The Chariot Reversed Part 2

"How is this..." Tan Xiao pondered, "Then is this card still useful, can it take them back?"

Chen Yinghe raised her hand, "If you want to take them back, try using the scepter to tap the card and chant an incantation?"

Tan Xiao, "Don't think I haven't watched anime."

He was a shaman, not a magical girl.

"Alright, now first explain your motive and purpose for committing the crime," Tan Xiao decided to interrogate them first. "Do you have any obsessions?"

The golden-haired warrior was lying on the ground looking like he had lost the will to live, but his eyes lit up upon hearing this, "I don't have any motive, I only have passionate love. As long as I can always see her beautiful face."

The two sphinxes nodded, "We're just assisting."

Ah Jin, "Uh, how domineering."

Chen Yinghe, "...???"

At first, Tan Xiao thought it was some ghost entangled with Chen Yinghe. After seeing them, he just thought their minds worked differently after gaining spiritual awareness, like the sugar sprites insisting on carrying the guy to the mountains.

But he didn't expect that Chen Yinghe hadn't provoked him, just... fell in love at first sight?

No, it's unknown how long ago Chen Yinghe bought the cards. It could also be love born from long acquaintance.

Chen Yinghe was stunned for a long time before clenching her fist, "This quota for gaining a spirit, can't it be given to the otome game cards I drew?"

Although this golden-haired warrior was a 2D character, he belonged to the brawny muscular male type, really not her preference at all! And pulling this stalker routine, no way, no way!

"You heard it, she's not interested in you. Give it up," Tan Xiao said.

The golden-haired warrior looked at Chen Yinghe strangely, "It's not her."

"Not me?" Rather than embarrassment, Chen Yinghe felt more doubt, "Then why do you keep following me and scaring me?"

"No, no," the golden-haired warrior also realized this misunderstanding was huge, "I'm the Chariot card, not the Death card. Why would I scare you? Although we've cooperated for so long, you're really not my type. You look..."

The golden-haired warrior thought about how to describe it, "Too 3D."

Chen Yinghe, "..."

Chen Yinghe was numb, "Then the one you like is someone else, who is it?"

The golden-haired warrior blushed a little, but still loudly said, "It's that painting you drew, the outstanding assignment that was just hung up." Even in his attitude towards love, he charged forward bravely.

Tan Xiao had also seen that painting and heard about its content from Kong Xuan. He looked at Chen Yinghe for confirmation, "Isn't that your self-portrait? No mistake, right?"

Chen Yinghe said in a daze, "No mistake..."

That one was a portrait assignment last time, a color portrait she drew of herself. Speaking of which, such a thing had indeed never happened in their studio before. She herself had never encountered it either, until she finished that painting and hung it up.

At that time in the studio, she put the tarot cards in her bag and left it at the very back of the studio. It seemed those easels indeed blocked the line of sight between the bag and the portrait.

Later she forgot to take her bag and a supernatural event occurred in the studio, but she herself wasn't really affected. When she took the bag home, things happened again, with paint spilling and brushes falling. Could it have been reminding her to go to the studio so it could see its beloved painting again?

"You... you..." Chen Yinghe tried to organize her words several times but really couldn't think of what to say. She covered her head. Damn this world for being so unbelievable.

Tan Xiao also thought in his heart what kind of bizarre thing this was, but logically speaking, it seemed to make sense for a character on a card to fall in love with another portrait. "So this is also a misunderstanding, you don't want to pester Chen Yinghe, you just want to see your goddess, haha."

The blond warrior nodded, "That's right."

Since there was no grudge to resolve between the Chariot card and Chen Yinghe, there was no need to go through any process, which made Ah Jin breathe a sigh of relief, one less procedure to deal with.

"But objectively speaking, you did affect everyone's classes and rest, so come with us." Tan Xiao looked at the card and asked Chen Yinghe, "You might be missing a card here, do you want it to compensate you?"

"Forget it, forget it, no need." Chen Yinghe said repeatedly, "I feel that to some extent, he also recognizes my appearance and appreciates my painting skills quite a bit. But to be honest, I might have a bit of a shadow over this card in the future, so for card faces, I'd better..."

Tan Xiao joked, "Why don't you print your self-portrait as a card too, to commemorate this event."

Such a magical thing was hard for a person to encounter. And Tan Xiao had heard from Yu Zhenzhen that they needed to have their own understanding of the card faces to interpret tarot, so for Chen Yinghe, she might have a unique and deep insight into the Chariot card in the future.

