Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

That is, the moment Su Ming decided to develop the character.

The computer screen suddenly brightened, and an astonishing white light burst forth.

The next second, a violent force swept over.

Before Su Ming could utter a single cry of surprise, his flesh, bones, and consciousness were instantly crushed.

Wait for the scattered consciousness to return.

He opened his eyes, only to be greeted by an exquisitely beautiful face.

The girl smiled and reached out to gently help him up: "You're awake."

Su Ming nodded subconsciously.

This girl is so pretty.

Even though he was only 11 years old and had no interest in women, he was completely captivated by the girl in front of him and couldn't take his eyes off her.

A pure and naive thought even popped into my head: I wish I could get her to play games with me.

The thought flashed through his mind, and he was suddenly jolted.

Why does this face look so familiar the more I look at it?

What the hell!

Isn't she the ghost school beauty that I just chose in "Under Destiny"?

He was so captivated by her beauty that he completely overlooked her deep, dark eyes, devoid of any light.

"Ghost, you're a ghost!"

A bone-chilling cold instantly shot through Su Ming's heart, causing him to freeze in fright and hastily shrink back.

Only then did he realize where he was.

An ordinary classroom.

The desks and chairs were arranged neatly, and the blackboard still bore traces of the lessons.

But the classroom was dark and gloomy, with the windows tightly closed and the curtains drawn shut, so not a single ray of sunlight could get in.

The air was filled with a faint smell of blood, decay, and mold.

The girl smiled and asked, "Are you afraid of ghosts?"

Su Ming nodded timidly, his voice still carrying a hint of childishness and panic: "Mom said that ghosts are evil spirits that specifically harm people."

On the contrary, the girl's smile grew even gentler, and her radiant face made him frequently lose his composure.

Why can a ghost be so breathtakingly beautiful?

Is it a ghost?

"But I won't hurt you."

She leaned down slightly, gazing at him tenderly.

"So now, are you still afraid of me?"

Su Ming scratched his head and asked nervously, "You really won't hurt me?"

"Of course." The girl nodded. "Don't forget, I'm the character you raised."

These words instantly awakened him, and the fear in his heart was quickly replaced by intense curiosity.

He quickly looked around, his eyes lighting up as he asked, "So... this is the game world?"

"My God!"

For him, who was only 11 years old, this was simply amazing.

No language can describe this wonderful feeling.

"Yes."

The girl nodded and said in the gentlest and most solemn tone, "Hello, my name is Wen Qi."

Su Ming hesitated for half a second, then took the initiative to extend his small hand: "Hello, school beauty sister, my name is Su Ming, and I am 11 years old."

Wen Qi's eyes were filled with tenderness.

The system pop-ups in front of her were constantly jumping around.

[Affection +1, Current (Su Ming): Fear (1/100)]

[Affection +1, Current (Su Ming): Fear (2/100)]

"I'll take you to play."

Wen Qi took his little hand and walked towards the door.

"This is Heng'an Middle School. There are many ghosts here, just like your sister. Are you scared?"

Su Ming's expression was somewhat subtle.

He's not so afraid of ghosts anymore.

He felt a little uncomfortable when he heard the words "Heng An Middle School".

Wen Qi seemed to see through his thoughts and gently comforted him, "I know, children are naturally playful, it's normal for you to dislike school."

"But learning can also be a very enjoyable thing."

"Just like playing video games, that's also a way to learn knowledge."

Push open the classroom door.

Wen Qi glanced at the ceiling and saw a humanoid black shadow fall from the top and then lie obediently on the ground in a spread-eagle position.

Wen Qi stopped, leading Su Ming by the hand, and asked softly, "Your sister is asking you, how do you think it was formed?"

Su Ming stared blankly at the dark figure on the ground.

"You see, it has no physical form; it's just a shadow."

"After someone dies, their shadow breaks free from the shackles of the body and life and death, awakens on its own, and becomes a shadow ghost."

Wen Qi looked at the Shadow Ghost.

Without uttering a word, the Shadow Ghost instantly transformed into a small black dog.

The puppy wagged its fluffy tail and happily circled around Su Ming.

Su Ming immediately took a liking to this special little dog.

"Sister School Beauty, can I keep it as a pet?"

