Chapter 73: The Door to a New World (Part 1)
“Lady Hei?”
Sang Jing asked tentatively.
The black cloak did not respond, but simply raised a hand and threw something onto the table, then disappeared in a flash.
Sang Jing’s gaze paused. She wanted to reach out and take the thing on the table, but she only moved a little before she realized that there was still a Xie Yu in her arms. Xie Yu was tall and long-legged, and had to shrink into her arms, her hands wrapped around her neck, her whole being buried in her neck.
“…”
Sang Jing stiffened again. She pursed her lips, then gently patted Xie Yu. “She’s gone.”
Xie Yu slowly raised her head, then quickly glanced at the window. After not seeing the black cloak, she buried her head back in and hugged her.
Sang Jing: “…”
“Get down,” this time Sang Jing grabbed her arm, wanting to pull her down.
Xie Yu held on tightly and wouldn’t let go. “I was scared. Just let me hug you for a while. It won’t hurt anything. I’m clean now. There’s no blood on me.”
But Sang Jing’s own thoughts were not pure. Thinking of the embarrassing reaction of her body after waking from the dream, she forcefully pulled Xie Yu off her, very cold and ruthless.
Before leaving her embrace, Xie Yu even struggled a little. In the end, she was so angry she opened her mouth and bit Sang Jing, leaving a circle of light red tooth marks on the side of her neck.
“Hiss—” Sang Jing raised her hand and covered her neck, giving her a sidelong glance. “Are you a dog?”
Xie Yu sat back in her own seat and snorted at Sang Jing.
Under her anger was a loss that could not be ignored.
She was already dead, a ghost. The reserved person was unwilling to raise her. After her matter was resolved, the reserved person would send her away.
Thinking of this, her heart soured. Her tongue, which originally could not taste the five flavors, now tasted a little bitter. Xie Yu turned her chair to face away from Sang Jing, her eyes lowered to hide the sadness in them. She took out her phone to look at the forum. It seemed that only online would she and Sang Jing be together as she had imagined.
Seeing the CP shipping posts on the forum, someone had compiled the shipping points from the livestreams. Xie Yu got engrossed in them, and the sadness in her heart slowly faded.
Actually, thinking about it, Sang Jing’s attitude towards her had already changed a lot. When they had just met, how would she have dared to touch this reserved person and even sneak into her room? She would probably have been kicked out before she could even get one foot in.
After coaxing herself, Xie Yu decided to forgive Sang Jing.
Just as she was about to turn around, a private message suddenly came from the backend. It was from Big Glutton Girl.
“Assistant Xiao Xie, I have a collection of compiled fanfiction here, all 13. Are you interested? The 1399 group was bombed. You posted so many hand-holding photos before. I promised to give you ‘food’.”
Xie Yu’s gaze shifted, and her hand was faster than her brain. “Send it over for me to see.”
Soon, Big Glutton Girl sent over the collection. There were forty or fifty of them, and some were in comic form.
Xie Yu didn’t click on them to read, but only looked at the titles of these fanfictions. She was a little puzzled. “What does this high (h) mean? Why is it in all of them?”
The other side showed that she was typing. After half a minute, she replied, “It’s a new world. Assistant Xiao Xie will know after you read it.”
A new world?
With an attitude of exploration and learning, Xie Yu clicked on one of them, titled: Playing in the Water (Hot Spring + Blindfold + Back Entry + High (h)).
Playing in the water is playing in the water. What’s with that string of things after it?
Playing in the Water (Part 1)
By the steamy hot spring pool, white bathrobes were neatly folded. Suddenly, a hand reached out from the water. The palm pressed hard on the edge of the pool, and crystal clear water droplets hung from the pink and white finger joints.
“Ha…”
Sang Jing’s lips were slightly parted as she panted. Her cheeks were flushed, her expression restrained. She said to Xie Yu behind her, her words slurred, “Slow, slow down…”
Xie Yu wrapped her arms around Sang Jing’s waist from behind. With her other hand, she took a ribbon and wrapped it around Sang Jing’s eyes.
Then that hand went down along her waistline and entered—
“Bang—!”
Sang Jing, who had just taken the map that Lady Hei had thrown and was looking at it carefully, was startled by a sudden noise from the side. She frowned and turned to look at Xie Yu, who had made the noise. “What are you doing?”
