Chapter 404 - Mo Chou (42) (1/2)

Zhan Rong saw the notification which was hard to miss since it popped up with the blue panel. A time-check was even included in it, 8:30 pm. She temporarily stopped unpacking the items and dresses brought with her on a trip to a town in Zhejiang province which was near to another extremely remote village.

Like the previous semestral break, her exclusive pet ghost went into hibernation and she had no choice but to complete a mission to wake him up. Thankfully, she already experienced the worst at Zhao village so she was not as unprepared as before.

Misfortunate events still happened because no matter the amount of preparation made, there would always be small or unexpected things unaccounted. But none really impeded her as Zhan Rong had a greater determination to wake Jiang Li up since he had already become a part of her normal life.

She felt it. Unlike six months ago when she first experienced the trap of the system but still managed to resist, her mind fell into a bit of disarray on the first and second day of the mission when she summoned the system to call Jiang Li only to get no response.

It was quite funny, but indeed, in six months, a ghost did make her comfortable and used to his presence. She became more active in finishing the mission, and she had to say, there was quite a difference between simply surviving and striving for a goal since it would always be the latter giving greater results and efficiency.

The trip was still hateful though. It did not lead her to any beautiful place, showing her only ugly scenes.

Zhan Rong chose to forget for now the unpleasant memories associated with that village which was also one of the small partners of the syndicate.

'My reward is here.' Zhan Rong turned around after reading what was on the panel.

Skin that was deathly pale. Slightly upturned brown eyes that could easily capture souls yet still made him appear pure and nice. The lips were pale, but it could not be helped due to his identity. But overall, it was an appearance that made her feel like everything she experienced in the past week was worth it. Just how the hell could a damn ghost be this good-looking?

Anyway...

”Jiang Li!” Zhan Rong's eyes were like stars that instantly twinkled upon seeing her ghost appear before her eyes. He looked to have teleported into the room, though he could have also passed through the wall.

'Look at this girl.' The man who was still irritated by the latest news he got suddenly felt it had become easier to breathe. When he arrived, he saw the solemnness in Zhan Rong's expression too so the fact that his arrival lit up her face made him feel wonderful.

Even without the girl saying a word, it was easy to guess what she was thinking right now and what she felt about seeing him again.

How nice that even though they belonged to different species, their control over each other's mood was still as powerful.

”Welcome back, I guess.” He said with a laugh to the beautiful college student who was already checking him out, probably, for another set of clothes to order.

”It's you who disappeared.” She said with a slight pout.

In front of others, specifically of mercenaries and bodyguards helping her out in the strange business that she established half a year ago, Zhan Rong would always sport a calm face, looking mysterious and domineering. To her schoolmates and other acquaintances, she was a nice, mature, adventurous young lady who only became scary when completely annoyed.

This spirit was only the one who witnessed a more carefree, selfish, and at times immature and irrational side of her. Was it because he was her mentor? And exclusive model? In this world, apart from the system, this guy must be the only one who saw the most number of faces she could actually make.

Like right now.

”Jiang Li. Do you know what I went through when you were not around?”

Pouting her lips slightly, Zhan Rong looked disgruntled. Her face became sadder remembering she was not allowed to bring up the system even to anyone, not even to this ghost. She was guessing Jiang Li did not even have any idea that he was actually given to her by the system.

She could not explain it well. So she used her face to show that she was really aggrieved. ”Shouldn't you be guilty? I suffered so much.”

Jiang Li flew over and asked. ”So what do you want to learn this time? I will make sure to double the effort in teaching to make it up to you.”

Zhan Rong went back to stuffing her clean clothes into the closet. There was no dirty laundry in her luggage since she was the type to dry-clean her clothes first before returning to the city. While her hands moved, her gaze darted towards the ceiling as she pretended to think it over.

A couple of moments later, she narrowed her eyes at her pet ghost. Almost a minute passed before she realized her brain wandered to the wrong zone, subconsciously visualizing the next outfit to burn for him.

'Ugh. His sinful face and body are really too much.'

Even though it was her who got distracted, the blame got thrown to the innocent ghost leaning on the wall adjacent to her bed with folded arms. She briefly closed her eyes and recalled something serious.