Chapter 10 An Adulterous Affair in Broad Daylight

Not long after Xu Qinglang kicked the door open, Zhou Ze came downstairs and opened the bookstore. His forehead was a little sweaty, and he looked tired, as if he hadn't rested well.

To be honest, he had just woken up, but not naturally as usual, but startled awake.

The last scene in his dream, those strands of black hair wrapped around his body, made his scalp tingle even thinking about it now.

"Xu Le!"

The little sister-in-law stood with her hands on her hips, looking like she needed an explanation!

Zhou Ze nodded to Xu Qinglang, signaling him to come in. Then, in front of his little sister-in-law, Zhou Ze locked the bookstore door again, isolating her outside.

The little sister-in-law looked incredulous.

Xu Le actually dared to ignore her!

The little girl's princess temper flared up. She came this time to demand an explanation for her sister, and she had also learned about the Maserati woman from Xu Qinglang. How could she just walk away?

Okay, you lock the door, huh!

The little sister-in-law bent down, found a larger stone on the ground, and prepared to smash the glass door. But just as she was about to run, Zhou Ze in the bookstore turned and glanced at her.

At this moment, Zhou Ze's eyes had a black halo flowing in them.

The little sister-in-law was so frightened that she shivered and staggered back several steps, instinctively clenching her legs.

The scene of being frightened in the bathroom that night reappeared in her mind.

That night,

she had been so scared that she lost control of her bladder.

"Xu Le, you... you just wait!"

The little sister-in-law uttered her last harsh words, then left in a panic, while also blaming herself for being nosy and just telling her parents about this when she got home.

Just tell them that the obedient live-in son-in-law they chose had a woman on the outside!

…………

Inside the bookstore, after Xu Qinglang came in, he had been organizing his words, swallowing saliva. He could be considered a person who had seen the world, but at this moment, he still felt a deep sense of lingering fear.

Because at that time, he, including the female corpse, and Zhou Ze, hadn't seen the woman's true identity!

This was too terrifying,

and it was chilling to think about!

It was like watching those imitation masters on variety shows imitate celebrities singing; you might find it quite interesting.

But suddenly someone imitates your parents, imitates your husband or wife, and lives with you, and you don't even notice it at all,

what a terrifying thing this is!

"Last night, the one who came in the Maserati wasn't Doctor Lin, wasn't your wife!

Your wife didn't change cars at all. After you confessed to her, she took a leave of absence and didn't go to work."

Xu Qinglang finally said it.

Zhou Ze's pupils shrank slightly.

He didn't say anything but sat down on the chair behind the counter.

In the dream, the man in the hoodie from Rongcheng had already given him a reminder, so even though he was indeed surprised when he heard Xu Qinglang's words, he could still handle it.

"How can you be so calm?" Xu Qinglang asked strangely. "Or, do you know who that woman is?"

Zhou Ze shook his head. "At the time, I really didn't know at all. I thought that was Doctor Lin.

But now that I think about it, there are indeed many things that don't make sense.

She suddenly came to me, as if she had figured everything out.

I suddenly became very proactive and impulsive,

and she was very cooperative. Every move, although seemingly shy and awkward, could precisely stir the most trembling place in a man's heart."

"What kind of ghost is that?" Xu Qinglang pursed his lips and asked again, "What kind of ghost?"

"A woman on the Huang Quan (Yellow Springs) Road of Hell who likes to dance with her hands in a pool of water. This woman has no face."

Speaking of this,

Zhou Ze suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment in his heart.

The faceless woman,

people who see her appearance always find her facelessness shocking and strange,

but they overlooked the fact that

she has no face

because she has the ability to change into any face she needs!

This is the essence of the faceless woman,

from nothing, something can be created!

"The faceless woman?" Xu Qinglang frowned. "I seem to have seen this in some Qing Dynasty *zhiguai* (tales of the strange) novels. It is said that she is a ghost condensed from the unwillingness of the dead on the Huang Quan Road, always waiting for a chance to return to the yang (living) world."

"That's about the gist of it," Zhou Ze nodded, adding, "Find that *zhiguai* novel and let me take a look at it too."

"I'll look for it when I get back. It's all stuff I read when I was a kid, so I probably won't be able to find it.

By the way, did you have sex with that female ghost?

Like you just said, she came to you to seduce you, right?"

"No." Zhou Ze shook his head, picked up a new water glass from the counter, and took a sip of tea,

pretending to be profound, he said, "At the last moment, I noticed something was wrong.

I called it off."

Zhou Ze couldn't possibly admit that it was because Xu Qinglang, that damn bastard, had told him so much about bodies, souls, DNA, and cuckoldry that afternoon, which caused him to have a mental block at the time, so he couldn't be successfully seduced.

In fact, Zhou Ze himself was wondering. In his bookstore, network novels and physical books were displayed the most, and there were many rebirth and transmigration novels.

The protagonists in those books have children and raise families normally, and it all seems to be taken for granted, and there is nothing out of place;

Why, when it came to him putting the plots in the novels into practice, did so many twists and turns arise?

Was he...

bored?

No, Xu Qinglang should be bored.

