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

Hua Ran looked towards the kitchen door again and found that the legless actor was gone.

The entire kitchen was dark, and only his wife was very close to him, so he could see her features.

The two exhaled hot breath, spraying it onto each other's faces.

Hua Ran pulled her clothes tighter, tightened her collar, and whispered, "My lady, I'm sorry..."

Why are you apologizing?

Qiao Yi chuckled, glanced at the steamed bun in Hua Ran's hand, and took it directly to eat.

"You gave me food, so I should be the one saying thank you."

Hua Ran lowered her head, looking very embarrassed.

"The Su family is shrouded in mystery. I shouldn't have... I shouldn't have come out alone. I should have stayed by your side. Besides, when I saw that actor without legs, I was terrified. I should be strong, but I'm so cowardly."

Joey reached out and touched Hua Ran's head.

She would never admit that she did it to pet the fox ears and feel the warmth and fur.

“It’s normal to be afraid, I’m afraid too. Everyone looks different before they die. If you saw a vengeful ghost made of dismembered corpses, you would be even more afraid. It’s just that I’m not usually alone, so I’m not afraid.”

"You're not always alone? Then who is it?!"

Hua Ran's expression changed instantly.

"Uh……"

Oh no, I was careless and forgot about the system.

She coughed.

"Who else? There's...you!"

Hua Ran lowered her head obediently after hearing this.

Just then, Qiao Yi noticed that Hua Ran had a bit of vegetable leaf on her cheek, so she gently wiped it away.

Hua Ran consciously rubbed against it.

This sudden movement sent a shiver down their spines.

I want to continue the kiss we just shared.

Especially since it was pitch black here and there was no one around.

Hua Ran sat on the ground, leaning against the stove, her clothes disheveled.

Tsk tsk tsk, this is the perfect place for something to happen.

However, Joey held back.

She pinched herself and quickly said, "When you said you had an upset stomach and needed to go to the toilet, I noticed that something was wrong with those actors. They sang well, but they were all lifeless. They shouldn't be living people performing, but they also didn't have the smell of decaying corpses."

"The key is that they have a very good sense of smell. After you left, I felt that they all looked in the direction you went, and there was one less person in the audience."

Qiao Yi followed Hua Ran.

During this time, it was discovered that the actors seemed to rely solely on their sense of smell to walk.

She guessed that Hua Ran's body was filled with yin energy, and that low-level spirits wanted to increase their yin energy first before absorbing yang energy to replenish their yin, so they followed Hua Ran.

She kissed Hua Ran, transferring a breath of yang energy to him, and sure enough, that thing stopped following her.

"My lady... do you think it could be a snake?"

"Actually, from the beginning, I suspected that this family was harmed by a snake spirit, but it didn't quite make sense. Apart from the snake that came to us before and was conjured by magic, we could only observe the food; there were no snakes anywhere else."

Qiao Yi spread her hands and said, "If you say Miss Su's husband is half-possessed, at most the man is being controlled; we need to find the original body. If you say the little girl is a snake, she is indeed a human."

Hua Ran lowered her head and tugged at Qiao Yi's sleeve.

“My lady…why don’t we go back? Let’s stop investigating. I’m afraid we’ll find something serious and you’ll get hurt if we come back.”

"You really underestimate me."

Qiao Yi pulled Hua Ran to her feet, and Hua Ran shook her head.

I shook off the memory that had suddenly flashed through my mind.

I wondered, what's wrong with him?

Joey said, "I'm determined to kill this snake. Maybe it will lead to the discovery of the missing limbs, and maybe even the reason why you don't have a physical body."

"My wife did it all for me..."

Hua Ran felt a bittersweet feeling in her heart.

The two walked out, and then the system spoke.

"Baby, I have some news for you... that's neither good nor bad."

"Don't tell me it's some kind of mission again. And about the bath, it's not time yet, not time yet!"

The system tossed its long, princess-cut hair in the consciousness space and said, "Don't worry, it's not a mission. I just detected that you've been drugged."

"Eh?"

Joey's body is immune to all poisons because of her strong yang energy.

She doesn't experience any illness or medication-induced physical discomfort.

One yang can eliminate all poisons, so Qiao Yi never cares about what she eats.

Hua Ran is also fine; in her soul state, she won't be affected by any external drugs.

but!

"Hehe, Baozi, you've thought it through. According to the timing, it's right now during the drug's active phase."

Candlelight was already lit not far away, it seemed that Miss Su had brought people to find them.

Joey thought for a moment. They had only eaten that bowl of noodles, so it must have been laced with a drug.

Just as she was about to erupt... what was Miss Su about to do?

Why not go with the flow!

Having realized this, Joey immediately stopped.

Hua Ran was puzzled.

"Wife, what's wrong?"

Seeing that Miss Su had already arrived with the servants from the mansion, Qiao Yi didn't have time to explain further and first pretended to be dizzy and unable to stand.

Hua Ran was startled.

"Master Wife!?"

The next moment, Joey fell to the ground.

Hua Ran was shocked and hurriedly tried to pull Qiao Yi away, but Qiao Yi held her in her arms.

"Wife master?"

"Shh, come with me, do whatever I do."

"Eh?"

"Love you."

Qiao Yi was afraid that Hua Ran would be too anxious and give himself away, so she first tried to calm him down.

Hua Ran finally understood. As long as his wife was alright, he was a calm person and wouldn't do anything too impulsive.

So Hua Ran followed suit.

"Strange... I feel dizzy too, but this is different from the dizziness I get when I'm pregnant..."

After saying that, Hua Ran collapsed into Qiao Yi's arms.

For the sake of the cloak and hood, he remained prone.

Then he whispered, "My wife, I love you too~ Mwah~"

Joey opened her eyes, made a soft "mwah" sound, and then quickly closed them again.

Miss Su came over, kicked Qiao Yi, and seeing that Qiao Yi didn't move at all, said, "Quickly, quickly, quickly invite Master Zhao over and send that hateful wronged spirit of our mansion into her body so that it can bring misfortune to their family from now on!"

Wrong soul?

Qiao Yi tightened her grip on Hua Ran's body.

Miss Su licked her tongue at the "unconscious" Hua Ran, revealing a lecherous expression.

"This young man is really handsome. He has an indescribable charm, yet also an unspeakable ethereal quality. If only he were a virgin, I could try him first and then do something else. Anyway, my Su family has plenty of money in Bianliang County. Even if we take him to the authorities, I'm not afraid."

A delicate-looking man next to her nudged Miss Su.

"My lady, aren't you enough with me?"

"I……"

"Who can't even get up at noon? And they still have the nerve to say that! If you think that young man is so great, then don't bother me anymore. I'll raise my daughter alone, and you don't need to see her either! Humph!"

Upon hearing this, Miss Su, though still lingering over Hua Ran, ordered her men to quickly carry Qiao Yi and Hua Ran away to the floor of the main hall so that Zhao Daxian could perform a ritual.

In Joey's mind, there were only three words: "You dare to 'taste the flower dye'?!"

I'll chop your claws off!