Free Web NovelLu Yibei finally managed to soothe the emotionally volatile A Hua, persuading her to try and approach Jiang Li. Turning her head, she looked at the bruised Liu Banxian and couldn't help but sigh.
"Ah, Banxian, it's been so many years, and you're still so unrestrained with your words? Haven't you been beaten enough in the past? You still don't know how to change."
In her impression, Liu Banxian's fortune-telling was very accurate, and he had been beaten quite severely.
Originally, in a harmonious and law-abiding country like Z Country, which respects the old and cherishes the young, people typically wouldn't easily resort to violence against elders like Liu Banxian, even if they were angry.
But Liu Banxian was always beaten by customers. The problem lay in his fortune-telling being too accurate, and he almost never said anything good. He would open his mouth and predict bloody disasters, and close it predicting unfavorable years.
Not only did he not say good things, but when customers asked him for a way to resolve the issues, he mostly offered a direct triple-threat of "Can't be resolved, no hope, just wait to die."
The customers would listen, suppress their anger, and go back, only to immediately encounter great misfortune.
Those with better temperaments would only complain about Liu Banxian behind his back, saying he "stood by and watched death without helping."
If they met a few hot-tempered people, they would inevitably treat him as a jinx who was "badly accurate but not good," and teach him a lesson.
Someone like A Hua was already considered rational; she only chased after Liu Banxian and argued a few words. As for him losing his footing and falling badly, he couldn't blame anyone else.
And there were plenty of crazy people who were more extreme than A Hua, wielding knives and sticks, or even setting houses on fire.
"Here, apply this first?"
"Hiss—!"
Liu Banxian took the ice pack Lu Yibei handed him and applied it to his bruised eye corner, sucking in a cold breath. Then he grumbled, "Change what? If I discover a customer has misfortune and don't tell them, that's my problem. If I tell them, and they can't figure out how to solve it themselves, that's their problem."
"Hmph, blaming the outhouse because you can't poop!"
"Even if I die and am nailed in a coffin, I will use my decaying voice to shout... Ow, ow, it hurts, be gentle!"
Lu Yibei forcefully pulled the adhesive from the plaster off Liu Banxian's face and rolled her eyes. "Since you're so persistent, then I wish you good health and a long life."
So that one day when he gets beaten again, he won't suddenly drop dead... Lu Yibei added in her heart.
Liu Banxian heard the hidden meaning in Lu Yibei's sarcastic words, sighed silently, and said meaningfully, "Girl, you don't understand. My Master instructed me when he passed down this skill."
"Our school, when telling fortunes for others, can only predict bad things, not good ones, otherwise it won't work!"
Lu Yibei glanced sideways at Liu Banxian and said slowly, "I imagine your school must be rather sparsely populated?"
"How did you know?" Liu Banxian's eyes lit up, and he slapped his thigh. "Could it be that you also understand the art of divination and geomancy?"
"I don't really understand divination, but..." Lu Yibei pursed her lips, "According to the rules your Master, that old man, set, it would be hard *not* to be sparsely populated."
Telling fortunes this way, if not for tough people like Liu Banxian with maxed-out physical resistance, they would sooner or later be beaten to death... Lu Yibei thought to herself.
Seeing that Lu Yibei had stopped talking, Liu Banxian remained silent for a moment, his eyes darting around. He smiled and said, "Oh, right, girl."
"Look, you're not short on chips now, and you helped me make a killing. I don't have much to repay you with, so how about I tell your fortune?"
Hearing this, Lu Yibei felt a chill in her heart and quickly stopped him. "No, no, thank you. I still prefer, well... to explore my own destiny and experience life myself."
To this day, Lu Yibei still didn't know if the results of Liu Banxian's fortune-telling were accurate predictions or curses, so it was better not to test it herself.
"However..." The image of Jiang Li flashed through Lu Yibei's mind. She frowned slightly and pressed, "You just said my friend is about to die. Was that true?"
