Chapter 58
Chapter 58
The Show-Off King’s face suspiciously turned red. He took an awkward step back and said in a small voice, “No… It’s…”
“It’s what? Spit it out! Are you trying to give me a heart attack?” Lu Changxue burst out of the jade pendant. Relying on the fact that ordinary passersby couldn’t see her, she circled Si Wuming and screamed at the top of her lungs.
Lu Changxue: “It’s perfectly normal to like my Darling! Any handsome guy in this world who doesn’t like my Darling deserves to die!”
Yun Jianyue reached out and dragged back her shameless best friend. Staring at Si Wuming’s flushed face, she felt a little itch in her claw.
Following her principle of never shortchanging herself, whenever her claw itched, she did something to make it stop.
So, while holding Lu Changxue up with one hand, Yun Jianyue reached out with her claw and pinched Si Wuming’s handsome, fair cheek.
Damn! The texture was incredible! Wasn’t this much better than that duck?!
Si Wuming: !!!
His pupils practically shook with shock. Si Wuming grabbed Yun Jianyue by the wrist and pulled her hand away. His stammer was gone, and his voice even trembled with excitement. “There’s a storm brewing lately. Don’t run around for the next few days, and don’t go to City B on your own like you did the other day! I gave you a gift because it would’ve been rude to show up empty-handed during the New Year!”
Lu Changxue let out a ghostly howl. “Are you sure? Are you really sure? She only pinched your cheek, and you reacted that strongly! Do you even know what liking someone means?!”
Panicking, Si Wuming raised a hand and slapped a seal onto Lu Changxue, successfully silencing her.
Lu Changxue: “Mmm mmm mmm mmm?”
“She’s asking whether you have any manners,” Yun Jianyue translated helpfully. She shook her wrist and asked, “Could you stop trembling when you grab me? You look like you have Parkinson’s.”
Only then did Si Wuming realize that he was still holding Yun Jianyue’s wrist. He quickly let go, clasped both hands behind his back, and twisted all ten fingers together until they were practically knotted into a rope.
People came and went around Couples’ Lake at University A. A girl walked past with her boyfriend, then silently backed up. She adjusted her nearsighted glasses and confirmed Yun Jianyue’s identity.
“Yun Jianyue?”
“Qiao Yiyi?”
Qiao Yiyi was Yun Jianyue’s roommate, and the two usually got along well. When Qiao Yiyi saw the handsome Si Wuming standing in front of Yun Jianyue with his cheeks flushed red, her gaze bounced back and forth between them several times. Then, as realization dawned, she let out an exaggerated, “Ohhh.”
Yun Jianyue’s alarm bells went off. “What do you mean, ‘oh’?”
Qiao Yiyi grabbed her boyfriend and ran. “Run! Hell has finally frozen over: Yun Jianyue has a boyfriend! Hurry and tell everyone! If there’s anyone who doesn’t know Yun Jianyue is dating someone, I’ll be heartbroken, okay?!”
“Qiao Yiyi, stop right there!” Yun Jianyue took off after her, but Si Wuming caught hold of the hem of her clothes.
Yun Jianyue turned to look at him. “Is there something else?”
Si Wuming asked in a small voice, “What does liking someone feel like?”
When he asked, he didn’t even dare look Yun Jianyue in the eye. Only the tips of his ears were red enough to bleed.
Lu Changxue: “Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm!”
Damn it! Why wouldn’t they let her speak? She wanted to speak! Ghosts had rights too!
Yun Jianyue poked the hand clutching her clothes. Si Wuming immediately let go as if he’d been burned.
“To be honest, I don’t know either. I’ve never liked a man,” Yun Jianyue said, then promptly added, “Or a woman.”
Si Wuming stared at Yun Jianyue in shock, but she had already turned around to chase Qiao Yiyi.
“You bastard, stop spreading rumors! I’m single and thriving on my own!”
Lu Changxue: “Mmm mmm mmm!”
