Chen Hao’s mung-bean-sized eyes were practically glued to Feng Zhaoxuan, drool nearly spilling out of his mouth.
How could there be such a beautiful woman in this world?
That face, that figure—she was a hundred times more stunning than the top courtesan of Chunfeng Tower!
Chen Jiao, meanwhile, was staring dead at Feng Zhaokai, her face thickly powdered and flushed red.
This “immortal gentleman’s” looks surpassed every man she had ever seen combined—by a hundredfold!
Gentle as jade, noble and otherworldly.
Wasn’t this exactly the dream lover who walked straight out of a storybook?!
The siblings exchanged a glance and both saw the same flame in each other’s eyes.
That was the look of spoiled brats who wanted to seize a favorite toy for themselves.
Chen Hao strode forward, puffed up his chest, and tried hard to suck in his belly as he declared proudly:
“Father! I’ve taken a liking to this immortal lady. I want to marry her!”
“Dismiss all the concubines at home—I want her as my principal wife!”
Chen Jiao refused to be outdone. She shoved her brother aside and sweetly grabbed Chen Bin:
“Father! I also fancy this immortal gentleman!”
“I want him to marry into our family! He will be my husband!”
Feng Zhaoxuan’s chopsticks trembled slightly when she heard this, and the piece of Dongpo pork fell onto the table.
Feng Zhaokai’s hand holding the teacup paused slightly as well, a hint of coldness flashing through his clear eyes.
【Where did these two toads crawl out from? So ugly, yet dreaming so big?】
Feng Zhaoxuan’s inner voice raged, her eyes nearly rolling into the heavens.
【That Chen Hao looks like a bloated steamed bun and already has the face of a kidney failure patient—how dare he set his sights on this immortal lady?】
【And that Chen Jiao… the way she’s looking at my brother, she looks like she wants to swallow him whole. Truly beyond words!】
Chen Bin, instead of stopping them, stroked his beard and laughed.
What perfect timing—like a pillow delivered just when he was sleepy!
If these siblings married into his family, wouldn’t he be able to get as many Truth Talismans as he wanted?
“Good! If the two immortal masters are willing to stay and form a marriage alliance with our Chen family,” he said with a smile,
“this old man will present ten thousand taels of betrothal gifts and host a grand wedding!”
Feng Zhaoxuan calmly picked up another piece of Dongpo pork.
“Lord Chen, marriage proposals require mutual consent. For now, let’s focus on earning money… I mean, drawing talismans.”
“Yes, yes, talismans come first!” Chen Bin nodded repeatedly.
After all, the people were already in his hands—no monk could escape the temple.
These ducks would eventually end up stewed in his pot!
The next morning, Feng Zhaoxuan began her “hard work.”
She set up her workstation in the room while Feng Zhaokai ground ink for her like a graceful attendant.
“Little sister, are you really going to draw talismans for them?” he asked in a low voice, worry flickering in his jade-like face.
“The Chen family is not kind. If they obtain large numbers of Truth Talismans, they may use them to profit and harm the common people.”
Feng Zhaoxuan smiled like a cat that had just stolen fish.
She blinked mischievously.
“Brother, don’t worry.”
“What I’m drawing… isn’t any normal truth talisman.”
Her consciousness sank into the system shop, directly exchanging a batch of prank talisman templates.
【These include ‘Daredevil Talismans’, ‘Bad Luck Talismans’, ‘Fortune-Draining Child Talismans’, and more—perfect for handling all kinds of stubborn fools.】
【With a little modification, they’ll look exactly like real truth talismans.】
【Didn’t they want truth talismans? Fine—I’ll give them a super doubled ‘surprise gift package’ and make sure they’re so satisfied they cry!】
Feng Zhaokai couldn’t help but smile, the corners of his lips lifting like spring water melting ice.
“Your idea… is excellent.”
Helping his sister scam people together was truly the most interesting thing he had ever done.
