Chapter 446 Who are you?
Lin Chen narrowed his eyes, and the ghost power in his body began to stir violently, ready to go.
Although Lin Chen was a little afraid of Mr. Li and had no intention of provoking him for the time being, since the other party had already come to him, Lin Chen had no choice but to take action.
However, to Lin Chen's surprise, Master Li did not show any signs of conflict with him. At least when he saw Lin Chen's breath shaking, he remained calm and said with a smile:
"Don't worry, I mean no harm."
This was the first time that Master Li spoke. His voice was hollow but very powerful, not as if it came from the mortal world. It gave Lin Chen a feeling that the voice did not come from his mouth, but came from all directions.
"Who are you?" The ghost power in Lin Chen's body did not relax, but asked with a frown.
"Before you get to know me, I want to take you to see a good show." Master Li smiled mysteriously.
"Why me?" Lin Chen asked.
Master Li said, "Because you have something I need very much."
Lin Chen finally understood why the other party was targeting him.
However, it is not clear what exactly is needed.
Moreover, this ghost was too abnormal, which made Lin Chen doubt Luo Jin's words. He did not suspect that Luo Jin was deceiving him, but thought that Luo Jin's understanding of this ghost was not accurate.
There was no way this could be an ordinary native ghost.
Mr. Li smiled, made an invitation, and walked downstairs.
Lin Chen thought about it and followed.
Suddenly! When Lin Chen started to step forward, the surrounding environment changed very subtly!
The surrounding environment became brighter and brighter, and when Lin Chen came downstairs, the environment of the brothel had changed from night to day.
With ordinary steps, Lin Chen actually followed this Master Li across time.
At this moment, Lin Chen could no longer suppress his inner surprise and asked in a deep voice:
“Who the hell are you!”
Master Li smiled and said, "I will tell you, but before that, please watch this scene first."
Lin Chen looked at Master Li deeply, and his surprise at him grew stronger.
"Don't think too much about it. Just look at your surroundings." Master Li laughed.
I don't know when it started, but the brothel was suddenly filled with shadowy figures, including prostitutes, servants, and guests. The originally quiet environment became noisy again.
And it looks even more lively than during the day.
"This happened in the past. The time point when you entered the copy was in the future. I took you back to the past." Master Li said with a smile.
Lin Chen's eyes moved slightly. While looking around, he was also wondering why Master Li brought him to see these and what the so-called good show was.
"Let's go. The environment here has remained the same for ten years. It's nothing but decadence and decadence. There's nothing to see. Let's go to Ningxiang's room and take a look." Master Li said with a smile.
Ningxiang's residence is not on the upper floor of the flower building, but in the backyard, which has different elegant pavilions, gardens, rockery, and ponds. The scenery is beautiful, with a faint mist, and it looks like a fairyland.
"He should be here now." Master Li explained to Lin Chen.
The surrounding rocks and plants dispersed on their own, and Lin Chen and Master Li appeared in a garden. Opposite them, there were two figures leaning against each other.
They are a man and a woman.
The man had a handsome face and was well-mannered, like a scholar. He wore a jade pendant that looked very expensive. He had a gentle smile on his face, looking very noble, and his eyes were full of tenderness.
The other woman, with a beautiful face and a great figure, was half lying in the man's arms, with an abnormal blush on her cheeks and fine beads of sweat on her body. She was wearing a white velvet robe, and her snow-white skin was faintly visible.
"What are they doing?" Lin Chen asked with his eyes wide open.
"We were affectionate just now, but I have helped you skip what you shouldn't see." Master Li explained.
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Lin Chen almost went up and kicked this self-willed Mr. Li, but at this time, Mr. Li started talking again.
"That man is the young marquis of the Marquisate of Kyoto. He is the legitimate son of the family and will inherit the title in the future. He came to the ancient city by chance and fell in love with Ningxiang at first sight. Ningxiang was also attracted by the demeanor of this young marquis, so they naturally got together."
Lin Chen and Master Li were talking in loud voices, but their presence did not attract anyone's attention. It was like the dream-entering function, and the things around them could not touch them at all.
Mr. Li's words were an explanation, telling Lin Chen the whole story.
