Chapter 223 Chapter 222 The Obsessed Person (Part ) Part

Shen Niannian and Lu Wenyan returned to the Xiao family.

She immediately told Fatty Qiu that she had found the exit. Fatty Qiu was extremely happy and wanted to tear off the steward's disguise immediately and leave with Shen Niannian.

But Shen Niannian stopped it.

Fatty Ball was very confused, and asked Shen Niannian: "Why don't we leave?"

After searching for the exit for so long, you finally found it. Why don’t you just leave quickly?
"Resolve this situation." Shen Niannian's face was solemn, and he said, "Resolve the obsession."

The fat ball was still puzzled, but Shen Niannian told it: "Those who really deserved to die have already died. Those innocent people should not bear such evil consequences over and over again."

Fatty still didn't understand what Shen Niannian meant, but since Shen Niannian said she wouldn't leave, he didn't question it anymore.

It only said to Shen Niannian: "Being a steward is too tiring. When can I stop being a steward?"

Shen Niannian chuckled when she heard this, and said, "Now."

"Now?" Fatty's eyes lit up: "Really?"

Shen Niannian nodded.

Fatty jumped up excitedly: "Wuhu! Finally I can stop pretending to be the manager!"

He immediately tore off the steward's disguise, transformed into his original form, and flew to Shen Niannian's side.

Lu Wenyan's eyes fell on the fat ball, but then looked away in a moment.

Fatty felt a chill all over his body and consciously moved back a little further away from Shen Niannian.

The two people and the butterfly walked towards the courtyard of the Xiao Mansion. Shen Niannian let Fatty lead the way, and finally found the courtyard of Xiao's wife Zhou Chuchu.

Zhou Chuchu lived in the east courtyard. She ate vegetarian food, chanted Buddhist scriptures, and copied scriptures every day, making the whole courtyard look very elegant.

But even so, it still can't conceal the cold and desolate atmosphere.

Shen Niannian went forward with almost no obstacles.

After she found the exit and came back, she discovered that other people in this realm obviously ignored her existence.

Perhaps in their eyes, she has already left this realm. Once one leaves this realm, he or she becomes nothing.

But this is just Shen Niannian's guess. Everything will only be clear after meeting Zhou Chuchu.

Shen Niannian and Lu Wenyan entered the East Courtyard. In an instant, all the servants in the East Courtyard became stagnant, as if the pause button was pressed. Even the leaves falling from the trees floated in the air.

Shen Niannian and Lu Wenyan looked at each other, and then heard Lu Wenyan say: "Perhaps she woke up the moment we touched the exit."

Shen Niannian understood. If it was really as Lu Wenyan said, then the reason they were able to pass through the journey without any obstacles was also because of Zhou Chuchu.

She knew they would come looking for her, but her reaction... seemed to be telling them her decision.

The door opened by itself without any wind, and in the dark Buddhist hall, a woman in dark blue clothes was sitting inside.

At dawn, the sun had not yet risen, and the face of the woman in the house was difficult to see clearly.

The sound of Buddhist beads turning was heard from inside the house, and the woman's low and hoarse voice also spread in the air.

She asked, "Since you have found the exit, why don't you leave?"

The question is almost the same as Fatty's.

Shen Niannian took a step forward and stepped inside.

The room was filled with incense and mist. The scent of sandalwood spread in the breeze, and the face of the woman in the room gradually became apparent.

She was a very gentle and graceful woman, in her early thirties, with a serene face, and one could vaguely tell that she was an extremely graceful and quiet woman when she was young.

The years left few marks on her face, but they were clearly visible on her almost completely white hair.

Shen Niannian had heard the steward mention that since the young master died, the lady had been locked up in the Buddhist temple in the East Courtyard all day, and refused to see visitors. When the maids in the East Courtyard talked about it, they said that the lady was a pitiful person. Within a few days, her black hair turned white, and she looked much older.

"Zhou Chuchu." Shen Niannian called her name.

Not Mrs. Xiao, not Mrs. Xiao Zhou, but... Zhou Chuchu.

She recalled that when she saw Gu Ting last night, she also felt lost. She said that no one had called her name for a long time.

So, is it the same for Zhou Chuchu?

She also wanted to hear others call her by her name rather than someone's mother or wife.

Obviously, Zhou Chuchu was stunned when Shen Niannian called her like that.

Only then did she slowly look at Shen Niannian, and a smile gradually appeared at the corners of her dry lips.

She said, "The girl is really special."

Special?
Shen Niannian did not answer. She only said to Zhou Chuchu frankly: "I don't leave here just to untie your knot."

"Untie... my knot?" Zhou Chuchu's eyes were slightly confused. "But what knot do I have? I just want Yongle to come back to life... But I overestimated the power of this second layer of incense."

Yongle.

This was the first time Shen Niannian heard this name.

But she knew that the Yongle Zhou Chuchu mentioned was actually Gu Ting.

Yongle...Yue, probably, this is why Gu Ting named Su Yue like this.

"This is the Paradise Pagoda, do you know that?" Shen Niannian said, "Everything in the Paradise Pagoda is an illusion. The second layer of incense only brought your soul into the illusion of the Paradise Pagoda. Everything here... the Gu family, the Xiao family, and even Gu Ting, are your obsession."

The reason why she could guess that this was Zhou Chuchu's obsession, in addition to Gu Ting, was more importantly... the second fragrance that Gu Ting mentioned.

Not everyone's obsession can create an illusion.

What can allow ordinary people to have the ability to create a domain is nothing more than the second level of incense.

And this may be the effect of the second layer of incense.

The real second level of incense can bring the dead back to life.

The second scent, as Gu Ting said, was the secret of the Gu family. So Gu Yaozu would never tell this secret to anyone else, and only Gu Ting, whom he mistakenly thought was his only son, could know it.

But Gu Ting is dead, so who lit the second layer of incense?

There is no doubt that whoever is closest to Gu Ting is that person.

In Gu Ting's words, the person she cherishes most, besides her daughter Su Yue, is Miss Zhou Chuchu.

Su Yue is also dead, so the only answer left is Zhou Chuchu.

Once the answer is Zhou Chuchu, then some things will become clear.

For example, why couldn't they leave the Incense City?

That’s because Zhou Chuchu spent almost all of her life in Fenxiang City.

But she came from a noble family in Jiangnan, so the route she took to leave was the official road to Jiangnan.

Zhou Chuchu obviously didn't know the Pagoda of Bliss that Shen Niannian was talking about.

She was dazed for just a moment, then laughed at herself.

"Sure enough." She said, "Yongle said that the second incense was just a rumor... She was right. The second incense cannot bring the dead back to life."

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