Ou Xiaoxue tried her best to calm her emotions. She took Ye Tiancheng's phone and calmly reviewed all the intelligence clues before returning the phone to Ye Tiancheng.
After finishing, she remembered yesterday's events. The little fox had asked her if she had any talismans and where she kept them. Ye Tiancheng and the little fox had gone today specifically for those.
So, after finishing with the phone, Ou Xiaoxue also asked the little fox, saying, "By the way, Ye Li, younger brother, yesterday you asked me about those talismans. You went for them today, did you find anything? Is it related to those things?"
The little fox hesitated after hearing this. It wasn't that there was no connection at all. Although it was confirmed that it had nothing to do with the fragments of the Fuxi Qin, it was not entirely unrelated to Ou Xiaoxue's experiences.
He was actually not sure if Ou Xiaoxue could handle so many things. It wasn't out of sympathy for Ou Xiaoxue, but he was afraid that Ou Xiaoxue wouldn't be able to bear the blows and would cause trouble for him and Ye Tiancheng. Moreover, Ou Xiaoxue was already so miserable, and telling her some things seemed too cruel.
Ye Tiancheng was not sensitive to supernatural matters, but he noticed the unusual expression on the little fox's face. Ou Xiaoxue, after experiencing all this, had become unusually sensitive.
Even Ou Xiaoxue vaguely sensed that the little fox might know something extraordinary. Ou Xiaoxue bit her lip with a heavy expression and said to the little fox with determination, "Ye Li, younger brother, just tell me. I said that no matter what news I hear now, I can absolutely bear it. I just want to know the truth."
Since Ou Xiaoxue had said so herself, the little fox finally answered Ou Xiaoxue's question.
"Uh, your talismans, I can only say that none of them worked. None of them had the effect of protecting you or ensuring your safety. And it's not just that, it's not that simple at all."
"Your so-called 'talismans' not only couldn't protect you or ensure your safety, but they also attracted evil. They attracted some unclean things. You should understand now. Many of the bad things in your villa were attracted by those so-called 'talismans'."
"Otherwise, a house where someone lives, and you haven't intentionally invited them, wouldn't have so many malevolent spirits breaking into your home. You yourself wouldn't have any memory of inviting them, so you must have 'willingly' brought them home for some reason."
"The medium that achieved this willingness was those so-called 'talismans,' which allowed you to bring those things home."
"After you brought those things home, they settled in your house, and it's highly likely that someone was controlling them from behind the scenes, because they weren't brought into your villa at the same time, but they all erupted together recently. No one would believe that there wasn't someone controlling them from behind."
Ou Xiaoxue asked with a troubled expression, "Can I ask what specific things they were?"
The little fox then carefully described each item to Ou Xiaoxue. It included not only the "talismans" Ou Xiaoxue had mentioned but also some accessories that Ou Xiaoxue hadn't mentioned, but which the little fox had carefully observed while searching for the Fuxi Qin fragments.
After listening to all of the little fox's descriptions, Ou Xiaoxue matched the items with her memories and instantly gasped.
Seeing Ou Xiaoxue's reaction, the little fox tentatively asked, "What's wrong? These things... I want to ask, uh, no malice, just want to confirm, are they all related to your good friend Song Chuyue?"
Ou Xiaoxue gave a self-mocking smile upon hearing the little fox's question and said, "Not a single one is missing, they are all related. Some were given to me by Chuyue, and some were bought with Chuyue. Chuyue had touched all of them."
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox both sighed inwardly upon hearing Ou Xiaoxue's words. To be betrayed by a friend to such an extent, Ou Xiaoxue was truly pitiful.
Ou Xiaoxue put her hand to her forehead, trying hard to calm herself, and then continued to ask Ye Tiancheng, "Brother Ye, I remember you said there were some things you needed to tell me. Tell me everything at once."
Ye Tiancheng was somewhat surprised. He didn't know if it was because the blow was too great, but Ou Xiaoxue was unexpectedly calm. However, anyone with eyes could feel that this was just the calm before the storm. Ou Xiaoxue's heart was definitely not as calm as she appeared on the surface; she was just holding on.
Ou Xiaoxue could feel the gazes of Ye Tiancheng and the little fox and gave a wry smile, "People always grow up."
Ye Tiancheng thought for a moment, then organized his thoughts and told Ou Xiaoxue everything that Song Chuyue had kept from her, what she had previously asked Ye Tiancheng to keep secret from Ou Xiaoxue, and some other things Ye Tiancheng thought were relevant.
"If you want to hear, I'll tell you everything. Don't worry, given the current situation, you know that Song Chuyue had malicious intentions when she did those things, so I won't hide anything that shouldn't be hidden."
"In the beginning, when I first brought you back, for the sake of reporting your safety, didn't you video call your good friend Song Chuyue while talking with me and the little fox?"
