What if you were targeted by a cool and aloof beauty?

I held the phone to my ear, and my mother's voice came through.

"I'm fine, where are Mommy and Daddy?"

"What do you mean, 'Dad' and 'Mom'? How have I taught you? You can't even pronounce the words correctly. And didn't I tell you before that you should call them 'father' and 'mother'?"

"I'm sorry... Mother..."

The enthusiasm was suddenly extinguished.

Jiuge wanted to cry, but she didn't dare.

The phone call ended in a few minutes. Apart from Jiuge's studies, spiritual power, whether she was obedient or not, Jiuge's parents did not care about anything else.

When the housekeeper said that Jiuge was very smart, had excellent grades, and was easy to manage, they didn't say anything or offer any praise.

That weekend, after receiving a call from her parents, the housekeeper, for the first time ever, took Jiuge out.

The outside world is very different from the inside of the house.

Back then, there weren't that many mischievous spirits, and Jiuge had never seen an evil spirit.

Upon seeing the spirits by the roadside, Jiuge buried her head tightly in the butler's arms.

The butler had no psychic abilities; he couldn't see the things floating around, nor did he know whether spirits were scary.

She only took this job because of her poor family background, and that's how she learned a little about psychic matters.

For the butler, psychic abilities were probably no different from fortune telling on the street.

There are many stalls selling small items on the street, and quite a few selling food as well.

Jiuge would occasionally peek out at the scenery outside, and then tuck her head back into the butler's arms.

There were a lot of people outside, but it seemed like none of them were dressed very well.

She didn't know why the housekeeper would send the security guards away and suddenly take her out to play, something that was strictly forbidden in the family.

"Oh my, your daughter is so beautiful!" the middle-aged woman selling cotton candy said to the passing housekeeper.

"Thank you." The butler smiled and continued walking inside.

"The housekeeper is actually my mom? No... my mother?" Jiuge looked up, her face filled with horror.

"No, that was just polite talk." The butler sighed, looking quite helpless.

"oh oh."

"Would you like to browse the stalls?" The butler pointed to the surrounding stalls.

Some stalls also sell small toys.

Transparent, colorful plastic sticks, retractable balls, rag dolls, fireworks shaped like cake hats, and multicolored, glowing ropes.

"stall?"

Jiuge peeked over and her eyes lit up.

"What a beautiful doll." Her mouth formed an "o" shape, and her gaze was fixed on the doll.

"Then I'll buy you one. I'm sorry, but because I don't have enough money myself, I can't go to the mall to buy you a nicer doll."

After setting Jiuge down, the butler took out some worn-out banknotes, counted them, and handed them to the boss.

As soon as Jiuge was put down, she noticed a pitiful little boy spirit in the corner who looked like he was in great pain because his leg was injured.

"Are you alright?" She mustered her courage and walked over in small steps to ask softly.

The little boy looked like he couldn't stand up, and tears welled up in his eyes.

"Don't cry," Jiuge said, waving her little hand to comfort her.

Although the drifting spirits were scary, the little boy was really pitiful.

Suddenly, the little boy's spirit made a big, grotesque face, his wounds disappeared, and bloody tears streamed from the corners of his eyes.

"Hahahaha, just kidding!"

One second, two seconds, three seconds, four seconds, and Jiuge burst into tears.

Before the butler could even grab the doll, he rushed to Jiuge and picked her up.

On the way home, the housekeeper held Jiuge and comforted her for a long time.

She held Jiuge in her arms, and Jiuge buried her head in her chest.

Jiuge held the doll, and the doll's head was facing Jiuge's arms.

"Thank you, housekeeper. I'm very happy today. Please take me out to play in the future."

“I wanted to too, but you cried when we went out today.”

"It's that spirit's fault."

"..."

The butler remained silent.

She couldn't see the spirits, nor did she know what they looked like.

Before taking care of Jiuge, she had never even believed in the existence of spirits.

As far as the housekeeper was concerned, she had no say in such matters.

