The Restless Spirit's Father

Not only was Li Feng shocked, but he was also confused. Even Li Yunru and Ruan Jin didn't get her logic. However, after hearing about Liu Xiaodan's name again, the man on the bed could only sigh. Perhaps there was a chance that they were already bound to each other now.

Li Feng lifted a hand and massaged his forehead. "Yue, how did the attack on me translate to Liu Xiaodan not being safe in Cherry?"

"How could you be this stupid?" Ren Shanyue huffed in disgusted disappointment. Then again, she remembered. "Right, I forgot that you're only raised as a shaman and not a high-class young master." She then cleared her prior sour face. "It seemed that you really have no idea how awful and how far this matter had stretched now, do you?

"Let me tell you this: Ditian might be shit, but he's a high-class shit because of my Ren family. A lot of other young masters and nouveau riche families wanted to get a small chunk of our families, and they would swallow that even if it stinks so badly." She gauged the unimpressed look on Li Feng's face. "Most of these people only depended on Ren Ditian to connect with my Ren family. What do you think will happen now that he's gone?"

"It's like burning a bridge down," Li Feng murmured.

"Exactly. However, even if the bridge was burnt, the one who burned it… and his maligned backer… remained on the side where the unhappy people are." Ren Shanyue shook her head. "This had become personal to the small rich families, Feng. If they got to you, what are the odds that they cannot get to Xiaodan?"

Ruan Jin suddenly rushed towards the side of Li Feng's bed just to be in Ren Shanyue's sight. "Hey, lady, I know that you're worried about Xiaodan, but what kind of relationship do you have with him?"

Silence answered him as Ren Shanyue practically ignored him after a few seconds of gazing in his direction. She continued to speak with Li Feng, "Listen here, Feng. The Li family wouldn't come up short in trying to protect you… if what happened didn't happen. Right now, only your father was willing to be your shield.

"They got right past him last night, and I have a feeling something will happen again. Tell me, do you have any clues as to who it was?"

"Bitch is ignoring me…" Ruan Jin didn't assert his right to know. He only sat down and waited for her tongue to slip.

A headshake was Li Feng's answer. However, he only sighed with a bitter smile. "I don't care why you're worried about Liu Xiaodan, but it's futile. He could protect himself on his own. Keh, I even think they should be the ones wary towards him…

"Cherry Medical might not be a place for safety, but what made them sure that Liu Xiaodan would be there alone?"

"Are we really talking about this ghost child?" Ren Shanyue's tone then mellowed. "That's too surreal to believe in…"

"Tch, you're so proud of detecting that ghost in the elevator, and yet you curl up at the thought of Guangru…" Ruan Jin barked, and Ren Shanyue shot him a warning glare.

Even Li Feng and Li Yunru threw their gazes at the man. The patient then looked back at Ren Shanyue. "You forced it?"

A sliver of panic flashed across Ren Shanyue's eyes, and so she just opted to leave the room. "In any case, I'm still going to force you to spit out names for—"

"Guangru had names for those people. If you want to know, ask that scary uncle…"

Ruan Jin cut her off, but something was amiss in the way he spoke. It sounded like he was suddenly cunning and malicious towards her. When Ren Shanyue gazed at him, Ruan Jin curled his lips in a somewhat coquettish smile. With his face, it would look bad; but his face didn't seem to be one from before.

A woman… Ren Shanyue and Li Yunru sensed a woman when they looked at him. Only Li Feng glared at him normally.

"Weeper, that's not a good thing to do…" Li Feng hissed as he was sure that Ye Ling took over the poor man's body.

"Eh? Why not?" Ye Ling, using Ruan Jin's body, dropped his head and turned to the side before gazing at Li Feng's and Li Yunru's faces. "She wants answers; the kid got answers. Why else would your daddy be able to prepare for that night?"

With a giggle, she continued as if a coquettish side woman, "Guangru already said that he will help find those people. Of course, he will deliver. Say, Feng'er… should we see off this woman and talk about something more important?"

If Li Feng's stomach wasn't churning and he wasn't seeing Ye Ling's intimidating image overlapping with Ruan Jin's, he would have gagged. However, he knew of this more important matter. He then looked up at Ren Shanyue who was as confused as Li Yunru. "Yue, go see Da-Father. He surely knew something about this…"

The woman only nodded, but she kept on staring in Ruan Jin's direction. "Is he okay? Shouldn't you be exorcising the ghost out of him right now?"

