I had never studied feng shui in much depth, but I had read the section on it in Six Lines Mysteries.
A book could only hold so much, so when the author compiled it, they had left out much of the basic material and kept only the essentials.
I had asked Seventh Master about the basics. Those were quite simple, so I had managed to learn something from the feng shui section too.
When grand residences like this were built during the Republican era, both the designers and the construction workers had to understand feng shui. They needed that knowledge to build such a residence.
So the feng shui of a building like this could not have been bad. It could only have been good.
But the better the feng shui, the more easily it could be damaged. As the saying went, "The moon wanes once full; water spills once filled." It meant that things would begin to decline once they reached their peak.
Once something that damaged feng shui appeared in a place with such good feng shui, its fortunes would begin to turn from prosperity to decline.
And Qiongqi was a ferocious beast, associated with needless scares and strange occurrences, murder, and souls being unable to ascend to heaven.
"This Ninth Concubine clearly married into the Luo Residence with an agenda."
Seventh Master said, "The fact that she brought Qiongqi into the Luo Residence shows how much she hated the household. She wanted everyone in it dead, their souls unable to rest."
I shuddered inwardly at his words. When a woman turned ruthless, she could be far more than ordinarily cruel. It was downright appalling.
"Could Ninth Concubine really have been Seventh Concubine transformed...?"
"From what we know so far, it's very likely."
If that really was the