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nThere was something in the box that could control one’s mind.

nTo put it simply, the things inside could turn a person into a puppet doll.

nChu Luo looked around again and realized that there were surveillance cameras in several hidden places. The corners of her lips curled up and she took down the box, pretending not to know anything.

nShe took the box to the desk and opened it in front of the camera.

nA black aura quietly entered her wrist.

nChu Luo took out a photo and an exquisite jade buckle.

nIn the photo were two very young people, a man and a woman.

nThe man’s looks bore a 50% resemblance to Chu Zhengyang’s. He was wearing a matching Tang suit and had a righteous look on his face. The woman was beautiful and was wearing a crescent white cheongsam. She had the gentleness of a young lady from a wealthy family in Jiangnan, but there was an indescribable heroic spirit between her eyebrows.

nChu Luo tapped her fingers on the photo and thought, ‘These must be your biological parents.’

nThe two people in the photo were very unfamiliar to her, but they were the biological parents of this body’s original owner after all. Chu Luo planned to keep the photo.

nAfter she put the photo in her pocket, she looked at the jade buckle.

nThe jade buckle was made of top-grade Tianzi material. Unfortunately, someone had tampered with it. A black aura was emanating from it.

nChu Luo took the jade buckle, and Phoenix began to absorb all the black aura to purify it.

nChu Luo quickly stopped her in her mind. “Phoenix, don’t move.”

nPhoenix was puzzled. “Mistress, why?”

nChu Luo smiled again. “I want to see what Chu Zhengyang wants to do to me.”

nPhoenix stopped moving.

nChu Luo took the jade buckle and searched the study room again. She didn’t find anything and began to leave the study.

nAt this moment, someone knocked on the study door.

nThen, the housekeeper pushed open the door and said to her, “Second Miss, I made you some desserts. If you want to eat, come down later.”

nChu Luo looked at her.

nThe housekeeper looked into her dark and sparkling eyes and felt inexplicably nervous. She subconsciously shifted her gaze away and said, “I’ve tidied up your bedroom. If you want to stay here tonight, you can directly do so.”

nWith that, she closed the study door and left.

nChu Luo looked at the closed study door, walked over, opened it, and slowly walked downstairs towards the bedroom she used to stay in.

nThe awkward bedroom still retained the same look as when she lived there, but the blanket had been replaced with a new one.

nChu Luo walked to the window and looked out.

nIt was already dark, and the streetlights outside the villa were emitting a faint yellow light.

nIt was already mid-autumn, and the night was slightly cold. The Persian chrysanthemum in the backyard was blooming beautifully.

nChu Luo only had to lower her eyes to see the colors under the street lamp.

nAt this moment, her phone rang again.

nIt was Chu Zhengyang.

nChu Zhengyang asked tentatively on the phone, “Luoluo, did you go back to our villa? Uncle is on the way to the south now. Someone will come and pick you up later. You can just follow those people.”

nChu Luo retracted her gaze from the large patch of color and only softly responded with an “Mm.” She was extremely obedient.

nChu Zhengyang heaved an obvious sigh of relief. Even his tone became a little more cheerful. “When Uncle comes back from the south, you can move back and live with Uncle. You can do whatever you want in the future, as long as you’re not with that man.”

nChu Luo looked at the street lamp surrounded by mosquitoes and wondered how Li Yan would react if he found out.

nShe only responded with a light “Mm.”

nChu Zhengyang was obviously relieved.

nHe hung up after saying a few more words.

nPutting away her phone, Chu Luo became even more curious about what kind of “expert” Chu Zhengyang had found to control her.

nAt this moment, a message came in.

nChu Luo looked at the message and couldn’t help but smile.

nLi Yan: “Baby, where are you now? I’ll pick you up.”

nChu Luo: “At the Chu family villa.”

nChu Luo: “Chu Zhengyang found an expert to control me.”

nLi Yan replied after a while, his words filled with hostility. “Chu Zhengyang? Looks like this person needs to be dealt with.”

nChu Luo: “How do you want to deal with him?”

nLi Yan: “Didn’t he want to go to the tomb? Then he’ll stay there for the rest of his life.”

nChu Luo pursed her lips and smiled. She typed: “The expert wasn’t found by Chu Zhengyang himself. He was used.”

nLi Yan: “Mm.”

nLi Yan: “I’ll be there in 20 minutes.”

nChu Luo: “Don’t be in a hurry to come in when you get here. Someone is here.”

nLi Yan actually didn’t reply.

nChu Luo pursed her lips and muttered, “Don’t tell me you’d directly kill that person?”

nJust as she finished mumbling, she heard the sound of a bowl falling to the ground.

nChu Luo pretended not to hear that and leaned against the window frame while browsing the web.

nOnly then did she realize that the trending topics of the day had something to do with their competition. There were various experts’ comments and everyone else’s reaction when they found out that she had set up the Taiji Eight Trigrams Defense Network.

