Chapter Thirty-Six: Return of the Soul

  Before long, Tang Ao came out of the kitchen with two glass cups in his hand. The outside of the glass cups was twisted with fine water droplets, and it could be seen that the contents inside were very refreshing. Judging from the color coming out of the semi-transparent glass cup, they should be two cups of cola. From the moment Tang Ao walked out of the kitchen with these two cups of cola, Su Tong's gaze had been attracted to those two cups. It seemed like she was eager to drink the iced cola in the cups, which could also be seen from her small action of secretly licking her lips.

  Su Tong hid to one side, and in his heart he didn't know what kind of feeling it was, whose spirit or ghost had taken over his body! Seeing Tang Ao being infatuated was one thing, but why did Ke Le also have to be so spineless? If those two pieces of meat were here, wouldn't they start drooling on the spot?

  "Come, have a drink to lower your body temperature and quench your thirst." Tang Ao sat down beside Su Tong, handed her a cup, held another one himself, encouraging Su Tong to drink quickly with his mouth, but he didn't move.

  "Sutong" apparently also noticed this, she took the cup from Tang Ao's hand, her eyes glanced at the cup in Tang Ao's hand, then opened her mouth with a coquettish tone that made Sutong's teeth ache, saying to Tang Ao: "I want to watch you drink first, you worked so hard to take me to the hospital and bring me back home, I'm heartbroken!"

  Tang Ao immediately revealed a delighted smile upon hearing this, as if he had just eaten a sweet jujube, and reached out to touch Su Tong's hair, saying: "I wouldn't mind doing anything for you."

  After finishing, he smiled and picked up his own cup, touched it with "Su Tong" in his hand, nodded slightly, as if the two cups were filled with mellow red wine, then took a sip, and let out a comfortable sigh.

  "Sutong" stared at him with both eyes, watching him swallow the Coke in his mouth, and immediately handed over his own cup, saying coquettishly: "Let's swap, I want to drink what you've drunk!"

  "The more I drink, the less there will be, you silly girl." Tang Ao said with a smile.

  "Sū Tóng" twisted her body: "I won't, I want to drink what you just drank. What you've drunk is good for me too, even if it's a little less, so be it! Besides, I'm trying to lose weight anyway! You quickly swap with me!"

  "Alright, alright, I'll exchange with you. You're really impossible to deal with." Tang Ao's tone was both doting and helpless as he exchanged the Coke in his hand with "Su Tong". "This time, young lady, can we clink glasses and drink together?"

  "Sutong" immediately smiled and clinked glasses with Tang Ao, this time she didn't continue to watch, picked up the cup and drank it in three or two mouthfuls, then let out a very unattractive belch, with a look of satisfaction on her face.

  As she finished drinking the Coke, Tang Ao put down the glass on the small tea table, still smiling, but that smile seemed to carry a hint of mockery. Suddenly, he stretched out his hand and quickly drew a complex pattern in the air, as if drawing a symbol in mid-air, then suddenly slapped it onto "Su Tong's" head. "Su Tong" was still savoring the delicious taste of the iced Coke and didn't have time to react, getting startled and wanting to move, but found his body seemed stuck to the sofa, unable to budge.

  "What have you done to my body?" Su Tong's voice was trembling with fear, but her face had already lost all expression, and the completely expressionless face paired with a voice that was terrified to the extreme, this combination was simply unprecedentedly strange.

  Tang Ao stood up, sneering: "I didn't do anything to this body, I just fixed your soul. Originally it wasn't even your body, what's the point of relying on it? It's not yours, after all it's not yours. Things that are stolen or snatched won't last long. Let me advise you, leave by yourself and we'll let bygones be bygones. I'll just think you were confused for a moment."

  "What time did you find out?" "Su Tong" was shocked, of course, her shock could only be judged from the tone, "This is impossible, how could you have found out!"

  Tang Ao sneered with a smile: "Don't think that just because you're foolish, everyone else is the same."

  As he spoke, he pinched his fingers together and lightly drew a line on the "Su Tong"'s brow, his movements gentle and slow. It wasn't that he had any merciful thoughts towards the female ghost, but rather he didn't want to harm Su Tong's physical body.

  Su Tong's eyes flickered, and suddenly his pupils shifted to look at Su Tong on the other end of the living room. The female ghost didn't make a sound, but from her stiff gaze, it could be judged that she was shocked to the point of being speechless.

  It's obvious that Tang Ao's action just now was to let her see clearly the true owner of this body, the real Su Tong, who is floating in the living room.

  Now, Su Tong could finally put his mind at ease and hurriedly floated towards Tang Hao with all his might. Perhaps it was the first time he existed in a spiritual form, and he wasn't very good at controlling his movements. He always felt that his body was like a dandelion, light and airy, and could be blown away by a gust of wind.

  The female ghost quickly regained her composure, first rotating the eyeballs that were still under her control, then carefully examining Tang Ao again. She let out a cold snort and said: "I didn't expect you to have some skills in this area, but what's the use of pinning me down? As long as I don't go out, she can't come in. It's not too difficult for me to stay here, but she might not be able to wait that long. So if you really have skills, think about how to prevent her soul from dispersing."

  Su Tong looked at Tang Ao nervously, she was completely ignorant about this kind of thing and had no idea whether the female ghost that was lingering in her body was just pretending or actually telling the truth.

  Tang Ao didn't take her threat seriously at all: "I knew you'd have a trick like this up your sleeve. You think I'd watch you possess someone in the hospital and then pretend to be clueless, bringing you back home? It's because you're afraid of the hospital's chaotic environment and the many lonely spirits and ghosts there, just like you. What if you intentionally cause trouble and I lose control? It would be hard to clean up the mess afterwards. Now that we're back here, you even drank all the cola earlier. Soon, you won't even be able to linger in this body. What do I have to fear?"