Only this idiot would be bored enough to analyze and think about this philosophical problem for him.

But it didn't seem like he could blame Xu Qinglang. If Xu Qinglang hadn't said those things to him that afternoon, he would probably have cooked the rice already.

Moreover, the consequences would be very serious.

Other people fish, but he bit the hook. The ending would be meat on the chopping board.

"She failed?" Xu Qinglang asked.

"Yeah," Zhou Ze nodded.

"Then why is she targeting you?"

"Maybe she's not like that Madam Bai, who values social status," Zhou Ze said with a smile.

"…………" Xu Qinglang.

"Maybe it's because of jealousy. Because I can come back, but she can't. Moreover, I still have a physical body and a new life," Zhou Ze speculated.

"She's back now too, and it's obvious that her target is you," Xu Qinglang analyzed. "This means that her return is not so pure and may have other restrictions."

"For example, because of some special purpose, someone deliberately allowed her to come back?" Zhou Ze changed his perspective to think about the problem.

"I always feel like you know something, so I'm just worrying for nothing, and you actually have it all figured out?"

"I know it from a dream."

"Do you think I'm so stupid that I'd believe that crap?" Xu Qinglang retorted.

Zhou Ze reached out and gently stroked his forehead.

The little loli hastily handed over the job of the ghost messenger to him, and the faceless woman was also released from hell.

It was very likely that it was to catch the man from Rongcheng, the one who reminded him in the dream.

But that faceless woman was obviously planning to do some small calculations of her own while on official business,

such as,

scheming against him?

"In short, during this time, I'll try not to leave the bookstore and wait for the storm to pass."

"That's what you should do," Xu Qinglang nodded, then leaned closer to Zhou Ze and said, "Hey, are you still bothered by the body and DNA stuff?"

Zhou Ze shook his head. "Am I that bored?"

"Actually, this matter is easy to figure out. DNA is just a code, but offspring are actually the crystallization of one's soul. Forget it, I can't explain this clearly either.

In short, even normal people who haven't transmigrated or possessed another body might have children with their wives who aren't their own,

so you don't need to care too much about this."

"I didn't realize you were really good at comforting people," Zhou Ze stood up and said to Xu Qinglang, "Come with me to the bathroom."

Xu Qinglang followed Zhou Ze to the bathroom.

Zhou Ze directly took off his jacket and the clothes inside.

"You need to exercise," Xu Qinglang shook his head, looking very dissatisfied.

At this moment, the female corpse came down the stairs. The bathroom was on the side of the staircase, and Bai Yingying directly saw the two men together in the bathroom!

"Oh dear, I suddenly realized I haven't slept enough."

Putting on an act, Bai Yingying yawned and pretended to go back upstairs to rest, so as not to disturb the two people's private time.

"Bring down the medical kit from the second floor, and prepare gauze and anti-inflammatory medicine," Zhou Ze said to Bai Yingying.

"Okay, boss."

Bai Yingying hurried upstairs to get things, thinking in her heart, were the boss and his friend going to be that intense?

Did they have to prepare to stop the bleeding in advance?

"What exactly are you going to do?" Xu Qinglang crossed his arms, looked at Zhou Ze, and revealed obvious disgust in the depths of his eyes.

Zhou Ze smiled. "You're clearly not gay. Why do you always act like that?"

"A zest for life, don't you understand?" Xu Qinglang pointed to Zhou Ze's abdomen. "Although it's someone else's body, you should exercise more. Look at this belly fat, tsk tsk, disgusting."

Zhou Ze's fingernails immediately grew longer.

Xu Qinglang was stunned for a moment.

Damn,

I just mocked your body a little. Did you have to get so angry?

However, Zhou Ze next used his index fingernail to gently draw a line from his jaw down, and a bloodstain was slowly pulled out, and blood beads also overflowed.

At the same time,

from Zhou Ze's neck to his abdomen, there appeared lines of black powder. These powders were like the ink lines used by carpenters, very fine, and invisible at all before.

As the fingernail passed, these ink lines also fell off.

Zhou Ze breathed a sigh of relief,

looking at himself in the mirror and the long bloodstain on his chest.

"What is this stuff?"

Xu Qinglang held his breath, lowered his head, and squatted down to observe the fallen black powder.

"It's hair," Zhou Ze replied.

Hair that was wrapped around

his soul.

"Boss, I'm coming in." Bai Yingying walked into the bathroom carrying the medical kit. When she saw the black powder on the ground, a strange look immediately appeared on her face, and she said,

"Boss, is this something you guys use to spice things up and help with foreplay?"

"Do you recognize this?" Xu Qinglang pointed to the black powder and asked.

"This is ghost ambergris. It's transformed from the resentment of ghosts who are over a hundred years old. My Madam also had some back then."

"Tell me the effect," Xu Qinglang asked.

"It stimulates a person's impulse. For example, if you want to do something at the time, and you also inhale this stuff, it can make you ten or a hundred times more eager to do that thing."

Hearing this, the corners of Xu Qinglang's mouth curled up into a smile, and then he glanced at Zhou Ze,

and laughed:

"Old Zhou, does this faceless woman want to find you to breed?"