Wen Qi smiled and gently agreed, "Of course."

"This is a gift from your sister to you as we first meet."

Blue Star.

The crimson vortex swirling in the sea gradually dissipated.

It never fully emerged, leaving only a ring of bloody traces where it had once appeared.

Yu Mengnian appeared at the Lychee Hotel.

She looked at the poster at the elevator entrance that had been restored to its original appearance.

The groom on the poster is still blurry, but the bride is clearly visible.

She was a woman dressed in a traditional Chinese red wedding gown.

Her face was covered by a veil, her figure was slender, and her posture was dignified.

But it remains just an ordinary poster, a strange object that has not yet recovered.

Fifteen minutes later, Chen Zhiwei arrived.

She did not find Yu Mengnian.

She just frowned as she looked at the perfectly intact, eerie poster, and then answered Zhou Zhengyang's call.

I learned over the phone that the blood-red vortex in the sea had disappeared.

hang up the phone.

Chen Zhiwei murmured to himself, "The other timeline has disappeared."

"Now, only the remnants of 2012 and 2019 remain in the world."

According to Yu Mengnian's memory.

Only after Su Ming chooses Shen Wanyu will the bloody traces in the sea completely disappear.

As for the wedding poster in front of me.

It has some connection with Tangtang (a type of sugar), but that's about it.

One day, it will fully recover, following the traces of Tangtang.

It's not Tangtang (a type of sweet candy), but it's still considered Tangtang.

For example: ghost bride, skeleton bride, or poster bride.

at the same time.

Xu Qinghe looked at her inner world in disbelief.

After the rampant evil thoughts that had previously surged outwards, what returned was an overwhelming sense of regret and a near-collapse of self-blame.

The endless, malicious whispers in my ears transformed into sobs of repentance and weeping.

"If I had held back then, this might not have happened."

"What have I done?"

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to."

The madness, malice, and violence have all faded away.

For the first time, a faint but steadfast ray of light shone through this desolate abyss of the human heart.

The enormous, grotesque shadow suspended high in the sky slowly twisted and reshaped, transforming into a giant human face covered in tear stains.

Tears fell, turning into a gentle drizzle, sprinkling across the desolate land of my heart.

The blooming flower of evil gradually withered in the rain.

On the barren, cracked land, tender green grass sprouts, bringing forth a long-lost vitality.

Evil thoughts are only temporary, but evil deeds require a lifetime of repentance and atonement.

At this moment, Xu Qinghe finally distinguished between evil thoughts and evil actions.

She slowly squatted down, silently shedding tears, her shoulders trembling slightly.

From the very beginning, she made one mistake.

She believed that evil thoughts were the same as evil actions.

She once stubbornly believed that the evil thoughts that arose in her heart were unforgivable sins.

Therefore, she lived in constant fear and caution, disguising herself as a flawless trophy, and living as the most obedient and sensible girl in everyone's eyes.

But she forgot that the more unrestrained and tolerant she was, the more likely she was to breed evil thoughts in the hearts of those around her, allowing countless evil flowers to grow unchecked.

If she had dared to face her true self as a child, and dared to say "no" loudly to things she didn't want to do or things that were unfair, everything might have been completely different.

The ability to hear minds is a terrifying, idealistic, conceptual level of power.

Once you hear the evil thoughts in someone's heart and accept that this is their true nature, you will subtly push them toward succumbing to evil.

The longer you spend time together, the more deeply ingrained this distorted influence becomes.

I vaguely remember.

When she was little, her father would take her to catch butterflies in the suburbs. Her mother would think to herself, "Instead of catching butterflies, we should go home and read more books."

Although that's what she thought, she still smiled and joined in the father and daughter's playful antics.

Those were some of Xu Qinghe's few happy memories from her childhood.

But as she grew older, she became more sensible and increasingly entangled in the negative effects of the power of hearing, gradually falling into the abyss.

A feeling called "regret" surfaced in her heart.

She screamed inwardly, "If I could do it all over again, if I could go back to 2004, I would rather never have awakened to listen to my heart."

Man-made disasters continue to occur one after another on Earth.

The regret in my heart is growing.

The figure reappeared.

This time, her figure was no longer blurry.

Instead, it was clearly visible that she was a stunningly beautiful young woman.

