My parents divorced when I was very young.
I live with my dad, but he never cares about me. In his eyes, there is only profit, not family affection.
I finally got to see my mother flying back from abroad, but the plane crashed. Since then, I've had a strange fear of airplanes, but not to the point that I can't fly anymore; I can bear it.
I haven't told anyone about this because I don't want people to know my weakness.
After that, living with my father, I gradually became numb and managed the Gu family business in an orderly manner.
I have always been polite to others, and no one can find fault with me.
But actually, I was just pretending.
As for relationships, thanks to Jiang Han, no other women have appeared in my life, because Jiang Han is a madwoman.
Considering my parents' situation, I have no expectations for marriage or relationships; everything is based on self-interest.
Until I met her...
Originally, like my father, I never believed in ghosts.
Han Muqi said his sister is obsessed with some kind of mystical art of catching ghosts, but I think Han Muning watches too much TV.
He thought the same way I did.
However, even though I didn't believe it, people still died in the villa I built because it was haunted, so I started to take it seriously and prepared to stop construction for inspection.
But the father remained indifferent, saying, "It's just an accident. Why are you all talking about ghosts? Not many people died. Just pay some compensation and keep going."
But I felt it was inappropriate, so I asked Han Muqi to inquire with others. Apparently, there is a Mu family that is very famous in this circle, but they are not in China, and their prices are very expensive.
I could only continue looking for other more suitable candidates, and eventually found the one with the lowest price.
I thought the person who came would be an old Taoist priest like in the TV shows, but I didn't expect it to be a young woman.
Perhaps it's a stereotype, but I always felt that she didn't have any real ability and was just there to scam money.
She said confidently, "Mr. Gu, that's a stereotype. If I can't exorcise the ghost for you, I won't take a single penny from you."
At that time, I was also very anxious and thought I should let her try it.
To avoid a similar situation in the future, I also needed to understand the situation of the villa area, so I went with her to check it out.
That was also the first time I saw a ghost.
In an instant, several evil spirits pounced on me. The fear that arose from the bottom of my heart was uncontrollable. At that moment, I thought I was going to die.
Until she stood in front of me, I looked into her eyes and felt inexplicably at ease.
Her eyes are beautiful; her black pupils seem larger than normal, as if she's wearing colored contact lenses, but in reality, they are her real pupils, bright and gentle.
Everything around me became an illusion, and the evil spirits disappeared. My world was filled only with her bright eyes, and I was completely captivated by them. My fear vanished as a result.
After everything was over, she told me that because my villa was built on a cemetery, there were many ghosts. This time, not many evil spirits came out, so they were easier to catch. However, for the sake of the future, I need to offer incense and sacrifices every day before starting construction, so that nothing bad will happen.
I did explain it to my father, but he found out I was sick and abolished the rule.
From the day I met Mu Tiantian, I began to investigate everything about her. I wanted to understand her better and get closer to her.
After learning about her schedule, I would often pretend to bump into her, and she didn't suspect me.
Except for the ghost beside her.
I never imagined that an exorcist like her would raise ghosts.
Moreover, that ghost looked very familiar to me; it was exactly the same as Huo Jixiu, the decisive and efficient man from the Huo family.
When Mu Tiantian realized I had discovered it, she didn't hide it from me and even asked me to tell her more about his background to help him recover his memory.
I didn't refuse, but Huo Jixiu looked at me like I was an enemy, and even privately warned me to stay away from her.
I naturally didn't want to be overwhelmed by him. No matter how terrifying his resentment was, I could endure it. At least I couldn't lose in terms of momentum. I told him, word by word, "It's her freedom to associate with whomever she wants. You have no right to interfere."
To this day, I still remember the look in Huo Jixiu's eyes at that time; he definitely wanted to kill me.
I learned Mu Tiantian's birthday from her information and gave her a simple handicraft, neither expensive nor cheap, at least a gift she wouldn't refuse.
After getting to know her better, I realized that she would never accept a gift that was too expensive.
At the same time, I also know that once she discovers that a man is interested in her, but she doesn't have those feelings for him, she will distance herself or reject him completely.
But there was one special person... to be precise, a ghost...
I think she might really be interested in Huo Jixiu, but this is the first time I've experienced true infatuation, the first time I've felt such a strong desire to be with someone, and I can't just give up like this.
Therefore, I carefully befriended her, maintaining appropriate boundaries in our interactions to avoid arousing her suspicion.
I don't know if it was the subtle magnetic field between rivals, but Huo Jixiu could tell that I liked her. He even questioned me to her face. I denied it, saying, "My father will arrange a marriage between our families. I can't find anyone else. I only consider her a friend."
Huo Jixiu glared at me like a child possessive of his food. If Mu Tiantian hadn't coaxed him a few times, he might have really hit me.
