Chapter 54 Part 1
Even ghosts looked down on them?!
Li Hao and his friends instinctively touched their faces. They might not be as stunning as Shi Xuan, but they were still handsome young men!
“Wait, beautiful ghost sister, I sleep in the master bedroom! What are you doing in there?!” Li Hao yelled.
Tang Xueshan, without turning back, ‘I lived in the master bedroom, you’re just a newcomer, if you want to stay, you can sleep on the floor.’
Li Hao fell silent, then looked at the anxious Wang Dong. “Should we squeeze together tonight?”
The three Black Hairs huddled together. “Comrade, we’re scared, how about the five of us squeeze together?”
Fine, squeezing together was better than sharing a room with a female ghost.
[Group Owner – Li Hao: @HengHengBaby, Doctor Wu, what should we do? Is that female ghost staying here permanently? We can move out tomorrow.]
Li Hao and his friends were all from wealthy families, a little rent money was nothing to them.
It was just a pity to leave this apartment, finding a suitable one in a good school district wasn’t easy.
[HengHengBaby: The formation trapping her will disappear within seven days. Whether you move or not is up to you. But helping her will earn you merit.]
Wu Heng’s words made them hesitate. Having spent time with him, they knew that Heaven and the underworld were real, doing good deeds was always a good idea.
“I’m going to serve the people in the future anyway, fine! I’ll boil her Yin-nourishing medicine in a paper bowl every day,” Li Hao said, thinking that as long as they were out at school during the day, it wouldn’t be a problem, right?
As long as Tang Xueshan didn’t use her ghostly powers to scare them.
Just then, a knock on the door.
Tang Xueshan floated in and saw the five high school boys squeezed together on one bed, staring at her in terror. He had just told her not to scare them!
Tang Xueshan was surprised, ‘You’re so messy?’
Wang Dong, the most timid, snapped, “Miss, either knock and wait for us to open the door, or don’t knock and just come through the wall! You scared us!”
Tang Xueshan apologized. ‘Can you help me log into my online accounts? I keep getting connected to the underworld network.’
Li Hao helped her check on his phone, and Tang Xueshan was filled with anger, ‘Holy crap, ‘out of sight, out of mind,’ I’ve only been dead for a few months, and that asshole boyfriend is already spending my money!’
Tang Xueshan was a homebody novelist, with few friends in real life, mostly other authors. Before her death, a friend had invited her on a five-day cruise, the Dream Cruise, to find inspiration.
The cruise visited several ports, ending in Southeast Asia.
Her boyfriend, initially against it due to safety concerns, had finally agreed to accompany her.
And now, that bastard, after acting so concerned, had gone on the cruise himself with her ticket! That was a 49,999 yuan cruise ticket, enough to cover his four years of university tuition!
Tang Xueshan cried, ‘Love really does hinder my career! Is my only accomplishment my writing?’
Ever since learning that her readers were waiting for the rest of “Retrospect,” she had been determined to finish it while she still could, to write some extra chapters, then connect with Wu Heng during his live stream. Her writing career could continue even after death! But her love life… a disaster.
Li Hao and his friends, seeing her distress, felt a pang of… something… They had neither academic achievements nor girlfriends.
After crying for a while, unable to produce ghostly tears, Tang Xueshan looked at them seriously, ‘But I… I still want to see him one last time.’
Li Hao: “???”
Why look at them?
Weibo was exploding.
#ChengdeMedicalClinicConnectsWithFemaleGhost#
#JinjiangAuthorMuYuYiMianObituary#
#WuHengCaoXueqin#
#RetrospectLastTwentyChapters#
[Aaaaaa, did anyone see Chengde Medical Clinic’s live stream tonight? The most exciting one yet! He accidentally connected with a female ghost!]
[Because of my zodiac sign, I left early, and my friend said he was watching the rest of “Retrospect.” When I tried to join, I couldn’t get in! The Shark platform said there were no technical issues.]
[The author is so talented, I cried when she died, thinking she wouldn’t be able to finish the novel, now my dream has come true. Cao Xueqin (author of Dream of the Red Chamber) must have had some health issues, Heng Bao, please connect with him and cure him! I’m definitely not saying that just because I want to read the complete novel.]
[Why can even ghosts join his live stream?! So many strange things happening these years. Is the world changing? I better learn that exercise Wu Heng taught.]
Netizens were discussing Wu Heng’s accidental encounter with the female ghost, book fans frantically searching for the remaining chapters, fewer people accusing it of being fake or scripted.