"How could it be false?" Liu Banxian straightened his back and said confidently, "I won't be wrong. If I say she's going to die, she's definitely going to die."
It really sounded like a curse; the beatings he'd taken over the years weren't unfair at all... Lu Yibei muttered to herself and pressed, "Then is there any way to save her?"
"Of course there is!"
Hearing this, a hint of joy appeared in Lu Yibei's eyes. She pressed, "What way?"
"How would I know that?" Liu Banxian shrugged. "If I knew how to resolve misfortunes, I wouldn't have been beaten so much."
Lu Yibei, "..."
That made perfect sense, leaving no room for rebuttal.
It seems I'll have to figure it out myself. I can't just...
...watch her die, can I?
Just as Lu Yibei was thinking to herself, A Hua, who had gone to try and contact Jiang Li, returned with an anxious expression.
Lu Yibei walked towards A Hua and asked, "How did it go? Did you see her?"
A Hua shook her head, looking dejected.
"Miss has already issued a challenge to the Big Boss. She's been invited to a private lounge on the third floor, and there are many Rabbit Girls guarding the outside of that lounge!"
"I was stopped before I even got close to the door. They said Miss isn't seeing outsiders..."
Speaking of this, A Hua paused and looked at Lu Yibei with a mournful gaze. "Do you think Miss really doesn't remember me anymore?"
"Wouldn't she know the answer to that if we asked her face-to-face?" Lu Yibei said, pursing her lips.
"Huh?" A Hua was momentarily stunned, then said weakly, "But how can I ask? I can't even see my Miss."
"This..." Lu Yibei rubbed her slightly throbbing temples, pacing back and forth with her head down, occasionally glancing at A Hua out of the corner of her eye, clearly looking troubled and hesitant.
After a moment of silence, as if having made a huge decision, she suddenly looked up at A Hua and asked a question that A Hua found completely baffling. "Do you mind dressing up as a Rabbit Girl for once?"
"Ah? You mean..." A Hua stopped mid-sentence, suddenly widened her eyes, looked Lu Yibei up and down for a moment, and exclaimed, "You're planning to disguise yourself as..."
"Shush—!" Lu Yibei made a silencing gesture, interrupting her. "You understand in your heart, that's enough. Do you have to say it out loud?"
I made a huge decision to do something this embarrassing, okay?
If you say it out loud, I might get embarrassed and give up. Lu Yibei thought.
A Hua nodded, still feeling a bit shocked. Her gaze towards Lu Yibei carried a hint of strangeness. "Can this work? Won't we be discovered?"
Although there were no explicit rules in the Entertainment City about what would happen if someone disguised themselves as a Rabbit Girl to cause trouble, one could imagine it wouldn't end well.
"Of course not..." Liu Banxian interjected from the side. "Although the Entertainment City doesn't prohibit guests from wearing Rabbit Girl costumes, and those Rabbit Girls don't have any special certification, their very existence is special. You can tell if someone is impersonating them with a little careful observation."
Lu Yibei tilted her head towards Liu Banxian. "How so?"
"Isn't it simple?" Liu Banxian pointed to a Rabbit Girl passing by not far away. "Look at her ears and tail. They're real, grown on her body, and they can move. That's hard to imitate, isn't it?"
Lu Yibei, "..." It's not that hard, actually. I've seen something almost identical.
A Hua looked in the direction Liu Banxian pointed, observed the Rabbit Girl for a moment, and deflated. She said dejectedly, "It seems like that's true. Wang Bu Liu Xing, it looks like your method won't work!"
"..."
Lu Yibei opened her mouth, just about to say something, when the Coat on her body began to rustle and squirm.
A few seconds later, a pair of cat ears appeared on her hood, and a fluffy cat tail grew out near the hem of her clothes, extending in front of Liu Banxian and A Hua, wagging back and forth.
Coat: No one can say Devil Woman can't do it!
Although I can't help with other things, when it comes to face, I have to fully support her!
