Leaving Lin Ming’s room, he only then discovered that Lin father had been standing guard outside the whole time, listening to the movement inside but not daring to go in and mess things up, terrified and worried for the entire night.
After the room was covered with talismans, Lin Ming’s mental condition was very poor. When they left, Qing Sang told Lin father that it would be best to send Lin Ming to the hospital for a checkup.
Lin father thanked him over and over.
Bo Si did not say anything. He walked in front, as if he had not been injured at all. After leaving the villa, Xia Wan’er reluctantly asked Bo Si for his phone number. Bo Si ignored her. She then turned to Gu Yi, calling him “Brother Yi” one after another. Gu Yi felt embarrassed at being called that. When he took out his flip phone, Xia Wan’er looked completely miserable.
“I’ll be damned, is Bo Si that stingy? His own employee is using a flip phone, and he doesn’t even say to give you a raise!” Xia Wan’er said indignantly.
Gu Yi smiled and did not say anything.
When they got to the garage, Gu Yi thought of the injury on Bo Si’s hand, and he was still somewhat worried. “Boss, your hand, how about we don’t drive today?”
Bo Si looked back at him. “Then why don’t you drive?”
“Me?” Gu Yi froze for a moment, then said, “I don’t know how to drive…”
“Then why are you wasting words? Get in.”
“…Oh.”
Along the way, neither of them said a single word about what had happened at the Lin family villa.
If it had been before, Gu Yi would definitely have thought he was dreaming.
But now, sitting in the car with Bo Si, the wound on his hand was shocking to look at, right in front of his eyes.
This was not a dream, all of this was real.
Bo Si would be injured, would bleed, he had human traits, he was not a ghost.
Then what kind of person was he?
With that question in mind, the car drove all the way back home.
By then, it was already past midnight. In front of the villa, some naughty kids had somehow set off fireworks, and the firelight lit up a large stretch of the night sky, very beautiful.
After going inside, Bo Si said, “I need to take a bath and get rid of the ghost aura. Brat, come help me.”
Gu Yi said in surprise, “How am I supposed to help?”
“My hand hurts too much, I can’t bend it. You fill the tub first, and I’ll come in after the water is ready.”
“Boss.”
“What is it?”
Gu Yi looked at his hand. “This ghost aura is still on your hand. Would it work to just take a bath? Maybe you should go to the hospital and have a look. Your hand has been bleeding the whole time.”
At that, Bo Si smiled. He rubbed Gu Yi’s hair and said, “Of course it’s not an ordinary bath. This is a fierce ghost’s ghost aura. I’ll put talisman paper in the water. For this kind of injury, even going to the hospital won’t help. Don’t worry, I’m fine.”
After hearing Bo Si’s words, Gu Yi finally felt reassured. He turned and went into the bathroom to run the water for Bo Si.
The bathroom was very large. After Gu Yi filled the tub and tested that the water temperature was about right, he called Bo Si in to bathe.
“Help me take off my clothes.”
Bo Si stood in front of Gu Yi and naturally spread out his hand.
Seeing that Gu Yi still had not moved, Bo Si said again, “My hand hurts too much, I can’t move. I’m asking you to take off my clothes, I’m not making things hard for you, am I?”
“…Not hard, not hard.”
Gu Yi reached out and touched Bo Si’s collar.
Bo Si saw his strange expression and seemed to find it amusing. He could not help laughing. “Pure little virgin, you didn’t really listen to that loli and think I’m gay, did you?”
Gu Yi hurriedly said, “I didn’t think that.”
“However you think of me doesn’t matter. I said it already, I’m not interested in little boys.”
Before Bo Si got into the bathtub, he threw a talisman into the water. As before, it was still a girlish pink.
The talisman dissolved in the water and quickly disappeared.
After Bo Si got in, he carefully lowered his hand. The wound soaked in the talisman water, and suddenly, as if it had been stimulated by something, bubbles began to gurgle up on the water’s surface.
Visible black ghost aura surged wildly out from Bo Si’s corroded wound, like wisps of filthy mist. In a moment, Gu Yi saw the water turn ink-black.
After the ghost aura was forced out, Bo Si’s wound slowly healed. The process seemed very painful. Gu Yi saw even Bo Si’s brows knit together, and his face faintly carried a pallor.
It would be a lie to say Gu Yi did not feel guilty, after all, this injury had been caused by him.
He did not know what he could do, so he stayed beside the bathtub watching Bo Si. If he needed anything, he could help him immediately.
Sweat seeped out on Bo Si’s forehead, slightly wetting the ends of his hair. He closed his eyes, and Gu Yi suddenly realized that his eyelashes were very long. In modern terms, he was a complete eyelash spirit.
He and Gu Yi were like two extremes. Although both were male, Bo Si was stronger than him in every way. He was too ordinary, but the feeling Bo Si gave people was so dazzling. Maybe it was because he was older than him, his whole body exuded the charm of a mature man. No wonder a little girl like Xia Wan’er had been utterly infatuated with him.
Gu Yi was thin-armed and thin-legged, looking somewhat undernourished at a glance, but Bo Si’s figure was very good. His back was as smooth as marble, his muscles clearly defined, and every line carried surging tension.
Gu Yi waited for a long time, and Bo Si’s wound finally healed completely. He opened his eyes, somewhat tired, and lazily leaned against the edge of the bathtub.
Seeing that he had relaxed, Gu Yi hurriedly leaned over and asked, “Boss, is it okay now?”
Bo Si said, “It’s only a little ghost aura, nothing serious. It’s just that her resentment was too deep, so this ghost aura is a bit stronger than an ordinary fierce ghost’s.”
