After Waking Up, I Inherited a Bookstore 20

Chapter 20: Blood Jade

Liu Chuxia’s eyes crinkled into a smile. “She’s just a child. It’s normal to have some of these ideas. So where were you at the time? Why didn’t you stop her? Hahahaha…”

“I was out on a mission. By the time I came back, the house was already built, just needed decorating,” Li Hanyan said helplessly.

“Forget it. Let’s do the assessment first. You only have three chances. If you use them all up and still haven’t passed, it means you’re not suitable to be the heir. The runes on the door will disappear until the next heir appears. Let’s begin,” Li Hanyan said, her expression suddenly serious.

Liu Chuxia nodded and took an ordinary evil-dispelling talisman from Li Hanyan’s hand. With a thought, the talisman paper in her fingers quickly burst into flames. The red runes on the white door instantly flared with a brilliant light, and then the runes shattered.

“What’s going on?” Liu Chuxia was a little dumbfounded.

Li Hanyan was equally dumbfounded. Only Xiao Xu suddenly popped out and danced around Liu Chuxia happily. “Big Sister Chuxia, you’re amazing! You’re so awesome!”

Only then did Li Hanyan snap back to her senses. With a look of pleasant surprise, she walked over and lifted Liu Chuxia into the air, spinning her around. “A Xia, you’re really amazing. You truly are Mistress’s child. I don’t even know what to say anymore. Hahaha…”

Li Hanyan was so excited holding Liu Chuxia that she even shed tears of joy.

“Okay, okay, can you two stop for a moment? Can you explain to me what’s going on?” Liu Chuxia felt like she was about to suffocate from Li Hanyan’s hug. “Hanyan! Let go! You’re hugging too tight!”

Li Hanyan quickly loosened her grip, wiped her tears, and hurriedly explained, “Didn’t I tell you before that a perfect score was ten points? What I didn’t tell you was that there’s actually a highest score of twelve points. You got twelve points! A Xia! Twelve points! This means you’re the only one in the entire spirit world to get a true perfect score! A Xia, from now on, you are the official heir. You can get the best resources and help from the family.”

Li Hanyan was so happy she didn’t care about her image at all. Anyway, she didn’t have much of an image to speak of in front of Liu Chuxia anymore.

“Really? Hanyan, you’re not lying to me, are you? I really got a perfect score?” Liu Chuxia herself hadn’t expected this situation. She had originally thought that getting seven or eight points would be very good. She never thought she would actually get a true perfect score. It was incredible.

“Big Sister Chuxia, it’s true~ You’re so amazing. Big Sister Hanyan’s nine points before was already considered very high, and that was the result of her practicing for three days and three nights,” Xiao Xu said with a grin, standing by the side.

“Let’s not talk about this anymore. Let’s go in.” Li Hanyan took Liu Chuxia’s hand and eagerly pushed open the white wooden door. The first thing that came into view was a desk with a computer on it, no different from an ordinary office. The only difference was probably the few purple talismans stuck to the wall behind the desk.

Li Hanyan quickly walked to the drawer, made a simple hand seal, and the drawer opened with a click. Li Hanyan told Liu Chuxia to open it.

Liu Chuxia reached out and gently pulled it back. An exquisite red jade pendant appeared before her eyes, carved with two lifelike phoenixes that seemed about to move. A small golden thread was tied to the top.

Liu Chuxia didn’t dare to touch it at first. Instead, she turned to look at Li Hanyan and asked, “This is?”

Li Hanyan smiled, picked up the jade pendant, and helped her put it on before explaining, “It’s called the Blood Jade. It’s an ancestral item of the Liu family, and only the heir can wear it. Right now, it doesn’t have any special abilities, only the most basic ones of dispelling evil and delivering souls. It needs Blood Pearls to upgrade. I’ll tell you about that later.”

Liu Chuxia nodded and asked again, “What do you mean by only the heir can wear it?”

