The Bowl of Seven Emotions

The body was still the same body, but Huang Xiaoxiao's soul did not return. For Huang Zhongtang and his wife, no matter who occupied their daughter's body, they could not bear to see her body harmed. What if, one day, she could be switched back?

Dong Qing wanted to see Qi Yue. After being refused, she started hurting herself. When they stopped her from doing that, she went on a hunger strike.

The Huang family had ways to make her yield, but not without a price. Huang Zhongtang couldn't bear it; after all, it was his daughter's body. If it was damaged, it would be difficult to recover.

So, Qi Yue was released to look after her. The two of them leaned close together, whispering intimately. To outsiders, it seemed as if Huang Xiaoxiao and Qi Yue were still as much in love as ever.

This farce continued for a while. Finally, Dong Qing reached an agreement with the Huang couple. They agreed to her marriage with Qi Yue, and she promised not to harm her body.

The Huang family would not give up their hearts, but Dong Qing couldn't control so much. She only knew that she had to be with Qi Yue, and no one could take him away from her.

The wedding was set for a month later. The date was very rushed, and everyone was speculating whether the eldest daughter of the Huang family was pregnant. No one guessed the deeper secret.

Gou Dan was gone for three days. Tang Susu finally saw it when she got home from work in the evening.

Only after holding the large scoop of ice cream that Tang Susu had bought to reward it did Gou Dan tell her what it had seen at the Huang family's house in the past few days.

"That old man fell for it. He won't wake up for a while. His apprentice told the Huang family what I asked him to."

Gou Dan was very reliable when it came to business, and Tang Susu trusted its ability very much. "What about the mirror?"

"It's been switched back. It took me a lot of effort to copy that fake one. They definitely won't be able to tell the difference." Gou Dan raised its paw proudly and pointed to the table.

"This mirror, can it really exchange people's souls so easily?" Tang Susu stood by the table and looked down at the mirror. The peony flower on it had turned into a bud and closed completely.

Huang Xiaoxiao's soul was trapped in the peony flower.

Gou Dan said that this mirror belonged to a previous owner before the Seven Emotions Bowl. Did she know that?

"There's a price to pay." Gou Dan suddenly sat up straight and said very seriously. "It was also when that old man tried to switch the two souls back that I discovered that the process of switching souls would absorb the lifespan of the mirror holder, at least ten years at a time. If it wasn't for that old man being forcefully sucked of his lifespan, I wouldn't have been able to scheme against him so easily."

"Where did that lifespan go?" Tang Susu reached out and gently rubbed the not-so-smooth mirror surface.

She could not feel the breath of life.

Ever since she got the Seven Emotions Bowl, she had been able to feel all kinds of different auras, belonging to wealth, belonging to vitality, belonging to lifespan.

The aura of lifespan was close to sunlight, making people feel warm, but in this mirror, there was only the coldness from thousands of years ago.

"Those lifespans were sucked into the mirror, and then they disappeared." Gou Dan also looked blank.

Things were more complicated than she had imagined.

Tang Susu picked up the mirror, but in the end, she just wrapped it up and put it in the box. She probably wouldn't be using this mirror for a while.

The next day at work, Tang Susu saw Secretary Wu bringing a man in his thirties upstairs. She had seen this man at the Huang family's house.

He should be Huang Xiaoxiao's elder brother, Huang Qi. He was there that day, but he didn't say a word from beginning to end. Today, he came to Di Jiang. Was it to invite Shi Chengxuan to his sister's wedding, or was there some other reason?

She didn't have a good impression of the Huang family. Although, in fact, the Huang family had suffered a great loss at her hands, she was still not happy.

Secretary Wu walked over and nodded slightly to Tang Susu. Tang Susu smiled back.

When Huang Qi passed by her, he turned his head and glanced at her. His eyes were a little complicated, making it difficult for her to discern the meaning in them for a moment.

Knocking on the door and entering Di Jiang's CEO's office, Secretary Wu did not follow them in, but considerately closed the door for them.

Huang Qi's heart was in his throat the moment he stepped into Shi Chengxuan's office. When his eyes met the pair of deep black eyes staring at him from behind the desk, his heart skipped a beat. He began to regret not stopping his parents that day and letting them make a move on Tang Susu.

They all thought that Tang Susu was just a toy for Shi Chengxuan to flirt with when he was bored. No one expected that Shi Chengxuan would stand up for this woman.

The Huang family had not been having a good time recently. Not only had something happened at home, but their business outside had been having problems one after another. There was even a batch of goods that had been investigated. If they had not spent a lot of money to suppress the news, all of the family's businesses would have been implicated. If someone had not given them a hint, they would not even have been able to figure out who was behind it.

But in the end, even though they found out, there was nothing they could do about it.

"Mr. Shi, long time no see."

"Young Master Huang, what a rare guest." Shi Chengxuan put the booklet he was flipping through to the side and raised his chin slightly, gesturing for him to sit opposite him.

Huang Qi sat down on the chair opposite the desk, feeling like he was sitting on pins and needles.

As one of the heirs of the Huang family, he had also experienced many things. Logically speaking, he should not be nervous because of a certain person. However, when facing Shi Chengxuan, who was a few years younger than him, this emotion became more and more obvious.

"Young Master Huang wanted to see me. Is there something?"

If he had not investigated again and again, Huang Qi would not have been able to imagine that it was this person who had easily cut off one of their Huang family's lifelines and almost capsized the Huang family.

There were too many people and things involved in this, and even he was not qualified to know everything. And this person was already able to toy with them in his hands.

"I'm here on behalf of my parents to apologize to Mr. Shi. Please be merciful."

Shi Chengxuan chuckled and pushed a colorful booklet on his hand over. "The Huang family's things are all very good, especially the mirrors. They're very beautiful."

On the cover of the booklet was a mirror, the Tang Dynasty's Calcined Peony Mirror.

Huang Qi cursed inwardly. This mirror was the key to his sister's soul exchange. After they got the mirror, they left the real owner of the mirror behind.

A Tang Susu was not worth caring about, but the person who gave Tang Susu the mirror was Shi Chengxuan.

"Mr. Shi, this is just a misunderstanding…"

Shi Chengxuan did not look at him and leaned back slightly. "I always thought that everyone was civilized. Doing business is also about paying what is due. The Huang family's way of doing things surprised me."

"I'm very sorry. There's a reason for this. Our Huang family will give you a proper explanation." The mirror definitely couldn't be returned, but they had to think about a replacement.

Something of equal value was probably impossible to produce. If they wanted to satisfy Shi Chengxuan, the Huang family would have to pay a heavy price.

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