Chapter 84

Chapter 84

-Li Xiaoqin: ……

-Hahahahaha, Streamer, give Sister Li a break. Why do you keep digging pits for this one ghost in particular?

-I’m dying. Sister Li joined the fan club, lost an apartment, and now she’s getting a cheap son for free.

-Sister Li is the purest sucker alive.

Qiao Yu suddenly sighed. “That child had such a pitiful life. His parents sent him to Yucai Academy because of his sexual orientation, and then he ran into a homophobic psychologist who shocked him with electricity every day…”

-Sadako: Tsk. What a poor child.

-Painted Skin: I hate myself so much. Back then, I couldn’t protect him…

-Li Xiaoqin: How can there be parents this cruel in the world?!

Qiao Yu nodded in agreement, regret filling his eyes. “Forget it. I guess my good intentions backfired. I’ll ask the other ghosts. Is there anyone in the Live Stream Room willing to adopt No. 59 Ghost?”

-Sadako: Although I’ve never raised a child before, I’ll do my best. Unlike certain ghosts, who know how to raise kids but still refuse. How heartless.

-Painted Skin: Although I owe the bank over a hundred thousand, I really can’t stand by and watch. Baby qy, let me raise him. I’ll try my best not to drag the child down.

-Li Xiaoqin: Like either of you know jack about raising a child! Fine, I’ll do it. Sigh.

Qiao Yu said, “Sister Li, forget it. Don’t force yourself.”

-Sadako: I’ll raise him!

-Painted Skin: Give him to me!

-Li Xiaoqin: Both of you shut up. Nobody is taking him from me!

Qiao Yu gave a deliberately reluctant nod. “Then I suppose we’ll give him to Sister Li. You two don’t know how to raise children anyway. But let’s make one thing clear first: no returns this time, okay?”

-Li Xiaoqin: Don’t worry. Who do you think I am, you?

-?? Sister Li, calm down. Those two up there are stirring the pot!

-Sadako: @Gambling Ghost, shut up. Don’t make me crawl up to your window in the middle of the night.

Afraid Li Xiaoqin would be snapped out of it by Gambling Ghost, Qiao Yu hurriedly said, “Sister Li truly is beautiful and kindhearted. All right, dear viewers in the Live Stream Room, this time we’ve arrived at a new Instance: Ningping County First People’s Hospital.”

Qiao Yu swiftly changed the subject, acting like an outdoor travel streamer. “The place where your streamer currently stands is the hospital’s employee dormitory. Although the cleaners earn sixty thousand a month, the living environment is less than ideal… Let me wipe my hands first, and then I’ll continue explaining for every… one?”

As if to prove Qiao Yu’s point, the hand he had extended toward the towel froze in midair. His expression went blank in an instant.

The towel hanging on the rack by the sink was ragged and full of holes, its frayed edges yellowed, brimming with a sense of age.

Qiao Yu immediately withdrew his hand with restrained elegance and gave a smile that didn’t reach his eyes. “Never mind how high the salary is at this hospital. They really do know how to save money. A sixty-centimeter towel has been developed into one point two meters. Even my bath towels aren’t this big.”

He glanced at the fingernail-sized white object in the soap dish and continued his mockery. “And look at this thing. I seriously thought someone had spit gum into the soap dish.”

-The streamer’s roasting skills are seriously top-tier hahahahaha.

-Oh right, I think I saw the guy from last time who cursed the ** ghost into tears, haha. I wonder which of these two has the sharper tongue. I really hope they get into a battle!

-You’ve got guts for even imagining that. I think “I’m Your Dad” is better. His insults never repeat, and they’re always fresh. “Fan Jianqiang” starts spewing filth at the drop of a hat. Tsk, tsk. Makes me uncomfortable just hearing it.

-Yeah, his main thing is aura. He looks fiercer than a ghost.

Qiao Yu took a towel and toiletries out of his Spatial Grid, ate something casually, then lay down on the single bed.

Then he started watching carpet-cleaning videos.

Don’t ask. If you ask, it’s for stress relief.

Before he knew it, he’d watched all the way until afternoon. From carpet cleaning, he moved on to mushroom foraging. From mushroom foraging, he moved on to ear cleaning. And from ear cleaning, he somehow ended up watching donkey hoof trimming.
In the end, his happiness was interrupted by a knock at the door.

