CH 101.2

Fresh air rushed in from outside, but it did not dissipate the smell in any way.

A few pieces of clothing were randomly thrown on the floor, and balls of toilet paper were strewn all over the floor. The bed was not made, and the sheets were crumpled and soaked with water.

Other than that, there seems to be nothing else.

It seems that this was why Li Yuan was cooped up in his room, but he lived alone, so this phenomenon was really very strange.

Bai Lixin walked in with a handkerchief over his nose and searched the room patiently.

It was normal for a man to get into the mood more than once, but if it was for days, then it could only be for other reasons.

Picture books? Words books?

Bai Lixin carefully stepped on the places without toilet paper and came to the bed.

Through the veil, he found something written on the wall inside the bed.

He slowly opened the veil and saw the contents.

There were horizontal and vertical scratches, the traces were sharp, much like the scratches of a beast.

Under the pillow was a faint red cloth peeking out. Bai Lixin pinched the cloth and pulled it out to take a look.

Bai Lixin stared at the red apron thoughtfully. “Was Li Yuan excited because of this? You have experience, you tell me.”

Dijia blushed with embarrassment. “I don’t have experience, but it can’t be. At least, not to this point, there must be something else.”

Bai Lixin tucked the apron back under the pillow. “What did you find on your side?”

Dijia, “Nothing, everything is normal. There is only one pair of shoes under the bed, and there is nothing extra in the cabinet.”

“That’s even more abnormal,” Bai Lixin looked around the room and said, “A few books or pictures on pornography would explain Li Yuan’s behavior, but if nothing is found, it can only mean that there is a secret compartment or secret room here. Let’s look for that.”

They knocked on the walls of the room, but couldn’t find a hollow place.

Eventually, Bai Lixin’s eyes fell on the very bed in front of him.

As soon as he pulled away the bedding, he found a four-square door in the center of the bed, “Found it.”

Dijia looked over in disgust and pulled it open with one hand, “This Li Yuan really dares to hide ah.”

Inside was not a secret room, only a compartment.

The secret compartment was large, but Li Yuan did not place many things in it, only a scroll.

Bai Lixin and Dijia looked at each other. Bai Lixin was about to pick it up but was immediately stopped by Dijia, “Wait, let me do it.”

This should be the portrait that disappeared from Lord Li’s study.

Dijia held the scroll in his hand and asked, “Do you want to open it?”

“Yes, we are already here,” Bai Lixin, “open it.”

Dijia opened the scroll and spread the portrait on the table. Bai Lixin found that there seems to be some kind of pink powder flying out from it.

When the portrait was unfolded, they finally saw the contents of the scroll.

It was a picture of a lady in an ancient setting.

The warm and lovely woman was sitting on the red railing of the promenade, and she was wearing a light yellow robe.

She was holding a teacup, and her watery eyes seemed to speak as she looked straight at Dijia and Bai Lixin.

Bai Lixin, “Do you think this portrait is a bit strange?”

Dijia, “The eyes? Are they also too realistic?”

“You may not have noticed,” Bai Lixin picked up the painting, “follow me.”

Dijia followed Bai Lixin out of the house and they came to Lord Li’s courtyard.

Bai Lixin did not stop until he reached a certain part of the long corridor in the courtyard.

He lifted the portrait in front of him, “Look again.”

The background in the portrait and the actual scene in front of them were the same.

“Look at the cup in her hand, I’m not going to lie, I’ve seen that pattern before, it was on a cup in Lord Li’s room.”

Dijia, “The paper has not yet yellowed because of time, so the portrait is still very new. But…”

Bai Lixin, “But what?”

“How should I say,” Dijia: “the paper is new, the background behind looks new, but the painting texture of just the woman seems very dated.”

“There was a moving photo at the Temple, and Li Yuan also talked of the portrait being alive,” Dijia looked to Bai Lixin, “so many people here believe that paintings have life, then wouldn’t this portrait also be alive?”

Bai Lixin’s eyes lit up. “They may be alive, but they only come to life after certain conditions. That’s why the rhinoceros horn incense was used, it can communicate with yin and yang.”

Dijia pondered, “There is no rhinoceros horn incense in your room, but the portrait moved.”

Bai Lixin, “Although there is no rhinoceros horn incense in my room, Li Yuan was covered with rhinoceros horn incense.”

Dijia also recalled, “My men reported that although Li Yuan did not enter your room, he would pass through your yard after shopping. Since rhinoceros horn incense can really make the paintings come to life, he was likely covered with it before he passed by.”

“But he did not have the rhinoceros horn fragrance on him when we first met.”

