"I spent a total of 5,507 yuan today."
I returned the black card to Gu Fancheng.
"I just paid my tuition, so I don't have that much money to pay you back. I'll transfer it to you as soon as I earn money from my part - time job."
Gu Fancheng didn't take the card. He just stared at me expressionlessly.
"... You can also include the interest."
I felt a bit flustered under his stare.
"Do you have to calculate it so precisely?" Gu Fancheng suddenly squinted his eyes and smiled. "We're husband and wife, after all."
He seemed even scarier when he smiled than when he was expressionless. I nervously swallowed and stammered, "... I... I can't be with you like this forever..."
"Little thing!"
The hand that Gu Fancheng had around my waist suddenly tightened. With his other hand, he held the back of my head, forcing me to look into his eyes. "What on earth are you trying to say?!"
His dark eyes reflected a panicked me.
However, I wasn't going to back down. Although I'm a laid - back person, I won't end up like Jiang Yingxue, being drained of my spirit by a ghost in a daze!
I don't want to die! And I definitely don't want to lose my life to a ghost who forced me into a ghost marriage!
"Just like you said, you're a ghost and I'm a human. You'll eventually enter the cycle of reincarnation. Ten years? Twenty years? I'll eventually return to a normal life, get married, have children, and live out my life... Mmm!!"
Before I could finish, my mouth was roughly blocked.
Gu Fancheng devoured me fiercely, as if he wanted to swallow me whole. All my senses were invaded by him, and my oxygen - deprived brain went completely blank...
I could only subconsciously push and hit him. He hadn't given me the answers I wanted yet, and I couldn't sink into this like this!
"Xixi..." Gu Fancheng moved to my ear and whispered, biting my earlobe. "Since you've married me in a ghost marriage, you're mine in life and mine in death. Do you still want to live out your life like an ordinary mortal, with children and grandchildren? I advise you... don't dream."
I managed to push him away a bit. To avoid his further advances, I could only turn my head and bury my face in his cold chest. "Then... how many months do you plan to take... to let me die?"
I originally wanted to ask how long it would take him to suck out my essence, but I just couldn't bring myself to say such ambiguous words.
That hanging ghost was with Jiang Yingxue for only a month before turning her into a wreck. After using her for his pleasure, he discarded her without hesitation, just like throwing away garbage.
I guessed Gu Fancheng would be the same.
"Then, will you marry another girl in a ghost marriage and keep repeating this cycle until you can be reincarnated?!"
There was a hint of a sob in my voice.
Compared to Jiang Yingxue, how much better could I be? We both encountered ghosts around the seventh lunar month. It's just that... Gu Fancheng was better - looking than that hanging ghost... He had never shown the hideous look of his death.
A look of surprise flashed across Gu Fancheng's eyes. He reached out and held my chin, turning my face out of his embrace. "It's... because of this?"
I was stung by the mockery in his eyes, so I closed my eyes. Tears slid down my cheeks uncontrollably.
"... Humph, if you're a good girl and don't make me angry, I'll let you live a bit longer!"
Gu Fancheng's cold voice sounded in my ear again. Then he used his actions to completely strip my soul from my body. I trembled and moaned under his guidance...
Finally, I woke up in the big bed of the presidential suite in the Lvdi Yihao Hotel again.
Outside the window, the sun was setting again.
I finally made up for the exhaustion of the past few days.
Gu Fancheng was gone. The black card and the new phone were left on the bedside table.
On a hotel notepad, there was a line of words: If you don't use it, I'll go to your dorm every day!
The handwriting was just like the person himself, bold and cold.
Another debt... I forced a smile.
I was still wearing my old clothes. The dresses that Zhao Zifeng picked out for me in the mall were all at least ten times more expensive than the clothes I usually wore.
In the underground parking lot, Gu Nian was already waiting in the car.
"Madam, our young master is different from those wild ghosts who look for energy - stealing partners."
As the car drove on the road, Gu Nian still had a smiling face. "You're his wife through the proper wedding rituals. He treasures you very much."
"..." I was speechless.
Sure enough, a servant would always side with their master.
I had seen the tragic state of those eight women who died in Fanjing Villa...
Seeing that I was still silent, Gu Nian continued, "The young master used to be a playboy. How could he lack women? But since the Ghost Festival, he has changed his ways. You should have felt it yourself."
"What have I felt..."
I stopped halfway through my sentence. Suddenly, I remembered Gu Fancheng's impatient look in the experimental building. My face immediately flushed red.
"This hotel was the young master's regular suite. Fanjing Villa is not suitable for you, a living person, to live in now. The young master has already told me to renovate it," Gu Nian said with a grin.
"From now on, that will be your and the young master's home. Don't talk about dying or living anymore!"
"Old Nian, who is Gu Fancheng and how did he die?!"
Seeing that Gu Nian was so talkative today, I couldn't help but want to learn more about Gu Fancheng's background from him.
"Hehe..." Gu Nian smiled slyly. "You'd better not ask. There are countless women coveting the position beside the young master!"
... Would they be willing to be a ghost's wife?
I silently complained in my heart.
We didn't say anything else on the way. I specifically asked Gu Nian to stop the car at the intersection before the school.
I picked up the skin - care products I bought for Zhao Zifeng yesterday and trotted all the way back to school.
Zhao Zifeng was waiting for me at the school gate.
"Why did you come back by yourself?"
Zhao Zifeng took the gift but still nagged, "Why didn't your man send you back? Bad review!"
"Don't talk nonsense!"
I quickly covered Zhao Zifeng's mouth. There were students and parents returning to school all around. If this big - mouthed girl shouted it out, I'd really want to find a hole to hide in. "It was just his driver who sent me back!"
Zhao Zifeng pouted. "High - quality men are always busy. Xixi, I seem to detect a bit of a lovesick woman's tone from you?"
I was completely speechless. I had to tickle her under the armpits to stop her nonsense.
"Ah... Xixi, don't mess around. I'll tell you a piece of gossip!"
Zhao Zifeng laughed and dodged.
"What?" I originally wanted to stop her from talking too much. Seeing that she had changed the topic, I stopped my hands.
"Before we went on a date with your man yesterday..."
"If you talk nonsense again!"
I pretended to scold her. She was so scared that she laughed and begged for mercy. Then she continued, "Someone jumped off a building in our school. It was a girl from your Mortuary Science major, the last one to register!"