Chapter 28: Midnight Selection (2/2)

Liu Xiaotian still clearly knew that Baiyan was his brother’s wife. However, in the face of their primal desires, some people would easily forget the laws separating men and animals, even more so about their bro code.

Under the firm control of his lower body, this, my dear friend, was when he tried to grope Baiyan, desiring to do something lewd to her, but what he didn’t expect was for the soft and sweet Baiyan to unleash her intense temperament. After encountering his excessively immoral attempts, Baiyan naturally didn’t take it well. She struggled for a long while before finally getting her hands on a nearby flower vase and smashing it against Liu Xiaotian’s head.

This whack in the head made blood gush out and that was how Liu Xiaotian’s bloodstain on the teddy bear came to be.

When the flower vase broke the old dog’s head, Liu Xiaotian suddenly became dizzy and fell on the ground. Unfortunately for him, the broken shards of porcelain were lodged deeply in his temples, leading him to his death.

After Wu Jingang’s scattered talking, Bai Yan finally pieced together the whole incident.

Following Liu Xiaotian’s deadly fall, Baiyan cried incessantly as she called for emergency service. She later hastily called the police and then her husband.

Liu Tianyi was ill-fated and quickly died at the morbid scene, but this world’s laws considered Baiyan’s actions as self-defense, so the police only took note of what happened and let Baiyan go home.

Although it was unintentional, amid Baiyan’s resistance, she murdered someone by mistake. Her heart was filled with intense fear and anxiety, which led her to use her annual vacation days, so she has been staying at the comfort of her home to rest.

Roughly knowing the past events, Bai Yan had a hunch that if he were haunted by a ghost, that ghost would surely be the rapist that tried to violate Baiyan.

In Bai Yan’s eyes, Liu Xiaotian’s bloodstain on the teddy bear was a dangerous sign.

In some games, the ghost would originate from its bloodstain. There was a chance that the ghosts in this game were not like that, but the teddy bear was undeniably a risky object and needed to be thrown away immediately.

Thinking about this for a while, Bai Yan finally raised his head and looked at Wu Jingang, his large husband. Unexpectedly, the man’s eyes were red. As he was soothing Bai Yan, he couldn’t help but cry for his wife.

This iron-clad man’s emotions were too plentiful. Fearing that he would sense something amiss, Bai Yan furiously blinked his eyes. Through his thick eyelashes, his tears started flowing as well.

With tears in his eyes, he didn’t have a problem anymore. Bai Yan tried to show some emotions, his voice trembling and choking as he said, “Jingang… I saw the teddy bear today and suddenly felt scared… Whenever I see it, I always remember what happened that day.”

“Yanyan…” The more Wu Jingang saw Bai Yan’s crying face, the more he regretted what had happened before. He quickly hugged Bai Yan and immediately promised, “You don’t need to be scared anymore. I’ll throw it away. One of these days, I’ll buy you a bigger and better bear.”

Unable to bear seeing Bai Yan sad any longer, Wu Jingang became sadder. He was scared that Bai Yan would cry again after he was finished talking, so he grabbed the stuffed animal and threw it in the trash can.

As Wu Jingang left, Bai Yan promptly wiped away his tears and comfortably laid down in his bed, waiting for his dear husband to return.

When Wu Jingang came back, the two exchanged a few words and closed their lamps at the bedsides, saying their goodnights.

Bai Yan knew he would be fighting a long war ahead of him and didn’t think about it further. He simply closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep. It was a short rest that only lasted until midnight.

At one o’clock in the morning, the next-door neighbor abruptly made loud rattles that cleanly passed through to their walls. These sounds seemed to be clamorous meat chopping followed by high-pitched ear-pinching sounds of boiling water.

Bai Yan was woken up by the sounds of chopped meat, and so he opened his eyes and propped his sleepy body up.

As he got up, he curiously felt an empty space beside him. He instinctively raised his head and found that Wu Jingang was not sleeping by his side anymore. He didn’t have a clue at what point Wu Jingang sat up but he looked like a corpse with his head eerily drooping down. His miserable pale face parted at the corners of his mouth. His gaze steadily fixated on him.

Bai Yan didn’t know for how long Wu Jingang was watching him like this.

Bai Yan felt terrified for a split second, making his grogginess completely disappear.

Before he could do anything, his phone’s violent vibrations suddenly came through.

Time had paused and Bai Yan understood that it was time to make a new choice.

[At one o’clock in the morning, you suddenly wake up from the sudden burst of noise. You’re suddenly overcome with the anger, and you want to complain to your neighbor’s cooking noises. But, as you woke up, you were horrified to find out that there was something wrong with your husband.]

[At some point, he got up and sat next to you, unendingly staring at you with a creepy and deadly look in his eyes.]

[Seeing this terrifying scene before you, you decide:]

[A. That this must be a dream, so you happily close your eyes, turn over, and go back to sleep.]

[B. To noisily wake up Wu Jingang and tell him what had just happened.]

[C. That he must be back. He found me and wants to exact his revenge to kill me.]

Time slowly passed by. Bai Yan stared at the three choices and sank into deep thought.