Chapter 10: Soul-stealing

"Who wants to see you!"

Gu Jue's voice was a little loud, and the servant passing by outside was frightened and slipped and almost fell. If you listen carefully, you can still hear two chuckles and the hazy sound of water coming from the house.

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The sun sets in the west, and the last ray of sunset glow disappears. Yu Chi walks back to the bedroom in the night.

Feng Wuqing has rearranged a bedroom for Gu Jue, right next to his.

Taking out the piece of silk scarf and opening the incense burner, Yu Chi used the incense mold to print the incense, lit it, and smoke rose. He extinguished all the candles in the bedroom and closed the doors and windows.

The fragrance of plum blossoms overflowed and filled the room. Yu Chi sat quietly by the bed without even taking off his clothes.

The moonlight was very bright tonight. Even with the window closed, he could still see the moonlight falling in.

After that, Yu Chi lost consciousness.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw Gu Jue's anxious face in front of him.

"You asked Feng Wuqing to rearrange my room last night just so you could light incense in the room, right?!"

His tone was excited, and his voice was trembling in panic. He finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Yu Chi wake up.

This incense was the same as the one in Feng Wuyou's room. He knew that Yu Chi might be fine, but what if, what if the incense Yu Chi lit was different from Feng Wuyou's?

During the time he spent with Yu Chi, Yu Chi woke up earlier than him almost every time. When he got up this morning to practice swordplay, he saw the servants guarding outside Yu Chi's room, so he casually asked where Yu Chi was.

Unexpectedly, the servants told him that Doctor Yu Chi had not woken up yet. He was panicked for a moment and pushed the door open and walked in.

When he opened the door, a strong plum fragrance came to his face. He subconsciously covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves and saw Yu Chi leaning against the bed.

His brows were tightly locked, his hair was hanging down, and he seemed uneasy. He didn't even take off his clothes, and it seemed that he had been sitting all night.

Gu Jue went over and put Yu Chi on the bed, and opened all the windows of the bedroom for fresh air, leaving the door open. He wanted to throw the incense burner out for the servants to deal with, but he kept it and put it in a corner.

After doing all this, he returned to the bed and called Yu Chi over and over again, but he didn't wake up.

Feng Wuqing waited in the front hall for a long time, but Yu Chi and Gu Jue didn't come, so he went to look for them himself. As soon as he arrived, he saw Gu Jue kneeling beside Yu Chi's bed, grabbing Yu Chi's hand and begging Yu Chi to wake up.

Smelling the familiar plum fragrance that filled the room, his heart skipped a beat. When this plum fragrance was first used by his brother, his brother seemed to be able to sleep especially well.

Jiang Suo said that it was because his brother was depressed, so he slept longer.

He believed it.

Yu Chi opened his eyes and felt as if all the strength in his body had been drained away. His fingers moved slightly, and Gu Jue sensed it and raised his head to meet Yu Chi's eyes.

He slowly raised his hand and placed it on Gu Jue's head, coaxing him softly.

"It's okay."

The voice was very soft, with a sense of powerlessness. The originally beautiful face now revealed fatigue and weakness, giving people a sense of brokenness.

"You scared me to death!"

He said fiercely, but he carefully helped Yu Chi up.

Yu Chi pressed his swollen forehead and exhaled.

"You can't let your brother use this incense anymore."

He looked at Feng Wuqing who was standing aside.

Feng Wuqing paused.

"Is there something wrong with the incense!?"

"Yeah."

Actually, there has always been something wrong with the incense. Yu Chi was not sure at first. The plum fragrance was just a cover-up. Under the plum fragrance, there was something else .

It's just that the plum fragrance was too strong, so strong that it was difficult to judge.

"Soul-stealing incense."

The smell of the soul-stealing incense was not very strong, but its fragrance was extremely suffocating, so it was covered by the plum fragrance. The stronger the plum fragrance, the less people would think about it.

They would only think that the plum fragrance was too strong, so it was suffocating.

"What is the soul-stealing incense?"

Feng Wuqing has been running the Feng family for many years and is considered to be knowledgeable. This soul-stealing incense is the first time he has heard of it.

Yu Chi's hand was still held by Gu Jue. His eyes fell on the two people's clasped hands, and his slender fingers made circles in Gu Jue's palm.

Gu Jue's palms were itchy, and he wanted to pull his hands back, but he held back when he saw Yu Chi's weak appearance.

"Soul-stealing incense, as its name suggests, can steal people's souls, consume people's consciousness, and destroy people's will. Your brother has only been using it for a year, and he has almost forgotten everything in the past."

Yu Chi's eyes moved away from his hands and fell on Feng Wuqing's face.

"He actually thinks that he has been weak since he was a child and can't go out."

Gu Jue was stunned when he heard this. He still remembered the comments of the people at the next table about Feng Wuyou when he and Yu Chi had just arrived in Mingyue City and were having dinner in the restaurant. He

was thinking at the time that the eldest son of the Feng family must be an extremely cheerful, active and bright young man.

Yu Chi told Feng Wuqing everything that Gu Jue had seen that night. Feng Wuqing was so angry that he turned around and was about to take people to capture Jiang Suo, but was stopped by Gu Jue called by Yu Chi.

