Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The female ghost in red let out two eerie chuckles before she slowly leaned through the window.
Yu Shuya was sleeping on the earthen bed placed against the windowsill.
She could not help thinking that this woman wanted to climb through the window to grab her and eat her up as she was peering through the window towards her.
“No! Don’t kill me.”
Beads of tear trickled down the corner of Yu Shuya’s eyes. She was trembling as she begged the female ghost, who was moving through the window.
The ghost seemed to understand Yu Shuya’s plea and stopped moving.
Just as Yu Shuya tried to catch her breath, the female ghost moved again.
But this time, she did not peer through the window. She let out some screeching sound and parted the curtain of hairs covering her face.
Yu Shuya was terrified by the face hidden behind the hairs.
With the brightness of the moonlight, she could see the dark pupils in the socket of the eyes of the female ghost staring back at her. Blood covered every inch of her face. Hanging from her mouth was her long tongue dripping with blood as well.
Yu Shuya was so scared that she couldn’t breathe. She opened her mouth to beg for mercy again.
“Don’t kill me. Please don’t kill me.”
But the female ghost did not stop after hearing her beg.
Yu Shuya was petrified. Her body shook uncontrollably as the female ghost reached out her long limbs and wrapped her fingers around her neck. Then she tightened the grip on Yu Shuya’s neck.
As the grip around Yu Shuya’s neck tightened, her eyes widened in shock, and her breathing grew weaker until her heart stopped.
Before the female ghost turned to leave, she checked to ensure Yu Shuya had stopped breathing.
Moments passed before a loud pant came from the bed.
Yu Shuya wiped the traces of tears forced from her eyes earlier before she closed her eyes again to regain some strength.
She was fortunate to have learned some martial art in her past life and had medical skills. During the time of distress, she pricked her Minghui point with a needle to fake death.
But she could only stay in that condition for three minutes. She would not be able to deceive the female ghost had she not leave within the time frame.
Why would the female ghost, no, Master Yuzhi wanted her dead?
Yu Shuya was sure that the female ghost was Master Yuzhi in disguise.
Although she had never seen Master Yuzhi’s face clearly, she had seen the pair of eyes full of murderous intent multiple times.
It was just out of her expectation that Master Yuzhi would take her life the night itself, just when she was wondering about the reason for Master Yuzhi to want to kill her.
Master Yuzhi probably did not want others to find out about the murder behind her death. So, she tried to murder her by disguising herself as a ghost. Then why would she do it herself?
Yu Shuya caressed the traces left by Master Yuzhi’s fingers on her neck and let out a wry smile. Perhaps Master Yuzhi was surprised a sick, frail child like her was a brave one for not dying from shock.
But would she need to return to life in front of Master Yuzhi tomorrow since she was supposed to be dead?
She had wanted to give it all and ran away from this nunnery with Yu Niang. Since they suffered from the bullying in the nunnery anyway, it did not seem to be a much worse consequence if they ended up begging in the street.
She came from the future and knew a lot of things. She had excellent medical skills as well. Could she not make a career out of it in ancient times?
She turned to face the sleeping Yu Niang, thinking about how they would start their life after leaving this nunnery.
She drifted into sleep as her mind spun around at the idea of them leaving.
She dreamt that after going through a lot of hardship, they ended up living a life of happily ever after and became the role models of the women in the ancient time and were respected everywhere they went.