Qian Yuxin looked at her husband sleeping soundly in bed, her heart filled with bitterness.
It was not her wish to plot against Xiao Han. All this could only be said to be the arrangement of fate.
Qian Dabao was afraid of death. After setting up a feng shui formation at home with the help of a Taoist priest, Qian Dabao actively looked for someone who could provide "luck" to the feng shui formation.
The Qian family's feng shui array required neither too much nor too little. A person with great luck could alone maintain the energy requirements for decades. However, those with great luck are generally not ordinary people. Qian Dabao was just a wealthy man, and he didn't have any treasures that could convince someone with great luck to work for him.
The Qian family's feng shui formation might sound incredible, but it actually has strict limitations. It can't just absorb anyone's luck. The person whose luck is being absorbed must be related to Qian Dabao, such as a relative or an employee of Qian Dabao.
Qian Dabao's family had all but died, and finding a relative to contribute some luck was simply impossible. Qian Dabao had no choice but to turn his attention to his employees.
Mike, the Qian family’s chef, was the first person to provide “luck” to the Feng Shui formation.
Mike's luck was quite good. He became famous at a young age, won a gold medal at an international food festival, and enjoyed a smooth life until he turned 40. Then, at 40, his wife passed away. Left alone, Mike didn't want to stay in his hometown and grieve over his family, so he moved to Hong Kong Island.
Qian Dabao, under the guidance of the Taoist priest, found Mike and said that he liked the food he made. He offered a high price and invited Mike to work as the chef at the Qian family. Mike didn't know about the Qian family's Feng Shui formation. Thinking that the Qian family father and daughter wouldn't be too tired after a day's work, and Qian Dabao's high salary, he accepted Qian Dabao's offer.
Qian Dabao followed the Taoist's instructions and obtained a strand of Mike's hair, attaching it to the dragon-shaped bonsai. The feng shui formation began to automatically absorb Mike's luck, maintaining the energy for its operation.
Five years later, Mike's luck had been almost completely drained by the Feng Shui formation, and his health was deteriorating. At this point, Mike's contract expired, and he chose not to renew it, leaving the Qian family and returning to his hometown.
Qian Dabao had no choice but to find someone else to replace Mike. This time, without a Taoist priest to help him, and unable to find anyone with exceptional luck, Qian Dabao resorted to using the luck of ordinary people to support the Qian family's feng shui formation. However, how much luck could an ordinary person possess? It was already quite impressive that one person could withstand the consuming power of a feng shui formation for three months.
In the following years, the Qian family's workers changed one after another. Because of the Feng Shui formation, Qian Dabao didn't dare to absorb the luck of Mike by focusing on one thing at a time, as that would easily reveal a flaw.
However, the servants in Qian Dabao's house could not be changed too frequently, and people with great luck were hard to come by. After a few years of this, when the locals heard that the Qian family was recruiting workers, no one was willing to go. The Qian family's old house was a bit strange. People who worked there for a few years looked very old.
As a result, Qian Dabao fell into a dilemma.
Qian Dabao had no choice but to ask the Taoist for help again.
At this point, the Taoist priest had no choice but to abandon the matter. He sent an outer disciple to assist Qian Dabao in searching for someone with great fortune. This outer disciple was the now famous Master Dingyuan of Hong Kong Island.
Master Dingyuan was not a master at that time. He was just an ordinary disciple of Yushan Sect, named Gao Dingyuan.
Gao Dingyuan joined the Yushan Sect when he was young, but unfortunately his spiritual roots were not pure enough. He practiced the Yushan Sect's skills for thirty years before he could get started with Qi training.
However, a young disciple in the Qi Refining Stage is also a cultivator, far more powerful than a worldly martial arts master. To encourage Gao Dingyuan to find someone, the Taoist priest taught him a technique called "Qi Observation." After practicing this technique, Gao Dingyuan could see the amount of Qi flowing through each person's head.
Gao Dingyuan was naturally happy to serve such a master as the Taoist priest. His aptitude was too poor anyway, and he wouldn't achieve anything significant by staying in the Yushan Sect. It would be better for him to go into the secular world and run errands for the Taoist priest.
Qian Dabao learned from Mike's lesson and told Gao Dingyuan to look for someone around his daughter's age. Qian Yuxin was getting older and when she got married, it would be better for her to stay at home and find a son-in-law with great luck.
Qian Dabao thought about it. Workers can terminate their contracts and leave at any time, but this son-in-law is considered a family member. It is impossible for him to run away in just three or two years, right?
Qian Dabao's idea was a good one, but Hong Kong Island was small and not very populated. Gao Dingyuan had met a few lucky individuals, some of whom held high positions or were wealthy men in their seventies or eighties, but none of them were within Qian Dabao's reach. Gao Dingyuan wandered around Hong Kong Island for three months but couldn't find a young man who met Qian Dabao's requirements.
Gao Dingyuan thought that China was a vast country with abundant resources, but life was relatively poor. If he could find someone with great luck in China, it would be easier to trick him into working for Qian Dabao.
In this way, Yu Xiaohan became Qian Dabao's "prey". He was first deceived by Gao Dingyuan to Hong Kong Island, and then he fell into Qian Dabao's trap step by step and became the son-in-law of the Qian family.
Qian Yuxin didn't know whether the death of Yu Xiaohan's ex-wife was related to her father Qian Dabao, but she always suspected that Qian Dabao had someone kill Yu Xiaohan's ex-wife. Otherwise, why did they do well in the past few years, but after Yu Xiaohan rejected the marriage proposal, his ex-wife got into trouble?
Over the years, Qian Dabao has accumulated a lot of wealth, but he is afraid of being hunted by the Nawa people and has never dared to live a high-profile life. In order to survive, Qian Dabao even deliberately eats and drinks excessively, turning himself from a handsome man into a fat and big-eared wealthy businessman.
When Qian Yuxin first married Yu Xiaohan, they didn't expect that they would be together for so many years. Qian Dabao never concealed his plans. He asked Qian Yuxin to kick Yu Xiaohan out after she found the next person with "great luck".
During the more than ten years she spent with Yu Xiaohan, Qian Yuxin fell in love with this hardworking and down-to-earth man. Qian Yuxin was very sad. The man she loved was schemed against by her father every day, and as his wife, she could only stand by and watch for the sake of the so-called family inheritance. This pain made Qian Yuxin's heart feel like it was being stabbed by needles all the time.
Before Qian Dabao died, all he cared about was the Qian family's inheritance. Qian Yuxin was very sad. She had been raising that little ghost brother, and her body was corroded by the ghost energy. She would never be able to conceive in this lifetime. Where was the Qian family's inheritance?
After Qian Dabao's death, Qian Yuxin rejected Master Dingyuan's suggestion that she find a new "husband." Over the years, Qian Yuxin felt exhausted. If it weren't for the little ghost brother she had been raising, Qian Yuxin would have even thought that death would be her best escape.
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