Yet there were always people who overestimated themselves and coveted his girl.
The young man’s gaze shifted slightly.
He could sense all the malice coming from inside the building, and the corners of his lips curled upward.
What had Ning Ning said again?
“Send every curse you’ve made against my boyfriend right back to you.”
Shen Ji shyly covered his face.
Ning Ning had actually called him her boyfriend in front of so many people.
What else could that be if not her way of declaring him as her boyfriend?
Then naturally, he should listen to Ning Ning even more.
So all those people’s curses could be sent right back to them.
After evening self-study ended, two people stopped Su Ning.
Bu Zhongyao had dark circles under her eyes.
Looking utterly helpless, she dragged the tall boy behind her out.
“No one is trying to kill you right now.
Can you stop being such a coward?”
It was Gu Yueshuo.
Only four days had passed since they last saw him, yet he had already lost a noticeable amount of weight.
Even in the middle of summer, he was wearing thick clothes and had himself completely bundled up.
His face was pale, and he looked so nervous that he seemed ready to panic at every little thing.
Su Ning was startled by his appearance.
“What happened to you?”
Gu Yueshuo stammered, “Su, Su Ning…
I, I, I’m so scared!”
Su Ning couldn’t understand.
“You only lost a game and had to stay in the little dark room for one night.
Did you really have to get this scared?”
“It’s not about the little dark room.
I’ve been haunted by a ghost!”
A gust of night wind blew past, and Gu Yueshuo shuddered all over.
A grown man was now pitifully clinging to Bu Zhongyao, looking utterly helpless and miserable.
Bu Zhongyao rolled her eyes.
She had never seen anyone this cowardly!
Gu Yueshuo said, “Three more days…
That ghost is going to come and take my life!”
Su Ning asked, “What happened?”
“That day, after we watched that horror movie together, I got a strange phone call.
These past few days, I’ve encountered all kinds of terrifying things.
When I shower, the water turns into red blood.
When I eat, I suddenly start vomiting, and after I keep throwing up, women’s hair comes out…
And I often see a ghostly figure standing behind me in the mirror…”
Gu Yueshuo had clearly been frightened out of his wits.
He looked like he was about to cry.
“I just want to ask if you’ve encountered any of this.”
Su Ning shook her head.
“No.”
Hope immediately lit up in Gu Yueshuo’s eyes.
“Su Ning, you must know some way…
Some way to avoid these curses.
Please save me.
Please!”
Bu Zhongyao quickly joined in.
“Me too!
I don’t even dare sleep anymore.
Every time I close my eyes, I feel like someone is standing beside my bed.
Zhao Yuan keeps appearing in my nightmares and asking me to find something for him.
I can’t take it anymore!”
Bu Zhongyao asked, “Su Ning, please help us.
If this keeps going, Gu Yueshuo and I won’t survive…”
Gu Yueshuo cried, “I don’t want to die!
I’ve only ever been in one relationship, and I haven’t even seen all the beautiful women in the world yet!”
Bu Zhongyao said, “I’ve only been in one relationship too!
I still want to date more handsome guys!”
The more Gu Yueshuo and Bu Zhongyao talked, the sadder they became.
In the end, they hugged each other and burst into tears.
They really were a pair of ill-fated lovers.
It had to be said, the two of them were actually quite a good match.
To be honest, Su Ning felt that they were simply under too much psychological pressure, which was why they were imagining things.
How could there be ghosts in this world?
But even if she tried reasoning with them, she probably wouldn’t get anywhere.
She believed that the only way to cure a troubled mind was to address the problem itself.
So she looked at Bu Zhongyao and said, “Since you said Zhao Yuan wants you to find something, then go find it for him.
He’ll probably stop haunting you once you give it to him.”
Su Ning then looked at Gu Yueshuo.
“You said you’ve been cursed, so go find out who cursed you and what happened.
Once you find the source of the problem, it’ll be easier to solve.”
Bu Zhongyao trembled.
“Su Ning, I think you’re the bravest person among all of us.”
Gu Yueshuo’s voice trembled.
