Bai Chen didn’t get to the bottom of Xiao Nie’s actions, he was just enjoying Xiao Nie’s love for him safely. At the same time, Bai Chen loves Xiao Nie to the best of his ability.
But every time Bai Chen indulged in Xiao Nie’s favor, he couldn’t extricate himself. Then forget the words that he once said.
But why is Bai Chen always getting spoiled and he couldn’t really spoil Xiao Nie?
“Be good, take another bite.”
Xiao Nie was holding the spoon and bowl, like feeding a 3 year old child. He scooped the rice with a spoon and handed it to Bai Chen’s mouth.
The rice used is japonica rice. It has a jade green color and smells very good. Bai Chen used to like it the most, but now he barely ate half a bowl and couldn’t eat anymore.
It’s not that he’s tired of eating, but Bai Chen has been having a strangely bad appetite lately. The fragrant and aftertaste of food that he usually likes to eat now tastes weird in his mouth. The taste is so bland that Bai Chen can barely eat two bites, the flavor kept being like that. He obviously likes the smell but once in his mouth, Bai Chen just wanted to spit it out as soon as possible. He even puked out what he had eaten before.
This has been going on for three days for no apparent reason. Bai Chen didn’t feel anything and just felt that his body was just being hypocritical. It’ll be alright after a while, but Xiao Nie attaches great importance to it. In order to make Bai Chen eat more, he even overworked the chef here. Even if Xiao Nie suddenly left yesterday, he didn’t forget to ask the chef here to prepare food for Bai Chen.
“I wasn’t there last night, baby, you must have eaten less. You need to make it up for today.” Xiao Nie’s attitude was tough.
Bai Chen also felt wronged. He smelled it and wanted to eat it too but it tasted like he was chewing wax in his mouth. It’s really bland and painful to eat.
Thinking of the taste, that taste, even if Bai Chen liked the smell, he also knew that he couldn’t eat it. In so many worlds, Bai Chen has never suffered such a great grievance before. Now that he can barely finish half a bowl of rice is because he just doesn’t want Xiao Nie to worry. Otherwise, the bowls and chopsticks would have dropped and he would starve himself. This is already his greatest perseverance.
Bai Chen pouted, holding Xiao Nie’s arms, he buried himself in Xiao Nie’s arms.
Xiao Nie helplessly put down the bowl and chopsticks. He picked up Bai Chen and weighed his weight with his own hands, then put him on his arm and hugged him. He kissed Bai Chen’s forehead, saying distressingly: “You’re lighter than yesterday. Your chin is also sharp.”
The slender white fingers stroked Bai Chen’s chin and gently rubbed it, with a pampering and pity tone.
“Liar, it’s obviously still smooth.” Bai Chen stared at Xiao Nie dissatisedly. When Bai Chen came to this world to take over the original owner’s body, the original owner was a frugal person so although he looks very delicate and beautiful, after taking off his clothes, there’s not much meat in it so his chin is also sharp.
After Bai Chen came, he met Xiao Nie. In these few months, he was fed by Xiao Nie and became more and more rounded. His skin also becomes fair, rosy, and shiny. His degree of good-looking has also increased by another level from before. Even his chin that used to be slightly slender has become soft. One can pinch a piece of soft meat when one pinch his face. During the live broadcast, a group of sister fans and mother fans always called out cute.
Even though he couldn’t eat well for three days in a row, the meat on Bai Chen’s face didn’t drop much.
However, Xiao Nie still insisted: “Thin.”
He also reached out and pinched the soft meat in Bai Chen’s face.
Bai Chen felt aggrieved.
He also wanted to eat those things on the table, just a look and his mouth was watering but his body was very strange. On the first day, Xiao Nie forced Bai Chen to see a doctor. After that, Bai Chen also asked the system to check him again. All showed no problem but he just couldn’t eat.
Xiao Nie coaxed for a while. Bai Chen is no longer willing to open his mouth. Resigned, he had to take it himself. Holding Bai Chen’s chin with one hand, he forced mouth-to-mouth feeding Bai Chen.
