CH SS 1 (1/2)

Chapter 1: The Children that Can’t be Touched—translated by lucathia (proofread by elisa & Trespasserby; C/E edited by dahlys)

Although she knew that it was so the taboo

That’s because writing about theh She wanted, oh how she wanted more!

She wanted to touch their faces, wanted to see them move, wanted to hear their voices as they spoke…

Listen…

Do you hear my summons?

Can you hear me?

“Yes, I heard you… Mistress”

The phone suddenly rang,Yu Shu jump in shock

I thought I failed! She was feeling annoyed and felt no desire to pick up the call, but the ringtone was relentless and the phone kept on ringing Yu Shu already kneas on the other end Only that felloould let the phone ring on and on She bet that if she didn’t take the call, it would keep on ringing all night!

Further up or directly pull out the phone cord, since that so the doorbell the entire night Even if she pulled out her doorbell, thunderous pounding on her door would sound throughout the night

Yu Shu had no choice but to walk over and pick up the phone Once the call connected, she didn’t even have the chance to say “hello” before she heard the coldest voice on earth

“Where’s the manuscript?”

Yu Shu braced herself and et it done”

“I recall that you said the sao A few days before the few days, you said the same as well A few days before the few days before the few days—”

Yu Shu hurriedly interrupted the other person and solemnly vowed, “I mean it I’ll turn in my manuscript in three days”

“I’hty percent sure that it’ll take another thirty days…” The other person muttered

“Hey! You should at least say nine days What the heck is up with thirty days?”

“Unfortunately, that’s the truth! But, don’t you dare drea thirty days from me If you don’t submit your manuscript by the tenth day, you had better brace yourself I’ll drag e to your place to stay over and watch you until you finish writing!”

Her tone was as cold as ice, so cold that Yu Shu tre her voice But, she couldn’t help but want to get told off a bit more In the real world, it was really difficult to meet someone as cold as ice! That person was a rarely seen sourceto her speak gave Yu Shu a lot of inspiration, and she really wished she could hear more—if only the other person weren’t her editor and currently pressing her for her manuscript

“Xiao Luo Luo, ten days seems a little short!”

“My name is Ye Luo Don’t call me Xiao Luo Luo Besides, didn’t soh?”

Yu Shu immediately lowered her head and said in a small voice, “Well… I’ve been a little busy lately!”

“Busy? Since you haven’t turned in your ht?”

Yu Shu didn’t even dare reply

“Re in!”

“Okay” Yu Shu didn’t dare raise her voice in protest, afraid that if she did, Ye Luo would be unwilling to wait even ten days and would pound thunderously on her apartment door within an hour

After she ended the call, Yu Shu didn’t sit back in front of her co her manuscript She was a bit out of sorts Actually, for some time now, she was nearly finished with the manuscript She had already written up to the finale, but she really couldn’t bring herself to continue writing

Every time she wrote a conversation, every tiuys in the books would ju people, yet she couldn’t see or touch them!

They were her children They were all her children! She was like a mother who couldn’t see her children, and there was nowhere she could search for them She was doomed from the start to never be able to see them!

“Just one…No! Two, just two!”

Actually, if possible, she wanted all of them! But that was impossible, so she had to make a choice She would have two of her children Yu Shu could not bring herself to give up on either one, so she had to have two

One of the form, while the other was just somewhat of a “concept” But even so, Yu Shu had exhausted herselffor so ive birth” to children was really not her forte

Yu Shu felt that she was only doing so because she had already gone insane

She knew that this world had already been modified too much, yet she had actually added oil to the fire; but—

“I’m crazy, aren’t I?”

She couldn’t help but laugh out loud She yelled, “If I’m crazy, then I’m crazy! I want to see you both no matter what!, and, come out!”

“Yu Shu, open the door!”

A lanky person stood outside the door, wearing unisex clothing—a dress shi+rt and a pair of jeans The person’s appearance was also androgynous with an oval face, large eyes, and sharp eyebrows However, her sliure that couldn’t be hidden by her for white dress shi+rt revealed that she was female

Without any expression, she forcefully rang the doorbell with her sli incessantly, but no one came to the door

“This is Ye Luo! Don’t think that playing dead is of any use I said ten days, so ten days it is Open the door!”

