Room 201.

Lin Shu lay on her side with her eyes closed, facing outwards. The old house's bed was only 1.5 meters long, and she slept on the far side while Huang Yingzong lay on the other side, with a clear dividing line between them.

Thanks to Shekh's arrangement for Fu Guan to accompany Yao Shu, her big fight with Huang Yingzong came naturally, and the cold war avoided physical contact between the couple.

With her burdens lifted, Lin Shu felt drowsy as she lay in bed late at night, her consciousness gradually fading until she unknowingly fell asleep.

She didn't know how much time had passed when she vaguely felt a gaze fixed on her, its presence so strong that it was impossible to ignore, and the gaze was coming from right next to her bed.

She even sensed that the gaze came from above, and that it was a standing person looking down at her.

If the enemy doesn't move, I won't move either. Lin Shu didn't open her eyes, testing her patience against the unknown creature that was staring intently at her.

After a long time, she realized that this thing was too patient; she couldn't compete with it.

She wanted to open her eyes, but Lin Shu knew that if she did, it would be either a fight or death. After much deliberation, she pretended to turn over and face Huang Yingzong.

Lin Shu opened her eyes a crack and her heart sank. There was no one on the other side of the bed; Huang Yingzong was not there.

Although she had fallen asleep in the middle of the night, Lin Shu was a light sleeper and had not heard the sound of the door opening or closing. She figured that the thing that was staring at her was probably Huang Yingzong himself.

A normal person wouldn't stand silently by the bed and stare at someone; there's definitely something wrong with him.

Lin Shu rolled over again, taking advantage of the change in position to prepare for a sudden attack from under the covers.

Huang Yingzong didn't move. She turned back, and that gaze fell on her face again. Lin Shu covered her face with her arm, using her body to shield herself as she opened her eyes again.

The room was very dark. Huang Yingzong stood there with his legs pressed against the edge of the bed. Lin Shu rolled her eyes and glanced at the dressing table opposite, where there was a mirror, making it easy for her to observe Huang Yingzong.

A flash of lightning illuminated the scene, and in that instant, Lin Shu saw a person facing her in the mirror. The person had dark eye sockets and disheveled hair. It wasn't Huang Yingzong; it was the woman with the severed tongue and blindness from the previous night!

At that moment, she was standing in the mirror, facing herself, with her arms bent and her hands resting on something. Lin Shu quickly closed her eyes and reconstructed her posture in her mind. She immediately broke out in a cold sweat. She was standing behind Huang Yingzong, and that gesture was exactly like her hands on his shoulders, helping him walk!

Lin Shu's mind raced as she tried to come up with a solution. She had always been very strong in physical skills and combat, and had almost never lost a fight with her bare hands. However, she sometimes couldn't think straight, and now she really didn't know what to do.

She had hit this woman at night; she was elusive and impossible to catch, she was a jinx to her.

As I was pondering, the ornate iron gate outside the small building creaked open. Aunt Qu, who had left after dinner, was returning late at night, and the noise of opening the gate startled many things.

The woman in the mirror disappeared, and even Huang Yingzong's body turned around and left.

Lin Shu clenched her fists tightly, not daring to relax. She heard dragging footsteps approach the door of 201, then open and close the door.

Huang Yingzong left the room alone.

Taking a breath, fearing it was a trick to deceive her, Lin Shu continued to pretend to be asleep, counting sheep in her mind.

Two hours later, she felt it was almost dawn, so she slowly opened her eyes.

A baby face with wide eyes and a smile was right in front of her, nose to nose, less than two centimeters apart. Huang Yingzong kept a ninety-degree angle bent over and stared at her closely for two hours.

Lin Shu felt goosebumps all over her body and her hair stand on end in an instant.

"You're awake?"

"...Hmm, you woke up so early?" Lin Shu's voice was barely audible.

"I couldn't sleep, so I got up." The moment she spoke, Huang Yingzong's eerie smile vanished, and he reverted to his sunny, puppy-like demeanor, showing no sign of anything amiss.

He walked back to the other side of the bed, lifted the covers and lay down, saying, "Finally, I've woken you up."

Lin Shu almost choked on her breath. What did he mean by that?

What does it mean to finally wake her up?

Lin Shu looked at Huang Yingzong, but he had already lain down and closed his eyes to sleep.

Huang Yingzong was always there, so who was it that opened the door and went out just now? Was it that woman? Or was she hallucinating?

Unable to get an answer, Lin Shu had no intention of resting. She didn't want to stay with this strange person, but it was still dark. If it really was that woman who went out, she might be safer staying indoors than going out.

Unable to sleep, Lin Shu sat up and leaned against the bed, watching Huang Yingzong until dawn.

As the first rays of sunlight streamed in, Lin Shu opened the door and left room 201.

The other people in the rooms were still asleep, and the building was very quiet. As soon as she went downstairs, she saw Aunt Qu walking in the courtyard, walking backwards and patting her back with her hands, just like the aunties who exercise in the park in the morning.

Lin Shu greeted her and heard someone coming down the stairs. She turned her head and saw Fu Guan coming down with Yao Shu and Jiang Xiaowan.

Jiang Xiaowan, beaming with pride, used the points she had earned from Fu Guan to treat each of them to a cup of hot soy milk.

Fu Guan asked Lin Shu, "Was anything unusual about you last night?"

“Many.” She told the three of them about her experience last night and pointed out Huang Yingzong’s unusual behavior.

"Keep an eye on things," Fu Guan told Yao Shu. "The blind woman is with Huang Yingzong, and we don't know where the headless man is. You should follow me during the day too."

Yao Shu agreed and drank a cup of hot soy milk.

At 6:30 a.m., the players gradually came out and gathered on the first floor, including Huang Yingzong.

Around 7 o'clock, Shehe and Shi Jinzhe were the last to come downstairs. Fu Guan clicked his tongue and wrote a note.

[You look like you've had your life force drained for ten years by a female demon.]

As Shi Jinzhe glanced at the scroll, he thought, "Isn't that just absorbing his life force? With Shekh's character's ability to absorb people's life force, if this happens a few more times, he'll die young."

When he looked in the mirror in the morning, he even suspected that his character had died from being drained of energy. Ghost stories had nothing to do with him; he died from lust.