Chapter 1987: Chapter 1343: Beneath the Dark Night (ow Rolls Around Patting Its Round Belly)
“I never expected ijia’s family situation to be so complex.”
After escorting ijia back to her room to rest, Shajuye also ca to Duanmu Huai’s room and started chatting.
“ijia seldom ntioned her family’s situation to before, and now it seems there’s a reason for that.”
“It’s common for there to be more drama in large wealthy families, the more people there are, the more issues arise.”
Duanmu Huai stretched lazily and gazed out the window.
“From that perspective, it’s good we don’t have that many relatives.”
“Yeah, having too many relatives easily leads to various problems, yet you can’t just cut ties with them.”
At this, Duanmu Huai snorted softly. Though the world they were in seed like they were part of a wealthy family, in reality, it was just Duanmu Huai and Shajuye with no distant relatives to deal with. Of course, even if there were, with Duanmu Huai’s temperant, he’d make them behave obediently.
If necessary, just make them disappear. After all, Duanmu Huai himself is an ancient being.
“In any case, let’s rest now and talk tomorrow.”
“Alright, goodnight, brother.”
After bidding goodnight, Shajuye returned to her room, while Duanmu Huai looked at his phone for a bit. Finding it uninteresting, he decided to sleep…
“Tap tap tap…”
“Hmm?”
At that mont, a tapping sound ca from outside the window. Duanmu Huai turned his head to see that at so point, it had started raining outside. He opened the window, only to see that outside was pitch black. The howling wind mixed with raindrops rushed in, and the vines covering the Western-style house swayed along, resembling snakes.
“I hadn’t heard it was going to rain.”
Duanmu Huai, puzzled, picked up his phone and saw a storm warning displayed…
“……”
If he rembered correctly, when he left the house this morning, the weather forecast on his phone was showing clear skies.
So, it’s not a weather forecast anymore, it’s a weather report, isn’t it?
That reminded Duanmu Huai of how the TV weather forecasts at ho were usually off. It would announce rain for tomorrow, but then it would be a bright day. Announcing a sunny day, going out happily only to get drenched like a drowned rat. This broken weather forecast is useless…
Duanmu Huai complained and then closed the window, lay on his bed, and went to dreamland.
Soon, a night passed.
The next morning, as Duanmu Huai woke up, the first thing he heard was… the sound of rushing water.
“Wow, this rain is pretty heavy.”
Duanmu Huai got up and looked outside the window, only to see that it was pouring heavily outside, the rainwater cascading from the eaves like a waterfall.
This weather… Well, they’re not going out anyway.
After washing up, Duanmu Huai and Shajuye went to the dining room where breakfast was already prepared. However, there were no signs of the maid, like last night when Duanmu Huai and others arrived at the dining room, the dinner was already laid out, but the maid never showed up.
According to Blondie, the maid here had always been like this, even when he attended birthday parties as a child.
“Hey, morning, Duanmu, Shajuye.”
When Duanmu Huai arrived at the dining room, Blondie and his spicy girl girlfriend were already waiting there, while on the other side was the social man and his big dog. It was obvious the two sides weren’t on friendly terms.
“Did you sleep well last night?”
“Pretty well, but I didn’t expect it to rain so heavily today.”
Duanmu Huai and Shajuye sat down, nodding at Blondie, who laughed heartily.
“That’s right, heavy rain like this is quite rare here, and who knows how long it’ll last. Though it shouldn’t affect…”
“Ahhhh!!”
However, before Blondie could finish speaking, suddenly a scream ca from afar, and everyone present was taken aback.
“What’s going on?”
“Regardless, let’s go check it out.”
Duanmu Huai imdiately stood up and exited the dining room, with Shajuye quickly following, and then Blondie.
“This way!”
Just like sensing the workers’ cries for help on the mountain earlier, Shajuye seed to be quite sensitive in these situations. If her capabilities could be quantified, her [Listening] attribute would likely be at least 80. She swiftly ran down the hallway, and Duanmu Huai and Blondie followed closely behind her.
Just then, around a corner in the hallway, a figure suddenly appeared. It was none other than the guy with glasses who hadn’t shown up earlier. At this mont, he looked pale as he stumbled towards them. Upon seeing them, he hesitated for a mont before attempting to run away.
“Hey, stop right there.”
But he was caught by Blondie.
“What happened?”
“N-n-nothing happened!”
The guy with glasses, pale-faced, shook his head vigorously, but Blondie clearly wasn’t buying it.
“Nothing? You always look like this when sothing’s happened. Spill it!”
“……”
Despite Blondie’s questioning, the guy with glasses kept shaking his head, refusing to speak.
“Isn’t that the chapel up ahead? What did you do?”
Chapel?
Upon hearing Blondie’s shout, Duanmu Huai rembered that the hallway led to the Separate Pavilion. ijia had shown them around there yesterday, but at the ti, the chapel was locked, so ijia just briefly introduced it. Now, it seed they were heading towards the chapel?
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