“Literally. If someone who is not the heir wears it, it will shatter directly. Not even the family head can wear it. In the future, when you officially become the family head, you will have to put it back here. And every time it is passed down to the next heir, the previous one’s special abilities will be cleared,” Li Hanyan explained slowly, holding her hand.

Liu Chuxia nodded and said, “What a spiritual jade pendant.”

“Otherwise, how could it be an ancestral item? Alright, let’s go downstairs. My phone just notified me of a new order, but we might not be able to complete this one. We’ll have to go to Patriarch Jiang to borrow some people.” Thinking of what Master had told Xiao Xu to relay, Li Hanyan frowned.

Seeing her habitually frowning again, Liu Chuxia reached out to smooth it, but her wrist was caught by Li Hanyan. “A Xia, don’t always do such flirtatious things so suddenly. What if I fall for you?”

Liu Chuxia looked at Li Hanyan’s serious expression and wanted to laugh. Her gaze then shifted to her ears, which were already red enough to bleed, and her smile widened. “Then I’ll give you a chance to pursue me.”

Before, she hadn’t had any special feelings for Li Hanyan, thinking of it as a very normal best friend relationship. It wasn’t until the Heart Bewitchment Talisman was removed that she recalled all the little things between them and realized how much she relied on her. After thinking about it, Liu Chuxia felt that she would definitely be very unaccustomed to being without Li Hanyan. The thought of it was painful.

And during the time of the Heart Bewitchment Talisman, didn’t the things she did to Li Hanyan also show that she actually liked her too? Although she didn’t know why the curse had suddenly been triggered, Liu Chuxia was still very happy to have had such a sudden event.

Li Hanyan was at a loss for words. She didn’t know why she had blurted out that sentence.

Liu Chuxia saw her embarrassment and took her hand instead. “Let’s go?”

Li Hanyan nodded in response.

The two humans and one ghost went downstairs. The paper talisman Xiao Xu on the first floor was answering a client’s questions. Li Hanyan and Liu Chuxia walked over. The moment they stood still, the paper talisman Xiao Xu stood up and gave up her seat. The girl opposite her instantly panicked and stood up as well.

Liu Chuxia naturally pulled Li Hanyan to sit down, then turned to look at the girl opposite her with a smile. “Sit down, don’t be afraid.”

The girl looked to be only in her early twenties, timid, her eyes constantly and warily scanning her surroundings. Hearing Liu Chuxia’s friendly voice and seeing her gentle smile, the girl’s face turned a little red. It was the first time she had seen a woman who was both mature and had a cute style, exquisite and beautiful.

The girl slowly sat down, too shy to look up, just keeping her head down and drinking the water in her cup.

Liu Chuxia glanced at Li Hanyan. Seeing her expression, she knew she intended for her to handle it. So she said, “What’s your name? Which community do you live in?” Seeing the girl’s timid appearance, Liu Chuxia couldn’t help but soften her voice.

The girl glanced up at her, then quickly lowered her head again and said in a delicate voice, “I’m from Qingfeng Yayuan Community. My name is Yun Wanrou.” After answering honestly, she fell silent again.

“Then what is your request?”

She glanced up at Liu Chuxia again, then quickly lowered her head and continued, “About a week ago, on my way to work, something suddenly fell from upstairs and landed at my feet. At first, I thought it was an accident. I was in a hurry to get to work at the time, so I didn’t pursue it. But the next day, at the same spot, something different fell. This time, I was lucky to be far away, but I was terrified. I called the police, thinking of going up to ask what was going on.”

“But after questioning everyone, no one admitted to it, and there were no fingerprints on the object to compare, so the matter was dropped. But on the third day, at the same spot, something different fell again. I was so scared I ran home. Later, a good friend took me to an internet cafe to play games to relax, and someone suddenly gave me an address for this place. They said I had encountered a ghost and that this place could help me. So I submitted an order and came here.”