Xu Qian, browsing the internet in her office, sighed, feeling relieved that she contacted Wu Heng when her mother first fell ill, he was the real deal.
A knock on the door. Xu Qian saw a tall young man enter. She recognized him immediately.
He had an out-of-school girlfriend who reportedly died in an accident right before his eyes. He was devastated, almost suicidal, but later seemed to recover, attending classes, always smiling. After observing him for a while, the university confirmed he was no longer suicidal.
Yuan Song walked in, “Teacher Xu, may I request a three-day leave of absence? A family emergency.”
Xu Qian looked at him, puzzled, “I thought your parents passed away.”
Yuan Song smiled calmly. “I was raised by my uncle, something came up, I have to go back. Please approve my leave request.”
Xu Qian approved it. Yuan Song took the slip, left the office, leaned against the wall, and took out a cruise ticket, staring at it.
Then he pulled out a red string necklace from under his hoodie. A wisdom tooth preserved in formalin hung from it, covered in cinnabar writing.
He gently kissed the tooth, clutched the ticket, and whispered, “Don’t be afraid.”
He had watched Wu Heng’s live streams. He had said that for some, family ties were weak, and friendship and love would fill that void.
He was right. His void had been filled, only to be torn apart again, bleeding profusely.
By the time Xu Qian left her office, Yuan Song was gone.
It was lunchtime. As she walked towards the cafeteria, she saw a crowd of students gathered by a tree.
She approached and saw Fan Xuan and Han Ye looking awkward, a large, innocent-looking orange cat sitting nearby, licking its paw.
Han Ye called out to the person in the tree, “Senior Su, why don’t you come down? It’s just a cat, it won’t hurt you.”
The person in the tree looked terrified. “It wants to eat me!”
Everyone around them: “…”
Just a cute little kitty, how could it eat a person?
Fan Xuan and Han Ye were close to Wu Heng and had been asked to inquire about his payment for curing Professor Zhao.
Although Su Chenyu had moved out of their dorm, they were still good friends, and added to his admiration for Professor Zhao, he had come to Beijing University of Science and Technology with them.
They had been sitting on a bench when a large orange cat suddenly jumped onto Su Chenyu, staring at him intently. Before he could react, the cat licked his arm.
Su Chenyu screamed, his mind blanking as he instinctively climbed up a tree.
The girls around them giggled, their eyes gleaming, this was the renowned school heartthrob from the medical university!
Handsome, kind, smart, from a good family, he was perfect.
His only flaw: he couldn’t swim, no matter how hard he tried, and reportedly, swimming was part of his PE curriculum this year, they wondered if he could pass.
“Chen Yu, Chen Yu is so cute, afraid of cats, how adorable,” the girls whispered.
Su Chenyu was popular online, his fans calling him “Chen Yu,” a play on words with his name, praising his looks.
Of course, there was another rising star in the looks department, the mysterious shaman doctor Wu Heng.
A girl who knew the stray cat picked it up, and Su Chenyu, seeing the increasing number of onlookers, realized what he had done, his image as a school heartthrob shattered, and quickly climbed down.
Fan Xuan couldn’t help but ask, “What was that? Why did you suddenly climb a tree? Are you afraid of cats? We shared a dorm for over a year, and you were never afraid of cats before!”
Han Ye was also puzzled. “Senior Su, I can understand being afraid of dogs, but why cats? You’re not a fish or a mouse.”
Su Chenyu, covering his face, “I don’t know, I just saw the cat, and my soul almost left my body.”
His embarrassing tree-climbing incident would surely be posted online. Mortifying!
Fan Xuan and Han Ye, one on each side, pulled Su Chenyu towards Xu Qian.
“Teacher Xu, did you see Doctor Wu’s last live stream? The ghost wanted to see her boyfriend. Do you have a student named Yuan Song?”
Xu Qian was surprised. “What? That female patient last night was a ghost?! Yuan Song? He just requested a leave of absence, he’s probably left campus by now!”
Fan Xuan and Han Ye were dumbfounded. How would they find him now?
“Since he’s not here, let’s go see the principal first,” Su Chenyu said, his face burning as he noticed the people taking photos of him.
To avoid further embarrassment, they greeted Xu Qian and hurried towards the principal’s office.
Along the way, cats, all different colors and patterns, started following them, their eyes fixed on Su Chenyu.
Su Chenyu’s face paled, and he shouted, “Stop following me! Why are you following me? Go away!”
He looked back, and over a dozen cats were trailing behind them.
Han Ye asked, “Senior Su, are you carrying something? Dried fish? Cats have a keen sense of smell.”
