Chapter 25 : Chapter 25
Chapter 25: Bai Yu with Twin Tails
Zhao Mingyue’s behavior seemed a bit naive and sweet.
But the problem was that her personality did not resemble that type at all. Bai Yu had never seen any naive girl who could raise a hammer without hesitation, smash a stranger’s arm until the bone fractured, and then run away without even blinking.
Sitting behind Bai Yu, Zhao Mingyue gently tidied her messy hair.
“A ghost’s body is quite different from what I imagined. I thought it would be the kind you can see but can’t touch.”
She wet Bai Yu’s hair with water and gently smoothed it down. The messy strands really became damp.
Zhao Mingyue carefully untangled the knots and combed through the hair from top to bottom.
“Your hair is actually very nice. The quality is great. Good thing I made you come take a bath—otherwise walking around with messy hair wouldn’t look very good.”
Her slender fingers lifted water, parting Bai Yu’s hair to both sides and exposing her neck.
Looking at the pale skin, Zhao Mingyue felt a faint ache in her heart.
Such a young life had ended so early. She probably had never truly experienced the beauty of life.
Her fingertips brushed across the back of Bai Yu’s neck as she continued arranging her hair.
“Did you kill the landlord in the end?” Zhao Mingyue asked softly.
“No.”
“Then will he die?”
“Yes.”
“I see…”
Zhao Mingyue sighed.
“I guess that’s his retribution. But what about that female ghost? Is there a way to deal with her? She can’t stay here forever.”
Zhao Mingyue knew that the landlord would most likely be killed by Xiaolian. As for Lu Liangting, she was not sure.
But it was not something she had the ability to interfere with anyway.
She would never force Bai Yu to do anything.
Bai Yu had her own will. If she wanted to do something, she would do it. Zhao Mingyue respected her choices.
Besides, that female ghost was indeed difficult to deal with. Zhao Mingyue could not ask Bai Yu to risk everything to save others.
“There is a way to solve it,” Bai Yu said. “But it’s troublesome. That ghost is harder to deal with than I expected. I can defeat her temporarily, but eliminating her permanently is almost impossible.”
“Unless this entire building is destroyed.”
“There is another way—go to East City No. 13 Middle School and bring back her two children.”
Sitting in the cold bathtub, Bai Yu could clearly feel Zhao Mingyue behind her, carefully arranging her hair.
Her fingers occasionally brushed against Bai Yu’s body.
It was a very strange sensation.
And thinking about it again, the fact that Zhao Mingyue could even touch her had something to do with Bai Yu’s own constitution.
At first Bai Yu had not been sure, but after encountering many ghosts she had confirmed something.
Her body was different from ordinary ghosts.
The most obvious difference was this.
Ordinary ghosts were completely untouchable to Zhao Mingyue.
As for what advantages or disadvantages this unique constitution brought, she still did not know.
“East City No. 13 Middle School… that sounds like one of the phone’s tasks, right?” Zhao Mingyue suddenly remembered.
“Yes.”
“Then when we complete that task, we can bring Xiaolian’s children back at the same time.”
“But we can’t go recently. I still have school. If nights keep going like this, I’ll probably get eaten by my homeroom teacher before any ghost gets me.”
It was already two in the morning. If she stayed up like this again tomorrow, she definitely would not survive.
“It’s fine. I can suppress her.”
“Then I’ll leave it to you, Miss Bai Yu. It’s really lucky that you’re here.”
As she spoke, Zhao Mingyue began rubbing shampoo into Bai Yu’s hair and gently massaging it.
She could not help sighing inwardly.
Life was full of uncertainty.
If someone had told her a few days ago that she would one day be washing a ghost’s hair, she would never have believed it.
After rinsing the shampoo away, Zhao Mingyue lifted a strand of Bai Yu’s hair and clicked her tongue in admiration.
Honestly, she felt a little jealous of the hair quality.
Several hairstyles instantly appeared in her mind, all of which would suit Bai Yu well.
“Um… do you need help washing your body?”
“No.”
“Okay! Just tell me if you need anything.”
