Gu Ermiao: My personal experience tells me that if you are timid, you should be a good kid.

As Xu Qinglou spoke, he was unconsciously filled with panic. He clenched Qiu Yanping's hands so tightly that veins bulged.

Qiu Yanping frowned slightly and used a little skill to hold Xu Qinglou's palm. The soreness, numbness and weakness made Xu Qinglou unable to use any strength in an instant.

Qiu Yanping easily withdrew his hand. He wanted to pry out some more details. It was not that Xu Qinglou was hiding something, but when narrating subjectively, the narrator would most likely ignore some details that he did not pay attention to. Qiu Yanping wanted to know more about the situation at that time, so he lied to him, "Why do you think that Zhuo Lin came to seek revenge on you? A gentleman does not speak of strange things..."

Before he could finish his words, Xu Qinglou interrupted him anxiously, "It must be him! It must be him, there can't be anyone else..."

Qiu Yanping raised his eyebrows in surprise. People in this world were not very familiar with ghosts and monsters, so they would not directly associate it with ghosts’ revenge. He stared at Xu Qinglou and asked abruptly, “Have you seen Zhuo Lin?”

Xu Qinglou shuddered when he heard this and looked suddenly at Qiu Yanping.

Gu Wenle, who was eavesdropping outside the door, was also shuddering, and almost dropped the eavesdropping device in his ear. He looked at Gu Wenye, rubbed his arms vigorously, and asked, "Zhuo Lin is dead... can he still be seen?"

Gu Wenye tilted his head and thought about it. He thought of Fu Yangsheng before and nodded, "Probably."

Gu Wenle unconsciously moved closer to his elder brother and swallowed his saliva. The sound was so loud that Gu Wenye looked over. Gu Wenle forced an ugly smile that was neither crying nor laughing, "Don't you think it's scary? That's a dead person! He can come back to seek revenge..."

Gu Wenye looked at him expressionlessly, "I'm not here to look for you, what are you afraid of?"

“…”

Gu Wenle feels that all his brother's tenderness and consideration are given to his future sister-in-law QAQ

When Qiu Yanping saw Xu Qinglou's expression, he understood something in his heart. He stood up and said, "Talking is useless. Let's go to your house." After he said that, he walked out the door. The two brothers Gu Wenle, who were listening in the corner, quickly took out the eavesdropping devices from their ears. Gu Wenye casually stuffed the eavesdropping device into Gu Wenle's trouser pocket - it was too convenient to put it in the pocket at that height.

Gu Wenle quietly put away the props. Qiu Yanping came out, glanced at the two brothers with an ambiguous look, and said with a smile, "Want to come along?"

"Now?!" Gu Wenle shouted in surprise. He looked up at the sky. The moon was hanging in the middle of the sky, with a few scattered stars dotting the sky. It was half covered by clouds, and it looked a little dark. "It's so late today..."

Gu Wenle's voice gradually became softer. Qiu Yanping stared at him with a half-smile, as if he knew the timidity in his heart. He gritted his teeth and said, "Come." He couldn't let his future sister-in-law look down on him.

Gu Wenye glanced at his younger brother and asked, "You're going too? Are you not afraid anymore?"

“…Don’t be afraid.” Gu Wenle squeezed out two words. His brother might have come here deliberately to poke him in the corner.

He glanced at Qiu Yanping, who smiled at him and said, "If you are afraid, Mr. Gu, just hide behind me."

Gu Wenle savored these words, and suddenly felt a chill on his back. He looked back blankly and saw his elder brother staring at him thoughtfully. He didn't know what he was thinking. His hair stood on end and he quickly rejected him with a dry laugh, "Mr. Qiu is joking. Why would I be afraid? Haha..." Heaven and earth can see clearly that he has no intention of prying the wall. Future sister-in-law, please be more restrained and don't flirt with me casually QAQ

Qiu Yanping finished his joke, put away his smile, and said, "Let's go."

Taking a ride from the Gu family, the four of them arrived at Xu Qinglou's villa. The villa was equipped with layers of security locks. It took a few minutes to drive in and pass the security checkpoints. Qiu Yanping curled his lips and looked at Xu Qinglou, who was getting nervous as he drove into the villa. He said, "Mr. Xu is very concerned about safety."

Xu Qinglou forced a smile and said, "After all, we only have one life. Now that my worth has increased, there will always be people who covet me."

The car stopped at the gate. As Xu Qinglou got out of the car, the gate opened from the inside. A young woman trotted out and ran into Xu Qinglou's arms.

Gu Wenle twitched his lips, feeling that this scene looked a bit like a drama from a TV drama. He coughed lightly to prevent the two people in front of him from hugging each other tightly. Xu Qinglou let go of the woman and said, "This is my wife, Fang Yun. Fang Yun, these people are here... to help."

