Chapter 605: Chapter 188: Death Qi
Chapter 188 [Death Qi] (6000)
After leaving the restaurant where they met and returning home, Lu Sisi’s mood was noticeably more downcast.
Chen Yan stayed by Lu Sisi’s side to comfort her for a long time, saying many words of assurance that he would definitely protect her, which finally improved the girl’s mood a little.
That night, while Lu Sisi was practicing meditation and sitting in contemplation, Chen Yan slipped out of the room and sat in the courtyard for a while.
His expression didn’t look good.
The scene with Lu Xiuting today was unpleasant — but it was expected. Chen Yan had gone with the possibility of a confrontation in mind.
However, after returning from seeing Lu Xiuting, there was actually one thing he hadn’t told Lu Sisi.
Lu Xiuting, was strange!
It’s not just her dressing style, which was deliberately mimicking Chu Keqing.
Nor was it just her insistence, which was irrational and obsessive, on sending her daughter abroad — she obviously shouldn’t be so concerned about Lu Sisi.
More importantly, from the moment they met today, the moment Chen Yan walked in, he sensed a strange aura emanating from Lu Xiuting.
This aura would be completely unnoticeable to an ordinary person.
But Chen Yan just so happens to be a cultivator, and had even opened his Celestial Eye, excelling in the Qi Observation Skill!
Under the Qi Observation Skill, Chen Yan sensed that within Lu Xiuting’s aura, there was a faint trace of...
Death Qi!
This doesn’t mean that Lu Xiuting’s life was near its end, or that her life force was expiring.
Rather, Chen Yan saw that within Lu Xiuting’s aura, there was a trace of peculiar death qi entangled with her life force, which was not accumulated overnight but had persisted for many years.
This was extremely odd.
This woman was not a cultivator, at least Chen Yan didn’t sense any primordial qi fluctuations from her.
He even suspected whether Lu Xiuting had some hidden primordial qi cultivation technique, so during the conversation, Chen Yan deliberately provoked her, simultaneously releasing his own primordial qi.
The result was that Lu Xiuting didn’t notice or react at all.
So she was not a cultivator!
But where did the death qi come from?
After pondering, Chen Yan picked up the phone and dialed Chu Keqing’s number.
"Senior Chen Yan." When the call connected, Chu Keqing’s voice was still in that flirtatious tone.
Chen Yan paused his breathing and said in a low voice, "Keqing, help me investigate someone."
Chu Keqing’s tone was relaxed, "Who does the senior want to investigate?"
"Lu Xiuting, Lu Sisi’s biological mother," Chen Yan sighed.
Chu Keqing laughed, "We have already investigated Lu Sisi’s background before, haven’t her family’s affairs been thoroughly checked?"
"This time is different, we need to investigate deeper," Chen Yan felt a stir in his heart, "Investigate Lu Xiuting’s past experiences, preferably before she married Yang Jiaming."
After a pause, Chen Yan said slowly, "I feel there’s something strange about this person."
Without asking further questions, Chu Keqing agreed simply, and Chen Yan ended the call.
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Chu Keqing, being the renowned Elder Zi of Jinling Prefecture, had connections with dignitaries and officials, possessing both underworld and legitimate resources, with a firm grasp on many gray channels.
Within just two or three days, a dossier regarding Lu Xiuting was sent to Chen Yan’s phone.
"Senior Chen Yan, is this to investigate your future mother-in-law?" Chu Keqing sent such a message to Chen Yan, accompanied by a laughing emoji.
Regarding Chu Keqing’s teasing, Chen Yan didn’t respond but instead opened the document on Lu Xiuting’s personal history and began to scrutinize it closely.
A few minutes later, Chen Yan’s expression gradually turned serious.
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Lu Xiuting was born in a suburban county under Jinling Prefecture, a place called Hengxi. Chen Yan knew about it; he had gone on a countryside outing there with classmates during university.
How to say, it’s somewhat remote.
In Jinling Prefecture, it belonged to a rural area, famous for watermelon cultivation, with a reservoir nearby.
Lu Xiuting lived there until she was eighteen, when she got into a university and moved to Jinling Prefecture City’s district for her studies.
Afterward, she graduated, found an internship at a company — Yang Jiaming’s company — and then got acquainted, fell in love, got married, and had children with him...
But there was an extra detail in the information Chu Keqing found.
When Lu Xiuting got involved with Yang Jiaming, she quickly dumped her college boyfriend — this was learned by interviewing her college classmates.
After all, eighteen years was not so long; those old college classmates of Lu Xiuting were merely middle-aged now, not deceased.
Moreover, Jinling Prefecture is a big city; many classmates remained there for their careers.
This detail was quite intriguing.
Lu Xiuting had a boyfriend in college, met the wealthy and promising young talent Yang Jiaming during her internship, and within just a few months, while getting involved with Yang Jiaming, she swiftly dumped her boyfriend.
The ambition was very clear.
Yet the report said Yang Jiaming seemed unaware of this, believing his charm had indeed captivated this young woman fresh out of college in a very short time.
Perhaps it’s difficult to say who was truly the hunter and who was the prey.
However, there was one detail, not mentioned in the report, that Chen Yan found himself pondering for a long time, feeling a bit strange.
In the report, there were three photos of Lu Xiuting.
The first was from her youth, reportedly from her high school days.
This photo, how to describe, looked a bit rural and wasn’t very pretty.