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"": "Luo Bin fell silent for a moment.
Gu Yiren's parents hadn't gone mad. They had been thoroughly manipulated, kept firmly under someone else's control.
From the moment they gave Gu Yiren that jade piece, they had walked into someone else's trap. Their whole family had been manipulated, and Gu Yiren had been "cultivated" all along, much as Cabinet Mountain used human emotions to grow flowers and fruit.
The people targeting Gu Yiren were also cultivating her toward a particular end. She simply hadn't reached the point where they could harvest her yet.
Throughout this entire process, they had constantly controlled the variables.
Yes, he had reacted quickly, immediately thinking of Gu Yiren's parents.
But this hadn't been an impromptu move. They had held Gu Yiren's parents in the palms of their hands for a long time.
Luo Bin had even wanted to protect them, to learn where the jade piece came from so he could find those people through another route. All of that had been a joke.
Footsteps approached Luo Bin again.
"My hand hurts a little. And I feel dizzy."
Gu Yiren held her forehead with one hand, her brows tightly knitted in discomfort.
"This place has bad feng shui. And this thing is even worse." Luo Bin shook his head. He didn't mention that Gu Yiren had attacked him with a knife, lest he frighten her further and make her blame herself.
"This thing... is bad?" Gu Yiren froze.
"Do you know where it came from?" Luo Bin asked.
"It's called Golden Boy... When I was very little-yes, not long after my parents put the jade piece on me-they brought him home. They said a high monk had consecrated him too," Gu Yiren explained quietly.
Luo Bin's pupils abruptly contracted again.
When