Across from him, the young marquis, holding the beauty, also spoke. He said, "Xiang'er, ever since I saw you, I knew that I would definitely marry you in this life."
"Young Marquis, Xiang'er has you and has no regrets in this life." Ningxiang rested her pretty face on the young marquis' shoulder and said softly.
These two seem to be in love with each other, but after Lin Chen, it must have ended in tragedy. Otherwise, when he saw Ningxiang's face through the white gauze in the brothel, there would not have been such a big and hideous scar on her face.
"Xiang'er, when I return to the capital, I will report to my father, redeem you and formally marry you." The young marquis promised.
Ningxiang was moved. At this moment, she had devoted her whole heart to this handsome young man of extraordinary status. Naturally, she believed in his words and had no doubts at all.
"From today on, Xiang'er is all yours. I will be happy when you are happy and sad when you are sad. No matter whether I am rich or ordinary, I am willing to follow you forever."
The two of them were fantasizing about the future. The young marquis was well-educated and could describe a very beautiful voice in just a few words. It seemed that he was willing to return to the countryside with Ningxiang and build a world for only them.
Mr. Li smiled and said, "How is it?"
Lin Chen curled his lips and said, "They look like a talented couple, but I don't think this man is a good person. But it doesn't matter. There are many such cases on Blue Star. It's nothing."
There are indeed many famous scenes in Blue Star where bad guys cheat on girls, and the opposite is also common. Moreover, in modern society, this kind of thing usually doesn't cause any big problems. People have already let it go, right?
"Oh?" Master Li was speechless, then he laughed even more happily and said, "That's why I like humans so much. Humans have complicated minds, which makes me feel interesting."
"You are not human, so you should be a ghost?" Lin Chen asked.
"Haha, it's not even a ghost." Master Li shook his head, then waved his hand gently, and the surrounding environment changed again.
The marquis was not there, and was replaced by a messenger boy. The beauty was still there, but the happiness on her face had turned pale.
Ningxiang was holding a letter in her hand. Every word in the letter was so heartbreaking that her delicate hand began to tremble uncontrollably.
"A little bit of my red lips have been tasted by thousands of people? He actually looks at me like this?" Ningxiang said sadly, her eyes full of disbelief, as if she couldn't imagine that her true love would actually evaluate her like this.
"Miss Ningxiang, this is indeed a handwritten letter from the young marquis. I followed your instructions and went to the capital to find him, but was turned away. Later, because the matter became a little serious, the marquis's mansion sent people to beat me up. Finally, the young marquis wrote this letter, telling me that he would have nothing to do with you in this life, and then left." The servant who delivered the letter explained. Upon closer inspection, there were indeed bruises on the man's face.
Ningxiang suffered a heavy blow and lost her balance. She fell back into the chair, her face pale and her eyes full of confusion.
Seeing this, the servant left in a hurry. Not long after, Luo Jin was invited over by the servant.
Luo Jin's expression was filled with worry and distress. After reading the letter, he sighed and said, "Silly child, I have long seen that the young marquis is not a good person. I felt sorry for your infatuation, so I didn't say much. I didn't expect that what was supposed to happen would still happen."
Ningxiang burst into tears and hugged Luo Jin's delicate body, saying, "Sister, how could this happen? He promised me that he would come back to marry me."
Luo Jin patted Ningxiang and said, "This is the fate of us prostitutes. Your sister Xuanmu has not left the attic for three years because of a man. If we want to survive in this world, we must remember one thing, and that is to never fall in love with a man."
Ningxiang shook her head and said, "No, there is still love between Sister Xuanmu and that man. That man is just afraid of hurting Sister. He will come back to pick her up one day. The same goes for the young marquis. He will not abandon me. He is just testing me now."
Luo Jin sighed slightly. Xuan Mu's situation was indeed a little special, but this special situation also showed that it was completely different from Ning Xiang's situation.
In the end , knowing that it was useless to continue persuading her, Luo Jin left, leaving Ningxiang alone, hoping that she could figure it out on her own.
Master Li looked back again, and the speed of time around him increased.
One day, two days, three days.
Ningxiang not only did not come out of the shadows, but became more and more obsessed. She would often stare at an empty place for a long time. When someone asked her about it, she would answer that she was waiting for someone to come back and pick her up.
