Lu Dad groaned at the mention. “It’s a headache. The cleaners we’ve hired recently all claim it’s haunted and refuse to come back. One of them even left after only half a day. They all say someone is crying in the last stall of the restroom, the lights flicker on and off, and the faucets leak blood. But the problem is, the last stall is a storage room; no one can even get in.”
Ye Xue found it increasingly strange. The company’s feng shui should be fine; she had seen similar feng shui arrangements in her master’s notes, which were beneficial for wealth accumulation.
If it was indeed good for wealth, how could it attract ghosts and lead to misfortune?
The true situation would likely be revealed once they went inside.
So, Ye Xue said, “You should take me to see the company first.”
After a few words, Ye Xue had pointed out the company’s current predicament, dispelling Lu Dad’s doubts. He looked at Ye Xue and confessed, “To be honest, I hired someone privately for this.” After a pause, he seemed to hesitate, speaking vaguely, “To avoid causing panic among the employees, we can’t just say we invited a Taoist to exorcise ghosts.”
Ye Xue understood. “I get it.”
Regarding how to get Ye Xue into the company, Lu Dad thought for a moment and said sincerely, “Currently, the company needs cleaners… So, for now, we can only ask Master Ye to disguise herself as a cleaner.”
“Wait, wait,” Lu Xue Zhen suddenly had a thought and said earnestly, “Even if it’s just a pretense, she should still get paid, right? Ahem.”
The kid is quite astute, Ye Xue thought, looking at him with surprise.
Lu Dad readily agreed. “No problem. I’ll settle the market rate along with the salary.”
The few of them entered the building.
The employees were just about to clock out when they saw Manager Lu bringing in someone. They were all taken aback; they recognized Lu Xue Zhen, who had been there before, but who was the stunning girl next to Manager Lu, looking even prettier than a star?
The receptionist couldn’t help her curiosity and asked, “Manager, who is this?”
Mr. Lu calmly replied, “This is the new cleaning staff we hired. I’m taking her inside to see the situation.”
The receptionist was taken aback, thinking, “???”
Honestly, with looks like that, even a stroll around Hengdian would earn her more than working as a cleaner!
Ye Xue smiled brightly and said, “Sister, I’m quite good at cleaning up dirt. I promise to have the company spotless in just a couple of days.”
The receptionist was sweetly taken by Ye Xue calling her “sister” and forgot about her gossiping instincts, saying dazedly, “You better do your best!”
Avoiding the company’s employees, Mr. Lu led Ye Xue to the rumored haunted restroom.
However, just as they approached, they heard a “woo-woo” sound of crying.
The voice was filled with sorrow, tightening their hearts.
Not only ordinary people but even Ye Xue was startled, thinking, “Oh no, it can’t be another disfigured ghost, right?”
Lu Xuezhen shivered at the ghostly sounds and dared not come any closer. He trembled and said, “D-Dad… I don’t have to go in, do I?”
With the employer present, Ye Xue couldn’t back down. She took out her anti-evil sword and said, pretending to be calm, “It’s fine. I can go in alone. You guys stay here and don’t let anyone else in.”
After taking a deep breath, she turned and stepped inside.
As soon as she entered the restroom, the lights began to flicker, just as rumored, dimming and brightening intermittently. Under the eerie sound of crying, it felt haunting and bizarre.
Though the crying was faint, the small space made it echo throughout the restroom.
Ye Xue instinctively glanced toward the last stall, realizing that was where the negative energy was strongest. She walked over, summoning her courage, placing one hand on the doorknob and gripping the anti-evil sword tightly in the other, ready to strike if necessary.
Taking a deep breath, she pushed the door open and raised her sword.
Inside the storage room squatted a female ghost, facing the wall and crying sorrowfully.
Hearing the commotion, she raised her head with long hair falling over her face, and under the dim light, her face appeared pale and ghostly.
Ye Xue screamed, “What the hell!”
The female ghost nearly jumped, exclaiming, “What the heck!”
