Stop pretending, the fake heiress is actually a master of metaphysics.

Gu Yuncheng immediately put on a pitiful expression: "Just let me follow you, treat me like a giant accessory, I really won't cause any trouble!"

Shen Nian felt a headache coming on.

"Just be quiet, the rest is up to you."

"Yes, Master Shen!"

It was already 2 p.m. when we arrived in Jiangcheng.

As Shen Nian and Gu Yuncheng walked out of the station, they immediately spotted Fang Xiaoyuan in the crowd.

Fang Xiaoyuan also recognized Shen Nian.

She ran up to Shen Nian and said, "Master, I've come to get you."

Just call me Shen Nian.

Fang Xiaoyuan looked at Gu Yuncheng, who was dressed in an eye-catching manner, and asked, "Master Shen... who is this?"

Shen Nian: "Ignore people who aren't important."

"Let's go to your house first. On the way, tell me about the family you're being arranged to have a ghost marriage with."

Young Master Gu fulfilled his duty as a sidekick, took the car keys from Fang Xiaoyuan, and quickly got into the driver's seat and drove off, while Fang Xiaoyuan and Shen Nian sat in the back seat.

Shen Nian asked, "What do you know about the family you were arranged to have a ghost marriage with?"

Fang Xiaoyuan replied, "I managed to get some information out of my brother yesterday. The family that arranged my ghost marriage is surnamed Wang. They own a timber factory in our town and are quite well-known in the area."

"They used my birth chart not to arrange a ghost marriage for a younger generation in the family, but for a very senior ancestor. My brother said that the Wang family's business has been getting better and better because they worship this ancestor."

"I saw that man in my dream, but I couldn't see his face clearly. I could only see that he had very long hair and was wearing ancient costume from a TV series. That's all I know."

Fang Xiaoyuan frowned and asked, "Master, can this ghost marriage be dissolved? What will happen if it isn't?"

Shen Nian said calmly, "If you only exchanged your birth dates and burned your keepsakes for that ancestor, then this ghost marriage is easy to resolve."

"But you have already been forced to go through the wedding ceremony with him. The wedding ceremony is to inform Heaven and Earth that Heaven allows you to be husband and wife. If you want to dissolve it, both of you must write a letter of divorce to dissolve the ghost marriage."

Shen Nian pointed to the area above her collarbone, where there was a small, abrupt, and eerie purple spot, like lividity on a corpse: "This is the Yin Contract Seal, which means you already have a partner in the underworld."

"If this isn't resolved, you'll likely be controlled by a ghost and end your life in the mortal realm, your soul going to the underworld, to the side of your ghostly marriage partner. He's a powerful ghost, so you won't be reincarnated; you'll stay by his side until his soul dissipates, and so will you."

Fang Xiaoyuan's face instantly turned deathly pale: "I remember now, a few times in the middle of the night, I woke up in a fright and found myself standing on the balcony. I thought I was sleepwalking, so that was actually..."

Shen Nian nodded: "Your birth chart isn't weak, and you were able to wake up on your own. If it were someone with a weak birth chart, they probably wouldn't be in the mortal realm by now."

"I……"

Fang Xiaoyuan was speechless.

How could they be so heartless?

"From childhood to adulthood, I endured beatings and scoldings, ate leftovers, and did all the housework. Even when I was admitted to university, they wouldn't let me go and made me work. I sent most of my wages home, and I did that."

"I told them I'd borrow money to pay for my brother's dowry, so why are they doing this... just for 100,000 yuan, are they willing to kill me?"

"If I die, I will haunt them even as a ghost."

Her face was filled with resentment and hatred, and her eyes were completely red.

Shen Nian said calmly, "Don't be so pessimistic. Although this ghost marriage is difficult to resolve, it's not impossible. With me here, I won't let you become a ghost."

Fang Xiaoyuan wiped away her tears: "Master Shen, thank you for being willing to help me."

She pulled a bank card from her bag: "There's 50,000 yuan in here. It's not much, but it's all my savings from all these years. Please take it first, and I'll make up the difference later, okay?"

Shen Nian glanced at the card: "You gave them most of your salary, it must have been quite difficult for you to save this much."