Bai Yu could imagine Zhao Mingyue’s foolish grin just from her cheerful tone.
She sighed helplessly.
Then her body disappeared from the bathtub and reappeared outside.
The water droplets on her body vanished instantly, and the blood-thread bandages wrapped themselves around her again.
“This is enough.”
Sure enough, she still could not tolerate that feeling.
Normally she would never allow anyone to stand behind her so closely, let alone touch the back of her neck.
And the bath itself made her extremely uncomfortable.
It was not exactly unpleasant—just an indescribable sensation she could not explain.
“Alright then. I’ll finish my bath first, and then I’ll tie your hair for you. Wait outside.”
As soon as Zhao Mingyue finished speaking, Bai Yu disappeared from the bathroom.
Her retreat looked almost like she was fleeing.
“Hey, I haven't finished talking!”
Zhao Mingyue pouted slightly.
“Well, I’ll say it later.”
“What exactly happened in her past to turn such a girl into this…”
Zhao Mingyue murmured quietly.
In her eyes, Bai Yu was someone who was quiet, gloomy, and extremely distrustful of others.
Communicating with someone like that was very difficult.
And most importantly—
Bai Yu was extremely aggressive.
Zhao Mingyue had noticed that Bai Yu treated everyone except her with strong hostility.
If given the chance, she would either injure them or kill them outright.
That behavior clearly came from her experiences.
Especially considering Bai Yu looked so delicate, yet her combat skills were incredibly deadly—not flashy techniques, but efficient killing methods.
When she fought the female ghost earlier, it had been ghost versus ghost.
If it had been human versus human, the opponent would either be dead or completely incapacitated.
“She’s actually still wary of me,” Zhao Mingyue thought. “Just less than with others.”
“She’s trying to accept me.”
“But I still haven’t truly reached her heart.”
“Then again, it’s only been two days.”
“There’s still plenty of time in the future. I’ll take it slowly.”
—
While Zhao Mingyue was still in the bathroom, Bai Yu could hear her humming softly.
Without disturbing her, Bai Yu walked to the window in the living room and looked out at the street.
The situation in the haunted building was almost over.
The old landlord would temporarily calm the female ghost’s resentment, but it would not last long.
To eliminate the problem permanently, they would have to go to East City No. 13 Middle School and retrieve the ghost’s children.
Otherwise, even if the ghost was killed, she would soon revive as long as the haunted building still existed.
The landlord’s actions had seemed like imprisonment.
But in reality, they had bound the ghost even more tightly to this place.
To put it bluntly, the fourth and fifth floors were actually the ghost’s true body.
Not the corpse on the fifth floor.
“Someone called the police.”
“It looks like that guy Lu Liangting woke up—and he’s still alive.”
Lu Liangting possessed something on him.
That thing was extremely lethal to ghosts, so Bai Yu could not attack him directly.
She had tried to use others to kill him before.
But every attempt had failed.
Even the “final boss” of this building had not managed to kill him.
In the distance, faint police sirens echoed through the streets.
With Bai Yu’s sharp hearing, she could clearly tell the police cars were heading toward the haunted building.
Combined with the disturbance on the fifth floor, the situation was almost certain.
Just as Bai Yu was still thinking, the bathroom door suddenly opened.
Zhao Mingyue stepped out, drying her wet hair with a towel.
She wore a short-sleeved shirt and shorts, looking youthful and energetic.
“Bai Yu, why are you wearing that white dress again?”
“It’s comfortable.”
“Alright then. Come here—I’ll comb your hair.”
Bai Yu said nothing and simply sat in front of the mirror.
Through the reflection, she watched Zhao Mingyue braiding her hair.
At two-thirty in the morning, Zhao Mingyue was calmly braiding a ghost’s hair without the slightest psychological pressure.
Her hands were skillful. Soon she finished a scorpion-tail braid.
She touched her chin thoughtfully and shook her head.
“No… it doesn’t look good.”
“Twin tails would be better.”
“A loli with twin tails—especially low twin tails—that’s the perfect combination.”