Yun Jianyue: “I don’t have a husband! Mo Chen was an accident! We’re getting divorced sooner or later!”
Lu Changxue: In ancient times, Zhong Wuyan was needed when there was trouble, and Xia Yingchun was wanted when there wasn’t. These days, Yun Jianyue only looks for Mo Chen when she doesn’t have a chainsaw. Once she has one, she doesn’t recognize even her own family.
In the end, Yun Jianyue still didn’t catch Qiao Yiyi. Yet within a single day, everyone on Yun Jianyue’s social media knew that the perpetually single Yun Jianyue finally had a boyfriend.
Even while Yun Jianyue was eating, Qiao Yiyi shamelessly sidled over with a snicker.
“That handsome guy from last night was pretty good-looking. You two make a great match. Hurry up and get him! I want to hear that you’ve hit a home run within three days!”
Zhou Benxin happened to hear Qiao Yiyi say this while eating in the cafeteria. He came over too. “I knew people who share a dorm would be birds of a feather. Hello, upperclassmen.”
Yun Jianyue rolled her eyes at them both and continued eating on her own.
Yet in the short span of five minutes, Zhou Benxin had already heard a brand-new version from Qiao Yiyi.
Zhou Benxin: “You and the Show-Off King already hit a home run?!”
Yun Jianyue: “…”
Sometimes, going out to eat without her chainsaw left Yun Jianyue feeling truly defenseless. So she turned around and smacked Zhou Benxin across the face.
Zhou Benxin covered his cheek and lowered his head to eat with a wounded expression. He was still just a 1.8-meter-tall, 198-pound child. Why did everyone keep hitting him?!
“Since you hit him, you can’t hit me too, right?” Qiao Yiyi said, shrinking back a few steps.
Suddenly, Qiao Yiyi remembered something else. “We’re going haunted-house exploring tonight. Want to come?”
Qiao Yiyi’s boyfriend, Hu Qi, was an online streamer. He had originally been a singing-and-piano talent streamer, but his looks weren’t enough to carry him, and he never attracted much traffic.
So Hu Qi took a more unconventional route and started livestreaming haunted-house explorations. His viewership took off immediately.
Having gotten a taste for it, Hu Qi had already done five or six haunted-house exploration livestreams. Tonight, he chose an abandoned hotel as his location. He invited Xia Yiyi and several other classmates, and told Qiao Yiyi that she could come too if she wanted to bring people along.
“Oh, right. Senior, are you coming too? I’m going haunted-house exploring tonight as well.” Zhou Benxin was Hu Qi’s classmate and had been invited by him first thing that morning.
Yun Jianyue said nothing. Lu Changxue, inside the jade pendant, started cheering excitedly instead. “A haunted house! Let’s go, let’s go! Maybe I can make a few new friends!”
After being persuaded by two people and one ghost, Yun Jianyue agreed, if only to get some peace and quiet.
At nine that evening, seven people and one ghost arrived at the entrance of the abandoned hotel.
The seven people were Hu Qi, Qiao Yiyi, Zhou Benxin, Yun Jianyue, Hu Qi’s two roommates Xu Yang and Song Lu, and Mo Chen.
Zhou Benxin’s legs were trembling. The mountain-sized man shrank behind Yun Jianyue. “Senior, I have to ask… why is your husband here too?”
Qiao Yiyi was curious as well. “Yeah, who is this incredibly handsome guy?”
Mo Chen, the center of attention, dropped a bombshell without the slightest hesitation. “I’m her husband.”
Everyone: ?
Everyone: !!!
The people who had no idea what was going on all gave Yun Jianyue a thumbs-up. “That’s incredible! Yun Jianyue finally got a boyfriend, and somehow ended up with two!”
Yun Jianyue pulled out a chainsaw and stared expressionlessly at the people giving her thumbs-up. “If you don’t need those thumbs, donate them to someone who does.”
The others hurriedly shoved their hands into their pockets.