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Lu Yibei massaged her forehead. "Listen to my explanation, actually I..."
Liu Banxian patted Lu Yibei's shoulder and said earnestly, "No need to explain, I understand. It's normal for a Little Girl to have a bit of a girlish heart!"
"Yes, that's right!" A Hua grabbed one of Lu Yibei's hands with both of hers and said sincerely, "Wang Bu Liu Xing, I'm counting on you for this matter of seeing my Miss!"
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Ten minutes later.
Dream Come True Entertainment City, upper three floors, corridor outside the VIP lounge.
The decor here wasn't as gaudily opulent as in the lobby; every detail in every corner had been carefully designed and considered, carrying a touch of solemn and ancient elegance, providing guests who came here with a fully relaxing experience from the perspective of light and vision.
The so-called VIP lounges were open to guests with over ten million chips. They were private, soundproof, equipped with Spiritual Energy-assisted massage equipment and various entertainment facilities, and guests could even book a Miss from the friendly business Lanruo Inn Brothel, starting at ten thousand chips per hour.
Of course, this was like the carriages Lu Yibei and her group had seen in the city outside the Entertainment City – something only paying players could enjoy, naturally offering an extraordinary experience.
After walking through a section of enclosed corridor, the area ahead widened. The wall on the side near the lobby was replaced with a one-way glass floor-to-ceiling window, opening up the view dramatically and allowing the entire lobby to be seen.
After Jiang Li's bell-ringing ceremony for winning the "top prize," the entire lobby became festive. Colorful, shimmering confetti drifted through the air, like midsummer fireworks, or like swarms of colorful butterflies.
Inside the lobby, some people stood on card tables spraying champagne around, strangers were pressed together dancing close and passionately, and some even rushed onto the stage, tore off the feathered skirts of samba dancers, put them on themselves, and twisted their bodies. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
Compared to the commotion in the lobby, the revelry of the guests in the corridor leading to the VIP lounges was much more reserved. Most of them were already familiar with each other, gathered in twos and threes chatting about something, occasionally letting out bursts of cheerful laughter.
The Rabbit Girl attendants responsible for service discreetly brought fruit platters, snacks, and drinks to the guests, and then voluntarily withdrew to the side, only stepping forward to provide service when the guests explicitly indicated they needed something.
Just then, a Rabbit Girl whose figure was somewhat smaller than most other Rabbit Girls walked through the corridor with a blank expression, heading towards the VIP lounges deeper within.
Although her figure didn't look as standard as other Rabbit Girls, appearing quite youthful, no one found anything unusual about her.
After all, she was wearing a red backless corset identical to the Rabbit Girls in the Entertainment City, paired with fishnet stockings and a striped vest. Even the clean white ears and tail that gently swayed with her steps were no different from the other Rabbit Girls.
The process of sneaking into the VIP lounge was much smoother than Lu Yibei had imagined, thanks to the Coat's clever imitation of the Entertainment City's Rabbit Girl uniform and the large amount of work the carnival brought to the Rabbit Girls.
All the Entertainment City staff on the upper three floors were busy, and no one paid too much attention to the movements of any single Rabbit Girl.
Following the room number A Hua had given, Lu Yibei walked forward and quickly found the door to VIP lounge number 48, where Jiang Li was located. She raised her hand and pressed the doorbell.
“Ding dong—ding dong—!”
As the doorbell rang, the little devil sculpture above the door wriggled its body twice, opened its eyes, and a pair of scarlet pupils locked onto Lu Yibei's face.
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Inside VIP lounge number 48.
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Having taken off her pink and white dress, Jiang Li had not yet changed into her casual clothes. She was only wearing a bathrobe and sitting upright in front of the mirror at the dressing table.
In the mirror, the young girl's silver hair was coiled into a bun at the back of her head. Her face was a little haggard, like a weak willow swaying in the wind, with the delicate beauty of a sickly person, reminiscent of Xi Shi or Lin Daiyu.
