I 

asked

 Lu Ming to clean the room. Then, I 

scattered 

paper ashes around his bed

,

 weaved

 some

 willow twigs around a mirror, and 

placed the whole thing

 on the pillow. 

The paper ashes and the willow twigs were pure Yin items

. They had 

a special function

, which was to 

force the ghost to show 

itself.

 To ensure Lu Ming’s safety, I wrote an Eight Diagrams formation on the bed with a few drops of my blood. 

After finishing

 the preparatory 

work

, I hid 

in

 the toilet. The Sirius Whip was ready in my hand. From 

my position

, I could observe the situation. As soon as the ghost appeared, I would activate the Eight Diagrams formation

. With the help of

 the 

Big

 Dipper Sirius Spell, I

 should be able to

 capture the ghost. 

Lu Ming was a millionaire

, so h

e hadn’t ever done 

cleaning by himself

. After

cleaning the whole room, he was so exhausted 

that he

fell

 asleep as soon as he 

laid

 on the bed. Lu Ming’s heavy snoring resounded

, stopping shortly after.

T

he room was now dead silent

, which made me

 restless. 

However, I 

did not expect Lu Ming to sleep the entire night

. I didn’t find anything abnormal, either.

When I woke up Lu Ming after dawn, he wasn’t pleased. “What are you doing?” 

It turned out I had been watching him 

sleep

 like an idiot for the whole night while he 

was having

 a really good sleep. I 

was annoyed

. “Did you sleep well last night?” 

“Oh yeah, I feel so good now. It’s been a long time since I

’ve 

had such a good sleep…” 

Lu Ming stretched his lazy back 

as he talked

. Then, he 

understood the situation. He looked 

thrilled. “Oh God, that old man didn’t appear yesterday, did he?” 

I nodded. 

“Everything looked normal yesterday

.”

I now thought that he had just blown things

 up

. Perhaps the ghost he 

saw

 was just a wandering ghost that had randomly entered his house

. That ghost could have 

found some good tea so he stole the tea to enjoy it. Of course, 

another possibility was that

 the ghost didn’t see Lu Ming sleep at night anymore and was too lazy to pester the poor man again. I told Lu Ming about my ideas. 

He

 shook his head

 and insisted 

that the ghost 

was out to get

 him. 

Things

 didn’t feel quite right

. Since he was

 so persistent

, I

 arranged the same setup for the next few days

 and waited 

for the ghost. It turned out that Lu Ming had 

a

 good sleep for several days in a row while I had dark circles under my eyes. 

I thought about it. Perhaps the old man had sensed the power of my Eight Diagrams formation

and didn’t dare to show up. With that thought, I erased the formation. However, the old man still didn’t come. 

Lu Ming wasn’t as worried as he used to be. He even smiled. I thought this situation 

was

 already 

wrapped up

. 

I

 didn’t 

plan to stay

 up tonight

, 

but I was 

careful

 enough to sprinkle the ashes and weave the willow twigs. 

But s

ince Lu Ming was snoring 

so

 loudly, I couldn’t sleep.

 At a

round midnight, 

Lu Ming’s

 snoring gradually subsided. I felt much better

 and drifted 

into sleep. 

Then

, I thought I 

heard some footsteps

. 

However,

 my sleepy 

self

 didn’t want to think much as I thought Lu Ming was just going to the toilet. But

 t

he noise grew louder and louder. In the end, it seemed to stop by my side. 

Subconsciously, I felt something was wrong

, 

but I couldn’t open my eyes. I clenched my fists

 and tried 

to sense it. A moment later, the footsteps arose again. Right after that, I heard a clear sliding sound. 

Someone’s pulling the drawer! 

I pulled myself together 

at

 that instant

 and

 turned to 

look at

 the cabinet. At the same time, I held the mirror with the willow twigs 

and

 faced the cabinet. An old man wearing black shrouds appeared in the mirror. 

“Who are you?” I asked co

ldly. 

The Yin energy from him was feeble. I wasn’t afraid of him

. 

He didn’t mind me at all. He didn’t even 

glance at

 me. He took a bag of tea then slowly left the room. 

I had stayed awake for several days in a row just to wait for him. How could I let him go now? Immediately, I jumped out of the bed

 and stormed 

toward him. The old man accelerated all of a sudden. I lost 

track of him 

at the villa entrance

, so

 I had to return to the room. 

The light inside the room was turned on. Lu Ming was awake

 and was sitting 

on the bed

. In a shaky 

voic

e, he said,

 “He came, didn’t he?” 

“Yeah…” I nodded. 

Since

 the old man ghost had appeared, my previous 

guess

 was wrong. 

