Translator: Exodus Tales
Editor: Exodus Tales
“I’m not a coward. You try seeing ghosts everyday and see if you are afraid or not,” I puffed my cheeks out and spoke without thinking. Only after did I realize that Ming Si would not be afraid of ghosts as he was already one of them. My heart was seized with embarrassment, but what was said could not be unsaid.
However, Ming Si did not get angry but laughed, “I see all kinds of malicious ghosts who bear resentment everyday. Of course, I will not be afraid as I am in charge of their lives and deaths.”
I pouted and mumbled, “We are not the same.”
He didn’t say anything but stretched out his hand and touched my hand with eyes full of fondness.
At that time, Cheng Fengfeng came out of the library after returning the book. She stood still at the door, and suspiciously looked at me, “What are you doing squatting around here?”
“I…I didn’t do anything.”
She looked at me as if deep in thought for a while, then suddenly grinned at me and said, “I listened to what you said. I found the master named Shang Yi and had him perform two rituals.”
I was shocked. The rituals Shang Yi had mentioned were for Cheng Fengfeng.
“Why do the rituals?”
“The master said that my ophyron appeared black. I would be in mortal danger within a month so the rituals had to done to avoid misfortune. Otherwise, there would be endless trouble, so I did it.”
“…”
Shang Yi was indeed greedy for money.
He probably saw that Cheng Fengfeng’s family was really wealthy that he ripped them off. This was really his way of handling business.
I didn’t know whether to cry or laugh and asked instead, “What you wanted was just a protective talisman, why did you do so much?” What’s more, her ophyron did not appear black at all. Her face was practically painted with vitality.
Cheng Fengfeng stretched out her hand and touched the backside of her head and laughed, “The master said the rituals were needed to get rid of the misfortune. It was not expensive anyway, so I just did it.”
“How much did the two rituals cost?”
“Twenty thousand.”
“…”
I was stunned.
Twenty thousand was not expensive? It was just two rituals… Shang Yi dared to demand such an exorbitant price. Only a fool like Cheng Fengfeng would fall for it!
“But, seriously, I felt relaxed from head to toe after the rituals were done,” She stretched her waist from side to side when she spoke of that, seemingly in a good mood.
I didn’t reply. She smiled at me again and said, “Don’t squat around here anymore. Let’s go to the classroom. Attendance will be taken in half an hour.”
I nodded, got up, and said, “I’ll call Su Rui.”
She waved her hand, “Go, go. I’m waiting for you here.”
I put on my blindfold while I walked into the library. Ming Si followed me and said faintly, “I will be by your side.”
“En.”
I smiled at him. He touched my head again and tied the blindfold for me. After wearing the blindfold, I couldn’t see him, but I could feel him beside me.
I went straight to Su Rui and called him. He patiently collected the books on the table. He wanted to put them back on the shelf at first, but he seemed hesitant then. Eventually, he took the books to the administrator to borrow them.
The three of us left the library building and walked more than one hundred meters to the teaching building. Most of the classrooms were filled with students. They were loud and noisy. There were also many students in the corridors playing around. Only our class was quiet.
We entered through the back door and found that the class teacher was already on the teaching platform.
No wonder everyone was so conscious.
We returned to our seats.
The class teacher was standing behind the desk. She had not brought any books so her hands were empty and her expression was a little strict.
She glanced around the classroom and said, “Everyone is here, right?”
“There are still students not present yet,” replied a student.
“Wait then.”
Everyone was immersed in reading books and looking conscious. In actuality, some were secretly playing with their phones under the table.
After a while, a few more students came in one after another. Everyone was present.
The class teacher began to speak.
“I will have the roll call earlier today, because I have something to tell you.”
The audiences were quiet.
After ten minutes of roll call to make sure all the students in the class had arrived, the class teacher went straight onto the subject.
She said, “Presumably everyone knows what happened to student Xu Zixi. The school is paying much attention to this suicide incident after a deliberate meeting. It was deemed necessary to increase the students’ awareness of safety…”
She talked fluently and endlessly on the stage but only a few of the students were really paying attention to her speech.
I was one of those who spaced out.
I felt a cold hand touching the back of my neck. It was cold and that gave me the creeps.
I guessed that it was Ming Si. He was just too mischievous.
I was sitting upright as I really wanted to concentrate on listening to the class teacher’s safety education, but my brain just couldn’t help thinking wildly.
“Elder brother, stop it.”
I lowered my voice.
The hand on the back of my neck did not stop.
“Stop messing around please.”
That hand was still wandering around the back of my neck, even reaching in from the collar of my jacket.
I felt a chill down my back, making me shiver violently.
The class teacher threw me a fierce glare to give me a warning with her eyes and continued, “Class, I know that you are under a great pressure on studying but you have to learn to adjust your mentality to relieve the pressure. You just have to work hard for these few years and you will get your freedom once you go to university. Never make things too hard for yourself when you suffer from stress. It’s not the right choice to choose to commit suicide like what Xu Zixi did. You have to think about your parents, who worked so hard to raise you up, give you an education and create all these good conditions for you…”
The blackboard eraser on the desk suddenly fell to the ground with a low bang and interrupted her before she finished speaking.
Everyone immediately all stared at the blackboard eraser on the ground.
Everyone had all clearly seen that the blackboard eraser was placed in the middle of the desk. How could the blackboard eraser in the middle of the desk fall to the ground by itself though?
The classroom was suddenly in a dead silence, and even the class teacher stopped talking.
She stared down at the blackboard eraser with her face getting paler.
A few minutes later, the teaching building was quickly restored its tranquility, after the preparatory bell rang.
However, whispers gradually overwhelmed the classroom.
“It’s haunted!”
“Don’t talk nonsense.”
“…This school is so bizarre. The blackboard eraser fell on its own. Did you see it?”
“I saw it. It’s scary.”
…
The whispers quickly turned into a congress. Everyone’s voice became louder and louder. Soon, there was a mess in the classroom, causing quite a stir.
I twisted my body hard and warned the hand owner that had gotten in my clothes, “Stop it, or I will be angry.”
I thought that it was Ming Si teasing me as I knew that he would do something like this.
But as the blindfold on my left eye became looser and finally fell off on its own, I saw that there was a sitting on the empty seat behind me.
I hadn’t looked back directly, but just peeked at the chair in the corner of my eye. It was not Ming Si, but a girl in a white dress with black hair.