“Sister, is it what we think it is?” Shen Ming’er asked.

Shen Zixing nodded, “It should be the love spell. How ruthless of Miss Lin!”

“What’s wrong? What are you guys talking about? What’s a love spell? What’s wrong with Lin Wan?”

“So her name is Lin Wan! What a vicious woman she is! Brother Mu, this woman called Lin Wan has cast a love spell on you!” Shen Zixing explained.

“What’ll happen then?” Li Mu asked in surprise.

“She’s so evil! She lifted half of the spell off you yet she left half of it behind too. Brother Mu, you’re no longer a man!”

Li Mu was stunned and stared at her in disbelief. He didn’t get to his senses for a moment.

It was a long time before he asked apprehensively, “Do you mean to tell me that she castrated me?”

“Pretty much. Anyway, you can’t be with any other women anymore. You can only be with her in your life. Otherwise, you’d be an unmanly man!”

“Lin Wan!” Li Mu shouted in grief and anger. As the saying went, a man should not shed tears. Yet at this very moment, he couldn’t help but cry.

“How could you treat your lover like this? Why don’t you just turn me into a puppet? I’d rather do that than live a life as an unmanly man.” Li Mu thought.

“Wait. No. It might not be Lin Wan who did it. Yes. There’s Mrs. Hong, too. She is also suspicious. Could it be her who had done this to me instead?” Li Mu thought.

After mentioning the suspicions in his mind, the two sisters shook their heads together and told Li Mu that the love spell could only be used on one’s partner and that it had to happen to both parties.

Li Mu and Mrs. Hong were not lovers. Hence, she had no reason or needs to do this. It could only be Lin Wan who did it.

Li Mu was sad. But after some time, he gritted his teeth.

Shen Zixing reassured him, “Brother Mu, don’t be anxious. I can help you lift the spell.”

“Really? You’ll be my savior if you do so! Hurry up and help me lift the spell this instance! I don’t want to turn into a eunuch.” Li Mu was overjoyed at her words and hurriedly pleaded.

“Alright. I’ll lift the spell for you when I replace your bones later. I can teach her a lesson too. Let’s see if she dares to do evil like this in the future ever again.” Shen Zixing said indignantly.

Li Mu froze and asked hesitantly, “What lesson?”

“The implant worms will backfire!” Shen Ming’er grabbed the opportunity to explain, “After the love spell is lifted, the implant worms in her body will definitely take revenge! She’ll suffer a great loss of energy and will definitely not be able to recover in a short period of time!”

Li Mu did not say anything. After a while, he said to the two ladies, “You are only allowed to do the bone replacement on me. You are not allowed to lift the love spell. Do you hear me clearly?”

“Aren’t you scared of being a eunuch?” Surprised, Shen Zixing asked.

“No. Keep that in mind! Do not lift the spell. If you dare to act without my permission, I will never forgive you forever!” Li Mu said with a serious tone.

“Why?”

“I’m the father of the baby in her stomach!”

......

In a luxurious manor house somewhere in the South Seas, a beautiful middle-aged woman was ranting angrily in the living room when Cheng Feng walked down from upstairs and said to her, “Mom, can you stop for a while? You’re making a lot of noise and I can’t sleep.”

The woman took it out on him, “What else can you do except eat and sleep? Look at you being drunk all day long! How on earth did I give birth to such a worthless thing like you?”

Ignoring her, Cheng Feng turned around and walked towards the stairs.

The woman was none other than Cheng Feng’s mother. Immediately after scolding her son, Mrs. Cheng regretted it and rushed over, hugging him from behind.

“Feng, sorry! Mummy is sorry. I shouldn’t have snapped at you. Don’t blame me for that! I wasn’t in a good mood. I didn’t mean to scold you.”

“You should scold him!” A middle-aged man walked in from the outside of the manor and was followed by two men. The elder man was the Cheng Mansion’s butler, Uncle Huang. And the younger man was Cheng Tian, the Cheng Family’s personal bodyguard for the head of the family.

Cheng Kunan walked over and looked at his son with great dissatisfaction and scolded loudly, “Making yourself look like a mess just for the sake of a woman? Can you man up? Do you deserve your parents’ upbringing? Do you deserve the expectations of your family? You rebellious son! Useless cr*p!”

“Shut up!” Mrs. Cheng glared at her husband and said, “Don’t talk about my son like that. No matter what, I’ll still love my son for who he is!”

“Sigh. Just because you’re being so nice to him, he’s being an…”

“Try finishing your sentence if you dare!” Mrs. Cheng threatened him.

Cheng Kunan immediately chose to keep his mouth shut and sat on the sofa with a long sigh.

Mrs. Cheng pulled her son to sit on the sofa and caressed his face with a smile, “My son is so handsome. Honey, he looks exactly like you when you were young.”

Cheng Kunan’s face had a hint of a smile on it as he said with pride, “Of course. Whose son is this? Mine! Of course he got all these excellent genes from me. He’s pretty good. Just a bit of a wimp when it comes to women.”

“That’s also a gene he got from you then. Didn’t you simp for me so bad when you were young? I wouldn’t have agreed to marry you if it hadn’t been for me being so soft-hearted!”

