Chapter 117: My Guardian Spirit is Dead (3)
“When exactly could you see me?” Jiang Zhiyan asked. “Could you see me long ago?”
Xie Yunzhi held her phone to her ear: “Not that long ago, a while back.”
“Aren’t you afraid?”
“Not really, at least your facial features are normal, you’re not missing any eyeballs or anything,” Xie Yunzhi said calmly. “The world is so vast, it’s normal for there to be unknown creatures, but you seem to have been following me for a long time.”
“What do you mean ‘facial features are normal’?” Jiang Zhiyan moved in front of Xie Yunzhi. “Take a good look.”
“Is there something abnormal?” Xie Yunzhi asked, puzzled.
Jiang Zhiyan was dissatisfied with Xie Yunzhi’s description, but she didn’t know if this person was feigning ignorance or if she was truly oblivious.
“Forget it,” Jiang Zhiyan said, too lazy to argue with her.
“Do you have anything else to say? If not, I’m hanging up.”
“I’m speechless.”
Xie Yunzhi thought for a few seconds: “Do… centuries-old beings like you also tell corny jokes?”
“Because I keep up with the times,” Jiang Zhiyan said, exasperated. “Oh, right.”
Xie Yunzhi was about to put down her phone, but hearing Jiang Zhiyan’s words, she held it to her ear again.
“When are we getting married?”
Xie Yunzhi froze for two seconds, then realized what Jiang Zhiyan was talking about: “Whenever.”
“You just agreed like that?”
“I can’t beat you anyway, what’s the point of resisting?” Xie Yunzhi looked at a tall building in the distance. “Do you know how to become a god?”
Jiang Zhiyan’s heart skipped a beat: “Why do you want to become a god?”
Xie Yunzhi looked at Jiang Zhiyan: “I thought you would laugh at my wishful thinking.”
“I respect everyone’s dreams,” Jiang Zhiyan looked at Xie Yunzhi. “So, why?”
“I don’t know either, it’s just a task in my mind, a very important one,” Xie Yunzhi said. “I used to think it was impossible for this world to have ghosts and gods, but now that I’ve seen you, becoming a god doesn’t seem impossible.”
“But I haven’t heard of any precedents of humans becoming gods in this world,” Jiang Zhiyan said. “If you do more good deeds and accumulate more merits during your lifetime, you can get a good position in the underworld after you die, but that’s not a god.”
Xie Yunzhi’s expression remained calm, her emotions stable: “Mm, after all, gods aren’t cabbages, if everyone could become a god, then gods wouldn’t be gods.”
“Let’s go eat first,” Jiang Zhiyan paused. “Buy me a grilled sausage tonight.”
“How are you going to eat it?”
“I’ll teach you, there are special methods that allow me to eat.”
Xie Yunzhi’s expression changed slightly: “How do ghosts digest food?”
“I eat the essence of the food,” Jiang Zhiyan patiently explained.
“Oh,” Xie Yunzhi nodded thoughtfully. “But why are you following me?”
“I like you,” Jiang Zhiyan blurted out without thinking.
Xie Yunzhi was a little surprised, she had heard similar words from Jiang Zhiyan before, but she hadn’t taken them seriously: “Humans and ghosts are different.”
“Different paths, same destination,” Jiang Zhiyan retorted.
“Indeed, I’ll also become a ghost after I die, so it’s the same destination,” Xie Yunzhi said, twitching the corner of her mouth, putting away her phone, and jogging towards the cafeteria.
“You won’t die if you become a god, so don’t think about that.”
Xie Yunzhi felt that Jiang Zhiyan’s expression had changed slightly, as if she had thought of something unpleasant.
Jiang Zhiyan’s mood was generally good, although Xie Yunzhi seemed difficult to deal with, she wasn’t rejecting her, so it wasn’t a big problem, and she even wanted to “become a god,” which basically meant she was thinking about her!
There was a faint spiritual energy in this world, and Jiang Zhiyan decided to use it to nourish Xie Yunzhi’s soul, then teach her some methods to minimize the negative effects of the vengeful spirit on her.
However, Xie Yunzhi didn’t seem to be afraid of vengeful spirits. After following her for so long, she ate and slept well, and was in good health. If it were an ordinary person, they would be dead even if she didn’t do anything.
But after attending classes with Xie Yunzhi for a while, some of her classmates started getting sick, even though she had deliberately restrained herself, but it wasn’t a big problem, the male lead would handle it.
“Do you want to eat?” Xie Yunzhi typed on her phone.
“Not for now, you go ahead and eat.”
“Oh.” Xie Yunzhi ordered her usual rice bowl at her usual spot and sat down at an empty table.
Jiang Zhiyan sat opposite her. Xie Yunzhi’s eating movements were elegant but efficient, methodical, each bite making one’s appetite increase.
She noticed Song Zhili not far away and frowned: “How did he get in?”
“He begged eight hundred classmates to bring him in.”
Jiang Zhiyan was a bit annoyed, Song Zhili had already seen her, his expression also unpleasant, he walked over with his crutches, and Xie Yunzhi, noticing Jiang Zhiyan’s gaze, was about to turn around.
