This time, running into a ghost, was it running into a ghost wall, right? Because he ran into a ghost and as a result even dragged the delivery rider into it?
The brains of ghosts… aren’t they a bit lacking too? He was inside his home, a tiny space of barely a dozen square meters, one glance and there was nowhere to hide. So what exactly was the ghost wall supposed to do? Trap him into pacing endlessly between the bathroom and the bedroom?
Still, thanks to that ghost wall, the rider had apologized to him with such sincerity that Lan Yu felt a faint, guilty sort of satisfaction.
What goes around comes around. Back when the rider was on the phone, he’d been so tough and unyielding yet the moment he ran into a ghost wall, he was crying in fright at the door. Really, one should learn humility from the very beginning of being a person.
Lan Yu couldn’t help wanting to laugh whenever he thought of the rider fleeing in panic but then again, why was it that the moment the rider handed the food to him, both of them were freed from the ghost wall?
Seen this way, it was almost as if the whole thing had been arranged specifically to vent Lan Yu’s anger. Could it be that, even though it was a ghost, because it was connected to the home, it followed the rule that one’s own people could only be bullied by one’s own people?
Returning to his room, Lan Yu touched his nourishing chicken soup rice. It had already gone completely cold but being someone who cherished food, he decided to heat it up and have it as a late night meal.
The vegetable porridge had been comfortable to eat but it digested quickly. He was sick, he needed nutrition, needed strength, in order to be sick properly.
39.2°
Lan Yu stared at the thermometer, his expression dazed.
Wasn’t this fever a bit too high?
His throat was parched and his nose felt even worse, after blowing it repeatedly, streaks of blood had already appeared.
It was four in the morning. Even after taking medicine, Lan Yu felt no drowsiness at all. He couldn’t sleep and without sleep, this illness could only be endured head on. Even if his spirits had been decent earlier, enduring it like this was beginning to feel unbearable.
Should he go to the hospital?
But was something as trivial as a cold and fever really worth a hospital visit?
As long as it hadn’t reached the point of dying, Lan Yu was utterly unwilling to go to the hospital.
Wrapped tightly in his blanket, Lan Yu tried to sweat it out, not forgetting to sit up and wring out a towel to place on his forehead to lower his temperature.
Though he couldn’t fall asleep, that didn’t mean he was fully conscious the whole time. His vision blurred, his thoughts muddled.
In a hazy daze, it seemed as if someone took the towel from his forehead. A hand brushed against his brow, an odd sensation yet his mind was too foggy to process it clearly. Vaguely, Lan Yu murmured, “Mom.”
But the moment he realized what he had called out, Lan Yu suddenly bit down on his lower lip, remembering that he had long since transmigrated. How could his mother possibly be here?
“Your parents are here.”
The unfamiliar voice that suddenly sounded by his ear made Lan Yu stiffen instantly in bed. His eyelids twitched uncontrollably, he didn’t dare open them yet didn’t dare keep them shut either.
That voice did not vanish after appearing once. Instead, it continued to echo beside his ear.
“Why… not come home… always sick… making your parents… worry.”
The words were fragmented, broken but Lan Yu was so shocked that he nearly forgot he was burning with fever.
There was something in his room.
Right by his bedside.
Lan Yu didn’t dare turn his head to look.
This voice was extraordinarily clear. Since the first time he had run into ghosts, this was the clearest voice he had ever heard, clear enough that the meaning was unmistakable. This was definitely a high level ghost!!
“Come home… parents… then good… properly… take care of you.”
Lan Yu wondered if his ears had been damaged by the fever. He couldn’t tell at all whether this voice belonged to a man or a woman.
“Your older sister… made you sick… parents will help… discipline her.”
Something was rhythmically patting his quilt. When Lan Yu finally couldn’t endure it anymore and slightly shifted his gaze to look at himself, he suddenly met an eye.
That eye gazed at him quietly. It wasn’t hollow, there was even a subtle emotion within it. Just that single eye was enough to convey a familiarity, an emotion that was anything but the indifference one would show to a stranger.
“Temperature too high… very dangerous… let big brother… help you treat it.”
