Late at night, Su Ning lay in bed, unable to fall asleep.
It had only been a month ago.
She had been showing off her wealth to her fake friends when she closed her eyes and opened them again, only to find herself in a strange place.
She understood.
This was transmigration.
Sure enough, an electric current crackled in her mind at that time, followed by a stiff, genderless mechanical voice.
“Welcome to…
the game…
Host, please pursue…”
The static was so piercing that Su Ning covered her ears and felt a headache coming on.
The voice she could make out was fragmented and intermittent.
Before long, the sound in her mind disappeared without a trace, as if the signal had been bad or the power had suddenly been cut off.
But Su Ning had one advantage: she was smart.
She had read so many melodramatic novels that she knew all about transmigration tropes.
Wasn’t she supposed to transmigrate into another world, pursue a man with a tragic past, fall in love with him, and save him from his loneliness and misery?
Su Ning looked at herself in the mirror.
Her skin was smooth and flawless, her delicate features exquisitely beautiful, and her pretty little face was practically perfect.
Her long, slightly wavy hair fell loosely over her shoulders, reminding her of the “big waves of a heartbreaker” trend that had been popular not long ago.
Of course, that was exactly how her fake friends described her behind her back.
But Su Ning had never thought of herself as a heartbreaker.
She merely wanted to give every handsome guy a warm home.
What was wrong with that?
Nothing at all!
What comforted Su Ning most was that her stunning beauty had come with her.
The difficulty of this romance game could instantly be lowered to baby mode.
What was there for her to worry about when it came to clearing the game?
There were always the sounds of someone bouncing around upstairs.
Even with her head buried under the blanket, Su Ning could hardly ignore the noise coming from above.
She had originally thought that, with her family’s background, she could get a dorm room to herself and avoid any conflicts.
How could she have known that every night, noises would come from the rooms above, below, and on both sides?
Su Ning couldn’t take it anymore.
She threw off the blanket, got out of bed, then went to the balcony and used a clothes pole to jab hard at the ceiling.
“So annoying!
It’s almost three in the morning and you’re still not asleep.
Can’t you save your energy and go out and have fun during the day?”
Perhaps the person upstairs had sensed her anger, because the noise stopped.
At least this person had some sense of public decency.
Su Ning tossed the clothes pole aside.
She walked into the bathroom and turned on the light.
After relieving herself, she stood in front of the sink, turned on the faucet, and washed her hands.
Unexpectedly, she suddenly felt the temperature of the water become noticeably warm.
When she lowered her head and looked again, the clean water had turned red.
Su Ning was startled.
She quickly pulled her hand back and looked carefully.
The water flowing from the faucet was clearly still clean and clear.
The change just now seemed to have been nothing more than an illusion.
She looked at her hand more carefully.
Her fingers were long and fair, as flawless as her beauty, and there wasn’t even a trace of any strange color on them.
As Su Ning lowered her head to look at her hands, the corner of her eye caught the reflection of a woman with disheveled hair in the mirror.
She hurriedly raised her head.
There was only her in the mirror.
She quickly touched her own hair, and the person in the mirror followed suit.
Su Ning breathed a sigh of relief.
“I knew it.
I haven’t even been staying up late lately.
How could I possibly look this haggard?”
Su Ning guessed that she had been too mentally exhausted from being in a relationship lately, and that her nerves had become overly strained.
She turned off the faucet and was about to leave the bathroom when black strands of hair slowly began spreading through the sink.
The hair grew longer and longer, gradually spilling out of the basin.
Su Ning’s body stiffened.
Frightened, she stumbled backward again and again until her back hit the wall and she had nowhere left to retreat.
The bathroom light began flickering continuously.
The blurry shadow in the mirror appeared and disappeared.
When the image finally settled on a woman with disheveled hair, Su Ning had already screamed and fled from the bathroom.
In a panic, she called her boyfriend.
The call was answered almost instantly.
“Shen Ji!
Come over quickly!
The drain in my dorm is clogged.
Something disgusting is coming out of it!”
As she spoke, she clutched her chest, still shaken by what had happened, and began sobbing.
