Chapter 122 Someone is spying outside the window on the seventeenth floor
Huo Bingqing was sitting facing the window. It was already dark outside, but the curtains hadn't been drawn yet because it hadn't been dark for long.
Just as she was about to play the violin, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure outside the window. She looked up and took a closer look, and sure enough, she saw a man's face reflected in the dark windowpane.
"who!"
Huo Bingqing's heart tightened, and she stared at the face outside the window, her face pale. "Who are you? What are you doing watching me outside my house? Do you believe I'll call the police?"
She spoke loudly, her voice trembling slightly.
But the man outside the window was still staring at her. As Huo Bingqing trembled with fear, he suddenly laughed, then sank down and disappeared.
The moment the man disappeared, Huo Bingqing collapsed to the ground, covered in cold sweat, her heart pounding.
The viewers in the live stream were curious about what had happened when they saw her reaction.
[Bingqing, what's going on? Did a bad guy come to your house?]
[I remember Huo Bingqing filmed a video in this very spot. She mentioned before that this wall faces a window. What was she seeing outside the window?]
[Could it be a ghost?]
Huo Bingqing was still lying on the ground, with no mind to read the comments from the audience, nor the strength to answer their questions.
Her mind was filled with thoughts of the man outside the window.
Suddenly, she realized that her home was on the seventeenth floor, and there was no balcony outside that window, not even a place to put the air conditioner unit. How did that man get up there?!
Thinking of this, Huo Bingqing's pupils shrank slightly, a chill ran through her body, and her scalp tingled.
She sat on the floor for a while to recover before getting up and quickly drawing all the curtains in the house.
Even after doing all that, she still felt a chill run down her spine, as if something was watching her from the shadows.
Fortunately, Huo Bingqing's boyfriend came home from get off work not long after, and with another person in the house, her anxiety eased somewhat.
However, she wasn't in the mood for live streaming today, so she just told the viewers in the live stream and ended the broadcast.
The audience felt confused, especially by Huo Bingqing's reaction during the live broadcast, which seemed rather strange.
In the restaurant's private room, Yun Shu sat next to An Yuexin and also saw Huo Bingqing's live stream.
Seeing that Huo Bingqing quickly ended the broadcast, An Yuexin turned off her phone and asked curiously, "Yun Shu, what's wrong with her?"
Yun Shu said calmly, "I guess he saw something that he can't usually see."
"You mean... a ghost?"
An Yuexin couldn't help but lower her voice.
"Um."
Yun Shu turned to look at her, "If you want to see it, take the amulet, and you'll be able to see it soon. But remember one thing: don't make eye contact with the ghost."
If you make eye contact with a ghost, it will know you've seen it. If you encounter a particularly malicious one, it might pester you and play pranks.
An Yuexin quickly shook her head, "No, I don't want to see it! The footage from the last video terrified me. I couldn't bear to see those things in real life!"
"Then you should take good care of the amulet."
While Yun Shu was talking to An Yuexin, she noticed that the other girls were also looking at her, so she said to them, "You guys should also keep your amulets on lately. It's best to buy some jade amulets so they won't get damaged when you take them out of the shower."
Once the amulet has dispelled the resentment within you, you won't see anything you shouldn't see anymore even after you take it.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
An Yuexin took out her amulet and looked at it. "Mine isn't made of jade. Could you make me a jade one? I'll definitely wear it all the time! I won't even take it off when I shower!"
Yun Shu said, "Jade is more expensive, and you need to buy good jade material for me yourself so I can consecrate it and make it into a talisman for you."
“No problem!” An Yuexin said, “I happen to have a jade pendant at home, the material is quite good, I will deliver it to your shop tomorrow.”
"good."
After An Yuexin said that, the others also wanted Yun Shu to help them make a jade protective amulet.
Yun Shu has been getting quite a few orders lately, and she didn't really want to take any more, so she said, "I've seen the amulets you got from other places, and they all work. There's no need to spend money to have me make one."
"Yun Shu, we just think you're more reliable! Besides, who would complain about having more life-saving supplies? Money can be earned back, but if you lose your life, you lose everything!"
“Yes, that makes sense. Yunshu, why don’t you make one for us too? You just said the cost of consecrating the jade is 30,000, how about I give you 60,000?”
“Then I’ll take 60,000, and I’ll bring the jade myself.”
Yun Shu: "..."
Yun Shu really didn't want to agree, but they offered just too much! She was short of money and couldn't refuse this big order!
"Alright, then you can use the amulets you have now for now. Once I've finished making the paper offerings, I'll make jade amulets for you."
The others breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that she had agreed.
An hour later, after they finished dinner, An Yuexin drove Yun Shu home.
As soon as Yun Shu got home, she started working overtime on paper offerings because the talent show finals were starting in a few days, and she wouldn't be able to concentrate on making things.
At Huo Bingqing's home, after her boyfriend came home, she hesitated for a long time before finally telling him that she had seen someone outside the window.
"You're saying you saw someone peeping from outside?"
Huo Bingqing's boyfriend walked to the window, pulled back the curtains, and looked out in surprise. "But we're on the seventeenth floor, and there's nowhere to stand outside the window. If someone were to peek, where would they stand?"
"I have no idea."
Huo Bingqing herself couldn't understand it either, "But I really saw someone, I'm not lying to you."
Her boyfriend came over and looked at her with concern. "Have you been too tired lately and are you hallucinating? You look terrible lately, and you don't have much of an appetite. You didn't eat tonight."
