Chapter 254 The Nightmare Begins
Just like this moment.
The hope that one knows is futile but still holds on to is like a fish that has been fished out of the river and placed on the mud, its scales dried out by the sun and it is dying.
"Shushu, my Shushu...my daughter..." Ma's mother collapsed and covered her cheeks with her hands. Tears flowed uncontrollably from between her fingers, dripping onto the bright red coat, staining it with deep red spots.
The guests at other tables looked at this scene in astonishment, wondering why she was suddenly like this. They thought that even if they were feeling sad about their daughter's marriage, they shouldn't be so excited.
"It's okay, it's okay. She was just emotional for a moment..." Miao Yue explained to those curious eyes.
Lin Hanzhi said, "Let's talk somewhere else. It's really not convenient here."
The newlyweds will first toast to the main table, so even if a few people at the main table temporarily leave, it will not cause any problems.
Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi took the two elders of the Ma family away from their seats and came to an empty box next door.
Father Ma hugged his sobbing wife, tears streaming down his face, "Master Qi, is that really not our Shushu? But some of her habits are the same as Shushu's..."
When Ma Shu just returned home, he and his wife had actually discovered some differences in Ma Shu. For example, Ma Shu almost wore Ma Shu's mother's slippers by mistake. Also, after returning home, the first thing she did was not to wipe the wheels of the suitcase clean, but to directly drag the mud-stained suitcase across the clean tile floor.
This was something that Ma Shu, who had a mild obsession with mysophobia, would never do in the past.
At first, Ma's parents thought that their daughter had gone through something or encountered some difficulties, which was why she was inattentive to everything. But soon, they found that their daughter was different in every way.
If it weren't for the fact that they looked exactly the same, they would have suspected that their daughter had been replaced by someone else.
But every time when their doubts reached their peak, Ma Shu would timely reveal some of the habits she had developed since childhood, almost deliberately expressing in this way "I am still Ma Shu, I am still your daughter."
Bai Yu was like a bad breeder. When he saw his pet was about to starve to death, he would feed it just enough food to sustain its life, and then feed it again the next time the pet was dying.
Every time the Ma family’s parents wanted to call the police, they would hold back because of that little bit of “feed”.
After a long time, they even began to doubt whether their memory was wrong, or whether children would change as they grew up. Since Ma Shu went to college, they had only had contact with her during the winter and summer vacations... or maybe she just changed her previous habits.
Ma's mother wiped the tears from her face, and soon new tears began to fall. She said, "When I look at her, sometimes I feel that she is my Shushu, and sometimes I feel that she is terribly unfamiliar. Sometimes she looks at me with eyes that are exactly the same as Shushu's, but sometimes her eyes are terribly unfamiliar, and she looks at me as if I were a dead object."
Qi Gu handed them the tissues on the dining table.
Lin Hanzhi took the initiative to say: "Calm down first, we will tell you the details of Ma Shu when you calm down."
Ma's mother was stunned, her eyes slowly lit up: "You, you mean Shushu is still alive? Right?!"
Father Ma also looked up in astonishment, rubbing his palms repeatedly with his hands: "Really?"
Qi Gu stepped forward and said, "I learned about Ma Shu's situation on the way here. I asked her roommate for her horoscope and she did a fortune telling. The fortune telling showed that she was between life and death, and her soul had left her body."
After meeting Ma's parents, he saw clearly the silk threads on "Ma Shu", black and red. The black represented the grudge between Bai Yu and Ma's parents, and the red represented the blood relationship between Ma Shu and her parents.
Therefore, Qi Gu guessed that Ma Shu's soul had not dissipated yet and was still in her body, but she was unable to control her body. The familiar habits that Ma's parents saw were caused by Bai Yu deliberately giving up power occasionally, allowing Ma Shu to control the body for a short time, which gave Ma's parents an illusion.
After hearing this, Ma's parents were ecstatic, but soon, Ma's mother became confused again: "But...but if Bai Yu was really that crazy, why would she spare my daughter's life? Does she have some conspiracy waiting for us?"
Qi Gu lowered his eyes and answered after a moment: "She enjoys seeing pain and creating pain."
Bai Yu has plenty of ways to kill a soul, but that would be too boring. So she kept Ma Shu's soul, making her unable to control her body, watching herself quickly fall in love and get married with a stranger, and watching her parents worry about her transformation.
At the same time, Bai Yu also felt happy about Ma's parents' painful struggles and repeated doubts.
It was just a small action, but it made her feel pain that was worth savoring. It was truly wonderful and could be regarded as a delicate side dish before eating Fang Yuanwang's main meal.
Listening to Qi Gu's words, Ma's parents' faces turned pale. Ma's mother was so excited that she could hardly speak. Ma's father kept calming her down, and then she could hear Ma's mother struggling to find her voice. She said in a trembling voice: "Shushu told me that she had a crush on a boy in college. Before she went home, she said she would go to the boy's city to confess her love. Later, she came back and didn't seem right... I thought she failed to confess and was traumatized. Now it seems that she couldn't get on that plane at all."
Not only was she unable to confess her feelings, she even lost control of her body and could only watch as she "fell in love" with someone else.
No wonder... Bai Yu didn't kill her. Ma Shu was such a great pastime for Bai Yu. As Qi Gu thought about it, his face grew colder.
*
At the end of midsummer, with cicadas chirping noisily, Ma Shu prepared to pick up her ticket and check in to go to the city where the boy she liked lived, to say goodbye to her four-year secret love.
She had been accumulating courage for four years and didn't want to have any regrets no matter what.
However, just as she turned the corner, she accidentally bumped into someone. She hurriedly apologized, but instead of saying "it's okay", the person just lowered his head and continued walking forward.
Soon, Ma Shu discovered that her ID card and plane ticket were missing.
She was told that she had already boarded the plane and could not change her ticket. She just thought that there was a problem with the aviation system. She was a very good-tempered person, even a bit stubborn, and was only lively in front of people close to her. Therefore, she did not argue with the staff and planned to buy a ticket for the next day to go to her original destination.
But that day, after entering the hotel, she smelled the strong scent of jasmine beside the bed, and then saw a distorted figure on the LCD TV screen.
She suddenly felt dizzy, the world was spinning, and all her senses became extremely intense, stimulating her to the point of losing consciousness.
When she woke up again, she found that she was no longer in the hotel, but at her destination where she could not get on the plane.
There was even another man next to her, looking at her with a smile.
She was terrified by this strange scene and subconsciously wanted to escape and figure it all out, but she found that she could not control her body. Her soul was clamoring to escape, but her body remained motionless in the same place.
The bookish, gentle, and handsome guy wearing glasses opposite her said to her, "You left your coat on the plane yesterday."
Ma Shu felt a splitting headache and her body was numb and stiff... She thought, plane? But she didn't even get on the plane!
Who was on that plane? She clearly stayed in the hotel yesterday.
But she heard herself smiling and saying, "It's mine. Thank you, Mr. Fang. Can I treat you to a meal as a thank you?"
Ma Shu’s nightmare officially began.
It took her a long time to realize that her body had been taken away and her soul imprisoned.
That person was Bai Yu, who bumped into her at the airport.
Bai Yu hurriedly stole her plane ticket, transformed into her appearance, boarded the plane and met Fang Yuanwang. He also left a backup plan by her side and occupied her body in the hotel so that she could not reveal her identity.
Ma Shu was in a trance, recalling that before she fainted in the hotel, she vaguely heard Bai Yu laughing, but her voice made her scalp tingle.
"Ah, there's an unexpected surprise... Then I won't disperse your soul yet."
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