Qiu Yanping stretched out his hand and shook hands with Fang Yun as a greeting. He lowered his eyes and quickly scanned Fang Yun's palm. From his palm, his fate line was mixed and his love line was unclear.

Fang Yun looked to be a dozen years younger than Xu Qinglou. When he heard what Xu Qinglou said, a dim light suddenly flashed in his eyes, and he seemed to look a little gloomy. However, this feeling was fleeting, so fast that Qiu Yanping almost thought it was his illusion.

She looked around at the four people curiously, and when she saw Gu Wenye, she let out a small "ah" and shouted in surprise, "You! Are you General Gu Wenye?!"

Xu Qinglou's face showed a bit of embarrassment. He pulled Fang Yun and said, "She...has always admired you."

Gu Wenye smiled faintly as if it was nothing special and nodded slightly at Fang Yun. Then two blushes immediately appeared on Fang Yun's face. She was completely different from the gloomy woman just now.

Qiu Yanping narrowed his eyes and said teasingly, "General Gu really has fans everywhere."

Gu Wenle seemed to smell some gunpowder. He immediately looked at his nose and his heart, and said nothing.

Before Gu Wenye could say anything, Fang Yun smiled and said, "General Gu is the dream lover of tens of millions of young girls in the entire universe."

Qiu Yanping raised his eyebrows, stretched out the ending tone of "oh", and thought with a bit of unpleasantness in his heart, this guy's popularity with the opposite sex is much better than his.

Xu Qinglou pulled Fang Yun and said, "Let the guests come in first and stop talking about these nonsense."

Fang Yun stuck out her tongue slightly, looking like a little girl. While inviting a few people into the house, she asked him in a low and sweet voice, "Are you jealous?"

If it were any other day, Xu Qinglou's heart would have melted into pieces and he would have wanted to hug Fang Yun and make out with her, but now he didn't have much in mind to respond to Fang Yun.

Fang Yun only knew that there was some problem in Xu Qinglou's company, but he didn't know that Xu Qinglou himself was in big trouble.

Xu Qinglou told her that the problems encountered in the company were all within the normal range of response and there was no need to be alarmed. Fang Yun had no knowledge of the operation of the company, so she believed what Xu Qinglou said and continued to be Mrs. Xu without any worries.

She saw that Xu Qinglou ignored her and had a gloomy face, as if a storm was about to come. She frowned, but because there were outsiders around, it was inconvenient to ask Xu Qinglou what happened today.

The previous evening, Xu Qinglou suddenly ran out for no apparent reason, and when he came back he looked sullen, as if someone owed him millions. Fang Yun, who had always been spoiled, felt a little uncomfortable.

"Mr. Qiu, please come with me." Xu Qinglou said in a low voice.

Xu Qinglou led the people to the third floor. He opened a study room which was locked with three keys. The room was brightly lit. Xu Qinglou glanced inside and quickly looked away.

There were small bits and pieces in the room, mostly tools that would be found on a workbench. Some of them seemed to have been accidentally swept to the ground, but no one had put them back in their place.

"These things were all bought by Fang Yun." Xu Qinglou said standing at the door. He didn't dare to go in, as if there was some man-eating monster inside.

Qiu Yanping and the Gu brothers walked into the room. Qiu Yanping closed his eyes. There was still a faint ghostly aura in the room. Gu Wenle probably forgot to be afraid because the room was brightly lit and different from the gloomy scene he imagined. He looked around and picked up one of the things and asked, "These things look like second-hand goods? What did Mrs. Xu buy them for?"

Xu Qinglou shook his head. "In fact, Fang Yun didn't buy these things at first, and these things are not the type that Fang Yun would usually buy home."

"Are these things used by Zhuo Lin?" Qiu Yanping asked.

Xu Qinglou's body shook, and he opened his mouth unconsciously, "How did you know that?!"

"There are still some ghosts left in this room. Considering what you said, it should be Zhuo Lin, right?" Qiu Yanping finished speaking. Gu Wenle suddenly put the things in his hand back on the table, jumped out of the room immediately, and asked in a low voice, "Then I just touched his things without his permission... Is it okay?"

Qiu Yanping smiled and said, "It's okay. Just apologize to him in person later."

Gu Wenle: “…”

Xu Qinglou's face turned frighteningly pale, probably because he was frightened by Qiu Yanping's words. Qiu Yanping waved his hand and said, "Go on."

"…Six months ago, Fang Yun bought an old mahogany pen holder. Since then, strange things have been happening one after another." Xu Qinglou suppressed his panic and said, "At first, I didn't recognize that the old mahogany pen holder belonged to Zhuo Lin. After Fang Yun bought it, he gave it to me and I put it in the office of the company."

