Chapter 526: The Thousand-Year-Old (47)
“My whole family are officials in the capital, but I’m the most useless. I think you’re right, Lord Ghost God. There must be some karmic obstacles on me that are hindering my future. Tell me how to remove them. I’ll pay any price, one thousand taels? Five thousand taels? Ten thousand taels? As long as I can remove these karmic obstacles and become an official like my brothers and uncles, I’m willing to do anything.”
The other party seemed to be silent for a moment.
Then, with a wave of his hand, the man who had brought them walked up to the platform, leaned in, and the other person seemed to say something.
"The Ghost God said he will help you clear away your sins, so don't worry. Just stay at the Ghost God Temple for now."
"But you can't live together."
The man pointed at Gu Li.
Gu Li's face darkened. He could even feel the spying in those eyes, exactly the same as the countless times he had felt desire and disgust in them before.
In this world, only His Highness could look directly at her without feeling any disgust; everyone else... was utterly repulsive.
"no."
"My wife and I are newlyweds, and I can't sleep without her."
"No, you must separate."
“In that case, let’s leave the ghost town immediately. Let this scoundrel stay; it won’t affect my enjoyment of life anyway. I’m not short of money or a wife.” With that, he pulled Gu Li and prepared to leave.
They were stopped by someone.
The guards also stepped forward, and the two sides were on the verge of exchanging blows.
After that, the so-called Ghost God said something else and eventually compromised, so Wen Wan and Gu Li moved into the Ghost God Temple.
It would be a lie to say I wasn't afraid.
"Don't you think this place is weird?" That night, Wen Wan and Gu Li lay in bed, neither of them able to fall asleep. It was indeed difficult to sleep in this unfamiliar and dangerous place.
Gu Li: "Mm."
"That ghost was definitely played by a person, but how could he kill so many people? Do you think he might be colluding with officials to keep the people ignorant and to control the ghost town and make money?"
Gu Li: "Very likely. I've already had someone investigate."
Nothing happened that night, but the next morning, as usual, Wen Wan and Gu Li got up and were shocked by the extravagant lifestyle of the Ghost God Temple.
The breakfast and lunch were both exceptionally luxurious, and the taste was also top-notch.
Wen Wan asked Xiao Cui to reward the person who served her the dishes.
He would casually hand out a golden melon seed, and afterwards, he would give one to anyone he met on the road.
I feel so sorry for Wen Wan.
But in order to prevent her public image from being questioned, she had no other choice but to do this.
She wanted everyone to believe that he wasn't just an ordinary rich young master. If they wanted money, they could, but they'd better consider the power behind her and the trouble it might cause. Unless it was a real supernatural event, as long as it was man-made, the person behind it certainly wouldn't easily cause trouble for themselves.
After all, if something happened to her here, and she really had a concubine-like relative in her family, good heavens, wouldn't that turn the entire ghost town upside down? They might even expose their secret.
This only fools ordinary people.
Later, he even started to complain that his living environment was too ordinary and would get angry with the servants.
"You're saying there's no ice in this sweltering heat? You guys must be really poor here. Back home, we get ice delivered every hour to cool us down, and it can't be just any ice; it has to be the cleanest kind, the kind you can even put in your tea."
"Your bed is too hard. It makes my whole body itchy. My wife has such delicate skin. What if she gets sick? Will you take responsibility? Replace all the comforters with silk ones from Tianshan."
"Your floor is so ugly, why can't you use jade?"
"What kind of dish is this? It tastes awful!"
Then he threw a jade bracelet at me and said, "Go and change everything according to my requirements, or I'm leaving immediately."
After seeing everyone off, Wen Wan collapsed into Gu Li's arms, exhausted. "I'm so tired. How was my acting? Pretty good, right?"
Gu Li: "I'm almost being scammed."
This is the greatest affirmation of Wen Wan's acting skills.
While playing with Gu Li's fingers, Wen Wan admired Gu Li's good looks and asked, "What do you think we should do next?"
"Let the people behind you see the huge benefits you bring, so that they will include us in their plans."
Wen Yan: "???"
"You mean infiltrate? I like that."
Wen Wan wasn't short of money, but she still felt the pinch when she spent it. Fortunately, the system returned at that moment. After learning what she was doing, the entire system was utterly shocked. [What did you say? You're going to solve the secrets of the Ghost God Temple? Are you out of your mind? What does this have to do with you?]
Wen Wan: "Of course it's related. This Ghost Temple has killed so many people and amassed so much money. As a person with strong morals and a kind heart, how can I stand idly by? Just tell me if you can help?"
System: [What do you want me to do?]
"First, help me figure out what kind of thing that ghost or deity is. I'll go see him later."
System: [OK.]
"There's one more thing I need your help with."
"I'm running out of money. I've been spending a lot lately, and I've almost spent all the money I earned in Liuhua City. You have to help me."
system:【……】
[Host, I'm the system, not your father. Where would I get the money?] The system was truly speechless.
"Of course I know you don't. What I mean is, can you create the illusion for them, like if I take out a stone, they'll think it's a lump of gold?"
system:【……】
"You're not going to abandon me, are you? If you don't help me, I'll die here, if they find out I'm a liar."
As long as you reveal your identity, no one can do anything to you.
"Then I won't be able to find out anything about the Ghost God Temple. Will you help me or not? If you don't help me, I'll break up with Gu Li and cause him a huge emotional blow. Don't you feel sorry for your male lead?"
System: [He is your boyfriend.]
"Let go when it's time to let go." The system will definitely agree anyway, so I can just renege on my promise. I'm not an honest person anyway.
[Fine, I'll do it. Just stop causing trouble. If you dare abandon the male lead, he'll break your legs, break your arms, and lock you in a dark room, and so on. Be careful.]
Where did you read that melodramatic novel?
[You wrote it, and you've forgotten?]
Wen Wan: "..." She had almost forgotten her job, but it would be so nice to be a lazy bum.
Wen Wan quickly went to see the Ghost God and was granted an audience. While speaking with him, she had the system perform a scan. After the scan, the system declared, "Not human."
This greatly shocked Wen Wan. What did this mean? Could it really be a ghost? This shouldn't be a supernatural world, right?
It's not a ghost.
Wen Wan breathed a sigh of relief, dealt with him as quickly as possible, and left the Ghost and God Hall. "What did you mean just now? What do you mean it's neither a ghost nor a human? What is it? There can't be any other creatures, can there? Is this world really that dangerous? Maybe we should leave if things get really bad. There's no need to take any more risks."
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