The information Zhuge Buhuo sent over was pitifully sparse, consisting of only one blurry birth certificate.
The child on the birth certificate was named Liu Xiaoying. Her birthday was in December the year before last, so she was only a little over a year old now.
Judging from the information on the birth certificate, she was born in a remote town in Subei Province, so remote that they had never even heard of it. When they checked it on the map, a few roads sparsely crisscrossed the screen, and that was the whole town.
Now that they had found the person, there was no point in lingering in Qianzhou any longer. After discussing it, the three of them decided to rest for one night and set off early the next morning, taking the national highway and following the navigation toward Subei.
However, at Fu Sang’s request, their departure time was changed from morning to after lunch. It was only a minor matter and not a big deal. Huo Wei originally thought he wanted to sleep in, eat lunch, and then set off leisurely. In fact, she also had the same intention, so she happily voted in favor.
Who would have thought that the next day, she did indeed sleep in, but when she had finished packing her luggage and was getting ready to put on some makeup and meet up with the others, her door was suddenly pounded on.
The force behind it made it seem as though someone intended to smash the door to pieces with their fists.
The person knocking was not Fu Sang. Fu Sang was too lazy to use that much force.
It wasn’t Chen Wuyue either. Chen Wuyue would not be so rude.
Huo Wei opened the door with a head full of question marks, only to meet the gaze of a hedgehog head as soon as she pulled it open.
Who else could it be but Zhuge Buhuo?
“Why is it you?!”
The two of them froze at the same time, then cried out simultaneously.
“Why are you here?!” Huo Wei immediately tore the facial mask off her face.
“Why can’t I be here?!” Zhuge Buhuo looked down at himself, then back at her.
“Where’s the red-eyed kid? He told me to knock on this door as soon as I got here! Wait, has your revolutionary friendship with each other deteriorated? He doesn’t want his Crimson Evil anymore?? You two are living together now???”
“Can you stop saying such terrifying things?! Hurry up, ‘ptoo ptoo ptoo’!”
Huo Wei really wanted to sew Zhuge Buhuo’s mouth shut.
He could even say such a vicious curse. Didn’t he know how to avoid taboos? Did he not know how to write the two words “avoid prophecy”?!
“Is it really necessary?”
“If you don’t think it’s necessary, then he’s your husband. Your husband, your husband!”
“???”
While the two of them were arguing, the door beside them quietly opened.
The world’s most sought-after husband leaned against the door, with a quiet ghost hanging behind him. He raised his eyes and calmly watched them.
Feeling the chilling gaze on their backs, the two of them immediately fell silent.
Huo Wei pursed her lips.
She instantly forgot her previous displeasure and suddenly became humble and polite in her choice of words toward Zhuge Buhuo.
“What brings you here?”
“He said he had something that would earn me great merit, and as long as I used the Seven-Life Fate Wheel to run a person for him, he’d let me come and pick it up. I ran the person, and now I’m here.” Zhuge Buhuo shrugged.
“I was wondering, how do you two always manage to stumble into this kind of strange and bizarre excitement, and every single one of them is a great merit, and neither of you wants them! Then I can only reluctantly take it into my collection!”
Could it really be like that?
Huo Wei looked at Fu Sang. “Why didn’t you tell me yesterday?”
“Didn’t I tell you?” Fu Sang raised an eyebrow slightly.
“No.”
“I must have forgotten.”
“Click!”
The door opposite also opened, and Chen Wuyue, already dressed in outdoor clothes and pulling a suitcase, stood at the doorway, looking at them.
“…Who is this?”
“Holy shit?” Zhuge Buhuo’s experience was like one door opening and then another door walking out from inside the room.
He looked up at Chen Wuyue, who was more than half a head taller than him.
“Girl, you’re so tall… Hello, I’m Zhuge Buhuo of the Zhuge family of the Nether path.”
“Hello, I’m Chen Wuyue, an officially registered investigator with the Spirit Supervision Bureau, from Bu Wangzhou of the spirit path. You can just call me Chen San.”
