Chapter 60: The Unlucky Star 07

  Ye Cheng's injury was not serious, just a slight concussion with more bleeding after the skin on his head was broken, but there were no other sequelae. He was allowed to be discharged from the hospital after observation for two days.

  The day Ye Cheng left the hospital was a sunny day.

  On this day, Qin Fei, Gu Yin, Zhou Jun, Song Meng, and Ye Cheng, the five of them gathered in the upstairs of Shu Ba Lou, at the Zhou Song Detective Agency co-founded by Zhou Jun and Song Meng.

  Zhou Jun extinguished the cigarette butt in his hand, swept his gaze over the crowd, and finally fixed his eyes on Gu Yin. He slowly opened his mouth and said: "Originally, we could have pushed this case away, and paying some liquidated damages wouldn't be impossible. But if things go on like this, Ye Cheng might lose his life. Human life is at stake, and it's right in front of us. I, Old Zhou, can't just turn a blind eye. However, this disaster that was clearly caused by non-human factors is definitely beyond the capabilities of me and Pangzi. I wonder if Young Master Gu could lend a hand?"

  "Can we split the commission?" Song Meng added with a painful expression.

  Gu Yin swept a cold glance at Song Meng, "I don't lack that bit of money, you'd better keep it for yourself."

  Ye Cheng thought this matter was not a man-made event, but Gu Yin couldn't see the twists and turns in it. It's easy to imagine that this matter is absolutely not simple. Moreover, it has nothing to do with that person seventeen years ago, and he is not interested either, so why bother taking action? Is he very idle?

  Rejected by Gu Yin, Song Meng felt disappointed and turned his gaze to Qin Fei sitting next to Gu Yin. Across the long tea table, he grabbed both hands of Qin Fei, "Qin Xiao Fei, elder brother is in trouble, as younger brother, you can't just watch him die without helping! I really can't afford to pay the penalty!"

  "I know, I know." Qin Fei struggled free from Song Meng's grasp, "If there's anything I can help with, I'll definitely do my best."

  The situation has developed to the point where it threatens Ye Cheng's life and may indirectly affect Song Meng and others. Moreover, the place where Ye Cheng got into trouble is in his own bookstore, so emotionally and rationally, Qin Fei cannot just sit back and do nothing. Besides, as Zhou Jun said, human life is at stake, not seeing it is one thing, but having seen it, Qin Fei finds it hard to ignore it completely.

  Gu Yin gave him a disapproving look, but Qin Fei just smiled and didn't change his mind.

  "Let's first discuss where to start with this incident," said Zhou Jun. "During Ye Cheng's stay in the book bar, he had never encountered such an accident before, but this time a lamp fell. What was the reason that caused the unexpected event to happen again in the book bar? In response to this, we conducted a comparative analysis of the factors according to Ye Cheng's request."

  Ye Cheng glanced at Qin Fei and continued Zhou Jun's words: "After comparison and elimination, I found that when Qin Fei was in the book bar, those unreasonable accidents would not occur. And on the day the lamp fell, it happened to be the day when Qin Fei and Gu Yin were not in the book bar. Previously, there was a day when Gu Yin didn't come to the book bar, but Qin Fei was there, and no accident occurred, so I ruled out that it was because of Gu Yin's reason. So, during these days when I stayed in the book bar, there have been no accidents, and the reason can only be because of you, Qin Fei."

  Qin Fei hesitated for a moment and said: "It's not necessarily like that..."

  "We can do more experiments, just by seeing if I'm with you, whether an accident will happen or not. If it's because of your presence around me and my problem isn't solved before April arrives, you can come with me to B City. The script I received is a crucial turning point for me in the film industry, I don't want to miss this opportunity."

  Gu Yin's face turned cold: his gaze at Ye Cheng revealed malice, "Do you think Qin Fei is your talisman?"

  Ye Cheng: "I didn't mean it that way, I just wanted to ask him for a favor."

  "Help? Following you around like a servant day and night? What do you think Qin Fei is? Why should he go to such lengths for you?"

  "So now I'm asking for his help, what requirements can he raise." Yu Cheng felt a bit at a loss for words in the face of Gu Yin's intentional misinterpretation and aggressive tone.

  Gu Yin: "The price is two conditions."

  "What?"

  "First, you must obey all my orders. Once the matter is settled, roll back to your B city immediately." Gu Yin looked at Ye Cheng and said. After the other party finally reacted, Gu Yin meant to take action, nodded in response, and then turned his gaze to Zhou Jun and Song Meng, coldly snorted, "The entrusted gold will all belong to me."

  In Song Meng's mournful wails, Gu Yin pulled Qin Fei downstairs without looking back.

  Downstairs, standing at the door of the book bar on the side of the road, Qin Fei smiled and looked at Gu Yin, "Since you're so unwilling, why did you suddenly change your mind and agree to help Ye Cheng?"

