My Ares Son-in-Law

Yun Yuyan nodded as if she understood, and examined the Royal VIP card over and over again.

"Xiao Chen, are you really going to give me this card?"

"Yeah, I don't need that thing. You can take it if you like." Xiao Chen nodded.

For him, the so-called VIP card was of little significance.

"Aren't you heartbroken?" Yun Yuyan still couldn't quite believe it.

"Why are you so upset? I have plenty of those kinds of things. Believe me or not, I can have Qin Xianglan send you another one, and she won't refuse. So just take it."

Yun Yuyan nodded and carefully put the VIP card away. "Then I won't be polite. I'll return it to you if you need it later. But who exactly are you? How are you so amazing?"

She knew that Xiao Chen was Jiang Meng's husband and that Xunjiang Group was Xiao Chen's company, but her understanding of Xiao Chen was still only the tip of the iceberg, so she was incredibly curious.

Xiao Chen looked at her and smiled: "An ordinary person."

"Liar." Yun Yuyan pouted. "An ordinary person wouldn't get Qin Xianglan to send them cards and gifts, would an ordinary person get Wanbaoge to hold a special auction just for you?"

"Fine, I won't ask if you don't want to, it'll make me seem so clueless. What should I wear to the auction the day after tomorrow? That dress I wore last time didn't seem formal enough, should I buy a new one? But good dresses are so expensive..."

Xiao Chen really liked Yun Yuyan's sense of boundaries. If he didn't want to answer a question, Yun Yuyan wouldn't press him. This sense of boundaries made their relationship very easy.

……

Late that night, someone called Xiao Chen again.

It was Chen Jianguo's phone call.

Chen Jianguo was a wealthy man from the provincial capital whom I had met before because of that dragon tooth pendant, but he was calling so late, so he must have something to say.

He thought for a moment, then answered anyway: "It's late at night, I'm already asleep. You'd better have something urgent to tell me, or don't blame me for getting angry!"

Nobody wants to be disturbed in the middle of the night, and he was indeed a little angry.

"Mr. Xiao! I'm so... so sorry! But please, please save us! Only you can save us!"

The voice of Chen Jianguo came from the other end of the phone, urgent, fearful, and on the verge of collapse.

Xiao Chen was a little confused. Why was Chen Jianguo calling for help in the middle of the night? Hadn't the matter of the pendant already been resolved?
"I can tell you in advance what happened. I'm not the Guanyin Bodhisattva who saves people from suffering. I don't care about everything."

He has more important things to do and can't possibly devote all his energy to these trivial matters. If it weren't for the fact that he absolutely had to get involved in Chen Jianguo's affairs, he would never bother with them.

On the other end of the phone, Chen Jianguo took a deep breath and said somewhat flusteredly, "I have no choice but to ask you, Mr. Xiao. It's Shao Cong... my son Chen Shao Cong messed things up. If I don't come to you, I don't know who else I can ask."

"What did that bastard do this time? Did he do something to that pendant? I warned you, hide that thing well, and destroy it only after everything is back on track!"

Xiao Chen was speechless. Why were these kids so disobedient? They only came to him after causing trouble. "Mr. Xiao, I didn't expect it either. That kid got into a fight today. It wasn't anything serious, just a few drinks with some friends, a little squabble, and a bit of a nosebleed. The problem wasn't the fight itself. The problem was that when he came back, he curiously looked at the pendant, and his nosebleed got on it!"

"Don't tell me it's that dragon tooth pendant, is it?" Xiao Chen's face was grim.

"It's...it's that dragon tooth pendant." Chen Jianguo said somewhat awkwardly, "A dead man's tooth pendant! Mr. Xiao, that thing is a dead man's tooth. After blood got on it, the tooth broke."

"It's broken?"

“Torn to pieces.” Chen Jianguo swallowed hard. “Shaocong said that the moment the blood touched it, the tooth cracked with a ‘snap,’ and pieces fell all over the floor. He didn’t pay attention at the time, wiped his nose, swept up the pieces, and threw them away.”

"and then?"

“Then…” Chen Jianguo’s voice began to tremble, “and then things went wrong.”

"Tell me what's wrong. Don't lie, or I won't care if anything happens again!" Xiao Chen said coldly.

Chen Jianguo hurriedly recounted what had happened in detail.

"Last night, when there were many hotels, I received a call from my hometown saying that something had happened. A tree next to our ancestral grave had broken. That tree had been there for decades and had always been healthy. The surveillance footage showed no one passing by. It just broke inexplicably and happened to fall on the tombstone. It's bad luck!"

“My fellow villagers all say this is an ominous sign and we need to find a master to take a look, otherwise our Chen family will suffer a great calamity. I didn’t dare to disturb you tonight, so I called you as soon as it was light this morning.”

"Has anything else happened?"

"Yes! The incense in our family ancestral hall burns continuously every day, but today it's strange, the incense went out after a short while. It's the same every time, all three sticks went out. Considering what happened last night, I feel a chill down my spine."

"They were wiped out at the same time?"

"They were all destroyed at the same time, and what's strange is that there's no way the wind could get into the ancestral hall, and I didn't see any rats or anything causing trouble. The incense is still the same as before, and even after changing several sticks, it's still the same. I'm really scared now. I, Chen Jianguo, have never done anything immoral. I hope the Chen family line won't end with my generation."

"Where are you now?"

"I'm at home. Mr. Xiao, I'm afraid to go out. I feel like something is watching me. Mr. Xiao, I didn't want to bother you anymore, I'm really sorry, but I invited several feng shui masters to come and take a look. When they arrived at my door, they ran away before they even stood still."

“One of the braver ones went in for a look, and came out pale-faced, saying, ‘This evil energy is too strong, I can’t suppress it, you should find someone else.’ Another one was even more outrageous; he vomited as soon as he entered the door, saying that he couldn’t touch anything in the house.”

“Mr. Xiao, they all say that the Chen family’s fortune has been driven to the brink of ruin by evil energy. If we don’t resolve this soon, our family will be destroyed and everyone will die within a year.”

Chen Jianguo was already crying. After all that trouble, he had been able to get out of danger just by following Xiao Chen's advice, but then this happened. He wished he could beat that brat Chen Shaocong to death.

But after all, he's his own son, and he really can't bear to kill him.

"Mr. Xiao?" Chen Jianguo's voice became urgent. "Mr. Xiao, are you listening?"

"Your family will be ruined by your son sooner or later. He touched a dead man's tooth and triggered some kind of restriction. That tooth wasn't an ordinary tooth. What's attached to it is far more troublesome than you imagine." (End of Chapter)