Mu Anxiao noticed Mu Xiang's fearful gaze and, disregarding Wan Sha's self-perceived handsomeness, turned to Mu Xiang, who was staring intently at her fingers. "What are you looking at?"
"Your fingers are glowing," Mu Xiang replied, regaining her senses and pointing at Mu Anxiao's fingers.
Mu Anxiao lowered her head and glanced at her own fingers, which were still emitting a blue light. "Magical, isn't it?"
Mu Xiang nodded.
Mu Anxiao: "Want to learn? I'll teach you." She raised an eyebrow.
Seeing Mu Anxiao's serious expression, Mu Xiang's nerves tightened. She subtly shifted her gaze to Wan Sha, who was squinting at Mu Anxiao, and cleared her throat.
Hearing Mu Xiang's voice, Mu Anxiao frowned. She turned to Wan Sha, who was displeased by the interruption, and asked knowingly, "Why are you glaring at me? What did I do to you?"
"You ask what you did to me? Do you have any respect for people? I'm talking to you, and you're ignoring me. What's that supposed to mean?" Wan Sha was indignant.
Mu Anxiao, seeing Wan Sha's angry expression, felt no disturbance within. "You've said your piece, how am I supposed to respond? Besides, if you dare to run, I'll catch you again. The talk of ten years of freedom is off the table."
"That's the answer I wanted," Wan Sha said calmly.
"Oh." Mu Anxiao couldn't be bothered with further conversation on this matter. She lowered her glowing blue finger, shone it on the ground, and asked, "Where is that guy?"
Mu Xiang averted her gaze.
Wan Sha: "Who are you talking about?" Her tone clearly carried a hint of evasion.
Mu Anxiao sighed. "Mu Xiang's fiancé."
Upon hearing this, Mu Xiang became agitated. "Can you stop talking nonsense?" She glared at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao calmly looked at Mu Xiang. "Murder comes with responsibility." She deliberately scanned Mu Xiang.
Mu Xiang was annoyed by Mu Anxiao's scrutinizing gaze. "Can you stop looking at me like that and stop talking nonsense?"
"Nonsense," Mu Anxiao repeated, looking down at her finger, and continued, "Then tell me, where is your foolish fiancé?" She raised her chin.
Mu Xiang frowned. "Mu Anxiao, I'm telling you again, he is not my fiancé. If you continue to talk nonsense, don't blame me for being impolite." As she spoke, she prepared to record Mu Anxiao's transgressions in her notebook.
Mu Anxiao was unaware of Mu Xiang's intention. On the contrary, she found Mu Xiang's demeanor hilarious. "What can you do to me that's impolite? Can you hit me?" She leaned forward.
Mu Xiang frowned. Just as she was about to take out her notebook, Wan Sha sensed something was wrong and quickly reached out to stop Mu Xiang. She looked at Mu Anxiao and said, "We don't know who you're talking about." Her eyes were resolute.
Seeing Wan Sha stop her, Mu Xiang lowered her hand.
"You don't know?" Mu Anxiao said, nodding. "Alright, since no one is willing to tell the truth, then I won't say anything more. That agreement is off. I'll give you one more chance. The next time I see you, I won't let you go." With that, she turned her back.
Earlier, outside the reception hall, Mu Anxiao had suddenly remembered Ye Yu. It was then that she noticed that not only Wan Sha and Mu Xiang were missing, but Ye Yu was also gone.
However, she had only encountered Mu Xiang and Wan Sha, who were stealthily hiding behind the small sapling, and Ye Yu had yet to appear. Therefore, she began to worry about Ye Yu's safety.
Wan Sha knew that Mu Anxiao always kept her word. If that were the case, her plan to lodge a complaint would surely fail. So, for her own sake, she quickly said, "I'll tell you."
Upon hearing this, Mu Anxiao's lips curved upwards. She turned back to Wan Sha. "Tell me, where is Ye Yu?"
Wan Sha lowered her head.
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao frowned. "Why are you lowering your head?"
"At your feet." Mu Xiang, seeing Wan Sha admit it, also spoke up.
"Feet..." Mu Anxiao uttered the word, then lowered her head and quickly knelt down, digging with her hands while saying, "You guys are crazy. If he's dead, Mu Xiang, you're finished too." She dug into the earth with force.
Seeing this, Mu Xiang glanced at Wan Sha, who conjured a ball of fire in her hand, and said, "Just kidding."
Mu Anxiao froze. Her hands tightened on the ground. She raised her head to look at Mu Xiang, who was staring at her with a cold expression, and asked, "What do you mean by that?"
"We sent him to the kitchen."
"The kitchen?" Mu Anxiao retorted, standing up and wiping the dirt from her hands on her clothes.
Wan Sha: "He talked too much, so we sent him away. This place is small, so we hid behind that sapling to avoid him seeing us if he came back."
"..." Mu Anxiao swallowed. "You think he won't see you if you hide like this?"
