"Did you get the date wrong?" Bai Yuechen asked.

"I couldn’t have gotten it wrong. I checked the newspaper this morning. My... my sister was divorced, and her ex-family even had it published in the newspaper. I... I’ll go buy a newspaper..."

Chu Meng struggled to get up, but she was so terrified, so scared, that her legs were too weak to stand. She tried to get up several times, but fell back to the ground.

In a panic, she threw herself into Bai Yuechen’s arms, sobbing, "There must be a ghost, there has to be a ghost. Bai Yuechen, I must have seen a ghost."

Apart from a ghost, no one could have brought her back from Liangxi to Haidu in just half an hour.

Perhaps after crying and cursing for a while, or maybe because she was too frightened and mentally exhausted, Chu Meng fell asleep not long after.

As the two of them nestled together in sleep, suddenly a group of reporters burst into the abandoned courtyard, snapping a few photos of them with their cameras.

"Ah... who are you, what do you want, ah... don’t take pictures, don’t take pictures..." 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

The flash of the cameras startled Chu Meng awake. Realizing it was a group of reporters, she instinctively covered her face and anxiously shouted, "Who let you in, get out, get out now, don’t photograph us..."

"Second Miss Chu, I’m a reporter from South City Little News. Could you tell us if you’re living with Mr. Bai?"

"Second Miss Chu, have you and Mr. Bai gotten married?"

"Second Miss Chu, are you living together without a matchmaker, or are you a married couple?"

"Second Miss Chu, Mr. Chu said a few days ago that your involvement with Mr. Bai was a misunderstanding and a rumor. So is you sleeping together now also a misunderstanding?"

The reporters fired a barrage of questions. Chu Meng was so ashamed she wanted the ground to open up and swallow her.

At this moment, Bai Yuechen also slowly woke up.

Seeing him awake, the reporters turned their barrage of questions towards him, "Mr. Bai, have you signed a marriage contract with Second Miss Chu?"

"Mr. Bai, we heard you returned from studying abroad without graduating. Was this because of Second Miss Chu?"

"Mr. Bai, now that you’re homeless, are you considering marrying into the Chu Family, becoming a live-in son-in-law?"

"Mr. Bai, have you and Second Miss Chu gotten married?"

...

The commotion from the reporters attracted many nearby residents who gathered round, staring at Bai Yuechen and Chu Meng in shock.

"Wow, this house has been abandoned for over a decade, and now a young couple is living here?"

"Isn’t that the guy who’s been begging at the alley entrance lately, the one they call ’Huazi’?"

"Oh my, yes indeed, who would’ve thought this little beggar would marry such a delicate young wife."

"Pfft... what young wife, look at what that woman is wearing, clearly she’s from a rich family, not someone a poor beggar could match up with."

"Those people are calling that beggar Mr. Bai. Looking at his soft skin and tender hands, he must be a young master from a fallen wealthy family."

"Who would have thought that two young masters and mistresses would live in such a slum’s abandoned house."

"This is a haunted house. They won’t live here long."

"Shh, don’t let them hear. These kids are young, they’d be scared."

"Let them be scared, it doesn’t concern us."

...

A group of aunties dressed in patched-up clothes pointed at Chu Meng and Bai Yuechen, whispering and gossiping.

Some thugs leered at Chu Meng, casting inappropriate glances back and forth over her.