Everyone stared at Bai Nuo in horror. Looking at Bai Nuo's gentle yet smiling face, they felt extremely frightened. Even Zhao Jinhu, a man who had seen the world, was startled by Bai Nuo's words.
Has this girl gone mad?
That wasn't the scariest part. The scariest part was that he actually saw a familiar person on the chair above him—Zhao Qianhu, the man who had died long ago, sitting in the chair looking at him.
Big brother?
He...he...wasn't he already dead? Big brother should be dead already. Zhao Jinhu saw Zhao Qianhu die with his own eyes. Not only did he see Zhao Qianhu die, but he also personally delivered the body...he touched it. He was completely dead, he couldn't be dead anymore.
"Stop pretending!" Zhao Jinhu roared, convinced that Bai Nuo was just faking it. What ancestor, what elder brother, it was all just a scare tactic.
After a loud roar, Zhao Jinhu's fear dissipated considerably. He stared in disbelief at Bai Nuo, who was hidden in the darkness, and roared, "Witch, watch me take you down!" With that, he lunged at Bai Nuo. He knew very well that all of this was the work of this witch, and as long as he dealt with her, it would all be over.
Bai Nuo watched Zhao Jinhu pounce on him, a mocking smile on his face. He calmly dodged to the side. During the day, Zhao Jinhu could easily subdue Bai Nuo, but in this strange place, he was helpless against Bai Nuo. Even when he was panting heavily, Bai Nuo remained a foot away from him, smiling and looking at him strangely.
Zhao Jinhu's heart was pounding, but he was extremely displeased with Bai Nuo's eerie smile. Just as he was about to pounce again, Zhao Qianhu, who was sitting above, finally spoke up, "Alright, Jinhu, stop fooling around, Brother Hu is going to get angry!"
The voice startled Zhao Jinhu. He had heard that voice for so many years; he was very familiar with it and recognized it immediately—it really was his older brother's voice.
"Big brother? Aren't you dead?" Zhao Jinhu screamed in disbelief.
"Are you hoping I'm dead?" As if to convince Zhao Jinhu, Zhao Qianhu stood up from his chair and walked towards Zhao Jinhu, saying as he walked, "Although my health is very poor and I'm on the verge of death, I'm far from being on the verge of dying. You actually abandoned me for a little glory and actually killed me. You didn't expect that, did you? Even hell wouldn't accept me, but sent me back. Are you very disappointed to see that I'm still alive?"
Zhao Qianhu's hand suddenly climbed onto Zhao Jinhu's neck, who was still in a daze, and squeezed it hard.
Zhao Jinhu's face turned bright red, like a pig's liver. The coldness on his neck told him that this person was very strange and might not be his brother. However, he inadvertently glanced at the small earring on the person in front of him.
Although the earring was very common, only he knew that he also had one on his ear. The one on Zhao Qianhu's ear and the one on his ear were a pair of earrings. When the two earrings were separate, they looked ordinary, but when the two were together, a special light could be seen on the earrings.
This has always been a secret between the two brothers. No one else could possibly know it. Even if they did, they would only know that the two brothers had earrings, but the special technique used to make it impossible to show.
So even if someone were to impersonate Zhao Qianhu, they might not be able to imitate that earring. Looking at that earring, Zhao Qianhu had only believed it three-tenths of the time, but now he believed it eight-tenths of the time.
“No…it is…” Zhao Jinhu answered with difficulty. Zhao Qianhu’s hands were getting tighter and tighter, and he was getting less and less air to breathe, making it increasingly difficult for him to speak.
"No..." Zhao Qianhu sneered, tightening his grip. Zhao Jinhu, held tightly by Zhao Qianhu, felt only that he was close to death. But Zhao Qianhu continued to sneer in his ear, "For money, you didn't hesitate to poison me and then frame someone else. Do you know what it feels like to be dying? This is what it feels like."
Although Zhao Qianhu didn't say it explicitly, Zhao Jinhu knew who Zhao Qianhu was referring to as being plotted against, and immediately denied it, saying, "I didn't kill you!"
"Hmph, sophistry!" Zhao Qianhu snorted and squeezed even harder. Zhao Jinhu's eyes rolled back in his head from Zhao Qianhu's grip, but he still managed to say, "Big brother, we... are brothers..."
"Brothers?" Zhao Qianhu sneered. "You suddenly remember we're brothers? When you were trying to kill me, why didn't you remember we were brothers?"
"Since you say we're brothers, then you'll come with me today!" Zhao Qianhu sneered.
Zhao Qianhu might not know, but Zhao Jinhu knew very well that Zhao Qianhu was probably still alive. Although he didn't know how he survived, he was already a non-human, non-ghost existence. If he asked Zhao Jinhu to stay with him, he probably meant to kill him.
"You were already dead!" Zhao Jinhu suddenly felt a surge of will to live and cried out, "I saw that your body was already cold, so I dragged it to the entrance of Duobao Pavilion. That person said he could bring my family unparalleled wealth, so I agreed. Otherwise, I wouldn't have used you to do such a thing. I didn't know you weren't dead!"
Zhao Jinhu was crying alone when, suddenly, with a click, the lights came on. Zhao Jinhu was dazzled by the bright light and stared blankly at everything around him.
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