Divorce, suspicion, return from a stormy night.

Chi Xiaochi pretends to be oblivious to Yuan Benshan's unnaturalness, pursing his lips with a hesitant expression.

Yuan Benshan took in his expression, the corner of his mouth quirked up, forcing a smile out, "Why did you suddenly think to ask this."

"Not asking ...... " Chi Xiaochi put her hands behind her back with a thoughtful expression, "I, know a way, a way to exchange eyes. "

When he said this, his eyelashes fluttered twice at the right time, but then he revealed a bright smile, "Haven't you been worrying that we'll be separated on the tenth mission? If you're really worried, I'll just share one of my eyes with you."

Xi Lou: "......" Holy shit?

"Why do you suddenly have such a ridiculous idea?" Yuan Benshan reached out and pressed his shoulder, his eyes were not touched, but rather a bit alarmed.

Chi Xiaochi blinked twice, and her eyes were covered with a layer of watery luster, even through a layer of sunglasses you could see the faintly glistening watery light: "Is it, is it ridiculous?"

Yuan Benshan's hand was strong: "Tell me, Chunyang, why do you think so?"

Chi Xiaochi glanced backward in slight alarm, as if afraid of being overheard by her coworkers.

And after receiving a glance from Chi Xiaochi, Gan Yu gives a puzzled look as well, taking a step forward as if he suspects they are arguing.

Chi Xiaochi pushed Yuan Benshan's shoulder two steps forward and said a little sheepishly, "Keep it down."

Yuan Benshan, though he lowered his voice, reacted with rare vehemence, "Why do I need your eyes? Am I such a person in your eyes?"

Chi Xiaochi thought, "Hey, we know each other so well and you're still being polite here, you're too much.

But he put on a look of pain and uneasiness on his face, and said incoherently, "No, I just think that just ...... just me and you, it's good. Others ...... are good too, but I still want to be with you ......"

That's an odd thing to say.

Yuan Benshan seemed to have realized something and settled down, his voice softened and his movements were no longer so intense: "Chunyang, don't think blindly, don't mess around. There should be quite a few so-called methods on the internet, but they don't always work."

Chi Xiaochi muttered in a small voice, "It's supposed to work. It's a potion ......"

Yuan Benshan's face became even more ugly, and he raised his voice slightly, "No way. What if I hurt my eyes?"

Chi Xiaochi immediately behaved, tilted his head and said, "When we go back ...... we can try it."

Yuan Benshan perfunctorily said, "We'll see."

As if Yuan Benshan's unwillingness to hurt him made him feel happy, Chi Xiaochi couldn't help but smile as well, revealing a row of clean, small white teeth, "Uh-huh. I'll listen to you. By the way, there's one more thing ......"

Yuan Benshan was already distracted, "Huh?"

Chi Xiaochi looked at Gan Yu again, lowered his voice again, and said, "There's a picture hanging in Qiaoqiao's room called The Returner of the Wind and Snowy Night. ...... There seems to be something wrong with that picture."

At the mention of a life at stake, Yuan Benshan finally came out of his trance, "What's wrong?"

"I say no good." Chi Xiaochi said, "I've gone in and had a look at every room, only that picture gives me a particularly bad ...... feeling Lao Yuan, when you see Qiaoqiao, mention it to her."

Yuan Benshan looked him in the eye, "Why don't you go to her?"

"...... me?"

Chi Xiaochi tensed up as he expected, the muscles in his back tensed up, his head hung lower and lower, a more than obvious sign of weakness, "Qiaoqiao she ...... I haven t been able to see. Anyway, when you see her, make sure you tell her to move out of that room."

Yuan Benshan didn't ask any more questions and touched his head, "Alright, I'll go find her. You stay with your coworkers and investigate a bit more, find out anything and tell me at night."

Chi Xiaochi said nicely, "Yes."

After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the Gan siblings.

Halfway there, he turned back and winked at him.

Yuan Benshan had already opened the door from which he had just stepped out, holding the doorframe with one hand and raising an eyebrow at him, signaling that he could rest easy.

Yet over his shoulder, Yuan Benshan saw Gan Yu.

It was a handsome young man, a little too unlike a doctor to be charming enough in his unusual clothes, who stood upright but kept his eyes on Song Chunyang, who had just walked away from him.

Yuan Benshan had already had his heart broken, but after Fang Cai's words, he finally remembered that Song Chunyang was his little boyfriend.

The person in front of me could be described as very rude.

But he wasn't much angry.

For one thing, he was too comfortable with Song Chunyang, a domesticated, mushy kitten with only himself in the world, and for another, he had more important things to do right now.

He waited until the trio disappeared around the corner of the stairs before re-entering the room.

Guan Qiaoqiao, hiding behind the door, raised his eyebrows slightly, "What's wrong?"

The soundproofing of the place was unexpectedly not bad, so all she knew was that Yuan Benshan and Song Chunyang had been chatting outside for a long time, but nothing about the content of the conversation.

Yuan Benshan simply summarized, "He came with an acquaintance."

