Fu Rong slowly entered the coffee shop wantonly and sat opposite the three young masters. Zhu Ximing and his friends were expecting an old or at least middle-aged professional to come to them. When she sat in front of them, they thought she had sat there by mistake and were about to ask what she wanted. Before that, Fu Rong called Zhu Ximing, "Young Master Zhu, I am Fu Rong. I am the one who took your mission in IBK."
Zhu Ximing and his friends were clearly surprised by a 17-year-old school-going girl. "You, little girl, do you know what you are speaking about? It's a ghost exorcism mission. It's not safe for you," one of Zhu Ximing's friends, Zhao Lei, spoke politely.
Fu Rong had already faced many people connecting her skills with her age, so she didn't take it seriously and started to explain to them. "Young Master Zhao, do you want me to speak about your secret one-sided love or how your grandmother beat you to a pulp after finding out about your car racing competition, to prove my skills?"
Zhao Lei was stunned after hearing her reveal his secrets. He had never even shared them with his best friends beside him. How did this girl know? He was the first to acknowledge Fu Rong's skill and surrendered. "Master Fu, please forgive my ignorance. I shouldn't have misspoken." Zhao Lei fawned over Fu Rong, fearing she would refuse to help them get rid of the ghost lady haunting them.
Even though Fu Rong was just 17 years old, her mental age was more than 1000 years. She knew there was no malice in the three of them and just let it slide. She then looked at Qi Hai. "You were the one who first saw the ghost, right?" She saw the past, where these three went to the graveyard that night and this kid, Qi Hai, took out the metal ring from one of the tombs to show his victory to his classmates. The tomb belonged to the ghost lady in red.
"Ahh, as expected of young masters who need to be disciplined. Don't you know you shouldn't touch anything when you go to the graveyard? You provoked something that shouldn't be provoked. The metal ring is the solitary possession of the ghost in red. It will mark the people who touched its belongings." As soon as Fu Rong mentioned the metal ring, Qi Hai's face changed.
"Master Fu, please save me. I am the only son of my parents," Qi Hai began to sob. Fu Rong's lips twitched. She silently looked at the sobbing young man in front of her, contemplating whether he was really the one who went to the graveyard at night and took the ring that belonged to the ghost. She shook her head, looking at the young man.
"Young Master Qi, the ghost has marked you first and latched onto you, absorbing your life force. If this continues, you will die in a week. Moreover…" Before she could finish, she heard a loud cry, and Qi Hai was kneeling beside her, wailing like a four-year-old kid. "Master Fu, save me. I can't die. Wuuuuu…"
"I first came to see your aura and decide whether to take the mission. My services are not cheap. I am risking my life in this work. I charge 10 million each. Half of it needs to be paid in advance and the rest after the exorcism," Fu Rong finished her sentence and immediately got a notification on her phone about the payment. This is what I like about rich kids.
She took talismans from her bag and gave them to the boys. "Wear it now. Find a place to do an exorcism before this evening. Qi Hai will stay with me until then. You two, go and arrange a place. Make sure to bring that ring during the process to attract the ghost," she gave orders and left the place with Qi Hai, who was on the verge of tearing up again.
Zhu Ximing and Zhao Lei immediately split their work. Zhu Ximing arranged a place on his private property and cleared the servants there. Zhao Lei went to his apartment, where these three often met, and took the ring they had kept there.
That evening, all four reached the place and entered the room. Fu Rong then bit her thumb and drew a series of signs in the air, creating a ghost-drawing array, and started the rituals for making the ghost in red lock in the center of the array. She then placed the ring on the center of the array.
All the lights in the room started to flicker and burst one by one. The three boys hugged each other and shivered in fear. There was a long silence except for the sound of Fu Rong's muttering, followed by an eerie ghostly voice. The sound grew louder and louder until it shook the room. The room quickly grew colder and colder with the temperature drop. All three felt as though they were standing in cold storage, and their spines tingled.
The ghost lady in red slowly crawled on all fours in front of Fu Rong. As described by the brave young masters, her body was cut in the stomach and all her inner organs were hanging outside. Her flesh was torn apart on her entire body, rotting with maggots moving over it.
The array brought out the ghost's true form, which was previously covered by her cultivation. Her body was completely shriveled and turned black with rotting flesh. Her eyeballs were popping out, making her appearance even more horrifying. The men, who were already frightened, were scared out of their wits when they saw her real form. They started retching at the sides, unable to control the disgust upon seeing her.