Chapter 17 (2/2)

“When I was fl.u.s.teredly calling for ambulance for my wife, my mother-in-law said I took away her daughter so she will also take away our child.” The wall clock was moving with tick-tock sounds and right when the male ghost spoke of this, it chimed midnight.

“There is no time, no time. She is coming to take my child!” The male ghost looked at the wall clock with fear as he repeatedly spoke.

“Bang, bang, bang!” When the chiming of the clock stopped, someone knocked the door of the store.

“Don’t… don’t open the door! Please don’t open the door, she is here!” As soon as the male ghost heard the door knocking, he stood up and walked to and fro in the room, while imploring me.

“There are many things you can’t run away from. You need to face it in the end. Anyway, don’t worry; with me here, no one can harm you.” Foster father taught me this; now, I was using foster father’s frequently spoken words to comfort the ghost beside me.

“Excuse me, is master here?” I opened the door; an upper cla.s.s woman who was clothed in cheongsam and was holding an umbrella, asked me from outside the door. Like the one inside the room, the one before me wasn’t a human.

“Father pa.s.sed away; if you have some matters, you can tell them to me.” I turned around to take a glance at the male ghost who was curled up in the corner, then said to the female ghost outside the door.

“I had an agreement with him and now it is due.” The female ghost was clearly much difficult to deal with than the male ghost. She brought a paper in front of my eyes and coldly said.

Agreement letter?

“After twenty years, I will come take my daughter. At that time, master cannot interfere.” Displayed in front of my eyes was an agreement letter; it only had two simple sentences on it and was signed by foster father and this female ghost.

“Let’s talk inside.” There was not a soul in the street. Maybe it was because of these two ghosts; the air was filled with a gloomy coldness. I leaned to the side and hinted to the female ghost.

“Where is Little Tong? Why are you alone? Speak, where did you put my Little Tong?” Only seeing her son-in-law in the room, the female ghost freaked out. It was apparent that she was a very strong woman when she was alive.

“Mother, Little Tong is dead. She died after giving birth to our child. Forgive me mother, I didn’t take care of her.” The male ghost was afraid. But hearing his mother in law ask about his wife, he came out of the corner, kneeled on the ground and spoke while crying bitterly.

Twenty years had gone by. Every time, he saw the daughter his wife had given her life to, he would deeply miss his dead wife.  In these twenty years, he finally had his own business and was also successful in it. But he never remarried, he chose to raise his daughter as a single parent, because he felt he would be betraying his dead wife if he remarried.

Because of this, the rumors that he was gay was spread between those women that had tried going after him. They simply couldn’t believe that there was someone in this world that would not go after other women. But he didn’t care, all he lived for was to take care of his child. Because his and Little Tong’s blood flowed on their daughter’s body.

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