At this point, she caressed her son’s face again and said affectionately, “Sweetie, you didn’t learn this trick well from your father. That girl from the Lin Family didn’t fall for it. It’s useless for you to go on like this.”

Cheng Kunan blushed. What was the point of talking about such things in front of his subordinates?

He hurriedly changed the subject and asked Mrs. Cheng, “Darling, is there any news on the whereabouts of that thief?”

“No. Our men haven’t been to the scene yet. Hence we don’t know what happened there or who the hell that brat is.”

“I thought you said there was another person. Did that person leave any clues behind then?”

“None either. That person only said something like a second senior sister or something along the lines. But since they were too far away and I had limited control over the cicada insects. I didn’t hear what they said clearly. I’m not too sure whether the person was a man or a woman.”

Cheng Kunan nodded and said, “In that case, there were at least two thieves. One of them was a young girl and the other unidentified.”

“That’s pretty much it!” Mrs. Cheng replied, “That little girl was so wrapped up. You couldn’t even see her face at all. We only know that she’s a girl.”

Cheng Kunan thought for a while and asked Mrs. Cheng, “Darling, what do you think about this matter?”

“Honey, how many families know how to do bone replacements nowadays?” Mrs. Cheng asked rhetorically.

“This magic is very complicated. It’s even harder than the Magic of Controlling Puppets! This skill is unknown to anyone who is not a member of a large family, as it’s most likely passed down through generations now. Even if you’re skillful in this field, it is impossible to understand this technique fully. I do not think there should be anyone else who’d know how to do this other than the eight families.”

Mrs. Cheng nodded and agreed, “I have been thinking about this repeatedly these days. I agree that the thief should be hiding in one of those seven families. But all seven families have daughters. Hence it would be hard to guess which family did it. But…”

“But what?” Cheng Kunan immediately asked immediately.

“There’s a family that’s highly suspicious!” Mrs. Cheng said with a cold smile.

“Are you trying to say it’s the Lin Family?” Cheng Kunan said with some uncertainty.

“Yes, the Lin family!” Mrs. Cheng replied.

“Darling, we are good friends with the Lin Family. There is no way they don’t know that mark belongs to us. You shouldn’t suspect them without any proof.”

“I’m not guessing without proof! Let me ask you, who else has been on the mainland other than us? Who had the time and motive to commit the crime the most? I’m not saying for sure that they did it. Just that they are the most suspicious out of all!”

Cheng Kunan thought it over for a while and nodded slowly.

“What are you going to do, darling?”

Furious, Mrs. Cheng said, “If it were the bones of an ordinary Corpse of Death, we could ignore it. But not the one they stole from! That land is such a scary one. But that’s where our ancestor voluntarily buried his body intentionally just to leave us, the younger generation, a guarantee. Now that someone had the audacity to destroy his corpse, this is revenge we must take!”

“True, darling. You have a point. No matter which family did it, they must give us an explanation. It’s just not right to take it away without a word of explanation.”

“Exactly. Honey, I’m going to make a trip to the mainland and investigate this matter personally. Besides, I haven’t seen Miss Lin from the Lin Family for a long time now. She’ll have to explain herself for my son’s marriage anyway.”

Immediately, Cheng Feng lifted his spirits and said loudly, “Yes, mother. Let’s go find Dantong. I want to know why did she turn her back against our marriage? She must give me an explanation!”

Cheng Kunan did not say anything. But in his heart, he was against this. When Mrs. Hong called him, he promised her that he would not let his son continue to pester Lin Wan in the future. And now he had gone back on his word, the Lin Family would think that he was not true to his words.

Mrs. Cheng smiled, “Don’t worry. I’m not going to force the marriage to happen. I just want to ask for an explanation. After all, she was the one who regretted and did not follow this planned marriage in the first place. It’d be different if we didn’t know her whereabouts. But now that we do, then we must be given an explanation.”

Cheng Kunan nodded. She was right. The Cheng Family could call off the marriage. But they had to be given an explanation. Otherwise, no one would still take the Cheng Family seriously in the future if they kept quiet after their planned marriage was called off just like that.

In addition, the Cheng Family and the Lin Family were good friends and were considered half allies. Since they were on good terms, what Lin Dantong did was obviously heartbreaking and was a shame to the Cheng Family. Hence, they needed an explanation. Even just a word of apology could save the Cheng Family from being embarrassed.

“Alright. I have no problem with that. Darling, go ahead! I’ll let Tian follow you along!”

“Sure! Tian!” With Mrs. Cheng’s calls, the young man walked over and said respectfully, “Madam, at your command.”

“Make some arrangements. I’m bringing you and some other men the mainland tomorrow!”

“Noted!” Cheng Tian said with a bow and turned around to leave the manor.

“Mum, I want to go, too!” Cheng Feng put his arm around his mother’s shoulders and looked at her with a pleading face.

“Sigh. How could I say no? Alright. You can come along with me!” Mrs. Cheng said affectionately.

“Thank you, Mother!” Cheng Feng grabbed his mother’s hands and gave her a few kisses on the back of her hands before running upstairs.