Lan Yu suddenly smelled a strange scent of disinfectant spreading through the warm room. The familiar smell was far too strong, as if gauze soaked directly in disinfectant had been pressed over his mouth and nose.
Lan Yu abruptly widened his eyes, struggling desperately to move his body but that all too familiar sensation, his mind crystal clear while his body refused to obey, returned.
He was anesthetized.
Forcing his eyes to angle toward the bedside, a plain figure entered his field of vision. It was the same size as a human, dressed in a spotless white coat, neat and proper.
A familiar surgical cap and mask tightly covered its entire face and on top of that, it even wore a pair of black framed glasses, blocking any chance of glimpsing its true form.
The doctor extended both hands. White surgical gloves wrapped around them. Those hands moved with elegance, slow, light, silent, like a wordless old film. The hands reached toward a nearby instrument tray and, from equipment Lan Yu couldn’t clearly see from his position, took out a syringe.
The familiar syringe, no different at all from the ones held by human doctors, glimmered faintly in the darkness. That excessively white, pristine gleam stabbed at Lan Yu’s eyes as he stared at it without blinking, his body anesthetized, completely at the mercy of others. It was blinding and it made his nerves stretch taut with fear.
As the syringe slowly drew in a transparent, unknown liquid, a crystal clear droplet was pressed out from the needle tip, spraying forth and tracing a swift arc through the air before vanishing abruptly.
Unable to move, Lan Yu lay stiff and straight as he felt the doctor’s steady hands clasp his wrist. The sensation was entirely different from human skin, there was the rubbery texture of gloves but Lan Yu’s tension had already reached its limit.
What…
What are they injecting into his veins?
Don’t. Don’t do this.
Will he die…?
When fear peaked beyond endurance, his mind abruptly shut down. Lan Yu failed to catch his breath, his vision went black and he lost consciousness.
“Ah, ah, ah!”
Lan Yu suddenly flipped over and sat upright.
He had had a nightmare.
In the dream, he had gone to play in a bubble ball pit that he had only ever seen on television. Because he had never seen one in real life before, he was thrilled and ran over to play but the moment he crawled inside, he felt something was wrong.
The bubble balls felt strange, wet, sticky, far too elastic, completely different from what he had imagined. He grabbed one bubble ball and lifted it to his eyes, trying hard to see it clearly but his vision was blurred. Then, just as his sight finally focused, that white bubble ball suddenly turned around, its pupil staring straight at him.
Terrified, he flung the eyeball away, stumbled backward, only to be pierced from behind straight through his back and out his chest by something sharp. He stiffly turned his head and an enormous syringe filled his vision.
When Lan Yu woke up, he was drenched in cold sweat.
He looked around. Everything was quiet. There was nothing there.
Lan Yu felt his heart racing wildly. It took a long time before he finally managed to calm down a little.
When he simply took his temperature, Lan Yu realized that he had completely forgotten what had happened in the dream, despite having been utterly terrified just moments ago.
36.7°
The fever was gone.
Sitting on the bed, Lan Yu pondered for a long while. When he’d had a fever the night before, it had felt as though someone had been beside him but when he tried to think carefully, he couldn’t recall anything clearly. Perhaps he had just been delirious from the fever.
With a sigh, he got up. His whole body felt sticky. Afraid that taking a shower might make him catch a chill again, Lan Yu simply wiped himself down with hot water. The warmth of the towel carried away the clamminess from his skin. Feeling refreshed and as though he’d just recovered from a serious illness, his body instantly felt much more comfortable.
How strange. In his previous life, getting fevers had been an everyday occurrence. Why was it so exhausting to have a fever in such a healthy body?
After thinking it over for a long time, Lan Yu could only conclude that it was probably because this healthy body had rarely ever been sick. With no basis for comparison, a fever had become the most severe illness it had experienced, making it feel exaggeratedly unbearable.
“If you hadn’t died, you probably would’ve been born with a silver spoon too,” Lan Yu said, tilting his head toward the photograph on the offering table. “But you’d probably think it was a broken spoon. Honestly speaking, I don’t think your parents were all that great either.”
