Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio

  "It's all messed up, must have been those two ghosts I met earlier, the yin energy has entered my body." Ge Fei muttered to himself as he picked me up, completely lacking in manners and decorum.

  I was so cold that I was almost numb, at that time the feeling seemed to be only a line away from death, as if my next moment would be gone. Gradually, I lost consciousness...

  When I woke up, it was already the next morning. In a daze, it seemed like something was pressing on my chest.

  I struggled to open my eyes and found a man's face in front of me, with his arm still resting on my chest. Without thinking, I slapped him.

  "Lin Sijia! Have you gone mad?" The man woke up from his sleep with a loud roar.

  He yelled at me like that, and I instantly woke up. Only then did I remember that I saw a ghost yesterday and came to Ge Fei's house. The man covering his face and glaring at me right now is Ge Fei. I actually slapped him, and suddenly felt a bit guilty. If it wasn't for him yesterday...

  But why did he sleep with me in the same bed, so I didn't feel guilty anymore, and suddenly I asked him boldly: "Why did you sleep with me in the same bed?"

  "Hey, hey! I was trying to save you, and last night who knows who kept saying it's cold. Do you think I like this? With a figure like yours..." Gaofei said, his eyes scanning me with disdain.

  To think that you would so blatantly scorn a girl's figure, it's enough to get you silenced. Before Ge Fei could finish speaking, I cut him off in extreme anger: "What's wrong with my figure?! At the very least, I'm 164 cm tall, even if I don't have a model's body, I've got what I've got! What's wrong with me?!"

  "Hey, aren't you supposed to go to work today? It's already 10 o'clock!" Just as I was getting angry, Ge Fei suddenly popped out with this sentence, saying it in a calm and collected tone, completely devoid of the anger from earlier, as if... intentionally provoking me.

  Today is Thursday, I have to go to work. If I don't go, my salary will be deducted. And that boss's daughter always finds fault with me, who knows what she'll find fault with today!

  I hastily got out of bed, didn't even bother with my hair, grabbed the bag on the bedside cabinet and was about to rush out the door.

  "Hey, hey! Lin Sijia! You're already too late to go now, and on the way there you might even run into a bunch of ghosts. Don't think that just because it's daytime means there aren't any ghosts." I was just about to open the door when Ge Fei's lazy voice came from behind me.

  Thinking of what happened last night, I still feel a chill to this day. But...I can't just not go to work, right? But if I really run into a group of ghosts outside, what am I supposed to do? I'm no Taoist priest.

  While talking, Ge Fei had already gotten up. He was still wearing his pajamas and walked over to open the door, lazily saying: "Let's eat breakfast first, your job isn't that great either. If you're afraid of losing your job and can't make a living, you can come to Xu Shi. One thousand yuan per month is still available..."

  Ge Fei is now more and more like a nouveau riche, speaking with a big tone as if he has a lot of money. You know I work hard every month to earn only 4,000 or 5,000 yuan! Otherwise, I wouldn't go write articles to make extra money. He just opens his mouth and it's already 10,000 yuan...

  I'm standing still, not moving. Going now isn't right, nor is not going. If I go, I fear that I'll really run into a group of dead ghosts who will try to kill me or something. If I don't go, I'll definitely get fired and maybe won't even be able to get my salary. Who knows why the boss's daughter has such a big opinion about me?

  Ge Fei saw that I wasn't moving, so he simply dragged me out, his mouth still spewing venom as usual: "Alright, alright! I didn't go to work either, did I? Let's go, wash up first, then have breakfast. Look at you, you're as hungry as a monkey."