Chen Wuyue nodded, then asked Fu Sang:
“Is this the person you found?”
“Mm. If we want to put it through the proper channels, we’ll put it under his name.”
Because Chen Wuyue had filed an application yesterday and made a trip to the Public Security Bureau to borrow a corpse, this case could already be considered an open acknowledgment that a nether path spirit master was involved. If no nether path spirit master is listed among the investigators in the end, Chen Wuyue would have a hard time explaining it to his superiors.
It just so happened that yesterday’s incident involved Zhuge Buhuo, so they could temporarily call him over to participate and go through the procedure, resolving the karmic debt and acting as a scapegoat. It killed two birds with one stone.
The only downside was that this person was both stupid and noisy. He was not smart and liked shouting loudly. There was a high probability that he would become a hindrance, but it was not a major problem.
It was tolerable.
Thus, the four-person group began to take shape. Huo Wei drove her spacious yet flashy off-road vehicle onto the road. To avoid being despised for simply picking up the benefits and lying down to win on this trip, Zhuge Buhuo, who had a driver’s license, decided to contribute his meager strength. He sat in the passenger seat, ready to take turns driving with the driver at any time, while Fu Sang and Chen Wuyue sat in the back.
Together, they set off from the bamboo buildings in the southwestern mountains and forests and headed toward the sandstorms of the northwestern region.
The driving time shown on the map was nearly twenty-eight hours. Human life was at stake, and Chen Wuyue wanted to arrive as soon as possible and find the child named Liu Xiaoying, worried that if they dragged it out for too long, something else might happen.
Therefore, their itinerary did not include any rest stops or overnight stays along the way. The three people with driver’s licenses took turns driving throughout the entire journey, while Fu Sang, who did not have a driver’s license, remained in the back seat the whole time. He either hugged his broken computer and wrote his thesis, looked at the highway outside the window, or simply closed his eyes and leaned against the seat to sleep.
On the way, Huo Wei roughly told Zhuge Buhuo about the case they had encountered in the Miao village. Zhuge Buhuo’s mouth was wide open throughout the entire story. When he heard the part about Fu Sang singlehandedly defeating the gu demon and the seventh-rank Crimson Evil, and even breaking one of his natal magic weapons, he repeatedly exclaimed “holy shit,” unable to resist turning around to look at the protagonist of the story.
The protagonist, wearing earphones, was typing away on the keyboard, while his ghost was pressed close to his side. One person and one ghost were remarkably calm and quiet.
For some reason, Zhuge Buhuo could not help asking Huo Wei:
“…What’s the situation with that ghost of his? Why does it feel like it hasn’t spoken for a long time? They don’t interact either, and just keep sticking together like this?”
“Ah… he was cursed. He completely lost all four senses. Right now, he’s in a state where he can’t see, hear, smell, or speak.” Huo Wei lowered her voice and whispered with Zhuge Buhuo.
“Huh? Aren’t curses aimed at people? Can ghosts be cursed too?” Zhuge Buhuo also lowered his voice.
“I was wondering about that too. San You explained that the curse was originally placed on him, but when the Young General saw it, he couldn’t bear it, so he took matters into his own hands and transferred the curse onto himself, enduring it in his place.”
“…Huh? You can just help someone with this kind of curse? So loyal and righteous?? I was joking when I said the two of them seemed like they were dating… They can’t really be in fucking love, right? Zhuge Fusang is dating a ghost??” Taking advantage of Fu Sang wearing earphones, Zhuge Buhuo’s choice of words became increasingly bold.
“I wouldn’t dare say. Anyway, he thinks the ghost is a pet. If you say it isn’t, he’ll get angry with you.” Huo Wei pouted.
“Wait, if it’s a pet, then protecting its master seems reasonable…”
“Really? You haven’t decided whether he’s the master or the lover?”
“Ahem… Anyway, back to the subject…”
“What are you talking about?”
While the two people in the front were secretly whispering under their breath, a cold voice suddenly joined in from behind.
Huo Wei jolted in fright and nearly failed to hold the steering wheel properly.
