Guide To Reign My Tycoon Husbands

Luo Huian had to scold Luo Qingling and the rest into obedience once again; only then did she turn around on her feet and head inside the village. Of course she kept a close eye on her dear sister. She couldn't let Luo Qingling and the rest follow her inside.

Before coming to this village, she only wanted to keep them at bay because they might cause trouble for her but now that she had entered the Chu village, Luo Huian knew that there was something really wrong about this village. There was something off —Luo Huian didn't know what it was but everything about the Chu Village repelled her.

It was as if the land of the village itself was resisting her.

Luo Huian frowned, not understanding where this resistance was coming from but she was determined to find it.

"It seems like it's coming from the mountains." Xiao Bai whiffed the air and shuddered. Though humans could not sense it, familiars like her could smell the subtle hint of blood in the air. It was deadly and filled with resentment.

One that could make a person's blood run cold.

Xiao Hei hummed in response. He narrowed his eyes until they turned into slits. He said to Luo Huian, "This bloodthirst, it is very similar to —"

"Gu Sirou," Luo Huian finished for him. Her expression was not good as she raised her head and looked at the top of the mountains. After a pause, she couldn't help but say in annoyance, "Can you believe this? I changed realms but that woman is still haunting me. How obsessed she must have been with me that she chased me through realms?"

Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai: "..." Technically, you chased her.

However, the two of them had raised Luo Huian since she was a child and knew the consequences of contradicting her. So they stayed quiet. At least staying silent was there plan but –

"Is that your husband?" Xiao Bai blurted out while she was looking in a particular direction. When Luo Huian heard her sudden exclamation, she rolled her eyes and said to Xiao Bai, "You are hallucinating; how can my husband be here—"

She trailed off when she saw Qi Yongrui being carried by a woman on her shoulder. Behind him was another mer but that was not the point. The point was that the two of them were unconscious and it looked like a rather serious case of kidnapping.

Luo Huian: "..."

She stared at the two mers who were being carried by the villagers and threw her head back. Damn, she just came here to investigate. How come the situation turned into saving the damsel in distress?

Luo Huian sighed. For two seconds she didn't say anything before lowering her head and smiling.

"I knew it. How could things be as simple as I was thinking? Something has to go wrong, right?" she spoke in a sickly sweet voice while looking at the sky with her head slightly upturned.

When there was no response, she scoffed before turning to look at the two villagers and chasing after them. Even if she was not interested in Qi Yongrui, she had no choice but to save him. Who asked this mer to be married to her?

Xiao Hei, on the other hand, was moved to the point of crying. He wiped his eyes with his tail and stated in a sobbing voice, "Huian, you are really grown up. In the past, you would have left this mer to die but now you are willing to save him. Ooh, I am so touched."

"Yeah, yeah. I can see that." Luo Huian ignored the sobbing black snake and hurried down the path that the two women had taken.

The two women were headed down a thorny path. It was covered with all kinds of prickly bushes and shrubs. Even though Luo Huian was invisible, it didn't stop her from being pricked by the thorns. Thus, by the time she arrived at the small shack where Qi Yongrui was being taken to, her legs were covered in many cut marks.

Luo Huian's brows twitched with annoyance. One of these days, she was going to make Qi Yongrui pay for her sufferings. This mer was really out for her life.

First he took away all of her hard work. Now he was causing her physical trauma.

The more she thought about it, the more Luo Huian wondered if she owed this mer or something of the sort. If not, why was she repaying him with her own blood?

"Don't think about it too much," Xiao Bai soothingly calmed Luo Huian down. "It's just a small injury; you will be fine in a few days."

"Humph, what about the pain?" Luo Huian sneered. "Do you think that the slightly stinging sensation is something that can be looked at as something small? It feels so itchy and annoying. When I was an immortal, do you think I had to suffer like this? Such pain would be nothing to me."

She was an immortal; never before had she suffered in such a manner. Though she knew pain, her injuries would heal in a matter of seconds as long as she took a potion.

Now that she was a human, she had to suffer these injuries without any potions in her hands.

Luo Huian felt more and more unjustified. She sometimes wanted to sit back and cry and it was these small things that made her annoyed. She was so young, someone who had gone through so much.

All she asked for was a bit of understanding —and yet her only family members turned their backs on her.

Luo Huian sighed. Ignoring the bubbling anger in her heart, she entered the shack just before the two women closed the door of the small hut. As soon as she entered the hut, Luo Huian sensed that there was something amiss. She looked at the two mers who were lying unconscious in the corner of the shack and then turned to look at the mer who was hiding in the other corner of the shack.

Even though Luo Huian had never seen pigs fly, she knew that this mer was the one who was being used as the vessel of the Gloom.

"Ah!" Luo Huian smacked the heel of her fist into the palm of her other hand and understood what was going on. These people were actually using the essence of the 'healthy' humans to feed the Glooms.

Though Luo Huian didn't know how it was possible, Glooms and Hollows were creatures that lived off the happiness and hope of humans. Thus, when a vessel was being used to raise them, they were locked up with healthy humans to let them suck off their essence.

And the more essence of a human was sucked off, the closer the humans would reach their end. In the end, they would either go crazy or die.

So, that was how so many people went missing in this village. Because even if the gloom left behind a body after sucking the essence of the humans, the body would look like it was years old. Which would certainly not resemble a newly murdered person.

No wonder these people were not caught.

Luo Huian turned off her invisibility function and looked at Gu Qinfan, who was sitting in the corner of the shack. Maybe because her gaze was too strong, the mer opened his eyes and looked at the woman.

"You—you are awake?" Gu Qinfan was stunned. In the past, all the humans who were brought to the shack were either unconscious or close to dying. How come this woman was awake?

"Yeah, I am awake." Luo Huian walked over to where he was sitting and crouched down; she reached out and clasped the cheeks of the mer before saying, "Humm, it seems like the Gloom is getting stronger. No wonder they have started dragging two humans together to feed it."

Gu Qinfan: "..." ??

"You—aren't you scared?" Gu Qinfan asked with a subtle frown. The villagers were so scared when they felt the gloom stir inside him that they locked him away in this shack as they were worried that they would be killed if he was taken over by the gloom.

"Hah," Luo Huian laughed as if she had heard a joke. She winked at the mer, whose face turned slightly red. He then heard her say, "It should be the Gloom who should be scared; I think he is even a bit scared of me."

Of course, Gu Qinfan felt it too. The Gloom that had been churning inside of him was abnormally quiet after sensing Luo Huian's presence, which was quite surprising as the Gloom didn't fear anything.

"Miss this—"

"You don't need to worry about it," Luo Huian finished instilling enough spiritual energy inside the mer to silence the Gloom and pulled her hand back. She then pulled out a few pastries that she had baked and brought with her and said to the little mer, "Now you only need to worry about eating all of these pastries. Now say ah."

Gu Qinfan: "...." ??