Chapter 16 – Left or Right

TL: Cloe
Editor/Proofreader: Jocelyn D
Word count: 1752

Back in the bedroom, Ye Keke put down her ponytail. She turned to look at Ni Xiao who was still packing her things: “Do you want to shower first?”

“You can go first.” Ni Xiao said.

“En.” Ye Keke didn’t hesitate and went into the bathroom alone.

The red high-heeled shoes that she got from the lucky bag were casually thrown to the door by Ye Keke. Ni Xiao only glanced at the pair of high heels once and stopped caring about it. He took out the mirror and put it on the dressing table.

When she took the mirror out of its packaging, she also saw the description of the item the moment her fingers touched it. The description of the mirror was very ordinary. It was not a prop with special abilities, and thus it was impossible to tell whether it’s haunted. 

Ni Xiao’s face was reflected in the mirror. She in the mirror was pale and had a sharp chin, which was no different than her in real life. Huang Lu had moved to Zhang Lu’s room to take care of her since the day Feng Yao died. Ni Xiao couldn’t find anyone to talk to, so she sat by the bed and played with her mobile phone with her head lowered.

While the web page was still loading, Ni Xiao accidentally looked up and saw Ye Keke standing behind her in the mirror. She was wearing a white nightgown, standing silently and staring at her with a pale face.

She was startled and turned around, only to see Ye Keke wrapped in a white bath towel, her hair wet, and her cheeks still rosy from the hot water. Seeing her looking like this, Ye Keke was stunned by her reaction: “What’s wrong with you?”

Ni Xiao didn’t reply, but quickly turned around to confirm the Ye Keke in the mirror. She saw that Ye Keke in the mirror was indeed wrapped in a white bath towel, and there was a confused look on her rosy face.

……Maybe I was just under too much pressure and regarded the bath towel as a nightgown. Ni Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, but still remained vigilant in his heart. She asked Ye Keke: “Have you finished washing?”

“En. Are you not gonna go shower?”

“Okay, I’ll go now.” Ni Xiao squatted down to pack her things, she turned her back to Ye Keke and asked, “Keke, where did you put my body lotion?”

“Body lotion?”

“The pink one, did you use it and leave it in the bathroom?”

“Oh, oh.” Ye Keke finally realized, “Yes, I put it in the bathroom.”

Ni Xiao then stood up and passed Ye Keke holding her clothes. She straightened her back, trying to look like nothing had happened.

But the moment she walked by her, she heard Ye Keke’s cold voice.

“The bathroom is on the right, why are you going to the left?”

The hair stood up at the back of her neck as she stood frozen on the spot, then she squeezed out a smile and said: “Oh……I was thinking of something and went the wrong way.”

With that said, she turned towards the bathroom and turned the bathroom door handle clockwise. The moment she turned around and closed the bathroom door, she saw Ye Keke standing on the only path leading to the room door, looking at her with a cold face.

The moment she closed the door, Ni Xiao let go and all the clothes in her hands fell on the slippery ground. She covered her mouth to prevent herself from screaming.

She had no shower gel with her in the first place!

With trembling hands, she opened the shower head and took out the phone hidden inside her clothes. She opened WeChat to Huang Lu’s chat and typed a line: “Help me!”

“I’m in the bathroom and the Ye Ke outside is fake!”

The message was like a rock sinking in the ocean, no response. The mist gradually spread, and the translucent door glass was also obscured by the mist. Ni Xiao bit her fingers nervously, sending messages over and over again, waiting for Huang Lu’s response.

‘Hurry up! ‘

‘Hurry up! ‘

For half an hour, no response. Ye Keke’s voice came from outside the door: “Ni Xiao, haven’t you finished washing yet?”

Ni Xiao covered her mouth and said nothing. Five minutes later, ‘Ye Keke’ said again: “Ni Xiao, haven’t you finished washing yet?”

“Ni Xiao, haven’t you finished washing yet?”

“Ni Xiao, haven’t you finished washing yet?”

“Ni Xiao, haven’t you finished washing yet?”

Each time the urging voice came closer and denser than the last time, but ‘Ye Keke’s’ voice was as calm as ever. Ni Xiao bit her fingers and broke out in cold sweat. Just when the next sentence sounded, there was finally an expected knock on the dorm door.

“Keke, I’ll come back to get something, please open the door.”

The calling voice of ‘Ye Keke’ stopped for a long time, as if it was thinking about whether to continue guarding the prey that had nowhere to escape, or to perform a new round of acting according to the character.

Soon, it made a decision.