From his speed, I knew he was much stronger than I had thought. Let alone Lu Ming, 

at

 this moment, I 

was also scared

. 

Lu Ming

almost 

went crazy

. He grabbed my arm. “What should I do now?” 

I thought that if the old man 

saw 

Lu Ming sleeping at night again, he would 

enter his 

dream. Thus, I asked him to 

go

 back to sleep. 

At first, he didn’t 

want to, so

 I had to coax him and talk him into it. 

After Lu Ming slept, I hid in the toilet to watch. The old man didn’t show up. For the 

next few nights

, I asked Lu Ming to sleep in different rooms and at different 

times

. However, 

t

he old man didn’t reappear. It seemed he 

was

 gone for good. 

Still,

 the tea bags in the drawer 

kept disappearing

. I became suspicious. If that ghost came for tea, why 

did

 he pester Lu Ming in his dreams? 

Did

 the other master’s yellow talismans provoke him? 

M

y Eight Diagrams formation was much more powerful than those talismans. So 

w

hy didn’t the old man look angry? 

A

lmost half a month passed and I had only seen the ghost once

. I was exhausted. There was n

o need to say how aggrieved I was. 

Since 

the old

ghost didn’t come, Lu Ming’s daily activities resumed, 

which included

 his tea business. However, he needed me to stay with him when he slept at night. I had somehow become his ‘bedmate.’ 

It was extremely boring

 and made me feel somewhat uncomfortable.

I wanted to try my luck the next time the ghost came to steal tea. If I couldn’t catch him, I would let this 

case

 go. No matter what, the ghost didn’t hurt anybody. 

Unexpectedly, the night before the ghost came, something really bad happened to Lu Ming! 

T

hat day, he went to Xiamen to discuss a business deal with a Japanese partner. He was so excited when he told me about it. 

I

f this deal 

was

successful

, his career would be one step higher! 

I could tell 

this

 was really important to him. However, I couldn’t be of help 

when it came to

 his business

, so

 I waited in the next room

 and played 

games on my phone. I was so into my game

when I 

suddenly heard

 a loud bang in the next room followed by Lu Ming’s thundering voice. 

I recognized something was wrong. I put my phone into my pocket and rushed to the meeting room next door. Lu Ming was picking up the chairs

 and throwing 

them at a man. The security guards were trying to 

stop

 him. However, they couldn’t approach him as 

he

 kept kicking them away. 

The man Lu Ming was hitting had 

a 

mustach

e

. 

He

 was Lu Ming’s Japanese partner. 

At this

 moment, 

the man

 was holding his bleeding nose. I suddenly had a strange sensation

 and

 remembered what Lu Ming had told me. This situation wasn’t right at all… 

He was a member of high society

. H

e was well-

mannered and 

wouldn’t hit people. 

Yet

, he was now using a chair with a backrest to hit a man

.

Moreover, his victim was his important business partner. With that thought, I 

grabbed

 Lu Ming

 and tried

 to calm him down. 

Lu Ming hysterically shouted at me

.

 “Get lost!”

Then, he kicked me. I didn’t expect that he would hit me too. I was c

aught o

ff guard

 and

 landed on my butt. 

I 

was

 almost 

out of

 breath after his kick. I couldn’t believe that a lanky man like Lu Ming could be so strong. I got up and shouted at the security guards. “Don’t stand 

there

! Come help me! If he continues 

to act this

 way, that man will be 

killed

!” 

The security guards reacted. 

Given the

 urgent situation, they 

stopped

caring about

 Lu Ming’s status. They swarmed and pinned him 

to

 the ground. 

Lu Ming struggled as if he 

was

 Hercules. 

H

is red eyes continuously switched between the Japanese man and me. 

W

hen he saw me, he clenched and 

ground

 his teeth. 

I took a deep breath 

when I saw

 his strange gaze. I looked around the meeting room and found two ball pens. Immediately, I jumped toward him

 and used 

the pens to grab his middle finger. Lu Ming shrieked

, and h

is body shook hard

. Then, 

his eyes rolled to the back of his head. He fainted shortly thereafter. 

Everybody else was frightened

 and moved away from 

him immediately. 

The

 meeting was dismissed. Soon, there were only two of us in the room. I was gasping for my breath and didn

’t return to my senses 

until the waiter of the hotel came and asked if I needed help. I pulled myself together

 and

 reached my back

,

finding

 that my shirt was damp with sweat. 

During the recent emergency, I hadn’t had the time to think. Still, 

m

y intuition told me that Lu Ming 

was

possessed

 by something foul. That

 was

 why I had decided to use the pens to grab his middle finger. After the spirit was expelled, I remembered we were in broad daylight! 