Bang, bang, bang, bang. Four knocks.

“Qiao the Janitor, the head nurse is calling everyone to assemble.”

The voice outside the door was stiff, without the slightest rise or fall in tone.

Qiao Yu answered, washed his face, then grabbed his mop and broom and headed out to gather with the others.

By the time he reached the inpatient ward on the sixth floor, the ward-round nurse was just leading the streamers out. They were lined up in a row, silent as they headed for the elevator.

By the time Luo Ziwei spotted Qiao Yu, it was already too late for him to cover his face. Before he could figure out how to shake the guy off, Luo Ziwei had already looked away first and entered the elevator listlessly.

Qiao Yu: ??

Why hadn’t this bastard pounced on him and started calling him Daddy?

Qiao Yu blinked in confusion. When he turned his head, the corner of his eye accidentally caught the glass mirror on the fire hydrant cabinet. In the reflection, the person looking back had a thick head of light-blond hair and a blue disposable mask over his face.

He looked like a completely different person.

Qiao Yu immediately let out a breath of relief. So he just hadn’t been recognized.

Relaxed, he stretched lazily, instantly feeling refreshed.

The cleaners, meanwhile, followed the head nurse into the shabby elevator reserved for staff. As soon as the head nurse stepped inside, she pressed the button for Basement Level One.

The elevator doors slowly slid shut. In the reflection, everyone stood there motionless, like wooden stakes planted in the ground. Qiao Yu uncomfortably rolled his neck.

Crack.

The sound of bones grinding together was especially jarring in the silent elevator. More than a dozen pairs of dull, lifeless eyes turned toward him in unison.

Qiao Yu’s back stiffened. He slowly straightened, then copied them and lowered his head slightly.

But their gazes did not move away. A hint of malice gradually surfaced in those numb eyes.

The head nurse took two steps forward and stared at Qiao Yu, expressionless. “Are you alive?”

The moment she said that, the eyes of the cleaning aunties lit up with faint excitement. Their hands tightened unconsciously around their buckets, and the sound of someone swallowing echoed through the elevator.

Qiao Yu hurriedly shook his head and began spouting nonsense with a perfectly serious face. “How could I be? I may not have been dead for long, but I really am deceased. If you don’t believe me, Head Nurse, you can use your stethoscope to listen to my heartbeat. See if it’s beating.”

The head nurse leaned forward as instructed and placed the stethoscope against Qiao Yu’s chest.

Silence. There was no sound at all through the stethoscope. Qiao Yu’s complexion also grew paler and paler because his heartbeat had stopped, until he was practically on par with the head nurse.

Ding-

The elevator arrived at Basement Level One. As the doors slowly opened, a gust of icy wind poured in. Qiao Yu tilted his head and reminded her, “Head Nurse, we’re here.”

The head nurse straightened. Suspicion still lingered in her eyes. “There really is no heartbeat.”

Hearing that, the restless cleaning aunties immediately quieted down and returned to their stiff, numb state.

Everyone walked out of the elevator. Basement Level One was cold-so cold that even Qiao Yu felt a trace of chill. Looking at the cleaning aunties beside him, every one of them had involuntarily hugged their arms and was shivering.

Ghosts were afraid of the cold too?

Qiao Yu’s dark eyes were filled with curiosity.

Seeing that Qiao Yu was not trembling, the head nurse’s suspicion finally faded completely. “You may be a new ghost, but your abilities are quite strong. You must have suffered an enormous injustice before you died, right?”

Qiao Yu immediately nodded. “I was once the young master of the wealthiest family in the world. On the day of my eighteenth birthday ceremony, my scheming illegitimate younger brother poisoned me and framed me.

“My father abandoned me. My family cast me out. After death, I became a vengeful ghost and swore to take back everything that belonged to me.”

The head nurse hurriedly asked, “And then?”

Qiao Yu swept his gaze over the pairs of eyes around him, all brimming with thirst for knowledge, and raised the corner of his mouth. “The rest is premium content. Cash App me fifty, and you can hear my revenge plan.”

The ghosts: “…”