She arrived bathed in light, extending her hand once more in invitation: "Would you like to join me in creating a new world?"

With tears blurring her vision, Xu Qinghe looked up and asked, "What can I do?"

"You don't need to do anything," the girl said, shaking her head. "Because you've already done very well."

That's a terrifying statement.

That's really terrifying.

That invitation was never a question, but a statement.

Whether you agree or not, everything you do in the future will be nourishment for me to create a new world.

Endless regret takes root in the earth.

The colossal flower of evil on Earth, having absorbed too much regret, began to wither.

A drop of water called "regret" fell onto the vast blue planet.

It's like a drop of water washing away the dust that has long covered the crystal world.

When the glass bead becomes clean again.

The dust has settled, time has flowed backward, and we've returned to 2004.

Xu Qinghe was three years old that year.

She awakened her hearing, but never activated it.

In 2012, an unknown blood-red pattern appeared in the central South China Sea.

The Bureau of Abnormalities has sent people to investigate on multiple occasions.

It wasn't until Yu Mengnian said, "No need to pay attention, it will dissipate on its own," that this sensational maritime anomaly finally came to an end.

In 2019, the Lychee Hotel was hit by a major fire, and strange things have happened ever since.

However, since the source of the strange phenomenon could not be found, the Lychee Hotel could only be designated as an abnormal area and then sealed off.

In 2020, Xu Qinghe was maliciously hit by a private car while shopping and died from her injuries at the young age of nineteen.

An investigation revealed that the driver was acting out of pure malice to retaliate against society and intentionally caused injury.

If Xu Qinghe had activated her Mind Listening ability back then, she might have been able to hear it earlier.

Did she regret it at the moment she died?

No one knows.

In the same year, devastating news came from the entertainment industry.

Actress Cheng Yao was maliciously splashed with sulfuric acid, resulting in severe burns to her face and disfigurement, causing an uproar online and causing heartache to countless people.

2021 years.

Yu Mengnian's mind wandered more and more frequently.

Fragmented, unfamiliar images often flashed through her mind, fleeting and indistinct, leaving a vague sense of déjà vu.

Therefore, she specifically asked Chen Zhiwei about it.

Upon hearing this, Chen Zhiwei felt somewhat lost, and the pessimism in her eyes grew stronger.

Because she felt that the world was like a meticulously designed script, and everyone was living according to that script.

An extremely terrifying thought took root in her mind: this world may have been a lie from the very beginning.

In 2023, bad news struck the entertainment industry again.

Three years ago, Cheng Yao, whose appearance was completely disfigured, ultimately chose to end her life and passed away in sorrow, leaving countless netizens sighing with regret.

There are also hidden rumors circulating: Before Cheng Yao committed suicide, she personally dealt with all the masterminds who harmed her and planned the acid attack. When she died, she was wearing red clothes, and her resentment was so great that even the Bureau of Abnormal Affairs was alarmed.

In 2024, Su Ming returned to Pingjiang City, moved into Lanyue Community, and successfully entered Mingde High School, starting a new life.

2026, April 3.

Su Ming, who had just celebrated his birthday, lay on his bed scrolling through his phone aimlessly.

Soon, he was drawn to an app called "Raising Ghosts".

Download and open the game; there are three playable characters to choose from.

The first was a ghost bride, the second a cursed doll, and the third a ghost school beauty.

He scanned them one by one, finally fixing his gaze on the school beauty.

She has a good figure, good looks, good temperament, and is the right age; she's very appealing.

"I choose you, you devilish school beauty."

The moment the decision was made, Yu Mengnian suddenly opened her eyes in the capital city, a thousand miles away.

Another new fragment of memory flooded into my mind, like a hazy old dream.

When I woke up, I couldn't remember anything, only fragmented traces remained.

But this time, she remembered a park.

The park is called White Spirit Park.

In an instant, she flickered and disappeared.

2026 3 Month 27 Day.

An urgent phone call from Gu Yan immediately alerted Zhou Zhengyang, who was in Beijing, and Lin Huaimin, who was recuperating.

The two immediately set off, taking a plane to Pingjiang City at top speed.

On this very day, Su Ming's name was officially entered into the top-secret files of the Anomaly Management Bureau.