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"Sometime over a thousand years ago."

A princess from Silla traveled a great distance to study in Tang China.

"Then she met a general there who was responsible for her protection."

The two fell in love over time and made a promise to spend their lives together.

"So the general accompanied the princess to Silla to propose marriage to her father."

"Unexpectedly, the King of Silla strongly opposed it and even ordered the general to be killed..."

and then?

Did the general really die like that?

Liu Zhimin stopped writing and frowned in thought.

"Unnie, are you perhaps writing a novel?" Ningning's voice suddenly came from behind.

"Oh my!"

Liu Zhimin was startled and accidentally dropped his pen.

"Oh...when did you arrive? Why didn't you say anything?" She looked embarrassed.

"Is it because Unnie is too engrossed in it~" Ningning took advantage of her inattention and quickly snatched the notebook away. The three of them huddled together to admire it.

Liu Zhimin's expression changed, and she tried to snatch it back, but she was no match for three people. The three of them passed it around and finished reading the contents in no time.

"Is Unnie planning to switch careers and become a novelist?"

"Unnie's been obsessed with history lately, hasn't she? How could she come up with such a cliché plot?"

"It incorporates the plot of a shonen manga, right?"

The three took turns teasing him, making Liu Zhimin so embarrassed he couldn't lift his head. He covered half his face with his hair and quickly held out one hand: "Give it back to me! Or I'll get angry!"

"Hey~ why are you taking it so seriously?"

"We just wanted to give Unnie some feedback, didn't we?"

"Yes, yes, for example, in this part, the reason why the King of Silla wanted to kill the general was too far-fetched. It should be changed to say that the princess was to be sent to Tang to be presented to the emperor, but unexpectedly fell in love with the general who was escorting her..."

"Wait a minute, this plot seems familiar..."

"Isn't this just like the plot of a myth? The one starring Kim Hee-sun!"

"No wonder it seemed cliché at first glance."

The three of them were laughing and joking around, completely unaware of the bulging veins on the captain's forehead!

"Hey!! You guys!" Liu Zhimin tossed his hair back, his face flushed, and glared at the three mischievous kids. "Do you really want to be taught a lesson today??"

While everyone was laughing and joking around in the aespa dorm, Cui Shi'an was sitting at the entrance of a convenience store, eating bread with a worried look on his face.

Two days ago, during a live stream, he received a message from Hera asking him to come and deal with the earthbound spirit. He stayed there for almost two days but found no clues.

The specific location is an old neighborhood near Kyung Hee University.

However, it wasn't officially time to leave work yet, so Cui Shi'an wasn't in a hurry. This time, it was the kind of earthbound spirit that was good at possessing people, so it wasn't easy to find.

Based on the cases mentioned in the "Operation Manual", the behavior patterns of these earthbound spirits are highly dependent on their core obsessions in life, and they will exhibit strong repetition and irrationality.

In other words, he had to act like a human observer, looking among the late-returning residents, the elderly taking walks, and the white-collar workers leaving get off work to find the guy whose behavior was "off".

For example, someone who always searches through the mailbox downstairs at the same time late at night, wearing inappropriate clothes, but can never find anything.

Or perhaps it's someone who appears precisely at the children's slide in the neighborhood every morning, staring motionless at the empty slide, as if waiting for a child who will never come.

Or perhaps, a wanderer who constantly walks back and forth along a fixed route, forever muttering the same vague phrase…

Moreover, the method to eliminate the opponent is very simple: identify the target, approach from behind, tap it on the shoulder, and then tell it that you are dead.

At first glance, it doesn't seem dangerous at all.

But this is like looking for a needle in a haystack. You can't just go door to door and repeat the same patting gesture and saying the same thing, can you?

In that case, he might be more like a bound spirit.

So all Cui Shi'an could do was observe. Today he found a new alley to see if he could find anything.

As the end of the workday approaches, the old neighborhood gradually becomes lively.

Many residents in the area noticed his unfamiliar face when passing by the convenience store, and their wary and scrutinizing gazes made them think he was a thief scouting the store.

Who told him to keep scanning the residents with his eyes? And he was wearing a mask, hiding his face, he didn't look like a good person at all.

So, not long after, as it was getting dark, some residents led community staff to point and whisper about him from a distance.

Then two middle-aged women wearing armbands walked aggressively toward this side.

Seeing that things were going badly, Cui Shi'an quickly opened the live streaming app, propped his phone up on the table, and pretended to be live streaming.

Sure enough, two middle-aged women came over and circled around him. Seeing that he was live-streaming and chatting with someone, and that they couldn't get a word in edgewise, they didn't say anything and turned to leave.

Seeing that this method worked, Cui Shi'an simply stopped turning it off and pointed his phone at the intersection, where it was easier to observe, to continue his surveillance.

This area is not far from Dongdaemun District, separated only by an internal loop road, so there are many tenants working there, and you can even occasionally hear a few words of Chinese.

Thinking of this, Choi Si-an unconsciously looked towards the direction of Dongdaemun District.

Is my "little sister" really over there?

Is she looking at me right now?

On the other side, Liu Zhimin also received a live broadcast reminder pushed by the backend.

As soon as she entered, she saw Cui Shi'an's profile as he gazed into the distance.

The angle startled her. What was this guy doing?

Are you posing and trying to look cool?

She glanced at the comments below, and indeed, several people were commenting, "The streamer looks so handsome from this angle!" and "He'd be even more handsome if he took off his mask!"

Pshaw, handsome my ass!

Liu Zhimin looked somewhat dismissive, and a resentful voice even sang in his mind—you people have never seen him when he was truly handsome!

But where is he? Outdoors?

Liu Zhimin curiously examined the phone screen and looked at the goods on the shelves in the glass window behind him, which seemed to be in front of a private convenience store.

Why aren't you saying anything?

Just then, a rustling sound came from the background, and a thin middle-aged man came out of the store with a broom, seemingly cleaning.

Cui Shi'an snapped out of his reverie and remembered that his senior classmate was also renting a room, so he started chatting with the landlord.

"There are many landlords around here, offering both full rentals and monthly rentals. It depends on your budget."

The boss was also very talkative. He said that if he had come two days earlier, he would have another vacant apartment under his name, with two bedrooms, one bathroom, and all utilities (water, electricity, gas) connected. If he paid annually, he could even waive half of the deposit.

So you came here to rent a room? Liu Zhimin suddenly realized, but at the same time felt a little disgusted. Was he in such a hurry to live with a woman?

He even came all by himself to look at apartments!

At that moment, the boss went in, and the phone screen suddenly shook, revealing Choi Si-an's face right in front of him:

"You're all probably curious about why I'm doing a live stream, right?"

His smiling eyes were visible above the mask:

"Actually, I'm here today to capture a bound spirit~"