"Then after that night, didn't Song Chuyue get in touch with me? She got my contact information from you."
Ye Tiancheng spoke as he thought, essentially narrating the events from the beginning. "At that time, she seemed very enthusiastic, acting as if she was wholeheartedly devoted to you. She said she would investigate the truth for you outside to see who wanted to harm you."
"But since it involved malevolent spirits, and we didn't know her intentions at the time, we thought she was your good friend risking so much for you. Of course, the little fox and I prepared a lot of talismans and the like for her to protect herself, in case anything happened to her."
"However, since you've already seen the intelligence my wife investigated outside, you can probably guess. The reason she chose to tell me that at the time was likely because she was also entangled with something bad herself, and she wanted to save her own life, but didn't want to reveal it."
"Because if she revealed this, she would definitely be suspected. These things were hidden from you, and the person harming you was also her. She was guilty and naturally didn't dare to let anyone have a chance to discover the truth."
Ou Xiaoxue listened and nodded, "So, I can understand. What else?"
"Actually, there wasn't much. Most of the time she just wanted to trick the little fox into drawing those talismans. We couldn't know the situation outside at the time, so when she said she had no harvest, we couldn't confirm if that was really the case."
"Now that I think about it, given the situation at your school, if Song Chuyue were truly innocent and genuinely investigating for you, she couldn't possibly be unaware of so many things."
"She actually knew everything, she just didn't say it. Anyway, we had no channel to know, so we wouldn't find out she was lying."
Ye Tiancheng also said with emotion that Song Chuyue's acting skills were indeed very good. If it weren't for too many clues, too much evidence, and some things that Ye Tiancheng and the little fox couldn't hide from their eyes, who would have thought that Song Chuyue was a wolf in sheep's clothing?
She was clearly Ou Xiaoxue's best friend, yet she had been secretly trying to take Ou Xiaoxue's life, attempting to tear off a piece of flesh from Ou Xiaoxue. How could this not be chilling?
Knowing people's faces but not their hearts, this saying was truly demonstrated vividly by the true situation between Song Chuyue and Ou Xiaoxue.
"The first time I suspected Song Chuyue was when I opened my heavenly eye. I saw that she was covered in sinister energy. I saw it unintentionally, but it was blocked by that air wall, so I didn't see it very clearly. And without knowing the reason, we couldn't directly convict her. What if it was a misunderstanding?"
"However, it was also because of this that the little fox and I never stopped suspecting her and were testing her. But due to limited intelligence, we never obtained any decisive evidence. Until this morning, this evidence was delivered to my hands by my wife's investigation outside."
"I wouldn't lie to you about these things. After we go out, you can ask people yourself. These are not particularly difficult clues to find; they are quite easy to inquire about. You can see for yourself."
"Because my wife and her companions are ordinary people, although I asked my wife to send people to investigate, I also told them to be careful and not to come into contact with danger. So, the intelligence they could access was limited. Since they could find it, it must not be particularly secret or unexplorable clues."
Ou Xiaoxue's expression turned somber, and she lowered her head in disappointment. However, she replied to Ye Tiancheng, "I understand. I believe you, Brother Ye. You have no reason to lie to me, and you have nothing to plot against me."
Ou Xiaoxue knew that she had nothing that Ye Tiancheng would plot for. Ou Xiaoxue already knew that Ye Tiancheng's wife was very powerful. In any case, Hou Mingzhu's family background was definitely not comparable to the meager family property left by her parents.
If she were Ye Tiancheng, she probably wouldn't even look at her family's small property. Since that was the case, Ye Tiancheng had no reason to plot against her.
However, what she didn't realize was that under normal circumstances, her thinking would be correct. But this time, Ye Tiancheng did have a bit of a plan, but it wasn't to harm Ou Xiaoxue. Ye Tiancheng wanted the Fuxi Qin fragments, and he couldn't let Ou Xiaoxue know about it, so Ye Tiancheng and the little fox had actually hidden many things.
After all, Ye Tiancheng had even lied to his wife and brother, so deceiving Ou Xiaoxue was not surprising. Anyway, Ye Tiancheng wasn't doing it to harm her, so he didn't feel particularly guilty.
The matter of Song Chuyue having problems was now a foregone conclusion for Ye Tiancheng and the others. Even if Ou Xiaoxue still had any doubts, it would only be about why Song Chuyue did it. Ou Xiaoxue couldn't understand, but she could already be sure that the person secretly plotting against her was indeed Song Chuyue. There was no need to question this at all.
Ye Tiancheng also felt a bit relieved. Since that painting was just given by Song Chuyue, it would be even less likely to alert Ou Xiaoxue to take away the Fuxi Qin fragments, and there would be no need to bother hiding it.