Chapter 71: The Exposed (Part )

"W-what?"

Gu Yuejia Rong immediately asked with caution: "Are you Ying Mei or Xu Chu?"

Xu Shanshan narrowed his eyes slightly and asked word by word: "Shadow, Mei?"

Gu Yuejia Rong met her eyes, which were like a bottomless lake with a dark vortex that could drown people lurking underneath.

He suddenly felt that "Xu Chu" did not look like a naive young student at all. The aura she occasionally displayed was like that of a superior who was in control of the overall situation. Every move she made made people sit up straight.

...Is it an illusion?
"It calls itself Shadow Phantom."

Xu Shanshan was silent for a moment, laid out the breakfast in the lunch box, and asked casually, "Then who saw its face, sir?"

Gu Yuejiarong was choked for a moment. He lowered his long eyelashes, pursed the corners of his clear lips, and didn't know how to answer.

Seeing that he looked embarrassed, Xu Shanshan seemed to have some guesses: "Could it be me?"

Gu Yuejia tried to maintain a stable and calm expression, but there was a slight crack. He always disagreed with others' criticism of "Xu Chu" as a stupid student. Although "he" was a little unskilled in some subjects, after a conversation, he found that he not only had a flexible mind, but also had clear and sharp thinking.

But sometimes he would rather she wasn't so clear and sharp, like...now.

What happened last night was one of the nightmares he never wanted to recall in his life.

Even now, he knew that "Xu Chu" and the shadow ghost were not the same person, but when he saw the similar faces of the two, he found it difficult to accept it for a while.

"Why do you ask?"

"Didn't you ask me just now? Are you Xu Chu or Ying Mei? As far as I know, Ying Mei is originally a dark shadow. Only under certain special conditions can it transform into a face and figure."

Gu Yuejiarong listened to her talk, which was so clear and logical, and completely consistent with the shadow spirit he had encountered, that he immediately breathed a sigh of relief as if he had been redeemed.

He didn't find the wrong person, "Xu Chu" does have some tricks.

"It was indeed only later that it developed a face."

"Since she has a face and a body, did she do anything to the gentleman?" Xu Shanshan continued to ask.

This is just like treating an illness. The "patient" Gu Yuejiarong and the "doctor" Xu Shanshan, the "patient" must tell the "doctor" about his or her condition, even if it is an extremely private and embarrassing issue.

Gu Yuejiarong was not like those people who were afraid to seek medical treatment because he omitted some difficult parts and told the rest in detail.

The more Xu Shanshan listened, the more she frowned. She picked up the bowl of porridge, picked up a piece of crispy melon with chopsticks, put it in her mouth and chewed it.

Gu Yuejia Rong looked at her in confusion…Why did she seem to be worried ever since she heard about “Shadow Phantom”?
Seeing that she was thinking while eating, he had no appetite now, so he pushed his portion of zonggao and fried dough sticks in front of her. The regular meals of the teachers in the college are naturally more abundant than those of the students. She is still growing, and she is afraid that eating only salted crispy melon will not be enough.

"What did you mean by asking me to take off my clothes?"

Thinking of Xu Shanshan's shocking words at the beginning, Gu Yuejiarong could now ask the question as usual.

Xu Shanshan did have her reasons, but even if she had sufficient reasons, given Gu Yuejiarong's personality, it would be difficult for her to expose her chest and back in front of her students, so she didn't force it for now.

"I just wanted to check if there are any peach blossom marks on the back of your neck. It seems there is no need to check now." She put down her chopsticks. She had no appetite anymore.

She didn't expect that there was a shadow hidden in it, and this shadow... seemed to have a close relationship with her. "Peach Blossom?"

Gu Yuejiarong was aware that the matter was of great importance, so he did not act coyly. He loosened his outer robe and undergarment one by one, sliding them to the crook of his arms, then lifted his hair. His slightly undulating spine seemed like a carefully carved work of art, outlining charming light and shadow.

"Did you see it?"

Xu Shanshan was stunned: "..."Is he so casual?
I thought he was old-fashioned and conservative and wouldn't easily agree to expose himself, but I didn't expect him to be so straightforward... By the way, she was just a man in his eyes now.

Since we are all men, it’s not a big deal to look at our chest muscles, waist, and show our breasts.

After all, what he had, she had…bigger.

Since he was so generous, Xu Shanshan came forward without hesitation, and saw the bright and charming peach blossoms reflected on the snow-white surface: "Look, the peach blossom has opened two petals."

"I don't have a peach blossom birthmark on my body. What is this? Is it related to the shadow?"

When he mentioned Shadow Phantom, Xu Shanshan's eyes flickered, and he said evasively, "This is Peach Blossom Evil."

Since he had already seen it, Gu Yue Jiarong naturally put his clothes back on. While tidying up, he casually asked, "What is the relationship between this Peach Blossom Evil and that Shadow Phantom?"

"Logically speaking, these should be two unrelated things, but now it seems... that they are connected by some strange coincidence."

"How to say?"

Xu Shanshan said, "Someone has cast a peach blossom curse on you. It must have been there for quite some time. The peach blossom curse will block your good luck. Once you have absorbed all kinds of bad luck, the peach blossom behind your neck will bloom into five petals. At that time, your love in this life will only be with the person who cast the peach blossom curse on you. However... you just happened to run into Shadow Phantom."

"Although the shadow ghost is yin, it has no murderous aura. It only appears at night and disappears during the day, like a silent shadow. However, perhaps it is affected by the peach blossom evil spirit in you, it will unconsciously get close to you and do some...indecent things."

Xu Shanshan guessed that Ying Mei must have done something "morally corrupt" to Gu Yue Jiarong.

Firstly, Gu Yuejiarong's energy was depleted, and Yin objects loved the nourishing effect of Yin Sha. The nature of Peach Blossom Sha was lust. Once she took too much, who knows if she would do something to insult her teacher...

The matter of Shadow Phantom must be dealt with as soon as possible before things become more troublesome.

Gu Yue Jiarong didn't know that "Xu Chu" had already guessed what had happened to him, he just felt instinctively uncomfortable with the word "indecent".

"Peach Blossom Evil?" Gu Yuejiarong had never heard of it before, but since "Xu Chu" knew it so clearly, he must have a solution: "Xu Chu, do you know how to solve it?"

Xu Shanshan naturally knew this, but she always followed the rule of equal exchange: "Although the relationship between the teacher and the student is one of teacher and student, the matter of removing evil spirits is another job for the student, and it needs to follow the rules..."

Before Xu Shanshan could finish her words, she suddenly felt a kind of evil coming. She felt a sharp pain in her chest and all the blood drained from her face.

"Xu Chu, what's wrong with you?"

A scene emerged in my mind.

The original owner lost everything in the gambling house, so he sold the marriage contract belonging to Gu Yue Jiarong to the gambling house. The gambling house bought it for one hundred gold and then respectfully handed it over to a woman.

The woman met Gu Yue Jiarong, she returned the marriage contract to him, and angrily recounted how the original owner had trampled on the marriage contract and tarnished the reputation of the Gu Yue family with the smell of money. This made Gu Yue Jiarong, who had always obeyed his father's orders, finally make up his mind to cancel the engagement.

What Gu Yue Jiarong didn't know was that there was a secret hidden in the marriage contract he got back, and that woman also had ulterior motives. Gu Yue Jiarong was thus caught in the peach blossom curse.

So... Gu Yue Jiarong is also one of the debts owed by the original owner?