“We weren’t talking about anything. I’m concentrating on driving.”
Zhuge Buhuo also played along. “Haha. Yeah, yeah.”
When people feel guilty, it is hard to avoid seeming deliberate. Huo Wei raised her voice and immediately started a new topic.
“Hey, Buhuo, I heard your little sister Qianyi ran away. What’s the situation?”
“I don’t know either. The family is already in complete chaos.” Zhuge Buhuo also looked troubled when he brought this up.
“Don’t say you’re curious. I’m curious too! Qianyi has always been quite obedient and well-behaved since she was little. Although she wasn’t very interested in what our family did, the family never said she had to become a spirit master and inherit the family business or anything like that. Her relationship with her parents is also pretty good, and our family is very free when it comes to relationships. Everyone has always gotten along harmoniously… I don’t know what happened either. Anyway, one day I woke up and the family told me Qianyi had run away. She packed her luggage in the middle of the night and slipped out of the house.”
“Actually, I think it’s quite amazing that your whole family practices feng shui and metaphysics, yet you can’t even find one person.” Huo Wei did not hold back at all in her criticism.
Even the cat-, dog-, and person-finding services at Fu Sang’s broken shop had a hundred percent positive rating!
“That’s exactly the problem! The family head personally went out to look for her. He went through a whole lot of trouble, but in the end there was still no result. He couldn’t find her, and he couldn’t even tell whether she was alive or dead. It was as if this person just vanished into thin air!
“Ugh, I don’t know what method that little demon used. A whole group of people have been searching with their asses sticking out for more than a week and haven’t found even a clue. The family head is furious, and Qianyi’s mother even became sick from anger. It’s a complete mess.”
“The family is a complete mess, and you, Zhuge Buhuo, didn’t stay with your family to look for your little sister. Instead, you ran out to pick up merit?” Huo Wei discovered the blind spot.
“…Damn it, don’t make me sound so despicable, okay? It’s not like I didn’t help during the earlier period! There are already so many people in the family anxiously looking. One more of me doesn’t make a difference, and one less of me doesn’t make a difference either. Staying at home wouldn’t find the person anyway. Why not leave the low-pressure environment and come out for a change of scenery, and also pick some merit on the way?”
Zhuge Buhuo sighed.
“But now that I think about it, it’s true. I saw Qianyi several times some time ago, and at that time I already felt that her mood wasn’t very good. She was absent-minded. I thought it was just a little girl’s sentimental moodiness. Who would’ve thought something like this would happen later… If only I had asked her a couple more questions back then.”
“Late concern is cheaper than grass, and only after missing it do you regret it. You’re such a bad older brother.” Huo Wei concluded with her evaluation.
“Aren’t there enough messy things in your family? If you casually dug up a little of it, you’d be dragging a suitcase and running away already. Is it really strange that something like this happened now?”
Fu Sang was doing two things at once, typing on his computer as he said coolly.
“Holy shit, you can hear us?” Zhuge Buhuo turned around.
“If you shout any louder, I won’t be able to hear you.”
“…”
“I’ve heard something about this too.” Chen Wuyue, who had been quiet all along, also spoke.
“I heard a few days ago that something had happened on the Zhuge family’s side, but I’m from the spirit path and don’t know much about your nether path side. So has it already been confirmed that the girl left home? Have you considered directions such as revenge or kidnapping?”
“We considered them, but when we counted on our fingers, our family doesn’t have any enemies. Even if we did, with our family’s assets sitting right there, how would anyone in the nether path dare to make such a move?”
As he spoke, Zhuge Buhuo opened the car window, narrowed his eyes against the wind, and looked outside. The topic suddenly jumped.
“…Hey, aren’t we almost there?”
“Yeah.” Huo Wei glanced at the navigation.
“Another thirty or forty kilometers, and we’ll reach this… Buquan Town.”
Zhuge Buhuo also curiously swiped at the screen, zooming the map in and out and looking up, down, left, and right.
“Hey… aren’t we getting close to Chifeng Pass? The section of the city wall at the northwestern border of the Li Dynasty is around here, right?”