After staring at the mirror for a long time, she unpinned her bun and subconsciously called out softly, "A Hua, help me comb it again..."
Before she could finish speaking, she remembered that A Hua was no longer by her side and couldn't help but sigh silently.
Just then, the doorbell rang, followed by a distortion of light and shadow in the mirror. When the image in the mirror stabilized again, a young-looking Rabbit Girl appeared in view.
She looked a little familiar, had she seen her somewhere before...? Jiang Li muttered to herself and said softly, "Is this the service I booked just now?"
"Uh..." The Rabbit Girl outside the door was stunned for a moment, looking around as if searching for the source of the voice, then replied, "Yes."
Jiang Li frowned slightly. "I remember I booked a water bath SPA treatment. Why did you come empty-handed?"
Days of continuous fighting had left Jiang Li's mind and body in a very exhausted state.
This time, she was not in a hurry to go to Wu Hui Land. She wanted to take advantage of the time before the carnival outside ended to rest a little, adjust to her best state, and then challenge the Big Boss.
The Rabbit Girl outside the door, "..."
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When Lu Yibei heard Jiang Li's voice coming from the little devil sculpture, her eyebrows couldn't help but twitch slightly upwards.
SPA, water bath, treatment... Is there such a good thing?
Have I been waiting so long that I've finally reached the welfare chapter?
It seems she didn't recognize who I am. In this situation, would it be bad to take advantage of her?
Lu Yibei thought, and silently took out a bottle of Alchemy potion from her small jacket pocket.
This was a topical medicine refined from the scraps of the completion potion. Because the main ingredient was black pearl, it had some beauty and skin care effects, making it quite suitable for impersonating essential oil.
After taking out the potion, Lu Yibei pretended to be flustered, apologized quickly, hoping to muddle through.
"This guest, I'm very sorry, I forgot. I only brought the essential oil. I'll let my colleague..."
"Never mind, just come in?"
Jiang Li interrupted calmly. As soon as her voice fell, the heavy door of the lounge opened with a "click!".
Lu Yibei, "..."
She opened the door just like that?
So, girls nowadays have no self-protection awareness when they are outside.
What would they do if they met a bad person like me!
Muttering to herself, she tightened her grip on the crystal bottle containing the translucent light blue liquid, turned sideways, and walked into the room.
Seeing Lu Yibei enter the room, Jiang Li looked her up and down for a while and asked doubtfully, "Have we met somewhere before?"
"Uh... Mm-hmm!" Lu Yibei nodded, avoiding Jiang Li's eyes, "I've served you before."
"Oh..." Jiang Li nodded thoughtfully, then skillfully instructed, "Since you didn't bring all your tools, why don't you come to the sauna room with me first?"
"While I'm steaming, help me with a massage. When we come out later, you can use the essential oil to give me a back rub."
Lu Yibei, "..." No way, Leader? You're serious? You really don't recognize me?
Seeing that Lu Yibei hadn't moved for a long time, Jiang Li looked at her and tilted her head, "Is there any other problem?"
Lu Yibei shook her head, "No, there isn't."
Jiang Li nodded slightly, "Then let's go?"
As she spoke, she walked towards the steam room in the corner of the lounge. Entering the room, she took off her bathrobe and lay face down on the massage bed. Immediately, a small wooden door on the wall beside her opened, and a clean white bath towel flew out from inside, gently covering her body.
Lu Yibei followed Jiang Li into the steam room, looking at the faintly visible graceful body under the bath towel, and swallowed hard, feeling a headache.
Although she had reached this point, it would be very unmanly to retreat now, but...
I don't know how to massage either!
"What's wrong? Do you need to prepare?"
"No, it's not that." Lu Yibei replied timidly, walked to Jiang Li's side, closed her eyes, and carefully reached out her hand, placing it on her shoulder.
In an instant, the wonderful touch unique to a young girl's skin came from her fingertips, making Lu Yibei sigh in her heart.
So smooth, so soft, so firm, so comfortable!
