Chapter 178: Prenuptial Property Notarization

After dismissing Xia Chan using Zhang Yangxu's identity, Ning Zhe drove back to his hometown, Gubei Town.

Daoist Duan Geng left after greeting Ning Zhe in the underground garage; after all, he hadn't come to cause trouble for Yu Zi Qian, claiming only to be there to build a good connection.

Duan Geng was an Endowed One, a top-tier Endowed One who held multiple methods for the indirect utilization of rules, and the Four-Faced Buddha Taiyi was one of them.

Just as there existed a tacit understanding among Ji Bochang's clients that was never put on the table, other Endowed Ones would also form connections due to the intersection of rules.

Because they did not master ghosts with their bodies like Gridders, Endowed Ones who only indirectly utilized strange rules had abilities far inferior to Gridders, but the price they had to pay was also much smaller.

Like the Endowed Ones of the God of Wealth Wealth Wu Tong, they could even utilize the God of Wealth's rules to buy their own lives without paying any price—the price they needed to pay was circumvented by Ji Bochang using the "money printing machine."

Or to put it another way, the price paid by the Endowed Ones of the God of Wealth was "money."

It was also for this reason that the relationship between Endowed Ones was far less tense than that of Gridders; without evil ghosts chasing them for their lives, they naturally wouldn't be at each other's throats all day long.

Those with fixed assets have a steady heart; high-ranking officials and wealthy merchants who were also Endowed Ones of the God of Wealth could still maintain their dignity, so the Endowed Ones of the Four-Faced Buddha naturally could too.

Therefore, Duan Geng just asked Ning Zhe for contact information so they could look out for each other in the future, and left after establishing a good connection.

Ning Zhe parked the car, took out the Strange File, and wrote down some information about Endowed Ones on it:

【1. Endowed Ones are people who indirectly utilize strange rules through special means.】

【2. Endowed Ones do not have the powerful and extreme strength of Gridders, but they also do not have the fatal flaws brought about by mastering ghosts with their bodies.】

【3. There is no life-or-death competitive relationship between Endowed Ones like there is with Gridders, so even two Endowed Ones utilizing the same rule can generally coexist peacefully; they will not tear each other apart unless absolutely necessary.】

【4. If it is a senior Endowed One capable of mobilizing multiple strange entities, they can sometimes be even more terrifying than Gridders.】

But top-tier Endowed Ones capable of reaching this level were truly rare.

In short, the lower limit of an Endowed One is very low, and the upper limit is very high. The weak can be as vulnerable as mortals, and the strong can be more terrifying than Gridders who master ghosts with their bodies.

A very interesting group of people; they were walking a different path... perhaps a better one.

Although this path had no reference value for Ning Zhe. From the moment he ate the offering in He Family Village and mastered a ghost with his body, he had no way back.

"Since I have already set off, I might as well walk this path to the end." Ning Zhe closed the notebook containing the Strange File, opened the car door, and got out.

After coming out of Zanju Town, the Gridder Yu Zi Qian needed to observe the environment around this strange land, and the prospective college student Ning Zhe, who had just finished his exams, needed to return home to attend his own graduation banquet, so they came here together.

The graduation banquet was also an engagement banquet.

Chen Yaming was not yet 20 years old and could not get a marriage certificate, so her father had been anxious to use an engagement banquet to announce to the whole town that Ning Zhe was taken. Moreover, Ning Zhe's college entrance exam results were out, so the two celebrations could be held together—a double blessing, couldn't be better.

Ning Zhe understood the customs of Gubei Town; the wedding banquet held in the countryside had always been more authoritative than the marriage certificate issued by the Civil Affairs Bureau. Once this banquet was eaten, no one in town would ever look at him as a young man who hadn't settled down again.

Presumably, his grandparents lying in the hospital bed would be happy too, right?

Thinking of this, Ning Zhe, who had already walked out of the parking lot, suddenly realized whether he should go to the hospital to visit the two old people first.

Although he had bought back his grandparents' lives from the God of Wealth with money, the two old people, who had been forcibly pulled back from the gates of hell, were still in poor health.

Birth, old age, sickness, and death. The God of Wealth trades in life and death, but "sickness" and "old age" were not within its jurisdiction. Copper coins could make the dead live again, but they could not buy eternal youth, nor could they cure diseases.

Patients with late-stage cancer who spend money to buy their lives only ensure they are sick but not dead; they cannot cure the cancer. It was the same for his grandparents, whose internal organs had failed due to drinking ice wine; the God of Wealth's hand could only pull back their lives, but it could not erase the devastation of drug overdose on their nervous systems.

For the rest of their lives, they would have to lie in hospital beds, suffering from the torture of illness day and night, until the next opportunity for death arrived.

"... Is it good for me to do this?"

Forcibly pulling back old people who had already found peace into this world, forcing their aging bodies to lie in hospital beds day after day to endure the torture of illness, just because he wanted them to live.

Is doing this really right?

Ning Zhe looked up at the sky; it was gray and overcast.

It was going to rain again.

However, the raindrops he expected did not hit Ning Zhe's shoulders, because a girl holding an umbrella suddenly appeared on the street not far away and hurried to his side.

"Why didn't you say anything when you came back? I almost didn't meet you." Chen Yaming held a sky-blue umbrella, covering both of them under it: "Still mad at me?"

"I told you I wasn't mad." Ning Zhe sighed helplessly and walked with her toward the town.

In youth campus-themed manga, whenever a boy and girl share an umbrella, it's basically always the boy holding it, with the girl hiding under his arm like a little bird. Now, it was the other way around.

Chen Yaming was just a little over 1.6 meters tall, so she had to keep her arm raised to hold the umbrella for Ning Zhe, who was 1.79 meters tall. It didn't take long before she couldn't hold it anymore.

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"Ning Zhe." Chen Yaming suddenly called his name.

"Hmm?"

"Do you have any channels to contact a reliable lawyer?" she asked softly.

Ning Zhe was a bit puzzled: "Why ask this suddenly? Is your family going to file a lawsuit?"

"No." Chen Yaming shook her head and said: "It's for our prenuptial property notarization. Ning Zhe, you know, my dad is so anxious to marry me off to you just because he's after your family's money...

My two younger brothers are in their second year of middle school this year, and Dad used to worry about preparing wedding houses for them. He was always looking miserable until you said you were willing to get engaged to me, and then he's been happy all day long."

The intentions of Sima Zhao are known to all—that was exactly what Boss Chen had been like recently.

Chen Yaming held the umbrella with both hands and said solemnly:

"Now that Grandpa and Grandma are still in the hospital bed, the doctor says their condition is very poor, and they might not have many days left... Don't mind me for saying something unpleasant, but once the two old people pass away, Ning Zhe, you will really be all alone."

"Dad wants to swallow your family's inheritance, and my relatives, after knowing we are getting engaged, all look like wolves seeing meat. So, Ning Zhe, you have to prepare in advance. If it really doesn't work... at worst, we can live in another city in the future and never return to Qinzhou."

That was why she wanted Ning Zhe to contact a lawyer, wanting to get the prenuptial property notarization done while they were only engaged and hadn't received their marriage certificate yet, to avoid Ning Zhe being picked clean by her family's pestering relatives in the future.

Ning Zhe was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Chen Yaming tilted her head to look at him.

"I'm laughing at how you're already pushing your elbows out before you've even married into the family."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 179 =====