"Yes." Mu Xiang nodded.
Mu Anxiao let out a dry laugh. "What kind of logic is that? I can see you, but he won't? What are you thinking?" As she spoke, she turned her head and happened to see Ye Yu walking towards them, and froze.
Mu Xiang followed Mu Anxiao's gaze towards Ye Yu and frowned.
Immediately, Mu Anxiao became suspicious. "Hmm, something's not right."
Mu Xiang's nerves tightened.
Seeing Mu Anxiao, Ye Yu grinned foolishly and said, "Ugly monster." He then hopped over.
The previous second, Mu Anxiao had clearly found Ye Yu to be normal. Now, in this second, he had reverted. Moreover... this was his first time here. Logically, it would be difficult for a normal person to find the kitchen in someone else's courtyard. Yet, this fool had quickly brought food from the kitchen.
Thinking this, Mu Anxiao became suspicious of Ye Yu.
Seeing Mu Anxiao observing him with such an expression, Ye Yu grinned foolishly and said, "Fool, Mu the Fool, haha." As he spoke, he took out a steamed bun from his pocket and pressed it directly onto Mu Anxiao's mouth.
Mu Anxiao's body stiffened. All her suspicions vanished. Then, she quickly raised her hand, grabbed Ye Yu's wrist, tilted her head back, and said, "Are you sick?" As she spoke, she snatched the steamed bun from Ye Yu and took a bite.
Seeing Ye Yu behave this way, Mu Xiang felt nothing, only thinking... he was quite boring to pretend to be a fool like this.
Wan Sha had known Ye Yu wasn't a fool since he climbed out the window with Mu Xiang. So, seeing him like this, she only felt that his act was indeed a bit over the top.
However, seeing how he treated Mu Anxiao, she felt a sense of satisfaction. "He's always been mentally ill. You, a normal person, arguing with a fool, means you're also a fool."
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao looked at Wan Sha and said while eating, "You're the fool."
"You're universally acknowledged as one," Wan Sha pointed at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao: "So are you." As she spoke, she turned to Ye Yu and asked, "Hey, where did you get this steamed bun?"
"Room," Ye Yu replied honestly.
"Room?" Mu Anxiao uttered the word, then clicked her tongue. "Can you speak more clearly?"
"Room, room, room." Ye Yu said, chuckling foolishly.
Mu Anxiao looked at this "professional fool" with a sense of helplessness. She then turned to Mu Xiang, who was looking at Ye Yu with disdain, and said, "What does he mean? Do you know?"
"..." Mu Xiang shook her head. "I don't know."
"Aren't you his fiancée? How could you not know?" Mu Anxiao deliberately said.
Upon hearing this, Mu Xiang was provoked. "Can you stop saying that?" As she spoke, she stepped forward and snatched the steamed bun from Mu Anxiao's hand.
Mu Anxiao froze. Her first reaction was to look at her steamed bun, which Mu Xiang had taken. "Why did you take my steamed bun? Give it back!" She reached out.
"All you know is how to eat and talk nonsense." Mu Xiang glared at Mu Anxiao. "Hate it."
Ye Yu's eyes darkened.
Mu Anxiao: "If you want to shut me up, you can just use a steamed bun."
"That would be best," Mu Xiang said, handing the steamed bun back to Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao smiled, took the steamed bun, and turned to Ye Yu, who was about to step forward. "Fool, go." She stepped back.
Ye Yu glared at Mu Anxiao and walked forward, taking two more steamed buns from his pocket and handing them to Mu Xiang. He feared Mu Xiang's dislike and thus did not say the word 'wife'.
Mu Xiang looked up at Ye Yu and frowned. She took the steamed buns and looked at Wan Sha. "Are you hungry?"
"..." Wan Sha ignored Mu Xiang and looked at Mu Anxiao. "How did you know we were here?"
"Her," Mu Anxiao pointed at Mu Xiang.
Wan Sha did not look at Mu Xiang. "I've made myself clear." She didn't want to disturb Mu Xiang and Feng Ye Yu, so she left it at that.
Mu Anxiao: "She's a person. No matter how great your abilities are, you can't take her away. Of course," she smiled, "if I'm not mistaken, you also climbed through the window."
"..." Wan Sha turned her face away.
Mu Anxiao smiled. "I didn't realize you were so compassionate, knowing that direct magic might scare a child, so you climbed through the window. But like this," she said, "aren't you afraid of having a bad influence on the child?"
"..." Wan Sha lowered her eyelids and said, "How is she?" As she spoke, she looked back at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao frowned. "Who?" She didn't understand Wan Sha's meaning.
Wan Sha: "That little girl. I just saw her mother was very impatient with her. Is she... alright?"
"She's alright," Mu Anxiao said, looking back at the wall. "Soon, her father will be revived."
"Her father?"
