Ye Huohuo never imagined that closing a window could lead to trouble.
Seeing Lihua was about to regain consciousness, and once she did, she would surely flee through the window the moment she realized something was wrong.
But Mina clung to her like a stubborn stain, impossible to shake off. Ye Huohuo tried to pull the window shut a couple of times, but Mina held it so tightly that it wouldn't budge.
It seemed this Mina was determined to oppose her.
Furthermore, the other women around were also successfully provoked by Ye Huohuo, looking as if they would swarm and tear her apart if she dared to close the window.
Ye Huohuo couldn't take it anymore. She thought, "This young lady has never been scared easily." With a soft snort, she said, "Since you won't let go, then forgive me!"
The veins on the back of her hand gripping the window suddenly bulged. With a whoosh, she slammed the window shut.
The speed and force were so great that no one present could react. Who would have thought such a frail-looking girl would possess such strength?
Mina, refusing to let go, saw her hand about to be caught between the window and the frame. With Ye Huohuo's strength, it would be a fracture at best, or her hand could be crushed at worst.
Mina was terrified and quickly withdrew her hand, her fingertips narrowly avoiding being trapped. She broke out in a cold sweat, her face turning pale.
Her lips trembled uncontrollably. "You, you, is there no law anymore? You actually tried to crush my hand!"
The onlookers were first stunned by Ye Huohuo's sudden move, and then, seeing Mina's state, they all became enraged. It was as if they themselves had almost had their hands crushed. Each one bristled like an agitated rooster.
"You're going too far! This is trifling with someone's life! Sister Mina, are you alright? Let's all go find Mr. Li to reason with him! Let Mr. Li see her true colors!"
"Yes, she must have used some method to cloud Mr. Li's judgment. Let's expose her true face!"
"Exactly! I recorded what just happened with my phone. Show this video to Mr. Li, and I don't believe he'll still protect her!"
"..."
The crowd began to chatter and curse, their words a jumble of accusations.
Ye Huohuo ignored them completely. After closing the window, she quickly drew a talisman from her怀.
It was at this very moment that Lihua finally regained her senses. She immediately noticed the problem. Although Ye Huohuo appeared to have changed her appearance in her eyes, the moment Ye Huohuo produced a talisman paper and prepared to stick it on the window, Lihua understood.
Instantly transforming into a gust of Yin wind, she attempted to escape through the window crack.
At this critical juncture, Ye Huohuo's incantation was just completed. With a "snap," she plastered a paper talisman onto the window.
A golden light flashed across the window. Lihua, who had just lunged towards the window, was blasted backward.
However, except for Ye Huohuo, no one else could see Lihua. They only saw Ye Huohuo stick a piece of yellow paper on the window, and then, in the almost sealed room, a cold wind suddenly blew.
It made everyone shiver inexplicably.
They immediately fell silent, all eyes turning towards Ye Huohuo.
"That wind just now?"
Looking at the talisman paper stuck on the window, they wondered, "Could there be a ghost?"
Not everyone present was foolish. Seeing the situation, they began to discern some clues.
Ye Huohuo remained silent, her gaze fixed on the wisp of Yin energy that Lihua had become.
Indeed, seeing that the window was impassable, Lihua intended to escape through the ventilation shafts. However, she hadn't expected that all three ventilation shafts had been sealed by Ye Huohuo.
She became furious and began to swirl around the room.
The bathroom then became a spectacle. The stall doors were blown open and shut by the wind, creating a deafening clatter. One would open, and then another would close.
Toilet paper was blown around like streamers, scattering all over the floor, with some even winding around the women standing outside the stalls.
The cleaning tools stored in the utility closets were also blown out. Mops and brooms flew around the room, clanging against the walls.
A water bucket suspended in the air crashed onto the mirror above the sink, shattering it.
The women who had been complaining about Ye Huohuo moments ago were now pale with fright, huddled together, forgetting even to run outside. Some of the more timid ones were so scared their legs went weak, and they collapsed onto the floor, unable to get up.
Mina was the most composed among them, but her face was as white as paper, and her body trembled slightly. She couldn't utter a word.
Seeing them in such a state, Ye Huohuo couldn't help but sigh.
Alas! They were women after all, all afraid of ghosts!
But she forgot that she was also a woman, perhaps she had never considered herself a girl!
"Are you still standing there waiting to be caught by a ghost? Hurry and run!" Ye Huohuo couldn't bear to watch any longer and called out a reminder.
"Run where?!"
Looking at the objects flying chaotically in the air, none of them dared to pass through them to reach the door.
Ye Huohuo sighed again. "You're all so stupid! Those things can't hurt you!"
But the crowd still hesitated.
Helpless, Ye Huohuo shifted her hand seals and then pointed towards the door, exclaiming, "Open!"
With her sharp command, all the objects that had been flying wildly in front of the door suddenly fell to the ground.
The women still stood there, dumbfounded, with their mouths agape.
"Hurry and run, are you waiting to be caught by a ghost!" With Ye Huohuo's reminder, they finally came to their senses and rushed towards the door.
In their panicked stampede, the originally wide doorway became bottlenecked by three people.
Fortunately, A Cheng and Xiao Lingzi were waiting at the door. Seeing this, they pulled the three people out, allowing those behind them to escape.
Mina glanced back at Ye Huohuo, opened her mouth as if to say something, but uttered no words. Finally, she also ran out with the rest.
Finally, only Ye Huohuo and Lihua, the ghost, remained in the bathroom.
Ye Huohuo looked at the wisp of Yin energy in the air. "Lihua, I know you have a grievance. I told you before that I would seek justice for you.
I can help you get revenge. You can believe me. If you insist on revenge and spill human blood, you will never be able to enter the cycle of reincarnation!
Whether as a person or a ghost, one must learn to protect oneself!"
Her words were heartfelt, but Lihua clearly wasn't listening. All she had in her mind now was revenge.
"My affairs don't concern you. Heavenly law? What is heavenly law? Good people have no good reward, while the wicked can escape punishment. Is this fairness? Is this heavenly law?
Since neither the law nor heaven can give me justice, I will seek it myself. I have a master to help me, and I can definitely kill that nauseating mother and son. I want them to pay their blood debt."
Ye Huohuo's heart stirred. "Master? What master?"
She had long suspected that someone was manipulating Lihua from behind the scenes. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been such a coincidence that the decorative item she had smashed was later made into a lampshade and sent to Li Moyan's film crew as a lamp.
Someone wanted to use her resentment to harm Li Moyan.
Just like someone had used that malevolent painting to harm Old Master Li.
Therefore, when Ye Huohuo heard Lihua mention a master, her heart couldn't help but stir, and she quickly inquired.
"Master? Master is master, the one who helps me! What are you looking for him for? Do you want to harm the master? He is the only one willing to help me. The master is a good person, and I absolutely will not allow anyone to harm him!"
After speaking, the wisp of Yin energy that Lihua had become lunged towards Ye Huohuo.