The moment her inner voice rang out, everyone was filled with shock and uncertainty.
Even the male ghost looked around, his face pale.
"Boss, did you hear..."
"...and obey?"
He had originally wanted to ask whether she had heard that strange voice, but at the last moment, his words were forcibly twisted into a question about whether she had obeyed.
Everyone else had similar experiences. The words on their lips either went silent or were forcibly twisted into something else.
Terror covered every face.
Even the male ghost was badly frightened.
He thought another ghost was trying to steal his captives and nearly burst into tears.
A ghost scaring a ghost could scare him to death!
Lan Yue had no ability to hear ghosts' thoughts. She was still going.
[Lan Yue: This gossip fell straight out of the sky. I couldn't avoid feasting on it even if I wanted to. Let me take a look at this male ghost's past.]
[Click to see the Cultivation World's venture capital king!]
[What the hell? The Cultivation World's venture capital king? What's that supposed to be? The king of venture capital?]
Everyone around her looked utterly bewildered. Even Yun Xi and the others, who knew Lan Yue so well, could not understand her.
They exchanged glances, seeing the same confusion in one another's eyes.
*[Lan Yue: Venture capital generally means investing in risky ventures. What could a male ghost possibly have done?*
*So that's it. The male ghost's name is Jiang Xia. He was already a little ghost several hundred years ago. Apparently, before he died, his mother kept going on about wanting her son to get married.]*
*[And so Jiang Xia remembered that wish. He painstakingly amassed a fortune over a hundred years, then happened to encounter a female scholar who fell