"Yes." Mu Anxiao nodded. She then thought and asked, "That's not right. You were right here, didn't you hear the conversation inside?" As she spoke, her gaze fixed on Wan Sha's face.
Wan Sha: "Unlike you, I don't have a habit of eavesdropping."
"You don't need to eavesdrop, you can hear directly," Mu Anxiao pointed at the thin wall.
Wan Sha cautiously glanced at Mu Xiang, who was eating a steamed bun, and cleared her throat. "Although someone here is human, their ears are very sharp. So, to prevent being overheard, I deliberately shielded both external sounds and our own voices. I only lifted the shield after you arrived. That's how it is." She nodded, thinking she was quite clever.
Mu Anxiao looked at Wan Sha's confident expression and couldn't help but smile. "I didn't expect your demonic arts to have improved."
"Don't say such things in front of mortals," Wan Sha glanced cautiously at Ye Yu.
Mu Xiang was choked.
Seeing this, Ye Yu quickly took out a leather water skin from his pocket and handed it to Mu Xiang. He didn't speak, fearing Mu Anxiao would see through him.
Mu Xiang gently wiped the corner of her lips and handed the two steamed buns to Ye Yu.
Ye Yu took the steamed buns and was about to speak when Mu Xiang quickly took the water skin, opened the lid, tilted her head back, and drank the water greedily.
Seeing Mu Xiang behave like this, Ye Yu swallowed his words.
Mu Anxiao didn't look at Ye Yu or Mu Xiang. She stared at Wan Sha and smiled. "He's just a fool, what are you afraid of?"
"You don't understand," Wan Sha glared at Mu Anxiao and looked up at the window.
At the same time, Mu Anxiao reached out her fingers, intending to touch the yellow light in Wan Sha's hand. However, just as she was about to touch it, Wan Sha reacted and quickly took half a step back, asking, "What are you doing?"
Mu Anxiao: "Is this fire?" As she spoke, she looked at Wan Sha.
Wan Sha: "It's just demonic arts. If you're not afraid of getting burned, then touch it." She extended her hand and then retracted it.
Mu Anxiao smiled. "Ah, saying such things in front of mortals," she pointed at the flame, "and not letting me speak. You're really quite boring." As she spoke, she continued to eat the steamed bun.
Wan Sha rolled her eyes at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao pouted and also looked at the window. "They should be done soon, right?"
Wan Sha remained silent.
At the front door of the reception hall, Feng Qishi glanced in the direction Mu Anxiao had gone, his eyes darkening. He wondered, what was Mu Anxiao going to do?
Piao: "What are you thinking about?" He had noticed Feng Qishi's troubled thoughts.
Feng Qishi snapped back to attention and looked at Piao, shaking his head.
"She's like my disciple," Piao smiled.
Feng Qishi: "What do you think she's going to do?" He still voiced his thoughts.
Piao continued to smile. "I don't know, but I do know that when my disciple left, she told me not to follow her." As he spoke, he freed one hand and grabbed Feng Qishi's arm.
Feng Qishi stiffened and looked down at his arm, which was being held by Piao. "Why are you pulling me?"
Piao smiled. "I've made myself perfectly clear. Don't try to see." As he spoke, he more forcefully embraced Feng Qishi's arm.
Seeing Piao behave like this, Feng Qishi's eyes darkened. "You win," he said, abandoning his intention to investigate.
Piao smiled.
Yue Ci looked at Feng Qishi and Piao's interaction and smiled. "Who do you two like more, that ugly Mu Anxiao..."
Before he could finish, Piao and Feng Qishi simultaneously fixed their gazes on Yue Ci and said in unison, "Shut up."
Yue Ci was startled by their voices. He raised his hand to cover his mouth and obediently looked towards the reception hall.
Gu Xiao and the others remained silent, all becoming curious about the situation in the reception hall.
Suddenly, Piao and Feng Qishi exchanged glances, then simultaneously looked towards the reception hall.
Inside the reception hall.
Mu Xi had completely returned his body to Mu Long. He was now squatting beside Mu Long's body, looking down at Mu Long's face, and reached out to gently pinch Mu Long's neck.
At the same time, Mu Long's finger twitched, then his eyes slowly opened, meeting Mu Xi's gaze directly. "Ah? What are you doing?"
Mu Xi used all his demonic arts to constrict Mu Long's neck and said in a low voice, "To be honest, I don't trust you."
"..." Mu Long's eyes widened. "Are you going to kill me again?"
"If you don't treat Mu Xin well, this will be the result," Mu Xi said, his expression turning sinister. He tightened his grip on Mu Long's neck.
Mu Long struggled.
A few seconds later, Mu Xi released his hand. Mu Long rolled over, clutching his neck and gasping for air. Before he could speak, Mu Xi said, "Remember this feeling. Treat Mu Xin well, or you're finished." With that, he stood up.
Mu Long: "Don't worry, I will treat my daughter well." His voice was already hoarse.