After the Young Master’s Death, He was Kissed by His Mortal Enemy! - Chapter 108

“Ah, hahahaha, Shen Ran! Even though your haunted house wasn’t scary at all to me, the atmosphere was actually quite decent!”

Shen Ran asked hesitantly, “Brother Hailan, was it really not scary to you at all?”

Wei Hailan’s face was pale, but he still forced a smile. “Of course! Your Brother Hailan is very brave; there is nothing in this world that can scare me!”

Cheng Yi put his hands in his pockets and circled Wei Hailan, scanning him up and down with a half-smile. “Really didn’t scare you?”

Wei Hailan instinctively swallowed and grabbed Fu Yun’s hand, but he remained stubborn. “Of course not! Fu Yun can testify for me!”

As he spoke, Wei Hailan tugged Fu Yun’s hand with a bit of force. “Fu Yun, isn’t that right?”

Feeling the squeeze on his hand, a slight smile appeared on Fu Yun’s cold face, and he nodded slightly.

“President Cheng, I’ll testify for him. Just now in the haunted house, Hailan really wasn’t afraid at all. He was protecting me the whole way.”

“See? See!” Wei Hailan nodded frantically, not forgetting to give Shen Ran a thumbs up. “Your Brother Hailan is amazing! Of course, your haunted house’s atmosphere really is quite good, ahem.”

Seeing Wei Hailan’s pale face and his attempt to act tough, Shen Ran opened his mouth but ultimately didn’t have the heart to tell him the truth.

He and Cheng Yi had already seen exactly what happened during the game on the surveillance monitors.

However, even though it was different from what he had imagined, the trip through the haunted house had in some sense brought Wei Hailan and Fu Yun closer together, right?

Even if the person being relied upon wasn’t Wei Hailan, but Fu Yun.

Shen Ran felt that the matter of who was on top and who was on bottom was actually a bit uncertain, wasn’t it?

While Shen Ran was secretly doubting in his heart, Wei Hailan continued giving his review.

“But Shen Ran, seriously, the atmosphere of this haunted house is incredible! I saw on the introduction board at the entrance that there are no live NPCs, so it’s all based on mechanisms, right?”

“Uh, yes, yes. It’s all sophisticated mechanisms.”

Shen Ran kept nodding, humoring Wei Hailan.

Some things were better left unknown; he didn’t plan on dragging Wei Hailan and Fu Yun into the business of spirits just yet.

“Then your mechanisms are really well-made. The moment I stepped in, I felt a chilling air, like something malicious was staring at me from the shadows. It made the hair on my back stand up. Fu Yun, you had that feeling too, right?”

Being called out, Fu Yun shook his head. “Hmm? The feeling of being stared at? I didn’t feel that, but it was still quite fun.”

“You didn’t feel it?” Wei Hailan scratched his head, muttering to himself. “But I really felt it. I felt someone staring at me the whole time; it was freezing behind me.”

Looking at the somewhat confused Wei Hailan, Shen Ran raised his eyebrows in surprise.

He didn’t expect Wei Hailan’s perception to be so sharp that he could actually sense the eerie feeling of being watched.

What Wei Hailan had sensed was, in all likelihood, Xia Xingyuan and the others acting as the atmosphere crew.

Even if he couldn’t see them, he could vaguely feel them.

So Shen Ran stood on his tiptoes and whispered to Cheng Yi, “Brother Hailan’s perception is pretty good. Now I’m starting to believe that he’s a cold and shrewd person to the outside world.”

Cheng Yi responded in a low voice, “That’s why I said, you can’t be a hypnotist without a few tricks up your sleeve.”

Wei Hailan didn’t notice the two of them whispering and continued to chatter about his insights and feelings.

“Blah blah blah… In summary, I think the haunted house you opened, Little Shen Ran, is fantastic! I bet the escape room is great too! The last time I had this kind of eerie, hair-raising feeling was at a divination house. It felt exactly the same as this place!”

Initially, Shen Ran wasn’t listening closely to what Wei Hailan was saying.

Wei Hailan’s long string of words slid lightly across his smooth cerebral cortex and disappeared with a “whoosh.”

But after a moment, when the topic had shifted to “what to eat for the group dinner,” Shen Ran belatedly extracted a keyword from Wei Hailan’s previous speech.

Wei Hailan had been to a divination house that felt similar to his haunted house?

It was a known fact that the inexplicable, chilling feeling in his haunted house was because Xia Xingyuan and the others were there.

Following that logic, that divination house that gave Wei Hailan the same feeling… did it also have spirits?

It felt as though a thread were connecting everything in the dark, and Shen Ran suddenly had a strong premonition.

“Brother Hailan, that divination house you mentioned—where is it?”

“It’s so cold today, maybe we should go eat hotpot… Huh? The divination house? Why are you suddenly asking about that? You want to go?”

Wei Hailan clearly couldn’t keep up with Shen Ran’s train of thought, but he followed along anyway.

“The location is in K City, though it’s a bit far from here. Are you really going?”

Shen Ran made up a random excuse. “I just want to go take a look. After all, it’s divination; I’ve never tried it in all my years.”

“Hey, don’t say that. I didn’t believe in it before, but I’m starting to believe it now. Divination is something foreigners are really good at.”

Foreigner!

Shen Ran captured another key term, and the guess in his heart became even more certain.

“Brother Hailan, do you remember what that person looked like?”

“Of course I remember! That astrologer is a foreigner and very young. That face is so handsome it’s beyond words! At the time, I thought he didn’t even need to be a diviner; with that face, he could make over ten thousand a day even as a beggar.”

Alright, this was almost certainly the person.

Shen Ran made an instant decision. “Where is the specific location? Cheng Yi and I want to go.”

“You’re really going? Fine, I’ll send the location to Cheng Yi in a moment. I assume Old Cheng is playing driver, anyway.”

After sending the location to Cheng Yi, Wei Hailan asked belatedly, “Wait, you two are going right now? Then what about the group dinner later?”

Shen Ran walked toward the parking lot without looking back, only waving his hand behind him.

“Not today! Another day, I’ll have Cheng Yi treat you and Brother Fu Yun to a meal. Cheng Yi’s treat, order whatever you want!”

“Cheng Yi’s treat? Oh!”

Hearing Shen Ran say this, Wei Hailan immediately gave the yet-to-depart Cheng Yi a teasing wink.

“President Cheng, your Shen Ran says I can fleece you next time. Fleece you however I want. Do you think I should discuss with Fu Yun which restaurant to book to get my money’s worth?”

Having a chance to fleece Cheng Yi, Wei Hailan naturally didn’t want to miss it, as such opportunities were rare.

Just as Wei Hailan was rubbing his hands in anticipation, he caught a glimpse of an expression on Cheng Yi’s face that seemed a bit malicious.

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