  The female ghost's eyes widened: "Did you put something in that cola? But I clearly swapped with you, and I drank what you had already drunk. Why are you okay?"

  "Fox water, afraid you'd notice, so I mixed it with cola for you to drink. That fox water is specifically used to deal with your kind of counterfeit goods. Of course, I won't be affected if I drink it." Tang Ao said coldly, completely losing the warmth and patience he had before. He glanced at his watch and stood aside, patiently waiting.

  The female ghost listened to him finish, just wanting to say something, when she suddenly let out a muffled hum, as if bearing some kind of pain. Then, Su Tong stood beside Tang Ao, staring blankly at a mass of grayish-white smoke-like substance that slowly overflowed from the top of his head, more and more, thicker and thicker, slowly leaving his body, beginning to condense together, forming the outline of a person.

  Su Tong was still staring at the figure that was gradually becoming clearer when Tang Ao suddenly waved his hand at her, and she felt as if she had been pushed forward, stumbling and almost falling over. She flailed her arms wildly, trying to regain her balance, but ended up pouncing on her own body instead. When she opened her eyes again after instinctively closing them in fright, she found herself sitting on the couch, which meant that she had returned to her own body. Su Tong remembered how the female ghost had been trapped inside her physical body and couldn't move, so she quickly tried moving her neck, which moved freely. She then lifted her arm, finding that it could also move, although there was a kind of inexplicable fatigue. Next, she wanted to try standing up, but found that her legs were as soft as noodles and couldn't support her body at all. She had only managed to stand up halfway before she helplessly fell back down onto the couch.

  "Don't rush to get up, you just had a soul departure and it was very exhausting, so now you'll feel especially tired. Take a rest and you'll be fine slowly, don't worry." Tang Ao saw Su Tong rushing to get up and hurriedly helped her steady her body, taking the opportunity to comfort her. This time, the master of the body was back in charge, so his attitude also returned to its usual gentleness and patience, unlike just now when he had a stiff face.

  Su Tong nodded, and she truly came back to life again. For the first time in twenty years, she felt so excited about being alive. Then she thought of the female ghost that had just been driven out of her body, and hurriedly looked around again. The grayish-white human figure from before was nowhere to be seen.

  "What about that female ghost? Has she run away?" She asked Tang Ao.

  Tang Ao shook his head: "She can't escape anywhere here. You could see her before because you were also a spirit body, but now that you've returned to your physical body, you naturally can't see her with your naked eye. It's just like when she possessed your body earlier and couldn't see your soul nearby. Come on, I'll help you temporarily open your heavenly eyes. Although it won't last long, at least you'll be able to see what's going on. Trust me, having a short-term opening of the heavenly eyes is absolutely a good thing for you."

  He said, winking at Su Tong, who knew he was trying to ease his tension, so he nodded and looked at Tang Wei, making the same gesture as before, slowly drawing it across his forehead. Su Tong felt a surge of heat rush into her brain, and when she opened her eyes again, she saw the female ghost floating in mid-air in the living room, struggling in vain, but this time it was no longer a gray shadow, but a clear figure with distinct eyebrows and eyes.

  The female ghost looked like she was at most ten years old when she was alive, extremely young, slender and thin, with a clear soup hanging face hairstyle. The clothes on her body were judged to be the style that was popular in the early 1990s. On her chest, there was also a school badge, which Su Tong recognized as the school badge of the high school she had attended. However, when she was in high school, the school would not have issued such badges, and she had only seen samples in the school history exhibition hall.

  The female ghost's hands and feet seemed to be bound by something, unable to break free. However, she refused to give up and continued to struggle desperately. Su Tong watched her with bated breath, while Tang Hao seemed rather nonchalant, pouring another glass of cola for Su Tong and asking if she felt any discomfort anywhere.

  Su Tong was fine except for being tired, but after this fright, her curiosity had inflated to an unprecedented level. She drank half a cup of Coke in one breath and then asked Tang Xiao: "When you were in the hospital, could you see me? Could you hear me? Why did you ignore me at that time? I was so scared that until we came back here and entered the door, I thought you were injured or exhausted, your yin-yang eyes were not working, couldn't see me, and didn't even notice that you brought a 'fake Li Gui' home. It was really tense."

  Tang Ao smiled and reached out to rub her head, only realizing afterwards that he had just made a move to put the female ghost at ease, so he had been acting very affectionate all along. This affectionate little action, he found it felt quite natural and effortless, and surprisingly, he was already getting used to it so quickly. Just now when Su Tong spoke, he naturally made a doting little gesture, no wonder Su Tong's face turned red in an instant.

  It's better to have a red face than a flipped one, and this is also a good omen. Tang Ao thought so, and the smile on his face deepened a few points. He said to Su Tong: "I could see you at that time, but as soon as I saw you, I found out that your soul had left your body, and I was immediately panicked. I didn't have time to talk to you or explain anything. Before I left the ward to go to the bathroom, this female ghost was already guarding beside me. At that time, I had just woken up not long ago, my vitality was severely injured, and I was in a hospital with other people around. I didn't dare to take risks to drive her away, so I could only be on guard. I didn't expect that when I went to the bathroom, your soul would leave your body, and the female ghost would seize the opportunity. When I found out something was wrong and rushed back, it was already too late. So I had to use a trick to bring her back first."

  "So I can follow your car back here, is that also one of your tricks?" Su Tong recalled that Tang Ao had made a strange gesture with his hand behind his back before getting in the car.

  Tang Ao nodded: "Yes, I tied up your soul, otherwise with the control of a new ghost like you at that time, it's likely to stay in the hospital and can't follow back."

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