Where Luo Sheng passed, surveillance cameras not only failed to capture her, but the footage also became distorted and filled with static.
Luo Fan saw this phenomenon and knew it was influenced by supernatural factors. Since he couldn't see her, he shifted his attention to the other people.
After A Rui went upstairs, Yue Yue sat directly in Li Yize's arms, Li Yize's arm around her waist.
"A Ze, I feel so happy. I really wish time could stop at this moment forever."
"What nonsense are you talking about? We're definitely leaving here."
"But after we leave, you and I won't be able to be as close as we are now. I know you'll eventually marry a wife who's a suitable match for you, and I..."
"Don't think about these things. You just need to know that I care about you in my heart. You don't know how scared I was when I saw you fall down the stairs. I was truly terrified of losing you." Li Yize held the person in his arms even tighter.
"A Ze, I like you a lot too." Yue Yue buried her head in Li Yize's chest, but there was no genuine smile on her face.
She had thought that when A Ze realized his feelings for her, he would promise to marry her. But she hadn't expected him to have no such intention at all.
Although Lin Yan had been abandoned by A Ze, there would be others later. Even if she managed to win A Ze's heart, she would only be his mistress.
She couldn't just wait for fate. Although she didn't know what dangers they would face next, this was her opportunity. She was determined to become A Ze's wife.
Yue Yue looked up and kissed Li Yize's chin, then her kisses delicately moved to his jaw and lips.
Li Yize immediately deepened the kiss. Then, he picked up Yue Yue and walked towards the elevator.
A Rui hesitated for a moment, feeling that he should still check on Lin Yan's condition, at least to confirm her safety.
So he walked to Lin Yan's room door. After listening for a while, he realized that the soundproofing of this villa was too good; he couldn't hear any sound from inside. He raised his hand and knocked on the door.
His fingers didn't touch anything hard. Instead, they met something soft yet cold.
It was a hand, pale and bloodless. The owner of that hand was standing beside him.
But the color of the arm in front of him was truly strange, as pale as a wax figure, and the bone-chilling coldness made A Rui afraid to look to the side.
"What, you're afraid to look at me?" A gust of cold air blew towards his ear, making him shiver involuntarily.
He immediately tried to pull his hand back, but found his hand was held incredibly tightly, with so much force that he couldn't break free.
"Am I that ugly? So ugly you don't want to look at me again? But it wasn't like this before, was it?
You used to smile at me, fetch things for me, stand up for me, and also deliberately deceive me, bully me, mock me, watch others beat me, and even kill me in the end!"
Suddenly, the grip loosened. A Rui's attempt to break free was too strong. He stumbled back several steps and finally saw the person he had been afraid to look at.
The familiar school uniform seemed to transport him back to his high school campus, to a time he didn't want to remember.
The bloodstained school uniform and the wounds on her face – these were things he had seen in pictures before. He thought he had forgotten after that incident was smoothed over.
But seeing the familiar school uniform and wounds today, he realized he hadn't forgotten at all.
He even clearly remembered every bruise and scar visible on her exposed skin.
"Who are you, and why are you pretending to be like this?" A Rui forced himself to remain calm. It was impossible; there couldn't be ghosts in this world.
That person was dead. She absolutely couldn't reappear. The person in front of him was definitely a fake, someone pretending to deceive them.
"Who am I? Don't you really know!" Luo Sheng stepped forward. A Rui immediately retreated two steps, pressing himself tightly against the corridor wall.
"I don't know what you're talking about at all. I have no past grievances or recent enmity with you. Why are you pretending to be like this to scare us?"
"No past grievances, no recent enmity? How ridiculous! Isn't this appearance something you created yourselves?
The wind on the rooftop was so cold! The moment I fell, it was truly despairing!"
Seeing A Rui's trembling hands and his refusal to admit anything, Luo Sheng found it quite amusing.
"Lan Rui, in what way did I offend you? Why are you targeting me like this?" Luo Sheng still couldn't understand what she had done wrong to provoke these scumbags.
"You, you... you really are, no, it's impossible." There couldn't be ghosts in this world; there were only people pretending.
The person in front of him was just a woman. He didn't need to be afraid of her. A Rui immediately rushed forward, intending to subdue Luo Sheng, but he passed right through her body as if she were mere air, not a person at all.
"Do you want to kill me a second time?" Luo Sheng floated in front of A Rui and grabbed his throat with her hand.
Her long, black fingernails immediately grew longer and dug fiercely into his skin.
"I won't give you another chance to harm me again, Lan Rui. I won't be so foolish anymore." Her face moved closer to A Rui's.
It was then that A Rui realized the person in front of him might truly be a ghost. The one who had died on the campus years ago, the one they had almost tortured to death.
So, she had come for revenge. Recently, not to mention, things weren't as they had speculated, with someone playing tricks. It was truly a ghost, a ghost with a deep, bloody hatred for them.
A Rui felt a sense of despair. He couldn't touch this ghost, yet this ghost could harm him. What could he do?
He desperately wanted to shout for the two people downstairs, or rather, the people upstairs, to come down and help him. But Luo Sheng, who was tightly choking him, prevented him from making any significant noise.
"Luo, Luo Sheng, let, let me go," he managed to say with difficulty.
"Let you go? But who can let go of me back then? Do you know? For so many years, I've been lingering around you all. Watching you live such carefree university lives, which was once my dream.
All of this was destroyed by you. Do you think I would let you go?" Her long, black fingernails dug deeply into his neck, leaving five bloody holes.
"That wasn't my idea. I never intended to hurt you. Really, I never thought it would end up like that."
"But you did hurt me, and not only that, you erased all traces and continued to associate with the people who harmed me.
Lan Rui, do you remember what you said to me back then?" Luo Sheng loosened her grip on A Rui slightly. He quickly gasped for air.