Thinking of how he’d run into a ghost wall together with the delivery rider the night before, Lan Yu figured that since it was a free advantage, he might as well take it. He sent the rider a message, asking whether he was willing to treat him to a meal.
The rider replied quickly: Nourishing chicken soup rice, right? I’m on my way!
This time, Lan Yu personally witnessed what “fast” really meant. From the moment he sent the message to the rider arriving at his place, it took only fifteen minutes. When Lan Yu accepted the piping hot, almost scalding nourishing chicken soup rice with a complicated expression, the rider seemed to read his face as well.
“Well, uh, it’s not that, yesterday the rain really was heavy and I’d already come here once before, so that’s why I could find the place so quickly. I wandered around in a ghost wall here for a long time, got familiar with everything.”
At the mention of the ghost wall, Lan Yu also felt a bit guilty. He waved his hand, signaling that it was fine.
Back in his small room, he opened the nourishing chicken soup rice. Half a chicken, chicken broth and rice, steaming and fragrant. It was clearly different from the taste after he’d reheated it himself later.
Lan Yu broke apart the disposable chopsticks and smacked his lips. If running into ghosts always turned out like this, maybe it wouldn’t be so bad. Even if he was scared half to death, at least he’d get some benefits out of it, right?
However, the moment this thought surfaced, his body’s instinctive fear surged up. A chill crawled from his spine to his forehead, snapping him awake.
No… he couldn’t think like that.
He absolutely couldn’t let himself be slowly boiled like a frog in warm water.
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ChaptersChapter 1 · Who wants to go back to be a minor plot device?Chapter 2 · StartChapter 3 · I’m terrified of ghostsChapter 4 · Do ghosts exist in this world?Chapter 5 · ShadowChapter 6 · There’s something wrong with how this book is dressedChapter 7 · The ghost drew a heart for himChapter 8 · Make troubleChapter 9 · Don’t scare me!Chapter 10 · I’d rather be scared to death than go backChapter 11 · Want to eat together?Chapter 12 · A cleaning ghostChapter 13 · Regret it now?Chapter 14 · ParentsChapter 15 · Find FaultChapter 16 · Ghostly photos?Chapter 17 · Nickname: White ShadowChapter 18 · A haunted taxi?Chapter 19 · Extreme fear turns to angerChapter 20 · I used to be a messChapter 21 · Best friendChapter 22 · Turning pointChapter 23 · The threat of ghostsChapter 24 · It’s not a ghost, it’s eerinessChapter 25 Part 1 · First time entering the eerie houseChapter 25 Part 2 · First time entering the eerie houseChapter 26 · Borrow moneyChapter 27 · He’s jealousChapter 28 · RetributionChapter 29 · Revenge from a Strange SourceChapter 30 Part 1 · How could you be so carelessChapter 30 Part 2 · How could you be so carelessChapter 31 Part 1 · What would happen if I ran away from home again?Chapter 31 Part 2 · What would happen if I ran away from home again?Chapter 32 Part 1 · Firmly uphold the right to privacyChapter 32 Part 2 · Firmly uphold the right to privacyChapter 33 Part 1 · The brother who brought down death to protect his belovedChapter 33 Part 2 · The brother who brought down death to protect his belovedChapter 34 Part 1 · Being secretly massaged by a shadowy figure in publicChapter 34 Part 2 · Being secretly massaged by a shadowy figure in publicChapter 35 Part 1 · Go to my dear older brother and sister’s bedroomChapter 35 Part 2 · Go to my dear older brother and sister’s bedroomChapter 36 Part 1 · Being favored by everyone in the eerie houseChapter 36 Part 2 · Being favored by everyone in the eerie houseChapter 37 · We must protect our precious childChapter 38 · It’s too tragic, I can’t bear to watch anymoreChapter 39 · Because of the unique companionshipChapter 40 · The first meeting with the admirer of the protagonistChapter 41 · It’s eerie, but they’re all real family members!Chapter 42 · Using the eerie house to get a cheat codeChapter 43 · The baby’s crying after getting drunk is so cute!Chapter 44 · A traitorChapter 45 · All family