Now they only knew that these were useless. Feng Wuyou treated Jiang Suo as a friend, and Jiang Suo pretended to be very good in front of others. Whether it was the first time they met or later at the dinner table, he was quite gentle and polite. They had no evidence to make others believe it, or to make Feng Wuyou believe it. How could

he convince others that his best friend wanted to harm him with just his mouth?

Yu Chi took out a small box. It was the incense he had lit for Feng Wuyou yesterday, and handed it to Feng Wuqing. When he

opened it, he smelled the extremely elegant cold fragrance of winter plums, which was elegant and not greasy.

"This is the Soul-Returning Plum. The best way at the moment is to find the place where Jiang Suo keeps the Soul-Snatching Incense and replace it."

"I understand. What if you can't find it?"

Yu Chi chuckled. "If you can't find it, you can only trouble the Second Young Master to replace Jiang Suo's incense every time he changes it."

Feng Wuqing got Yu Chi's words and asked someone to do it.

He looked at Yu Chi's appearance and asked someone to send breakfast to Yu Chi's room later, and he took the Soul-Returning Plum to Feng Wuyou's place.

After seeing Feng Wuqing off, Yu Chi tilted his head and rested it on Gu Jue's shoulder. He was now completely powerless and didn't want to move at all.

After being dispersed by the fragrance of plum blossoms last night, he was pulled and sunk deep into his memories.

Painful and unbearable, those memories were like maggots attached to his bones, inch by inch, dragging him into the deep sea from which he could not escape. The feeling of suffocation surrounded him. He struggled to go up, stretched out his hands, and grabbed a piece of nothingness. No one reached out to him.

The darkness was boundless. No matter how hard he tried, he could not float to the surface, nor could he see the light of day.

Just when he was about to give up the struggle and sink into the water, he saw that person.

The person who gently called his name and gave him many instructions led him out of the depths of darkness and walked him into the world with thousands of lights.

Soul-stealing incense eats away a person's will bit by bit. Once a person's mind is completely devoured, he or she will be transformed from a living person into an obedient puppet.

After breakfast, Yu Chi slowed down and went to the Bright Moon Pavilion with Gu Jue.

The door of the Bright Moon Pavilion was wide open, and Feng Wuqing's voice could be heard from inside. As

soon as Yu Chi and Gu Jue reached the door, an incense burner was thrown out. Gu Jue quickly hid behind Yu Chi. The incense burner just brushed past Yu Chi's clothes and fell on the ground not far behind them, followed by Feng Wuqing's words.

"Get out of here!"

Gu Jue was still holding Yu Chi's sleeve. Yu Chi's eyes moved from the incense burner to Gu Jue's face.

"Are you behaving like that?"

Gu Jue smiled embarrassedly.

"Next time, no, from now on, I will always stand in front of you!"

Just as Gu Jue was still grinning and promising Yu Chi, Jiang Suo came out, holding a mahogany box, looking a little bit sly. Seeing the two of them, he smiled apologetically, turned his head and met Yu Chi's eyes. He paused, and when Yu Chi narrowed his eyes, he quickened his pace and left quickly.

Feng Wuyou got off the couch, and was patting Feng Wuqing's back gently, trying to calm him down.

Jiang Suo was supposed to change the incense in the morning. He came in as soon as Yu Chi left yesterday. As soon as he came in, he smelled that the incense had been changed. He was so frightened that a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back. He hurried to see Feng Wuyou. Fortunately, Feng Wuyou didn't seem to be abnormal.

He asked Feng Wuyou why the incense was changed.

Feng Wuyou supported his chin with his hand and looked back at him.

"The doctor said that the incense was too stuffy and smelled greasy, so he changed it for me with a lighter one. What's wrong?"

Jiang Suo's heart was relieved. It seemed that Feng Wuyou didn't know anything. In order not to arouse Feng Wuyou's suspicion, he didn't change it directly.

When he came early this morning, he changed the incense and re-lit the Soul-stealing Incense.

The rich fragrance of plum blossoms spread everywhere. After smelling the cold fragrance of plum blossoms yesterday, Feng Wuyou frowned and felt a little uncomfortable when he smelled the fragrance prepared by Jiang Suo today, but he didn't say anything because Jiang Suo had spent a lot of effort to prepare it.

They chatted for a few sentences, and Jiang Suo suddenly said to him.

"Wuyou, it's best to be cautious when using other people's things. If it's harmless, it's fine. If it's harmful and you become addicted to it, what can you do? After all, he is an outsider, and you don't know whether his intentions are good or bad..." He

said this in a very gentle voice, carefully considering the words, with a tone that was for Feng Wuyou

's own good. Feng Wuqing came at this time. He had just learned that there was something wrong with the fragrance that Jiang Suo gave to his brother. He turned around and heard Jiang Suo's meaningful words, and his anger rose up.

Before anyone even entered the room, they started to say something sinister.

"Hey, you're an outsider, aren't you also an outsider? If you say that, my brother won't dare to use your incense. What if you're plotting something?"