Mysterious Revival

After leaving the university, Yang Jian didn't go back to Ping'an Hotel to rest.

He checked the time, and it was already 1 a.m.

Dealing with the Ghost Painting case had indeed wasted quite a bit of time. By now, He Tianxiong, whom he hadn't killed earlier, had probably already fled far away. There was no longer an opportunity to take action against him.

However, as Yang Jian had chosen not to kill He Tianxiong at the time, this outcome was to be expected.

It's easy to kill that guy, but the ghost behind him is troublesome to deal with.

Moreover, with the Ghost Painting incident occurring right next to Miao Xiaoshan, Yang Jian had no choice but to let one side go.

While walking down a quiet pedestrian path, Yang Jian's hand, donned with golden gloves, reached into his pocket and pulled out a mobile phone.

Thanks to the gloves, the Ghost Hand didn't destroy this phone.

Yang Jian made a call.

Soon, the call connected.

"Where are you?"

Yang Jian's voice was indifferent, as if lacking any trace of emotion.

"You're calling me this late? I thought you weren't going to contact me," Li Yao's voice came through the phone.

"Cut the chatter. Where are you right now? I need to see you," Yang Jian said.

Li Yao replied irritably, "Whenever it's something important, you remember to look for me. When there's nothing, you just toss me aside. You have zero gentlemanly charm. I'm out shopping and was about to grab some late-night food before going to sleep. It's so cold at night, I'm not in the mood to keep you company and freeze outdoors."

"Meet me somewhere nearby where there aren't many people," Yang Jian said and then hung up the phone.

"Hey, hey, I'm going back to sleep now, not waiting for you." On an commercial street, Li Yao yelled into the phone, but the other side had already disconnected, which annoyed her greatly.

Enough had happened today, and she was in a terrible mood, only for Yang Jian to trouble her just when she was about to go home.

"This is utterly unreasonable. Calling me at this hour, with no consideration at all."

"Really, how did I come to fall for such a person? I see nothing but flaws when I look at him, not a single redeeming quality. It's a miracle that his personality and temperament have gotten him this far."

While grumbling to herself, Li Yao left the commercial street and went to a nearby empty space with fewer people to wait.

But what she didn't know was that Yang Jian wasn't the type to interact much with people. He mostly dealt with ghosts, so no matter how annoying he was, it didn't affect his growth and progress.

After waiting for a good half hour,

Li Yao felt like she was almost frozen from the cold when she finally saw Yang Jian stepping out of a taxi nearby.

"No wonder it took so long, you actually took a taxi here." Seeing this scene, she gritted her teeth in frustration.

As soon as Yang Jian saw Li Yao, he headed straight towards her.

"What's the matter with you today? You actually let He Tianxiong go. Do you realize that when I went to check, I ran into him? I almost got killed by him, and even to the very end, you never showed up. Do you truly not care whether I live or die?" As soon as they met, Li Yao couldn't hold back her anger and burst out.

"Now you've made a mess of things. I'd like to see how you'll clean this up tomorrow."

Yang Jian remained unmoved, as if he hadn't heard her, and simply said calmly, "The WeChat moment's issue is no longer your concern. No, I misspoke. My affairs are no longer your concern."

Li Yao was stunned. "What do you mean by that?"

"I mean exactly what I said," Yang Jian replied, "As of now, I no longer need you."

Li Yao thought it was a joke, but seeing Yang Jian's indifferent demeanor, it didn't seem like he was joking.

"So, after using me, you want to cast me aside? Are you planning a hit-and-run? Like putting on your pants and pretending not to recognize me?" Li Yao suddenly became furious.

Yang Jian was still unaffected. "Don't say it so crudely. Haven't you ever wondered why you would fall for me at all?"

"What do you mean?" asked Li Yao.

"We've only met once before, with no prior acquaintance, and this is my first time coming to this city... And you, as an assistant to the WeChat group at Ping'an Tower, why would you suddenly fall for a ghost controller from out of town? And this affection emerged without any warning," Yang Jian spoke coolly and indifferently.