Bai Lixin, “Rhinoceros horn incense this thing is not easy to deal with.”

“Perhaps he did not smell like rhinoceros horn incense at first because he washed it off on the days he met you in order to avoid suspicion.”

“But it’s all only guess,” Bai Lixin held the portrait and walked back. “Let’s go check it out. With rhinoceros horn incense, we can meet our great beauty and see if she’ll really come to life.”

“I also want to meet the Immortal in the portrait.”

With that, Bai Lixin sped up his footsteps.

They went back to the bedroom, the window was still wide open, and the rhinoceros horn fragrance and fishy smell are much lighter.

Li Yuan seemed to have left in a hurry as there was a bit of rhinoceros horn incense in the burner that was not yet extinguished. Bai Lixin put the portrait on the table, and closed the door and window before putting the incense burner next to the portrait.

After doing this, he folded his hands to his chest and calmly watched the portrait.

White smoke emerged from the incense burner and it coiled over the portrait.

The atmosphere in the room became ambiguous, and was unknowingly shrouded in a white mist.

A silver bell-like laugh eerily reverberated in the mist.

This laughter appeared suddenly, but for some reason, Bai Lixin felt that this voice carried a sense of affection.

[Ding! Sensing hallucinogenic toxins, anti-poison passive skill automatically activated.]

[Ding! Congratulations player, the toxin was successfully eliminated.]

The affectionate feeling slowly disappeared, and Bai Lixin looked up and found that there was a woman in front of them.

The woman opened her mouth and started humming an ancient tune. She covered half of her face with one hand, only exposing the eyes filled with love.

Watery eyes looked at them, sometimes falling on Dijia, and sometimes falling on Bai Lixin.

The woman suddenly stopped singing and she gave a timid but charming smile. “I am only one person, and yet you are two. You are all excellent and I don’t want to hurt anyone by choosing between the two of you.”

As she spoke, she suddenly dropped tears, “This servant is so embarrassed, how can things be this good?!”

Dijia pursed his lips as he looked at the stupid woman in front of him. He put his hand over Bai Lixin’s shoulder and said in a cold voice, “*When three people are walking, one will be injured.”

*The third wheel will always be left out.

The woman’s body stiffened, and the tears stopped.

A few moments later, the woman cursed, and put down her sleeve viciously, “It turns out it’s *the goodness of longyan. It’s my bad luck.”

*Love between men.

Bai Lixin: “……”

Sister, where did that energy from earlier go?

This woman was still wearing an ancient costume. She sat on the bench lazily and looked at Bai Lixin and Dijia before saying in a small regretful voice. “Such good seedlings but they decided to gnaw on each other.”

She finished chattering and looked at people with reluctance, “Are you guys simply fooling around and looking for a slave?”

Bai Lixin, “What’s your name?”

Woman, “They all call me Xian Gu because I’m as beautiful as an Immortal and a fairy.”

Bai Lixin and Dijia looked at each other.

Lord Li shouted this name before he died.

Bai Lixin, “Do you know Lord Li?”

Woman, “That eunuch? I know him ah. I was made his third concubine not long ago, then I became the other man’s wife.”

Bai Lixin, “Lord Li died a few days ago, and before he died, he shouted, ‘Xian Gu, I deceived you in the past, and deceived you even now’. Did you kill Lord Li?”

“I am beautiful and charming,” the woman abruptly sat up from the chair, “I can admit to hooking up with someone, or stealing, but I would never do such things as murder! But that eunuch did deceive me.”

Xian Gu snickered, “I am a ghost, I cultivate by absorbing the essence of men to cultivate, but he was a eunuch. I used to be in a rich family but he fell in love with my beauty, he set a fire to that home and stole me out of it.”

“In the end, he was so scared that he fell and ended up burning my portrait.”

“I can’t forgive him until he buys me a new portrait!”

Bai Lixin stared at Xian Gu, her eyes were frank, as if she was telling the truth.

But wasn’t this what happened in that play “Romance of the West Wing” that they watched previously?

After the fire, the lady died, the portrait disappeared and the scholar remained muddled, his future ruined.

Bai Lixin, “Was Lord Li a eunuch by then?”

Xian Gu, “Well, why do you think he stole me? He thought I was an Immortal and that I could help restore his manhood.”

“Hahahaha, I wanted to laugh to death.” The corners of Xian Gu’s mouth rose to the extreme, revealing a smile of sarcasm, “Does being called Xian Gu make me an Immortal? Ridiculous, I can’t even create my own body, how could I have the ability to fix his? That idiot!”