"Don't you think your encounter was rather strange?"
After listening to Lu Lin's account, I couldn't help but retort, "Even if it was predestined for the two of you to reunite, isn't it odd that a girl couldn't even reach a packet of sweets?"
"… It was placed rather high."
Lu Lin mumbled in defense.
Goodness!! Love is truly powerful… It can even justify such an obvious plot hole.
"Humph! You said she hadn't changed a bit in ten years. Is that even possible?!" I curled my lips and rolled my eyes inwardly.
Unexpectedly, Lu Lin suddenly looked up, gave me a deep look, and then, as if summoning up his courage, said, "Why not… Du Xinghe, actually… actually you resemble my high - school classmate more than Li Li does!!"
"Dr. Lu?!"
I was originally sitting on the chair opposite Lu Lin. His sudden words startled me so much that I leaned backward, almost falling off the chair.
"Are you sick?"
I stared at him with wide eyes. "Are you having mental problems? Has your unrequited love made you think every girl looks like your classmate?!"
Lu Lin gave a bitter smile. "No… It's not that!!"
He gave me another deep look before starting, "I dated Li Li for about half a year. She was really nice… very gentle. But she only worked night shifts, so I hardly saw her during the day. I wanted to send her home and meet her parents, but she said her parents had divorced long ago and she lived with her mother. Her mother was so traumatized that she wasn't allowed to date…"
"Okay!! Then, how did you find out she wasn't human?"
I didn't want to dwell on these details with him. I really thought Dr. Lu had serious mental issues. He wasn't even scared after knowing his girlfriend was a ghost, and he even wanted to cure her?!!
"Because of you."
Lu Lin's smile turned even more bitter. "The day your grandfather was transferred to the ICU, the moment I saw you, I almost thought it was Li Li standing in the corridor."
"Me…?!"
I was stunned for a moment and recalled the situation when my grandfather was hospitalized.
It seemed… Dr. Lu was a bit unusually enthusiastic.
At that time, I was so panicked that all my attention was on my grandfather. I was so afraid that he wouldn't make it that I didn't even notice a doctor's attitude.
I thought all the doctors in the ICU were that considerate!
"The moment I saw you, I knew it was you! You hadn't changed at all. Even when you were dozing off with your head down on the bench in the corridor, you looked exactly the same as in high school!"
Dr. Lu sighed. "Do you know why I know you'll get hypoglycemia if you don't eat? Because… in high school, you once missed lunch because you were dozing off in the classroom at noon and fainted in the corridor."
"Don't talk about me!!"
I immediately stopped Dr. Lu's delusions.
People with mental problems usually get trapped in a world of their own creation and think those are real experiences.
I was sure I had never been a classmate of Dr. Lu's. He was in his thirties, and there was a full ten - year age gap between us!
"Talk about yourself. How did you find out Li Li was a ghost? What was wrong with her?!"
All I wanted to know now was what the ghost's intentions were.
She said she was Dr. Lu's wife, so… they probably had done everything lovers do.
The dim aura around Dr. Lu was because he had been haunted by the ghost.
That "One - Eyed Buddha Mother" was definitely up to no good.
She had probably controlled the ghost named Li Li to suck away Dr. Lu's good fortune!
"After I saw you, that night when Li Li came to find me again, I noticed that she looked a bit different from the way I remembered."
Dr. Lu let out a soft sigh. "She was like a substitute. Once the real person showed up, she would be exposed immediately. I asked her who she really was… She started crying and said she was indeed a nurse in the emergency department of the hospital… but…"
"But she was already dead, right?" I asked.
"Right. When she was rescuing a girl who had taken pesticide to commit suicide in the emergency department, the girl's boyfriend accused her, saying that her actions made the girl suffer too much. Li Li argued a bit."
A look of pity appeared on Dr. Lu's face. "After she finished her work and went to the convenience store to buy something during her break, she was followed by that man and stabbed in the heart. She couldn't understand why she had been retaliated against and killed when she had done her best to save the girl! So… she had been crying in the convenience store…"
"You pitied her? And fell in love with her because of that?"
I thought Dr. Lu was a really kind person, more like a delicate flower who had never experienced the harshness of society. His compassion was something I, a con - artist in the jianghu, could never have.
My grandfather and I always believed in the saying "Good people don't always get good rewards, while scoundrels live a long time."
It's not that we don't want to be good people… We just don't want to be naive do - gooders.
"The doctor doesn't seek patients, and the Taoist doesn't spread teachings lightly." That's the reason. If you rush to help others, they may not appreciate it!
"Yes… Because I pitied her, and we had been dating for almost half a year. I thought… even if she was a ghost, there was nothing to be afraid of. She hadn't harmed me." Dr. Lu pinched the bridge of his nose and put on his glasses.
"I asked her why she didn't go to reincarnation. That murderer should have been arrested, right? But she cried and said she didn't want to leave this world. She wanted to be with me forever. And the man who killed her wasn't sentenced. Instead, he got a mental illness certificate…"
"You believe a ghost's words? She said she wanted to be with you, so you slept with her?"
I looked at Dr. Lu as if he were a disappointing child. "How do you know she wasn't lying to you?!"
"… I, I mistook her for you!"
Dr. Lu blushed and almost roared out the words, mustering all his courage.
"You, you… don't go too far!!"
I almost spat out a mouthful of blood. This Dr. Lu looked so decent, but how could he do such a despicable thing.
Even if Li Li was a ghost, he couldn't use her as a substitute!
What a scumbag!!
"I'm sorry! In my dreams, she always looked like you. She begged me to love her because only in this way could she have a chance to stay by my side!"
Dr. Lu didn't dare to look at me and just mumbled, "I know your boyfriend is very outstanding. I… I just wanted to be with her like this forever!"
"You stupid guy! She could even deceive you about her appearance. How can you still believe her?!"
I was so angry with this guy. Hadn't he heard that ghosts are full of lies? He didn't even know the real appearance of the person he slept with and wanted to spend his life with a ghost?
He must have been so buried in books that he had become stupid!
Suddenly, this thought popped into my head, and an image involuntarily emerged in my mind.
In a noisy classroom, a boy in a blue sports school uniform was secretly raising his head from behind a pile of books and stealing glances at the desk behind him…