TL: Cloe
Editor/Proofreader: Jocelyn D
Word count: 2306
Drip, drip.
It was misty in the bathroom. Ye Keke closed the faucet and walked out of the bathroom while wiping her hair.
“Ni Xiao? I’ve finished bathing, you can go now.”
With that said, she turned the bathroom door handle counterclockwise. Facing her wet back was the mirror in the bathroom that was still covered in water vapor.
Hidden under the mist, there was a pale figure reflected in the mirror.
“Ni Xiao?”
Cold wind poured into the warm bathroom, and the room where Ni Xiao should have been was now empty.
She shivered for some unknown reason, and just as she was about to walk out, she tripped over something.
She lowered her head to see a pair of red high heels, which were now laying scattered in front of the bathroom door from her kick.
“Strange, I remember placing it by the door ah.”
She muttered but didn’t think much about it. She looked up at the clock to see that it was almost midnight. Ye Keke then rubbed her hair with a towel, sat on the dressing table and began to blow dry her hair.
Perhaps it was because of the voltage level, the lights in the room become a little unstable as soon as the power plug is plugged in. The chandelier overhead flickered even more. The moment the lights flickered, behind Ye Keke’s image in the dressing mirror, a red figure suddenly appeared at the foot of the originally empty bed.
The woman was wearing a red dress, her head was lowered, and her black hair was so long that it covered her face. Her hands dropped downward in an unnatural shape, and the tips of her fingers actually reached her knees.
The hair dryer in her hand dropped onto the table with a bang, and the next moment, the whole room went dark.
Before she could let out a scream, the lights went on again. Ye Keke turned around in horror only to see only to find that there were only red curtains hanging on the bed, hanging motionless to the ground.
“It’s an illusion, it must be an illusion.” She breathed a sigh of relief, but began to complain about Ni Xiao in her heart, ‘Where did she go? Why hasn’t she returned yet?’
The clock passed twelve o’clock, and Ni Xiao still didn’t come back. Ye Keke was sitting on the bed, playing with her phone, but her anxiety increased with time.
‘What if… I’ll go find her.’ She stopped scrolling for a second, ‘I don’t know if she……’
As she thought about it, there was a rhythmic knocking sound from the door. Ye Keke climbed down from the bed and walked to the door: “Why did you come back so late——“
The moment her finger touched the doorknob, the whole room became dark again.
Deep in the darkness, the dripping sound of the bathroom faucet could be heard clearly. A drop of cold sweat flowed down Ye Keke’s cheek, and she asked softly: “Ni Xiao, is that you?”
There was no response.
She held her breath, locked the door, and stepped back into the bedroom. The moment she turned around, she heard footsteps that clearly did not belong to her.
It was the sound of high heels clicking on the ground, matching the speed of her walking, following behind her in a leisurely manner.
She held the phone tightly and secretly held a knife hidden in her trouser pocket with her other hand.
When she reached the foot of the bed, she didn’t hesitate as she clenched the knife tightly, and slash it through the air behind her!
The knife cut through the air and missed.
Cold sweat dripped down Ye Keke’s chin as she held the knife tightly. The next moment, she opened the flashlight on her phone without hesitation.
The bright beam of light swept across the room, passing through the stagnant air and directly reflecting on the pale walls and blood-red curtains. She randomly swept the room with a flashlight, held the knife in her other hand and was ready to strike, she kept jogging carefully around the room. The footsteps followed her unhurriedly, following her like a shadow.
‘Not in front of me, but also not behind me……’ she thought, ‘Then……’
As she thought about it, she stepped back once and felt that she had stepped on something hard and pointed.
Ye Keke held the phone and turned around to see what it was.
The pair of red high heels was following her like a shadow, hiding quietly in her shadow.
The next moment, the fluffy black hair hung down and touched her neck.
A pair of hands gently touched her neck. The hands were extremely cool and pale, with light red veins criss crossing on the surface.
“Have you……seen my red high heels……?”
With the light of the mobile phone, Ye Keke saw the shadows of herself and ‘her’ on the wall.
What an eerie and sad scene this would have been. The girl in red was hanging from the ceiling, her long black hair hanging down like a waterfall, entwined like a spider web, grabbing her prey.
Her hands are slender and pale, and you can imagine how graceful and moving she would have looked like when she stretches her arms and dances on the stage.
It’s just that from the waist down… she actually has no legs, and is in complete mess. It was as if……she had been run over by a truck from the waist down.
“Found it.” She said quietly, “But……There is still one thing missing……”
The dark hair gradually tightened, Ye Keke could hardly breath, and could hardly hold the flashlight steady.
“I can’t find my legs……” She said.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise from the door.
With a bang, the entire lock on the door exploded under the hard impact, and a man in black suddenly burst in with a wrench in his hand. The woman in red squinted as she looked at the young man.
The young man with messy black hair, held the wrench in his hand that had just caused a lot of damage on the door lock. He held his ears with one hand, and when he saw a person and a ghost entangled together, he lowered his body slightly.
The long black hair was loosened from Ye Keke’s body, like pear blossom needles in a rainstorm, overwhelmingly covering the room and shooting straight in the direction of the young man at the door!
Facing the incoming rain of attack, the young man calmly held the wrench and stood still with a cold expression.
He looks so reliable like no one could stop him. As if as long as you’re with him, you can reach anywhere you want.
Ye Keke struggled free from the hair and collapsed on the floor gasping for breath. She held her throat and screamed with a hoarse voice: “Don’t bother about me! She’s in red! RUN——!”