“Oh? You even know about this? I couldn’t tell.” Without him saying so, Huo Wei would have thought he was illiterate.
“Of course. Do you know that movie, Chifeng Pass? I quite like it.”
“…Chifeng Pass… the one with Qi Changying as the protagonist?” Huo Wei asked cautiously.
Zhuge Buhuo felt that her question was very strange.
“Of course. Isn’t Chifeng Pass guarded by the Qi Family Army? How can you talk about Chifeng Pass without mentioning the Qi Family Army? And how can you talk about the Qi Family Army without mentioning the Qi Changying?”
Only now did Huo Wei suddenly realize that Zhuge Buhuo only knew that there was a particularly doted-on Crimson Evil that was always by Fu Sang’s side, but had never known this ghost’s surname or given name.
She could only tactfully say, “Then you’re a fellow fan with San You.”
“What?”
“He’s a hardcore fan of Qi Changying.”
“What do you mean a fan? I just like that movie… Wait, the person Fu Sang swore by before, that he’d ‘die a horrible death and be suppressed for a thousand years’, was his idol Qi Changying? Wait, are you even human? He already died young, which was tragic enough, and a thousand years later you’re still cursing him? And you’re a hardcore fan? You’re a hardcore anti-fan!”
“He himself doesn’t mind. Why do you need to get anxious on his behalf?”
Fu Sang raised an eyebrow slightly and let out a light scoff.
“What kind of person are you to think you get to decide this?”
“The person has been dead for a thousand years. What opinion could he possibly have? I beg you, have some decency!”
“Get lost.”
“…Haha.” Huo Wei didn’t say anything and only laughed.
There were even more immoral things that you hadn’t realized yet.
Are you looking forward to it?
The car soon got off the highway and entered the small town called “Buquan.”
This Buquan Town was also extremely small even within the category of “towns.” The entire town had only one main road. Apart from restaurants and inns, there were almost no other shops. It looked like merely a station for passing travelers to stop and stay overnight, without any special characteristics or industries of its own.
Winter days were short. By the time they arrived, it was already dark.
The most urgent thing was to find somewhere to stay. Huo Wei sat in the car holding her phone and browsed the software for a long time. She finally picked the inn with the highest rating, the most expensive price, and the best environment in the entire town. The group followed the navigation there, making several turns before parking the car. In the end, they stood in a row and stared blankly at the old and dilapidated building in front of them.
“Are you sure this is the best?” Zhuge Buhuo asked doubtfully.
“Of course. The whole town has this kind of style. Were you expecting me to suddenly make a skyscraper rise from the ground and conjure up the Oriental Pearl Tower for you?”
“I didn’t say anything. Why are you suddenly getting worked up?”
“Are you not questioning me?”
“Fuck, this woman has paranoia!”
“All right, all right…” Chen Wuyue rubbed her forehead.
She suddenly felt that staying with this group of people was not much easier than supervising a bunch of bear children.
“As long as we have somewhere to stay. Huo Wei, have you already booked the rooms? How much are the rooms? I’ll transfer the money to you.”
“Oh, it’s fine! It’s very cheap. I’ll treat you guys to the rooms! It’s just that this inn has very few rooms, and I couldn’t make up four rooms with large beds, so I only booked two standard rooms. Is that okay?”
Fu Sang naturally had no problem with it. As long as he did not have to spend money, he would have been fine sleeping on a park bench covered with newspapers. If someone was treating him to a good room that could shelter him from the wind and rain, what was there to nitpick about?
But Zhuge Buhuo had an objection.
“I have a problem! I don’t want to stay with the red-eyed kid and his ghost. It is too terrifying! I request to pay for a room with a large bed myself!”
“Up to you.” Huo Wei shrugged.
Thus, the room arrangement was settled just like that. The four of them carried their respective luggage into the inn.
A young woman wrapped in a cotton-padded jacket was sitting at the front desk, watching a TV series on her phone.
She asked the group for their ID cards, listlessly checked them in, then returned their documents and room cards.