Xie Yu slapped her phone on the table, her eyes wide, her mind still on what she had just seen. She didn’t hear Sang Jing’s words.
This, this, this…
She took another look.
Xie Yu flipped her phone over and saw the shattered screen. “…”
Sang Jing saw the ghostly energy on Xie Yu running rampant and got up to go over, worried.
“What’s wrong with you? Are you not feeling well?”
Hearing the noise behind her, Xie Yu quickly hid her phone, turned her chair, and looked up at Sang Jing. Seeing Sang Jing’s face, Xie Yu was at a loss for words. Her mind was uncontrollably filled with what she had just seen.
Hot spring, blindfold, back…
The ghostly energy was even more chaotic.
Sang Jing held onto the back of the chair, bent down, and reached out to pinch Xie Yu’s chin, lifting her head up. “Behave yourself. What’s going on?”
As she spoke, she looked at the ghostly energy on Xie Yu and finally found that it was not caused by any malevolence, but purely by her own emotional instability.
“…”
She gave Xie Yu a speechless look. Just as Sang Jing was about to withdraw her hand and continue to look at the map, a wisp of cold ghostly energy landed on the back of her hand and then dispersed.
She looked up and saw that this wisp of ghostly energy had come from Xie Yu’s nose and was still dripping down.
It was as if she had a nosebleed.
Xie Yu blinked her eyes and was also startled. She frantically lifted her chin from Sang Jing’s hand, then raised her hand to wipe the uncontrollable ghostly energy from her nose, giving an unbelievable excuse. “I’m, I’m having too much internal heat.”
Sang Jing’s lips twitched.
Her soul is cold, and she’s having too much internal heat…
As long as the malevolence was not uncontrollable, it was fine. Seeing that she was fine, Sang Jing turned and sat back down to look at the map.
The map that Lady Hei had given her included several large provinces and had also specially marked a few locations, including Xianling Lake and Chaoyang Community in Xianling City, and also Nancheng Sophora Tree Park, which they had just been to last night.
Is Lady Hei showing them the way?
Sang Jing began to study the other marked locations on the map.
Xie Yu had already secretly taken her phone and hidden in a corner. The shattered screen did not stop her from reading the fanfiction.
With shyness, curiosity, and shock, Xie Yu entered the door to a new world.
Playing in the Water (Part 2)
Xie Yu held both of Sang Jing’s hands with one hand and pressed her against the edge of the pool, while her other hand was playing in the water.
Sang Jing raised her head in unbearable pleasure. Her pink and white cheeks were covered with crystal clear water droplets. Xie Yu looked down at this scene, her throat moved slightly. She lowered her head and bit her on the face, while her fingers hooked hard at the same time.
A soft moan escaped from Sang Jing’s lips. “Xie, Xie Yu, I’m the boss…”
Xie Yu smiled and kissed the corner of her mouth. “Then boss, as your assistant, am I serving you comfortably?”
“Beep—”
Xie Yu’s eyes were blank. She felt like her head was like a boiling kettle.
This, are these words she would dare to say?
And, how could Sang Jing be so soft! She looked like she was easy to bully, but her wrists were as hard as iron and couldn’t be bent. She could take on eight of her.
But, it was quite satisfying to watch.
No wonder so many people were chasing after the “food.” It turned out to be so delicious. Before, she had only thought of fanfiction as small stories created based on the characters’ prototypes. She hadn’t expected…
There were so many fanfictions. She could take her time to read them.
“You’re smiling like that. What are you looking at?”
Sang Jing’s voice suddenly sounded in her ear. Xie Yu’s hand trembled, and her phone fell directly to the ground, screen up.
Sang Jing saw it and bent down to pick it up.
Xie Yu: “!!!”
The second Sang Jing got the phone, Xie Yu snatched it away, then looked at her phone with a pained expression, the vicious ghost complaining first. “You scared me. My phone screen is broken!”
Sang Jing: “…”
This screen was probably broken when she had slammed it on the table just now. This thick-skinned ghost was now looking for her to be the scapegoat.
“Alright, I’ll fix it for you.”
It wasn’t a lot of money.
Sang Jing took the map and left the livestreaming room.
Xie Yu let out a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, fortunately, she hadn’t let Sang Jing see these things. Otherwise, she would probably have been kicked out tonight.