Before the hair could touch the young man, he suddenly touched his head, showed a confused look, shook his hand and said: “I’m sorry, I went to the wrong room. My room is on the other side. I’ll go out now – you guys have fun.”
After he finished, he closed the door with lightning speed.
“Bang bang bang!!”
The long hair pierced the door, making a really loud noise!
Ye Keke, who witnessed everything, fell from heaven to hell.
“Hey! I told you to leave and you seriously ran away!” Ye Keke wailed.
After saying this, Ye Keke laid on the floor as she hopelessly looked at the girl in red who turned to look at her after she snorted coldly at the door.
Before a person dies, most of the time they will think about their past. Ye Keke closed her eyes as she waited for death.
The next moment, the girl in red’s expression froze.
The dark green flame followed the hair that was still stuck on the door and burned into the room like a wildfire. It followed the female ghost’s long hair and burned all the way to the female ghost’s head.
The door was pushed open again, this time by two people.
One of them was Chu Tian, who was still holding a wrench. While the other one was the Little Match Girl1The little girl who sells matches in the snow, Zhang Lu.
Chu Tian fixed his bangs and said: “Seeing a female ghost with such thick hair really makes people cringe…”
The female ghost with green on her head2This can also mean she is being cheated on by her lover since in chinese ‘wearing a green cap’ means your other half is cheating on you was howling and struggling on the ceiling. Obviously, the fact that her weapon was burned caused her extreme pain. She stared at Chu Tian resentfully, her eyes blood red, and was about to attack.
Chu Tian sat on the bed and looked at her calmly: “By the way, your hair is about to be all burnt oh.”
Female ghost: ……
In the next second, the female ghost screamed and dashed into the bathroom.
Chu Tian held the wrench and was about to follow the ghost, he turned his head to Ye Keke and said: “One second.”
Then, he pointed to his ears: “If you are afraid, block your ears.”
After a heart-wrenching loud scream, Chu Tian opened the bathroom door and walked out with fresh black and red blood dripping from the wrench. Ye Keke stared at him nervously and gulped.
“You just now……”
“Don’t worry.” Chu Tian shaked his wrench, “There was no violence nor was there any blood spilled.”
“Your wrench……”
“It’s engine oil for lubrication.”
“How can there be red engine oil in this world… And why does the wrench need to be applied with engine oil… What happened in the toilet just now!”
Chu Tian said: “The moment I went in, she drilled into the toilet and disappeared into the drain. The noise just now was because she was too tall and got stuck in the pipe. I simply knocked her head with my wrench with good intentions and with the help of the engine oil, successfully knocked her down the pipe…… The density of the engine oil is about 0.91103 (kg/m3), which can lubricate and reduce friction, assist in cooling, and reduce the temperature of the engine. It also has the functions of sealing and preventing leakage, preventing rust and corrosion, shock absorption and buffering. It is known as the ‘blood’ of the car…… The above information is taken from Baidu Encyclopedia by the way. In this way, it can be barely called ‘blood’.”
Ye Keke: “……Why don’t you tell me why she went into the toilet in the first place?”
Chu Tian said: “Sigh, maybe because she was trying to put the fire out. Just like a man who is frustrated when he is out drinking, he will be made drunk by his boss at the banquet and then return home to think about his life problems and his girlfriend. Going to the bathroom for comfort3Uhhhh I wonder what type of comfort- Anyways moving on……it’s just logical.”
“The example in the middle has nothing to do with the first sentence! So you basically just stuffed her in!”
“Don’t say that hey.” Chu Tian said seriously, “I am a very friendly person.”
Ye Keke: ……
Ye Keke was still struggling on the ground, clutching her throat, but found a hand reaching out to her.
That hand was soft and white, it was Zhang Lu’s hand.
Recalling a few days ago how she dissed her4Zhang Lu in her heart, Ye Keke felt a little embarrassed. She covered her throat and said: “Thank you…… I can get up by myself……”
“Five thousand.”
“……Ah?”
“One match for five thousand.”
Ye Keke: ……
Chu Tian frowned and looked at Zhang Lu: “It isn’t polite for you to be like this…”
Then, he twirled his fingers and said, “Speaking of it, I also contributed, so I should be given at least half of it.”
Ye Keke: ……
***
Inside the mirror.
Black thorns spread out all over the ground like a dragnet, and entangled in the black cocoon of black thorns were nine white shadows that were still struggling.
In the middle of the room was Lin Huai with flying black hair. He stepped on the thorns that originated from the curse mark on his body, lowered his long eyelashes, and stared at the palm of his hand.
There was a fresh wound on the palm of his hand. The wound was not deep, just a shallow scratch, and scarlet blood spread along the long veins in the palm of his hand.
He casually added strength and crushed the illusion in his hand. The latter turned into tiny silvery fragments, swallowed up by black and red thorns.
Lin Huai dusted off his hands, waiting for the wound to heal, and turned to look at the unconscious girl lying beside the door.
He thought about it for a moment, then he lifted the other person up with one hand, and dragged the other person towards the mirror.
The moment before stepping into the mirror, Lin Huai looked through the mirror and saw Chu Tian and the girl in red confronting each other in the bathroom.
The female ghost in red looked like a trembling, broken doll in front of Chu Tian. There was no usual smile on Chu Tian’s face. He just squatted there expressionlessly and bit his finger, then the seriously injured female ghost sank into the toilet.
Lin Huai also stretched out the tip of his scarlet tongue and licked his lips.
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*Use of deleted memes:
Aunt: a kind of female elder
2 thoughts on “Chapter 17 – Why so serious?”
Whatcha doing kicking your lips there Lin Huai, hm?
Thank you for the chapter!!