smiled slightly: "The fact that you apologize means you're not beyond redemption, but I don't accept it."
"Why?" Shi Hexuan asked hurriedly.
“I can understand that you are saddened by Shi Heyan’s death and want to vent your anger on someone when you don’t know who to blame. But I have no obligation to accept your suspicions and speculations, and I have the right not to accept your apology.”
"Besides, from today onwards, we probably won't have the chance to meet again, so whether you apologize or not is irrelevant to me."
After saying that, Lu Qing pulled Gu Xicheng away.
Shi Hexuan pursed his lips, watched Lu Qing's retreating figure for a long while before leaving.
After the weekend, Lu Qing had to go to class, and the next morning, Gu Xicheng took Lu Qing away from the island.
It was already 1 p.m. when I arrived at school.
Lu Qing yawned and stretched:
"Luckily I didn't have class on Monday morning, otherwise I wouldn't have made it back in time!"
"Let's go back to the dorm, I need to go to the company too," Gu Xicheng said with a smile.
"Okay! Be careful on the road!"
Watching Gu Xicheng's car leave, Lu Qing turned and entered the school gate.
She hadn't walked far when she saw Leng Wei walking side by side with a boy, the two chatting and laughing, looking like they were having a great time.
That's not the key point. The key point is that this boy is not Tang Yu, but a stranger whom Lu Qing doesn't know.
What's going on? Could it be that Leng Wei and Tang Yu aren't meant to be?
Lu Qing scratched his head, thinking that he couldn't possibly have misjudged the situation!
She was secretly following them when she suddenly noticed that there was another person following them besides herself.
That person was Tang Yu.
Lu Qing quietly walked around him and tapped him on the shoulder from behind:
"Hello!"
Tang Yu was startled.
"You...you're Leng Wei's roommate!"
Lu Qing: "Hello, my name is Lu Qing!"
Tang Yu smiled awkwardly: "Hello, I'm Tang Yu!"
“I know! You’ve brought Leng Wei milk tea so many times, our whole dorm knows about you,” Lu Qing said with a smile.
Tang Yu smiled bitterly and lowered his head:
"Really? But I probably won't have the chance to give Leng Wei anything again in the future."
"Why?" Lu Qing asked.
Tang Yu watched Leng Wei and the man's retreating figures and said disappointedly:
"She already has someone she likes, so I can't keep bothering her."
Lu Qing: "Are you so sure that's someone Leng Wei likes?"
"Isn't that right?" Tang Yu's eyes lit up instantly.
“Um…” Lu Qing pursed her lips:
"Maybe!"
The light in Tang Yu's eyes vanished instantly: "I knew it."
"Leng Wei doesn't seem to have a boyfriend to me!"
Lu Qing craned his neck to look into the distance, hoping to see what the person next to Leng Wei looked like.
Just then, they stopped.
The man turned to the side, and Lu Qing saw his face clearly, but the next second she widened her eyes and exclaimed:
"Senior Brother!!!"
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