It was already dark outside. The lights in the incense shop downstairs were on, and Hei Wuchang was on duty.
Since Sang Jing had gone to Xianling, the night shift at the incense shop was only between Hei Wuchang and Shentu.
Hei Wuchang was not playing games behind the counter, but was rare to be working overtime on her main job.
“Is Sister Hei so busy recently?” Sang Jing asked as she went downstairs.
Hei Wuchang didn’t even look up. “Yes, the workload has suddenly increased. A lot of people have been…”
Halfway through her words, Hei Wuchang realized and shut her mouth.
Zhi Zhi had said that this matter could not be told to Sang Jing. If Sang Jing knew that her teacher and teacher’s wife were handling the aftermath of the victim ghosts of Chaoyang Community and Sophora Tree Park, wouldn’t this graduation assessment be too easy?
Sang Jing was also very perceptive. Seeing that she had stopped talking, she didn’t ask any more questions, but used the Wuchang warrant to contact the ghost emissaries who had taken away Pei Rong and Feng Chengshu at night.
A location was marked on the map that Lady Hei had given her, with Pei Rong’s name on it. And that place was in Liangshui. Sang Jing had already sent a picture of the map to Hua Changge and the others, telling them to pay more attention to that place.
Soon, a Ghost Gate appeared in the incense shop, and two ghost emissaries walked out with Pei Rong.
“Big Boss Hei,” the ghost emissary said, greeting Hei Wuchang and looking at the incense shop with a nostalgic expression. “It’s been a long time. It’s much neater and cleaner.”
Hei Wuchang looked up. “Chu Chu, Gu Yue. What a coincidence.”
They were all related to Zhi Zhi.
“It’s not me who called you. Xiao Jing is looking for you. You can talk. I’ll be busy over there,” Hei Wuchang said and took her workbook to the counter, making space for them.
Sang Jing lit some incense for the two ghost emissaries. “Thank you for your trouble. Please make yourselves at home. I have something to ask her.”
Sang Jing looked at Pei Rong on the side.
Chu Chu was quite impolite. She sat down and took a deep breath, then patted Gu Yue and asked her to eat too. “Good stuff. We can’t eat what Zhi Zhi burns, but it’s alright to eat what her student burns.”
Gu Yue sat beside her, eating the incense and looking to the side.
Pei Rong had originally been taken by the ghost emissaries to see Feng Chengshu’s punishment down below, which had resolved her hatred and unwillingness. Just as she was about to go through the procedures, the two ghost emissaries had suddenly received a voice transmission and had brought her back up.
In the incense shop, there was not only that streamer, but also Hei Wuchang. Pei Rong looked at Sang Jing with surprise.
Is the Xuan Master profession so powerful?
“How much do you remember about what happened before and after your death? Can you be as detailed as possible?” Sang Jing asked her.
Pei Rong began to recall. “After being locked up for a week, I heard my mom in my room say she was going to send me to repeat the year. Looking at the score that was a few points short, I jumped from the sixth floor. After jumping, I stood beside my body and saw my mom running down, crying. She was very regretful, but I felt very satisfied and relieved. After that, I thought that since I was already dead, I would do what I couldn’t do before. I played happily for a whole day. In the end, when I returned to the community, my mom was sitting where I had jumped. Hearing her cry, I regretted it again. Then I heard a voice, and then I was trapped in that brush and was taken to Pudu Temple. When I was conscious again, I was at Yuanzi’s house.”
“Pudu Temple…” Sang Jing remembered this temple. It was very famous in Liangshui. “Then do you still remember who took you there?”
Pei Rong nodded. “The people in the temple called her Master Huimu.”
The walking Wuchang that Hua Changge and the others had investigated in Liangshui was named Zhou He, and Pei Rong’s ghost had been assigned to Zhou He at that time.
This couldn’t be a coincidence. If Pei Rong was the ghost that the person behind this had their eyes on, and had told her the truth after she died, the Pei Rong at that time would very likely have turned into a fierce ghost on the spot. The person behind this would then take her to a place like Chaoyang Community. After experiencing dream after dream and despair, her resentment would grow deeper and deeper, becoming the best nourishment for a ghost king.
It was even possible that Feng Chengshu was also a pawn of the person behind this.
But all this was cut off because of Master Huimu in Pudu Temple.
Pudu Temple.
Sang Jing felt that she should go to this place.