It was already the later half of the night.

It was precisely the time when those who normally went to sleep late also slept, while those who got up early still didn’t get up this early. This time was when Yunqin’s people believed the night’s yin energy was strongest, that it was a time when it was easy to run into ghosts.

On the night sky, there were dark clouds that covered the bright moon.

An individual dressed in entirely pitch-black night clothes shot out of the shadows like a specter, using a sharp blade to cut open the door latch.

Mu Chenyun who was laying on the bed already opened his eyes.

His brows were originally already extremely faint, yet right now, his face looked like there wasn’t a single hair on it. His deathly pale expression made his sensory organs look like they were made from white wax, not like they were made from flesh and blood.

When he saw this nightcrawler appear in his line of sight like a ghost, his white wax-like face immediately became filled with mockery, saying with a sneer, “Youngsters really don’t have any patience after all, unable to wait even a single night… Only, I originally thought the one who would come would be Lin Xi, but who would have thought that it was actually ...