  Gu Yin stood in the backlight, his face was a bit blurry due to the glare, but he looked down at him with eyes that seemed to be surging with thick emotions, Qin Fei felt as if they were carved into his own eyes, and then his heart began to throb uncontrollably.

  Qin Fei only saw Gu Yin's mouth opening and closing, seemingly saying something, but he didn't hear anything. After Gu Yin finished speaking, he asked somewhat dazedly: "What?"

  "I'm saying, this ten generations of merit and virtue, the saint's fate, isn't it meant to be used by that kind of lowly creature to drive out demons and evil spirits?" Gu Yin repeated.

  "Are you saying that Ye Chengdai won't have an accident in the book bar because of me?" Qin Fei scratched his hair, "So I'm a mascot now?"

  Gu Yin: "......"

  ……

  The next morning, in Qin Fei's book bar, Ye Cheng sat on the sofa chair in the reading area with a pair of heavy panda eyes.

  Yesterday evening, after Qin Fei closed the door of the book bar, he originally wanted to follow him home or stay in a place close to Qin Fei's house. Unfortunately, Gu Yin disagreed, and in the end, he could only return to the hotel to sleep, resulting in another night of nightmares as expected.

  Ye Cheng yawned and lifted his eyelids to glance at Gu Yin, who was staring at him. This man had a great complexion, with an inexplicable elegance and nobility in his behavior, although he was a bit eccentric and sharp-tongued, but he was definitely the kind of man that girls would fawn over. Unfortunately, this man liked men.

  Actually, Ye Cheng didn't notice it at first, he just thought Gu Yin's gaze towards Qin Fei was a bit strange. But yesterday, Gu Yin's behavior was too obvious, he basically wanted everyone to know that his crush was Qin Fei, and anyone who couldn't see that must be blind. Probably Zhou Jun and Song Meng had already noticed it earlier, so they made an appointment to ask for Gu Yin's help, but when the time came, they pulled Qin Fei in instead.

  However, these unrelated people, even if they noticed that Gu Yin liked Qin Fei, it was of no use - the object of Gu Yin's affections seemed to be exceptionally obtuse in emotional matters, and had not yet realized the signs Gu Yin was showing. Ye Cheng turned his gaze towards the bar. Today Xie Zhe was on the late shift, so only Shen Wei was at the bar, with Qin Fei chatting with a young girl over there.

  Ye Cheng's mind was wandering, but he saw Gu Yin suddenly stand up in front of him.

  "Let's go for a walk." Gu Yin said to Ye Cheng.

  "What about me?" Ye Cheng asked blankly.

  "You've been staying at Qin Fei's place, so I wouldn't have seen you getting into an accident. Since we need to investigate the issue with you, of course, I'd want to take a look at the scene myself."

  Ye Cheng: "......" What is the scene of the case?!

  As soon as Song Meng entered, he saw Gu Yin taking Ye Cheng out and watched the two leave before running to Qin Fei's side to ask: "Where are they going? Has Gu Da Shen got a lead? Are they going out to investigate?"

  "Let's go for a walk," said Qin Fei, "and I'll tell you about it."

  Song Meng's mouth twitched slightly, "These two taking a walk together? Really? I recall Gu Da Shen's expression, it looked like he was walking a dog or something?"

  Whether it was a walk or a dog walk, Ye Cheng followed Gu Yin out and suffered two difficulties. He limped back to the book bar with Gu Yin, who finally had some clues about the problem on Ye Cheng's body.

  Ye Cheng's body was not cursed, nor was he being followed by anything. He had simply touched something he shouldn't have and was unluckily marked, causing any vengeful spirits or malevolent ghosts that saw him to go up and scratch him. This also led to Ye Cheng encountering accidents wherever he went, as if a decayed spirit had possessed him.

  And he didn't have any evil or yin energy on him, which means that the thing marking him wasn't an ordinary ghost-summoning object, but rather a somewhat special ancient artifact. To solve Ye Cheng's problem, they had to find the ancient artifact that Ye Cheng had come into contact with.

  After Gu Yin finished speaking, the five people in the reception room of Zhou Song Detective Agency fell into a brief silence. Then Gu Yin asked Ye Cheng: "Before this situation occurred, did you come into contact with anything special? Like an antique device."

  Ye Cheng thought for a moment and quickly gave an answer, "The only thing I've come into contact with recently that resembles an antique is a jade vase about one inch high."

  "Where is that jade vase now?" Song Meng asked.

  "Now I don't know where it is," said Ye Cheng. "However, I remember that I saw the jade censer in the resting room when I was recording a program at B City TV station."

  To continue from here, we must go to B City and find that jade tank in Ye Cheng's mouth.

  On February 28, Qin Fei handed over the book bar to Xie Zhe and Shen Wei, and followed Song Meng to S city. Within a week or so, Ye Cheng, Qin Fei, Gu Yin, Zhou Jun, and Song Meng returned to B city together to find the urn that Ye Cheng mentioned.