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Chapter 36 Your ex-wife is in trouble?
Kang Zhenglian was not saddened by his mother's reaction; rather, he felt a sense of relief.

“Mother has lingered here for too long. She should let go of her obsession and leave as soon as possible,” Kang Zhenglian gently advised.

The old lady kept emphasizing, "My son, I'm doing this all for your own good."

Kang Zhenglian smiled gently, "Your son understands, so he doesn't feel that things are bad now."

After Kang Zhenglian finished speaking, he looked at Shang Xingjian and said, "I would appreciate your help, senior."

If a bound spirit wants to leave the place where it is trapped, it needs to let go of its obsession and also needs someone else to cast a spell to break the formation.

"Just let her go like that?" Cheng Mai disagreed. Besides the sins she committed in life, she still harmed so many people after her death.

"Have you thought it through?" Shang Xingjian asked Kang Zhenglian in return.

“Mother and son have been together for a lifetime, let all grudges be forgotten, let it be so,” Kang Zhenglian replied.

"Mrs. Kang Liu, do you want to stay here or leave?" Shang Xingjian looked at the old lady expressionlessly, as if he were conducting a routine inquiry.

"If I stay this time, I will never have the chance to leave again. I will spend the rest of my life here in an endless cycle."

Even though Cheng Mai was unhappy, he could only glare at Shang Xingjian. Shouldn't this old woman be sent straight to the eighteenth level of hell?
"I'm leaving, I want to leave." The old lady's words were filled with urgency, as if she was worried that the merchant would regret it.

Cheng Mai chuckled.

Kang Zhenglian lifted his long robe, knelt down, and solemnly kowtowed three times to bid farewell to his mother.

"I bow to my mother for giving me life and raising me."

"The second bow is to express gratitude to my mother for her thoughtfulness."

“Three bows,” Kang Zhenglian paused for a moment, then kowtowed on the ground, “Three bows to sever the bond between mother and son, and let there be no more grudges.”

"Son, son." The old lady squeezed out a few non-existent tears as she listened to her son's words. She was about to help him up when Shang Xingjian had already sent him away.

Kang Zhenglian closed his eyes slightly and remained kneeling on the ground.

"You're just letting her go like that? What about all the people she's killed over the years?" Cheng Mai and the others left before asking Shang Xingjian. "I won't say anything about how she harmed her son so much while she was alive, under the guise of doing what was best for him. After all, it was a willing buyer and a willing seller. But what about all the lives she took after she died?"

This doesn't seem like something that Jianhui from the business association would do.

After performing the spell, Shang Xingjian wiped his hands on Cheng Mai's shoulder with the clothes on his shoulder. "I only said I would send her away from here. What Yama does to her after she leaves is none of my business."

After wiping his hands clean, Shang Xingjian stretched and said, "Is the matter resolved? You can go back to sleep now."

Cheng Mai watched Shang Xingjian leave, then looked at Kang Zhenglian, who was slowly getting up, and asked, "So what are your plans for the future?"

Kang Zhenglian carefully patted the hem of his clothes; even though there was no mud on them, he still maintained the elegance of a scholar.

"The living are but passersby, the dead are but returning travelers. Heaven and earth are but an inn, all share the same sorrow of ages past. The moon rabbit pounds medicine in vain, the hibiscus has become firewood. White bones lie silent, the green pine knows not of spring. We sigh again and again, what is fleeting glory worth?"

Cheng Mai: "..." He really is someone who takes the imperial examination, but it's unnecessary to start with Li Bai.

"Since Scholar Kang has seen through it all, then may his soul rest in peace, and may it always be in his hometown." Cheng Mai nodded slightly, caught up with Shang Xingjian, and left.

Once outside, the black smoke from the construction site had completely dissipated.

Shang Xingjian waited for her in the car, and Cheng Mai only told the driver to start the car after she got in.

"Does this top scholar Kang also know that his mother wouldn't be reincarnated so easily?" Cheng Mai thought of the top scholar Kang's reaction just now and didn't have any objection to Shang Xingjian's words.

"People who can get top scores in the exams aren't all that stupid," Cheng Mai said, listening to his sarcasm. "I don't know all your rules, and besides, I've never died, how would I know how they enforce the law?"

"That makes sense. I'll let you die another day."

Cheng Mai: "..." Listen to this, is this even human language?
Ignoring Shang Xingjian, Cheng Mai contacted Zhu Biao and told him that the construction site issue had been resolved and he could start work at any time, just remembering to pay the final payment to them.

Zhu Biao's effusive praise poured out of the phone, making Cheng Mai want to hang up.

"Wait, Chairman Cheng, I have some business here. I wanted to ask if you'd take it?" Zhu Biao seemed to have guessed that Cheng Mai was about to hang up on her, and quickly stopped her.

Cheng Mai glanced at Shang Xingjian, who was resting with his eyes closed, and said, "You go first."

"Do you know the Shen family in City A?" Zhu Biao asked mysteriously.

Shen family?

Cheng Mai leaned back in his chair, his gaze fixed on Shang Xingjian. "Shen Yuanbai?"

"That's right, it's President Shen Yuanbai. There's a group chat in our A City business circle. I've been quite busy lately, so I've been talking a lot in the group. They all know what's been going on with me recently. Just now, you called me to say that the matter was resolved, so I mentioned it in the group."

"and then?"

How come she doesn't know which business district in City A has a group chat?
It sounds like there's business going on.

"Then Mr. Shen just contacted me, asking if I could help him make a connection with Xuanhe to do business," Zhu Biao said quickly.

"Doing business?" Cheng Mai smiled at these words. "Tell him to contact Shen Luo directly. Boss Shang and I are not in City A recently, so Shen Luo will handle things with him."

"Okay, I'll give him Miss Shen's WeChat."

Zhu Biao rambled on for a few more minutes before reluctantly ending the call.

Cheng Mai ended the call and pondered what Shen Yuanbai could possibly do by contacting them. It seemed that this young master of a century-old wealthy family had kept a low profile in recent years, and apart from the incident with actress Qin Mai, there was almost no news about him.

"Boss, your ex-wife's current lover seems to be a bit problematic."

Because of those words, Lao Liu, who was driving, caused his car to swerve in an S-shape.

Cheng Mai was almost thrown out, but Shang Xingjian grabbed her wrist and fastened the seatbelt around her waist in the blink of an eye.

"Speak like a human being." Shang Xingjian replied calmly as he withdrew his hand without even opening his eyes.

"Mr. Cheng, boss, I'm so sorry!" The main problem was that those words were just too shocking!
Cheng Mai calmed his racing heart, not blaming Lao Liu, but instead addressing Shang Xingjian, "Which of my words were inhuman? Isn't that Actress Qin your ex-wife?"

Although she was his ex-wife thousands of years ago.

But that doesn't matter, after all, she still has her biological father from two thousand years ago.

Shang Xingjian finally opened his eyes and tilted his head slightly to look at Cheng Mai. "You care about her so much?"

Cheng Mai paused for a moment, then scoffed, "I only reminded you because I knew you were worried. You don't appreciate my kindness."

"You're only so naive. Worrying too much will only make you sick." Shang Xingjian closed his eyes again.

Cheng Mai looked at Shang Xingjian with curiosity, so he moved closer to Shang Xingjian and said, "Hey, aren't you really worried? What if it has something to do with your ex-wife?"

(End of this chapter)