Chapter 954: The Tricks the Immortal Aunt Used Were All Leftovers from the Ji Family

"Ding" — the elevator reached the 18th floor.

The door to room 1801 was wide open; looking inside from the entrance, no one was seen.

Nianyin prepared to barge in, but Shi Youxuan grabbed her: "Don't go in, be careful of an ambush inside."

"It's fine, there's no one inside, let's go in."

Before the words had even faded, she had already entered.

Shi Youxuan followed her in; the room was not large, and the surrounding walls were painted a very oppressive dark gray, with shelves nailed to them, filled with all sorts of strange and peculiar ornaments.

They looked like spirit tablets, yet also like Totems, and also like something representing a special meaning.

"Swish!"

Nianyin pulled open the curtains, sunlight spilled into the room, and the things that had been full of mystery just moments ago instantly became not mysterious at all.

There was no one in the room.

But they must have left not long ago, as the seat cushion still had residual warmth.

Shi Youxuan asked: "What are all these things? They look weird."

Nianyin picked one up at random to look at it, disdainfully: "They're just things to fool people, they look intimidating but are actually nothing." As she spoke, she picked one up and smashed it at her feet; it shattered.

This thing looked heavy on the surface, like wood or bronze, but it turned out to be made of clay.

Nianyin picked up another one and did the same, smashing it on the ground, and it also shattered into pieces.

She smashed several in a row, and they were all like this.

Shi Youxuan felt this was quite satisfying and wanted to try it too.

However, she tried to grab a strange-looking one beside her... she couldn't pick it up!

She hugged it with both hands and pulled, but still couldn't pick it up, as if it had taken root.

"Sister, don't move, let me do it." Nianyin gripped the strange-looking object with both hands and gently turned it left and right; a door inside opened!

"Heh, there's a secret room?"

Nianyin: "These little tricks might fool others, but wanting to fool me? Not a chance."

The two entered the secret room, where the furnishings were very simple.

A bed, a table, and a computer on the table; the computer was connected to surveillance, and there were quite a few areas under surveillance.

The unit lobby, the elevator, the hallway, and even including various leisure areas of the residential complex; additionally, one place caught Shi Youxuan's attention—the entrance to her own home.

And so, everything was understood.

This woman was truly bold, actually setting her sights on her own home; no wonder she knew so much, it turned out she was using surveillance to monitor the people and movements in the complex every single moment.

Not only that, a hidden folder on the computer was cracked by Shi Youxuan, and a lot of collected data was discovered inside.

The data was truly comprehensive, more complete than the information held by the people who registered the community.

No wonder this woman "calculated" so accurately; it turned out she had already thoroughly grasped the situation in the complex, so of course, every calculation was spot on.

"Sister, shall we call the police?" Nianyin said.

"Mm."

Shi Youxuan dialed 110, explained the situation, and then the two walked out of the Immortal Aunt's residence.

The police came to seal the Immortal Aunt's residence, but apart from what Shi Youxuan and Nianyin had found, no other evidence was discovered, and the person was not found either.

From this, Shi Youxuan concluded—there must be more than one residence for the Immortal Aunt; her true dwelling was elsewhere.

The Immortal Aunt was a fake.

After this matter was exposed, it did not make the residents in the complex see her true colors; instead, people blamed Shi Youxuan one after another.

They blamed her for being a busybody, saying that if you don't believe it yourself, that's your own business, don't affect others.

Now, people hadn't even finished asking the Immortal Aunt to do things for them, and she had been scared away by her.

Sheng Family.

Sheng Jiang let out a long sigh of relief after hearing from his daughter-in-law that the Immortal Aunt was a fake and that those things were just props made for show.

Fake is good; since it's fake, what she said cannot count, and his son will be fine, there won't be any problems at all.

With a good mood, the "illness" naturally got better too.

Early the next morning.

After breakfast, Sheng Jiang carried his birdcage as usual to the complex's leisure area to play chess.

But on the way, he felt something was not quite right.

The neighbors in the complex didn't greet him as they usually did; people kept cold faces when they saw him, pretending not to see him, and deliberately stayed far away.

When he reached the leisure area, the place where they usually played chess was already crowded with people at this time, and they should have already played several rounds.

But today they hadn't; the usual group of chess players was there, but no one was playing. People were gathered together talking about something, and as soon as they saw Sheng Jiang coming, they immediately shut up, though their expressions were all unpleasant.

"Why aren't you playing chess today?"

Sheng Jiang was oblivious, laughing as he went to pull Lao Li: "Come, come, let the two of us play a round; today I will definitely leave you without a single soldier or armor left, completely defeated."

"Hmph!"

Lao Li shook him off and said sarcastically: "Right, you, Mr. Sheng, are so impressive, killing people invisibly, specializing in playing schemes and tricks, and stabbing people in the back."

Sheng Jiang:...

"Lao Li, what do you mean? That Immortal Aunt is a fake; she's a swindler who cheats people. You don't still believe her, do you?"

"Pah! Sheng Jiang, you're just wicked. If you don't believe it, that's your own business. Wouldn't it have been enough for your whole family to just stay away? The Immortal Aunt didn't force you to go get your fortune told. You went to seek peace, and when you didn't listen to what the Immortal Aunt said, you even destroyed her place of residence. Your whole family can just wait for retribution..."

"Exactly, truly wicked."

"Not only harming yourself, but also implicating us."

"Go, go, go, you can't pay any mind to a person like that, whoever gets involved with them is just asking for bad luck..."

Sheng Jiang was ostracized in the residential complex, unable to clear his name no matter how he explained.

People wouldn't listen to what he said, and they didn't even believe in any video surveillance or lists.

They believed that everything was fabricated by Shi Youxuan.

But Sheng Jiang took the words of his chess friends to heart!

He returned home feeling dejected; not daring to lose his temper at his daughter-in-law, he took it out on his wife: "It's all your fault. In other wealthy families, mothers-in-law set rules for their daughters-in-law, and the daughters-in-law are meek and submissive in front of their parents-in-law, not even daring to breathe loudly."

"Look at our daughter-in-law, willful and arrogant, doing whatever she wants! You have absolutely no authority."

Just losing his temper wasn't enough to satisfy him, so he also smashed his most beloved purple clay teapot.

"Are you full and bored? Have you lived a good life for too long and are looking for some excitement?" His wife grabbed his ear: "Keep your voice down when you're acting crazy. It's fine to nag at me, but don't let the daughter-in-law hear you."

Sheng Jiang raged: "Let her hear, what's the big deal? Are you afraid of her?"

Wang Yinghao retorted: "If you aren't afraid, why are you taking your anger out on me? Why don't you go and take your anger out in front of the daughter-in-law?"

Sheng Jiang:...

He wanted to say he would go, but he didn't dare.

His daughter-in-law had a sharp tongue, and he couldn't win an argument against her; Sheng Jiang still had that much "self-awareness."

So he egged his wife on: "You go, you go downstairs and scold her, force Shi Youxuan to drop the case."

"Pah! You old thing, have you been bewitched by that enchantress?" His wife glared at him fiercely and opened the door to leave.

Living a perfectly good life and yet, for no reason, he had to stir up trouble.

The current Wang Yinghao was no longer the original Wang Yinghao; she wouldn't just do whatever her husband said, and she certainly wouldn't follow him into his foolishness.

With his wife not cooperating and Sheng Jiang being a coward, the matter only caused a stir in the residential complex for a few days and didn't have any impact at home.