Ha, Karma! – Chapter 11

…Am I too direct?

Fu Lianxue’s words caught her off guard.

“Eaten it?”

“Do charm demons still eat water ghosts?”

Chu Zhaoqiu was stunned while holding her phone.

Two seconds later, she came to her senses and asked straightforwardly: “Are you trying to deceive me?”

Fu Lianxue responded with unrestrained laughter: “Hahaha——”

Fu Lianxue didn’t even try to hide it: “Yes, haha——”

Chu Zhaoqiu: “…”

It was clear she enjoyed making her lose face.

After finishing laughing, Fu Lianxue wiped tears from her eyes and said: “I wouldn’t eat those things, it’s a waste of time. I’d rather smell more of your fragrance.”

Eating such a small water ghost would be tasteless to her, and useless too.

She only needed to stand beside Chu Zhaoqiu, doing nothing, to have a feast of spiritual energy.

“Then let’s meet.”

The gentle words, like a spring breeze, suddenly blew into her ears.

Fu Lianxue, who had been arrogant and unrestrained before, was caught off guard and asked in confusion: “What?”

“Let’s meet up,” Chu Zhaoqiu repeated patiently on the other end of the phone.

Fu Lianxue: “…”

She frowned: “Why meet?”

“Don’t you want to have a feast?”

“Well, that’s true…”

“Besides, we haven’t seen each other for a week.”

“…?”

“I miss you.”

“…”

Fu Lianxue held her phone in a daze like an idiot.

So direct.

It left her completely dumbfounded!

After a second thought, she felt something wasn’t quite right.

Things couldn’t be this simple!

“No, you don’t just want to see me, you want to keep an eye on me and prevent me from causing trouble, right?”

After she finished speaking, a very soft and gentle laugh came through the phone receiver.

——And it was damn pleasant to hear.

“Mm, that’s right.”

Fu Lianxue: “…”

You’re quite honest, aren’t you.

Chu Zhaoqiu indeed had such intentions.

Being able to see Fu Lianxue while preventing her from causing trouble – it was killing two birds with one stone, so why not?

But Fu Lianxue clearly wasn’t such an obedient demon.

“In your dreams!”

Then she hung up the phone.

Chu Zhaoqiu looked at the disconnected phone, lost in thought.

…Was I too direct?

Meanwhile, Fu Lianxue was becoming troubled.

She was regretting now, regretting not helping that water ghost!

If she had known it was the ghost Chu Zhaoqiu was looking for, she wouldn’t have driven it away. She would have kept it and helped it with all her might, letting it cause trouble for Chu Zhaoqiu – the more chaos the better!

She tossed the phone aside and buried her face in a cushion, full of regret.

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At the Lin family’s house, Chen Hong was worried Lin Yun might suddenly look for him, so he didn’t rush home.

He sat in the living room until Lin Yun fell asleep before saying goodbye to Lin’s parents.

He was courteous and well-mannered.

Father Lin stood at the door watching him leave.

He looked at the young man’s retreating figure, then turned to look at his daughter’s room.

He thought Chen Hong was a good person who cared about his daughter, but something in his heart felt not quite right.

Father Lin furrowed his brows in thought but, having no clue, could only shake his head and let it go.

He turned around, intending to find Chu Zhaoqiu and Chu Yun.

He now believed that Chu Zhaoqiu had some real abilities.

Because the talisman paper that Chu Zhaoqiu gave his daughter really could help stabilize her emotions, and she could even sleep peacefully now.

But when he turned around, he found Chu Zhaoqiu watching the direction Chen Hong had left, with a thoughtful expression.

He opened his mouth, wanting to ask something.

Just as the words reached his lips, he suddenly remembered Chu Zhaoqiu’s previous mention about forms of address, and after pondering for a moment, he called out: “Miss Chu.”

Chu Zhaoqiu turned to look at him.

Father Lin asked curiously: “Do you think there’s something wrong with him?”

Chu Zhaoqiu blinked, gently shaking her head: “It’s nothing.”

She did find this person strange, but without evidence she couldn’t jump to conclusions, especially since Lin Yun relied on Chen Hong so much.

Speaking carelessly and making Lin Yun unhappy might damage the relationship between the Lin and Chu families.

She suddenly remembered something and said to Father Lin: “There’s one more thing.

“Mr. Lin, please don’t worry, Miss Fu isn’t the mastermind behind this, she doesn’t know the female ghost haunting Miss Lin, she was just passing by.”

Father Lin was stunned: “How do you know?”

Then, having apparently jumped to some conclusion, he asked in amazement: “Can you divine this too?!”

Are people in their line of work this impressive???

Chu Zhaoqiu just shook her head.

“No.”

“?”

“We know each other, I called her to confirm.”

“…Oh.”

Father Lin silently withdrew his gaze, looking elsewhere with an embarrassed expression.

Seems he had overthought things…

Chu Zhaoqiu also shifted her gaze, her expression calm.

Regardless of Fu Lianxue’s identity, as long as she hadn’t done it, she didn’t want her to be misunderstood.

She just hadn’t expected to hear her name in this matter.

Chu Zhaoqiu raised her eyes to look at the night sky outside.

Tonight the sky was full of stars, twinkling points of light, but no moon.

She thought, this must be fate.

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Chen Hong got off the bus and walked home alone.

The long path was bathed in streetlight, the surroundings completely silent. As he approached his residential area, the streets grew quieter, as if the world had fallen asleep early.

His footsteps merged with the wind, accompanied by the rustling sound of tree leaves.

Besides that, there was also a faint sound of water.

His footsteps halted before a high wall with small graffiti.

In an instant, the sound of water surging in the wind became like ocean waves crashing near his ears, the sound suddenly amplifying.

The gurgling sound of flowing water appeared again.

Chen Hong sensed something and slowly turned his head toward the high wall.

There, as if splashed on with deep red paint, were four large characters, shocking to the eye and dripping with blood——

Stay away from her.

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