Chapter 61

Chapter 61

Qiao Yu narrowed his eyes and continued, “Later, a wizard came to the forest. He cast a spell to bewitch Little Red Dress, making her kill seven of her little neighbors for him, one after another. Once the wizard’s divine power reached completion, he tried to kill Little Red Dress to silence her. Who would’ve thought Little Red Dress would awaken her love-addled brain and commit suicide first?”

-Why does this story sound weirdly familiar…

-+1

-+10086

-Can’t be sure yet. Let’s keep watching~

-Li Xiaoqin: ??

“Because Little Red Dress killed herself while wearing red clothes, she successfully turned into a vicious red-clad ghost after death. She took revenge where revenge was due, settled every grievance, and finally returned to the castle to happily drink her fat otaku happy water.”

-Confirmed. Does the protagonist of this story happen to have another name, Li Xiaoqin? (doge.jpg)

-Li Xiaoqin: …Do you have any manners??

-Pfft, I’m dying. I didn’t expect to hear a sequel to Ping’an Apartment here. So Sister Li likes drinking fat otaku happy water~

-Damn, this streamer really is a funeral treasure boy. Secretly following. I’ll be back next time.

-+nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine trillion.

-Li Xiaoqin: This is so annoying! Can someone tell me how to leave the streamer’s fan club?

-Sadako: Li Xiaoqin, have you forgotten who spent sixteen yuan to buy your son a bag of jelly snacks and fulfilled his childhood dream?

-Li Xiaoqin: …

-Hahahaha, Sister Li is the purest sucker alive.

Qiao Yu and the others left the office. On the way downstairs, they didn’t run into another ghost wall.

He looked at the bright red number “3” ahead of them and silently gave the Handprint Ghost a thumbs-up for keeping its word.

Just then, a native student from Class F suddenly ran out from around the corner. He froze when he saw the three of them, then let out a howl.

The three of them: “…!”

Immediately afterward, a chaotic series of footsteps sounded from downstairs.

Qiao Yu and the others hurriedly found the nearest multimedia classroom and ducked inside. The door had only just closed when a heavy thud came from behind them, followed by the roars of the ghosts outside as they slammed into the door. Luo Yunmeng pressed her thin back hard against the door panel, feeling as if her entire body had been shaken numb.

Qiao Yu wasn’t having a great time either. He clicked his tongue. “Fuck, these ghosts sure are united.”

“Qiao Xiaoyu.”

“What!”

Seriously, why are you calling your dad?!

Qiao Yu got irritated the second Shang Yan called him that. He had originally planned, after much painstaking effort, to hide his identity and properly circle around that guy.

For example, pretending to be a ghost in the middle of the night to scare him, letting him experience the sinister nature of the human world.

Who would’ve thought his cover would be blown so quickly?

His perfect plan had instantly become one massive joke.

It made him look not very smart, okay…

Disapproval showed on Shang Yan’s face. “Don’t swear all the time.”

Qiao Yu raised his head as if to look at him, but didn’t answer right away. In the dim classroom, his pupils seemed to glint with a faint, translucent sheen, gone in the blink of an eye.

The next second, he looked away and muttered, “What right do you have to control me? Do you live by the sea or something?”

Sticking your nose into everything.

“What right don’t I have to control you?”

“We’ve only known each other for a few days, and you’re already trying to control me. Who do you think you are?”

Shang Yan laughed, angered despite himself.

When things reached an extreme, they reversed. The angrier he was, the calmer he became. Only those amber eyes of his were filled with the frigid chill of an ice cavern. “Come here. I’ll tell you exactly who I think I am.”

As he spoke, he reached for Qiao Yu’s shoulder.

With one pair of hands missing from the effort, the multimedia classroom’s already flimsy door was knocked open and shut by the impacts. Luo Yunmeng desperately held it closed and gritted out, “Don’t let go, big brother!”

Qiao Yu looked at the approaching hand and nimbly took a step back. “Stop getting handsy all the time. Get away from me!”

Clang!

Luo Yunmeng: “…Fuck!”

“No can do. Today we’re going to have a proper talk about this and see exactly how many days we’ve known each other.” Shang Yan leaned forward and grabbed. Qiao Yu’s collar was caught, and he was involuntarily dragged several steps forward.

The person in front of him tugged at the corner of his mouth. His long, slender fingertips leisurely stroked over Qiao Yu’s collar. “Do you need me to give you a few examples?”
For a split second, the air fell dead silent.