“Pretend you can’t see me.”
“Oh.” Xie Yunzhi stopped herself and continued eating calmly, even reaching through Jiang Zhiyan’s arm to grab a napkin.
Song Zhili walked over and looked at Xie Yunzhi intently, after confirming that she wasn’t interacting with Jiang Zhiyan, he was slightly relieved.
“Classmate, I have something important to tell you.”
“What is it?” Xie Yunzhi looked up, glancing at his leg, her eyes wary.
She suddenly recalled what Jiang Zhiyan had said earlier and her sudden disappearance yesterday, it was very likely related to this person.
Song Zhili glanced at Jiang Zhiyan, in case she did something, but Jiang Zhiyan just stared at him coldly. He lowered his voice, trying to sound trustworthy: “There’s a vengeful spirit following you.”
“Really?” Xie Yunzhi sneered, looking at Song Zhili suspiciously. “Do I look like a fool who’s easily tricked?”
“It’s true, I can prove it,” Song Zhili said, controlling his voice, he knew most people wouldn’t believe him at first.
Xie Yunzhi discreetly turned on the recording function on her phone under the table, then placed it back on the table.
“How can you prove it? If there’s a vengeful spirit following me, why am I so healthy? I’ve seen on TV that people followed by vengeful spirits are very miserable.”
“Your health is just temporary, vengeful spirits follow people to absorb their life force… can you give me your birth date and time? I think you might have a special fate,” Song Zhili said.
“Why?” Xie Yunzhi was a bit annoyed. “Can you stop disturbing me while I’m eating? I have classes this afternoon, I want to rest for a bit.”
“Then let’s exchange contact information, I’ll come find you when you’re free, but it has to be soon, the vengeful spirit following you is very unstable.”
“I don’t want to, just say it directly, what are you selling? Are you going to read my fortune and sell me talismans? Or do you also want to perform a ritual at my place?” Xie Yunzhi wiped her mouth. “How much is it?”
Song Zhili opened his mouth: “I don’t want your money, I’m currently on a training journey, my family didn’t give me much money… but my fees aren’t high.”
“Why are scammers like you allowed on campus? You’ve been observing me for a long time, haven’t you? You know I’m rich, I heard scammers like you always do background checks in advance.”
Song Zhili, who considered himself a gentleman and never peeked at other people’s phones, took a deep breath: “I’m really not a scammer, I can prove it.”
Xie Yunzhi ignored him, sent the recording and her location to her counselor, and ten minutes later, security arrived and forcibly escorted Song Zhili out of the school.
“I’m really not lying to you!” Song Zhili shouted, he felt like he couldn’t explain himself even with ten mouths.
Xie Yunzhi left with her bag, and Jiang Zhiyan waved at Song Zhili.
Song Zhili broke free from his restraints, took out three talismans, and in full view of everyone, threw them at a seemingly empty space. Everyone looked over, their gazes filled with amusement. Jiang Zhiyan originally wanted to dodge, but then realized there was no need, she raised her hand, and the talismans fell to the ground, not even touching a corner of her clothes.
“Tsk, a scammer after all.”
“How did he even get into the school?”
Song Zhili stared at Jiang Zhiyan in disbelief.
Jiang Zhiyan finally understood. In the plot, when Song Zhili came looking for her, he had already been training for a while, as the male lead, his progress was naturally rapid, but now he was still a newbie.
“Classmate, classmate!”
Xie Yunzhi ignored him and quickly left the cafeteria. Jiang Zhiyan followed.
Song Zhili was taken out of the school and sent to the police station, coincidentally, it was the same officers who had questioned him earlier.
“No wonder he didn’t want to explain, he was probably tied to a tree because he’s a scammer.”
“I’m really not a scammer,” Song Zhili said, holding his head, and called his family.
…
“He’s so bad,” Xie Yunzhi said.
“Indeed,” Jiang Zhiyan said, floating under Xie Yunzhi’s umbrella.
“Did you go looking for him yesterday?”
“Mm, I thought he was a formidable character,” Jiang Zhiyan sighed softly. “Unexpectedly, he’s so weak, and his brain isn’t working very well.”
Xie Yunzhi nodded in agreement, she had also thought he was a formidable character, after all, he looked the part, but who knew… From the moment he spoke, she had already judged him to be a fool.
“If he could definitely capture me, would you still help me?” Jiang Zhiyan asked.
“Yes.”
“Really?”
“Really, because you don’t seem to have any intention of harming me, and I don’t want to spend money,” Xie Yunzhi paused, then continued, “Saving money is the second most important thing in my life.”
“Why?” Jiang Zhiyan was puzzled.
Xie Yunzhi narrowed her eyes: “It’s a strange feeling, I always feel like someone will suddenly appear and spend all my money, so I have to save more, it might be a while before I can earn money in society.”
Jiang Zhiyan: ???
She was really curious about what kind of image she had in Xie Liaoyi’s mind, a spendthrift?
The System was already laughing.
“But I still feel like I’ve forgotten something very important, I don’t know when I’ll remember it,” Xie Yunzhi tilted her umbrella slightly, blocking the sunlight.
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