There were a few beads of water on the smooth and delicate skin. The boneless softness had a bit of elasticity, making it irresistible.
Feeling that the finger techniques rubbing back and forth on her ⊛ Nоvеlιght ⊛ (Read the full story) back were a bit strange, Jiang Li frowned slightly, turned her face to take a look, and was slightly stunned when she saw the Rabbit Girl behind her had her eyes tightly closed.
What does this mean? Blind massage?
"Dare you open your eyes?"
"I don't dare!"
You've already touched, and you still want to look, that's a bit too much. Lu Yibei thought.
Jiang Li, "..." Why is this Rabbit Girl so strange?
"Oh right, what's your name? Wasn't it always Landis and Xiang He who served me before? Why is it you today?"
Hearing Jiang Li ask for her name, Lu Yibei slightly opened a slit in her eyes and probed softly, "I, my name is Wang Bu Liu Xing. You probably haven't heard of it, right?"
Jiang Li frowned.
Wang Bu Liu Xing? This name is so familiar, I must have heard it somewhere.
But why can't I remember?
This feeling... Could she be someone I was very familiar with, and I've forgotten all the memories about her?
While thinking, Jiang Li suddenly felt a surge of memory fragments, filling her mind.
Pain... My head hurts!
Grotesque memory fragments full of eerie whispers flashed quickly before her eyes. Jiang Li felt her head throbbing intensely, as if thousands of steel needles had been inserted into her brain.
In a daze, the scene before her eyes distorted, followed by a familiar voice ringing in her ears.
That person gently said to her, "Little Girl, don't be afraid, I'm here to save you. Those bad people have all been killed by me."
"..."
"Little Girl, are you worried that if your leg is crippled, you won't be able to get married in the future? If that's the case, leave this matter to me?"
"..."
"Little Girl, don't misunderstand. I don't mean marry me. I mean, I have a son about your age. If you really can't get married in the future, then he'll have to make do!"
"..."
Didn't my benefactor say all these things to me?
Why are these memories surfacing at this time?
Jiang Li wondered, her eyes fixed on the scene where her benefactor placed the steaming bowl of instant noodles in her hand.
Just when she thought the memory would end here, more scenes suddenly appeared before her eyes. It felt as if the memories related to her benefactor were extending in other directions due to some strange connection.
Soon, a young man with an expressionless face, yet somehow giving off a strangely annoying and cowardly feeling, appeared in the scene before her eyes, saying something to her.
"Leader? I found that when you're not angry, you're quite good-looking. Uh, looking at me like that, you're not good-looking anymore."
"..."
"How is it? Is our Old Lu family's secret recipe instant noodles fragrant?"
"..."
"My home is in Hua City, I'm not going anywhere!"
"..."
"What the hell are you talking about? How could I not bear to leave a woman like you?"
Wang Bu Liu Xing, Wang Bu Liu Xing, Lu... Damn it, she's Lu Yibei!
Why is she here?
Didn't I exchange all other people's memories? Why do I remember her? I clearly only kept the memories of my mother, A Hua, and the marriage contract?
Wait, she cooked that kind of instant noodles before, and her home is on Peony Street. Could it be...
The moment she made the guess in her mind, Jiang Li's cheeks immediately turned cherry-colored, and her heart pounded wildly, but she quickly calmed down and asked abruptly, "Mudan Street Yanzu, your technique is quite good!"
"How is it, does it feel comfortable to touch?"
"That's absolutely guaranteed! With your figure, it's too comfortable... Wait, what did you just call me?" Lu Yibei was startled, opened her eyes, looked at the gloomy-faced Jiang Li, and her pupils contracted.
Lu Yibei saw in her cold eyes...
"Oh? Since it feels so comfortable to touch, do you want to touch it a little longer? 【Heart eyes emoji】"
Lu Yibei, "..."
Damn, I read words and emojis from her eyes, and I felt the feeling of smiling outwardly while plotting inwardly, like a fishing expedition. What the hell is this!?
