Yingniang gave me a few more instructions, telling me not to go out and to pretend I didn't hear or see anything, no matter what I did.

After hanging up the phone, I took down the paper wind chime from the door, closed the door, and went inside.

Yingniang's shop is very small; there's simply no room for a small bed outside.

Behind the curtain was a warehouse, containing a coffin and paper figures and horses.

However, it can fit a simple bed.

Knowing I would be staying here permanently, I made preparations in advance by buying a second-hand folding cot.

It's not expensive, only fifteen yuan.

Having worked at a funeral home for so many years, I have no qualms about sleeping next to a coffin.

In the past, when Su Mingyang and I were on night watch, we could still chat and laugh even with several corpses lying next to us.

It's just sleeping next to an empty coffin, nothing serious.

But for some reason, I realized something was wrong as soon as I lay down.

When I was at the funeral home before, I lay next to several corpses and didn't feel anything was wrong.

But now, lying next to this empty coffin, I feel particularly oppressed.

I tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.

The feeling was strange, like...

Someone was watching me from the side.

Is it just my imagination?

I turned to look at the paper figures of a boy and a girl, and the paper horse beside me.

I noticed they were all facing me.

Is it because of them?

I got up and turned the paper boy, paper girl, and paper horse around so that they were facing away from me.

As soon as I lay down, that feeling of being watched returned.

I turned around and looked at those things.

Their heads were facing the wall, and they didn't turn their heads on their own like in the movies.

If it's not them, then who is it?

Could it be an empty coffin?

Or rather...

This coffin is not empty!

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I went to get injections all day today, so there won't be any tonight. This is the only chapter I'll write. I'm so sorry, I'll make up for the missed chapters slowly. I'm so sorry, my darlings.