"Buzz buzz..." The phone vibrated a few times, and Shen Silin immediately regained her composure, answering the call, "Yufei, what's up so late at night?"
"Silin, if the real estate we partnered in doesn't start construction soon, I'm afraid we'll lose a lot of money." A woman's anxious voice came through the phone, "I've found another Feng Shui master, and I'll go to the site to check it out tomorrow. If it doesn't work out, we will have to transfer the property at a low price."
"Feng Shui master?" Shen Silin immediately thought of Yang Yu, the kid who claimed he somehow knew Feng Shui and said to look for him if there were any troubles?
With that thought, Shen Silin spoke to her best friend: "Yufei, how about this, if your Feng Shui master doesn't cut it tomorrow, I have a real expert here. Just give me a call then."
"Okay, got it." The best friend hung up, and Shen Silin breathed a sigh of relief, muttering to herself: "Yang Yu, tomorrow might be the first time you do something for me, so you better not screw it up!"
Over an hour later, Yang Yu returned to the rented room he had in the urban village.
This place was situated on the outskirts of Tianhai City, the houses were dilapidated, a world apart from the downtown area.
The only advantage was the cheap rent, and it wasn't far from Yuanrun New City, the construction site where Yang Yu worked as a bricklayer.
The streetlights were dim, a few stray cats searched for food in the trash cans beside the narrow alleyways, occasionally making eerie sounds like that of a baby crying.
Looking at the environment he lived in, and then thinking about the glitz and glamor of the Silver Horse Club, Yang Yu clenched his fists tightly: "We're all human, why do people like Wu Qiong have money and power, while I'm living so miserably? If I remain mediocre for life, what's the difference between me and these stray cats?"
"I don't want to live like this anymore, I must stand out, make a name for myself, let Zhang Xiaohui, that ungrateful woman, regret for the rest of her life!"
If it had been before, Yang Yu could only accept his fate.
But now, he had unlocked the Yin Yang Nine Mysterious Scripture, and he possessed great power, naturally, he could change his fated destiny!
Although he must serve Shen Silin for these five years, that doesn't mean he can only rely on Shen Silin.
During the times he wasn't working for Shen Silin, he could make a lot of money with his own abilities.
Maybe in less than five years, he would be on equal footing with Shen Silin, and by then he would naturally be qualified to pursue her.
Yang Yu asked himself if he wasn't a generous man; Shen Silin was the first woman for him in the true sense, and he would never let her marry someone else.
Moreover, the voice in the Jade Pendant reminded him there were eight more times; surely, he couldn't let Shen Silin run off with another man, right?
Yang Yu, with his mind full of plans for how to stand out, walked to the door of his rented room unconsciously and unlocked the door with his key, turning on the light.
"Aah—" A woman's scream came from inside the room, and it was then that Yang Yu realized his roommate Zhou Haoqiang was in bed with a man and a woman, and they were stark naked, clinging onto each other!
Even though they were covered with a bedsheet, on such a hot day, that bedsheet was as good as nothing.
"Ah Qiang, you bastard, would you die if you went to a hotel instead!" Yang Yu cursed his way out of the room, and after a while, the woman inside finally walked out slowly.
Yang Yu recognized the woman and frowned involuntarily.
She was a female worker from the construction site canteen, Yao Fangfang.
Before, Yang Yu only thought Fangfang was somewhat attractive, but after unlocking the Yin Yang Nine Mysterious Scripture and mastering physiognomy, he could tell at a glance that this woman was destined to encounter peach blossom and met with the aspect of a violent death.
To put it simply, this woman is promiscuous, and one day she will undoubtedly die from a crime of passion!
"Tsk tsk, Yang Yu, you seem to be getting more handsome!" Yao Fangfang flirted with Yang Yu, then sashayed away.
Yang Yu didn't have much to do with this woman, so naturally he didn't say much, but she was involved with his good buddy Ah Qiang, and Ah Qiang was bound to be unlucky sooner or later, so he had to have a serious talk with Ah Qiang.
As soon as Yao Fangfang left, Yang Yu went back inside.
Before he could speak, Zhou Haoqiang chuckled and said, "Ah Yu, you usually don't come back this late. I thought you weren't going to come back tonight. There are two bottles of beer on the table, a pack of beef jerky, and a pack of peanuts that I saved especially for you."
Yang Yu was deeply moved. His buddy Zhou Haoqiang was really good to him.
When he was short of money and didn't even have enough to eat, it was Zhou Haoqiang who split his meal into two to help him out.
And Zhou Haoqiang never left him out when drinking either.
Because of this camaraderie, Yang Yu couldn't just watch his buddy get into trouble: "Ah Qiang, listen to me. Yao Fangfang is not a decent woman. Avoid her as much as you can..."
"I know, I know!" Zhou Haoqiang said unconcernedly, "I also know that she's married, and her husband is back home taking care of the kid, living off the money she earns from working."
Confused, Yang Yu asked, "Then why would you still want to..."
"We're all adults here; we have our needs. It's quite normal for men and women on a construction site," Zhou Haoqiang spread his hands, "Even if she didn't come to me, she'd go to some other man. If so, it would be foolish not to take advantage of the situation."
"Ah Yu, I'm not criticizing you, but you're just too honest, that's why your girlfriend can control you. If I were you, Zhang Xiaohui would have been pregnant for nine months already. Unlike you, you haven't even been to a hotel room yet."
With such a rebuttal from Zhou Haoqiang, Yang Yu suddenly found himself at a loss for words; he really didn't have the right to be judgmental about his roommate.
Forget it, as long as he was watching over, he could prevent any real trouble in advance.
After drinking two bottles of beer, Yang Yu went back to bed, his mind filled with the events of the evening.
He would have never imagined that he'd ended up sleeping with a wealthy and beautiful woman, nor did he expect that his family's heirloom Jade Pendant would be so magical.
"With such powerful abilities, how should I make money..." Yang Yu lay there making various plans to get rich, and while thinking, he drifted off to sleep.
In his dreams, there were all kinds of unsuitable scenes with Shen Silin...
In a villa somewhere in Tianhai City, a young man with a bare chest, wearing expensive pajamas, sat on the living room sofa with his eyes closed, enjoying a massage from a tall and sexy woman behind him.
A burly man with a scar like a centipede on his face walked in and respectfully said to the young man, "Second Young Master, not only did Wu Qiong not die from the Heart-shattering Powder, but she also wasn't found in her own car on the way back home."
"Interesting," the Second Young Master responded with a sinister smile, "I remember you said that unless you give the antidote, not even a hospital could cure the Heart-shattering Powder's poison."
"Yes," The Scarred Man looked slightly uneasy, "I don't know what happened."
"No matter what happened, it can't be unrelated to the Silver Horse Club," the Second Young Master's smile became even colder, "As expected of a woman my elder brother fancies, she really has some tricks. It seems I'll have to get acquainted with my future sister-in-law. After all, I can't let her get in the way of the Li Family of Yanjing ruling over Tianhai, haha!"