As time passed, Ningxiang fell deeper and deeper into despair.
Even the madam Luo Jin was helpless about this.
Until one day, it was Ningxiang's turn to perform, and after she played a piece of zither music with a veil on her face, she received countless cheers.
Among them, several wandering merchants even sighed: "As expected of the Ningxiang Oiran, her zither skills alone are already the best among all the beauties. No wonder the young marquis of the capital is so obsessed with her."
"Yes, I heard that the young marquis had a falling out with his family in order to marry Ningxiang. He was willing to lose his inheritance rights and be kicked out of the house. In the end, it was the Marquis' Mansion that threatened the young marquis with Ningxiang's life, and only then did the matter settle down."
"The Marquis' Mansion has now re-arranged a marriage for the young Marquis. This is fate. People who are in love are destined not to be together. Perhaps for the young Marquis, the life he has now is what he deserves."
"But I heard that the young marquis can't forget Ningxiang and seems to want to run away from home and elope with her."
"Don't talk nonsense. But if this is true, both Ningxiang and this flower house will be doomed, and the young marquis's family will also be in trouble. You know, there are more than one child in the marquis's mansion..."
"These two people shouldn't have been together in the first place. They are not a good match, and it can only lead to tragedy."
The words of several businessmen, like magic sounds, entered Ningxiang's ears and made her dazed. She didn't even notice that these voices seemed to be heard by only herself!
The zither strings suddenly broke.
Ningxiang froze in place. Just now, her heart had gone from surprise to touching, then from touching to sadness and despair, and finally to shock and fear.
She panicked!
It was not for myself, but for the young marquis and the brothel.
It was obvious that if the young marquis were to do something crazy like running away from home and eloping with her, the consequences would be so huge that she would not be able to bear it.
At the very least, she couldn't let the young marquis and the other sisters in the brothel get hurt because of her.
Lin Chen shook his head slightly. With his keen eyesight, it was not difficult to see that those businessmen were not ordinary people. What they said was directed at Ningxiang alone, and they must have some ulterior motives.
Moreover, at this moment, a trace of resentment had already risen in the brothel, proving that this brothel had been selected by the horror game and had been affected in some way.
The one who was most affected was Ningxiang!
"Let's begin." Master Li said with a smile, a gleam in his eyes, as if he was looking at the perfect work he had created, and he looked at Ningxiang with great appreciation.
Ningxiang also took action at this time.
In full view of everyone, she lifted her veil, revealing a beautiful face.
The guests below were all stunned, overwhelmed by this stunning beauty that seemed to be carved by God himself, but no one noticed the two crystal tears dripping from that beautiful face.
The next moment, Ningxiang actually let down her hair, took off her hairpin, and in front of everyone's shocked gazes, she stabbed the tip of the hairpin directly into her forehead and kept moving it downwards.
Blood splattered, the pain was unimaginable, but the face of the weak woman was extremely calm, with just a hint of sadness that seemed to be crying and laughing, and hysterical madness deep in her eyes.
There was a sudden chaos in the brothel, with screams, running, and exclamations coming one after another.
At this time, Master Li had turned his head again and skipped the scene.
Lin Chen's position remained unchanged, but the surrounding environment let him know that this was no longer a brothel.
This is also a brothel, and it is a private room within the brothel.
Inside the room, the young marquis and several noblemen were drinking and having fun, accompanied by beautiful singing girls.
"My young master, I admire you. You won the bet this time."
"It is truly amazing that you could charm the courtesan of the ancient city's brothel to such an extent."
"Hehe, an oiran actually disfigured herself in public in order not to affect your life. Interesting."
Several noblemen were toasting the young marquis. The young marquis had a modest smile on his face, but he did not stop drinking. He accepted everyone's respect calmly and was obviously very pleased with himself.
"What is their bet?" Lin Chen asked.
"There's no stakes, just verbal admiration."
Master Li smiled, and finally snapped his fingers. The surrounding light flowed, and everything returned to the original scene.
Lin Chen looked at this extremely miraculous method, and his inner vigilance could not be described in words. He took a deep breath and said, "Is the show over? Who are you?"
Master Li smiled and said, "Original."