“The rooms are on the second floor. Turn left after getting off the elevator.”
“Thank you.” Huo Wei took the room cards and walked toward the elevator, but just after turning around, she suddenly felt a cold draft rush in from the direction of the main entrance.
The northwest was much, much colder than Jingcheng and Qianzhou. The number shown on the weather forecast on her phone was already approaching minus fifteen degrees Celsius. Although there was heating inside the inn, suddenly being hit by cold air still made people shiver.
Huo Wei subconsciously looked toward the direction the wind had come from. She originally thought it was another batch of guests coming to stay, but when she turned her head back, she saw an old man with a hunched back walking in through the door.
The old man was wrapped in a thick black cotton-padded jacket and wore a cotton hat on his head. The clothes on his body were already very old and worn, the surface of the cotton-padded jacket covered in dust. There were holes in it, with cotton stuffing sticking out.
He carried a large basket on his back, covered with a floral quilt, making it impossible to see what was inside.
Seeing the old man enter, the woman at the front desk raised her eyes but showed no reaction and soon continued focusing on her TV series.
The old man did not speak to her either. He did not disturb anyone, simply walking along the side to the trash can beside the entrance, bending down and picking up the cardboard boxes and empty bottles stacked there.
Huo Wei glanced over twice but did not pay much attention. But when she withdrew her gaze, she saw that Fu Sang was also staring at the old man.
“San You?” Huo Wei called out to him.
“?” Fu Sang raised an eyebrow slightly and looked at her.
“Let’s go. Let’s hurry upstairs, put down our luggage, get ourselves sorted out, and then go out to find something to eat?”
“Ah.” Fu Sang responded without saying anything else, silently withdrawing his gaze and pulling his suitcase as he walked into the elevator with them.
“…Did you notice something?” Huo Wei could not hold back her curiosity and asked in the elevator.
After all, Fu Sang’s emotions and feelings were very detached. He never got curious about unrelated humans passing by. If he looked at someone or something twice, then there was probably something wrong with them.
“The feeling from that old man isn’t good.” Fu Sang did not hide it either and said indifferently:
“There isn’t much time left.”
“Huh, you nether path people can even see this kind of thing?” Fu Sang’s words once again refreshed Chen Wuyue’s understanding.
“Don’t misunderstand. He’s a talent monster. Anyway, neither Buhuo nor I have this ability. We can’t see it, otherwise I wouldn’t have asked him.” Huo Wei shrugged.
In this world, life and death had their own fate, and each person had their own karma. Even if one could see a person’s destiny, one could not interfere, much less casually change it. Although seeing this kind of thing many times would inevitably make one somewhat numb, people were not grass or wood. Knowing about such a thing still made one feel sad for a stranger.
The method Huo Wei thought of to resolve her emotions was to quickly change the subject.
“What are we going to eat later? I’m really a little hungry. I saw along the way that there was nothing here except beef noodles and barbecue. Is there anything you guys want to eat?”
“You go. I’m not going out.” Fu Sang pulled his suitcase out of the elevator and went straight to his room.
“Huh? Then what are you going to eat tonight?” Huo Wei looked at him.
“Instant noodles.”
“Will that fill you up? We’ve been driving for so long. We need to eat well and sleep well tonight, then we’ll have the strength to look for Liu Xiaoying tomorrow.”
“If one bowl isn’t enough, I’ll eat two bowls.”
Once Fu Sang made up his mind, it was not something a few words from someone else could easily change. Huo Wei understood him, so she did not insist.
“Then we won’t call you when we go? Is there anything you want to eat? I’ll bring it back for you.”
“No need.”
“All right, then.”
The door closed behind him. Fu Sang tossed his suitcase aside, moved his shoulders and neck a little, then went straight to the bed and lay down.
After sitting in the car for almost two days, even an iron man would be tired.
The heating in the room was not very good, and it felt a little cold lying down. Fu Sang looked around for the remote control and turned on the air conditioner’s heating.
For a while, the only sound left in the room was the faint noise of the machine running.
