Chapter 177
Chapter 177
I honestly hadn’t expected Xiang Kai to be such a piece of trash.
Even after he was dead, he was still thinking about divorcing his wife and transferring his assets.
If he was doing this after death, he must have already been planning it while he was alive. Pan Xiaorou had probably noticed what he was up to, which was why she’d sent someone to kill him and Tao Xiaoyu.
Honestly, I couldn’t even blame her for wanting him dead.
“That animal!”
Pan Xiaorou clenched her fists so hard her knuckles went white. Her eyes reddened, and her voice choked up. “I stayed with him all these years. Back when he first started out, it was my parents who put up the money to invest in him. Without my family’s help, how could he possibly have achieved what he has today?”
“Fine, he wanted to dump me. But he even wanted to transfer the assets away to keep some other little vixen!”
Seeing Pan Xiaorou panting with rage, Song Xiaotian quickly tried to comfort her. “Try to let it go. He’s dead now, so he can’t transfer anything. All this, along with the entire Jiangling Group, is yours now. You could say it’s his karma.”
The more Pan Xiaorou talked, the angrier she became, until tears started falling.
I crouched there awkwardly and even helped her pick the gold bars back up.
“What I’m worried about is… if he wanted to get rid of me that badly, now that he’s dead, will he come after me…?” Pan Xiaorou finally calmed down, only to grow frightened again.
I said, “That’s hard to say. It depends on whether he ever wanted to kill you while he was alive…”
That was a sensitive topic, after all. Pan Xiaorou herself had wanted to kill him.
We hadn’t found Xiang Kai’s Ghost in the study. I figured he had already left, so I was about to head out first and go to the front gate to meet Seventh Master.
But just as we walked out of the study, the sound of water being dispensed suddenly came from the living room.
It was the water dispenser. Someone was using a cup to get water.
The lights in the living room were off, and everything was pitch-black. We could only hear where the sound was coming from, but we couldn’t see who was there getting water.
All three of us had our phones, but none of us dared shine a light over there.
Pan Xiaorou, who had still been cursing up a storm a moment ago, was now trembling all over.
“He has a habit of making tea…”
I didn’t say anything. I hurriedly pulled Pan Xiaorou and Song Xiaotian back into the study and gently shut the door.
I reached into the pocket of my shirt and pulled out a Talisman. Seventh Master had given it to me. It was called the Ghost-Striking Talisman. The Talisman Paper had been folded into a triangle; as long as I dripped a drop of blood on it and held it in my hand, it could hurt ghosts.
But now that I had the Talisman in my hand, something felt wrong.
I rubbed it between my fingers and realized the Talisman had been soaked in water.
Seventh Master had said a Talisman couldn’t get wet. If it did, it would stop working!
My eyes widened as I looked at Song Xiaotian. “What did you do to my Talisman?”
Song Xiaotian said awkwardly, “You left your shirt on the sofa. I thought it needed washing, so I threw it into the washing machine with the rest of the laundry…”
“You!” I was so furious I didn’t even know what to say to him.
Just then, footsteps sounded outside the door. I quickly gestured for silence.
The two of them had heard it too. Pan Xiaorou was so scared she hugged her legs and crouched on the floor, trembling nonstop.
I glanced at Song Xiaotian. He was shaking even harder.
The footsteps grew closer and closer. They had clearly reached the study door.
I didn’t even dare breathe. I wondered if Xiang Kai was going to walk right through the wall and come in.
“Knock… knock… knock…”
Suddenly, a series of knocks sounded at the door.
Crouching on the floor, I kept inching backward. Cold sweat instantly soaked my back.
Had the tea finished brewing, and now he was preparing to come back to the study and keep working?
Why was President Xiang so dedicated? Didn’t he understand the importance of balancing work and rest at all?
“Who~~~ is~~~ in~~~ there~~~”
Just then, an extremely deep voice drifted in. I quickly recognized it as Xiang Kai’s voice.
I didn’t dare answer. When I looked at Pan Xiaorou, she had already been so frightened that she’d burrowed into Song Xiaotian’s arms.
Song Xiaotian wasn’t doing any better. He stood frozen in place, his face twitching with fear.
It wasn’t like I knew how to deal with ghosts either, but at that moment, I had somehow become the most useful person here.
All I knew was that Xiang Kai absolutely could not be allowed inside. If he came in, we were all finished.
I hurriedly gestured at Pan Xiaorou, telling her to answer him.
She was terrified, but she was still a CEO. She knew how to weigh the pros and cons. Forcing herself to be brave, she quickly called back,
“Honey… it’s me… I’m inside reading…”
As she spoke, she fought desperately not to cry.
“O-pen… the… door…”
“I… I’m not opening it… I want to read for a while…”
“O-pen… the… door… now…”
Tears streamed down Pan Xiaorou’s face as she looked at me. Her eyes were so full of despair that she clearly had no idea how to answer anymore.
“What… are… you… doing… in… there!”
“I… can… see… you!”
The instant those words fell, I felt every pore on my body snap open. A wave of cold, sinister air drilled into me, the bone-chilling cold making me tremble uncontrollably.
That familiar sensation made my heart sink.
It was over!
Xiang Kai had possessed me!
I wanted to warn Song Xiaotian, but there was no time. In the next moment, I sensed Xiang Kai’s rage.
It was the rage of a man who’d been cheated on. I’d seen it before in Meng Yifan.
“You filthy bitch! How dare you screw around behind my back!”
I opened my mouth and cursed, but the voice that came out was Xiang Kai’s.
Xiang Kai controlled my body and lunged straight at Song Xiaotian and Pan Xiaorou.
The two of them were knocked down almost immediately. Pan Xiaorou was so scared she scrambled away on her hands and knees, while I locked both hands around Song Xiaotian’s throat.
His eyes went wide as he stared at me, still too shocked to react. “Chen Mo, what are you doing!”
“Adulterer! Adulterer! How dare you sleep with my wife!”
“I’ll kill you!”
Song Xiaotian snapped back to his senses at once and used a jiu-jitsu lock, the guillotine choke, clamping both his arms and legs tightly around my neck.
If it had been just me, I definitely wouldn’t have been able to move. As long as he squeezed, he could even have choked me to death.
But I had already been possessed by a Ghost. Xiang Kai actually controlled my body and forcibly lifted Song Xiaotian off the ground, then slammed him down hard.
“Agh! You motherfucker!”
Song Xiaotian let out a scream and nearly passed out from the impact.
Ever since that lock had been invented, once it was fully locked in, there was no way to break it. But today, I broke it.
“Xiang Kai! You shameless bastard! You messed around outside, and you still have the nerve to accuse your wife!”
Song Xiaotian cursed as he got up and grappled with me.
But he was fighting me, so he didn’t dare go all out.
I, on the other hand, had no control over my body at all. I was going straight for the kill.
He might have been skilled, but in the face of absolute strength, I still sent him flying several times.
Seeing that he couldn’t take Song Xiaotian down for the moment, Xiang Kai suddenly controlled my body and charged at Pan Xiaorou instead.
When Song Xiaotian saw that, he immediately grabbed a chair and smashed it down at my head and face, forcing me back several steps.
I looked up and saw that he had actually pulled a knife from his waist.
Holy shit!
He was going to stab me!
But very quickly, I realized he wasn’t trying to stab me. He sliced open his own palm and flung his blood at my face.
The moment Song Xiaotian’s blood touched my face, Xiang Kai inside me let out a piercing scream.
I was like a deflating balloon. All the strength drained out of my body, my legs gave way, and I collapsed straight to the floor.