“I think I’ve been losing so much hair without realizing it.
Boo-hoo…
What am I going to do?
I think I’m going bald!
If I go bald, will you still love me?”
The flickering light in the bathroom stopped.
But immediately afterward, as if something had provoked it, the light began flickering even more violently.
Even the light in the bedroom started flickering intensely along with it.
The wind howled outside the window, and the shadows of the trees swayed.
The strange changes between light and shadow made the atmosphere increasingly unsettling.
Su Ning curled up on the bed.
In the mirror on the dresser opposite her, she could see a woman with sparse, disheveled hair covering her face.
She covered her face and wept bitterly.
The next moment, there was a knocking sound from outside the glass window.
A dark figure appeared against the window.
He was pressed against the glass, his pitch-black eyes unusually bright.
Amid the eerie wind and swaying shadows, he called out,
“Ning Ning, I’m here!”
Su Ning quickly got out of bed and ran over to open the window.
The young man jumped in from outside.
The moment he landed, Su Ning threw herself into his arms.
She lifted her tear-streaked face and said pitifully,
“Shen Ji, I’m losing my hair!
I’m so young, and I’ve already lost so much hair.
I’m so scared.
I’m going bald!”
The young man cupped her face and comforted her with little kisses.
“Fairies don’t go bald.”
He touched the top of her head, his eyes curving with his smile.
“Ning Ning’s hair is thick and beautiful.
Even when you’re a hundred years old, you’ll still be beautiful.”
The young man was tall and slender, dressed simply in a white T-shirt and black shorts.
His face was clean and handsome, and when he smiled, he looked bright and cheerful, making him naturally infectious.
Especially when he was comforting her, he showed her endless patience and tolerance.
Su Ning gradually calmed down.
She had still been badly frightened, and she complained aggrievedly,
“You don’t even know how scared I was when I saw all that hair.
It scared me so badly that I started seeing things.
It was like I was already going bald in the mirror.”
Shen Ji glanced at the mirror.
The shadow in the mirror immediately disappeared.
Even the lights in the room, which had been flickering between light and darkness, became completely steady and bright.
Su Ning looked up at the light and complained,
“That’s the problem with old buildings.
The voltage is always unstable.”
She then pulled Shen Ji into the bathroom.
“The drain is clogged.
Fix it for me.”
Just as Shen Ji would immediately climb over the wall from the men’s dormitory whenever she needed him, then knock on the window of her fourth-floor dorm in the middle of the night, he could do anything.
However, when they entered the bathroom, both the sink and the floor were completely clean.
There wasn’t a single strand of hair, let alone a drop of water.
Su Ning blinked.
Shen Ji said, “It probably got washed back down the drain.
Don’t worry.
I’ll check carefully to see if the drain is clogged.”
Su Ning nodded.
She stayed beside Shen Ji and watched him inspect the faucet properly before crouching down to check the pipes.
She crouched down beside him as well, then asked,
“Shen Ji, do you love me?”
Shen Ji looked up at her.
Then he leaned closer and kissed the corner of her lips, his eyes curving into a smile.
“Of course I love you.
I love you every day.”
Ever since they had gotten together, she asked him this question every day, and every time, he gave her the same answer.
Su Ning pursed her lips and moved closer into his arms.
She wondered to herself, if he loved her this much, why hadn’t she received the game’s completion notification yet?
Was her affection level still not high enough?
After checking everything, Shen Ji found no problem.
He washed his hands, then carried the girl who was clinging to him like a koala as they walked out of the bathroom.
He rubbed his cheek against hers and asked softly,
“Ning Ning, are you scared sleeping alone at night?”
Su Ning pressed her face against his chest and muttered indifferently,
“It’s not like a ghost is going to knock on my door in the middle of the night.
I’m not scared.”
Shen Ji said nothing.
Su Ning looked up, looking smug.
“Don’t you think I’m really brave?”
Shen Ji smiled.
“Mm.
My Ning Ning is very brave.”
After being praised, Su Ning was pleased with herself.
What a joke.
It was only a campus romance game.
There weren’t going to be any horror elements.
What did she have to be afraid of?