Li Juan couldn't see the underworld officials, but she could see a chain appearing on Lu Ye's soul, hooking him away.
Even though Lu Ye had just broken her heart, seeing him so captivated still made her panic. She suddenly lunged towards Lu Ye, crying out, "No... Xiao Ye! Xiao Ye!"
The moment she lunged forward, Lu Ye's soul was taken away by the underworld officials, and she missed her target entirely.
Witnessing her child die before her eyes and then witnessing his soul being taken away was too much for a mother to bear. Trembling with fear, Li Juan's eyes rolled back and she fainted.
Nan Yuanman panicked and quickly stepped forward, imitating the way the adults in the village pinched Li Juan's philtrum, and shouted to Meng Qinian, "Brother Qinian, quickly call an ambulance!"
Meng Qinian calmly dialed 120, pulled Nan Yuanman away from Li Juan, and comforted her: "Don't worry, she just fainted from the shock, she'll wake up in a bit. Don't press on her, you'll hurt her."
The child didn't know his own strength; he'll make Li Juan's philtrum swollen if I press it too hard.
After waiting for a while, the ambulance finally arrived and took the unconscious Li Juan and Lu Zhicheng to the hospital.
Nan Yuanman was afraid that Li Juan would be emotionally agitated and do something rash after waking up, so he stayed by her bedside and did not leave. Her chubby hands supported her chin, squeezing out a little bit of flesh from her cheeks.
Meng Qinian sat beside her, glancing at her every now and then, afraid that she would be affected by what had just happened.
Suddenly, he heard Nan Yuanman ask, "Brother Qinian, what's it like to have Mom protecting you?"
The little girl seemed to have only a simple question. Before Meng Qinian could answer, she said to herself, "It should feel very warm, right? Yuanman has never met her mother, but Grandpa said that when her mother gave birth to Yuanman, she protected me well."
She sighed, her voice brimming with childlike wisdom: "Sigh, it's just that Mom went to the underworld too early. Otherwise, Yuanman could have seen her and thanked her for protecting her."
"Yuanman would never be like that older brother who spoke ill of his mother!"
As Meng Qinian listened, he felt a pang of sadness and heartache for her. No matter how precocious Nan Yuanman appeared in front of him, she was still just a five-year-old toddler who still depended on her mother.
He couldn't resist reaching out and ruffling her soft hair, then said something surprising: "You can treat me like your mother."
Nanmanyuan: "?"
She turned to look at Meng Qinian in shock. Meng Qinian, feeling a little embarrassed by her gaze, puffed out his chest and asked, "What's wrong? A male mother isn't a mother?"
Although he was only eighteen years old, he felt that he was much more mature than the people in the Jiang family and was qualified to be her male mother.
This was the first time Nan Yuanman had heard of this term, and she asked him somewhat bewilderedly, "Is...is that so? Boys can be mothers too?"
Meng Qinian nodded with unwavering conviction: "Yes." He showed absolutely no awareness of leading the child astray.
He opened his arms wide to the south and said, "If you ever miss your mother, just treat me as your mother and come into my warm embrace."
Nan Yuanman took a step back with a complicated expression: "I... let's just forget about it."
As the two spoke in hushed tones, Li Juan, lying on the hospital bed, groaned and slowly woke up.
Nan Yuanman quickly leaned her little head closer and asked with concern, "Auntie, you're awake? Are you feeling unwell anywhere?"
Li Juan froze for a moment when she saw her, her memories from before she fainted slowly returning. She suddenly sat up in bed and grabbed Nan Yuanman's hand: "Little Celestial Master, Xiao Ye, he..."
"He's fine. He was taken to the underworld by the underworld officials. He'll be able to reincarnate after his sins are cleared." Nan Yuanman comforted her, "But Auntie's health isn't very good. She needs to rest well."
Li Juan's eyes welled up with tears. She opened her mouth, her voice trembling slightly, and asked, "I... what can I do for him?"
She was too ashamed to plead for Lu Ye now; she only wanted to do something to help him alleviate his sins.
No matter what, he's still her child...
Nan Yuanman: "Just do more good deeds."
Li Juan held her chubby little hand tightly and nodded: "Okay, okay."
"By the way, Auntie, Lu Ye said before he left that he was lured into suicide. We hope you can show us his cell phone." Meng Qinian said after seeing that Li Juan's emotions had calmed down a bit.