I watched him kiss her right in front of me. She didn't resist. My eyes widened in disbelief. "How could you..."
Huo Jixiu, beaming with joy, put his arm around Mu Tiantian and told me, "This is my wife."
Mu Tiantian corrected him, "She's my girlfriend."
Huo Jixiu said pitifully, "Anyway, you promised me that you would marry me after I woke up, so wouldn't you be my wife?"
Mu Tiantian said, "We'll have to wait until after we're married to talk about that."
I didn't dare let them notice anything unusual, so I could only offer them my congratulations with a faint smile.
After that, I kept thinking about whether I should choose to give up.
But Huo Jixiu became like this because he lost his past memories. If he regained his senses and remembered everything, perhaps... perhaps he wouldn't have married her...
Everyone knows that Huo Jixiu is a workaholic, and it's said that he's also a misogynist, but no one knows if that's true.
My selfish hope is that he will drive her away once he sobers up.
Just when my hopes were fading, things took a turn for the better.
I discovered that she had taken on a new ghost-catching case, involving a very fierce ghost.
Just as she was about to leave, I pretended to bump into her by chance and volunteered to take her home.
There were no cars available at that time, so she agreed.
She didn't let Huo Jixiu follow, because she thought it would affect his resentment.
After dropping them off at a nearby location, she wouldn't let them go any further, otherwise it would be dangerous.
I waited for her at the place she told me to leave. Several hours passed and she still hadn't come, so I messaged her asking her to let me know when she was done so I could come pick her up.
Then my phone notification sounded in my car.
I thought it was about time, so I drove in. It was an abandoned courtyard, and all the surrounding houses had been emptied.
When I arrived at the destination, I lost consciousness before I even got out of the car.
During this period, I could feel my emotions in all aspects being amplified infinitely, including my feelings.
In a blur, my body attacked her uncontrollably, and no matter how I resisted, I couldn't regain control of my body.
I'm terrified of hurting her.
She eventually rescued me, but I was completely unconscious.
When I woke up, I was in the bedroom of that deserted courtyard. Mu Tiantian was lying on the old sofa chair in the living room, talking in her sleep, "Break up...with Ji Xiu...I don't want to...I have to..."
Her sleep-talking was intermittent, saying that she didn't want to break up, but they had to.
A glimmer of hope ignited within me. Looking at her sleeping face, all I wanted to do was kiss her.
In the past, I would have been patient and restrained, but I don't know what happened that day, I just couldn't control myself, and all my evil thoughts were magnified infinitely.
I couldn't help but move closer to her. I heard her calling Huo Jixiu's name in her sleep, and I instantly woke up and stopped moving.
The moment she opened her eyes, I quickly stepped back, pretending nothing had happened, and offered her words of concern and greetings.
She asked me if I was injured so she could help treat me. I felt some pain in my buttocks, but I didn't want to say anything, so I kept it a secret.
She reminded me that if I had any wounds, I should get them treated immediately.
Later I saw it was just a small cut, but I was bothered by it.
Seeing that she cared about me, my affection for her seemed to grow even stronger.
But from that day on, she suddenly became distant from me.
She gave me a jade Guanyin statue, partly as a return gift for the birthday present I gave her, and partly as if she were settling old scores with me.
I told her my thoughts directly, and she rejected me without hesitation.
My resentment was amplified. I even thought that even if she didn't want to, as long as I kept her by my side, one day she would definitely be mine.
Even if she goes abroad, I will still follow her.
As it turned out, my plane ticket was gone at the crucial moment. Just as I was about to rebook and board the plane to go abroad to find her, news came that the plane had crashed.
I can't describe that feeling. I only know that I couldn't breathe and my whole body was trembling uncontrollably.
From that moment on, I would instinctively feel fear and dizziness whenever I boarded a plane.
When I learned that Han Muqi's sister had entered the ghost-hunting business, I immediately sought her out to help me summon my soul.
In the end, nothing came of it.
Not long after, my father made me marry Jiang Han.
Because I have someone in my heart, I am unwilling.
However, my father tricked me into going to the engagement venue by threatening his own safety, and even invited the media. In order not to offend the Jiang family, I had no choice but to bite the bullet and attend the engagement ceremony.
I have a very negative impression of Jiang Han. The first time I saw her was at a banquet when I was a child. She was throwing a tantrum at a waiter, hitting and kicking him, and throwing things. I was a little scared of her when I saw her acting crazy.
Later, I heard that the Jiang family had a history of mental illness, and she had it too, so I kept my distance from her.
She said she liked me from the first moment she saw me when I was a child, and from then on I was entangled with her. When I was in school, because I got a little close to a girl, she beat that girl half to death.
I later heard that the girl was crippled and rendered infertile, and the Jiang family had to pay a lot of money to settle the matter privately.