Guan Qiaoqiao breathed a sigh of relief, ''Then wait a bit. Besides this time, there is still one more time before the tenth mission. We have plenty of chances."

Yuan Benshan asked rhetorically, "You're not in a hurry?"

Guan Qiaoqiao found the question strangely odd and spread his hands, "What's the hurry."

She is calm and unassuming, but only Yuan Benshan knows what kind of heart lies behind that gentle face.

Chunyang is not a character who can hide anything, he avoided Guan Qiaoqiao like this, something must have happened.

And that way to change the yin and yang eyes, except for him and Guan Qiaoqiao, there will not be a third person to know.

When did Guan Qiaoqiao betray him?

It was probably yesterday.

Yuan Benshan could sense that from the moment he boarded the high speed train yesterday, Chunyang had been looking between them as if he had something on his mind, wanting to say something.

Did her so-called "good heart" kick in? She didn't want her "good friend" to be victimized, so she told Chunyang about their plan?

No, there's no way Guan Qiaoqiao is going to come forward and confess to being the bad guy.

She doesn't trust him as an ally, I'm afraid.

After all, they're just partners, and even if they get the Eye and forget about killing Song Chunyang, it's still a thorn in their side.

They have, after all, witnessed each other at their worst.

Once they managed to get out and return to the world of normal people, the thorn might be a threat to each other.

As a woman, Guan Qiaoqiao, no matter how deep her heart is, is always the weaker party when facing Yuan Benshan.

It was probably because of this that she had moved to trade with Song Chunyang with the potion formula she had gotten from herself.

She doesn't even have to say that she wants Chunyang's eye, all she has to do is hand over the secret formula for exchanging Yin Yang Eyes and cry that she doesn't want to die in the 10th mission, and Chunyang is as soft as bean curd, and might even sacrifice one of her own eyes in order to put her mind at ease.

In this way, she would not have to bear the burden of human life, and she would be able to get an eye without much effort, and Song Chunyang would also survive and continue to follow Yuan Benshan, who after all, had plotted with her to assassinate Song Chunyang, and even if she was unwilling to do so, she could only eat this dumb loss.

But the only thing she missed was that Chunyang thinks too highly of herself.

After obtaining the secret formula, Chunyang had been calculating for a long time, and even planned to betray Guan Qiaoqiao, wanting to use the secret formula to exchange the eyes with himself.

It is probably because of this that he was ashamed of Guan Qiaoqiao and shied away from him.

Thinking about this, Yuan Benshan, who realized that he had deduced the truth of everything, felt a subtle sense of pride and triumph.

Guan Qiaoqiao noticed his expression and frowned slightly, "What are you thinking about."

Yuan Benshan said, "Nothing."

Guan Qiaoqiao was also perceptive: "Did Chunyang say something to you?"

Once the seeds of doubt have been planted, any statement made by Guan Qiaoqiao becomes interesting.

Yuan Benshan replied, "Chunyang said that we have name tags on each room, so we shouldn't be able to just change rooms or share rooms. He said he was a little scared and I was calming him down."

Guan Qiaoqiao laughed, "Why is he still so timid."

Yuan Benshan returns her smile, "I'm going to go investigate now as well, so you can wait a while before you come out of this room."

From start to finish, he never mentioned the bit about The Wind and the Snow having problems.

Before, he didn't dare to mention the eye replacement to Song Chunyang because Yuan Benshan couldn't trust Song Chunyang's love for him.

What if he objects vehemently? What if he decides he's despicable and refuses to work with him anymore, determined to leave him?

But now it's different, Song Chunyang has proven his love for him and even promised to give him an eye.

Now that I think about it, Song Chunyang is really a good bedmate, and he is also smart and cute. If he misses him, Yuan Benshan will have a hard time finding someone who can treat him as sincerely as Song Chunyang.

Guan Qiaoqiao, who knows all his secrets and betrayed him once, is now superfluous.

Chi Xiaochi, who was observing another photo on the staircase, received an alert that his favor value had increased.

The number that was originally 35 jumped all the way to over 50.

The corners of Chi Xiaochi's mouth are slightly upturned a little bit, just like the appearance of a small fox, where there is still half of Fang Cai's good behavior.

Gan Yu stood shoulder to shoulder with him, "That's a funny picture?"

Chi Xiaochi: "No."

Gan Yu: "Are you that happy to meet your boyfriend?"

"Who do you mean? Oh, the one from earlier?" Chi Xiaochi took on the tone of a sultry bitch, "Not in a minute."

Gan Yu again, without moving, stroked the left side of his eyeglasses chain, "You didn't look like that just now."

Chi Xiaochi turned around and hooked her tail finger on the right side of his eyeglasses chain, slowly running it downward, touching his ear in a slapdash manner, then retracting her hand, "Don't just catch one side and touch it, be careful to touch it bald."

Gan Yu said, "That's right. I'm the one who doesn't know how to take care of things."

With that, he removed his glasses and with a graceful movement, inserted them into the coat pocket on Chi Xiaochi's chest.

Chi Xiaochi: "......"

Gan Yu said, "Please ask Nurse Song to keep it for me. How about returning it to me tonight?"