Bai Chen hurriedly swallowed, then waved his hand and hit Xiao Nie’s arms without any pain or itching, anxiously said: “Why are you eating?”
Although Xiao Nie is the ghost king, with a powerful power that he could condense into a human body, he still belongs to the ghost clan. And for a ghost to eat human food, there’s only one way, that’s receiving someone offering. Otherwise, if they eat it directly, not only will their mouth and tongue burn, it even consumes their ghost power.
The mouthful Xiao Nie gave to Bai Chen just now, only half of it reached Bai Chen’s mouth. The remaining half was swallowed by Xiao Nie.
Bai Chen was distressed to check whether Xiao Nie’s mouth was intact.
Xiao Nie’s face was calm, with a faint smile in his eyes, he kissed Bai Chen’s lips: “I’m fine.”
He hugged Bai Chen and rock him on his lap, like coaxing a child: “Let us get together, that way baby won’t feed bad.”
Xiao Nie also felt sorry for Bai Chen. He feels bad that Bai Chen has to eat the food that is now unpalatable for him, but he really couldn’t let Bai Chen eat according to what he wanted. Humans are different from ghosts, food is their necessities. Not eating will only harm their health.
Bai Chen was aggrieved and distressed. He pressed Xiao Nie’s mouth: “Don’t eat it anymore. I will eat by myself.”
Saying that, Bai Chen brought the remaining half bowl of rice and eat it quickly.
Xiao Nie looked at Bai Chen’s obedient appearance with a smile in his eyes. His eyes that were as dark as the abyss seemed as if a storm was about to break out.
Xiao Nie took the boiling water that had been put on the side, feeding it to Bai Chen. Bai Chen obediently eats other flavorful stuff but all he can really eat normally is boiled water.
When Bai Chen finished, Xiao Nie took the wipes and wiped Bai Chen’s lips. Then he reached into Bai Chen’s clothes with one hand and gently rubbed Bai Chen’s belly.
Bai Chen leaned against Xiao Nie’s chest, rubbing coquettishly: “It’s unpalatable to death.”
“Be good, it will be fine after a while.”
Bai Chen no longer entangled this issue. He became more coquettish, these delicious meals were as unpalatable as ever in his mouth.
Xiao Nie hugged Bai Chen and leaned on Bai Chen’s shoulder: “Baby, do you remember the accident that happened a few times while you were on a mission?”
Bai Chen nodded, his eyes serious.
The first accident happened a month ago. At that time, Bai Chen was hired by a rich man with a lot of money. He helped that rich family to move their ancestral graves.
That rich family has a big business, it wasn’t known who was jealous of them but their ancestral graves were destroyed. Although the rich man found out in time and asked someone to repair the ancestral graves. But since then, there have been frequent problems in the rich man business. In a month, the once prosperous company is in jeopardy facing bankruptcy.
Later, he heard his friend say that the feng shui of his ancestral graves had been destroyed and that’s why these things happened. Only by looking for a professional exorcist to find another good place for his ancestors will it be possible to defuse the power of the company.
The rich man thought that all his misfortunes happened after the ancestral grave was destroyed so he trusted his friend. Under the friend’s guidance, he placed a mission on the exorcist exclusive website.
This task is not difficult and was classified as beginner so when Bai Chen saw it, he took it.
Bai Chen quickly helped the rich man find a good feng shui, but when the migration was also to be buried, an accident happened. The originally good rich man suddenly turned black, being entangled by a 100 year old red dress ghost. The ghost wanted to take him back to be her husband.
The 100 year old red dress ghost is very fierce. If any junior exorcist encountered it, they would just be food delivered to it. But Bai Chen is not a real junior exorcist. In addition, there is also the ghost king Xiao Nie by his side.
But when Bai Chen subdued this malicious ghost, he was suddenly in a trance. At the time, it was a fierce battle and Bai Chen was suddenly like that, he was almost killed by the malicious ghost. Fortunately, Xiao Nie kept his eyes on Bai Chen at that time so Bai Chen was rescued in time. Of course, that malicious ghost was directly dispersed by the furious Xiao Nie.
