"What defile me? You look like a conservative, feudal parent worried I'd defile your precious, untouched daughter, when I… it's my first time, okay?" Xiao Li was getting desperate, forgetting I was there as she stood up in a frenzy to argue.
Beichen was fuming too, his eyes looking like they could bleed, "Aren't you disgusted? I'm so lowly, yet I touched you, I ruined you."
"What do you mean you ruined me? Are you saying, after we got together, you not touching me would be the right thing to do? So that it would be convenient for you to find the next one?" Xiao Li was shorter and naturally seemed less imposing than Beichen, but she climbed onto a chair, managing to argue face to face with him.
This was the first time I heard these two arguing.
Usually, they seemed so sweet, without conflicts.
But it seemed ever since they had that kind of relationship…
they started to have their differences.
I didn't think it was the time to correct their viewpoints, so I changed the topic, "Hey, Beichen, did you come over suddenly to see Xiao Li, or was there something else?"
"There is… something I need to say." Beichen calmed himself as I reminded him, pulled out his phone, and showed a photo, "The entrance to Mass Burial Mound at the Serpent Domain in the suburbs was excavated, and it's all over the local news. The perpetrators opened the coffins, left the burial items untouched, just cutting off the heads."
"Aren't those buried in the Mass Burial Mound all recent? How come there are still burials?" Xiao Li leaned over to look and upon seeing the darkened corpse, she instantly turned pale with nausea.
Beichen, who had just been arguing with Xiao Li, was now super gentle as he covered her eyes, narrating in place of her vision, "Spring Wind Town is remote, still features traditional burials. This person died just two months ago, the family is quite wealthy, several gold bars were buried with the deceased."
"The grave robber just cut off the heads and left the gold bars?" Xiao Li found it curious, "That must be some weird fetish, right?"
Beichen voiced his concerns, "I'm worried it's a Mystic Arts Master using Evil Arts like the Flying Head Barbarian…"
"That… that is… the thing that appeared in Yuanyuan's room, right?" Xiao Li cried out.
Beichen looked at me, I nodded, "It's the Forbidden Woman's Technique, but that was someone I provoked in the city, named Qing Li."
"Qing Li… I've never heard of her before. You'd think that someone who could use such Art must be a remarkable figure, not some nobody."
Beichen frowned deeply.
I chuckled teasingly, "She's been locked up in the Lin Family for a long time, hence no fame."
"When there's one, there are others; this woman might continue to harm you," Beichen, rubbing his chin, sank into thought, "Moreover, someone in Spring Wind Town must be cooperating with her."
"I think I know who it might be." I said.
Xiao Li pushed away Beichen's hand covering her eyes and locked eyes with me, "Is it those two journalists? Aren't they also from City A?"
"Yes." I actually didn't think it necessarily had to be those two journalists.
Apart from those two journalists, there's another group that seemed to have followed Han Dai from City A.
After finishing the meal, we all went together to accompany Chen Shufen for a prenatal checkup at the hospital.
The hospital's doctor noticed my big belly and suggested I should also have an ultrasound checkup.
I politely refused, as getting an ultrasound would surely scare people to death.
Xiao Li and Chen Shufen went into the ultrasound room together.
Beichen and I sat on an outdoor bench waiting, Beichen got a text from Xiao Li and went to buy some chocolate for the boss lady to boost her energy.
Thus, it was just me left alone. I was lost in thought about Qing Li chasing me all the way to Spring Wind Town, when a man's somewhat hoarse voice rang out beside my ear, "Miss, would you like a hook jade for peace? It's free."