The Soldier King Becomes a Useless Little Girl

Chapter 1050 - 1046: An Extra-Large Surprise

With a smack.

A piece of paper fell onto her face.

"What are you doing, why are you throwing a tantrum again? I’m telling you, if this keeps up, we can’t go on, we’ll break up..."

Xin Lin was already in a bad mood, and Gui Hu gave her the cold shoulder again, which ignited her anger.

She wiped her face, and the paper floated gently down.

Seeing the words on the paper, her eyes widened.

"The deed to Taoyao Pavilion! Where did it come from?"

Black letters on white paper, with fingerprints and signatures, it was unmistakably the land deed to Taoyao Pavilion.

Xin Lin turned it over and over, making sure it was clear.

Gui Hu said nothing, continuing to keep a stern face.

"It couldn’t be, did you steal it from Mu Chen? It was bought for twenty million taels; if Mu Chen found out, he would be heartbroken."

Xin Lin looked skeptically at Gui Hu.

Gui Hu snorted coldly.

"Not stolen? Then it is..."

Xin Lin glanced at Gui Hu’s sulking face, feeling that the look in this man’s eyes seemed so familiar.

Appearance can change, but eyes and demeanor can’t be altered.

No wonder she thought Mu Chen was a bit odd tonight.

A realization hit her.

"The person who went to Taoyao Pavilion for the auction tonight was you! It wasn’t Mu Chen at all!"

Gui Hu remained noncommittal.

Not denying it was an admission.

"You’re really bold; that was Taoyao Pavilion... Aren’t you afraid of being discovered? Wait, where did you get the money, twenty million taels! Where did it come from? Such a waste, truly extravagant... sob sob, the silver notes, so many silver notes."

Xin Lin felt an aching in her heart at the thought of those twenty million taels worth of silver notes.

Strangely enough, when she saw Mu Chen spending money earlier, she didn’t feel any pain.

But upon learning the silver notes belonged to Gui Hu, Xin Lin felt an intense pang of distress.

Gui Hu gave Xin Lin a very strange look.

"A lot from the burial mound."

"Stop lying, where would money come from a burial mound."

Xin Lin glared at Gui Hu.

After a moment, Xin Lin looked at Gui Hu again.

"You don’t mean Joss Paper, do you!"

Xin Lin suddenly remembered that Pride Corpse was someone who didn’t even know what silver was.

Without stealing or robbing, he just had twenty million taels on hand, and the only source was the burial mound.

"What do you think?"

Gui Hu looked like it was only natural.

After falling out with Xin Lin, he was brimming with discontent and left the city in a flash.

The cold wind blew in from outside the city, waking Di Shen up.

Worried Xin Lin would struggle alone in Taoyao Pavilion, he turned back.

However, his appearance was really unsuitable for showing up at Taoyao Pavilion.

He thought long and hard and thought of a suitable scapegoat, Mu Chen.

Mu Chen’s identity was the best cover; he grabbed a stack of joss paper from the burial mound, made it look like silver notes, and swaggered into Taoyao Pavilion.

That’s what led to the scenes Xin Lin saw earlier.

"So, you found the Taoyao Pavilion owner’s soul, too? Tu Suxia went to great lengths, planned for so long, offended both Huxuan Villa and Xingluo Academy, and ended up with twenty million taels, which turned out to be Joss Paper!"

Xin Lin burst out laughing.

Serves you right, Tu Suxia, this time you’ve really lost out.

Watching Xin Lin laugh until her sides hurt, Gui Hu’s tight lips quivered, and there seemed to be a hint of a smile in his eyes.

The tensions between the two dissipated in this farce.

Meanwhile, in a small wooden hut where the supervisors lived, an unsuspecting victim remained sound asleep, entirely oblivious.