Chapter 68, Forced Buying and Selling
Welcome to Tianqi Wedding Dress Shop. For your best experience, please abide by our shop rules.
[Rule 1: Self-service shopping during the day; purchase whatever you want.]
[Rule 2: Tianqi Wedding Dress Shop is closed during the day; it only opens at 6 PM.]
[Rule Three: True love will prevail. We welcome couples who are about to get married.]
[Rule 4: Daytime wedding dresses are all custom-made and can only be received in the evening.]
Rule 5: When taking wedding photos, please do not blink and look directly at the camera.
[Rule Six: If you notice anything strange about your photo, don't doubt it; you're just seeing things. Close your eyes for five seconds and then open them again.]
[Rule Seven: If you see red embroidered shoes and a red wedding dress in a bridal shop, please inform the staff, and they will remove them.]
[Rule Eight: The red embroidered shoes and red wedding dress are both specialty products of this store; you can purchase them at a high price.]
Rule Nine: Damaging public facilities is not permitted in this establishment.
[Rule 10: Tianqi Wedding Dress Shop closes at 6:00 AM. Please be mindful of your visit time.]
It's less of a contract and more of a set of strange rules, with far more conflicts than the previous two sets of rules.
Rule 1 and Rule 2 conflict with each other. One says that it is a self-service shopping daytime, while the other says that it is not open during the day and only opens at 6 pm. One of these two rules must be a false rule.
Seeing that the current staff are paper figures and the wedding photos next to them are all black and white, resembling funeral portraits, Zhong Bingxuan is more inclined to believe that this is the first rule that is fake.
In contrast, the fourth rule, which allows you to buy a wedding dress during the day and pick it up at night, is also a false rule.
Who knows what that custom-made wedding dress bought during the day might actually be?
Zhong Bingxuan looked at the wedding photos that resembled funeral portraits and the paper dolls. What would the wedding dresses look like on them?
"Let's go up to the second floor and take a look."
Fu Yuchen's mission is to uncover the secrets of Austar. He must investigate any secrets thoroughly, as who knows if any of them might be related to the truth about Austar.
Although it is time-consuming and laborious, it is the best solution when there is no other way.
Zhong Bingxuan was aware of this as well, and didn't react much. She nodded and went upstairs to check the situation.
The first floor is filled with all kinds of wedding dresses, each one exquisite and beautiful, making you want to take them home.
"What a beautiful wedding dress."
When Zhong Linlin saw the beautiful wedding dress, her eyes sparkled, and she impulsively wanted to take it with her.
Zhong Bingxuan felt something was wrong. They had all discussed it beforehand, and that the daytime self-service shopping was fake. Unless absolutely necessary, they wouldn't take anything from Tianqi Wedding Dress Shop during the day, especially wedding dresses.
Is my cousin being bewitched by something strange?
Something that can emerge in broad daylight must possess considerable power.
Zhong Bingxuan forcibly pulled Zhong Linlin to prevent her from making a mistake while she was confused, but this was only a temporary solution.
Fu Yuchen stepped forward to examine the wedding dress, trying to find any flaws.
"Linlin, if you like wedding dresses, we can come over tonight, buy one, and wear it back home. Right now, the wedding dresses here are made of paper, just like the ones for the staff, so they're not convenient to carry around."
Fu Yucheng pointed to the distinctly different materials on the wedding dress, expressing his deep admiration for the ability to make a paper wedding dress so realistic.
No wonder this wedding dress shop is so famous; such excellent craftsmanship is hard to find anywhere else in the city.
"I don't believe it. It looks so beautiful and real."
Zhong Linlin, still dazed, tried to touch the wedding dress. Zhong Bingxuan, worried about her cousin, kept a close eye on her, afraid that something might be wrong.
Despite all the precautions, an accident still occurred. After Zhong Linlin touched the wedding dress, a black stain appeared on it, which then grew larger and larger. Right before everyone's eyes, the wedding dress gradually turned black, becoming a black dress with the words "sold out" written on the chest.
"This is forced buying and selling, a shady business."
Fu Yucheng was so angry that he wanted to tear the wedding dress to shreds, but Li Hanmo stopped him.
"Calm down, be careful of the strange traps."
"But Linlin violated rule four, and she will be targeted by the supernatural."
Everyone had already discussed it. During the day, the custom-made wedding dresses at the bridal shop might be a trap, and if they came to pick up their wedding dresses at night, some important items might be mysteriously taken away as collateral.
If it were Fu Yuchen himself, he wouldn't be worried, but when it came to Zhong Linlin, he was extremely anxious.
Li Hanmo rolled his eyes at Fu Yuchen. He used to say that Fu Yuchen was love-struck and completely under Zhong Bingxuan's thumb, but now it seems that Fu Yuchen is just like that.
"We can only take it one step at a time. Maybe the situation isn't as bad as everyone thinks."
What's done is done, there's no point in thinking about it too much. It's better to think about how to help Linlin deal with that weird thing tonight.
"If we look at it another way, at least we can start doing mandatory tasks and practice on that weirdo who's been targeting Zhong Linlin."
The worst situation is when the enemy is in the dark while we are in the light, making it impossible to defend against.
Now that they know something strange has come to their door, they can simply wait and take care of it, eliminating the attackers and completing their mission in the process.
"I'm sorry, cousin, I've dragged the team down again."
"No, Linlin, didn't you hear your cousin say that you did a good thing, saving us the trouble of searching for the strange thing?"
Before Zhong Bingxuan could even speak, Fu Yuchen couldn't wait to start coaxing Zhong Linlin, making Zhong Bingxuan wonder if she was the bad guy, and if Fu Yuchen was the one who was Linlin's family. Why did she always feel like Fu Yuchen would be angry with Linlin? She was Linlin's real cousin, okay?
Zhong Bingxuan rolled her eyes at Fu Yuchen, then said gently, "That's right, Linlin is very brave. We need to be on high alert and try to complete the mandatory mission tonight."
As expected of her cousin who watched Zhong Linlin grow up, Zhong Linlin was immediately disheartened by Zhong Bingxuan's words. Instead, she became spirited and ready to make a big splash.
"Since we're planning to do the mandatory task tonight, I might as well break the rules too."
Li Hanmo felt inexplicably marginalized and very uncomfortable, so he blurted out these words in a fit of pique.
"Hanmo, stop causing trouble. If the two of you break the rules together, what will happen if we can't keep an eye on them? What if some strange entity takes advantage of the situation?"
Zhong Bingxuan thought that Li Hanmo wanted to share the danger on Zhong Linlin. With two people breaking the rules, the possibility of the strange entity targeting one of them was low.
However, things often have two sides. Precisely because there are two people, the danger is dispersed, making it even more difficult to protect teammates who violate the rules of death.
Zhong Bingxuan was unhappy with Li Hanmo's actions, as they could easily lead to unforeseen changes.
Fu Yuchen did notice Li Hanmo's ulterior motives, but Linlin was being targeted by the supernatural being, and he didn't have any supernatural artifacts to guarantee that he could repel or kill the supernatural being the moment it appeared. He was already preoccupied with his own troubles and had no time to care about a man who was being jealous for no reason.
If the artifact wasn't bound to a player, preventing others from using it, Fu Yuchen would have wanted to borrow it from Zhong Bingxuan.
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