The second time was half a month ago. Bai Chen was suddenly in a trance state again while performing a difficult task, his life was almost on the line.
Once or twice is a coincidence but then there shouldn’t be a third time. Bai Chen even went for a full body checkup the second time that happened. The results of the medical examination showed that he was healthy. Xiao Nie also used his ghost power to examine Bai Chen’s soul, there’s still no problem.
Then this weird thing happened.
Bai Chen couldn’t help but think of the original owner’s experience before his death.
The original owner was unlucky everywhere, as if there’s something unwilling to let the original owner enter the exorcist world. But the original owner still insisted, in the end, he died tragically in the hands of a malicious ghost.
Bai Chen’s situation this time is a little different from the original owner. It was as if something wanted to kill him.
So Bai Chen decided to choose not to move. If there is something secretly trying to harm him, sooner or later, it will appear in front of him.
“Yesterday I received news and rushed over there in a hurry. It has been confirmed that someone is indeed trying to harm baby.” Xiao Nie said.
“What happened?”
“The Qu family’s ancestral grave has been messed with.”
“Impossible.” Bai Chen frowned and retorted: “Since the founding of the country, the ancestors saw that the Qu family offspring were getting thinner and thinner and elite children died one by one. They suspected that there was something wrong with the ancestral grave and have already checked it carefully. But the results show that it has nothing to do with the ancestral graves. Therefore, the ancestors always sighed that gods wanted their Qu family.”
“That’s because the Qu family’s ancestral grave was messed with from the very beginning.” Xiao Nie said slowly.
The Qu family made their fortune earlier. He made his fortune a few dynasties early, it has been more than a thousand years now. They were a famous exorcism family at that time and very prosperous. Then, he went out for a time as a National teacher. But since then, the Qu family was going down, as if their luck had come to an end. No matter how the Qu family does good deeds, they can’t salvage it. Each generation is lower than the other generation, even if there are talented children, problems will inevitably arise. They will either end up dead or disabled.
The ancestral grave was inspected long ago. No matter how many times they checked, it all shows that there’s no problem.
This time because of Bai Chen’s repeated accidents, Xiao Nie also sensed that something was wrong. So he used his identity as the ghost king and sent hundreds of ghosts to investigate the Qu family situation.
This investigation, they have found a secret that was hidden in front of hundreds of people.
It was said before that the Qu family once had someone as a national teacher. During his reign, the national teacher was conscientious and made countless contributions to the imperial family. He won the emperor’s favor at that time and even became brothers with the emperor. It was a legend at that time.
But no matter how deep the feelings are, officialdom is always not easy to mix with. One needs to face all kinds of open spears and dark arrows. A little careless and one will be doomed, even affecting their whole family. In addition, the monarch’s heart is unpredictable. Accompanying him is like accompanying a tiger.
At that time, the national teacher and ancestor could guarantee that his emperor brother, who had promised him, would treat the Qu family favorably but there’s no guarantee that the next emperor would do it. So the ancestors order that after him, the Qu family descendants are not allowed to enter official careers. But in order to be worthy of being the emperor’s brother, the Qu family ancestor decided to personally train a successor with noble character and ability for the dynasty.
After the Qu family ancestors talked with his emperor brother, with the help of his emperor brother, he personally selected three orphans with very good qualifications as direct apprentices.
The Qu family ancestors were very kind to these apprentices. He teaches them all that he can, except for the Qu family spiritual arts that cannot be passed on, all the other things were taught out. He even went to great lengths to obtain a number of spiritual arts manuals with similar power as the Qu family arts that could not be passed on.
He passed all these things on to his three apprentices.
The three apprentices studied very seriously. In addition, there are two backers, the emperor and the Qu family ancestor. The three lack nothing. They can say whatever they want and there are countless people who would get them what they want. They don’t need to worry about anything at all. All three have the same qualification, therefore, the spiritual skills of the three are not much different.
But there is only one national teacher.
One day, the Qu family ancestor’s second apprentice died tragically at the hands of a ghost when he went out to practice. The Qu family ancestor was furious and went to slay the ghost in person.