Even though her words were harsh, Ye Luo still remained expressionless

There was still no response from inside She finally felt a bit bewildered She could hear the doorbell ring, so it couldn’t have been turned off Why isn’t there any response, then? She didn’t believe that Yu Shu would be able to stand that kind of noise—this doorbell was one that Ye Luo had personally chosen and installed

“Yu Shu—”

Ye Luo’s expression remained undisturbed, and her tone was also very calm too, but her volume had increased, and her actions weren’t tranquil in the least She straightforwardly raised her foot and kicked the door Originally, she just hadn’t wanted to hurt her hands by knocking, but once she kicked with her foot, the door actually got directly kicked open Only then did she discover that the door hadn’t been shut It had only looked closed

However, she wasn’t very surprised With Yu Shu’s personality, don’t even et the name of her editor that she’d worked with for more than five years!

Without any qual roos The books by the corner were piled higher than a person Cardboard boxes littered the floor, and they weren’t eazines

Bookcases lined all four sides of the rooanized, but they were packed to the briap between anything Any wall space without bookcases had various weapons hanging there In conclusion, this living roo—except its owner

Seems like the stuff has increased, and what’s with that super large box leaning against the wall?

After a ate the super large box The box was rectangular, and the length of it was longer than a person The color wasn’t the usual color of a cardboard box—it was black On top of it, there were also odd decorative designs At first glance, it looked a lot like a coffin

Even if Yu Shu had bought a coffin, it wouldn’t be strange Ye Luo didn’t care for superstition As long as Yu Shu was inspired by it and could turn in her ood coffin However, she had a feeling that Yu Shu wouldn’t be satisfied by ainside the coffin, such as a person’s bones or a thousand year old mummy Of course, it was likely to be a model, but no

Ye Luo walked into the study with an air of faht, now she was really astonished

Yu Shu was actually not at home

Ye Luo thought about it Yu Shu o to the superht she leave the apartment

She walked to the kitchen, which was actually a lot cleaner than the living room and the study Yu Shu was definitely very lazy, but she loved good food Since she rarely left home, she would often st the items, the most plentiful were the varieties of coffee

Ye Luo offhandedly grabbed a jar of instant coffee Although there was a coffee machine to the side, and there were also coffee beans that had already been ground, she really wasn’t very particular about her coffee, and she didn’t kno to use those machines It had always been Yu Shu ould make coffee for her Without Yu Shu present, instant coffee plus hot water was the fastest and most convenient

Afterroo over afor Yu Shu to return

The living roo, until suddenly, a sht Ye Luo’s attention However, the city was full of all sorts of sounds, so she didn’t pay it much attention She continued to concentrate on the manuscript But when the sound happened a second and then a third time, she finally reacted

“Yu Shu?” Ye Luo turned her head to look The front door hadn’t been opened, and the final sound had been really close, not like a sound froht by her She looked around her She was the only one in the living roos, there was no way that this apart it In order to find Yu Shu earlier, she had carefully searched the entire place

Unless…

Ye Luo turned her head to look toward the gigantic, rectangular box If it weren’t because the box wasn’t deep enough, it would really look like a box for holding a refrigerator However, Yu Shu’s refrigerator was still alive and well She should have no interest in buying another one to take up space

Unless Yu Shu is hiding in the box… No, she’s not that kind of person It wasn’t that Yu Shu didn’t like to joke around by hiding in boxes to scare people, but it had already been at least half an hour since Ye Luo had begun proofreading the manuscript She rather doubted that Yu Shu would be so into a prank that she would hide in a box for half an hour on such a hot day just to scare someone

There was another rustling sound Ye Luo was staring straight at the box, so she was certain that it sounded exactly like someone had shi+fted inside the box

Ye Luo, who had been expressionless this entire time, finally furrowed her brows She stared at the cardboard box and started considering how probable it’d be that a robot that could move was inside of it—but that probability tended toward zero as time passed She didn’t believe in the least that Yu Shu’s earnings were enough to allow her to buy such a huge robot to play with

Then, what exactly is inside? Even if it’s a refrigerator, it wouldn’t ht?

There was another s sound

Since Ye Luo was staring straight at the box, she was absolutely certain that the sound had indeed come from the cardboard box She looked toward the front door which re just yet