Disaster Descended

"A supernatural incident..."

Wen He took the black business card and repeated the words aloud.

Then her expression changed drastically, and she glanced toward the guest room almost instinctively.

Fear surfaced in her eyes, but she turned and pushed against Ji Li's arm, trying to drive them out.

"What ghosts? What nonsense! Stop talking rubbish and get out of my home."

Ji Li had never intended to leave once he arrived. Instead, he seized her wrist and said coldly:

"The place you're moving to is pretty remote, almost in the suburbs. Nong Guohao won't be back anytime soon, will he?"

The panic on Wen He's face deepened. She struggled hard but could not break free of Ji Li's grip.

"Who are you? How do you know so much about our family?"

Meanwhile, Xiao Qian Duyue had already reached the bedroom door.

First, she glanced into the Master Bedroom through its open door. Almost everything had been moved out, leaving only a thin mattress.

In her vision, two faint wisps of black mist spread from the empty wardrobe.

They were extremely thin, as though a gust of wind could scatter them.

She withdrew her gaze after a single glance. Rather than entering the Master Bedroom, she pressed her hand against the second bedroom's door.

Seeing this, Wen He kept hitting Ji Li, struggling with both hands and feet. Unable to escape, she could only shout:

"Keke, stay in your room! Don't open the door, no matter what!"

Nong Yueke should still have been asleep at this hour, but all that commotion ought to have woken her.

Yet there was not a sound from inside.

Xiao Qian Duyue turned the handle and found that the door had been locked from within.

That hardly posed a problem for her. She took lock-picking tools