Chapter 1: The Strange Occurrence on Guard Spirit Night

  He didn't answer and turned around with an expressionless face.

  "Hey...!" I hastily called out to him again. "Give me your contact info or something, you saved me and I didn't even get a chance to thank you properly, if my dad finds out he'll definitely say I don't know the rules!"

  He stopped and turned around, seemingly pondering something, then after a brief moment, replied to me saying: "If I wanted to find you, I would have appeared!"

  Then he just left! Left!!

  I clutched my chest in frustration, does he know or not, what I want is not for him to come find me, but for me to be able to find him to save my life at any time!

  But everyone has left, what can I do? When I came back from the guest house just now, I forgot to ask Qin Youyou for her phone number and so on. Although she looks not very approachable, but she is very kind and knowledgeable.

  She said that my soul is being remembered by many of those evil creatures, will they come to find me? That black shadow just now, won't it be one of them?

  The more I thought about it, the more terrifying it became. When I walked back to the yard with my head down, I didn't even notice the changes around me. Suddenly, a black shadow flashed in front of me, scaring me into a loud scream.

  As I looked closer, I realized that the dark shadow blocking my way was not some evil creature, but Zhang's wife. She had originally been standing with her hands on her hips, and was also startled by my shout, taking two steps back in a fluster, muttering to herself.

  "Dead girl, what's wrong with you? What are you yelling about?"

  "You've seen a ghost!" I patted my chest, what a false alarm! My nerves are now so numb that they can't be startled again, or else I'll become neurotic.

  "I really thought I saw a ghost, that night I clearly saw you were dead, now you're standing in front of me, do you think I'm seeing ghosts?" Zhang's face was full of doubt and probing, actually I could guess what she was thinking, many things my dad wouldn't tell her, so based on her understanding, the current situation was completely beyond her comprehension.

  So I glossed over it and explained: "You're wrong, Dad knows, I was just in shock at the time!"

  "Really?" The other person looked at me with a mixture of doubt and suspicion.

  I didn't expect her to believe me either. Since I was a child, she has been sarcastic and critical of me. I don't care if she gives me another crime in the future, stupid girl!

  Look at me walking towards the main house, Zhang Auntie followed quietly and whispered to me: "Do you know that your grandmother had arranged a marriage for you before she passed away?"

  I was originally worried about that evil thing, but her voice drew me away, and I looked back at her in surprise. "What did you say?"

  Zhang Yi smiled with a mischievous thought. "Looks like you don't know anything!"

  "What nonsense are you talking about? How could my grandmother possibly do something so boring!" Zhang Yi was the kind of person who spent all day catching wind and grasping at shadows, making a big show of things. I wouldn't really believe it anyway.

  But she seemed to know something, followed me and whispered seriously in my ear: "Really, your dad told me that night, I won't gain anything by cheating you."

  I suddenly became alert and stopped her, asking: "What did my dad say to you?"

  "He said your grandmother had entrusted that you would get married at the age of twenty, right? You're almost twenty this year, aren't you?"

  I didn't respond to her. I saw my dad walk out of the hall with a nearly finished cigarette in his hand, his eyebrows furrowed deeply.

  He looked up and saw me and Zhang's wife standing in the courtyard, but only said to me: "Little Xian, you come with me to cook!"

  "Zhang Yi immediately smiled and said: 'Wan Shan, you've been tired for the past few days, go take a rest, I'll play with Xiao Xian!'"

  A flock of wild geese flew over my head, just like Zhang Cuilan, who would cook for me, what a joke!

  But my dad didn't even glance at her and turned his head to yell at me: "Xiao Xian, come quick and wash the vegetables!"

  I followed him a few steps back, and I had a feeling that my dad was deliberately keeping Zhang Yi away from me, as if he didn't want me to hear what Zhang Yi had to say.