I rented an apartment in Lvyuan Residential Area.
The rent was only half of that for similar apartments. At first, I thought it might be a haunted house, but to my surprise, I had slept there for three days and nights without any problems.
However, when the real landlady, the noodle shop owner who had pretended to be a kind - hearted person, entered the room, a little ghost suddenly appeared out of thin air and pounced on her, biting her.
This kind of infant spirit was easy to deal with. I only needed to chant the Rebirth Mantra a few times to send it to reincarnation.
But just as I was about to chant the mantra to subdue the ghost, a mess of black hair suddenly hung down from the ceiling above my head.
Immediately afterwards, a pale face appeared upside - down, staring right into my eyes.
The landlady standing opposite me had never seen such a shocking sight!
She rolled her eyes and fainted to the ground.
“...Give me back my child!”
The pale face with pitch - black eyes that showed no whites made my scalp tingle.
“Both of you shouldn't linger in the human world!”
I stared into the ghost's eyes bravely, trying to persuade her.
The female ghost slowly slid down from the ceiling and finally stood in front of me...
A blood - red aura surrounded her.
I never expected that there would be a red - clothed fierce ghost in this apartment building where people came and went.
Actually, the so - called “red - clothed ghost” didn't look like those in some TV shows, with long, disheveled hair and a red robe that reached the feet.
It was a manifestation of an aura. The powerful resentment distorted the surrounding space into a blood - red color. No matter what clothes they wore before death, they would be tinged with a filthy blood - red hue.
The female ghost in front of me was wearing an ordinary silk nightgown. The bottom of the gown was soaked with blood, and strings of blood dripped to the ground, creating a white mist...
“I'm not leaving. I'm still waiting for someone here!”
How could a red - clothed fierce ghost listen to persuasion? A blood - stained hand reached straight towards me. “Give me back my child!”
I stepped back repeatedly. The little ghost I had grabbed by the neck was squealing and trying to bite my arm.
“You're already dead. How could anyone come? This apartment has been rented to me. How could your husband come back here?!”
I didn't want to hear the story of a resentful woman. People who lost their lives because of unrequited love were never the ones I sympathized with.
“He promised he would come back. It's all my mother's fault!! It's all her. She ruined me!”
The female ghost suddenly turned to look at the landlady who was lying on the ground, shivering.
“She... she's your mother?!”
This really surprised me. Before, I thought the landlady had bought the haunted house on the cheap and then tricked me, a naive - looking young girl, into renting it.
Unexpectedly, her daughter had died a violent death in this house?!
At this moment, the landlady finally recovered from her state of terror. She crawled a few steps behind the female ghost and tried to hug her legs, but a ghost was intangible. She missed and fell forward.
The female ghost's phantom slipped through the landlady's fingers like sand without light and then reformed behind her.
The landlady spread out her arms and cried loudly, “Yingxiu! Why were you so stupid? Mom just wanted you to leave that Song Yixuan. Mom didn't mean for you not to have the baby!! If you had given birth, Mom would have helped you take care of the baby. Mom would have treated both of you well...”
“Shut up!!”
Before the landlady could finish speaking, the female ghost lowered her head menacingly. Turbid blood actually flowed from her pitch - black eyes.
“Why didn't you tell me you would be good to me when you called me shameless? Why didn't you ask for my opinion when you wanted me to marry Fat Zhou from the shop? A Xuan and I knelt down and begged you. Why did you tell him to leave? Why did you force me to abort the baby? You were so good to me... You were really good to me!!”
“No, that was just Mom's angry words! Mom was angry that you were disobedient. Mom didn't want you to suffer with Song Yixuan!”
The landlady didn't dare to look at her daughter's ghostly face. She covered her eyes with both hands and sobbed while defending herself, “What's wrong with Fat Zhou? He's the chef in our shop. In the future, this shop will be your husband - and - wife business...”
She was crying to the female ghost, while I, holding the little ghost, seemed like an outsider watching the show.
The little ghost died during childbirth and had never seen the light of day. All it knew was that its mother had grievances, so it harbored resentment too.
Naturally, it wanted to kill this bad woman who had forced it and its mother to death.
So, as soon as the landlady entered the room, it showed up and harassed her. Fortunately, it was still attached to its mother's body and could only do some prank - like things. If it became a red - clothed fierce ghost after many years... A mother - and - son pair of fierce ghosts would probably scare away any potential tenants even if the rent was extremely cheap.
“Mom knew you've been here all along. So, Mom has been trying to make it up to you!!”
The landlady's eyes were red from crying. Suddenly, she pointed at me and said, “Don't you want to see Song Yixuan? You can possess her. She's someone I've been looking for... She's all alone. Even if she disappears, no one will know...”
The landlady's sudden finger - pointing at me surprised me, and then I felt a chill in my heart!
It turned out that there really was no free lunch in the world.
I had thought the rent was cheap because it was a haunted house. Who would have thought that while I was trying to save some money, the landlady had her eyes on me?
The red - clothed female ghost followed the landlady's finger and turned to look at me. Then she grinned wickedly. “Do you know why I didn't come out to harass her in the past three days?”
The landlady was stunned. She had been keeping an eye on me.
I hadn't gone out for three days, which was really strange.
So, she had come to spy on the situation this morning when the yang energy was strong. Now, her daughter's question left her speechless.
“On the first day she moved in, she subdued a fierce ghost who died a violent death and promised to fulfill that ghost's wish...”
The female ghost Yingxiu suddenly knelt down in front of me. She looked up at me pleadingly, “Could you please help me fulfill my wish too? I want to see Song Yixuan! He promised to come and pick me up and our child! I... I've been waiting for him for so long. I can hardly hold on any longer!”
She covered her head tightly and let out increasingly shrill cries. “The longer I wait, the more I hate! I'm almost forgetting all the good things he did for me. I don't want to hate him. I just want to see him one more time!”
When the little ghost in my hand saw its mother crying blood, it stopped struggling and stared blankly at me. The hideous look on its blue - purple face was gone.
“Is such obsession useful?”
I sighed. “Even if you see him, what good will it do? You're already dead. You're separated by the boundary between the living and the dead... Do you understand?”
“I... I have one question to ask him!”
On Yingxiu's pale face, a trace of her former beauty could still be seen. I was also puzzled. Red - clothed fierce ghosts were usually tortured by their resentment and lost their humanity. How could she still be rational?
“Okay, where is he? I can help you with this.” I sighed.
Sure enough, there's no such thing as a free lunch. The cheap rent I got would eventually be paid back in this way...