“So can you help us look for them?”
Su Ning turned around and walked away.
Go yourselves.”
Bu Zhongyao dropped to her knees and hugged Su Ning’s leg.
“No!
Please, help me!”
Gu Yueshuo also dropped to his knees and hugged Su Ning’s other leg.
“I don’t want to die!
Please, have mercy on me!”
Su Ning was speechless.
Bu Zhongyao cried, “Su Ning, from now on, I’ll be your most loyal little sister!”
Gu Yueshuo said, “We’ll follow your lead no matter what!”
Bu Zhongyao shouted, “Your Majesty!”
Gu Yueshuo shouted, “Your Majesty!”
The two of them cried out in unison, “Please save our miserable lives!”
The moment Su Ning heard the words “Your Majesty,” she immediately felt much more pleased.
Crossing her arms, she looked down at the two people crying their eyes out before her and raised an eyebrow.
“Hmm.
I can think about it.”
Because of Bu Zhongyao and Gu Yueshuo, the pair of ill-fated lovers, Su Ning returned to the dormitory more than ten minutes later than usual.
The lights in the dormitory hallway were out again today.
There was probably another problem with the electrical wiring.
She climbed the stairs by the faint, eerie green glow of the emergency lights.
Her foot stepped on something soft.
She looked down.
It was something shaped like a lower leg.
At the corner above the stairs stood a woman in a red dress.
Her bangs were very long, covering half of her face.
She looked shy, pressing herself against the wall and not daring to look at Su Ning.
Su Ning noticed that the woman only had one leg beneath her dress.
So she bent down, picked up the leg lying on the floor, and wiped the dust off it.
Then she walked forward a few steps and handed it to the woman in red.
“Here.”
The woman slowly raised her head.
She must have glanced at Su Ning before trembling as she reached out and took the leg.
Then she secretly glanced at Su Ning again.
Her pale ears turned slightly red.
Finally, she covered her face with one hand, grabbed the severed leg with the other, turned around, and disappeared into the darkness.
Su Ning was astonished.
This woman really was strong despite her disability.
She could actually hop away so quickly with only one leg that she disappeared in no time.
Come to think of it, that prosthetic leg was made quite realistically.
Although it was cold to the touch, the texture really was similar to human skin.
Su Ning had always known that a shy girl lived in the room next to hers.
The girl rarely went outside and almost never showed herself to anyone.
After seeing her today, Su Ning finally understood.
The girl was probably disabled, which was why she felt inferior and was afraid to meet people.
Unlike the person who lived upstairs from her, who often took baths without remembering to turn off the faucet.
Since the old building was in poor repair, water frequently seeped through the ceiling of her dorm room.
That person really had no sense of public responsibility.
Su Ning took out her key and unlocked the dormitory door.
She pressed the switch on the wall.
Nothing happened.
Sure enough, the power was out.
She didn’t pay much attention to it.
After closing the door, she casually tossed her bag onto the bed.
Then, out of nowhere, a voice came from the bed.
“Ow!
That hurts!”
Su Ning looked at the human-shaped lump beneath the blanket.
Her eyebrow twitched.
She walked over and pulled the blanket away.
Sure enough, there was a familiar young man underneath.
Shen Ji spread his arms as if he were embracing the moonlight outside the window, or perhaps embracing her.
His smile was radiant.
“Ning Ning!
Surprise!”
Su Ning didn’t move.
Instead, she looked him up and down.
He was simply dressed in a white T-shirt and loose black shorts, his bare feet looking soft and pale.
Shen Ji obediently explained, “I took a shower before coming.
My clothes are clean too.”
Only then did Su Ning climb onto the bed and let him pull her into his arms.
She pinched his cheek.
“Why did you come here?”
Shen Ji said, “I missed you, so you must have been missing me too.
I was afraid you wouldn’t be able to sleep, so I came to coax you to sleep.”
He sounded remarkably confident about it.
Su Ning simply assumed that he was still in his clingy phase.
She told him to warm the bed properly while she went to wash up.
After changing into her nightdress, she came back and lay down beside him.