"Haha, I'd like to, but the system is fixed." Chen Yinghe suddenly laughed, "Speaking of which, I've always had the idea of painting a set of Chinese-style tarot card faces, but I never had much inspiration. But today, it seems I suddenly found the inspiration for what style to use."

That is, a romantic and mysterious Chu shaman style with red and black as the main colors.

"Then congratulations to you?" Tan Xiao didn't know what card faces she was going to paint, why she looked so ecstatic, are painters always like this when they get inspired, he thought for a moment, "There's one thing I still hope you can agree to, you and our class monitor are good friends, please don't tell her the truth, my identity..."

Ah Jin, as a staff member of the Bureau 404, had asked Chen Yinghe, while Tan Xiao, from the perspective of having a common friend, had also made a request.

"You think too highly of me." Chen Yinghe said with a wry smile, "With such a complex identity, I wouldn't be able to explain it clearly even if I wanted to."

Tan Xiao: "..."

Chen Yinghe took out her phone to check the time, she hadn't been back all day, and her parents had sent messages asking about her, and when she looked, she found that her phone was about to run out of battery, "Oh my, I need to charge it quickly."

"Do you have a charging cable?" Tan Xiao asked.

"Yes." Chen Yinghe took it out from her bag that she always carried with her, looking around, "Let me see, where's the plug?"

"Let me." Ah Jin suddenly said, he took Chen Yinghe's data cable, not daring to lift his mask, and inserted it from the edge.

Ah Jin sucked on Chen Yinghe's USB for a moment, and the phone was instantly fully charged.

The others: "..."

......

"You three..." It was time to go, Tan Xiao looked at the Chariot group, "Can you go back into the card by yourselves?"

The blond warrior looked at Chen Yinghe with eager eyes.

Chen Yinghe said helplessly, "That painting can be reproduced for you to appreciate, see if it can also come to life in the future..."

The blond warrior was overjoyed.

The Chariot trio returned to the card, and Tan Xiao saw that the card face was slightly different from before. This time, the blond warrior's posture was sitting in place, holding his face, tilting his head and dreaming of a beautiful future, and the two sphinxes also lay down.

Thinking about the cards that should have come to life but didn't (referring to the ones she spent so much money to draw), and the ones that shouldn't have come to life but did (and even said she looked too 3D), Chen Yinghe felt mixed emotions for a moment.

"Master, can I still continue to use that talisman?" Chen Yinghe asked, she was afraid of encountering this kind of thing again in the future. Although people can't be that unlucky, it's better to be prepared.

"Of course, you can also recite the incantation, the Peacock God will bless the believers." After Tan Xiao said that, he saw Kong Xuan raise his face a little.

"Okay, okay," Chen Yinghe said curiously, "But if you don't mind me being bold, I'm not very familiar with this Peacock God. Is it male or female, what does it look like, and is its scope of business only exorcism?"

Tan Xiao laughed to himself and said with a straight face, "It's a male deity, very good-looking, with a very wide range of business, from warding off evil, fighting, to academics, and even officiating marriages."

- Whether it was effective or not, Kong Xuan had indeed served as a god officiating underworld marriages, and had also responded to his academic prayers. And in the future, he should also take on the role assigned by the Primordial Phoenix God.

"I see!" Chen Yinghe exclaimed in amazement, "I've learned something new, Master, you have good taste, the gods you worship are a bit more fashionable than others." What is fashionable? It's that Tan Xiao said this one is very good-looking!

When Kong Xuan heard Tan Xiao... um, when he heard Chen Yinghe praise Tan Xiao's taste, he proudly clasped his hands behind his back.

"You can also try praying." Seeing that Kong Xuan was in a good mood, Tan Xiao reminded, "But be realistic, don't say things like paper people coming to life and being with you, praise the great god more."

Ah Jin looked at this scene and felt a bit mind-blown. It's said that shamans are communicators between humans and gods, but he never thought he would see a scene where a god and a human were separated by only two meters, with a shaman standing in the middle relaying messages.

"Hehe." Chen Yinghe thought of her self-portrait having a love life, and holding that talisman, she said, "Then I hope the Peacock God can bless me and my crush to further develop... It's said that the great god is good-looking and capable, this must be a piece of cake for you!"

She praised effusively as Tan Xiao had said, before putting away the talisman, "Hey, do you think this Peacock God has a partner? Since he's good-looking and has a marriage officiating business, he must have a fulfilling love life himself. I hope he can give me some good luck."

Kong Xuan: "............"