Under all that pressure, Qiao Yu simply gave up on keeping up the act. He frowned and blurted, “No need! Fine, cards on the table, I’m done pretending. I’m a billionaire… Wait, no. I’m your ex-boyfriend. What are you gonna do about it?”

Shang Yan truly could not stand hearing that word. His eyes narrowed dangerously, and his aura crept toward Qiao Yu as slowly as a venomous snake. Enunciating each word, he said, “What. Do. You. Mean. ‘Ex.’ Boyfriend?”

When Qiao Yu was in a bad mood, he really was stubborn as hell. “It means you used to be my boyfriend, but you’re not anymore.”

“Wrong.” Shang Yan leaned in close. His warm fingertips lifted slightly and gently scratched beneath Qiao Yu’s chin as he corrected him at a leisurely pace. “You used to be. You still are.”

“No, you’re not.”

“Yes, I am.”

“No, you’re not!”

“Yes, I am!”

“No, no, no, no, no!!!”

Oh, so they were competing to see who could be louder?

Then Shang Yan suddenly roared, “No, I’m not!”

“Yes, you are!”

Hah. Just watch this young master shout you into submission.

Shang Yan abruptly released Qiao Yu’s collar, the smile spreading across his lips slowly warming again. “That’s more like it. Next topic.”

Only then did Qiao Yu realize he’d fallen for it. “Next topic, my ass. Get lost!”

This man was way too damn sinister.

Shang Yan looked at him as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he said nothing else.

Forget it. Let him say whatever he wanted.

Compared to “ex-boyfriend,” this was nothing.

Luo Yunmeng had watched the entire exchange and hadn’t been able to get a word in. At long last, she caught a gap, so furious that she yanked the flower hair tie off her head and flung it to the floor. “…Are you two elementary schoolers? What time do you think it is? And you’re still flirting here?”

Qiao Yu stared at her in disbelief. “Who is flirting with him?!”

“Fine, fine, fine, you’re not flirting. But the door is about to fall apart, okay? You two! Could you maybe! Think of something!!!”

-What is this elementary-schooler style romance? What do I do? It’s kind of shippable~

-Li Xiaoqin: What romance? Those two are dating??

-What’s going on with Sister Li… Didn’t you already know? Didn’t you people even set up some kind of… right, Love-Brain Tribe? It disbanded that fast?

-Li Xiaoqin: Mommy’s cleaning the room. What’s the Love-Brain Tribe?

-It’s Yuanyuan… Be good and give the phone back to your mom.

-Reject love-brain behavior. Start with the children. (doge.jpg)

-Not suitable for minors. Begone! Begone! Begone!

Luo Yunmeng really couldn’t hold on anymore.

Qiao Yu, however, did not immediately lend a helping hand. Instead, he pressed his lips together and looked around before finally walking over to the projector.

He unhurriedly aimed the lens at the white screen on the wall. As the beam of light hit the screen, a dry well appeared on it the next second.

“What are you doing?” Luo Yunmeng was struggling to brace her back against the door, her feet slowly sliding forward under the force pushing from outside.

If she ran out of strength, the Ghost outside were going to break the door down.

And yet!

At a life-or-death moment like this, the guy had actually run off to watch TV.

What was wrong with him?

Soon, a vengeful spirit in white crawled out of the well. She had a name familiar to practically everyone-Sadako.

“Fuck!” Luo Yunmeng saw Sadako lunge forward at an eerie speed. In the blink of an eye, she had already stretched a bluish-white arm out of the screen.

Startled, Luo Yunmeng stumbled and fell straight to the ground.

With a creak… the door opened!

She instinctively squeezed her eyes shut, but the horrific scene she imagined did not happen to her.

Instead, a strange, affectedly cutesy voice suddenly sounded beside her ear. “Gie gie~ what did you call me for?”

Curious, Luo Yunmeng opened her eyes. She saw Sadako, hair hanging loose over her face, leaning halfway out of the screen and greeting her “benefactor” in a friendly manner.

Qiao “Benefactor” Yu nodded and pointed toward the doorway. “Called you out to play.”

Sadako slowly turned her head to look over. Behind her, all the Ghost stood outside the door, as if someone had cast a paralysis spell on them.

Then Sadako clicked her tongue in disgust. “You scared me. These Ghost are way too ugly. I thought there was a whole Classic of Mountains and Seas standing outside the door.”

Luo Yunmeng: “…”