Chapter 32: Daily life had been destroyed (1/2)

TL: flarewk

”So the entire day you didn't wear it at all, huh!!!”

Swearing onto the Lord of Censorship, I really didn't see it clearly at all!

”..........”

What's before my eyes weren't sunset, that dream-like looking scenery, but a white colored ceiling instead.

..........A dream, huh..........

”Tch..........”

My mood's a little displeased.

I who originally didn't had any intentions to get up from my bed at all felt a little irritated today. It's not that I couldn't sleep properly nor was it that I didn't had enough sleep, it's just purely because that I've made a rather annoying dream.

Weng weng.........

My body trembled, and I hastily grabbed my phone, glancing at it.

It's the alarm.

”..........Haaa..........”

My nervously constricted spirit immediately became loosened, and an urge of urinating assaulted. While being relieved, I also felt a little regretful as well...........like real!

What am I regretting about at all!!

Hugely giving off a sigh, I rubbed my cheeks to allow myself turning more energetic; it's been a long time since I had a dream. My spirit had become slightly withered unrecoveringly, but the most important thing was, I actually even dreamt of dat woman...........

I had to say, the impression that she gave onto people was too remarkable and too intense already, which made them completely unable to forget about her.

That's why there would be so many people liking her, I guess..........just like a magnet, attracting everyone in her surroundings.

”Gege..........?”

Xin Ran rubbed her eyes, as she looked at me sleepily, with the collar of her pajamas slid to one side of her shoulders, exposing a huge area of snow-white skin.

”It's nothing, I've only just made a dream, go carry on sleeping.”

I laughed while caressing her head, and Xin Ran was like a cat as she comfortably squinted her eyes in response. After laying the blankets properly on Xin Ran, I straightaway took the clothes that I needed to change into and walked out of the room.

Sunday, 5.45 am in the morning. After finishing washing up, I put on my attire neatly and went downstairs. It's a smart black-colored suit without any tie on it at all.

Laomā was already waiting in the living room for me.

”Yoo, Jun Cheng, you've awakened quite early, huh? I was even thinking of waking you up in a moment too.”

”Well..........since I've already promised onto helping out during Sunday, I can't oversleep either.”

It's precisely because I'm needed to go help out today, which was why I had set an alarm to wake up early in the morning, with only that just now I still thought that it was dat woman's message, resulting in I giving myself a jumpscare earlier.

”Well, let's go then, today will probably be extremely busy~, you must be mentally ready for afterwards.”

”Mnn..........”

Replying her a little absentmindedly, I followed Laomā afterwards to today's work location.

Reaching our destination, it gave me a huge jumpscare indeed; the gigantic mortuary hall was actually crowded with people rather badly...........it's truly such an ominous scene.

These people all had their faces crumbled, most of them being the deceased's families, standing vigil an entire night for their loved ones, which caused their mentality to be rather withered.

A blanket of black weighted statuses; realism form of these negative emotions gave my vision ferocious assaults.

I hastily put on the clear lens spectacles that I've bought yesterday, before finally feeling slightly better.

Although Laomā's expression was very relaxed at home, along with her liking to laugh about too, but once she had reached her workplace, it was like as if she had changed to another person, as she carried a face of solemness.

It's really fitting of the title [Death Makeup artist] indeed.

After Laomā bade her hands farewell to me, she paced towards her working area, and I followed Zhang-dàge towards the hall service counter.

Underage children like me originally shouldn't be able to work in the mortuary at all, but because of Laomā's relations, compounded with the fact that this time it's indeed too busy already, hence they allowed me to work here as part time.

I came here occasionally during middle school, and whenever Laomā worked overtime in the makeup hall, I would just explore randomly about the entrance hall. Hence, I was quite acquainted with the mortuary workers as well.

Speaking of which, does this count as underage employment............

When I was helping out last time, I was usually being assigned to be the service personnel, mainly in charge of picking up calls of family members requesting the transportation of corpses, or to reply queries about sending off relatives and friends so on.

But today, it's actually been too busy to the point till they needed me to go help out at the crematorium workshop.

Usually, they wouldn't allow young people to enter here, and basically it were all masters that were forty plus years old, so today would be considered to be an exception already.

Because of how funerals were being finished locally, most of them usually were completed just before noon, hence morning would be the most busiest period of the day.

All the way busying until almost afternoon, we could then finally take a break to rest for a little while afterwards.

I plucked off my spectacles, but was still able to feel a little soreness within my eyes, as the blazing flames inside the furnace were too burning already.

Wu-shifu lit up a cigarette, and sat down a little fatiguedly, throwing away the cigarette butts in his pockets. While working, the cremation shifus would normally smoke, as the smell was really pungent. Sometimes, it would be really discomforting too.

”Phew..........Xiao' An, you're tired already, right. Just go ahead and rest for a short while then. It's all thanks that you're able to come help out today, if not these old bones of mine will probably be shattered already.”

”It's nothing really, then I'll go look for my mom and see how's she doing.”

”Mm, go ahead.”

A few other cremation shifus were also all expressionless, their eyes contained a few degrees of somberness as well, since their jobs made them unable to smile out at all.

Speaking of which, I'm also expressionless, not easily smiling too.

Looks like I'm quite suitable for this kind job also...........

I moved my aching wrists about, and left the crematorium workshop.

By the way, I couldn't see any statuses at all from those dead bodies..........was it because corpses weren't considered to be humans anymore?

I've only just walked outside when I saw a familiar figure gazing towards the public cemetery right behind the mortuary.

”..........”

What's that person doing...........although I really wanted to ignore her, but I had a nagging feeling that if I was to do that, I'll probably be in deep trouble later. And so, I shouted out loudly towards her.

”Oi!”

She didn't answer even after I called her, was it because she didn't hear it? Or was it...........

I pondered again, and shouted towards her once more, but this time I yelled out her name.

”Lian Bing!”

As expected, this time she then turned around, smiling as she walked towards my side to greet me.

”Ara~ Isn't this my dear boyfriend? What a coincidence, hum?”

”Coincidence your head..........you really wouldn't just leave me alone, huh.”

No wonder when we baded farewell yesterday, she used a 'See you tomorrow' these sort of farewell words. So she had already planned to come visit me again today?

When I saw Ji Lian Bing, I got reminded again of the date yesterday, as well as that scene when we lastly bade each other farewell, which made my expression turn strange a little.

”Today's Cheng Jun is really handsome~ wearing a decent suit, heeh?”

”Haaa.........”

This decent suit worn today was considered to be wrongly attired, as previously I only came here for service-related jobs. Who knew that I would actually need to do crematorium-related work as well, which resulted in this entire smart black suit being very unmatched, and quite a couple of smells got stuck onto it.

”Enough playing around, Lian Bing. Hurry up and go back, this place isn't for you.”

”You're so aloof, even though I rarely came over, to especially just see you..........”

”We've only just seen each other yesterday, right?”

”Huhuhuhu~ Shouldn't couples be sticking around together everyday?”

”That's only those stupid-couples, I don't want to be an idiot at all.”

I wrinkled my nose, wanting to find some sort of an excuse to chase her away, when a voice suddenly called out for me from afar.

”Jun Cheng?”