Nan Yuanman mainly wanted to check if there were any other ghosts on his phone. If so, he wanted to catch them as soon as possible and send them to the underworld to serve their sentences, so that they would not continue to harm people.
"Because I didn't know which phone was his, I brought all the phones you could find in your house."
As Meng Qinian spoke, he casually pulled out three or four cell phones from his pocket.
Li Juan didn't blame Meng Qinian for being offensive, and pointed to a black cell phone: "This is the one Xiao Ye used before he died."
Meng Qinian kept the phone and handed the rest of the phone back to Li Juan.
He handed the black phone to Nan Yuanman, who held it and sensed it, but didn't detect any ghostly energy on it.
She frowned slightly, awkwardly turned on her phone, and accidentally clicked on an app with a clover icon after it was turned on.
When she saw the picture that popped up on the app, her little body trembled in fright.
Meng Qinian quickly looked over: "What...?"
Upon looking at it, he saw a picture pop up on his phone screen—a bloody, mangled image of a slit wrist!
Meng Qinian: "!!"
He quickly covered Nan Yuanman's eyes and snatched the phone away: "It's okay, it's okay, it's fake, let's not look at it."
As Meng Qinian spoke, he quickly browsed the information in the app and found that it was a dating app made for teenagers, but... the group titles on it were not very friendly.
They're all calling it "Suicide Group 1" and "Suicide Group 2," and the content they push is highly suggestive articles.
Suddenly, a dialog box popped up.
The tombstone in the headphones: [?]
The tombstone in the earphones: [Didn't you say you were going to punish your overly controlling mother with suicide? You're not dead?]
Meng Qinian looked at the chat box and his brows slowly furrowed. When he opened the chat box, he discovered that Lu Ye had been chatting with the grave in the earpiece for a long time.
The other person claimed to be a patient with depression. They had a deep conversation with Lu Ye and occasionally told each other how badly their families treated them.
Later, the other person would frequently send Lu Ye pictures of suicide attempts involving wrist-cutting, telling him about their family's situation, and saying that it felt especially good to see the expressions of regret and self-blame on their family members' faces after cutting their wrists.
Influenced by him, Lu Ye also began to ask him if his family really regretted it when he attempted suicide by cutting his wrists. He said he couldn't stand his mother's controlling nature anymore and wanted to make his mother regret it.
The last chat log between the two was when the other person attempted suicide again by overdosing on medication and was hospitalized, and sent Lu Ye some photos of his family members crying in regret.
Lu Ye's last message to him was: "What do you think? If I hanged myself and my mom opened the door and saw my body there, would she regret it?"
There are no other records after that; the latest record is the message he sent.
Even the slow-witted Meng Qinian finally realized what was happening.
This app is designed for teenagers; it's an app that lures teenagers into suicide!
Nan Yuanman tried hard to pry open Meng Qinian's hand, craning her little neck: "Let me see, let me see."
"It's too gory, children shouldn't watch it." Meng Qinian pressed her head down and handed Lu Ye's phone back to Li Juan: "You should be prepared to watch this. Lu Ye was indeed induced to commit suicide."
Li Juan took a deep breath and mentally prepared herself to take the phone from Meng Qinian's hand, but when she saw the conversation in the app, she was so shocked that she almost fainted again.
"How could this be! How could there be such a bad person!" Li Juan was so angry that she trembled.
Meng Qinian sighed and said, "I advise you to call the police and arrest the mastermind behind this app."
No matter how angry he was, he wasn't involved and couldn't make a decision for Li Juan.
"Yes, I will." Li Juan's eyes blazed with fury; she was determined to send the entire development team of this app to prison!
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After dealing with the student ghost, it was already noon when I left the hospital.
Meng Qinian felt a great weight lifted from his heart and, in high spirits, carried Nan Yuanman to find a place to eat.
On the way, he casually asked, "Yuanman, your mother is gone, so what about your father?"
How come he has never heard Nan Yuanman mention her father?
Nan Yuanman paused for a moment, then honestly shook his head: "I don't know."
Grandpa never mentioned her father's existence; perhaps... he, like her mother, was no longer alive.
Lost in thought, Nan Yuanman suddenly heard a tired young woman's voice: "How much is the rat poison?"
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