What does he mean?

Let me live out my days in peace? Wasn’t he supposed to kill me?

He scoffed, seemingly unaccustomed to uttering such “generous” words.

“Don’t look so dumb, a ghost marriage is tied once and cannot be untied, unless you die and are reborn, so in this life, you cannot have any other man.”

His tone was cool and ruthless: “If you really fear me that much, then after my task is completed, I can disappear, and if you wish to live out your days alone, that’s up to you.”

“What do you mean by ‘after the task is completed’?” I caught the main point.

Just as my brother said, he had another motive.

He sneered, pinching my chin, “You don’t understand matters of Yin and Yang, nor do you understand the matters between a man and a woman? Have you forgotten how much I leave inside you each day?”

My face flushed as I looked at him, growing numb to the ghost mask I’d seen so often.

“When the ring on your hand forms into a Chi Dragon, it signifies that a spirit embryo has been conceived… Did you think a wife’s duties are only to open her body?”

I looked at him in horror, my hands instinctively moving to my lower abdomen.

No wonder I’ve been feeling a burning pain below my belly button these days; I thought it was due to his nightly fierceness, but he actually wants me to get pregnant?!

“Do you understand?” Seeing my incredulous look, he sneered at me.

“…But I’m still a student, can we wait until later—”

I’m only eighteen, just started university not long ago. Even though society is open and flexible about these matters, for a girl who has just come of age, pregnancy means a completely different life.

“Later?” He scoffed. “I don’t want to spend another seven days with a rigid body.”

His words were full of disdain.

I also didn’t want to be violated by a male ghost wearing an evil mask for another seven days.

“Three more nights, whether you consider it torment or rape, you’ll have to endure it, understand?” He said bluntly.

“…Yes.” I wiped the tears off my face, resignedly accepting my fate, thinking maybe it’s best to take a leave of absence and hide at home.

It was early spring, and the air in the south still carried a chill. The black tights he tore off, I had to remove and stuff into my bag.

Lifting my leg, I winced in pain from the area that had been tormented these past days.

He just stood there with his arms crossed, like a cold statue.

“I promised you, can you be a bit more gentle?”

Can you not tear my clothes every time?

He sneered, “Gentle? Don’t be ungrateful, if I weren’t gentle, would you still be able to stand and talk to me?”

Okay, I asked a stupid question.

I’m just a sacrifice, what human* rights can I fantasize about?

Three more nights.

I wiped my face in front of the mirror, seeing my pale face and swollen eyes reflected back.

“Xiao Qiao, hurry up!” My brother’s voice echoed in the hallway.

I sniffled, lowering my head as I walked out.

》》》

Yesterday’s fall from the building had stirred up a huge fuss online.

The police reviewed the surveillance footage and saw me entering the office and then running out in a disheveled state shortly after.

I appeared in the safety stairwells of each floor, and after I left the teaching building and stood there for a while, the class advisor fell.

Time-wise, I had no suspicion.

I couldn’t help but suspect that the ugly ghost had planned it all.

If the class advisor had died while I was still in the office, I would have had no way to defend myself.

Moreover, if the class advisor had died in the office, I would have been the prime suspect.

So, he shattered the window and dragged the class advisor to the window sill, ensuring many witnesses saw him squatting there before he “jumped” down.

Officer Lu, a friend of my brother’s, appeared to be in his late twenties, tall and sharp-eyed, his imposing aura making me feel even more listless and distraught.

“Old Lu used to be in the special forces, keen and lethal. Be careful what you say around him,” my brother whispered to me.

The school leaders in the conference room looked frantic, one balding middle-aged man slammed his fist on the table upon seeing me.

“Look at this! What are female students coming to these days? Wearing revealing clothes, bare legs in this cold weather, isn’t this inviting crime?!”

He continued, “Secretary, principal, Officer Lu, I told you, the class advisor always got along well with students, he had a good reputation! It must be this young girl playing with his feelings, pushing him to such a stupid act of jumping to his death!”

“I did not play with his feelings! I avoided him as much as possible!” Being insulted I could ignore, but accusing me of toying with that disgusting class advisor, I couldn’t stand it.

“He called me to his office to work, the whole class heard it! Then he cornered me in the office, saying he wanted me to be his girlfriend, and I ran out desperately.” I tried to keep my emotions under control, considering I still had to study here, and this balding man was probably the class advisor’s relative in a leadership position.

“That’s just your side of the story, who would believe it?” the balding man huffed, “The man is dead, and you’re still trying to slander him! Look at you, the image of a delinquent girl, still playing the victim!”

My brother got angry, cursing, “Who are you calling a delinquent girl? Damn it, just because you’re a school leader doesn’t mean I won’t hit you!”

“Enough!” The principal shouted, “The most important thing now is to eliminate the negative impact, not to argue!”

The principal then turned to me, his expression becoming gentle, “Student, we preliminarily conclude it was suicide, there might be a lot of media wanting to interview you, I hope you can consider the reputation of the school—”

I listened for a while, realizing the principal wanted me to say: I saw the class advisor suddenly become ill while helping in the office, and when I ran out to call for help, he fell to his death.

I hadn’t even started to refuse when Officer Lu chuckled coldly, “Principal, I’m still here, and you’re already instructing the victim to change her testimony? Are you taking the law as a joke?”

The principal awkwardly smiled, probably cursing Officer Lu internally for being unreasonable.

Lu didn’t care about him and turned to ask me, “Tell me in detail what happened at that time.”

I omitted the part where the ugly ghost grabbed his neck, just explaining his sudden erratic behavior.

Officer Lu listened, then asked me again, and again, and again…

All to make me repeat what happened at the time!

Finally, he put away his recorder and notebook, and as the school leaders left, he gave me a meaningful smile, “Miss Xiao Qiao, you have quite the mental resilience…”

Nonsense, if my mental resilience wasn’t strong, I would have been scared to death that night two years ago.

》》》

When we got home, Dad was still sunbathing in the yard, wearing a white tank top, shifting around on a wicker chair.

“Xiao Qiao, you’re back… Ah, come here and scratch my back, it’s so itchy!”

I walked over, lifted my dad’s white tank top to scratch his back, but then suddenly froze!

On my dad’s back, a blood-red ghost face appeared…