Chapter 219 : Petty Ghosts are Hard to Deal With 1 (2/2)

Basically, he was like the classic male main character in Xuanhuan novels targeted at male readers. Of course, that was if he hadn’t turned bad later on.

‘Feng Ci… Since you’ve come to me, stay behind!’

[……] ‘I KEEP FEELING LIKE HOST IS TURNING EVEN DARKER. *SOBS* MASTER, HOST IS SCARY, PLEASE PROTECT ME!’

[Do you wish to enter the next mission?]

[Initialising transfer…]

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When she woke up, Shi Sheng discovered that she was floating. That’s right, floating…

She was also wearing a long white robe with long dark hair nearly covering her eyes; she was the spitting image of Sadako[1].

Shi Sheng was confused for quite a while. ‘There’s definitely something wrong with this appearance!’

“What? O-okay, I’ll be right there!” A voice could be heard from behind a wall. It was soon followed by the sounds of some frantic banging before a woman wearing a sleeping gown rushed into the room.

She frantically changed her clothes before rushing back out and slamming the door shut.

Shi Sheng wasstupefied the entire time. ‘Can she not see me?’

She lowered her head and tugged on the white robes on her body. ‘I’m… a ghost? Is this a paranormal novel?’

This sudden realisation caused Shi Sheng to sweat on the inside. Figuring that the woman from just now, who was most likely the female lead, wouldn’t return for quite a while, Shi Sheng found a more concealed corner to go through the plot.

This was a story about the paranormal.

The main character was An Su, the female lead. She was an ordinary university student. When exploring a haunted house with her fellow schoolmates, she had a one-night stand with a ghost king.

En, paranormal novels have sex in them now.

After been fucked by a ghost king, An Su gained the ability to see ghosts. And so began the story of various paranormal activities unfolding around her.

The story from then on was just the leads teaming up to solve peculiar cases and unveil the mysteries behind both their pasts, with the villainsjumping out every now and then to cause trouble for the leads.

After completely defeating the villains, the male lead returned to the land of the living, and from then on, the two lived happily ever after.

The original host was Ning Ying, a ghost with no memories. She didn’t remember how she had died. The only thing she could remember was her name.

She was a ghost that was being raised by the villain of this novel, Feng Jin. She’d been sent to the male lead’s side to act as an undercover agent, but had fallen for the male lead.

The male lead got Ning Ying to scare the female lead so that he’d have a chance to heroically ‘rescue’ her.

At first, Ning Ying co-operated, but after several instances, she found out that the male lead had fallen for the female lead.

How could she just watch as the ghost she loved fell for someone else?

And so, Ning Ying began doing all sorts of things to oppose the female lead. For example, making her nearly get hit by a car, or dropping flower pots when she was just standing below a multi-storeyed building. Basically, she created all sorts of ‘accidents’.

During a period when the leads were having a spat, the male lead purposely appeared intimate with Ning Ying in order to make the female lead misunderstand and get jealous.

In the end, when all the misunderstandings had been resolved and the leads got back together, Ning Ying was utterly stupefied as her fantasy was shattered. And so, she fell even further into the darkness; she nearly claimed the female lead’s life several times.

When the male lead found out that Ning Ying was behind the attempts on the female lead’s life, he nearly dispersed her soul. Fortunately, she was saved when Feng Jin recalled her back to his side at the very last moment.

From then on, Ning Ying operated on a code that most supporting female leads end up operating on: If I can’t have you, I’ll destroy you!

And so, she had started helping Feng Jin with his plans to deal with the male lead, but she’d chicken out at the most crucial moment every time.

Feng Jin didn’t like to speak, but he was extremely cruel. Every time the plan failed because Ning Ying couldn’t act, he didn’t punish her. Instead, he simply brought her to watch from the shadows as the leads acted lovey-dovey with each other.

There was probably nothing worse than being forced to watch as the man you loved had intimate contact with another woman. This was the cruellest form of punishment that could be inflicted on Ning Ying.

In the final showdown, Feng Jin took the female lead as a hostage to threaten the male lead. Ning Ying was put in charge of keeping an eye on the female lead and making sure she didn’t escape.

When the male lead came to rescue the female lead and fell into a trap, by some trick of fate, Ning Ying ended up rescuing the female lead.

But the male lead had thought she wanted to hurt the female lead instead.

Seeing that the ghost she loved so deeply filled with murderous intent towards her, Ning Ying suddenly regretted her choices.

Naturally, Ning Ying was killed by the male lead in the end.

Ning Ying had two wishes.

Firstly, to let the male lead have a taste of what it feels like to have an unreciprocated love.

Secondly, to reincarnate.

[1] Horror movie reference. I don’t watch horror movies.