At that time, everyone thought it was just an accident. Two years later, the Qu family eldest apprentice also died suddenly on top of a woman’s belly, dying like a horse rising.
His eldest apprentice has always been calm and abstinent, although stained with womanhood, he never indulges. But it wasn’t known how he ended up with this ugly and disgusting way of dying.
His apprentices were raised with all his hearts, comparable to his own son. The consecutive death of his two apprentices made the Qu family ancestor very sad, but even more angry. In his mind, his apprentice wasn’t such a flirtatious lecherous person at all.
The Qu family ancestor used a thunderous method to investigate this matter, the emperor also stretched out his hand to help. But at the end, no trace was found. The evidence collected all showed that the death of his eldest apprentice was due to bad luck.
After that, the Qu family ancestor was grief-stricken. He locked himself in the national teacher manor for more than three months. During this period, no one is allowed to see him, even the emperor himself came to see but was rejected by the Qu family ancestor. Only his little apprentice was left to take care of him.
After three months, the Qu family ancestor came out. The first sentence he said is to pass on the position of national teacher to his little apprentice – Zheng Xinhua.
After that, the Qu family ancestor retired. The emperor also soon passed away and a new emperor ascended the throne. After a few more months, the Qu family ancestor also became immortal1To pass away.
This is the history that all Qu family members know, but what they don’t know is that the death of the eldest apprentice and the second apprentice of the Qu family ancestor was related to the little apprentice.
The three apprentices were all picked up from the pile of orphans. Different from the eldest apprentice and second apprentice, the little apprentice already understands the pros and cons from a young age and learned to pretend. When he was a child, he learned to use his age and honest face to trick those kind people into giving him food and drinks. Later, he was brought to the national teacher’s side and didn’t have to worry about food and clothing. There’s also people to serve him but he still hasn’t taken off his cute disguise. The national teacher, his two senior brothers, and those groups of people who were serving him were all tricked.
During this period, the little apprentice also gave birth to some ambitions. He’s had enough of those days of being looked down upon and possibly beaten at any moment. He wanted to be a superior man like his master, on equal footing with the emperor. Even if he met those noble princes, they had to bow obediently and call out national teachers. And the rest of the people can only kneel at his feet obediently. Life and death were only in his mind.
But he has two senior brothers. Only one of the three can inherit their master position.
So the little apprentice colluded with one of the ambitious princes using the evil ghost that was sealed up in the imperial family to assassinate the eldest and second senior brothers.
After the national teacher abdicated, he even used the evil ghost to make the emperor ‘die of illness’ to let the prince ascend the throne as the new emperor.
The story doesn’t end here. After the national teacher became immortal, the little apprentice came to the Qu’s house to send his master on his last journey. No one from the Qu family thought that the little apprentice would be so crazy and take out one of his ribs before he arrived to quietly exchange one of his master’s ribs. He controls the conversion and grafting the evil ghost to transfer the wound on his master’s body to himself. So even until and after the burial, the Qu family didn’t notice anything wrong.
The little apprentice, who took a rib from his master, carved a formation into the rib and put it in his body for decades. On his death, the little apprentice controlled the imperial evil ghost again and destroyed his own body with his own hands so only bones remained in the room with an envelope. He instructed his descendants clearly to bury him thickly according to what he wanted in his heart.
“He used the evil ghost, his one body, and that rib to command his descendant to use the rib as a medium. He engraved a heaven-defying luck formation on the bone to take away the Qu family luck and passed it onto his own family to regulate his family.” Xiao Nie looked at Bai Chen and said: “That luck formation is quite sinister. Unless the Qu family leave the exorcist world and become an ordinary people, otherwise, the luck of the Qu family generation will be passed on to that family. Their good deeds will be taken away and become that family’s luck and merit until the Qu family perishes with nothing left in the world.”
