4-24: Being targeted by the Ghost King in the classroom
Lin Mu shuddered, his heart sinking to the bottom.
Huaiyi was implying something about him.
If he still doesn't understand, he's an idiot.
Lin Mu was about to speak when Huai's mother casually changed the subject.
It seemed that everyone just thought it was a trivial joke.
Huai's father didn't even give Lin Mu a second glance.
Even at the very end, when Lin Mu casually made up an excuse to leave the villa...
He then realized that the look Huaiyi had given him at the beginning wasn't out of curiosity.
Instead, it was an exploration and scrutiny, imbued with a strong sense of malice.
Lin Mu felt like a monkey being observed in a zoo, with others already eyeing him, but he was completely unaware.
Lin Mu gasped for breath, not understanding why he had returned to the Huai family as their biological son.
But in Huai's family, he was always the one who looked most like an outsider.
Especially now, when he is compared to Huai Yan.
Lin Mu took a deep breath, took out his phone, and wanted to send a message to Jiang Feng.
Jiang Feng must have lost face being kicked out of the villa by the bodyguards today.
Lin Mu didn't dare to send a message to Jiang Feng at the beginning, because he was afraid of offending him, so he acted cautiously.
After all, he was willing to do anything that would make Huaiyan unhappy.
[Lin Mu: Feng-ge, where are you? Are you alright now?]
However, Jiang Feng seemed to be fine, replying to messages instantly.
- [Jiang Feng: At school, what happened?]
Lin Mu: Feng-ge, what happened today was an accident. I don't think my brother did it on purpose. Let's find some time to explain to him. I don't want him to misunderstand us.
After sending the message, Lin Mu smiled and put his phone away with satisfaction.
He would make Huai Yan pay for all the embarrassment Huai Yi had caused him today.
What genius boy? Huaiyan's boyfriend, he still managed to get her without lifting a finger.
Lin Mu breathed a sigh of relief, not caring whether Jiang Feng would reply to him or not, since he had already achieved his goal.
only……
Lin Mu lowered her eyes and suddenly remembered what happened in the bedroom last night.
He always tried to numb himself, to brainwash himself, and to treat that incident as a coincidence.
But upon closer reflection, it sent chills down his spine, filling him with lingering fear.
Is the villa really haunted? Or is it truly haunted?
Recalling what he had heard from the maids and the rumors he had heard, he couldn't help but feel alarmed.
If there really is something dirty in the villa, it's definitely targeting him.
From the maids' words, we know that this thing is meant to protect the Huai inkstone.
Thinking back to that strange incident, Lin Mu was already mostly convinced.
With the mindset of "better safe than sorry," Lin Mu thought of a particularly famous Taoist temple in City A.
There used to be a girl in his class who was said to be possessed by an evil spirit. She went crazy for several nights, and seeing many psychologists didn't help.
It is said that the girl's mother personally went to the Taoist temple and kowtowed three times and nine times to invite the abbot.
Later, the abbot said that the girl was possessed by an evil spirit, and her weak birth chart made her vulnerable to unclean things.
After the abbot resolved the matter, the girl never encountered anything similar again.
As for the truth of the matter, Lin Mu was 100% certain.
Because the girl who had the accident back then was the girl sitting behind him, he remembered her very clearly.
So later, Lin Mu gradually began to believe in things he had never encountered before.
It was precisely because he had indirectly experienced the power of "that thing" that Lin Mu was even more afraid.
As Lin Mu pondered, his thoughts were abruptly pulled back by a series of sharp whistles.
Lin Mu stood in the middle of the road.
He stared at the speeding car, his eyes widening in an instant.
-
When Huaiyan received the news, she was still shocked.
He almost suspected that Huaiyi was behind it.
But judging from the other person's reaction, he felt that Huai Yi was the one who was particularly surprised.
"Logically, that shouldn't be the case," 073 muttered to himself. "He's 18 and still so mentally challenged, it shouldn't be like this!"
After replying to his parents' messages, Huaiyan slumped onto the sofa and said, "He ran a red light. He's probably colorblind."
Just now, Huaiyan received some incredibly unbelievable news.
Lin Mu was in a car accident.
Moreover, I heard that he was seriously injured. When the butler rushed back to the villa, he only said that Lin Mu was covered in blood and had been sent for emergency treatment.
Huai Yan was still a little incredulous at the time, after all, just half an hour earlier, Lin Mu had been ridiculed by Huai Yi in the villa.
Only half an hour later, news of Lin Mu's accident came, which no one would believe.
“This is too sudden,” Huai Yan frowned unconsciously. “This part wasn’t in the original plot.”
Following the original plot, this world is a complete wish-fulfillment story for Jiang Feng and Lin Mu.
How could a plot where the protagonist steps on others to reach the top result in a car accident?
“It is a bit strange,” 073 said with a puzzled look. “Anyway, I don’t remember there being such a scene in the original plot.”
If we were to say what Lin Mu suffered the most in the original story, it would be the embarrassment he initially received from Huai's parents and the supernatural events he encountered in the villa.