"The Weeper is a strong ghost. I don't think we could force her out without hurting Ruan Jin. Then again, she wouldn't normally hurt him deliberately." Li Feng couldn't believe he's vouching for a ghost, but it was what it was now.

"En, I'll be looking for him then." Ren Shanyue only walked out of the room. After closing the door, she held onto her c.h.e.s.t and took deep breaths. Why did it feel like the ghost was trying to kill her? She wasn't flirting with the man after all.

"No, this won't do." Her gaze flicked up, and she steadied herself. "If I can't handle an ordinary one like this, I wouldn't be able to endure that child…"

Back inside, Ruan Jin felt like he was released from suffocation. He felt lightheaded, but he didn't pass out or fall down even. A light shake of his head was enough for him to stop himself from getting disoriented. He then looked at Li Feng and Li Yunru who were giving him weird gazes. With the gritting of his teeth, he hissed.

"No."

"Hahaha!" Li Yunru suddenly burst out laughing as Li Feng only sighed in resignation. The woman then tried to get across the bed without leaving her seat, ending up lying prone on Li Feng's l.a.p. Her hand reached out to pat Ruan Jin's shoulder. "Don't worry, little big brother, we won't tell your friends!"

"What the—? Are you two secretly married?! Try to be decent now!" Ruan Jin had nothing to counter them with so he ended up nitpicking their position.

"Keh, an i.n.c.e.s.tuous marriage with a distant relative is a lot better than being married into the Ren family," Li Feng murmured, but Li Yunru's ears somewhat reddened out of his sight. He then looked at the man who escaped to the couches at the end of the room. "Can you summon the Weeper?"

Ruan Jin didn't have to as Ye Ling manifested right on his l.a.p, seated like a girl flirting with her man. She was also wearing this big smile that made Li Feng uncomfortable.

In the end, the patient spoke, "Can you tell?"

"Yes." Ye Ling giggled and moved, but she was still sitting on Ruan Jin's l.a.p. "Feng'er, how did it feel?"

"I didn't feel anything. She just… vanished." He then lifted a hand to his sight and remembered the view of almost being eaten by a weird nurse entity. He also thought about the girl he met, but he decided not to seek her anymore. She was one of those people who would rather stay away from the spirits.

"En, of course, you won't. It probably went to the owner. Then again, if he decided to reward you, maybe you would be able to fix yourself." Ye Ling nodded to herself as if she was confirming her own hypotheses.

Li Feng only frowned and then shook his head. "So you lied to me…"

"I did not. I just thought it worked that way. Then again, we might be able to convince the owner to reward you." The girl only spoke in a way that she was confirming Li Feng's lie, but they both knew that it was wrong.

"So eating a ghost didn't help?" Ruan Jin felt Ye Ling's weight even if she was in a semi-transparent body. He just needed to be very careful lest Li Yunru would find another secret to keep from his friends. "You just ate a ghost, right?"

"Say 'absorb', and maybe I'll be honest." Li Feng hissed. He then cleared his expression to something neutral. "Weeper, can Guangru manifest as a mist of miasma? Something like that came about last night, and it even killed two people…"

At this, Ye Ling trembled, but only Ruan Jin felt it. She stared at Li Feng and tried to make words flow out of her mouth, but she ended up howling like a ghost. The sound was there, but she wasn't visibly howling. The room also suddenly grew suffocating and gloomy. If she did this, she was extremely terrified.

However, Ruan Jin embraced the ghost girl on his l.a.p. In just one motion, the howling stopped. The place looked a little brighter than earlier. She closed her eyes and opened them again. "No. If he needed to manifest, he could just use his ghost body.

"The only thing that needed to manifest in miasma is that with a physical body to leave."

"I see." Li Feng only lowered his head. Li Yunru didn't understand what it meant to Li Feng. She was there when it happened, and she was so sure that the miasma had Guangru's aura. If it was not him, then who else would it be?

When she turned to Ruan Jin, the man was also crestfallen for a reason. His grip on Ye Ling's arms was also tightened. It was as if he had heard awful news he was left to accept and not refute.

He then made a noise. "Can we still take it back? I mean… if we separate Guangru and Xiaodan, can we still make Xiaodan stop? He might end up becoming something close to those things…"

Ye Ling looked over her shoulder and eyed at him coldly as he had forgotten that she was also something close to those things. However, she only convinced herself that what he meant was something way worse than a ghost like her. She hummed after considering. "Of course, we can. The crux is…

"If they even wanted to be separated…"