Both the girl and the ghost screamed and looked at each other, suddenly saying in unison:
“—What are you doing here?!”
Outside, Mr. Lu and Lu Xuezhen heard Ye Xue’s terrified scream and felt a chill run down their spines.
Mr. Lu asked worriedly, “Is that master going to be okay?”
“I don’t know…” Though Lu Xuezhen had full confidence in Ye Xue, hearing her scream made him uneasy. Just as he hesitated about rushing back to call for help, Ye Xue came out, sword in hand, looking completely speechless.
Seeing that Ye Xue was okay, Lu Xuezhen sighed in relief and quickly asked, “Big sister, what just happened? Did you catch the ghost?”
Ye Xue wore an expression of helplessness: “You should ask her yourself.”
Lu Xuezhen was confused, but Ye Xue threw him a bottle of ghost tears.
He immediately understood, quickly dropping a few drops into his eyes. When he finally saw the ghost behind Ye Xue, he felt frustrated, saying, “What the heck, why is it you again?”
The female ghost in the restroom was the same ghost they encountered earlier—the writing spirit.
Mr. Lu, hearing his son’s words, asked in confusion, “You know her?”
Lu Xuezhen replied, “It’s complicated. Dad, I’ll explain when we get home.”
Chen Su was also bewildered, cursing, “I knew it! This unlucky ghost brings nothing but trouble!”
“Hey, who’s the ghost here?” Lu Xuezhen muttered.
He had never seen a ghost that could curse.
Ye Xue found it somewhat amusing and explained, “I just asked her. Chen Su was attracted here by a wave of negative energy. The surrounding magnetic field was too strong for her to escape. Since she couldn’t consume incense offerings, she hid in the restroom and overheard employees discussing the National Day holiday, which made her sad and unable to hold back her tears.”
Mr. Lu asked hesitantly, “So, the supernatural events in the restroom were all caused by her?”
“There’s no other supernatural event,” Ye Xue sighed. “The faucet was rusty, which is why the water looks like blood when it flows. And as for the flickering lights… you guys need to change the bulbs.”
She was nearly scared to death herself.
Mr. Lu felt a pang of annoyance—after all that, it turned out to be a faulty light bulb.
Then Ye Xue looked at Mr. Lu and asked, “She said she was forcefully brought here by a surge of negative energy on September 16th. Did anything happen at the company around that time?”
Mr. Lu thought for a moment and suddenly changed expression, saying, “My boss’s aunt came to the company that day, but since she looked calm, we didn’t take it seriously.”
Indeed, they had been experiencing a streak of bad luck since that day.
“Right now, we need to find the gathering place of the negative energy to figure out a solution,” Ye Xue said, taking out a talisman and chanting, “Dark moon, manifest light swiftly. Cloud light and sun essence, forever illuminate my home!”
With a point of her finger dipped in red ink, she pressed it onto the talisman.
The red mark instantly fell to the back, flying toward an unknown direction.
“Let’s follow it,” Ye Xue said, turning around and leading the way.
Lu Xuezhen followed closely behind.
Mr. Lu, having only seen such inexplicable powers on TV, marveled for a moment before hastily catching up.
The talisman flew to the conference room.
Ye Xue pushed open the door, but nothing was inside.
Shifting her gaze, she spotted a classical vase next to the conference table.
The vase was beautiful, intricately carved with bamboo that looked lifelike as if it were genuinely growing in a bamboo forest—serene and unworldly.
When the talisman hovered above the vase, everyone understood that this seemingly innocent porcelain was the root cause of the troubles.
“Mother-child porcelain…” Ye Xue recognized the name of the vase and, seeing their confusion explained the origin of mother-child porcelain.
Mother-child porcelain is a type of burial item used in ancient times.
When high-ranking officials and nobles passed away, their families would place porcelain and jewelry in their tombs as burial goods. To prevent the negative energy of the deceased from harming the living, they would put a large and a small piece of mother-child porcelain in the tomb to absorb and contain the corpse’s energy.
