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Chapter 79 Play straight?
Shang Xingjian went to sleep, and for a moment it was unclear who was protecting whom.

Even someone like him, a bodyguard, might not know if she was eaten by a monster.

However, Cheng Mai did not disturb Shang Xingjian's rest and continued to work, and asked the people who came to report to him to move quietly.

Everyone: "..." They understood. The woman who came up just now was their chairman's official wife. The minor celebrities were just playing around.

It's nice to have money!

In the lounge, Shang Xingjian meditated to regulate his breathing. Black blood gushed from the back of his hand, dripping onto the floor and burning a black hole in it.

The golden dragon coiled around his wrist to prevent the venom from rising. "Just what kind of power does that snake demon possess that even a god-king cannot expel all the venom?"

"A beast fed on the treasures of heaven and earth, it can ingest all the poisons in the world." Shang Xingjian's face lost its color, and a thin layer of sweat even appeared on his forehead.

As the blood gradually turned red, Shang Xingjian withdrew his magic. With a wave of his hand, the floor returned to normal, and he lay down. He told Cheng Mai that he didn't mean to lie; he was indeed quite tired.

Jinlong's beady eyes were filled with worry. "Divine Lord."

"You won't die anytime soon, don't worry," Shang Xingjian said slowly with his eyes closed.

"No, it's Young Master Cheng who's come in." The little green bean eyes peered out from under Shang Xingjian's sleeve as he entered, alerting him with his divine sense.

Shang Xingjian suddenly opened his eyes and met Cheng Mai's gaze.

Cheng Mai stared at him, his brows furrowed, seemingly unable to understand why an omnipotent god would appear to be sick.

Can God get sick?

"Are you alright?" Cheng Mai sat down by the bed and subconsciously touched his forehead. "Do you need to go to the hospital?"

"Do you think it's appropriate for me to go to the hospital?" Shang Xingjian relaxed and closed his eyes again. "I'll be fine after a good night's sleep. If you really feel bad about it, get me two big braised pork knuckles. I'll eat them when I wake up."

Cheng Mai resisted the urge to roll her eyes. "Big pork knuckle," she thought, "I'll cut off his two legs and stew them for him."

However, Shang Xingjian's injury served as a wake-up call for Cheng Mai, who realized that Shang Xingjian could also get injured.

Almost no one knew that Shang Xingjian was injured, not even Shen Luo.

If Shang Xingjian's expression hadn't been genuinely off, Cheng Mai would have suspected that he just wanted to stay and freeload off him.

"Who on earth could have hurt you like this?"

When Cheng Mai brought him home that evening, he couldn't help but ask at the dinner table.

The table was laden with meat and fish, and Shang Xingjian ate heartily. "Don't spread rumors. How badly are you injured? You were just bitten by a little beast."

The merchant tried to save face by being forced to do so.

Cheng Mai thought of the green snake that Shang Xingjian had skinned and dismembered, "How could a snake bite you?"

I feel that this is unlikely.

While eating, Shang Xingjian said, "Is this mouth borrowed? If you don't speak now, you won't have a chance to speak, right? Eat, eat."

Cheng Mai kicked him without hesitation, but Shang Xingjian neither dodged nor got angry, and continued to eat slowly.

"Qin Mai came to see you?" To stop her from focusing on his injury, Shang Xingjian changed the subject.

“I went and we talked about some things. It’s hard to say whether they’re true or not, but I think Qin Mai really cares about that child.” Cheng Mai remembered Qin Mai’s expression when she spoke to her. “And strictly speaking, that child is yours too.”

"You're accusing me of slander? You can't just say things like that so casually." Shang Xingjian tapped her hand lightly with his chopsticks. "That child is missing his seven souls and six spirits, so strictly speaking, he can't be considered human. As for Qin Mai's words, just listen to them and forget about them." "So we're just going to ignore it?" Cheng Mai frowned.

“We can manage it, but it’s not our responsibility.” Shang Xingjian finished his bowl of rice and, seeing that Cheng Mai had only eaten a few bites of his bowl, simply took it from him. “Isn’t there still Luo Linwen? Since she’s so sure that the child is in the Shen family, then let Luo Linwen go find him.”

Cheng Mai looked at the empty bowl in front of him, then at the shop owner's account. Whether the owner was human or not was another matter, but he was definitely a dog.

Why did Luo Linwen help Qin Mai?

"If her going to Yuncheng was orchestrated by Shen Yuanbai, and even the puppetry was his doing, do you think a normal person would go to Shen Yuanbai?"

Yes, definitely.

"But where's the evidence?"

Merchant Jian flipped his hand and took out a box from his Qiankun bag.

With curiosity, Cheng Mai opened the box. Inside was a piece of white jade pendant, which appeared to be a matching set.

"The Shen family and the Luo family were essentially linked by marriage. Do you remember when they said their divorce was amicable?"

"Yes." Luo Linwen also said that it was a peaceful divorce.

"Actually, it's not that. The Luo family's development over the years has been inseparable from the Shen family's help. When the old man of the Shen family was engaged, he gave a jade pendant. Later, the Luo family lost the jade pendant. When they divorced, the Shen family demanded that the Luo family return it. The Luo family couldn't return it, so in recent years, the Shen family has been suppressing the Luo family behind the scenes. Some time ago, someone told Luo Linwen that the jade pendant appeared in an auction house in Yuncheng."

Cheng Mai picked up the jade pendant. Its quality was average, and its craftsmanship was not particularly exquisite. "The Shen family cares so much about this jade pendant because it is more than just a jade pendant, isn't it?"

"You guessed right, but I still don't know exactly what they do," Jian Wunao from the business world praised.

"So this whole scene was actually directed and acted by Shen Yuanbai himself?"

"Smart," Shang Xingjian acknowledged again.

"Shen Yuanbai stole the jade pendant himself and lured Luo Linwen to Yuncheng just to cast a puppet spell on her? Just to make her go crazy in front of the media?" Cheng Mai felt that something was wrong with this behavior. He had a feeling that things were not so simple.

"Are you full?" Cheng Mai asked.

"what?"

"Go see Luo Linwen."

"I still..." Shang Xingjian hadn't even finished his last bite when Cheng Mai dragged him outside. "What's the rush?"

"I'm in a hurry, a very urgent one." Cheng Mai pulled Shang Xingjian to the other side and knocked on the door without hesitation.

Merchant Jian steadied himself and clicked his tongue.

The person inside asked who it was, and Cheng Mai replied that Luo Linwen quickly came over to open the door.

"Mr. Cheng? Mr. Shang? Please come in." Luo Linwen greeted them politely and poured them water. "I was planning to go to Xuanhe Technology tomorrow. Since I came back last time, I really haven't had any accidents."

After entering, Shang Xingjian did not sit down. He looked around the room and found that the layout was the same as the one across the street, but there were fewer things in the room, making it look like a fully furnished apartment that might be abandoned at any time.

Seeing that Shang Xingjian was looking around, Luo Linwen didn't feel offended. She even explained, "I'm planning to move recently. I might move back home to live with my parents, which will also..."

Before Luo Linwen could finish speaking, she saw Cheng Mai hand her a box that looked very familiar.

Not only was Luo Linwen stunned, but even Shang Xingjian was shocked. They just gave it to her so directly?