Arc 9: Chapter 4
Lin Yuan moved left, and the cucumber moved left. He moved right, and the cucumber moved left. He could only open the door and run outside, but the sinister chill pursued him close on his back.
Lin Yuan cried in despair: “Go away, please wuuuu! Why won’t you leave alone?! Wuuuu, go away!!”
Some people nearby saw a beautiful boy running and crying to the air, and thought he might’ve been crazy.
Lin Yuan shouted: “Stay away from me! I have a super strong husband! He can fight off two ghost kings at once! If you don’t leave me alone, I’ll have him come and exorcise you!”
The female ghost seemed to have been frightened and said hesitantly: “Then… I’ll come… to you… tomorrow…”
The chill disappeared and Lin Yuan stopped running. He collapsed to the ground and was sweating profusely. His shirt was stuck to his skin and he hugged the Yuqing sword tightly, sniffling.
He sat there for about ten minutes before wiping his tears and getting up.
Back home, Lin Yuan followed the plot and told his parents that Lin Wang was captured by ghost kings.
His parents couldn’t believe it and scoffed that he was imagining things, telling him to go back and rest.
Lin Yuan shrugged and went back to his room. After showering and changing into pajamas, he lay in bed still hugging the Yuqing sword and fell asleep.
Around midnight, the air in his room dropped ten degrees. A transparent figure emerged through the wall, standing beside Lin Yuan’s bed. It whispered: “Um… I came… to see you…”
“Little brother, wake up… I came… to see you…”
“Wake up…”
The mournful voice lingered in Lin Yuan’s ears, finally waking him.
Lin Yuan swallowed the scream that almost erupted from his throat out of fear that his parents would wake up and meet the ghost. He drew the Yuqing sword and stammered bravely: “You, what do you want? I already said my husband is super strong, you’ll be obliterated in one strike!”
The ghost raised both her hands in a posture of peace: “Little brother, slow down. I come to you because… can you help me?”
The ghost’s voice choked and grew even more sorrowful: “You’re the only one who can help me.”
Such a mournful voice made Lin Yuan’s goosebumps break out all over his body. In the dark, he felt as if he was stuck in a suffocating black box. His chest burned with pain as if it was about to explode.
521 detected his abnormal vital signs and urgently called: “Senior, hold your breath! Hold your breath!”
Lin Yuan instinctively followed. After a few seconds, he gasped for fresh air and the burning pain eased.
The ghost realized he was scared and retreated outside the door, leaving only her head inside.
Lin Yuan took a few deep breaths of air and realized that the ghost didn’t threaten him with any imminent danger. He asked: “What do you want me to help you with?”
As if excited by his response, the ghost said: “Little brother, I heard you have an extreme Yin body. If I drink your blood, I can increase my cultivation. Could you give me just one drop?”
Lin Yuan: “......” Great, another ghost after his body.
The ghost cried softly: “Little brother, I have no choice. After my husband died, his resentment was too heavy and now he’s stronger than me. He finds me whenever I try to hide and beast me. I- I don’t want to be hit anymore…”
Lin Yuan felt a twinge of sympathy. But ghosts might lie, so he couldn’t trust her completely. He asked: “Do you know why he beats you?”
The ghost sneered bitterly: “He thinks I’m cold-hearted and selfish. But why was it only my fault? He had late-stage lung cancer. I just gave birth six months earlier, was still working, and taking care of the child. His mother despised the little girl I birthed, so she didn’t help at all. I was completely exhausted. When I asked to divorce after his chemo treatment, he refused. His mother even accused me of cheating…”
The ghost’s voice grew louder and louder as she spoke: “He just didn’t care for anything. When I visited him in the hospital, he never asked about our daughter or me. I know divorcing him while he was sick wasn’t the best, but he didn’t do anything after getting sick. He made me feel like we weren’t a family anymore. And even worse…”
The ghost’s voice turned sad.
Lin Yuan asked softly: “Then what happened?”
She began to cry: “My daughter died, she wasn’t even a year old. His mother, that evil woman, murdered her! I jumped and ended my own life, and he died from illness.”
Lin Yuan was silent as she cried and his fear lessened. Although he didn’t trust her fully, he decided to go to the Xie family to ask Xie Daolan for advice.
Lin Yuan said to the ghost: “Tomorrow morning, I’ll go and ask someone if I can help. If they agree, then I’ll give you a drop of blood. By the way… have you killed anyone?”
The ghost quickly replied: “No! Not when I was alive and neither as a ghost. I’ve only been running away from my husband.”
Lin Yuan was relieved: “No killing, that’s good. Then... you go for now. Come find me tomorrow at seven in the evening.”
The ghost nodded and thanked him profusely. Even in the dark, Lin Yuan could feel her happy mood.
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The Xie family was located in Anyang Mountain, twenty miles outside of the city. The taxi stopped in front of a tall iron gate that was decorated with rose bushes. The roses were like clusters of fire lighting up the mountain.
In front of the gate, there was a security booth. Lin Yuan said to the guard: “Hi, I’m here to see Mr. Xie Daolan. I have the sword he gave me, can you notify Mr. Xie?”
When the guard saw the familiar scabbard, he immediately called someone inside the estate.
While Lin Yuan was waiting, a line of luxury cars also stopped in front of the gate. The first person who stepped out was a middle-aged man, and then a young man with white hair.
Lin Yuan looked at the white hair curiously, and at that moment, the other suddenly looked up, revealing an extremely dazzling face with bright, crimson irises.
Right after Lin Yuan blinked, the young man was on top of Lin Yuan, head buried in his neck, licking him like a wild beast on the hunt.
“Fragrant… I like…”