"I……"
Huo Bingqing did feel that her health had deteriorated recently. She often felt dizzy and lightheaded at home even when she wasn't doing anything.
She had never experienced anything like this before.
Could it be that she was just too tired and was hallucinating?
Her boyfriend's voice came through again, "Don't work today. Eat something and rest first. I'll go with you to your medical check-up tomorrow."
"All right."
Huo Bingqing was about to go to the bedroom to rest when she noticed that her boyfriend had opened the curtains on that window but hadn't closed them properly, and she saw...
"ah!"
Huo Bingqing felt the hairs on her body stand on end. She screamed in terror and pointed tremblingly to the window, "Look! He's spying on me again!"
"What!"
Her boyfriend was startled by her sudden scream and quickly turned to look at the window, also picking up a vase from the table.
But when he looked in the direction Huo Bingqing was pointing, he saw nothing; the window only reflected his and Huo Bingqing's shadows.
"Nobody's here."
Her boyfriend glanced at Huo Bingqing with a puzzled look. Seeing her pale face and terrified expression, he walked to the window and opened it.
Huo Bingqing rushed over and shouted, "No, don't open it! He's still outside!"
But her boyfriend was quick; he had already opened the window and looked out in confusion. "Nobody's here. We told you we're on the seventeenth floor. Who would dare climb up here?"
He turned to look at Huo Bingqing, only to see her still staring out the window in terror, trembling all over, muttering repeatedly, "Don't open the window, don't open the window, he's still outside!"
"Bingqing! You're hallucinating!"
No! He's right outside!
Huo Bingqing was on the verge of a breakdown. She snatched the vase from her boyfriend's hand and was about to smash it outside.
Fortunately, her boyfriend reacted quickly and snatched the vase back, saying, "Are you crazy? You'll kill a passerby if you smash it like that!"
Huo Bingqing anxiously said to her boyfriend, "He's still watching us. He's definitely a peeping tom. You should call the police!"
"You're crazy."
Her boyfriend looked out the window again, but still saw nothing. However, Huo Bingqing insisted that there was someone standing outside the window watching them.
He suddenly remembered that he had a security camera installed at home, so he went and retrieved the surveillance footage.
Seeing that the figure outside the window had disappeared, Huo Bingqing closed the window and pulled the curtains tightly shut.
After a while, her boyfriend said to her, "Bingqing, come and check the home security camera footage. The security camera just happened to capture the situation at this window."
The two watched the surveillance footage together, which showed that there was indeed no one outside the window.
Huo Bingqing felt a chill run down her spine, "But I really saw it..."
At this moment, she finally remembered what Yun Shu had said: that her soul had been taken away and that there was resentment from evil spirits in her body, which would not only cause her health to deteriorate, but also make her more susceptible to encountering unclean things!
Huo Bingqing's eyes widened suddenly, and she muttered to herself, "Could what Yun Shu said be true? Did I really attract some unclean thing? Otherwise, why can't you see it, and why can't the surveillance cameras capture it, but I can see it several times!"
The incident of the soul-stealing incident caused a great stir online, and Huo Bingqing's boyfriend also knew some of it.
Seeing Huo Bingqing's condition, his expression was complicated. "That matter is indeed strange. Should we find a master to take a look?"
Huo Bingqing felt somewhat embarrassed. "I've already criticized Yun Shu online, calling her a charlatan. If I go to see her now, wouldn't that be a slap in my own face?"
"You don't necessarily have to find her. You can find other masters, or go to a famous temple to pray and ask for a talisman for protection."
Huo Bingqing pursed her lips and remained silent.
She thought for a while before saying, "Maybe our house isn't very clean. I'll move to my mom's place for a while tomorrow, and you can find a new place for us to move to."
Their apartment was rented, and the lease was about to expire, so Huo Bingqing's boyfriend agreed to rent it.
But he couldn't help but say, "Aren't you really going to see a master? Your condition just now seemed a bit serious."
Huo Bingqing muttered, "It should be fine if we move to a different place."
The next morning, she packed her things and moved to her parents' place, thinking that everything would be fine. But while she was taking a shower, she watched as a male ghost floated into her bathroom through the door frame.
However, this ghost had no ill intentions. It was just passing by and didn't even look at Huo Bingqing. In the end, it casually floated away through the wall.
Huo Bingqing was so frightened that she stood there motionless. After the ghost floated away, she fainted in the bathroom.
When her mother saw that Huo Bingqing hadn't come out of the shower for a long time, she took out her key, opened the door, and came in to look for her. She quickly took the unconscious Huo Bingqing to the hospital.
When Huo Bingqing woke up in the hospital, she shamelessly asked An Yuexin for Yun Shu's phone number. When she called Yun Shu, her voice was trembling with tears.
"Yun Shu, I saw a ghost."
"oh."
Yun Shu's reaction was calm. She had expected this outcome. She had even warned Huo Bingqing, but Huo Bingqing didn't believe her. Who could she blame?
"You...you can help me? Sell me one of those amulets! I was wrong to talk back to you like that online..."
Yun Shu was too lazy to listen to any of this and interrupted her apology directly, "A talisman costs 100,000 each. If you wear it, you won't be able to see those things anymore. Can you accept that?"
She had tried to persuade Huo Bingqing with kind words, but Huo Bingqing simply wouldn't listen, and Yun Shu didn't want to give her a kind look either.
A good luck charm usually sells for 20,000 yuan to others, and she might even give it away for free to poor people, but now she's selling it to Huo Bingqing for five times the price.
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