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Shen Jingzhao hesitated for a moment, as if he himself was unsure of his intentions.
Given that everyone attending this funeral was destined to die, including the third party before him, what he wanted to do seemed unclear.
He didn’t need to give an extra glance to someone fated to die. Besides, he didn’t care about the face of the Shen family, and Yang Chenfeng’s affairs were of no concern to him.
Yet, for some inexplicable reason, he had stopped this person when he saw him.
As for why he stopped him, he didn’t know.
Shen Jingzhao lowered his gaze at the young man in front of him, feeling a bit uncomfortable for some reason, which was an unprecedented situation for him.
Shen Jingzhao squinted his eyes; this person was merely Yang Chenfeng’s man. Why would the Yang family let him stay in the Yang family villa, even on the same third floor as him? More importantly, his peculiar attraction to this person was rather strange.
Was the Yang family planning something against him?
He wanted to see what tricks the Yang family had up their sleeve.
Shen Jingzhao reached out, pinching Ruan Qing’s chin slightly, raising it a bit. He then lazily spoke, “So, what do you think should be done?”
Ruan Qing didn’t know what the man was thinking. After listening to Shen Jingzhao, he thought for a moment and then earnestly said, “I will do my best to make amends for the harm I caused to your sister.”
“And then?” Shen Jingzhao asked.
Ruan Qing furrowed his brow slightly, seeming uncertain about what more was needed.
Seeing Ruan Qing’s silence, Shen Jingzhao raised an eyebrow and approached a bit, “Didn’t the Yang family send you to seduce me?”
Ruan Qing’s eyes widened at the words, looking like he couldn’t believe what he had heard.
After realizing what the other meant, his face immediately turned cold. He brushed off Shen Jingzhao’s hand, and his eyes were filled with restrained anger.
He appeared to be on the verge of exploding, but ultimately, he held it back.
Taking a deep breath, Ruan Qing spoke coldly, “Mr. Shen Jingzhao, please show some restraint. I admit it was wrong of me to be with Brother Chenfeng before he annulled his engagement. But please, don’t maliciously speculate without cause.”
Ruan Qing finished speaking and tried to push the man in front of him away.
However... he didn’t budge.
The man seemed like an immovable rock, and Ruan Qing couldn’t make even a slight impact.
Ruan Qing felt a slight unease. While his strength wasn’t extraordinary, it should have been sufficient to push someone, but this person...
Shen Jingzhao looked at Ruan Qing’s hands pressed against his chest, lazily chuckled again, “You say no with your mouth, and yet you’re so quick to welcome me?”
“Are you resisting while actually seducing me?”
Ruan Qing listened to this domineering CEO-like statement in silence. After a moment, he couldn’t help but speak coldly, “Mr. Shen, have you ever had your brain checked at the hospital?”
“I think you might want to consider it when you have the time.”
Shen Jingzhao seemed somewhat taken aback. After recovering, he looked at the person in front of him with narrowed eyes, a hint of danger flashing in his eyes. “Are you saying there’s something wrong with my brain?”
Ruan Qing smirked at the corner of his mouth, “Otherwise... um...”
But before Ruan Qing could finish, the man in front of him directly pinched his chin, sealing his lips with a kiss and preventing him from saying anything.
Ruan Qing’s eyes widened in surprise, his pupils contracting. He hadn’t expected Shen Jingzhao to suddenly take such an action.
Ruan Qing reacted quickly. Before Shen Jingzhao could go any further, he bent his knee and delivered a sharp kick towards the man’s legs.
Shen Jingzhao responded swiftly, immediately releasing Ruan Qing and stepping back to avoid the kick.
He gently wiped the corner of his mouth with his thumb, but his eyes grew colder. This person in front of him was indeed problematic. Just a close encounter between lips and teeth had triggered a desire for something more extreme.
Did the Yang family do something to this person?
A trace of coldness flashed in Shen Jingzhao’s eyes. Finally, with a somewhat lazy smile, he said to Ruan Qing, “Thanks for the hospitality.”
“Scum.” Ruan Qing’s face was extremely unpleasant. He wiped his lips forcefully, his eyes filled with disgust.
He looked as if he wanted nothing more than to beat Shen Jingzhao right there. Ruan Qing glared fiercely at Shen Jingzhao, then turned around and slammed the door to his room shut with a loud ‘bang.’
Left alone, Shen Jingzhao remained standing in place. He once again touched his thin lips with a somewhat obscure and unreadable expression.
Eventually, he reverted to his lazy demeanor, looking completely at ease as he leisurely descended the stairs, as if he were in his own home.
The humiliation on Ruan Qing’s face disappeared once he entered his room. He leaned against the door, lost in thought.
Both Shen Baiyue and Shen Jingzhao seemed strange.
The first time he encountered Shen Baiyue, she seemed to be afraid of something, and this time was no different.
All three of them lived on the third floor. Could it be that Shen Baiyue was afraid of her brother?
The issue was, Shen Baiyue’s demeanor didn’t seem like a simple sister afraid of her brother; it was more like the fear of something ominous.
And there was something that Ruan Qing found strange.
Even though Yang Chenfeng and the original owner had legally become husbands, the engagement between the Yang and Shen families was not annulled.
Yang Chenfeng had been making a fuss about it for a long time, but it was never annulled.
Which was why, in the end, they eloped together.
It was already odd for a fourteen-year-old girl to be engaged to someone around thirty. Still, even after Yang Chenfeng and the original owner had registered their marriage, the engagement was not dissolved. Shen Baiyue and Shen Jingzhao even attended Yang Chenfeng’s funeral.
In a typical family, it would be unlikely for a daughter to attend the funeral of her fiance who had strayed from the marriage, especially such a dangerous funeral.
Moreover, besides these two siblings, no one else from the Shen family attended.
Was there some unknown secret between the Shen and Yang families?
Perhaps the Shen family knew about the situation in the Yang family.
Did these siblings know?
Regardless of whether they knew or not, Ruan Qing decided it was best to keep a distance from Shen Jingzhao.
He hoped that Shen Jingzhao’s recent actions were only because he had angered him, not because he was genuinely interested in him.
Glancing at the time, it was only 10:30, still an hour and a half before lunch. However, going out now would undoubtedly arouse suspicion from others after the recent eerie experience. On the other hand, staying indoors meant he wouldn’t gather more clues.
This instance was different from the ones where players could search for answers. This could only stay in this instance for seven days. The later it got, the more dangerous it would become.
For someone like him with no combat power, it’s increasingly difficult to survive in the later stages. Without investigating the situation earlier, completing the instance wouldn’t be easy, especially with the presence of those terrifying red vines.
Ruan Qing still remembered what happened in the <First High School> before. Even if he cleared the instance, there was a high possibility of being forced to stay by the boss inside it.
Obviously, even after clearing an instance, there was still a possibility of being trapped in it.
He had to be more careful.
After thinking it over, Ruan Qing finally lay down on the bed, closed his eyes, and chose to enter the body of that male player.
Although he couldn’t control the player’s body, at least he could see through his eyes.
At this moment, those players must be searching for clues, and there might be some discoveries.
When Ruan Qing opened his eyes again, the male player’s gaze came into view.
