Translator: ChuRen/ YuQiChen
When the Ferris wheel got stuck, the faces of the students on the ground suddenly changed color.
“Is this a malfunction?”
“Su Ling and the others are still up there, will something happen?”
“Everything was fine, the weather forecast didn’t say it was going to rain today…”
After all, they were a group of sixteen or seventeen-year-old children. Faced with a real problem, they couldn’t help but panic, standing there somewhat at a loss.
Amidst a worried discussion, Shi Kongzang furrowed his brow, solemnly looking up.
The dark clouds pressed down from the sky, as if they were about to engulf the topmost compartment. However, upon closer inspection, the shape of a Soul-Locking Chain occasionally appeared in the darkness, seemingly fighting against something, appearing and disappearing.
Shi Kongzang breathed a sigh of relief.
“Don’t panic, let’s go ask the operator first. Maybe there’s a problem with the power lines causing a blackout.” Although Ai Xi’s expression was also grim, she tried to reassure everyone.
Shi Kongzang raised an eyebrow, somewhat impressed by her.
With Ai Xi’s reminder, the group found their backbone and walked towards the control room of the Ferris wheel, leaning on each other for support.
The operator was busy fixing something with a sweaty forehead when they arrived. Seeing them, he hurriedly explained, “We’re temporarily closed here.”
“Sir, what’s happening now? Our classmates are still up there.” Ai Xi explained anxiously, her voice trembling imperceptibly.
The operator sighed and spread his hands, stained with black marks, helplessly saying, “I don’t know what happened. It suddenly lost power. Luckily, this Ferris wheel has a self-protection mechanism. Once it’s determined there’s an issue, it will immediately stop, so don’t worry too much. They should be safe…”
“Oh my God—”
Before the operator could finish speaking, they heard a scream from outside.
Following the direction of the scream, they saw the Ferris wheel spinning out of control. The topmost compartment dropped straight down, then rotated 360 degrees in half a second, before returning to its original position.
Ai Xi’s gaze towards the operator immediately filled with suspicion and accusation.
Operator: …
Instantly contradicted.
When did he suddenly develop the ability to jinx things without even realizing it?
The operator fell deep into self-doubt.
Meanwhile, on the Ferris wheel, Su Ling and Chang Bai inexplicably felt the sensation of weightlessness, staring at each other in disbelief.
Su Ling whistled and couldn’t help but comment, “Quite thrilling.”
Chang Bai smiled wryly, “Boss, your mood is surprisingly good even when you’re trapped?”
Su Ling innocently blinked and pointed outside the window, “If we were stuck in a different position, I might complain, but being at the highest point, the view is really great.”
Chang Bai paused, unable to resist the reminder, “But this time it might be supernatural. Not to mention, those students are down below, we still don’t know if there’s any danger.”
Su Ling nodded knowingly, “So, in order to prevent the students from getting involved, we have to act as bait and stay put here honestly.”
On the other side, Sheng Ze and Chang Wu couldn’t resist standing up at the moment of the accident, but then…
The Ferris wheel happened to make a full circle.
As a result, they both ended up with a bump on their foreheads.
Sheng Ze grimaced in pain, holding his head, visibly in agony.
Chang Wu rubbed his bump while mockingly taunting his teammate, “Could it be that even the Ghost King is rarely ambushed?”
Sheng Ze twitched his mouth, not interested in banter, but instead looked thoughtfully out the window.
Just now, a bolt of thunder flashed across the sky, the sound resonating in his ears, stirring an indescribable impulse within him—to rush out, climb up, and protect Su Ling.
How strong was this impulse?
In that moment, Sheng Ze even considered risking exposure just to embrace someone tightly.
Something felt off.
“Do you feel…?” The Ghost King hesitated for a moment, pondering, “Like you really want to go up there and find them?”
Chang Wu gave him a strange look, looking puzzled, “I’ve always felt that way.”
Sheng Ze carefully considered his words, trying to explain that strange feeling, “It’s just an overwhelming urge to rush up there, drag them out of the compartment no matter what. It’s different from usual, um, yeah, it’s that kind of reckless and completely irrational state of mind!”
Chang Wu fell silent for a moment, then puzzled, “What’s the problem with that?”
Sheng Ze: … Forget it, discussing this topic with someone deeply into sibling complex is pointless!
After a moment of consideration, Sheng Ze decided not to bother with Chang Wu and instead lit some incense, establishing contact with Shi Kongzang on the ground.
“How are the students?” Sheng Ze inquired.
Shi Kongzang was suddenly startled by the Ghost King’s question in his ear, looking around in confusion before hesitantly responding, “My lord?”
Sheng Ze clicked his tongue in disdain and said, “Agarwood can bridge the gap between yin and yang, haven’t you used it before?”
Yes, he had used it before…
It was indeed the best tool for communication when one couldn’t find someone…
But…
Suppressing his sarcastic remarks, Shi Kongzang smiled and said, “My lord, we could have just used our phones directly1the man is just very old. He probably sends letters through pigeon instead of messenger[/mfn\.”
—Wasn’t using agarwood a bit wasteful at such a close distance?
