Chapter 44 : Chapter 44
Chapter 44: Become My Only One!
Bai Yu was very familiar with the aura of that girl. She could say with absolute certainty that this was the one who had appeared last night to save Lu Liangting. However, she could not be sure whether the girl was one of the game’s participants.
Those lunatics were capable of anything. Just like Lu Liangting’s cousin—despite knowing that everyone was hiding in the shadows, she had still taken the initiative to attack Lu Liangting.
For now, Bai Yu could only say that the girl was very likely a participant in the game.
“You mean the ghost on Li Nan was killed by her?” After hearing Bai Yu’s brief explanation, Zhao Mingyue’s eyes widened.
The comparison between people was infuriating.
That inexplicable girl was about the same age as her, yet she could already deal with a Fierce Ghost alone.
Meanwhile, Zhao Mingyue could not even dream of defeating one. If she could avoid being killed by a Fierce Ghost, she would already thank the heavens.
Actually, she did not necessarily need to defeat a Fierce Ghost.
It would be enough if she were just a little stronger.
Yes, just a little.
“Do not envy her. Your situation is different from hers.”
“Yes, my situation is different from hers. It must be because the ghost on Li Nan’s back was too weak.” Zhao Mingyue rested her chin on her hand, deep in thought.
After that small episode passed, Zhao Mingyue did not take Chen Yun’s provocation to heart, nor did she envy how powerful Chen Yun was.
Instead, she was far more curious about the girl standing at the classroom door.
The girl held a red envelope in her hand and stared directly at Lu Liangting, her gaze so intense it looked as if she wanted to swallow him whole.
Delivering a love letter to a man—and the general content being an invitation for him to come and “enjoy” her body—was something that even these lunatics, who had no psychological burden when doing anything, found somewhat difficult to accept.
To be honest, Zhao Mingyue still preferred being the one who took the initiative, rather than the one being bent over.
The real problem was that the person bending her over would be someone she herself had chosen.
Was that not absurd?
After hearing the rabbit-masked woman’s speech, several people in the alley thought carefully and felt it made sense.
If they failed the mission, they would die anyway. They might as well take the initiative. Those ranked near the bottom had no chance of defeating the monsters ranked at the top unless they seized the initiative first.
However, they had misunderstood the rabbit mask’s words—by quite a large margin.
The bell for the end of class rang right on time.
Before the teacher had even left, a girl with long black hair appeared at the classroom door and shouted into the room.
“Lu Liangting, you fu—... cough. I have a love letter for you. Come out and take it. Hurry up, or I… or… anyway, just come out quickly!”
The teacher who had been trying to delay the end of class froze in shock. The chalk in their hand stopped midway on the blackboard. The students in the classroom were equally stunned, their gazes almost simultaneously gathering on the girl at the door.
The girl herself was not bad-looking. She had a cute appearance. Aside from her slightly messy hair, nothing seemed particularly strange about her.
Of course, that was assuming one ignored what she had just said.
Bai Yu could not be certain whether Chen Yun was a game participant.
But she could be absolutely certain that the idiot at the door definitely was.
Sometimes, certain game participants were very easy to identify.
In their own minds, what they said sounded perfectly normal.
To everyone else, they looked like complete lunatics.
And the worst part was—there was more than one of them.
The black-haired girl had just finished shouting when another girl appeared.
The newcomer had both hands in her pockets, clearly holding something inside. When she noticed the black-haired girl, she frowned slightly. The two said nothing. They simply exchanged a glance before walking down the corridor together with dark expressions and an unspoken understanding.
Before long, faint sounds of fighting could be heard.
At the teacher’s desk, the teacher put down the chalk.
“We will continue this question next class. Lu Liangting, go outside and see what is happening. However, as your teacher, I must advise you that at your age, your studies should come first.”
With the entire class staring at him with strange expressions, Lu Liangting could only stand up helplessly and walk out.
He swore to heaven that he did not know that girl at all.
Following Zhao Mingyue’s directions, Lu Liangting headed toward the rooftop.
By the time he arrived, the two girls had already disappeared. In such a short time, no one knew where they had gone.
Just as he was about to take a step forward, he suddenly froze.
He felt someone gently wrap their arms around him from behind.
The body pressed against his back was soft. From the fragrance drifting past his nose, he could tell it was a girl.
A strand of black hair fell beside his cheek.
Soft lips approached his ear, and warm breath brushed against his earlobe.
“I have liked you for a long time. Will you let me become the only one in your life?”
This proved that some players were far more skilled than others.
However, the price of getting involved with her would be something Lu Liangting could never bear.
“Your only one” was not merely a sweet phrase.
She would truly carry it out.
She would kill every woman who tried to approach Lu Liangting and make sure that his world contained only her.
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“Why does today feel so strange?”
That night, Zhao Mingyue had already arrived at the convenience store, yet she was still thinking about what had happened during the day.
After returning from the rooftop, Lu Liangting’s expression did not look good. Someone had noticed a lipstick mark on his neck.
Someone else had casually glanced at the love letter he brought back and discovered that it was filled with the same sentence repeated over and over.
“Become my lover.”
On its own, that sentence did not seem frightening.
But when half a page of A4 paper was densely filled with the same sentence written line after line in red ink, it became rather terrifying.
“Do not worry about it,” Bai Yu said, repeating the same response as before.
“Alright, I will stop thinking about it.” Zhao Mingyue took out her homework notebook.
The convenience store was located in an extremely remote place. Sometimes not a single customer would come all night. Zhao Mingyue often wondered why the owner had chosen to open a store here.
But tonight seemed a little different.
After finishing her tasks, it was already ten o’clock at night. In another thirty minutes, she would be able to leave work early.
Stretching lazily, Zhao Mingyue glanced at the ticking clock behind her and felt rather bored.
Resting her cheek on one hand, she looked at the wind chime hanging at the entrance.
That thing supposedly reacted to ghosts. In her memory, it had hardly moved more than a few times. Hanging there like this instead made it feel eerie—like placing a Bagua mirror in one’s home. Originally, one might not think much of it, but once it was there, it would constantly remind you that something might be wrong.
“Is that fog?”
Her gaze shifted toward the glass window.
Outside, a thin layer of mist drifted across the empty road.
Just as Zhao Mingyue was wondering about it, the convenience store door suddenly opened from the outside.
The copper bell above the door rang, announcing the arrival of a customer.
However, when the door closed and the customer officially stepped inside the store, the wind chime that normally did not move even in a breeze suddenly began to sway slightly, producing two crisp chimes.
“I-is anyone here?”