There were only a few chat records on it. They were either invitations for Ye Qinghe to come and study or Ye Qinghe's inquiries about alchemy methods. Such few and apparently innocent conversations couldn't possibly make Yong Shanling nervous. So who on earth had made her so tense?
Mu Yijie became even more wary of this unknown enemy. After a brief hesitation, he moved the mouse to the folder labeled "Monkey Flower".
Just as he was about to click it open, he suddenly heard a familiar voice.
"Uncle, something's wrong!" It was his own voice. His face changed, and he quickly closed and locked the folder before rushing outside.
When he got there, he saw Yong Shanling standing in front of a rockery in the yard, looking at it with a solemn expression.
Mu Yijie quickened his pace and walked up to Yong Shanling. His cute face was expressionless, but the direction his eyes were fixed on betrayed his inner anxiety.
"What's going on? Are you okay?" Mu Yijie casually glanced around Yong Shanling. Her clothes were a bit wrinkled, probably from rolling on the sofa just now. Her movements were natural, so she seemed fine. Then he looked at her face. Seeing only solemnity on it, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Yong Shanling shook her head. Her expressionless look was exactly the same as Mu Yijie's usual one. Her voice was cold as she said, "Someone has set up a harmful formation here. It seems they've modified the original protective formation."
Mu Yijie's face also turned cold. The formations in this house were all set up by a master his grandfather had found. They could not only nourish one's essence and qi but also isolate the merits on his body. So they were extremely important. Now that the formation had been modified without their knowledge, it was no wonder that the nightmare had been able to find him before.
"When was it modified?"
"It should be within the past month. Originally, this formation was very well - hidden. Its main purpose was to gradually consume your merits and essence and qi over the years, making you gradually infertile and physically weak, and eventually leading to an early death. This person is really vicious." Yong Shanling was so angry that her eyes turned red. This was the person she loved, yet he had been hurt like this.
Mu Yijie pondered for a moment. "Not just anyone can get in here. There are only a handful of people coming and going. It should be easy to find out who did this."
Yong Shanling reached out and destroyed this formation. Then she found the same thing at several other formation eyes and destroyed them as well.
After that, she set up a new protective formation before finally breathing a sigh of relief and returning to the villa with Mu Yijie.
"Ling'er, call Uncle Yan and ask him to come over. I want him to check out the people who have come and gone recently." Mu Yijie's eyes were filled with cold light, and he showed a blood - thirsty smile.
He always believed in nipping potential threats in the bud.
"Uncle Yan, come here for a moment." Yong Shanling called the butler who lived in the servant building, deliberately making her voice sound cold and aloof.
Not long after, the butler rushed over. He bowed respectfully to Yong Shanling. "Young master."
Yong Shanling secretly glanced at Mu Yijie. Then, with a straight face, she said to the butler, "Someone has tampered with the house. Pull out all the surveillance footage and focus on investigating the suspicious people in the yard."
The butler's expression turned solemn. A look of gravity flashed across his face. "Don't worry, young master. I will definitely find out who did this."
As a butler who had served the Mu family for a lifetime, he felt it was a great shame that someone had managed to tamper with things right under his nose.
After saying that, he rushed away in a hurry. Then all the servants in the villa were summoned for a thorough investigation. No suspicious person was found, but a negligent maid was discovered.
The butler immediately fired her. Then he personally monitored the surveillance footage. It took him two days to filter out all the people who had entered the yard and stopped at the places Yong Shanling had specified.
Yong Shanling and Mu Yijie were having dinner. After a while, they saw the butler rushing in. His face was as dark as if ink was about to drip from it. He said with a grim expression, "Young master, I've found six people who went there. There are two maids, Miss Shanling, Miss Hou, Young Master Li Zhuo, and Mr. Ye Qinghe. But I didn't see anything strange about them."
After saying that, the butler lowered his head in shame. He felt ashamed that he, who had been a soldier in his youth, couldn't even find a suspect.
Seeing the kind - hearted butler so upset, Yong Shanling said softly, "It's okay. Maybe this person's skills are too advanced. You don't need to blame yourself. Have you copied the videos? I'll take a look myself."
Hearing that his young master not only didn't blame him but also comforted him, the butler was deeply touched. He immediately made up his mind that he wouldn't let anything go wrong here again.
After Yong Shanling sent the butler away, she saw Mu Yijie's fair and innocent - looking face expressionless, as if he was thinking about some life - changing event. She inserted the USB drive with the videos into the computer, sat down next to Mu Yijie, and nudged him with her elbow.
Mu Yijie saw that the coldness in her eyes had dissipated a bit. He said softly, "Let's take a look at these people together. It must be an insider. Without the owner's permission, those cultivators and demons can't get in here."
Yong Shanling's expression also became more solemn. She nodded and opened the first video. It showed Ye Qinghe, and Yong Shanling was beside him. The two were walking and chatting in the yard. Although they couldn't hear the conversation, it was obvious that they got along very well.
Yong Shanling remembered that Ye Qinghe had been asking her questions about cultivation at that time. They had also talked about their hometowns, and she learned that he had been wandering in the south when he was a child and was later adopted by a Taoist priest and came to the north.
Seeing the harmonious atmosphere between the two, Mu Yijie's jealousy burned like a wildfire, constantly scorching his heart.
He pretended to be calm and asked, "Did you notice anything abnormal at that time?"
A scene flashed through Yong Shanling's mind where she had separated from Ye Qinghe for a while. She shook her head without giving it much thought and said softly, "No. We were always talking about cultivation. He was very hard - working. I didn't notice anything wrong. After all, with his Foundation - Establishment stage cultivation, if he had done anything, I couldn't have missed it. Uncle, you have to believe me. It can't be him."
Hearing Yong Shanling's words defending Ye Qinghe, the wildfire in Mu Yijie's heart, which had just calmed down a bit, burned even more fiercely.