Insufficient balance

  On the way back, Ye Yizhe kept thinking about Feng Siniang's move and its meaning. Even if the intelligence of Fenghuang Society was strong, they wouldn't know the content of the private message sent by Xiao Yuling to him. He also believed that Xiao Yuling wouldn't spread it out with such a big mouth immediately. The only possibility is that Feng Siniang inferred from his recent actions.

  He was deeply afraid of Feng Si Niang, yet he couldn't understand why she would still want to join in on the commotion despite knowing about it. As the person in power at Feng Huang Corporation, she shouldn't be someone with a strong curiosity, and every move she made must have had an ulterior motive.

  Yi Zhe's heart was clear, even if he disagreed, Feng Si Niang would have other ways to enter the Xiao family banquet, as a famous Jiangzhou underground figure, where in Jiangzhou could she not go?

  At the same time, what shocked him was Xiao Yu Ling's identity.

  According to the information revealed by Feng Si Niang, Xiao Yu Ling is actually the second lady of the third generation of the Xiao family, one of the three major families in the south.

  He wasn't an insider, so he didn't know that the Mo family's Huaxia Business Alliance existed, but as for the Xiao family, this large conglomerate, Ye Yizhe had also heard of it before. On the Forbes China rankings, the Xiao family was also among the top, only he never thought that this woman who made his heart ache would actually be a member of the Xiao family.

  Ye Yizhe couldn't help but feel a sense of "one person attaining the Tao, and chickens and dogs rising to heaven" because of Xiao Yuling's invitation, which had even startled Feng Siniang. When Ye Yizhe asked the eldest young lady of the Xiao family, Feng Siniang only revealed a mysterious smile before leaving, without dispelling his doubts.

  As he watched his own affairs still without a settlement, the subsequent events slowly deviated from Ye Yizhe's imagined trajectory. He looked at Xiao Yu Ling's phone that had no response and fell into deep thought.

  "Hey Yezi, how's it going?"

  Looking at the message sent by Li Hu, Ye Yizhe directly called back, and Li Hu's anxious voice came over: "Yezi brother, did Feng Si Niang do anything to you?" After hearing the news from two subordinates who went back to report, he was so scared that he almost peed his pants. What good things could he have by secretly finding Ye Yizhe?

  Yeyizhe didn't return, he directly sneered: "Tiger son, have you caught your breath? Are you lively and energetic?"

  Listening to him say this, Li Hu's heart also calmed down, and he self-deprecatingly said: "I didn't think that after so many years have passed, I still can't calm down."

  Yi Zhe comforted: "Actually, when I first heard the news two years ago, I felt the same way as you do now. Maybe it's because we're just alike."

  Li Hu nodded and said: "I will bring back the teacher's wife, but what if she doesn't want to come back?"

  His concerns are not unreasonable, after all, if she wanted to come back, she would have done so long ago and wouldn't wait until now.

  "Don't worry, she'll definitely come back once she sees the jade pendant."

  "Alright then, Brother Yezi, you're busy, I'll go arrange this matter right away."

  Li Hu said and then hung up the phone, but Ye Yizhe took out another jade pendant from his pocket. If Li Hu were here, he would have discovered that this piece and the one he received were actually a pair. The two jade pendants were both fish-shaped, but neither of them looked complete on its own. They seemed to be part of an originally circular shape with rough edges, which only became smooth when fitted together.

  If Li Hu were to pay attention to the strange stories, he would have guessed that these two jade pendants were the famous Double Fish Jade Pendants of years ago.

  It is said that in the past, in Robo Lake, there were herders who reported that such a situation had occurred: the weather was abnormal, and the ground environment underwent significant changes for a short period of time, only to return to its original state afterwards. Therefore, the government arranged for Peng Gaomu to lead an investigation into this strange phenomenon on the spot, with most of the team members being military personnel.

  As a result, a major discovery was made in Robo Bay, where an intact base was found with a large number of unidentified devices at the time. Individual portable devices were screened out and brought back, among which the most important one is this double fish jade pendant.

