My lady, don't be angry. I'm letting you touch my big tail.

Qiao Yi tried to grab Hua Ran's hand, but Hua Ran was faster than expected.

The water completely soaked the area around the collar.

Underneath the floral-dyed cloak, she wore light-colored clothes, which, when wet, clung to her skin in wrinkles.

Looming...

There was also the fragrance of lotus blossoms spreading.

Qiao Yi sighed, "Ranran, it's not what you think. I'm thinking about something."

Hua Ran grabbed Qiao Yi's hand and pressed it against her chest.

With his other hand, he cupped Joey's face, so that Joey's little face was also against his chest.

"You have to think about things from my perspective, not from other people's!"

Qiao Yi choked up, mainly because she couldn't think straight when she was facing Hua Ran!

It felt so good, especially the part of his chest that was wet with water; it was cool yet still had the warmth of a fox spirit.

And the heart is beating faster than it did when it didn't have a physical body.

I really want to pull him close, hug him, and kiss him!

"Alright, alright!"

Joey quickly gathered yang energy in her hands and dried the wet patch on Hua Ran's clothes.

This was the first time Qiao Yi had ever felt that yang energy was so useful.

"My lady! You actually dried my clothes... Are you going to go and dry that burly man's clothes too?"

"What does he have to do with me? I'm talking to you about serious matters."

Qiao Yi whispered a few words in Hua Ran's ear, and Hua Ran's expression turned serious.

"It seems so. If the people here grow normally, and time isn't fixed, then the 'Miss Qiao' they see is..."

Joey gave an affirmative look.

"It's that white-haired woman who looks exactly like me!"

At this moment, an oblivious woman reached out and touched Qiao Zan.

His expression conveyed a sense of unfulfilled desire and ecstatic joy.

"Tsk tsk tsk, this is the first time I've ever seen a man like this! Come be with me, I'm rich!"

After saying that, she took out a silver note from her bosom.

"Buying you is more than enough!"

When Joey saw the banknote, she thought, "What is that? It's just paper money!"

Paper money burned for the dead!

She even went over and picked it up to take a look, her expression a mixture of confusion and bewilderment.

"In the proper underworld, you can only receive paper money if you have relatives or friends burning paper money in the human world. If the person is very bad or has no descendants, they can only receive paper money on the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar each year, which is the Ghost Festival."

"This City of the Wrongfully Dead is now exactly the same as the real Ghost Realm..."

Then Qiao Zan grabbed the woman by the neck, lifted her up, and slammed her onto the table.

The screams made Qiao Yi and Hua Ran's ears ache.

Hua Ran, in particular, had her ears trembling and buried her head in Qiao Yi's arms.

Qiao Zan glared at the woman angrily, "I'm not like the men here, behave yourself! I'm saying this place is on me, get out!"

After the woman ran away as if fleeing, Qiao Zan kicked a stool, slamming the door shut.

Suddenly, only Hua Ran, Qiao Yi, Qiao Zan, and Qiao Yu remained in the entire teahouse.

“Yiyi, now we can finally talk properly. No one will bother us. I was afraid you didn’t understand the situation, so I had to explain it to you.”

At this moment, Qiao Yu also stood up, no longer the leisurely person he had been drinking tea with.

She said, "Yiyi, I know it's hard for you to accept what we're doing, but imagine if we told you directly to commit suicide or something, you would find it even harder to accept. Besides, time waits for no one."

Qiao Yu explained that at a certain point, Qiao Yi suddenly couldn't stay in the system world anymore.

There's no way to explain it to her from the beginning, to make her understand it thoroughly, and then let her slowly accept it.

“Look at you, now that you’ve returned to this world, you’ve listened to Ji Meng and understood a lot, so don’t hold a grudge against us.”

Joey gave a cold laugh.

"Easy for you to say. Wasn't it you who stabbed me in the back and told me not to trust anyone?"

Qiao Yu continued to explain indifferently.

"I said that because you've gone to the new world, and I'm afraid you might still have any kindness towards the people there. This is to remind you."

She crossed her arms as she spoke, her eyes filled with coldness.

"You, on the other hand, didn't believe what I said in Zhulong's village, and as a result, you fell into Zhulong's trap and went to Zhulong's out-of-control space. If you had listened to me, you wouldn't have lost your memory, and you wouldn't have given Zhulong another chance to hide in the maze. You wouldn't have even caused Zhulong to be destroyed!"

She repeatedly told Joey not to trust anyone.

But Joey must believe them!

Joey scoffed.

She doesn't believe it.

Now, apart from what Hua Ran said and what she discovered herself, she doesn't believe what anyone else says or does.

Qiao Yu was somewhat irritated.

"Do you know what the annihilation of Zhulong's soul represents? At the beginning of your life, you had four beasts to assist you. If you want to return to that identity and be recognized by Heaven, you must still have four beasts. So even if the four beasts are reincarnated and replaced, they must still exist."

"It was you! You made things worse!"

Qiao Zan stood in front of Qiao Yu.

"Ayu, you're not allowed to talk to Yiyi like that!"

He rebuked him coldly, but Qiao Yu refused to accept it.

"Big brother! We were clearly saving her!"

"That is our duty! Our Lord may speculate and doubt us as he pleases, but we cannot question our Lord!"

Joey was even more confused.

So, they're mythical beasts too?

Just as he thought this, Qiao Zan pulled out a dagger from his pocket and drew it open in front of Qiao Yi.

Qiao Yi stood in front of Hua Ran, taking a step back warily.

Hua Ran still wanted to come out and protect Qiao Yi.

But Joey didn't let her.

"Qiao Zan, you should know that the system only provides location information. Even without the system, the two of you combined can't beat me."

Qiao Zan, however, didn't take it to heart.

Instead, he turned around and plunged the dagger into his own abdomen.

Blood flowed out instantly, but Qiao Zan didn't even flinch, still standing in front of Qiao Yi and Hua Ran.

Instead, it was Qiao Yu who exclaimed in surprise.

"Brother! Why are you doing this? It's unnecessary!"

“Ayu, you come too. Do this to Yiyi so that she will trust you.”

Qiao Yu shook his head.

"I don't want this! It's her problem if she doesn't believe me, why should I make her trust me!?"

“Ah Yu! She is our master. In her first life, she saved us. We both swore that we would follow her forever and recognize her as our master for all eternity.”

Qiao Yu frowned.

"I don't want to... If she can't even distinguish between good and bad, I don't think she has the ability to return to her first life. I won't acknowledge her as my master!"

Joey understood more or less.

Qiao Zan then explained further.

The story goes that the two killed Joey when he was still an infant in his third life in order to repay a debt of gratitude and send him to another world, thus escaping the curse of his third life.

At this moment, Hua Ran felt dizzy, and gray shadows kept flashing in her mind.