It was broad daylight and 

a

 spirit 

was able to

 inaudibly possess, then control Lu Ming in th

is

 room full of people! Th

is

 spirit was 

really

 strong! 

However, I wasn’t sure if that spirit was 

our old 

ghost. If not, 

more than one spirit had laid its eyes on Lu Ming, which was bad.

I asked the staff to help me 

carry

 Lu Ming to a room in the hotel to rest. I sat on another bed

 and recalled the time

 the ghost came to steal the tea. I reckoned that he 

was just 

fast

. He

 wasn’t strong enough to possess a living man during the day like this. 

While I was pondering, someone knocked on the door. When I opened the door, I 

saw

 it was the waiter that had just helped me. 

“Is there 

a

 problem?” I was a little anxious. At the same time, I checked the 

area

 behind him. Lu Ming had wounded a Japanese man. I was afraid that the waiter 

had

 come to our door with the police. 

However, the waiter 

was

 alone. He gave me a gentle smile and gave me an exquisite purple clay teapot. 

“Sir, this is Lu Ming’s favorite personal teapot. 

The last

 time he came here for a meeting, he forgot to collect it. We have kept it here for him. Today, we would like to return the item to the owner.” 

“Oh, thank you.” 

I smiled

 and received

 the teapot. I even planned to learn from 

a

 TV scene 

and

 give some tips to 

the

 waiter. However, the moment I 

took a good look at 

the teapot, my eyes opened wide! 

There was a faint layer of purple air that gently floated around the purple clay teapot. No matter how hard I 

shook

 the teapot, the purple air didn’t disperse. It was as if it 

was

 stuck on the teapot’s surface. 

I looked at the teapot

 and felt 

amazed. It was enough to conclude that this teapot was an otherworldly item. Moreover, it could be related to that ghost. 

More importantly, the waiter had told me that this teapot was Lu Ming’s

favorite teapot

and that he had lost it here. It didn’t sound logical to me. 

To a millionaire like him, something that could catch his eye must be 

very precious

. And

 although

 a long time had 

passed, he

 didn’t come to retrieve the item from the hotel. There 

was

 something 

strange about this! 

With that thought, I shoved a few hundred 

renminbi

at

 the waiter. “Hey man, could you tell me what happened the last time Mr. Lu came here to hold a business meeting?” 

The waiter smiled brightly when he 

received

 the money. But 

after hesitating

 for a while, he gave me back the money. “It’s a secret in the hotel. If someone knows I’ve disclosed this, I will be fired.” 

From his tone, I knew t

hat 

he 

knew 

something! I grabbed his hand

 and gave 

him more money

. I coaxed 

him for a while. The waiter hesitantly put the money into his pocket

 and asked 

me to swear that I wouldn

’t 

tell the story to anyone else. 

After seeing my confirming nod, he carefully whispered to my ear. “Last time they had a meeting here, Mr. Lu acted 

as if he was dying 

of thirst. He kept drinking tea

. Hi

s voice also changed! All of sudden, he had so many wrinkles on his face. Not even half an hour later, he looked thirty or forty years older.” 

“Everybody was scared

, and the

 business meeting was dismissed

.

 After everybody left, Mr. Lu’s face resumed to normal. He smiled

 and left.” 

As soon as the waiter told me that, more staff appeared in the corridor. The waiter blinked at me and left 

quickly

. 

According to him, the current meeting was the second one that was 

ruined

 because of the ghost.

 Without a doubt

, it was the work of th

at old man

. 

I carefully studied the purple clay teapot. These types of teapots were first produced in the Ming Dynasty. The ones produced in Jiangsu 

were

 the best

since the area has a special purple clay

. It was

 the best material to create beautiful teapots. Those purple clay teapots c

ould

 boost the quality of the tea. A

t

 a 

glance, I could tell that it was an antique as c

ontemporary items 

didn’t

 have such

 quality.

I lifted the lid of the teapot. A waft of tea aroma arose, 

which mixed

 with the cold air outside. 

At the first wisp, I thought it smelled like jasmine honey tea 

you could find in

 any supermarket. However, after a while, the tea aroma became more refreshing, just as if it 

had

 just 

been

 brew

ing

 for a while. 

It seemed the old ghost had stolen tea leaves to make good tea. He must have loved tea a lot when he was alive. I suddenly recalled Ji Xiaolan’s tobacco pipe I had collected a long time ago. I became curious about this tea-loving ghost. 

I 

took out

 my magnifying glass and observed the teapot. Soon, I found the problem!