By noon, Chen Bin arrived with his children to collect the talismans.
He pushed open the door—and froze at the mountain of talismans inside.
“This… this many?”
Feng Zhaoxuan stretched lazily, flexing her sore wrist, and smiled.
“Not more, not less—three hundred pieces. One thousand taels each, a total of three hundred thousand taels.”
Chen Bin’s mouth twitched.
Weren’t talismans supposed to be extremely difficult to draw, requiring immense effort and even shortening one’s lifespan?
How had she finished so many in just one morning?
And she looked so energetic and rosy—nothing like someone who had been overworked!
Still, he thought again: in the end, they’d become family anyway. Money was just moving from the left pocket to the right.
He waved his hand grandly.
“Go to the treasury and fetch the silver notes!”
Chen Hao and Chen Jiao immediately scrambled to pay, both trying to show off their wealth.
“I’ll pay! I have private funds!”
“No, I will! I’ll use my dowry money!”
They argued fiercely until they each paid half.
Feng Zhaoxuan happily accepted the thick stack of silver notes, her heart glowing.
【This money is way too easy to earn.】
【Thank you, nature’s gift—and thank you, the contribution of love-brained fools!】
In the following days, they continued “drawing talismans.”
The Chen siblings constantly hovered around them, serving tea and water like devoted servants.
By the fifth day, Feng Zhaoxuan “completed” the final batch.
A total of 1,500 talismans—earning 1.5 million taels!
Half of the Chen family’s liquid wealth had been drained dry.
Chen Bin watched the shrinking treasury, heart aching, but convinced it was a strategic investment—so he endured.
The same day he received the talismans, he eagerly began using them throughout the mansion to purge disloyal servants.
And then—disaster struck.
A guard captain was slapped with a talisman. Chen Bin intended to question him about embezzlement.
Instead, the guard suddenly shouted:
“I want to fly higher!”
Then he ran wildly around the courtyard like a crazed beast, completely naked, before face-planting directly into Chen Bin’s most favored concubine’s room.
Coincidentally, he caught her mid-act with a newly hired pretty-boy stable hand.
Elsewhere, several arrogant servants under talisman effect suddenly began confessing everything in public:
“I stole the master’s jade pendant and sold it for fifty taels to gamble!”
“I spat into the master’s tea!”
“I slept with Widow Liu in the master’s study…”
Chen Bin was so furious his eyes rolled back.
This wasn’t testing loyalty.
This was humiliation!
He rushed to confront Feng Zhaoxuan—but the siblings had already vanished.
Only a note remained:
“Farewell, the rivers and lakes are long. If fate allows, we shall meet again.”
And worse still—
His love-brained children had unknowingly been hit with “Fortune-Draining Child Talismans.”
They were now leading a massive “wealth-dispensing merit campaign.”
Chen Jiao stood at the city gate, exchanging all her jewelry for carts of steamed buns.
“Eat! All of you eat! As long as you say ‘Chen Jiao’s immortal husband is the most handsome!’ you can have all of this!”
Chen Hao went even further.
He hauled out ginseng and deer antlers from the family treasury and distributed them freely in the streets.
“Take it all! I’m accumulating blessings for my immortal lady!”
“As long as you bless our eternal union, you get silver!”
Within half a month, generations of Chen family wealth were completely squandered by these two idiots.
Chen Bin lay in bed, staring at the empty ledger, and spat out blood three feet high.
He had schemed his entire life, only to fall to two scammers and his own foolish children.
The most ironic part—
The entire city praised the Chen siblings as the new “great philanthropists” of Qingxi County.
Even Magistrate Jiang personally sent a plaque reading “Virtuous and Charitable,” which was hung above the Chen family gate with drum and drum procession.
Chen Bin clutched his chest, listening to the praise outside, feeling more devastated than being publicly cursed for eighteen generations.
This was not just killing him.
This was psychological annihilation—utter, ruthless psychological annihilation.
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