Sheng Ze paused, calmly cut off the agarwood, pretending not to notice Chang Wu’s suppressed smile, and answered the incoming call from Shi Kongzang.
Shi Kongzang tactfully changed the subject, “Don’t worry, with me here, nothing will happen down below… Oh, damn!”
“Something, something seems to be happening.” Shi Kongzang swallowed nervously, watching the chaotic scene in front of him.
“What’s happening?” Sheng Ze frowned upon hearing the noisy commotion on the phone.
Struggling to organize his thoughts, Shi Kongzang said, “I can’t explain, my lord, you better come down and see for yourself…”
Before he could finish his sentence, Sheng Ze disregarded the issue of revealing his identity and instantly appeared on the ground.
But this peculiar sight didn’t seem to grab the students’ attention. They… were busy confessing their feelings.
“Zhao Yunhan, I like you!”
“Wu Xiaomei, I’ve had a crush on you for a long time!”
“Qian Chao, I’ve been secretly in love with you for over two years…”
Sheng Ze watched as the once simple and reserved students, one by one, went crazy confessing their feelings to each other, leaving him speechless.
Regardless of gender, anyone with a crush or someone they liked seemed to be under a spell, boldly expressing their feelings with blushing faces.
Some even went as far as kneeling down (?) and asking the other person to be their boyfriend or girlfriend.
“If 99 roses can express my love, I’m willing to give you the whole garden.”
“I’m the nine, you’re the three, divided from you, there’s still only you1okay this one kinda sucked ngl. Divide 9 by 3 and you’ll still get a 3.”
“My thoughts about you is like the never-ending carousel in the amusement park, mua~”
Sheng Ze’s ears were filled with various cheesy love lines.
In this scene, the perennially single Ghost King held back for a while before finally suppressing a melancholic statement, “H-high students are quite open-minded…”
But before long, even little Ai Xi ran up to a handsome boy, shyly tugging at her clothes, saying, “I… I’m pleased with you.”
Sheng Ze and Shi Kongzang suddenly went, “Oh,” before remembering that Ai Xi had a childhood friend.
“I feel a bit sorry for our Wu Pan,” Shi Kongzang muttered.
Sheng Ze nodded in agreement, “It’s not easy to find a girl with such similar interests.”
“My goodness, your thoughts are too scary!” Meng Xiaoman appeared suddenly, holding a bag of snacks, looking at them with incomprehension, “She’s not even of legal age yet, if Wu Pan takes a liking to her… What is this? Grandfather-granddaughter love?”
Chang Wu heard this and made an ambiguous chuckle.
Meng Xiaoman glanced at him, slyly gesturing towards Sheng Ze and Shi Kongzang, “Besides, if Wu Pan were to turn out straight, I’ll cook you both a year’s worth of meals for free!”
“No! Please, don’t, Granny!” Shi Kongzang broke out in a cold sweat.
“Alright, let’s focus on the important stuff. Let’s discuss the students’ situation…” Sheng Ze, driven by the strong desire to survive, immediately steered the conversation back to business.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, the “bait” sitting at the top received no response from any mischievous entities, but instead, got a text message from Shi Kongzang.
Su Ling shook his phone and sighed, “The students have fallen for it. It seems this ghost is not interested in us after all.”
The text message roughly explained the situation of the students.
Chang Bai lowered his eyelids, pondered for a moment, then shook his head, “Not necessarily.”
Su Ling raised an eyebrow in confusion.
“It’s also possible that we’re both affected but not aware of it,” Chang Bai proposed a new perspective.
“Although the students’ behavior seems a bit bold, it’s not entirely baseless. They might have had feelings for someone beforehand, and now they’re just magnifying those feelings, leading to these confessions. We, being different from ordinary mortals, are less influenced and less likely to exhibit such intense behaviors… Boss, do you have someone you particularly want to see?” Chang Bai looked at him with a probing gaze.
—Translation: Do you currently have someone you really want to see? If so, that person is definitely your crush!
Chang Bai eagerly and gossipingly watched the boss.
Su Ling: …
Yes.
There is.
But this is highly unreasonable.
He and Sheng Ze were all about work, plain and simple to the point of being too simple.
So, it must be a mistake on the ghost’s part!
“Ahem, this is a bit unreliable. How about you, Xiao Bai? Have you been influenced by anything?” Su Ling blinked innocently with his big eyes, also asking with curiosity.
Chang Bai’s face suddenly became a bit awkward.
Seeing a chance for gossip, Su Ling became even more excited, “Who is it? Who is it?”
Chang Bai chuckled, holding his hands close, refusing to admit, “No one.”
Su Ling didn’t believe it, “There must be someone! Your expression has already given you away!”
Chang Bai smiled good-naturedly.
Su Ling, intrigued by this gossip, suggested, “How about this, you tell me who your crush is first, and then I’ll tell you about mine.”
Chang Bai seemed a bit skeptical, “Do you have a crush, Boss?”
Su Ling: “…Just recently.”
Chang Bai squinted meaningfully, “Alright, even if you do, I’ve told you about mine. Are you really willing to share?”
Su Ling hesitated for a moment.
After a moment, they locked eyes, sharing a subtle and awkward smile on their faces.
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