Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

Wen Xiao and the others walked through layer after layer of red gauze curtains and finally saw Miss Shen sitting by the window hinge.

"You guys are here! I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

Her hair was in a bun, her eyebrows were lightly drawn, her eyes were full of spring, her skin was as smooth as warm jade, her cherry lips were rosy without any lipstick, and she was delicate and beautiful. Two strands of hair on her cheeks were gently brushed by the wind, adding a bit of alluring charm. Her eyes were moving smartly, a bit mischievous and a bit naughty. She was wearing a light green long skirt, and her waist was so thin that it could be held in one hand. She was so flawless and beautiful, and so otherworldly.

Wen Xiao looked at Miss Shen who turned around and said, "You seemed to have known we were coming a long time ago?"

"Yes, I have been waiting for your arrival for a long time, Lady Goddess."

Miss Shen slowly stood up and walked towards Wen Xiao and the others, "Perhaps you don't believe it, but I had a dream when I was a child. This dream was about you."

Wen Xiao and the others looked at Miss Shen in surprise, "About our dream?"

"Yes, it's about your dream, a dream of separation. You are a team that was brought together by some mistakes, but in the end you are willing to sacrifice your lives for each other.

But in the end, none of you got the ending you deserved.

There was Lord Zhuo in my dream. When he was sixteen, his family was destroyed overnight because Zhu Yan lost control, and in the end he never got to wait for the words "I'm back".

There is the goddess, who lost her master, lost the great demon, lost her adoptive father, got the Bai Ze Order but lost the relatives and friends who grew up with her.

There was Lord Pei, who resigned from his official position because of his younger brother. It was not easy to get his younger brother back, but he lost him again.

There was Zhu Yan. You originally went to Lord Zhuo for his Yun Guang Sword that could kill you, but in the process of getting along with them, you found the motivation to live, and in the end you had to die for the world.

There was a young miracle doctor in Tiandu. He was obviously a small sapling, but he was able to endure the pain of being burned by fire for the sake of his team. In the end, he did not wait for his little brother Zhuo.

There is also the little mountain god Ying Lei. It is obvious that what he wants most is to be a cook, and the Kunlun Temple is the place he most wants to escape from. In the end, he still stays in the Kunlun Temple and becomes the responsibility he wanted to escape from in the first place.

I stood at the beginning of the story, looking towards your inevitable death."

Wen Xiao, Pei Sijing, Zhuo Yichen and Zhao Yuanzhou just looked at Miss Shen and described her dream word by word.

"Ms. Shen!" Wen Xiao ran into Miss Shen's arms with tears in her eyes and just hugged her tightly.

"Lady Goddess, at least you are all fine now, and nothing has happened, right?" Miss Shen patted Wen Xiao's shoulder.

"What about you? What was your ending in your dream?" Wen Xiao raised his red eyes and looked at Miss Shen, who was calm and composed.

"The deserted tangerines and pomeloes, the autumn colors of the old sycamore trees." Miss Shen pulled Wen Xiao to sit on the chair and invited the other three to sit down together, "Lady Goddess, you can call me Juyou."

"This is not a good name." Wen Xiao is well-read and naturally knows the meaning of this sentence.

"Fate weaves a web. At first, I didn't understand why God gave me such an ability. Perhaps after I saw your endings over and over again in my dreams, I suddenly understood.

Maybe even God feels that his children should not have such an ending, so please let me help you achieve perfection!"

Shen Juyou poured a cup of tea for herself and Wen Xiao. "Master the thread of fate and weave or dismantle the fate of others."

"Ms. Shen, such a powerful ability cannot be without side effects, right?" Zhao Yuanzhou is the oldest among all the people present and the most proficient in magic. He knows very well that the stronger the magic, the greater the cost.

"There is indeed a price, but I originally thought that the price would be paid to me, but I didn't expect that it would harm those innocent brides." Shen Juyou couldn't help feeling pain when she thought of the brides who died because of her.

"But you are just a mortal. You don't have the ability to perform the magic of weaving the web of fate that you mentioned. Moreover, we have checked the files on the time of death of those brides, and it seems that it started from the time you rescued that demon boy a year ago." Zhao Yuanzhou played with the teacup in his hand.

“Yes, I have never practiced calligraphy. If I want to cast the Web of Destiny, I have to ask others for help. But I can’t go out alone, so I have no idea what to do.

