"..." Qi Huaijin was clearly not buying it. "Make another request. I'm afraid I can't comply with this one."
Although Gu Qingqiu was only half-joking and half-seriously, she was still a little disappointed. "Okay, I'll tell you when I think of something."
"Hmm." Qi Huaijin stood up, took out a few talismans and placed them on the table. "I'm going to sleep. Find something to have fun yourself. Stick these talismans on what you want, and you'll encounter it."
After saying that, he returned to the bedroom, leaving Gu Qingqiu and several talismans looking at each other in bewilderment.
Male Protagonist System: [Host, what are you standing there for?]
Gu Qingqiu: [I'm a little unaccustomed to being suddenly left to my own devices...]
Male Lead System: [Qi Huaijin's willingness to let you move freely in his home indicates that he has already placed you in a relatively intimate position emotionally.]
Gu Qingqiu: [Hmph! I hope that's the case. So, how much experience do you have left?]
Male Protagonist System: [The experience bar is currently at 42%, progressing very smoothly.]
Gu Qingqiu: [But why do I feel like he's still so cold towards me... Sigh, things are probably going smoothly because he's been clinging to my neck day and night all this time. I should have woken up later. Now that my injuries are healed, how can I reasonably continue to cling to his neck?]
Male protagonist system: [As a second choice, using wrists isn't bad either; it's better than nothing at all.]
Gu Qingqiu: [You don't understand. It's easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.]
Male protagonist system: [I've learned something.]
Looking at the wall clock, Gu Qingqiu felt she should make it home in time. She needed to tell her father about the incident of the vengeful ghost harming people and ask him to investigate the source of the ghost.
Upon arriving at the Chujiang King's Palace, Gu Qingqiu felt that the stacks of case files on the chopping board were even higher.
"Miss? Why did you suddenly come back?" King Chujiang, who was engrossed in reviewing documents, keenly noticed Gu Qingqiu.
"Daddy," Gu Qingqiu sat down next to King Chujiang and whispered, "Is the Underworld peaceful lately?"
"The Chujiang region is naturally quite peaceful," King Chujiang said, then began to worry. "However, there are indeed quite a lot of case files lately."
After thinking it over, Gu Qingqiu told King Chujiang about her experiences in the mortal realm in detail.
"What?" King Chujiang was so angry that he puffed out his beard and glared. "Girl, are you seriously injured?"
"It's not serious, it's not serious!" Gu Qingqiu was afraid that King Chujiang was focusing on the wrong thing. "Daddy, can you find out which evil spirits are illegally staying in the mortal realm?"
King Chujiang rolled his eyes. "If you put it that way, aren't you also violating the rules by staying in the mortal realm? When the investigation results come out, should I write your name or not?"
"Oh dear..." Gu Qingqiu said coquettishly, "Daddy—you can say you sent me to investigate this matter. See, I did make a contribution, didn't I?"
"Hmph." King Chujiang said speechlessly, "Luckily, none of the people present knew you were my daughter, otherwise, where would I put my old face? I always tell you to improve your ghost power, but you don't listen. All you do is eat, drink, and have fun all day long. You actually got hurt by an ordinary vengeful ghost! When your older brother and sister were your age, they had been working for almost a thousand years!"
"Ugh! I don't want to hear it! I don't want to hear it!" Gu Qingqiu covered her ears. "Daddy, why are you so nagging! Do ghosts go through menopause too?"
"Get out!" King Chujiang was truly helpless against his youngest daughter.
"Alright, I'm off then." Gu Qingqiu got up as if it were a good thing.
"Wait a minute." King Chujiang was still concerned about his youngest daughter. "Have the advisor take you to get a checkup to see if your injuries have fully healed."
“Oh…” Gu Qingqiu obediently agreed.
But after a while, it was already the next morning. Gu Qingqiu couldn't resist the sleepiness that naturally came over her, so she went back to her bedroom and fell into a deep sleep. When she woke up, it was already evening, so she simply had another family reunion dinner.
So by the time Gu Qingqiu floated back to Qi Huaijin's doorstep, it was almost midnight.
Gu Qingqiu paced around the door a few times, but still didn't dare to knock. After all, Qi Huaijin usually went to bed early and got up early, so he should have already gone to sleep by now. It was better not to disturb him.
Gu Qingqiu originally just wanted to lean against the door and space out for a while, but she didn't expect that her spirit would pass directly through Qi Huaijin's door and into Qi Huaijin's living room.
This shocked her. Hadn't Qi Huaijin set up a protective barrier at the entrance of his house? How could she have gotten in? Had Qi Huaijin removed the barrier?
Upon entering the study, the yellow talismans on the table remained untouched.
Gu Qingqiu wandered around the living room, study, and kitchen several times before finally reaching out her hand somewhat nervously to Qi Huaijin's bedroom doorknob. Sure enough, her hand was repelled by the restriction on the door.
It seems Qi Huaijin hasn't forgotten to set up a barrier. Was removing the barrier at the entrance to allow her to return home smoothly?
In the mortal realm, people work during the day and rest at night. In the underworld, it is dark all year round, and there is no time for rest in a very strict sense. However, people from the underworld who come to the mortal realm have to develop a biological clock of resting during the day and being active at night because of the presence of sunlight during the day. Theoretically, this is completely opposite to the living habits of the mortal realm.
So Gu Qingqiu was completely at a loss for what to do. She tried to use the yellow talisman left by Qi Huaijin to retrieve a book from the study, but unfortunately, it was some obscure and difficult classical Chinese texts. She really didn't know how Qi Huaijin could read these things with such relish.
Oh right! The ghosts in the incense shop probably didn't sleep last night!
Thinking of this, Gu Qingqiu's eyes lit up, and she immediately headed towards the incense shop—maybe she could give Qi Huaijin a surprise when he arrived at the shop tomorrow!
Sure enough, as soon as Gu Qingqiu arrived at the entrance of the incense shop, she heard a noisy commotion inside. Out of politeness, Gu Qingqiu still tugged at the wind chimes at the door.
The sounds inside the shop seemed to have been cut off. Two seconds later, Shuyi opened the door in disbelief, "Qingqiu? It's you?"
Gu Qingqiu was a little embarrassed. "I'm sorry, did I disturb you?"
"No, no, come in." Shuyi warmly pulled Gu Qingqiu inside.
Gu Qingqiu nodded to the ghosts inside as a greeting, "What were you doing just now?"
Yu Ze shrugged. "Holding a concert? Someone knocking on the door in the middle of the night is terrifying!"
"How is your injury?" Gu Qingqiu asked with concern.
Yu Ze's face immediately turned red, probably from shame at his previous fighting strength being inferior to the female ghost. "I'm fine now, okay! You... anyway, thank you..."
The other ghosts had already heard from Yu Ze about Gu Qingqiu standing up to protect Qi Huaijin, so they considered this partner as a member of their big family.
only……
Shuyi hesitated for a long time before finally asking, "Qingqiu, did you have a fight with the master?"
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