Song Yixuan showed up at my rental apartment in the middle of the night, which left me with a strange feeling in my heart.
This man's visit seemed rather fishy.
I frowned, puzzled as to where this inexplicable sense of crisis was coming from.
Song Yixuan had already leaned in. He was good - looking, but perhaps due to his long - time presence in the entertainment and social scene, there was an oily look in his eyes.
"Miss Du, how long have you been living here? Is this... your own house?" he began to probe me.
"I'm renting it," I replied honestly.
"Oh..." Song Yixuan seemed to be deep in thought. Then, pretending to be chatting casually, he said, "So what's your relationship with Young Master Wei? He seems to be very concerned about you!"
Concerned? So this was how Wei Yuan showed his concern for women, by "sending a playboy over" in the middle of the night?
I didn't have much animosity towards Song Yixuan at first. I thought he was just blinded by the glitz and glamour of the world. Although he was partly responsible for Wang Yingxiu's death, the main culprit should be Wang Yingxiu's mother. If she hadn't locked her daughter up, no one would have missed the rescue time when something happened.
But now, Song Yixuan's behavior made me feel extremely disgusted.
This kind of scheming, this obsequious attitude, and... this was the love nest he once shared with Wang Yingxiu. Wasn't he scared at all?
Seeing that I remained silent, Song Yixuan thought I was shy. He even tilted his head and got closer to my face amorously, saying, "I'm really honored to be your idol, Miss Du. You're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen..."
"Really?"
I was truly nauseated and quickly leaned back. Song Yixuan even reached out his hand to put it on my shoulder. Suddenly, there was a soft "click". His index finger on his hand bent backward at an extremely strange angle!
Wang Yingxiu was right behind me. With a pale and ghastly face, she gritted her teeth and grabbed Song Yixuan's palm, breaking his finger.
"Ah!!!"
The sudden sharp pain made Song Yixuan scream. "What's going on! What's going on!! Miss Du!"
"I thought you came here for Wang Yingxiu," I said coldly, taking a step back and looking at Song Yixuan. "She lost her life for you. How dare you act so flirtatiously here?"
"Wang Yingxiu... Her death has nothing to do with me!"
Song Yixuan's handsome face was distorted in pain. He shouted loudly, "It was clearly her mother who caused her death... No, it was she who wanted to run out and fell to her death by herself. It has nothing to do with me!"
"Has nothing to do with you?"
I covered my ears with my fingers and said, "Reason doesn't depend on volume. Yelling louder won't help. The sound - proofing here is good. No one will hear you."
Song Yixuan had lived here for several years and naturally knew that the old building had poor sound - proofing. He wanted to wake up the neighbors so that I wouldn't do anything to him.
I sneered and exposed Song Yixuan's intention. The magic formation I had set up here was even impenetrable to the ghost messengers from the underworld. How could a simple scream reach the neighbors' ears?
"What do you want to do? Did Wang Yingxiu's mother ask you to take revenge on me?"
Song Yixuan's finger hurt terribly. Big beads of sweat rolled down his temples. He didn't know what kind of magic I had used to control him. But the entertainment circle always believed in ghosts and gods, and he was no exception. He quickly asked me, "How much did she pay you? I'll pay double... No! I'll pay ten times as much!!"
I looked at the air beside him and sighed. "Do you still want to ask him?"
That was the direction where Wang Yingxiu was.
"What are you talking nonsense about?!"
Song Yixuan no longer had that sticky look on his face. His hand was being pulled by an invisible force, and the sharp pain in his fingers made him both scared and angry. "Let me go quickly!"
"Not possible," I suddenly smiled and ran my palm across his eyelids. "Since you came to me on your own initiative, it would be a pity if you didn't get to see an old acquaintance."
Song Yixuan was startled by my action and involuntarily closed his eyes for a moment. When he opened them again, everything in front of him had changed.
I had given him the ability to see ghosts.
Actually, there were many ways to open the celestial eye. There were natural celestial eyes, celestial eyes obtained through cultivation, and celestial eyes empowered by talismans. The method I most commonly used now was to temporarily awaken the celestial eye in the middle of their foreheads, allowing Song Yixuan to see the ghosts in the room.
Wang Yingxiu, with a deathly pale face, stared at him with her cracked eye sockets. The blood oozing from the corners of her eyes trickled down her cheeks like small snakes. A green - skinned little ghost was sitting on her shoulder, baring its tiny teeth and eager to pounce on him at any moment.
"Aaaaaaah..."
This time, Song Yixuan was really scared out of his wits. His legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground.
"Don't... don't come near... You're already dead. Why don't you go and be reincarnated quickly?!" he rambled incoherently, with tears and snot streaming down his face.
Wang Yingxiu was stunned for a long time. Then she slowly bent down, her face facing Song Yixuan's. She twitched the corner of her lips and showed a tragic smile. "A Xuan, I've been waiting here all this time. I just... just want to ask you one question..."
"Go away!! Get away from me!!"
Song Yixuan was so scared that his soul was almost out of his body at the sight of the ghost.
"Song Yixuan, I advise you to listen," I said. I was also a bit curious about what kind of question it was that had made Wang Yingxiu keep it in her heart for so long. She would rather not be reincarnated and become a fierce ghost just to wait for Song Yixuan.
"Otherwise, she'll follow you for the rest of your life and haunt you to death!"
My voice was eerie. Song Yixuan shivered twice.
"I'm asking you..."
Wang Yingxiu wanted to reach out and touch Song Yixuan's hair, but Song Yixuan quickly shrank his head, his eyes full of fear.
"If we could go back to that night, would you save me?" Wang Yingxiu's voice was ethereal, filled with infinite sadness. "Or would you just leave me behind and run away by yourself?"
"I... I wouldn't. I would definitely save you. I would call an ambulance. I would never let you..."
Song Yixuan didn't even dare to look up. Even if he closed his eyes, Wang Yingxiu's terrifying face would still appear in front of him.
"... Really? Really!!"
Wang Yingxiu asked twice. It seemed like she was asking Song Yixuan, but also like she was asking herself. "My mother locked me in the room, but you secretly came and wanted to take me away. You said you would work hard to earn more money to support me and the baby... I was just too stupid. I fell out of the window... The baby was gone. You said you would go and call an ambulance... But I never waited for you..."
As she spoke, a string of tears welled up in Wang Yingxiu's eyes again, mixing with the dirty red blood and leaving streaks of blood on her pale face.
"Yes! It wasn't my fault at all. You just didn't wait for the rescue. You fell to your death by yourself!!"
Song Yixuan was lying on the ground, completely limp except for his stubborn mouth. I was really annoyed, so I pointed to the small window in the bedroom and asked, "Is it that window?"
"What... what are you going to do?"
Song Yixuan and Wang Yingxiu both looked at me.
"I know a spell called 'Reviving the Past', which can help you recall who on earth is at fault!"
I looked back at the floor - length dressing mirror beside the bedroom door...