Porcelain is inherently yin, and after staying in a dark tomb for a long time, the negative energy it absorbs becomes stronger, especially with mother-child porcelain designed for absorbing yin energy.
Placing the mother porcelain in a populated area causes a clash between the yin and yang energies, leading to misfortune for the living.
Furthermore, it gathers all the negative energy around it, forming a ghost-attracting formation. Over time, it attracts lonely souls and wild ghosts, causing chaos within the company.
Fortunately, Jin Xin had good feng shui, so there weren’t any unclean entities nearby, which was why only Chen Su was summoned.
After hearing Ye Xue’s explanation, Mr. Lu trembled with anger.
He hadn’t expected Yu Zhu to be so malicious; it was her son who had done something wrong, yet she wanted Jin Xin’s employees to bear her wrath and revenge.
“I’ll report this to Assistant Zhou,” Mr. Lu said calmly, asking, “Do you have any way to make her admit to her actions?”
After all, Yu Zhu was Yu Qi’s aunt. If she refused to admit her wrongdoing, there was nothing they could do.
Ye Xue nodded, “There’s a way. The child’s porcelain must be with her. If we let a ghost inhabit the mother porcelain, the child porcelain will sense it telepathically. At that time, the negative energy will explode, backfiring, and she’ll be the one facing misfortune. When that happens, she will find a way to get back to the mother porcelain.”
Once someone’s luck runs low, the lonely souls and wild ghosts won’t miss the opportunity to torment her.
When that time comes, all the negative energy will converge on her, and it wouldn’t take long for Yu Zhu to collapse under the pressure. Even if she has to crawl, she will come back to steal the mother’s porcelain.
“I understand,” Mr. Lu said, nodding. “I’ll call Assistant Zhou right now.”
“But…” Lu Xuezhen raised his hand, posing a question, “Where are we going to find a ghost to crawl inside?”
Ye Xue replied, “That is a problem…”
As she spoke, she paused and turned to look at Chen Su, deep in thought.
Lu Xuezhen followed her gaze and suddenly understood.
They both looked at the delicate and beautiful writing spirit ghost.
Ye Xue smiled warmly.
Chen Su said, “…Master, please calm down. That place is dark, and I’m scared to go in.”
Ye Xue reassured her, “It’s okay. When you come out, I’ll burn some extra paper money for you.”
Chen Su sobbed and thought to herself how unfortunate her life was, but she still held out two fingers and bargained, “I want two incense mountains.”
Ye Xue replied, “…Deal.”
Assistant Zhou hung up the phone and, with a serious expression, explained to Yu Qi what had happened at the subsidiary.
Looking guilty, Assistant Zhou said, “Sir, I neglected to consider that Ms. Yu would use mystical means against the people at Jinxin. I’ll head over to the company right now to handle this matter.”
“Cough, cough…” Yu Qi coughed and called out to him, “Wait, I’ll go with you.”
His aunt was overbearing; without him there, the others might not be able to handle her.
“But…” the assistant said, sounding worried; he was afraid that the sir’s health wouldn’t hold up for long.
Yu Qi continued to smile, his face pale yet calm. “What difference does it make if I go or stay in my current condition?”
Was hiding at home and doing nothing going to delay his death by even a day?
Before the assistant could react, he stood up and said, “Let’s go. If the person Lu Qing invited is reliable, I’m sure my aunt is already on her way to Jinxin.”
Half an hour later.
A Rolls Royce Phantom stopped in front of Jinxin.
The assistant opened the car door, and as the young man was about to get out, he suddenly paused and clutched his chest.
“Sir?” The assistant asked, worried when he noticed his silence. “Do you need me to call Dr. Chen?”
Yu Qi coughed again, his heart racing, but at that moment, he felt calmer than ever.
The young man raised his head to look ahead.
It was as if something very important to him was right in front of him, just like the sensation he had experienced before.
Ye Xue, hearing the sounds outside, instinctively lifted her head.
At that moment.
The company’s doors swung open.
Someone walked in.
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