Out of guilt, I went to visit the girl, but she looked at me as if she had seen a ghost and told me to leave.
From then on, no girl dared to approach me again.
That was the first time I had ever hated someone so much.
Even though she took a two-year leave of absence for treatment, I still couldn't bring myself to associate with her, let alone get engaged to her.
Because her family owns a talent agency, it was easy for her to enter the entertainment industry, and over the years she has become a popular idol.
The symptoms of my temper tantrums have become much milder than before, and the frequency has gradually decreased.
My father knew all this, but he still wouldn't let me break off the engagement with her because he thought it would affect the Gu family's interests.
He even told me that as long as the descendants of the Gu family have my blood flowing in their veins, he doesn't care who gave birth to them.
I accidentally learned that Jiang Han had her own artists accompany her for drinks, and the filthy things they did behind the scenes left me speechless.
I told my father about it, but he wouldn't let me get involved. Not long after, I discovered that my father was also a client of Jiang Han's company and had slept with several of her artists.
This is the first time I've felt nauseous because of something, whether it's my father or the Jiang family.
Even so, I still didn't dare to expose these things about the Jiang family's company in order to protect my father's reputation.
I had heard Tian Tian say that there is cause and effect in the world, and that people will eventually pay the price for what they have done. I placed my hopes on this and then ignored Jiang Han.
I started recruiting so-called "white moonlight" girls, all of whom looked very similar to Mu Tiantian. Even my secretary, Zhao Qing, bore a resemblance to her.
My original intention was to force Jiang Han to annul the engagement, but I also had a selfish motive: what if I could meet her again, even if it was just her spirit...?
But the more people I meet, the clearer it becomes that no one can replace her, not even a shadow of her.
I got drunk late at night and passed out. The next day, Zhao Qing was lying next to me with obvious marks on her body. She said I mistook her for Mu Tiantian. This was the second time I felt nauseous. I took a long shower.
I can't believe I touched Zhao Qing, and I feel disgusted whenever I see her.
When Jiang Han found out, she immediately came to me. She knows everything that happens to me, as if she is monitoring my life.
I originally wanted to give Zhao Qing some money and leave, but Jiang Han went crazy and threatened to kill Zhao Qing. Zhao Qing was scared. Seeing that Jiang Han was in a bad mood, I could only keep Zhao Qing by my side for the time being, worried that Jiang Han would really hurt her.
I don't want that incident from my student days to happen again. Jiang Han threatened that if Zhao Qing were caught by her, she would be dead.
I settled Zhao Qing in a house near the company and even assigned her security. Then I pretended nothing had happened and continued my life of "changing girlfriends every day" and continued to hire my "white moonlight".
Jiang Han didn't make things difficult for these girls; at most, she only gave them warnings.
Han Muqi said I had money to burn, but I still smiled and asked him to help me look for something similar and bring it over.
When Jiang Han saw me mourning Mu Tiantian every day, she lost her temper and threw my photos away. I couldn't stand her anymore, so I broke off the engagement despite the pressure, at any cost.
Perhaps my persistence paid off.
I saw her again. She said her name was Mu Mu. But no matter how I looked at her, it was definitely her. Her voice and appearance were exactly the same. In particular, her first reaction when she saw me made me immediately certain that it must be her.
Next, I tried various methods to test her and keep her here. I sent people to follow her and pay attention to her every move. I even threatened her with a fake contract. I found several esoteric practitioners to work as security guards in the building. I knew she was very powerful, but if I found more, maybe I could keep her here.
In the end, it was all in vain.
When I learned that Zhao Qing had lied to me about the night I was drunk and the pregnancy, all I could think was that she deserved to die and that I wanted to kill her. Such evil thoughts grew in my heart, and I could no longer control myself, so I put my thoughts into action.
Finally, I felt a sharp pain in the back of my head, as if I had been hit, and I completely lost consciousness.
When I woke up, I saw her. She seemed a little unfamiliar at first glance, but I immediately remembered her. My obsession with her didn't seem as deep as before, and I also remembered the things I had done.
In order to still be able to see her, I can only pretend to have amnesia. Even if it is no longer possible for us, I don't want to never see her again.
Later, when Han Muqi talked about the wounds on my body, I realized that my previous extreme behavior was due to the fierce energy left behind when I was possessed by a ghost.
If it weren't for that jade Guanyin, I might have been influenced by that fierce energy and done something even more serious.
However, the jade Guanyin was taken away by her, and the contract she had signed was also given away by Han Muqi.
To be honest, for a moment I still wanted to tie her down with a contract, but...
What's the point then?
It's just self-deception.
Fortunately...
Fortunately, I found her photo, although it was taken secretly.
At least...
There's something to look forward to...
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