"The wedding you dreamt of might be real!" Ye Yuqiao said, leaning into Chen Hao's arms with a tone full of sadness. "I wasn't at that wedding, which means that by then, we must have either been separated by life or death!"

"You might have been the bridesmaid!" Chen Hao's soothing voice whispered in Ye Yuqiao's ear, "The reason I was upset then was that I thought it was my wedding, and the bride wasn't you."

Ye Yuqiao looked up at Chen Hao, her expression as overcast as the sky above their heads, and asked, "Did you see if the bridesmaid next to the bride was me?"

Chen Hao shook his head, the vulnerability of Ye Yuqiao at sensitive times both pained and made him anxious, he hurriedly said, "At that time, I was only looking at the bride, I didn't pay attention to who the bridesmaid was!"

"If the bridesmaid was really me, how could you have not noticed me?" Ye Yuqiao's face grew darker, "Unless I'm no longer in your heart, to you, I'm no different from anyone else."

Chen Hao's face showed a bitter smile, and he quickly held Ye Yuqiao even tighter. After pausing, he reassured her, "It's just a dream, don't take it seriously. Even if it were real, there might be another reason for you not being there, like you were sick, or maybe you were just using the restroom."

"It's not that," Ye Yuqiao said as she shook her head in Chen Hao's embrace, her tone turning very cold. "You showed me that dream, I remember during that time Ye Fei asked you if you missed me, which implies."

"Which implies you really might have been ill and couldn't come!" Chen Hao suddenly interrupted Ye Yuqiao.

"Or it might be that I'm no longer here," Ye Yuqiao said coldly, her voice filled with despair.

"Girlfriend, why are you thinking such nonsense?" Chen Hao shook Ye Yuqiao in his hands, "If you were really gone, do you think I would still be in the mood to attend any wedding?"

Ye Yuqiao seemed not to take in what Chen Hao had said; instead, she fell into deep thought. It wasn't until half a minute later that she lifted her head and looked at Chen Hao, asking, "Seeing how Ye Fei looked as the groom in the dream, the wedding should take place in four or five years."

Suddenly, Ye Yuqiao's eyes filled with tears, she raised her hand to gently caress Chen Hao's face, her voice hoarse, "Will you cherish the days we have together from now on? I will treasure them specially as well!"

"Silly girl!" Chen Hao gently stroked Ye Yuqiao's head, "Even though you are beautiful when sensitive, it really pains my heart. Don't worry, we won't lose each other. Although we are supposed to be together until eternity, to me, that still seems too short, so I will definitely always cherish you."

"If eternity is short, then what is considered long?"

"Every minute and second without seeing you, without holding you, feels extremely long to me," said Chen Hao, looking at Ye Yuqiao's tear-blurred eyes tenderly, "Usually, what's long is painful! So, please let me constantly experience this brief moment of seeing you, holding you, and may this briefness continue forever."

"When did you come up with this cheesy line to fool a girl?" Ye Yuqiao asked with pursed lips.

"After I met you, this girl," Chen Hao said, "But it's not made up, it's from the bottom of my heart. What's wrong? Do you find it corny and not fitting my straightforward nature?"

"Naughty!" Ye Yuqiao couldn't help smiling slightly and then shyly lowered her head, "Actually, I'm quite touched. Lean in, for I want to bestow upon you a kiss."

"Before you bestow a kiss on me, can I ask for something from you?" Chen Hao asked while bringing his face close to Ye Yuqiao's.

"Tell me, what is it you want?"

"A deed of sale," Chen Hao said with a light laugh, "like the one I gave you on New Year's Day."

"Fool," Ye Yuqiao's eyes suddenly became misty, and her voice softened a lot. "You're already living in my heart, what do you need a deed of sale for?"

"Then you'll have to give me a property deed or a permanent residence permit to prevent you from turning your face later and kicking me out!"

"Mischievous!" Ye Yuqiao lifted her hands and pinched Chen Hao's cheek. Having said that, she stood on her tiptoes and kissed Chen Hao.

After a few seconds, Chen Hao suddenly pushed Ye Yuqiao away, and the warm breath from his mouth instantly turned to mist in the cold winter air, gently patting on Ye Yuqiao's face.

"Yuqiao, believe me, we will definitely be together in the future. I love you!"

Ye Yuqiao quietly murmured an acknowledgment, her cheeks red as a ripe tomato, and with her eyes slightly closed, she softly said, "I love you too!"

No sooner had the sound faded than their lips met again.