  It's called the Double Fish Jade Pendant because when researchers took it for study and used it to experiment on fish, the pendant suddenly activated and a completely identical fish was replicated.

  Later, Peng Jiamu disappeared, and it is said that he was duplicated by the Gemini Jade Pendant, resulting in two of him. After that, a large number of mirror people appeared there, and both the troops and civilians were duplicated.

  Later, the government somehow leveled the place and the twin fish jade pendant also disappeared. Later, there were rumors that it was not because of the pendant, but because the place was originally an intersection point of parallel universes.

  Although it wasn't as magical as the rumors, jade was originally a spiritual object. When Zhe Yang accidentally obtained this double fish jade pendant, he treasured it and never allowed outsiders to touch it. It wasn't until he saw the pendant that Zhe Yang realized everything about its spirituality was just a legend. The reason it's called Double Fish Jade Pendant is because two fish are coiled around the center of the pendant, resembling a Tai Chi shape, vividly lifelike yet seemingly containing infinite energy. At first, Zhe Yang was drawn in by the lively eyes of the fish, as if they were alive in front of him.

  At that time, Ye Yizhe was still very young and curious about everything. When he saw Zheyang hiding something, he always wanted to find out what it was. Although as the most respected living Buddha of the Tibetan people, he only lived in a small room, how many places could be used to hide things? Moreover, Zheyang had always believed that whatever belonged to him would always belong to him, and what did not belong to him would eventually disappear with time, so he never hid these things. Ye Yizhe just took advantage of one occasion when Zheyang was not at home to secretly take out the Double Fish Jade Pendant.

  That is Ye Yizhe's unforgettable memory for this life.

  Two small fish carved from sheep fat jade were intertwined together, head and tail connected, four eyeballs facing upwards, leaving a blank space in the middle of the entwined body that Ye Yizhe could just pass his thumb through at that time. The smooth jade pendant had no carving marks, and even when he took it out again today, he still believed that this jade pendant was not man-made, but naturally formed.

  Just then, Zhe Yang came back.

  He pushed open the door and found Ye Yizhe holding his beloved treasure, without showing any dissatisfaction. Looking at the flustered Ye Yizhe, he smiled and said, "Do you like it?"

  His voice seemed to carry a magical power, Ye Yizhe looked at the jade pendant in his hand again, which had completely absorbed his attention at first glance, and nodded blankly.

  "After that, it's all yours, no matter what the outcome is, you'll be the one to bear it." Looking at Ye Yizhe with a dazed expression, Zhe Yang said those words that still make him think about them to this day and feel somewhat puzzled.

  But at that time, Ye Yizhe wouldn't think about the strangeness of those words, he just felt like he had found a delightful toy, and couldn't bear to part with the jade pendant. He grasped it in his hand, blowing on it from time to time, then holding it up in mid-air to admire it. Even Zhe Yang, who was standing beside him, revealed a warm smile.

  Just as Ye Yizhe was fully devoted to the jade pendant, something happened that he would never forget for the rest of his life.

  Four fish eyes protruding from the jade pendant suddenly floated out and blinked at Ye Yizhe.

  An inexplicable eeriness, which scared the then-young Ye Yizhe pale in an instant, also caused the jade pendant to slip from his hand and fall to the ground, shattering into two halves. When Ye Yizhe looked down at the ground with a pale face, he surprisingly found that the shattered jade pendant had no fragments except for the two halves, as if it had been deliberately cut in such a way.

  It wasn't until after a while that Ye Yizhe calmed down, but as soon as he thought about it being his master's most treasured item, he couldn't even bear to look at him.

  "As soon as one has something, it becomes a burden. Child, this is fate."

  Watching his most beloved thing shatter like this, Ye Yizhe, who had thought would be furious, didn't see any fluctuation on his face. Instead, he quietly picked it up and put it in Ye Yizhe's hand, stroking his hair as he spoke.