When he spoke of resentment, Gu Yi thought of Bai Nuo again, and his heart tightened. “Boss, Bai Nuo ran away. Is all of this really over?”
Bo Si shook his head. “Of course it won’t end like this. The most frightening ghost is not outside, but in everyone’s heart. Bai Nuo made such a scene tonight, and Lin Ming’s life from now on is basically ruined too. This is what’s called karma, harming others ultimately harms yourself. Some debts are destined to be repaid with one’s life.”
Gu Yi suddenly thought of the teacher who had appeared in Bai Nuo’s memories and asked, “Then will that teacher who stood by and let Bai Nuo die also have karma?”
“Of course.” Bo Si said, “He appeared in Bai Nuo’s memories, which means he is also a teacher from your school. She gave the memories to you, too, because she harbored resentment toward that person. But I said it already, the ghost is in everyone’s heart. That teacher can’t possibly live each day with a clear conscience, he will definitely reveal traces. Once my injury is healed, I’ll go to the school with you.”
Gu Yi looked at him and suddenly felt a little impulsive as he asked, “Boss, in the end, all of these things have nothing to do with you, so why are you…”
Bo Si curled his lips and smiled faintly. “Yes, why? Maybe because I’m too bored. But you absolutely should not think that I’m doing this because I pity that female ghost or because of you. I have no humanity, and no feelings.”
Gu Yi blurted out, “But I think you’re not that kind of person.”
“Is that so?” Bo Si glanced sideways at him, the smile in his dark eyes growing deeper. “How much do you know about me, then?”
Gu Yi thought about it and said, “You’re my boss. In the future, I’ll slowly get to know you. Right now, at least I know what your name is, where you live, what you do. Your cooking is very good, and the talisman paper you use is all pink. By the way, Boss, why is everyone else’s talisman paper yellow or gold, but yours is pink?”
Bo Si laughed twice and said, “Because pink is unique. I don’t want to be the same as everyone else. Besides, the talisman paper they use is traditional talisman paper, because they need to borrow a path, to borrow the power of the gods before the talisman paper can take effect. But I don’t need that. I use my own power. As for talisman paper and such, it’s just that I don’t want others to think I’m an oddity. So, using anything is the same.”
“…But Boss, using pink talisman paper is also very odd…” Gu Yi silently complained.
Bo Si looked at him, the smile fading from his face, and said seriously, “I know you still have many questions about me, but there are many things I can’t answer either, because some I don’t even know myself. The only thing I can answer is that I am your boss, and you are my employee. In the future, you will stay by my side, and I also have the responsibility to protect you. I let you get yin aura on you in the coffin, ordinary little ghosts can’t do anything to you, but fierce ghosts are different. So in the future, I still have to teach you various self-defense methods. You have to learn properly. If you can’t learn, then your monthly salary will be gone.”
“…Boss, that’s too overbearing…”
“Talking back?”
“No, no…”
Gu Yi waved his hands repeatedly, and only then did Bo Si turn his head away.
Then, he froze.
A trace of fear flashed through the bottom of his dark eyes.
Yes, fear.
Since meeting Bo Si, Gu Yi had never seen him reveal such an expression.
Gu Yi followed his gaze and let out an “ah.”
At the corner of the bathroom wall, a black little cockroach was slowly crawling along.
The corner of Gu Yi’s mouth twitched, and he seemed to understand. “Boss, you’re afraid of cockroaches?”
Bo Si had no expression. “Don’t you think this kind of creature shouldn’t exist at all?”
“But existence is reasonable.”
“Look at its little black wings, how ugly, and its legs covered in hair…”
“Boss, that’s just how they look. They think we look very scary too…”
Bo Si turned his eyes and glared at him. “Next time I see a cockroach in the house, you can forget about getting your salary.”
Black lines appeared on Gu Yi’s face. “Boss, what does that have to do with me…”
The result of this matter was that Gu Yi carefully cleaned the entire villa inside and out, fearing he might miss even one cockroach.
However, Gu Yi understood one more thing about Bo Si, and that was that he knew Bo Si hated cockroaches very much.
After Bo Si’s injury healed, one night he took Gu Yi to the school, still to the very top floor of that teaching building, the place where Bai Nuo had jumped from the building back then.
In the night, before Gu Yi even reached the rooftop, he saw flickering firelight ahead.
His heart lurched.
Bo Si had not been wrong. That person really had come here to pay tribute to Bai Nuo.
He and Bo Si walked toward that patch of firelight. Beside the firelight, a man was crouching in pain. When Gu Yi got closer and saw him, he was very shocked.
It was actually their homeroom teacher, Teacher Li Dong.
This was beyond Gu Yi’s expectations. For a moment, he stood in place, neither able to go forward nor back.
He had not seen Teacher Li for several days, and Teacher Li had already become haggard beyond recognition.
He looked as if he had suffered tremendous mental torment, his whole body thin by one size. He was crying so hard he could not breathe beside the fire basin. There was still unburned spirit money in the basin. The firelight reflected Teacher Li’s face. His face was very white, but the circles around his eyes were black. It looked like he had not slept well for a very long time.
“I’m sorry, Bai Nuo, I’m sorry… Teacher is not human, Teacher is cowardly and afraid of trouble… Teacher couldn’t afford to offend Lin Ming, Teacher has a family to support, I can’t lose my job, please forgive Teacher, okay? Teacher is burning spirit money for you, take it with you to use on the road, don’t keep pestering Teacher anymore, Teacher already knows he was wrong…”
Teacher Li was covered in tears, burning spirit money while talking to the air, his mind already close to collapse.
He looked no better than Lin Ming. Gu Yi guessed that he, like Lin Ming, had been entangled by Bai Nuo’s resentment and had known no peace day after day, which was why he had come here to burn spirit money.