Although Lin Mu was the one who was switched at birth, the situation of children switched at birth in high society is not that bad.
Although Lin Mu's adoptive parents' family was not as powerful as the Huai family, they were still wealthy and generous. They raised their son like a flower, taking great care of him in every way.
Therefore, considering all these points, there is something fishy about Lin Mu being hit by a car.
For some reason, Huaiyan suddenly had a strange guess.
He stood up from the sofa, looking somewhat weary.
To be honest, things have come to this point, even if he's stupid, he should know something by now.
There are very few people in this world who are so powerful and can control everything with their own hands.
No, the Ghost King shouldn't be considered human.
Huai Yan went straight upstairs.
Of course he wanted to find the Ghost King to get some answers, but now was not the time, and he couldn't take the initiative to ask.
If he were to bring up Lin Mu's name, the Ghost King would surely cause trouble.
In the end, Huaiyan will be the one who suffers.
But it wasn't until Huaiyan entered the room and played on the computer at her desk for almost an hour that things changed.
The Ghost King still hasn't appeared.
Huai inkstones have a strange intuition.
He seemed to anticipate that the Ghost King might not appear again tonight.
Every meeting between them was orchestrated by the Ghost King.
Unless the man wants to meet, Huaiyan cannot find him or even talk to him.
From this perspective, Huaiyan is always in a passive position; he knows nothing about anything the Ghost King is going to do.
He didn't even know the other party's purpose, name, or whether they were sent by Jiang Feng.
Huaiyan had pondered these questions for a long time, so long that even now, with Lin Mu in trouble, he still hadn't come to a conclusion.
It's too difficult.
Huai Yan finally understood why this dimension had caused the first five batches of hosts to be wiped out.
From the very beginning, they were all the Ghost King's prey. The man could monitor their every move in real time, while they remained completely unaware, unable to learn even the slightest bit about the Ghost King.
This is a complete crushing defeat.
The Ghost King was toying with them wantonly, looking down on them with an overwhelming and domineering attitude.
This realization made Huaiyan extremely unhappy.
In this situation where the enemy is in the dark while he is in the light, Huaiyan has no way to resist if the other party wants to harm him.
With this thought in mind, Huaiyan closed her eyes listlessly.
He won't let this situation last too long.
-
Huaiyan got up very early the next day. Because he had a full schedule of classes, he got up before eight o'clock to go for a morning run.
The first class was at a little after ten o'clock, and Huaiyan wasn't in a hurry.
At the dining table, only the brothers Huaiyan and Huaiyi were eating, facing each other.
"Shall I take you to school later?" Huaiyi took a sip of coffee. "Is it ten o'clock?"
Huai Yan glanced at Huai Yi and instantly knew what the other was thinking.
He said calmly, "Brother, you should go to the hospital to see Lin Mu first."
Huai Yi was taken aback, then smiled: "Not bad, you're even thinking about your brother now?"
Huaiyan lowered her head and took a bite of the sandwich.
In fact, Huaiyi is good in every way, except that he is a complete brother-obsessed person and a brother-supporting fanatic. He would do anything for his brother.
However, Huaiyi sometimes disregards etiquette.
Lin Mu has now officially joined the Huai family, and this news has spread throughout the upper echelons of society.
The fact that the people in the villa didn't like Lin Mu was ultimately just a family matter for the Huai family, because outsiders didn't know about it.
Now that Lin Mu has officially become a member of the Huai family, any unfavorable rumors circulating about him will damage the Huai family's reputation.
Now that Lin Mu is in the hospital, they have to at least maintain appearances. Even if they don't like this person, they can't give anyone a handle to use against them.
“I’m afraid of what they’ll say about you,” Huaiyan said, lowering her eyes. “You don’t seem to care about your own affairs.”
Huaiyi smiled upon hearing this, his eyes and brows full of joy.
After finishing his meal, Huaiyan grabbed his schoolbag and got into the car in the villa.
He planned to visit Lin Mu at the hospital during his time after school.
With that thought in mind, Huaiyan walked into the classroom and sat down in her seat.
It was a coincidence that this class was taught by Jin Xiuchen.
As usual, a commotion erupted when the man entered the classroom.
Huaiyan was caught off guard and made eye contact with the man, her ears turning red.
However, Jin Xiuchen did not linger. He simply turned around and wrote on the blackboard, leaving his tall figure visible to the audience.
Huaiyan opened the book, and just as she was about to pick up her pen, she froze.
He looked down at his feet, puzzled, but there was nothing there except a piece of scrap paper.
Huai Yan frowned, then casually looked away and picked up his pen.
On the podium, Jin Xiuchen had already set up the book, turned on the computer, and was calling on students to answer the questions left over from the previous class.
Huaiyan forced herself to stay awake, and when she looked up, her eyes met those of the man.
Jin Xiuchen chuckled, raised his hand to push up his gold-rimmed glasses, and said in a low voice.
"Huai inkstone".
At the same time, Huaiyan only felt...
A cold hand gripped his ankle once more.
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