"Ever since the pen holder was placed in the office, the office circuit has been unstable, the lights often flickered, and the air conditioning system was disordered..." He recalled, shuddering, "Until one day, I accidentally knocked over the pen holder. When I picked it up, I suddenly saw Zhuo Lin's face in the reflection of the screen. I thought I was... distracted and had an illusion."

"The pen holder had a thin crack when it broke, but I thought Fang Yun liked it, so I didn't throw it away and brought it back." Xu Qinglou shook his head, smiled bitterly, and said, "That was the beginning of the nightmare."

Qiu Yanping understood that the broken pen holder was the cause of everything. Zhuo Lin died of depression on his desk. These things that had accompanied him through countless days and nights were naturally stained with Zhuo Lin's aura. If Zhuo Lin was unwilling to reincarnate at that time and insisted on staying in the world, his soul could not be gathered into one because of the passage of time, and finally dispersed and attached to these things. This is understandable.

The pen holder that once sealed Zhuo Lin had a crack on it, as if the container was broken, and some of Zhuo Lin's scattered soul flowed out of the pen holder. The pen holder with Zhuo Lin's scattered soul was taken back home by Xu Qinglou, so naturally, Zhuo Lin's scattered soul was also brought back to the villa by Xu Qinglou.

"Fang Yun's temper started to become strange. Sometimes she would suddenly become irritable and irritable, almost like two different people. She started to constantly buy more second-hand tools from the second-hand market. No matter how much I tried to dissuade her, it was useless. Later, I just let her go."

"As she bought more and more second-hand things, she put them all in this study. One day, I walked in here to find a document. When I saw the layout of this table was almost exactly the same as Zhuo Lin's office, I suddenly realized that the second-hand things she bought once belonged to Zhuo Lin..." Xu Qinglou clenched his fists, "In this room, I can almost feel the breath of Zhuo Lin when he was alive, as if his breathing was right next to my ears..."

"I was planning to deal with all of these things, but before I could do anything, such an unexpected situation occurred in the company, and I had to focus all my energy on dealing with those unexpected complaints and appeals."

"Those customers who bought our products have had abnormal reactions one after another. These were completely impossible to happen after using the product. On the contrary, these situations had appeared on the evaluation list of the original design that Zhuo Lin and I had argued about. I couldn't help but think of Zhuo Lin... In these few short months, everything that happened was related to Zhuo Lin. Now the company has problems, and it is related to Zhuo Lin..."

"Later, he began to appear in my sight frequently..." Xu Qinglou swallowed his saliva and said this sentence with great difficulty. He shuddered and looked around nervously, as if he was looking for something.

Gu Wenle asked with an unpleasant expression, "Are you talking about Zhuo Lin?"

"It's not him... but I could still deceive myself about the traces of his existence at the beginning, but later... it became more and more obvious, so obvious that I couldn't ignore it anymore..." Xu Qinglou said, with signs of collapse. "The steam would draw his name on the bathroom glass; in the study of my office, the sound of leather shoes would suddenly come out, step by step, very regular - we all wore slippers at home, only Zhuo Lin, whether he was at home or outside, he always wore an old three-piece suit and a pair of black Oxford shoes, those were his footsteps! And, and... at dinner tonight... Fang Yun was sitting opposite me, and when I looked up, I saw Zhuo Lin in her eyes, he was standing behind me, as if he was still alive..."

"He must have come back to take revenge on me, he must have..." Xu Qinglou held his head with shaking hands. He was trembling all over and suddenly fell into extreme panic. His eyes suddenly became scattered and lifeless, and he just stared at a certain point in the air.

Xu Qinglou's abnormality frightened Gu Wenle, who was already somewhat afraid of such things, and he leaned towards his elder brother. He regretted very much why he came here just to show off his strength. He was afraid of these weird things...

Qiu Yanping frowned when he saw Xu Qinglou's strange expression. He took out three Five Emperors' Coins from his pocket and put one on Xu Qinglou's forehead. He asked the two brothers to put the other two on their chests to prevent Zhuo Lin's ghost from attaching to them. The Five Emperors' Coins could ward off evil spirits and demons. At least in this way, Zhuo Lin could not get close to them.

When Gu Wenle heard that this ancient coin was useful, he quickly thanked him and put the Five Emperors Coins in his chest pocket. Gu Wenye frowned and looked at Qiu Yanping. He did not take out the extra Five Emperors Coins to leave for him. Gu Wenye asked, "What about you?"

"Me?" Qiu Yanping was stunned. He had given so many Five Emperors coins to other people in his past life, but few people thought of asking him. He was happy and said, "I have many ways to ward off evil spirits. No little devil dares to approach me casually."

