Chen Boteng tentatively asked, "Are you saying that she is very knowledgeable about makeup?"
Lou Qianzong: "She does know a lot about makeup, but that's not what I meant."
Chu Nian felt that if Lou Qianzong really was a time traveler, she would probably have already guessed that she was: she was using a concealing method that only existed in later generations.
That said, the Maoshan Taoist priests were already seriously injured, so what about the Chen mansion...?
She went straight to the Chen mansion after leaving the nightclub. As she expected, because the Taoists were seriously injured, the Taoist formation, without the support of the Celestial Masters' magic, would gradually weaken as it was only activated by the array stones at a few key points.
The reason this great formation was operating so well before was because the Celestial Master blessed it with magical energy every day.
Chu Nian pried open the array stone, and the magic array became ineffective. Unfortunately, the female lead was currently healing her injuries with her sect members in a small inn and had no time to attend to anything else, let alone the grand array at the Chen mansion.
This grand formation was practically nonexistent to mortals; it was only meant to intercept zombies like Chu Nian. Therefore, when the formation disappeared, no one inside or outside the mansion noticed until Chu Nian leisurely appeared in the main hall of the Chen mansion, at which point the cleaning servants spotted her.
There was no doorbell, and no one opened the mansion door. The woman suddenly appeared in the living room, which surprised the servants. But seeing her luxurious clothes and elegant and composed demeanor, no one expected that she had broken in.
The butler stepped forward and politely asked, "Miss, are you looking for someone?"
Chu Nian nodded and said, "I'm here to see Chang Fenglin."
The steward had no idea that this man had come to claim a soul, so he said, "So you're looking for the young master. May I ask your surname? We'll inform him for you."
Chu Nian: "Just tell him to come see me, you don't need to give me your name."
The butler looked Chu Nian over again and saw that she had an elegant and composed demeanor and was dressed in a very fashionable and stylish manner. He was probably a young lady from a wealthy and powerful family, and he couldn't afford to offend her. After a moment's thought, he asked a servant to serve Chu Nian a drink, while he went upstairs to find Chang Fenglin.
Chang Fenglin was somewhat surprised when the butler told him that a particularly beautiful and stylish young lady was looking for him. He thought back for a moment and guessed that she might be a classmate from university (such a stylish young lady couldn't come from his small hometown), and most likely someone with a similar family background to Chen Baiying. So he followed the butler out.
Halfway down the stairs, his eyes met Chu Nian's cold, upward gaze, which terrified him so much that he almost lost his soul. He let out a strange howl and turned to flee back upstairs.
He had barely taken two steps when a long-haired female ghost descended from above, hanging upside down from the ceiling, her body swaying in front of him. He screamed again and instinctively backed away, but he lost his footing and tumbled down the stairs.
The incident happened suddenly, and from the moment Chang Fenglin went downstairs until he ran back and fell down the stairs, the entire incident took only a dozen seconds. By the time the butler and the others reacted, Chang Fenglin had already fallen to the bottom of the stairs and was unconscious.
Chen Baiying had arranged to have breakfast with Zhou Qianqian, but unexpectedly received a call from the Zhou family early in the morning. Zhou Qianqian said she didn't want to go shopping anymore, and her voice sounded a little unhappy. So Chen Baiying warmly invited her to come to the Chen Mansion.
Actually, Chen Baiying wasn't happy about learning that Chang Fenglin had a childhood betrothal before marrying her, and that the betrothed had even approached her. She sought out Zhou Qianqian to hang out with, precisely to avoid facing Chang Fenglin; the two were now sleeping in separate rooms.
At this moment, Chen Baiying was pouring out her troubles to Zhou Qianqian in her room when she heard the commotion outside, including Chang Fenglin's two screams. She and Zhou Qianqian came out to see what was going on, and she complained irritably, "Fenglin, what are you doing? What are you yelling about?"
As soon as she stepped out of the bedroom and stood behind the second-floor railing, she saw Chang Fenglin, who had just tumbled down the stairs and was unconscious. Startled, she rushed downstairs, asking the bewildered housekeeper, who was still confused as to why her son-in-law had fallen down the stairs, "What happened? How could Fenglin be like this?"
The butler said, "Miss, the young master fell down the stairs. He was behind me, and I... I'm not quite sure how he fell." He then asked the maid who was attending to Chu Nian in the living room downstairs, "Did you see how the young master fell?"
The maid answered truthfully: "I heard the young master call out twice, so I looked up at the stairs and saw him tumbling down."
"How could he be so careless?" Chen Baiying said. "Don't just stand there, quickly call Dr. Liu."
Dr. Liu is the Chen family's family doctor. After the housekeeper had someone carry Chang Fenglin to his current room, he quickly called him.
"It's you? What are you doing here?" Zhou Qianqian's slightly surprised voice finally caught Chen Baiying's attention.
She had actually noticed a beautiful and elegant woman in the hall earlier, but hadn't paid much attention because she was worried about Chang Fenglin. Hearing Zhou Qianqian's words, she followed Zhou Qianqian's gaze to Chu Nian and asked, "Qianqian, do you two know each other?"
Zhou Qianqian said, "I just met her this morning. She's a woman who lives in the apartment building across from mine. I heard she sings at your New Jue Nightclub and is the top singer. I forgot her name."
Chen Baiying never concerned herself with business matters, nor did she know who the top nightclub singer was. She was simply puzzled as to why the nightclub's top singer would come to her house, and asked Chu Nian, "Are you here to see my brother?"
Just as the butler hung up the phone with Dr. Liu, he heard Chen Baiying's question and replied, "This young lady is here to see the young master."
"Looking for Feng Lin?" Chen Baiying asked in surprise, looking Chu Nian up and down warily. "What do you want with Feng Lin?"
Chu Nian raised her lips in a cold smile and said, "My name is Luo Nian."
"Luo Nian? That name sounds familiar..." Chen Baiying murmured as she tried to recall, then suddenly her expression changed, and she exclaimed in horror, "You're Luo Nian?"
Chu Nian smiled and replied, "That's right."
Chen Baiying was so frightened that her hair stood on end: "But I heard... I heard that Luo Nian is dead... dead."
Chu Nian: "Yes, I was originally dead, but Chang Fenglin gave my body to Zhang Pengju of the Corpse Witch Sect. Not only did he use it to refine a corpse, but he also locked my soul in this body, preventing me from reincarnating. So I became a zombie, which is no different from being alive."
Everyone else thought she was joking, but only Chen Baiying knew she was telling the truth.
Chen Baiying trembled with fear, cold sweat pouring down her forehead. She could only stand with the help of Zhou Qianqian and the housekeeper, and asked in a trembling voice, "What...what do you want?"
Chu Nian: "I don't want anything. You don't need to be afraid, I'm here to see Chang Fenglin."
"Don't be afraid?" Chen Baiying's face turned pale with fright, and her voice trembled. "You...you're joking, right?"
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