nHowever, most people didn’t believe it.

nChu Luo didn’t mind. She exited the website and logged in to her email. There were many emails on it.

nChu Luo glanced at them. They were all from some companies, and most of them wanted her to do endorsements.

nShe wasn’t interested at all. She jumped over to look at the sales schedule for the past two days that Chen Xuan had sent. The data on it was very pleasing.

nAfter about twenty minutes, there was a knock on the door.

nBefore Chu Luo could reply, the door was pushed open impatiently.

nThen, a middle-aged man and woman walked in.

nThe man’s eyes had been staring at Chu Luo’s face since he entered. There was a naked glint in his eyes.

nThe woman said, “Chu Luo, your uncle called us to pick you up. Come with us immediately.”

nChu Luo put her phone in her pocket and frowned in displeasure. “Didn’t anyone teach you that you have to knock on the door to enter someone else’s room, especially if it’s a girl’s bedroom? You can’t enter at will without getting permission.”

nAfter saying those words, she flicked her finger.

n“Ooh…” The man covered one of his eyes and groaned in pain. Then, he shouted, “Who did that? What hit me!”

nThe woman turned to look into his eyes. Her expression changed and her voice rose. She quickly said, “Your eyes are bleeding.”

nAfter she said that, he abruptly turned to Chu Luo and stared at her hand. Anger appeared in his eyes. “Was it you?”

nChu Luo spread her hands. “Do you see something in my hand?”

nAfter she said that, like a prank, a stone appeared on the tip of her finger. She flicked it again towards the man’s other eye.

nOwww…

nThe scream that sounded like a pig being slaughtered was deafening. That man covered his eyes and rolled on the ground in pain.

nThe woman was shocked. They didn’t expect Chu Luo to be so powerful.

nThe woman looked at Chu Luo with a murderous gaze and gritted her teeth. “You lass, we came to bring you back to the capital with good intentions, but you actually dare to treat my man like this… You’re deliberately inflicting harm. Do you think that I won’t call the guards to capture you immediately?”

n“Whatever.”

nChu Luo glanced at the man rolling on the ground and snorted. “Didn’t the person who sent you here tell you to be polite to me?”

nThe woman was stunned to hear this.

nThen, her expression changed and she said with a dark expression, “We’re just taking the chance to send you back to the capital. Who sent us?”

n“Is that so?”

nAfter Chu Luo finished speaking, she flicked her finger again. This time, the woman couldn’t move.

n“What… what did you do to me?” The woman’s eyes widened.

nChu Luo looked at the man who was still shouting and said, “Too noisy.”

nIn the next moment, the man fainted.

nThe woman’s eyes widened even more.

nChu Luo narrowed her eyes. “Tell me, who asked you to come? Where do you plan to bring me?”

n“What did you say?” The woman’s heart skipped a beat. Then, she thought of the master who was with them and became fearless again. “Chu Zhengyang was the one who asked us to bring you back.”

n“You don’t want to tell the truth?”

nChu Luo took out the jade buckle, and the black aura floated into the woman’s body. Just as she was about to speak, she heard a movement by the bedroom window.

nChu Luo tilted her head and met Li Yan’s cold eyes.

nLi Yan was wearing a mask tonight. After he flipped in through the window, the powerful cold aura on his body instantly engulfed the entire room.

nWhen the woman saw Li Yan, her teeth subconsciously trembled.

nLi Yan strode to Chu Luo’s side and glanced at the man who was still bleeding and unconscious. He stared at the woman. “What have you found out from them?”

nChu Luo shrugged. “I was about to ask.”

n“I’ll do it!”

nAfter Li Yan finished speaking, he glared at the woman opposite him, making her shudder. She had never seen someone with such a strong aura before. Her teeth trembled uncontrollably as she said, “We… we didn’t fool her. We… we really came to bring Miss Chu back to the capital.”

n“Hmph!” Li Yan walked towards her with a murderous aura.

nThe woman was so frightened that her legs trembled. She wanted to escape, but her feet were so weak that she couldn’t lift them at all.

nLi Yan spoke, his voice so low that it made one’s heart palpitate. “Where do you want to take Luoluo?”

n“I…”

n“Speak!”

n“To… We’re bringing her to a mountain.”

n“Where?”

n“To the Peng Villa in the back mountain.”

nThe woman had just finished speaking when her eyes bulged, filled with fear and pain.

nIn the next second, her body went limp and she collapsed.

nChu Luo looked at the murderous Li Yan and walked over to pull his hand.

nOnly then did Li Yan retract his murderous aura. The dagger in his other hand was still dripping with red blood.

nHe looked even more cold and ruthless like this.

nChu Luo glanced at the two people on the ground and raised her hand. Instantly, they disappeared.

n“I sent them to their companions.”

nLi Yan was filled with murderous intent. “Take me there.”

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