Bai Chen suddenly understood. Why did the original owner stumble in the exorcist world and finally die. Because his luck was taken away. The original owner wanted to enter the exorcist world to pass on the Qu family skills but he became the last nourishment for that luck formation. But perhaps the Qu families patriarch generation who had passed away were blessed. Therefore, in the early stage they were still strong but that’s only for a period of time. In the unseen world of spirits2Fate cannot be predicted/calculated by humans; mysteriously and inexorably, those that are Qu family people all have their steps blocked. But the original owner’s obsession is strong. He vowed to inherit the Qu family skills. Later, he live broadcast and came into contact with the exorcist world many times, in the end, he still had a tragic death.
And all the signs of Bai Chen trance are also pointed to the luck formation that wants to kill Bai Chen to take his luck.
Although Bai Chen’s soul is not from the Qu family, his body is. Therefore, the luck formation will still take effect and frequently put him near death.
Bai Chen pursed his lips: “Besides quitting the exorcist world and becoming an ordinary person, is there any other way to break this formation?”
Bai Chen still has to complete the task, even with ten thousand waves, he won’t allow it to destroy him.
“Retrieve the rib and put it back into the ancestral grave and take out the fake rib, it can destroy it.” Xiao Nie answer.
Bai Chen nodded, slowly said: “The Zheng family.”
That’s right, it was the founder of the Zheng family who were the little apprentice of the Qu family ancestor. Both families know this, also because of this, the Qu and Zheng families have always been on good terms. Even if the Qu family gradually declined, the Zheng family didn’t flinch away from them. Even in the last few generations of the Qu family, the Qu family were completely useless but the Zheng family will still occasionally reach out to help the Qu family. Even if the Qu family has the intention to downplay thier friendship with the Zheng family.
Because of this, the Zheng family was praised by every family in the exorcist world and put the Qu family in an awkward position. Where they don’t know, people often gossip that it was entirely because of the Zheng family that the Qu family can support themselves now. They were just holding the Zheng family’s thighs but still dared to be so cold. Some people even said that in front of the Qu family. This is also the reason why the Qu family almost never interacts with the Zheng family.
Bai Chen and the original owner didn’t know this. Because grandpa Qu wants the original owner to be an ordinary person, he rejected the Zheng family’s good intentions again and again and even later cut off contact with the exorcist world. Therefore the original owner has a very good feeling toward Zheng Jianhua. That’s why when Zheng Jianhua showed his good intentions towards Bai chen, from the original memory, he repaid him with kindness too. So for Zheng Jianhua’ sake, he also got in Zheng Haiying’s car. But that’s all, Bai chen has always declined about other things.
“Baby, and.” Xiao Nie holds the back of Bai Chen’s neck, “What is happening to you now should also be because of that formation.”
“I searched in books. Baby, your current physical condition is somewhat similar to the living dead in the records. Originally, this formation would not have such a strong impact on a person, at most it would only take their luck to make the Qu family die unexpectedly or die of illness, this has never happened before. Therefore, I guess that the Zheng family is now messing with this formation because the previous effects of the formation have been gone, they were anxious.”
This information is half guesswork and half fact. It was Xiao Nie’s ghosts who investigated it yesterday. Because it was related to Bai Chen, Xiao Nie then hurried off. It’s just that the dust has settled when he rushed over. The building is empty and the ghost also didn’t see the whole thing either. Therefore, Xiao Nie was a little uncertain. Is Bai Chen’s sudden lack of appetite due to this reason? He still wasn’t sure but what will happen to Bai Chen after?
Xiao Nie originally wanted to attack the Zheng family last night but after thinking about it, he decided to come back and tell Bai Chen these things clearly first. His baby has a bad appetite these days and is feeling a little irritable. Although he was still obedient and soft towards him, Xiao Nie knew that his baby was not as calm as he seemed to be.
That being the case, since it all involved the Zheng family, then just treat it all as one thing. Just let his baby vent to clear the suffocation in his heart.
With him supported, his baby can do whatever he wants.
T/N: This made me wonder what will happen to the Zheng family luck after the Qu family was wipe out. Backlash from the stealing luck formation, I hope (But I guess we will never find out since Chenchen is now a Qu and still alive)! Ψ(￣∀￣)Ψ