Fu Sang tossed the remote control aside, turned over, lay on his side, and closed his eyes.
Qi Changying did not disturb him either. He simply pressed close to him, wrapped his arms around him, and lay down quietly beside him.
Fu Sang should have fallen into a hazy sleep while lying there.
Because his memory had a brief gap, the last thing he remembered was being woken by knocking on the door.
He opened his eyes and lay on the bed for a while. Only when the knocking became increasingly urgent did he slowly move himself off the bed.
When he opened the door, he found Zhuge Buhuo standing outside. He had his head lowered and tried to rush inside.
“Hey, we’re brothers. I’m just going to take a quick shower at your place. You don’t mind, right?”
“The noble self-paid deluxe room doesn’t have a private bathroom?”
Fu Sang raised an eyebrow slightly and looked at him.
“Don’t even mention it. I don’t know what’s wrong with that room, but the water just wouldn’t drain! It’s the middle of the night, I really didn’t want to bother with it, and Huo Wei was also urging me to wash up and go out to eat. I’ll quickly borrow yours and wash here!”
“…It wouldn’t drain?” Fu Sang repeated his words.
“Yeah.” Zhuge Buhuo did not know what profound opinion Fu Sang had about this.
Then he heard Fu Sang ask:
“Perhaps Huo Wei told you that the college student who was poisoned to death by the gu demon in the Miao village stayed in a bathroom where the water wouldn’t drain the night before as well?”
When Fu Sang said this, his gaze was cold and his tone was indifferent, making Zhuge Buhuo break out in goosebumps.
He rubbed his arms.
“…Fuck, don’t scare me.”
“What benefit do I get from scaring you?”
“Enjoying seeing me lose my composure.”
“You mean watching a monkey perform? Unfortunately, I don’t have that kind of interest.”
“Fuck, the way you talk is really infuriating!”
“Tell me something I don’t know.”
After irritating him enough, Fu Sang glanced at him.
“Where’s the room? Lead the way.”
Zhuge Buhuo’s room was diagonally opposite Fu Sang’s. He swiped the card and let Fu Sang enter.
The room was warm and humid, the kind of feeling there would be after hot water had just been used.
Fu Sang pushed open the bathroom door and saw that there was no standing water on the tiled floor.
“Didn’t the water drain?”
Zhuge Buhuo squeezed his head over to look.
“Eh, what’s going on? I don’t know. It was blocked just now, anyway.”
Too lazy to waste words with him, Fu Sang put on the Ghost Blood Whip, pulled out a blood thread, walked into the bathroom, lifted the floor drain, and directly tossed it into the pipe.
It did not take long before the blood thread returned by itself, crawling out of the pipe like a little snake and lying on the floor.
“There’s nothing.”
Fu Sang did not move at all and simply ordered, “Wash it clean and give it back to me.”
“Fuck, am I your servant?”
“Who am I checking the room for?”
“……”
Fine.
Zhuge Buhuo was speechless.
He obediently picked up the blood thread, went over to the sink, squeezed some hand soap onto it, washed it clean, and respectfully returned it to its owner.
Fu Sang took another sheet of paper and dried the blood thread before threading it back into the Ghost Blood Whip.
“Go ahead and wash up. I’m leaving.”
“Where are you going?”
“Taking a taxi back to Blind Cat Alley.”
“You’re leaving just like that?”
“What? You’re almost thirty and still haven’t learned how to shower by yourself?”
“No… It’s mainly because what you said was so damn scary. You can’t leave me here alone! I haven’t even seen what that gu demon looks like. No, I haven’t even seen a demon! What if it jumps out with its Crimson Evil mother while I’m showering and bites me? How am I supposed to deal with it?”
“Why don’t you ask the Magic Conch Shell?”
“…I don’t care. I’m showering in your room today, and if necessary, I’ll sleep in your room too. There is no way I’m staying in a room where a gu demon is suspected to have appeared.”
Zhuge Buhuo had already learned how to talk to Fu Sang: ignore his nonsense and firmly state his position.
