The Rebirth of the Cultivation Leader Qin Zhao as a Celebrity
Chapter 288 - 286: The Peeping Puppet Doll

Chapter 288: Chapter 286: The Peeping Puppet Doll

"What’s the problem?"

Chu Yan had not laid a hand on her yet, his expression growing serious.

"Someone is spying on us."

Qin Zhao relayed this sentence in a voice that only she and Chu Yan could hear, transmitting it directly to his ears. Chu Yan’s eyes instantly darkened. He stood up and leisurely adjusted his clothes.

His cold gaze swept over the room, then he opened the doors and windows to look outside.

There was no one nearby, and he didn’t find any surveillance equipment in the room.

If someone approached their room, both Chu Yan and Qin Zhao would sense it immediately, given that their cultivation was higher than everyone else’s here.

Yet they saw no one, not even a mosquito.

Chu Yan closed the door and returned, "Did you sense it wrong?"

Qin Zhao did not speak. She was examining the items in the room. This room was originally a storeroom, which Bai Fen had tidied up temporarily because they were staying over.

So there were many miscellaneous items piled up in the corner of the wall opposite the bed.

Qin Zhao took out these items one by one, placing them on the ground. Finally, she found a very old cloth doll tucked away at the very back.

The clothing of the cloth doll was torn, styled like ancient people, with hair styled in a hair bun.

The moment Qin Zhao picked up the cloth doll, her expression dramatically changed.

"This doll is made of human skin."

Inside the clothing of the cloth doll, both the body and the face were made of human skin, with cheeks drawn in bright red blush and a mouth outlined with fine lines, curved into a smile.

The eyes were two small black dots, seeming to be made of some special kind of mineral stone.

Chu Yan looked at the cloth doll in Qin Zhao’s hands. Because the cloth doll was very dirty, he could not make out the patterns of the human skin and had initially thought it was just an ordinary doll.

"I felt something strange earlier, probably because of this thing."

Qin Zhao sensed a very evil aura on the cloth doll.

A doll made of human skin was definitely not a simple child’s toy. It was very likely a tool used by an Evil Cultivator to harm people!

A cold light flashed in her eyes. It seemed that not only did the Bo People hide secrets, this household of Bai Fen and Bai Qi also harbored many unknown matters.

"Could Bai Qi be an Evil Cultivator?"

As Chu Yan cleared the other miscellaneous items, he asked Qin Zhao with a tone tinged with schadenfreude.

But immediately after, he furrowed his brows.

If Bai Qi was up to no good, then his intense interest in Qin Zhao earlier definitely wasn’t a good sign. Could he have discovered Qin Zhao was a cultivator and wanted to harm her?

"I didn’t sense any fluctuations of Spiritual Power from him; he probably isn’t a cultivator."

Qin Zhao’s attention was still on the cloth doll.

By now, she no longer felt someone was spying on them.

But she was certain that someone had been spying through the cloth doll earlier. Probably, the person had realized they noticed something odd, so they withdrew the spell.

Knock knock knock, sounds of knocking came from the door.

"It’s time for dinner."

The person knocking outside was Bai Fen; they had mentioned earlier they would eat here. The fee they paid earlier included the cost of the meals.

"Let’s go have dinner first; I’ll probe them later."

Qin Zhao put down the cloth doll and went out to eat with Chu Yan.

Just as the two sat down, Bai Qi also came over.

"I found a cloth doll in the room earlier; it’s rather nice, can you give it to me?"

"Cloth doll?"

Bai Fen looked at Qin Zhao curiously, "Why would we have such a thing in our house? Maybe Bai Qi picked it up from elsewhere when he was a child. If you like it, take it."

Bai Qi smiled at Qin Zhao and said, "The storeroom is filled with unwanted items. If you like the cloth doll, I can ask the village embroidery woman to make you a prettier doll."

"Don’t look for someone to make me a new one. I think that doll was quite nice, I used to have a similar one at home, but unfortunately, I lost that doll."

"It seems that the doll was very important to you. If it wasn’t something important, you wouldn’t want one just like it upon seeing it."

While Qin Zhao and Bai Qi were chatting, Chu Yan suddenly said, "Of course, because that was the one I gave her."

"..."

His sudden statement left Qin Zhao at a loss for words.

Bai Qi felt the hostility from Chu Yan but didn’t care, and even picked out a piece of spare rib for Qin Zhao.

"We rarely buy meat at home, you should eat more."

Chu Yan grabbed it and ate it himself, and then coldly commented, "The cooking isn’t that great."

It still tasted better when he made it!

o(▼皿▼メ;)o

"It definitely can’t compare to what you eat in the city," Bai Qi sighed and looked at Qin Zhao apologetically, "Please don’t mind, I will go to town tomorrow and buy you something delicious."

"???"

Chu Yan was confused.

Could this person not tell what relationship he had with Qin Zhao?

Suddenly, the air pressure at the dining table dropped, and his narrow Phoenix Eyes seemed to be coated with a layer of frost.

No man could tolerate another man showing affections toward his wife in his presence. And this man was Chu Yan.

He had already thought of a hundred ways for Bai Qi to die.

"It’s not necessary to go to such trouble, I’m fine with just anything."

Qin Zhao declined Bai Qi’s kind offer, and at this moment, she finally understood why Chu Yan was angry earlier.

But she felt baffled by Bai Qi’s gestures of goodwill.

There was also a strange feeling.

Perhaps because she had felt from the beginning that there was something odd about Bai Qi’s aura.

Chu Yan did not speak again, and ate very little at dinner. He was as cold as ice, seemingly oblivious to Bai Qi who kept serving Qin Zhao several times.

Of course, Chu Yan ate all those dishes.

When Qin Zhao finished eating, they went back to their room together.

Both were stunned, because the stuffed doll that had been on the bed was gone.

"Who took it?"

Chu Yan frowned, his attention had been on Bai Qi during dinner, so he hadn’t noticed if anyone else had been here.

"No one has been here."

Qin Zhao was confident she would have noticed if someone had.

"Could it have grown legs and walked away?"

"Possibly."

Someone behind the scenes could spy on them through the stuffed doll, naturally, they could also make the doll leave.

"Earlier, Bai Fen and Bai Qi were right under our eyes, they definitely couldn’t have controlled the doll. Could it be that it wasn’t theirs?"

Qin Zhao stroked her chin, a thoughtful expression on her face.

But recalling the dinner incident, she looked at Chu Yan, "You didn’t finish your food; you’ll be hungry later."

He hugged her, lying on the bed, clingingly twining around her and biting her ear, "If I get hungry, I’ll eat you."

Qin Zhao: "....."

Thinking of Bai Qi’s gestures of goodwill toward Qin Zhao, Chu Yan’s noble and handsome face grew slightly more menacing.

Before Qin Zhao could react, he silently pulled over the blanket, wrapped her inside it, and then began to misbehave.