Qin Zhao handed over the soul of the White Bone Ghost Hand to the Netherworld Envoy, and reburied its white bones himself.
Though the quality was not bad and could be used for Artifact Refining, she was not an Evil Cultivator and did not like to refine artifacts with the bones of the dead.
The two left, and Mrs. Qu headed for the hospital.
It was just about dinner time, so Qin Zhao booked a Michelin five-star restaurant.
She went ahead with the little Tengshe kiddo, and also messaged Chu Yan to come straight over after work.
"Awesome! I want to come again next time!"
Tengshe was a big eater with an extremely finicky palate. He looked down on the food at ordinary little diners. Apart from what Chu Yan and Qin Wan cooked, he wouldn’t eat anyone else’s cooking.
He still refused to eat what Qin Zhao cooked.
Once, he even said that the food Qin Zhao cooked would be refused by pigs. After he said that, Qin Zhao rewarded him with a big mouthful of what he liked to eat.
"Qin Zhao, did you make big bucks?"
Tengshe looked eagerly at Qin Zhao, "I want to come again tomorrow."
Qin Zhao glanced at the menu; wow, a meal had cost her eight hundred thousand yuan. But she had indeed made big money recently, so she indulged Tengshe’s request on this rare occasion.
After all, you have to fatten up the snake before you can... well, enslave it!
"Qin Zhao, you’re really the best; you’re the best human I’ve ever met!"
Today, his little mouth was as if it was smeared with honey.
The corner of Qin Zhao’s mouth twitched.
Chu Yan suddenly gave him a look, "Then what am I?"
Tengshe: "Uncle, who are you?"
Tengshe: "Uncle, you better get going."
His implication was clear: I’m no longer interested in your cooking.
He calls him ’Dad’ when he’s up to mischief, ’Uncle’ when he’s of no use, and wants him to leave quickly.
A vein in Chu Yan’s forehead throbbed. It was his wife who had invited him for dinner; why should he leave?
He took a deep breath and restrained himself. In front of Qin Zhao, he always appeared amiable.
Besides, this wasn’t his biological son, so why get mad?
If it were his biological child,
"Who’s this little bastard?"
A grating voice suddenly filled their ears.
Qin Zhao and Chu Yan looked up to see Qin Kejing, arm in arm with Shen Xihhe, approaching their table.
She wore heavy makeup, which did not hide the dark circles or the pallor of her face.
It was evident that Qin Kejing had a rough time in the mental hospital.
Her hardship had darkened her mood. Everything irritated her, especially seeing Qin Zhao and Chu Yan, the newlywed couple so full of sweetness.
"Aren’t you two newlyweds? How did Qin Zhao end up with such a big son already? Couldn’t be someone else’s, could it?"
Qin Kejing smirked sarcastically.
"People nowadays are really strange, willing to raise another’s child."
Before Qin Zhao and Chu Yan could speak, Tengshe, in his childishly sweet voice, chimed in.
"Old auntie, can you not be so noisy? You’re disturbing others’ dinner, don’t you know? With words so vile, be careful you don’t give birth to a son without a dick."
The adorable kiddo tilted his cute little head, his expression one of amusement, "Your fiancé is the real unlucky one, not even knowing his fiancée is carrying someone else’s child."
Tengshe finished speaking and even pulled a grand ghostly face at them.
Qin Kejing’s expression turned to one of fear, and she quickly looked towards Shen Xihhe, but Shen Xihhe’s expression showed no change, as if he hadn’t heard Tengshe’s words at all.
"What nonsense are you spouting, little brat?"
"I’m not spouting nonsense!"
Qin Kejing suddenly lost the mood to trouble Qin Zhao and, feeling guilty, hastily left with Shen Xihhe.
Yet Qin Zhao stared at the backs of the two, her expression thoughtful.
On them, she saw strands of marriage lines exuding black air.
The real marriage lines should be red, but theirs were black, which was obviously not normal.
Qin Zhao had known earlier that they were destined not to be together because at the beginning there were no marriage lines at all.
Now that the marriage lines had appeared, they were rather peculiar.
"Old auntie smells stinky," Tengshe muttered, a look of disgust on his face.
Chu Yan curiously looked at him, "How do you know Qin Kejing is pregnant? And that it’s not Shen Xihhe’s?"
This question was somewhat schadenfreude, since Shen Xihhe was once the man whom Qin Zhao liked?
Qin Zhao had even sent him love letters!
This matter, Chu Yan could remember for a lifetime!
Now his fiancée was carrying someone else’s child; wasn’t that cuckolding him?
"I can see she is nurturing a life in her belly, but the man beside her, his facial features indicate he temporarily has no fortune with descendants, that means the child isn’t his."
He was the mighty Snake Lord, wasn’t seeing through these mortals a simple task?
Tengshe could see it, and so could Qin Zhao.
Just now Shen Xihhe had clearly heard that Qin Kejing was carrying someone else’s child, but he had shown no reaction at all.
If they were a normal engaged couple, the fiancé would have erupted in anger by now. Could his indifference be related to that black marriage line?
While she was thinking about this, a familiar noblewoman with an imposing presence walked into the restaurant.
Qin Zhao recognized her at a glance; this was the matriarch of the Shen Family, Shen Xihhe’s mother.
Mrs. Shen had a swift and fierce disposition and acted solely in the interests of the Shen Family.
The initial engagement with the Qin Family was both out of consideration for Qin Wan and to cooperate with the Qin Family.
She found that Qin Zhao was not as good as Qin Kejing in every aspect and decisively broke off the engagement, arranging for Shen Xihhe to be engaged to Qin Kejing instead.
She even righteously stated that it didn’t matter who the daughter-in-law was since the marriage was with the Qin Family either way.
At that time, with some tactics, Qin Kejing had also won over Shen Xihhe’s favor. The annulment of the engagement came naturally, and the former principal became the laughing stock of both families.
Now, as a murderer and diagnosed with a mental illness, how could the Shen Family possibly tolerate having such a daughter-in-law? They had wanted to cancel the engagement long ago.
But since the Qin Family didn’t agree, Mrs. Shen had Shen Xihhe bring some bargaining chips to meet with Qin Kejing.
They were willing to offer money or business assistance, as long as the Qin Family initiated the annulment.
However, just the day before yesterday after meeting, Shen Xihhe came back and told Mrs. Shen that Qin Kejing could be released soon, and he didn’t want to annul the engagement with Qin Kejing.
So this was the reason for today’s scene, where Shen Xihhe brought Qin Kejing for dinner.
"Jingjing, how did you get out of the mental hospital? You didn’t even tell auntie, if I had known, I would have certainly given you a proper celebration."
Mrs. Shen said with a grin that didn’t reach her eyes.
As soon as they met, Mrs. Shen openly mentioned in public that Qin Kejing had been in a psychiatric hospital, blatantly showing no consideration for Qin Kejing’s face, making it clear she was determined to annul the engagement.
Just as she had done to the original principal before.
Without leaving a trace of sentimentality.
Qin Kejing’s face turned unsightly, and she awkwardly replied, "Auntie, that was clearly a misdiagnosis, I’ve explained it, didn’t Xihe tell you?"