“My ghost and I are even more terrifying.” Fu Sang said expressionlessly as he finally returned to the actual subject.
“Hey, don’t hold a grudge like that!” Zhuge Buhuo had come all the way to this godforsaken place to pick up a merit, not to lose his little life.
Although he did not approve of Zhuge Fu Sang as a person, he did acknowledge Zhuge Fu Sang’s abilities. No matter what, he was going to shamelessly squeeze into Fu Sang’s room. His excuse was, “This was originally the room Huo Wei booked for the two of us. It’s not like there aren’t two beds. You can’t shut me out like this. That’s not loyal and righteous.”
Fu Sang actually did not care.
After all, what he said was right. It was not as if he was the one paying.
So Zhuge Buhuo successfully squeezed into Fu Sang’s bathroom. The sound of running water came from inside. Fu Sang had nothing to do and was not in the mood to continue writing his thesis, so he turned on the television and casually flipped through the channels.
He normally did not have time to watch television. At most, he would turn one on while studying and randomly pick something to play as background noise. The only things he would seriously watch were historical subjects, and most of those were related to Qi Changying.
As he flipped through the movie section, he came across the movie Zhuge Buhuo had mentioned that day, Chifeng Pass.
The movie was released two years earlier. It had been filmed quite well and received many positive reviews. Fu Sang had also watched it before.
In the era when Qi Changying had lived, the emperor was excessively devoted to ghosts, gods, and destiny, and neglected state affairs. At that time, the new Khan of Chaosu had ascended the throne. With strong troops and horses and great ambitions, he constantly harassed the area outside Chifeng Pass.
The event the movie Chifeng Pass focused on was called the “Night Raid on Chifeng Pass.” At that time, Chaosu had plotted for a long time, intending to take advantage of the northwest wind and sandstorm at night to launch a surprise attack and take Chifeng Pass in one stroke.
This night raid possessed every advantage of time and terrain, but in the end, Qi Changying discovered it and cleverly countered it. After a day and night of fighting, reinforcements arrived, and Chaosu fled in disarray.
Qi Changying’s successful defense of Chifeng Pass became a significant achievement in his record of merits. Later, this night raid became the fuse that ignited the conflict between Great Li and Chaosu. It was Qi Changying’s first battle in his northern expedition and also the beginning of his legend.
The actor who played Qi Changying in the movie was a fairly famous actor of the new generation. He was tall, with upright and imposing brows and eyes. His bright red martial outfit made him look heroic, dashing, majestic, and awe-inspiring.
Many netizens praised the casting for fitting the role very well and matching the spirited image of a young general.
Indeed, he looked very much like a general, but he did not look like Qi Changying.
Compared to him, Qi Changying’s actual features were a little more delicate. The lines of his face were gentle rather than sharp, making him look like someone with a good temper. Because he had not been very old when he died, there was even still a trace of youthful air in his brows and eyes that had not completely faded.
Fu Sang was originally standing beside the bed, staring at the person on the television for a while, but then he found it meaningless and lost interest.
The movie had a large production team and was a major production. The visuals were beautiful, and the actors were good too, but compared to the real person, it was still lacking something.
So he lowered his eyes, raised a hand to touch Qi Changying’s face beside him, then stroked it all the way to the back of his neck.
Then he knelt on one knee on the bed, leaned down, and moved to kiss him.
But just as he was about to touch him, the bathroom door opened, and Zhuge Buhuo walked out while drying his hair, his body still carrying the steam from the water.
He was in a pretty good mood…until he saw what the other person in the room was doing.
“Holy shit!” The visual impact was too strong that Zhuge Buhuo took half a step back, looking horrified.
“What are you two doing?!”
Hearing the noise, Fu Sang stopped half an inch away from Qi Changying and raised his eyes to stare straight at him.
His gaze was ice-cold, making Zhuge Buhuo’s scalp tingle.
But it lasted only for a moment.
Because very soon, Fu Sang lowered his eyes again. He did not care at all about the life or death of the other person in the room, and without hesitating for even half a second, he held Qi Changying’s face and kissed him.