Ten minutes later, the two returned to the van, holding hands. At that moment, Xie Xiaofeng and Tang Jing were staring at Ye Fei with furrowed brows, listening intently to something Ye Fei was explaining.

As the car door opened and Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao got on, Tang Jing urgently said, "Yuqiao, damn it, sit down and listen to Ye Fei's significant discovery!"

"Significant discovery?" Chen Hao asked in confusion, then turned to Ye Fei, "What significant discovery?"

Ye Fei then told Chen Hao. A few days before the Spring Festival, he had taken a train from City H to Feishi Town to spend the New Year with his master. He and his master stayed in a village called Longyao Village, a few kilometers from the town of Feishi. Two days after arriving in the village, he heard from the villagers that recently, there had been frequent disappearances in Wangu Town, across the Feiwan Bridge, and the missing were all men aged between twenty-eight to thirty-five.

Next to the house where Ye Fei stayed lived a family surnamed Wang. The head of the household, Wang Xi, would usually head to Wangu Town to buy goods for the New Year since the market there was more prosperous than in Feishi Town. So two afternoons before the Spring Festival, after finishing farm work, Wang Xi rode alone on his motorcycle to Wangu Town. However, that trip became his last; he never returned.

The next day, Wang Xi's wife reported his disappearance. On New Year's Eve, the police found Wang Xi's motorcycle in a withered field in Wangu Town, but there was no trace of Wang Xi himself. Since Wang Xi was thirty-three years old, the police connected his disappearance to the frequent cases in Wangu Town.

From the start of the investigation to New Year's Eve, there was not a single clue about the disappearance cases.

On New Year's Eve, Ye Fei's master invited Wang Xi's wife and daughter to their home for dinner. As many villagers said Wang Xi might never return, the sorrowful mother and daughter had no appetite to eat and spent the evening crying at the table.

In an attempt to find the husband and father for this mother and daughter, on New Year's Day evening, Ye Fei went alone to Wangu Town to investigate. He chose to stand at a busy three-way intersection, listening intently to everything around him.

Since it was New Year's Day, there were hardly any vehicles passing through that night.

On the second day of the lunar year, Ye Fei returned to the same crossroads after dark. Compared to New Year's Eve, there were noticeably more vehicles that night. When he spotted a passerby who seemed to be in his early thirties, Ye Fei used qinggong to leap atop the treetops and followed closely behind the car.

When Ye Fei was following the car across the Feiwan Bridge, the vehicle suddenly lost control as if it had gone berserk, broke through the bridge railing, and plunged into the water below.

Seeing this, Ye Fei immediately jumped into the river.

However, two minutes later, when he located the submerged car, the driver was no longer inside. Ye Fei didn't know whether he had escaped or encountered something else; all he knew was that until last night, the police had yet to find the driver.

Moreover, after Ye Fei returned that night, two more cars drove into the river, and both drivers vanished, one thirty-one and the other thirty-four years old.

"It was so eerie at the time!" Ye Fei exclaimed, "One by one they just disappeared out of the blue, and their deaths were all alike—it seemed like premeditated murder."

"I would bet nine out of ten it's the work of a malevolent spirit," Xie Xiaofeng said, "The method is exactly like the one we encountered not long ago on that deadly road section!"

"You're right, there is definitely something unclean involved," Ye Fei said with a grave face, a flicker of fear in his eyes.

Then, Ye Fei continued to recall the events of last night. As before, after dusk fell, he arrived at the crossroads again.

Before long, however, he saw a police car passing through, heading west. He turned on the listening device and eavesdropped on the activity in the police car. Through the conversation and phone calls between the cops, Ye Fei learned that in a nearby village named Lanshi, three men who had gone to a neighboring village to offer New Year's greetings had vanished on their way back.

Just as Ye Fei prepared to follow the police car to Lanshi Village to investigate, suddenly!

He saw a huge black shadow sprinting through the woods at the side of the road ahead, moving so fast it was like a gust of wind—invisible to the average person.

Thus, Ye Fei exerted his full strength in qinggong to chase after the shadow.

About five minutes later, Ye Fei followed the shadow to the edge of Feiwan Bridge. Watching the shadow dive into the river, he wasted no time jumping in after it.

However, the moment he entered the water, his neck was immediately seized by a gigantic hand, and he started suffocating. Before he completely lost consciousness, he caught a glimpse of a pair of blood-red eyes.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know < report chapter > so we can fix it as soon as possible.