"It's just dissolving a ghost marriage, 30,000 will do, you can keep the rest for yourself."

Fang Xiaoyuan was about to refuse when Shen Nian said directly, "Keep it."

Upon arriving at Fang Xiaoyuan's house, Shen Nian said, "Let's stay in Jiangcheng tonight and see what's going on with that ghost. We'll take a car to your hometown tomorrow morning."

Gu Yuncheng sat next to Shen Nian, and very politely refrained from looking around.

Fang Xiaoyuan's hometown is in the mountains, and it takes a train, a bus, and a tricycle to get there. It's already late today, so it's not a good time for a long journey.

"Yes, Master Shen. Are you and this...Young Master Gu hungry? If so, I'll cook now."

"Need not……"

Before Shen Nian could finish speaking, Fang Xiaoyuan stuffed a paper bag into her arms: "These are some fruit gummies and snowflake crisps that I made myself. If you don't mind, have some first."

Shen Nian: !

Fruit gummies!

Shen Nian unwrapped a gummy candy and put it in her mouth.

The gummies have a moderate sweetness and a rich, refreshing fruity aroma.

Seeing the sudden change in Shen Nian's expression from her previous cold and calm demeanor, Fang Xiaoyuan was taken aback: "Do you like sweets?"

"Then I'll send them to you every time I make them."

Shen Nian nodded and did not refuse: "Okay."

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night.

Gu Yuncheng slept on the living room sofa, while Shen Nian meditated in Fang Xiaoyuan's room.

The first half of the night was as peaceful as if nothing had happened.

Fang Xiaoyuan was breathing steadily and sleeping soundly.

However, in the latter half of the night, the yin energy in the room suddenly became very strong.

Fang Xiaoyuan closed his eyes, frowned, and beads of cold sweat appeared on his forehead. He had fallen into a strange dream again.

At the same time, a gloomy male voice fell behind her ear: "So it was you who was stopping me... You have quite the nerve..."

coming!

A gust of cold wind swept in, and Shen Nian suddenly opened her eyes, raised her hand to form a hand seal, and chanted the Soul-Binding Incantation:

"The path to the underworld is severed, but Fengdu opens in broad daylight."

Corpse dogs guard the gate, and hidden arrows suppress the remains.

Mountains and rivers serve as prisons, the sun and moon as handcuffs.

"Hurry, by the decree of the Great Emperor of Beifengdu!"

The runes quickly coalesced into a soul-binding chain, which flew toward an invisible ghost in mid-air.

After the chains wrapped around the ghostly phantom, Shen Nian slightly hooked his fingertips and pulled hard.

However, just as the soul-binding chains were about to tighten completely, the ghost suddenly vanished.

"If you can't beat them, just run away?"

Shen Nian sneered, "You can run away, but you can't hide. Just you wait."

She glanced at Fang Xiaoyuan and saw that her breathing had become steady again, so she breathed a slight sigh of relief.

She thought to herself that once she found that old ghost's grave, she would dig it up immediately and scatter his bones everywhere.

The next morning, the three of them got up, washed up, ate breakfast, and then boarded the train to Fang Xiaoyuan's hometown.

After getting off the train, we transferred to a bus. The winding, bumpy mountain road almost made the pampered young master Gu vomit.

After a day of travel, they finally arrived at Fang Xiaoyuan's hometown, Fenglin Town.

Shen Nian said, "When we go in later, don't say I'm the mystic you hired."

In remote mountain villages like these, the level of wariness towards outsiders is extremely high.

Especially since the Wang family is the wealthiest family in the area, it's best not to expose themselves prematurely, just in case.

"Then what should I say?"

Shen Nian pondered for a moment and said, "How about this, you just say that Gu Yuncheng is your fiancé, and you've come back to get engaged. I'm Gu Yuncheng's sister, here to be a witness."

Fang Xiaoyuan's eyes widened slightly as she looked at Gu Yuncheng, then at Shen Nian: "Will anyone believe this?"

Does Young Master Gu seem like the kind of person who would get engaged to her?

"For now, we don't have any other explanation for our group, so let's leave it at that."

"Okay, let's go then, I'll take you inside."