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Chapter 21 Encountering a Ghost
Who is it?
"Who's standing at the foot of his bed in the middle of the night?" Zhao Yuan thought groggily.

He tried to clear his mind to see clearly.

Soon, he saw some things more clearly.

It appeared to be a woman.

The woman was standing with her back to him, her waist-length black hair cascading down like a waterfall.

The woman's back view seemed somewhat familiar.

Just then, a breeze seemed to blow in through the window, gently ruffling the woman's hair.

Zhao Yuan inexplicably felt that the temperature in the room seemed to have dropped significantly.

Zhao Yuan's heart was pounding, but he still mustered up the courage to ask.

"who are you?"

What are you doing standing here?

But the woman neither answered nor made a move, which annoyed Zhao Yuan.

Zhao Yuan stood up and walked towards the woman.

He reached out and patted the woman on the shoulder, asking impatiently again, "Who are you? What are you doing standing at the foot of my bed in the middle of the night?"

“Ah Yuan…”

Just as he patted the woman's shoulder, a woman's voice suddenly rang out, echoing in the not-so-spacious room, carrying a faint chill and inexplicably eerie feeling.

At the same time, the woman who had her back to him suddenly turned around, revealing a face that Zhao Yuan both recognized and feared.

A mocking smile played on her lips as she stared at him with chilling eyes.

Zhao Yuan's eyes widened suddenly, filled with terror, and his legs went weak, causing him to sit down on the ground.

He pointed at the woman in front of him, "You, you, you are..."

"Ah Yuan, it's me, Qianqian. It's been 17 years. Have you already forgotten me?"

"Ah Yuan, didn't you say you couldn't live without me? How come you married Lin Yin?"

"Ah Yuan, didn't you say our daughter would be named Xiao Ying? Why is she called Zhao Lanlan now?"

"A-Yuan, why did you betray our feelings and our promise?"

Just then, a sudden gust of cold wind swept through the room, causing Su Qian's hair to fly wildly and the curtains to rustle. Su Qian's face was contorted with rage.

In a flash, Su Qian appeared in front of Zhao Yuan, her face contorted with blood and tears, pressed very close to his.

She reached out, her nails long and sharp, and grabbed Zhao Yuan by the neck.

"Since you have betrayed our feelings and promises, and have also abused our daughter, then you should die."

……

"No, help!"

"Let me go, Qianqian, I love you, I love you."

"..."

At the same time, Zhao Yuan and Lin Yin sat up abruptly in bed, their foreheads covered in sweat, muttering to themselves. They opened their eyes, their eyes filled with terror and fear.

It took Zhao Yuan and Lin Yin a while to realize that they were in their own room.

But just now, it must have been a dream.

The two exchanged a glance and said in unison, "You had a nightmare too?"

Soon, after the two briefly recounted their experiences, they discovered that they had had almost the same dream.

They all dreamt that Su Qian came to take their lives.

Su Qian...

That was a name and a person that had been buried for over a decade.

This was the first time in over a decade that they had dreamt of Su Qian, and it was a nightmare where Su Qian came to claim their lives.

This suddenly frightened the two people who had something to hide.

"Honey, why would we suddenly have such a dream? Is it... is it... a ghost encounter?"

Lin Yin dared not say what came next, but the fear in her eyes said it all.

Zhao Yuan grasped Lin Yin's hand and said, "No, no, so many years have passed, anything could have happened long ago."

"It was just a dream." "But how could we have the same dream?" Lin Yin's hand, which was gripping Zhao Yuan's, was trembling.

"..." Zhao Yuan didn't know either. To be honest, he didn't dare to recall the scene in his dream. Just thinking about it made his heart pound violently, as if it were suffocating him.

And that feeling of being choked and unable to breathe is so uncomfortable and so real.

For a moment, he even doubted whether it was a dream.

"How about we go to Lingyin Temple tomorrow and ask?" Lin Yin suggested.

"But tomorrow is Xiaotang's painting final." As parents, they planned to participate.

"That's in the afternoon, so let's go in the morning."

"Okay, then let's go to Lingyin Temple to ask tomorrow."

……

Across the room, Su Qian, who was with her sleeping daughter, wore a mocking smile.

If you have a clear conscience, there is no need to pray to gods and Buddhas; if you have a guilty conscience, no matter how much you pray to gods and Buddhas, it will be useless.

The next morning, before Zhao Yuan and his family of three had woken up, Su Qian was already accompanying her daughter on her way to school.

At this moment, Xu Qingling and Sasha also arrived in stealth mode.

Since Zhao Lanlan could see Su Qian, she could also see Xu Qingling and Shasha.

Zhao Lanlan bought breakfast to eat on the way, and also bought an extra one to share with Sasha.

Sasha was curious about all kinds of food in the human world. She ate her fill and her eyes were slightly narrowed.

Xu Qingling and Su Qian followed behind the two.

However, Su Qian was half a body length behind Xu Qingling and treated Xu Qingling with great respect.

"You didn't do anything to Zhao Yuan and Lin Yin last night, did you?" Xu Qingling asked.

"...It was just to scare them."

Xu Qingling: That's fine.

As long as they're not dead, it doesn't matter if they're missing an arm or a leg.

After all, neither Zhao Yuan nor Lin Yin are good people.

Just as Su Qian, Xu Qingling, and Sasha were accompanying Zhao Lanlan to school.

On the Zhao family's side, Zhao Yuan and the others had gotten used to waking up when Zhao Lanlan was no longer at home.

They knew that Zhao Lanlan was used to leaving home early.

only……

"Dad, my sister hasn't given me her painting yet. The competition is this afternoon. Is she still working on it?" Zhao Tang was worried about the painting competition that afternoon. It was related to whether she could get extra points on her college entrance exam, and it also affected the attitude of the boy she liked in her class towards her.

The boy she liked, Lu Ming, was very aloof and indifferent to any girl.

But he took the initiative to talk to her, even though it was about the painting.

Lu Ming said he admires her paintings.

Although Zhao Tang knew that these paintings were painted by Zhao Lanlan, they now belonged to her.

Therefore, Lu Ming's affection, and Lu Ming himself, can only belong to her.

As for Zhao Lanlan...

They weren't born to the same mother; they were only sisters in name.

Yes, from the age of 10, Zhao Tang learned from her mother that Zhao Lanlan was born to her father and his deceased ex-wife.

From that time on, Zhao Tang's feelings for her older sister Zhao Lanlan changed.

She felt that Zhao Lanlan was an eyesore in the family and the one who was ruining their family of three.

All of them intentionally or unintentionally isolated Zhao Lanlan in front of her parents.

Zhao Tang was very jealous of Zhao Lanlan's talent in learning and painting.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

Anyway, Mom said that Zhao Lanlan's paintings can only be attributed to her, Zhao Tang. Dad also said that after the college entrance examination, no matter how Zhao Lanlan's grades are, he will either find a way to give her Zhao Lanlan's college entrance examination results or prevent Zhao Lanlan from going to university.

Therefore, Zhao Lanlan can only ever be suppressed by her and used as her tool!
(End of this chapter)