Chi Xiaochi points to her nose, "A million dollars worth of eyeglass cases?"

Gan Yu: "I think you're worth the price."

Chi Xiaochi asked again, "And what does 'tonight' mean?"

Gan Yu : "To be precise, it's the three of us sleeping together tonight. I hired you to come, so of course you're going to sleep with us. I'm still more used to leaving my valuables around."

Chi Xiaochi always feel that this person wilted bad wilted bad, obviously speak elegantly, but in retrospect there is always a kind of hooligan feeling.

But it's this kind of person that most intrigues Chi Xiaochi to fight him.

Gan Tang rounded off the conversation at this point: "Brother, stop it."

Then she turned to Chi Xiaochi: "My brother is just bad-mouthed. Chunyang, don't bother with him. I'm counting on you tonight."

Chi Xiaochi thought about it and thought the siblings were a bit odd.

Obviously it was something that was still up for debate, but they downplayed it, one person at a time, and decided that the three of them would sleep in the same room?

After mentioning his concerns to Xi Lou, Xi Lou said, "Then you won't sleep with them?"

Chi Xiaochi immediately said, "That's not going to work."

Xi Lou: "......" Then you still tell me a head.

After that, no matter how much Chi Xiaochi summoned Xi Lou, Xi Lou pretended to be offline and didn't say a word.

Chi Xiaochi was disappointed, "Tone, you've changed, you weren't like this to Chunyang before."

Xi Lou spoke up again, "Chunyang is better than you don't know where."

Then he started playing dead again.

Chi Xiaochi didn't mind either and continued to search the room with the Gan siblings.

Gan Tang offered to take a look at the balloon girl again, and Chi Xiaochi took them back to his room.

After a second check, Gan Tang asked Gan Yu, "Brother, it's her, right?"

Gan Yu nodded slightly.

Chi Xiaochi was a little surprised, "You've met her too?"

Gan Yu briefly describes how they met.

The reason why they didn't recognize the balloon woman at the first sight of her was that to their eyes, the woman was a pretty girl with a rather slender figure, dressed in a rather smart black and white work outfit.

Gan Tang said, "Coming down from the third floor, she stood on the stairs and called both of our names and told us to get in position."

Chi Xiaochi seemed to understand and said something to the Gan siblings.

Gan Tang volunteered to take on the task.

She was asked by Chi Xiaochi to talk to the men and ask them if they had seen a beautiful woman on the set.

Not surprisingly, they all said they had seen this gorgeous woman.

She didn't say anything to them, just called their names and told them to get in position.

Gan Tang went back to the crew and asked half a dozen people before returning to Chi Xiaochi.

Without waiting for Gan Tang to say anything, Chi Xiaochi said, "There's no such woman in the crew, is there?"

Gan Tang nods.

"And the cameras didn't catch her?"

Gan Tang continues to nod.

The dreadlocked guy they'd just run into showed up at the beginning of the set, and the balloon woman came to him and told him to wait a little longer to see if he could talk the angry director back.

At that time, the cameras on the set were running, but Gan Tang was asked by Chi Xiaochi to check them, and there was only the dreadlocked man, not the balloon woman.

Gan Yu was a bit puzzled, "What does she want?"

Chi Xiaochi raised her hand and rubbed her temples lightly, "If I'm not mistaken, it's highly likely that it's a coincidence that she crawled out of the photo in my room."

He said, "She reviewed everyone who was on the mission. She was intentionally picking something."

Chi Xiaochi thought that the balloon lady was probably the ghost they were going to face.

She doesn't have a solid body, so after a bit of a selection process, she somehow chose Guan Qiaoqiao.

So she's now boarding in a photo of the room Guan Qiaoqiao is in, waiting for her chance.

If Guan Qiaoqiao, as in his last life, had already robbed Song Chunyang of his eyes and discovered the anomaly in the photograph, there might have been a chance to avert the risk.

But not this time.

Ending the search with Yuan Benshan, Guan Qiaoqiao returned to his room and sat down on his bed before revealing a hint of regret.

So close to getting Song Chunyang's eyes.

To be fair, Song Chunyang had helped her a lot, but she felt uneasy about having those precious eyes on someone else.

But there's no rush in the coming days.

Guan Qiaoqiao settled down, pulled the curtains tight and turned the lights on.

When they entered this abandoned mountain fortress, it was still silent and desolate like a graveyard, with cobwebs climbing everywhere, but now it was a restored look, with plenty of water and electricity, and all the amenities, with a beauty that blended the classical with the modern.

When she got out of the shower, she looked over at the picture hanging on her wall and felt satisfied with it.

All of the bedrooms had the same layout, with a large photograph hanging on the wall directly across from the bed, and most of the photographs consisted of portraits.

It's not noticeable during the day, but it's still weirdly creepy to have a pair of eyes staring straight at the bed once nighttime rolls around.

But this "Returning Home in the Wind and Snow" won't give Guan Qiaoqiao similar worries. The whole picture is a bleak and white one, except for a small black dot resembling a human figure appearing in the far side of the picture, which is at least not so scary.

Published at: 08/16/2024 07:00