Xu Qinglou did not return to normal after being stamped with the Five Emperors' Coins. In other words, Zhuo Lin did not lean over Xu Qinglou. Qiu Yanping frowned and looked in the direction that Xu Qinglou had been staring at, but he saw nothing. There was only a glass bookcase there.

Gu Wenye pursed his lips and moved the remote-controlled wheelchair behind Xu Qinglou. He followed Xu Qinglou's line of sight and his eyes suddenly focused. He saw a man's smiling face appear in the reflection of the glass bookcase.

Gu Wenye suddenly turned around and looked behind him, but saw nothing.

Qiu Yanping suddenly understood. He strode to Gu Wenye's position and saw the little trick in the reflection of the glass bookshelf. He squinted his eyes. That was not Zhuo Lin's real soul. He gently pressed Gu Wenye's tense shoulders, patted him twice to signal him to relax, and then walked to the opposite wall.

He looked around and carefully touched every inch of the wall with his fingers. Suddenly, he paused, groped back twice, and then exerted force suddenly and directly pulled out the nail-sized projector hidden in the wall.

He turned off the projector and looked at the glass bookcase again. The image of the man was no longer on the glass.

"It's actually such a trick..." Gu Wenye was slightly shocked. He took the mini projector from Qiu Yanping and said, "The photos in this projector must be transferred manually. Can Zhuo Lin do it?"

Qiu Yanping shook his head and said, "Ghosts cannot touch entities." He paused, then said, "Although Zhuo Lin himself cannot do it, there are others who can do it."

"Fang Yun, you are in the next room, right? You can hear what I say?" Qiu Yanping suddenly turned to the study room and said loudly.

Gu Wenye was stunned. Fang Yun?

A few seconds after Qiu Yanping finished speaking, Fang Yun walked out from the next room. The cute little girl's expression was gone from her face. She glanced woodenly and coldly at Xu Qinglou, who looked as if he had suffered a great shock and was extremely terrified. A hint of satisfaction flashed in her eyes.

"You were the one who placed the projector here, right?" Qiu Yanping said firmly.

Fang Yun pursed his lips, was silent for two seconds, and nodded in acknowledgement, "It's me."

Xu Qinglou had calmed down a bit at this point. When he heard his wife confess the "prank", he was furious and shouted, "Fang Yun! Pranks should be stopped in moderation!"

Fang Yun looked at Xu Qinglou mockingly, "Prank? This is not a prank, Xu Qinglou. You forced my father to death, and you are enjoying the success of both of you, while my father is sleeping in the cold ground. Doesn't your conscience hurt?"

Xu Qinglou was shocked, and his eyes widened in disbelief, "What did you say? Your father is... Zhuo Lin? Impossible! How could I not know!"

Fang Yun sneered, "Do you know everything? Is everything under your control? Xu Qinglou, don't be so self-righteous."

Fang Yun's real name was Zhuo Yun. After Zhuo Lin got into that incident, Zhuo Lin didn't want his daughter to be affected by having his surname, so he changed her name to her mother's surname and deliberately did not highlight their father-daughter relationship.

Fang Yun has always known that his father would never plagiarize other people's works, and Xu Qinglou was the real murderer who indirectly killed his father. She approached Xu Qinglou step by step, and finally married him, because she wanted to kill him with her own hands. She wanted to dismantle the foundation created by Xu Qinglou bit by bit, and wanted Xu Qinglou to experience the pain of powerlessness.

——This was originally her plan, but later she accidentally found the relics that Zhuo Lin sold when he went bankrupt, which changed everything.

The pen holder was broken by Xu Qinglou, but it unexpectedly allowed Zhuo Lin's scattered soul to appear.

She smiled and looked at Qiu Yanping. Her eyes became deep and gentle, not sharp at all. She said, "Mr. Qiu, I knew you would come."

Her voice suddenly became low and hoarse. "When I first met you, I knew you would be the one to put an end to this."

Qiu Yanping was startled for a moment, then reacted. He narrowed his eyes and realized that Fang Yun in front of him was no longer Fang Yun. He asked, "The first time you saw me was that night in the General's Mansion when Xu Qinglou came to visit for the first time, right? You were attached to Xu Qinglou?"

"Fang Yun" nodded, and Qiu Yanping understood. No wonder he felt that Xu Qinglou was always avoiding him unconsciously that night. It turned out to be because of this reason.

Gu Wenle was a little confused. He wanted to ask, but he didn't have the courage. Fortunately, Gu Wenye spoke up and asked what he wanted to ask, "Are you... Zhuo Lin?"

"Fang Yun" looked at Gu Wenye, she nodded and replied, "I am."