Xu Xiaofan, being a newcomer, was assigned to accompany the singing.
He sat to the right of Su Li, while Qin Rong sat to her left.
Even though he had been trained, Xu Xiaofan was still very nervous sitting next to Su Li, even with a space between them.
Su Li was fully focused, singing an old Cantonese pop song from twenty or thirty years ago.
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He stole a few glances at Su Li, and it was during these glances that he noticed something unusual—Su Li was surrounded by a lot of Yin Qi.
"What songs can you sing?" Su Li suddenly asked Xu Xiaofan.
"Ah!"
Xu Xiaofan's attention was on the Yin Qi around Su Li, and when he heard her question, he instinctively replied, "I can't."
"You can't? Didn't I ask your manager to arrange for someone who can sing to accompany me? If you can't sing, what are you doing here?" Su Li's face showed obvious displeasure upon hearing Xu Xiaofan's answer.
Before Su Li could call the supervisor to replace him, Xu Xiaofan quickly said to her, "Do you often have nightmares, and during the day, experience hallucinations, like seeing evil spirits?"
"You, how do you know?" Su Li was stunned. Although she had injured several people at Gilded KTV because of inexplicable ghost sightings, she had never told anyone that she saw them as ghosts, which is why she suddenly acted out.
She had seen both Western and Chinese doctors, visited temples and Taoist temples, and even invited monks to perform rituals, but nothing worked for her frequent nightmares and daytime ghost sightings.
Apart from her family, Qin Rong, and a few close besties, she had never mentioned her ghost sightings and nightmares to anyone else.
Moreover, when she went to Taoist temples and monasteries and told the Taoist priests and monks that she might be haunted by evil spirits, they instead comforted her, saying it was due to work stress and mental fatigue causing hallucinations.
Seeing that Xu Xiaofan could tell she had nightmares and saw ghosts during the day, she felt like she had found a lifeline and quickly asked him, "Since you can see my symptoms, do you have a way to cure them?"
She was terrified by the nightmares at night and ghost sightings during the day, so she was desperate for any solution. To her, any glimmer of hope was worth grasping.
"Let me try. Stretch out your hand," Xu Xiaofan said.
Although she didn't know what Xu Xiaofan intended to do, Su Li still extended her right hand towards him as he instructed.
Qin Rong, sitting on the other side, was also curious. She knew how severe Su Li's symptoms were, and even as her best friend, she feared Su Li might suddenly go crazy. If they hadn't been besties for over ten years, she wouldn't have risked coming over.
Seeing Xu Xiaofan describe Su Li's symptoms so clearly, she wondered if she had gotten too carried away last night and blurted something out that Xu Xiaofan overheard. Otherwise, how could he know about Su Li's ghost sightings?
However, she felt that even if she were excited, she wouldn't have said such nonsense at that time. Even if she did babble, it shouldn't have been about Su Li.
Xu Xiaofan, like an old Chinese doctor, placed his right hand, pressing his index, middle, and ring fingers on Su Li's right wrist, appearing to take her pulse.
Xu Xiaofan's grandfather was a barefoot doctor in the village, and his father inherited his grandfather's skills, becoming the village doctor. Logically, Xu Xiaofan should have followed in his father's footsteps.
However, Xu Xiaofan's father didn't want him to spend his life in a small place like Yellow Mud Village, so he encouraged Xu Xiaofan to venture into the big city. Moreover, Li Huimei had long gone to Jinling City, and Xu Xiaofan's father hoped he would develop feelings for her.
With his right hand on Su Li's wrist, Xu Xiaofan controlled a trace of Spiritual Qi to enter her body, quickly finding the root of her symptoms.
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Qin Rong, watching from the side, thought Xu Xiaofan was just pretending. Pulse diagnosis in Chinese medicine is a profound art, and she didn't believe someone as young as Xu Xiaofan could truly master it.
What she didn't know was that Xu Xiaofan's family was somewhat of a "medical family." Having been influenced since childhood, Xu Xiaofan, due to his extraordinary talent and early practice of cultivation techniques, had surpassed his father and grandfather in medical skills.
He didn't want to outshine his father and grandfather, so he kept his abilities hidden. Even his father and grandfather didn't know that his medical skills had long surpassed theirs.
Just as Xu Xiaofan was about to withdraw his hand, he suddenly felt a surge of pure Spiritual Qi flow from Su Li's body into his through his right hand. With this influx of pure Spiritual Qi, Xu Xiaofan immediately felt invigorated.
"No wonder Su Li sees ghosts even during the day. It turns out she has a Pure Yin Body, a constitution extremely prone to attracting spirits, but it's beneficial for the technique I'm cultivating!" The Nameless Technique Xu Xiaofan practiced included information about the Pure Yin Body.
He didn't understand it before, but after his relationship with Qin Rong, which greatly enhanced his abilities, the Nameless Technique in his mind became increasingly clear.
While taking Su Li's pulse, more knowledge surfaced in his mind, revealing that Su Li possessed the rare Pure Yin Body. If he engaged in Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation with her, his power would increase dramatically.
For Xu Xiaofan, a woman like Su Li with a special constitution was like nourishment. As long as he continued to absorb it, his own strength would keep growing.
"How is it? Did you find out why I see ghosts during the day?" Su Li asked anxiously when she saw Xu Xiaofan deep in thought.
After withdrawing his hand, Xu Xiaofan said, "Are you wearing any jade pendants or similar accessories?"
Su Li nodded, "Yes, I have a jade pendant necklace around my neck."
Saying this, she prepared to remove the pendant from her neck.
But Xu Xiaofan quickly stopped her, "Don't move, let me do it. This jade pendant is likely the culprit behind your ghost sightings. Touching it could do you more harm than good."
Hearing this, Su Li immediately stopped. She had worn the jade pendant for over a year, and the ghost sightings had only started in the past six months, becoming increasingly severe. She hadn't connected the pendant with her ghost sightings.
Xu Xiaofan stood up and walked in front of Su Li. Looking at her stunning face, he couldn't help but hold his breath as he slowly reached out to remove the jade pendant from her neck.
He took the cold, glowing jade pendant from Su Li's fair neck and placed it on the glass table of the private room's coffee table.
As soon as the pendant left her body, Su Li felt a lightness on her shoulders, and the oppressive feeling that had been suffocating her seemed to dissipate somewhat.