The footsteps of ‘Ye Keke’ gradually faded away. Ni Xiao leaned against the bathroom door, holding the door handle, listening to what was going on outside.

“What……do you……want……”

The voice of ‘Ye Keke’ sounded at the entrance, and Huang Lu said: “It’s nothing…just…”

The next moment, there was a miserable howl and the sound of metal hitting bones. Amidst the chaotic fighting, Huang Lu screamed: “Ni Xiao!”

Ni Xiao understood and unlocked the bathroom door clockwise. She stumbled and ran out. In the bedroom, Chu Tian was fighting with ‘Ye Keke’.

As soon as she reached the door, her legs were almost too weak to stand. Huang Lu stretched out her left hand to hold her. She grabbed Huang Lu’s hand and ran with her.

Huang Lu’s hands were a little cold, but Ni Xiao, who had been running in the hot water for more than half an hour, didn’t notice this.

She took Ni Xiao and ran to the right. After running past Lin Huai and others’ rooms, they came to the familiar staircase. When she got here, Ni Xiao’s sweaty head turned cold as if someone had poured ice water on it.

A drop of sweat slipped from her forehead, and she stood on the spot. Huang Lu turned around and looked at her with some confusion.

“What’s wrong?” Huang Lu asked calmly.

“No… not this direction!” Ni Xiao screamed, “The stairs… the stairs should be on the left!”

Yes, she had lived in this villa for four full days, and it was impossible for her to remember the direction of the stairs wrong.

Huang Lu’s hand holding hers became colder and colder. Ni Xiao desperately pulled her hand away from the shackles of lack of warmth. ‘Huang Lu’ stared at her and smiled with the corners of her mouth raised.

“No, that is the right direction.”

As she spoke, she pointed to the right side. Ni Xiao yelled and finally succeeded in freeing herself, but because of the recoil, she hit the door of Lin Huai’s room.

Just as she was about to say something, the door opened with a creak.

Walking out of the room was Ye Xian wearing a white robe. His face was pale and his smile was cold, exactly like the ‘Ye Keke’ she saw in the mirror.

He clapped his palms, as if singing a song, but his voice was Gujing Wubo: “No, that is the right direction.”

The doors belonging to the second floor opened one by one. From the next room, ‘Chu Tian’ wearing a white robe and Ye Keke wearing a white ‘nightgown’¹I don’t know why Ye Keke wasn’t in ‘ ‘ but nightgown is… could be a mistake by author came out.

They also clapped their hands and said in dull voices: “No, that is the right direction.”

Residents on the third floor came down the stairs wearing white clothes. Still with that blank and boring expression, still with the same voice without any fluctuations, they lined up in a row and clapped around Ni Xiao.

“No, that is the right direction.”

“No, that is the right direction.”

The Qingbai circle gradually tightened, and Ni Xiao, who was sitting on the ground, shouted and pushed ‘Chu Tian’ and ‘Ye Keke’ away, running towards the third room at the end of the corridor.

The way to life is the way to death, and the way to death is the way to life… Since the stairs are the way to death, then the room on the other side must be the way to life!

Before she could turn back in time, she rushed into the last room and slammed the door before the green and white ghost rushed over. After locking the door hard, she leaned against the door of the room and breathed a sigh of relief.

Is it safe?

The next moment, the lights in the room were turned on!

On the dressing table facing the room was the mirror.

In the mirror, nine tall white figures stood next to Ni Xiao who collapsed on the ground. They tilted their heads and stared at the girl sitting on the ground.

“Ah–!”

At the end of her blurred state, all Ni Xiao saw from the corner of her eye was a red robe.

She had never seen such a rich red color. It was red, even closer to black. There were so many dark red blood drops that they seemed to be slipping from the cuffs.

The man’s long black hair was tied loosely into a long ponytail at the back of his head, and his eyes were as black as abyss. Dark red patterns grow and spread unbridled on the pale skin, like strange thorns full of life.

Extremely demonic, terrifying and…beautiful.

That was the first thing he saw when he woke up in the blood-red Wen County as a fierce ghost, his own face.

“When you look in the mirror…will your real body be revealed? It doesn’t matter.” The man chuckled.

After saying that, bright red blood streaks emerged from the palm of his hand and he attacked the white ghosts fiercely!

Translator’s note: I’m so sorry for the late update. I’m having a test week filled with exams that feels like the end of the term exam rn. (╥﹏╥)

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  I don’t know why Ye Keke wasn’t in ‘ ‘ but nightgown is… could be a mistake by author