Chapter 99: It's just an ordinary thing.

Less than a week after Jiuge was taken out of the house, the housekeeper was dismissed.

When they moved out of the house, Jiuge's parents gave the housekeeper a large sum of money.

At the same time, they asked someone with special abilities to erase the butler's memories.

From the time Jiuge could remember, the housekeeper was always by her side.

She couldn't understand why the housekeeper, who had worked there for so long, was dismissed so easily, and even her memories of her were erased.

Because Jiuge has always been much smarter than other children, the butler, who had never been to school, had to learn from scratch in order to check and correct Jiuge's homework. He stayed up late every night to read relevant reference books, and Jiuge had secretly seen all of this.

No matter how hard she pleaded with her parents and elders in her childish voice, it was all in vain.

Soon, a new butler arrived.

After the first change of housekeeper, the number of times the household changed servants became very frequent.

Basically, a new girl will come every quarter, and when the time is up, her memory will be erased and she will be sent away decisively.

Three years have passed, and apart from essential matters, Jiuge hardly interacts with the new housekeepers anymore.

Regardless of the season or the weather, she always liked to stay by the window and enjoy the view.

Later, because there were more and more mischievous spirits, Jiuge had fewer and fewer opportunities to enjoy the scenery.

"Could it be that you are actually very afraid of spirits?" The butler, who had been there for a month, noticed the change in Jiu Ge.

"..."

Jiuge didn't answer, she just looked at the other person calmly.

“That’s true. Miss Jiuge has been able to purify evil spirits independently since elementary school. How could she be afraid of ordinary spirits…” The butler chuckled awkwardly, looking somewhat embarrassed.

"It's nothing special." After glancing at the butler, Jiuge pushed open the door and returned to her room.

The doll given to her by her first housekeeper is still placed on her bedside table.

With a sigh, Jiuge lay down on her side on the bed.

Her hair is quite long now...

Since that phone call when she was four years old, she has never called her parents "Dad" or "Mom" again. Even when she is lucky enough to see them, she calls them "Father" and "Mother" as her parents require.

Time changes many things.

The only thing that remained unchanged was that Jiu Ge still secretly hoped her parents would pay more attention to her.

……

The school on Jiuge is called Yiluzi Academy. It is a private school that covers all grades from elementary to high school, and it is also the only school in China with a "metaphysical" nature.

On the surface, Eluzi appears no different from other private schools, but in reality, the school primarily teaches subjects related to spiritual communication.

Anyone with sufficient spiritual power and a relatively wealthy family background can generally enroll in school.

If you perform well in school, you can smoothly join the psychic association after graduating from high school.

This is also the ultimate goal for most students.

Of course, there have been occasional cases like Jiuge's over the years.

Such students can usually join the association in middle school or even elementary school.

Students at Eluz Academy are assigned to appropriate classes based on their talents.

Jiuge was assigned to the elite class, which had the fewest students in the entire grade.

The school is a boarding school, so it's basically impossible for students to commute or go out freely. After all, some children might be naive and tell others, which would cause a lot of trouble later.

Because of Jiuge, the school made an exception for the first time.

Jiuge also became the only student at Yiluzi Academy who could commute and leave the school freely.

"Meditation plays a very important role in spiritualism, and it is irreplaceable in the process of spiritual communication. It is valued not only in metaphysics, but also in science."

“There are many branches in metaphysics, and spiritualism is one of them. In addition, there is fortune telling based on the Eight Characters, Western magic, and so on.”

"There aren't many types of spirits, but evil spirits can be further subdivided into many types based on their negative abilities..."

"Everything has a spirit... No matter what we treat... we must have reverence for it."

Different teachers were on the podium teaching Jiu Ge the knowledge she had already mastered when she was four or five years old.

While the other students listened attentively, Jiuge couldn't help but drift into a daze.

She seemed to be the freest, but in the end, she was the most like a canary in a cage.

"Jiuge is so strange."

"Why is she so quiet? Is she unable to speak?"