Yun Jianyue herself had no idea why Mo Chen had suddenly appeared. That man was impossible to predict. After showing up and hearing that she was going haunted-house exploring, the Evil God, who had never enjoyed any human entertainment, became interested.
And that was how the scene before them had come to be: Yun Jianyue had arrived with Mo Chen in tow.
Hu Qi had already started the livestream. The moment the stream opened, the viewers saw a beautiful woman holding a chainsaw, and the comments immediately exploded.
[Dog of Kakashi: Saw?]
[Thirty, Divorced, Eight Kids: Beauty, don’t chop the streamer. Chop me instead!]
[Chen, the Hardware Store Owner: That chainsaw has an incredibly powerful motor. You can tell at a glance that this beauty knows her way around chainsaws!]
There were still a few serious people in the comments.
[Clear Song, Returning with the Wind: Where are you exploring tonight, streamer?]
[Reborn as Chrollo of the Phantom Troupe: Isn’t that the famous haunted building in City A? I’ve been there before. There really are ghosts inside!]
Reading the comments, Hu Qi put on the trademark smile of a livestreamer and explained to his viewers, “That’s right. Tonight, we’re exploring City A’s famous haunted building, Hongdou Hotel.”
Hu Qi then introduced each of his companions. When the camera landed on Yun Jianyue, the comments went wild, with everyone shouting for her to use the chainsaw on them.
When the camera moved to Mo Chen, the comments fell silent for a moment. Then the female fans instantly took over the screen.
[My Husband Is Still in Kindergarten: One minute. I want all this man’s contact information!]
[No Marriage, No Kids, Live in Peace: Husband! I’m totally losing it over you, husband!]
[The Author Is in Great Mental Shape Today: End the stream, streamer. Just let my husband livestream instead. Husband! My dream man, ahhh!]
[Psychiatric Hospital, Bed 303: Look at you, so handsome and trying to seduce people. Hurry up and take off your clothes so I can go hssss!]
This was the Evil God’s first time encountering a livestream. Seeing the comments scrolling across the screen, he leaned closer with some curiosity.
When he saw the word “husband” flashing wildly across the screen, the Evil God silently walked over to Yun Jianyue’s side.
The Evil God voiced his most profound sentiment of the past countless millennia. “You humans really aren’t all idiots. There are plenty of perverts, too.”
Yun Jianyue, for example, was the first pervert he had ever encountered.
Yun Jianyue instinctively tried to smack Mo Chen across the face, but Mo Chen lightly caught her wrist. His towering shadow swallowed her whole in the darkness.
“The same trick won’t work twice.”
He was the Evil God. How could he possibly let the same woman slap him a second time?
Yun Jianyue stepped on Mo Chen’s foot, and his face darkened.
“Humans have an endless capacity for creativity,” Yun Jianyue said with a sweet smile. Especially when it came to beating up an Evil God, she had 108,000 different ways to do it.
Hu Qi continued managing the livestream, introducing the background of Hongdou Hotel to the viewers.
“Hongdou Hotel was built in the 1980s. Less than a year after its completion, a massive fire killed every guest and member of staff inside. The strange part was that it had been pouring rain that night, yet the fire still broke out.”
“The firefighters did everything they could, but they still couldn’t save a single person. Later, the city planners wanted to demolish the abandoned building, but for some unknown reason, the demolition never happened.”
“According to local rumors, the demolition crews actually entered the site back then, but several workers suddenly died one after another. The same thing happened even after they brought in several different demolition crews. From then on, rumors spread that a vengeful ghost in Hongdou Hotel was taking people’s lives.”
Hu Qi grinned. “Brothers, all it takes is one virtual treasure map, and the streamer and his friends will head into Hongdou Hotel right now!”
Soon, a virtual treasure map appeared on the screen, along with a comment.
[Enter Hongdou Hotel and Die: Sent a treasure map. Hurry up and go in, streamer.]