"You're a mature and intelligent person, well beyond the age of naively yearning for love. What are the chances of falling for a stranger out of the blue, especially an enemy?"

Hearing this, Li Yao's face suddenly changed.

Because Yang Jian's words subtly revealed a very terrifying fact.

So horrific that she herself didn't even dare to imagine.

Yet, there was one thing Yang Jian said that she absolutely agreed with, why had she developed feelings for Yang Jian out of the blue?

This man was nothing like the ideal boyfriend she had in mind. Not even close.

Uncultured, arrogant, and rude, he was every woman's worst nightmare, and before becoming a ghost controller, a pure and absolute loser.

That sort of person, if it had been in the past, she would have felt sick just looking at him, feeling as though her eyes were polluted.

"I, I learned about you from your files, and from that time I felt for you...." Li Yao's expression became a bit uneasy as she started to try to recall her memories about Yang Jian.

She realized that everything had started when she was organizing files in the past.

Yang Jian then said, "Files? Are you sure you saw my files? Can you find the current location of those files?"

"Your file is located at..." Li Yao suddenly froze.

She had a good memory, but she couldn't remember where Yang Jian's file was, the exact location. She only knew there was such a file, that she had seen it, but beyond that, she couldn't find a single clue about it. It was as if the memory of that file had appeared out of nowhere in her mind.

Could it be...

Li Yao's face immediately changed; she gradually realized something was not quite right.

"Have you noticed it yet?"

A hint of a cold smile appeared on Yang Jian's lips, "Such an obvious hint, it's normal for someone as smart as you to spot the issue. After all, I didn't plan to use you for too long because, given enough time without any reminder from me, you would start to notice on your own, and then the troublesome one would be me. After all, I can't be watching your status all the time, so it's better to just spell it out."

"You, you, what have you done to me?"

Li Yao looked up again, her eyes now filled with fear and unease.

"You already have the answer in your mind," said Yang Jian.

"I, I've been influenced by Ghost Shadow..." Li Yao's voice trembled slightly as she clutched her arms, feeling exceptionally cold.

Yang Jian didn't respond; he simply asked a very strange question, "Li Yao, what is one plus one?"

It was a code.

When he had rewritten Li Yao's memory, he had specifically left this code. As long as he personally asked this question, Li Yao would regain all her memories.

This method had never been tested before, he had decided out of curiosity to try it on her the last time.

As soon as the question was asked, Li Yao immediately froze in place.

A surge of familiar memories eerily emerged in her mind, memories that were hers all along, but for some reason, she had always forgotten them, as if she had suffered from amnesia, but now she remembered them all.

She remembered.

She remembered everything.

The first time she met Yang Jian was at Ping'an Tower.

She had never reviewed Yang Jian's file, never met him, and certainly never liked him.

That day, after work, as she was driving home, she suddenly noticed that there were fewer and fewer cars on the road, fewer and fewer, until she was the only one left.

At that time, she was very scared, thinking she had encountered a supernatural event and wanted to flee.

But when she turned around, she encountered Yang Jian.

Yang Jian sat under the streetlight reading a newspaper.

The newspaper was smeared with blood, old and eerie, and before losing her memory, Yang Jian even told her he would... alter her memories.

After that... she was found in Ping'an Hotel, in bed with Yang Jian, and from then on, she somehow started liking Yang Jian, whom she had originally despised.

Then, she helped him against her circle of friends without hesitation, betrayed their secrets to him, and led him to kill members of her friend circle.

"Ah!"

After understanding all the things that had happened, Li Yao felt like she was going to collapse. Overwhelmed with emotion and unable to control herself, she clutched her head and couldn't help but scream.

People nearby heard the scream and turned to look.

But it was only out of curiosity; no one meddled too much. Most people just gave a few glances before walking away, while those with a stronger curiosity stopped to see what was going on.

"Remembered everything?" Yang Jian asked.