members can help the baby.Chapter 46 · When the family is happy, they will hug their waistChapter 47 · Ear piercings were adornedChapter 48 · Treasure are the most precious itemsChapter 49 · Revenge is not an easy thing to doChapter 50 · Because I couldn’t see his faceChapter 51 · One of his brothers is a continuous mountain rangeChapter 52 · How could we possibly run into characters from the original storyChapter 53 · The gems my brother gave me piled up into a small mountainChapter 54 · One can feel an overwhelming sense of superiority.Chapter 55 · Sleeping with a shadowy figure means you won’t be afraid of ghosts at allChapter 56 · The fireworks display to celebrate my baby was absolutely devastating!Chapter 57 · It wasn’t this restaurant that treated us; it was another oneChapter 58 · His super-rich older sister paid for his treat!Chapter 59 · He’s different from beforeChapter 60 · It’s all so weird, isn’t it normal for people to want to disappear?Chapter 61 · Wen JieChapter 62 · Has the identity of this strange child been discovered?Chapter 63 · Those who make their child angry are unforgivableChapter 64 · Being too inquisitive about other people’s private affairs will bring you troubleChapter 65 · A person not to be covetedChapter 66 · Can you bridge the racial divide by staying close to your family?Chapter 67 · What to do if my child doesn’t want to celebrate their birthday?Chapter 68 · The baby is also a second-generation, a bizarre second-generation!Chapter 69 · We are clearly each other’s only friendsChapter 70 · The House of Eeries really did throw a ridiculously huge birthday partyChapter 71 · Why would he feel competitive towards his friend?Chapter 72 · Try to appease the jealous shadow.Chapter 73 · If you’re going to take revenge, you should do it in front of him!Chapter 74 · Now that things have come to thisChapter 75 · My baby’s travel is strange and worryingChapter 76 · One of the older brothers who crawled into the suitcase and followedChapter 77 · He resolutely refused to leave his abandoned brotherChapter 78 · I don’t want my baby to see my terrifying true formChapter 79 · I love hugging you like this.Chapter 80 · It’s a good thing to know you.Chapter 81 · Does my brother also want to go out and have some fun?Chapter 82 · His Older brother?Chapter 83 · Xiao Ming!Chapter 84 · I’m doing great as long as the original text doesn’t go crazyChapter 85 · What’s there to be afraid of when everything’s shrouded in eeriness?Chapter 86 · Let’s have a fight for the sake of the original ownerChapter 87 · How did they know he wasn’t the original owner?Chapter 88 Part 1 · Was the shadowy figure injured?Chapter 88 Part 2 · Was the shadowy figure injured?Chapter 88 Part 3 · Was the shadowy figure injured?Chapter 89 Part 1 · To inflict countless severe emotional blows on someoneChapter 89 Part 2 · To inflict countless severe emotional blows on someoneChapter 91 Part 1 · He was like a human in a supernatural taleChapter 91 Part 2 · He was like a human in a supernatural taleChapter 92 · Someone is secretly using underhanded tacticsChapter 93 · The right people I once followedChapter 94 · Let go of your prejudices against the protagonist.Okay! How come on one complain that we can’t right click the link and open a it in a new webapge??Chapter 95 · Favoritism from his current friendsChapter 96 · The baby is going to marry into our familyChapter 97 · The idea of falling in loveChapter 98 · Want to replace your baby?Chapter 99 · What’s wrong with double happiness?!Chapter 100 · It’s just a matter of raceChapter 101 · I need to balance dating and studying!Chapter 102 · After the shadowy figure gained a physical bodyChapter 103 · Confess your love to the eerie house!Chapter 104 · Even with such pampering, your baby still lacks a sense of security.Chapter 105 · How much help did he receive that he didn’t know about?Chapter 106 · You are not worthy to be the middlemanChapter 107 · Is there anything wrong with me being petty?Chapter 108 · You can have both love and studies!Chapter 109 · Suppressed and restrained desiresChapter 110 · What does an unforgettable yet ordinary date need?