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Shen Ji held her hand.
“Ning Ning, do you want to hear a bedtime story?”
Su Ning closed her eyes.
“Mm.”
He began, “Once upon a time, there was a princess who was stranded on a deserted island…”
Su Ning smacked him on the head.
“I don’t want to hear a story about a princess and a sea monster.”
Shen Ji knew that being hit meant being loved and being scolded meant being cherished, so getting smacked only made him happier.
He pulled her into his arms.
“Then I’ll tell you a different story.
Once upon a time, there was a mechanical bird made of wood.
Everyone said the bird was magical.
There had to be treasure inside its body, otherwise how could it fly?
They believed it would bring them wealth, so they locked it in a cage and wouldn’t let it fly away.”
“But every day, the bird looked out the window.
It desperately wanted to fly away one day.”
“After a long time, the people came up with a good idea.
If they burned the mechanical bird’s entire body, then the treasure inside would surely bloom in the flames in the most dazzling way.”
Su Ning opened her eyes.
“What happened next?”
Shen Ji said, “Then the fire grew bigger and bigger.
Many people were burned to death, but the treasure never appeared.
After a very long time, a girl walked through a field of thorny flowers and discovered the remains in the ruins.”
“Only the body of the mechanical bird remained.
She said, ‘How pitiful.
They burned away the wings of this bird.'”
“So she found the finest wood and carved a pair of wings for it.
She used black gemstones to make its eyes and washed away the smell of burning from its body with the fragrance of roses.
Then she wiped away the black scorch marks on its body with the color of moonlight.”
“The mechanical bird became even more beautiful than before.
It could also fly higher and faster.
There seemed to be nothing in this world that it couldn’t do.”
Su Ning curled up in his arms, her face buried against his chest.
In a muffled voice, she asked, “Then did it fly away?”
Shen Ji shook his head.
“It only wanted to stay wherever the girl was.
It didn’t want to fly away.”
Su Ning said nothing.
She must have been sleepy.
Shen Ji lowered his head and kissed the top of her head.
He whispered, “Ning Ning, good night.”
At two in the morning, dark clouds covered the moon, and crows perched on the rooftops.
Thick black fog spread across the entire campus.
Countless people were jolted awake by the oppressive atmosphere.
Someone screamed and ran out of the dormitory, only to be dragged back inside by a strange force moments later.
The sticky sound of flesh splattering rang out, and blood slowly flowed out beneath the door.
Someone frantically ran to the school gate and knocked on the security office door for help.
But the person inside was sleeping soundly.
The next second, the person knocking on the door watched helplessly as the head of his reflection behind the glass window was twisted off.
Someone else hid inside a wardrobe, praying that they wouldn’t be discovered.
But gradually, they felt droplets of water seeping out around them.
The water inside the wardrobe kept rising.
They struggled to push the door open, but in the darkness, a pair of twisted hands had already reached out and dragged them into the water.
Another person fled to the rooftop in blind panic.
There was nowhere left to run.
He fell to his knees and begged for mercy.
“Please…
let me go…
please…”
One of the red-clothed ghost woman’s feet was attached backward.
She held a phone in her hand and tilted her head as she looked at it.
The screen displayed a comment:
“Better make that good-for-nothing Shen Ji fall from the building and end up with his face smashed beyond recognition.
Hahaha!”
With a sharp crack, her tilted head nearly fell off again.
Fortunately, she quickly covered it with her hand.
She looked at the boy begging for mercy.
A sinister smile slowly appeared on her deathly pale face.
The next moment, the boy screamed as he fell from the rooftop.
His face hit the ground first.
It was smashed beyond recognition.
…
In the warm, peaceful room, Su Ning’s curled-up body shifted slightly.
She seemed about to wake.
The person holding her gently patted her back and hummed an off-key song beside her ear.
It was the song she had sung earlier when the teacher had called on her during music class.
Before long, her breathing became slow and steady again.
She continued sleeping peacefully, wrapped in that familiar sense of security.
Shen Ji thought in satisfaction,
The night sky was truly beautiful tonight.