It was not until a year ago that I met Yingyu on the way back from the temple with my mother, and I prayed for his help.

Originally, Chen Lang and I got engaged a year ago, and our wedding date was in September last year. If I hadn’t met Yingyu, perhaps everything would still be the same as in the dream, nothing would have changed, and everything would still be just a dream.

So I just asked Yingyu to help me delay the wedding date, at least let me try to change the ending of my dream." Shen Juyou fiddled with her fingernails anxiously.

"But you didn't expect Yingyu to kill those brides for you, right?" Zhao Yuanzhou pointed out Shen Juyou's meaning incisively.

"No! Those brides are not dead! They were just hidden in the middle of the river by Yingyu. After the matter is over, Yingyu will release them." Shen Juyou hurriedly explained.

"Those dead maids in the Shen Mansion were real. Their bodies were all lying in a dry well in the most remote courtyard of your house. When we came to investigate last night, those who were the first to get up had already rotted. It was us who collected their bodies." Zhao Yuanzhou talked about the many corpses found in a remote dry well in the Shen Mansion.

"Impossible! Yingyu is always walking outside and never enters the mansion. Even if he comes in, it is only when I need help. He will come in but leave soon. He doesn't have the time to kill the servants in the mansion." Shen Juyou frowned and refuted Zhao Yuanzhou.

"Juyou, I'd like to ask if there are any other children in your family besides you?" Wen Xiao thought of what Zhuo Yichen had said in the hall just now. Although Mr. Shen said that he only had this one daughter, it was impossible for Xiao Zhuo and Da Yao to be wrong.

"Yes! My eldest brother! However, he is always away from home doing business and seldom comes home. Lady Goddess, why do you ask this?" Shen Juyou frowned and looked at Wen Xiao.

"Just now when I asked your father in the hall, he said that there were no other children in the Shen family except you." Wen Xiao also didn't understand why Master Shen concealed the fact that he had an eldest son.

"Father forgot, because my eldest brother doesn't come home often, and the relationship between my eldest brother and father is not very harmonious, so father sometimes ignores the things about my eldest brother at home." Shen Juyou is young and her eldest brother is twelve years older than her, so she doesn't know why her eldest brother and father are not on good terms.

"Is your elder brother at home recently?" Wen Xiao was curious whether Young Master Shen was at home.

"A few months ago, my eldest brother wrote me a letter alone, saying that he was going home. But because Yingyu set up a barrier around my embroidery building, I don't know whether my eldest brother has returned home or not." Shen Juyu was quite distressed about the barrier outside her embroidery building.

Shen Juyou looked at the goddess asking about her elder brother. She thought something had happened to her elder brother and looked at the goddess anxiously, "What's wrong? Is it my elder brother?"

"Juyou, it's not that something happened to your eldest brother. It's just that when we came to investigate last night, we ran into your eldest brother talking to a housekeeper in your house, but your father seemed to be unaware that your eldest brother was at home." Wen Xiao relayed to Shen Juyou what Zhuo Yichen had told her in private.

"Is it Butler Hu? Big brother has a good relationship with Butler Hu." Shen Juyou didn't think much about it. After all, there was only Butler Hu in their house.

However, Wen Xiao shook his head and denied her words, "The person we saw last night was not Butler Hu, but another stranger."

Shen Juyou covered her mouth and looked at them in shock, "How could it be? Could it be me... Impossible! If the housekeeper had really been changed, Yingyu would have told me when he came to see me again. How could it be..."

Wen Xiao and the others also realized that something was wrong at this time. After all, if it was really as Shen Juyou said, the brides were just sleeping in the middle of the lake in the suburbs, and Ying Yu was not the murderer of the servants in the mansion, then who killed those servants?

"Juyou, if you trust us, can you give us one of your tokens? We want to talk to Yingyu face to face." Wen Xiao comforted the mentally shaken Shen Juyou.

Shen Juyou hurriedly took off a tourmaline pendant with a squirrel and grapes carved on it, and said, "Take this jade pendant and go to a dilapidated temple in the suburbs. When you get there, just take out the jade pendant and Yingyu will appear."

Wen Xiao took the jade pendant solemnly and assured her, "We will definitely find out the truth and clear everyone's name."