Chapter 97 Water Ghost 20
It was a rare weekday morning for Yu Jiao to get up late. She had a regular schedule and went to bed early and got up early. Last night's experience was completely unexpected, and she had sweet dreams all night.
After waking up after the alarm rang several times, Yu Jiao hurriedly got up and washed up. Zhou Qingyan heard the sound and came over. She complained with toothpaste in her mouth, "My alarm went off several times. Why didn't you wake me up when you heard it? I'm going to be late for work!"
Zhou Qingyan leaned against the wall, his whole body was stained with the smell of kitchen smoke. His eyes were like some kind of powerful adhesive, fixed on Yu Jiao and could no longer be moved away. The entangled black air had already been competing to wrap around her lower body. From a distance, it looked like she was trapped in a thick and dark black swamp.
"It's still early," he said. "You seem to be sleeping soundly. Breakfast is just ready. It's just in time for you to go to work after you finish. Don't worry."
He stood there quietly, but his eyes turned like muddy mud the moment Yu Jiao lowered her eyes. He raised his hand and restrainedly touched Yu Jiao's long hair that hung behind her, the soft and fragrant touch lingering on his fingertips.
The thoughts that were suppressed in my heart began to surge again——
Yu Jiao was as beautiful as a doll in a display window, which was an exquisite way of putting it. But in his opinion, she was more like a bone that would attract vicious dogs. He was always worried that all kinds of men with bad intentions would appear around her.
She has a childish temperament, innocent and simple, and can be fooled by a few words from others. He really doesn't want her to leave his sight!
When the alarm goes off, I turn it off subconsciously.
So what if I’m late?
Then you can stay at home with him.
Yu Jiao spat out the saliva in her mouth and rinsed it out when she suddenly felt a chill run down her spine. She looked back and saw that the black energy had unconsciously wrapped around her lower body and was even showing signs of moving upwards. She hurriedly shouted, "Zhou Qingyan, take it away."
Zhou Qingyan nodded.
The black energy returned to his body and was still stirring.
During the meal, Yu Jiao wanted to suggest taking it to the office several times. It was not for anything else, but Zhou Qingyan's eyes were too explicit and too blatant! It had reached the point where the slow-witted Yu Jiao noticed it and could no longer deceive herself.
While feeling panic-stricken, I also felt a faint sense of joy.
Zhou Qingyan must have had a crush on me when he was alive.
Yu Jiao thought to herself, how could she be so charming?
"What are you thinking about? You bit your hair." Zhou Qingyan didn't need to eat. He held his chin and looked at Yu Jiao. He reached out and picked out the hair in his mouth. "Eat slowly, don't be anxious... Or I can take you there?"
"don't want."
Yu Jiao refused and ate her breakfast in a few bites.
When leaving the house, Yu Jiao couldn't move her feet even with her bag slung over her shoulder. She looked down and saw that black energy was wrapped around her feet. She felt like she was stuck in a thick swamp. She moved her feet and called out to Zhou Qingyan anxiously, "We're really going to be late."
Zhou Qingyan bent down: "...Do I have to go to work?"
Yu Jiao looked up in shock.
Zhou Qingyan looked at her doubtfully, as if he didn't know how stupid the question was.
He was thin and tall, like a straight bamboo. Only his overly pale skin and the tangled red blood vessels exposed on his forehead and the back of his hands showed that he was different from a living person. But before he became a ghost, he was a living person. Didn't he know why people have to go to work?
"You..." Yu Jiao pointed at his clothes and said through gritted teeth, "The clothes you wear and the meals I eat every day are not in vain. If I don't go to work, how can I buy clothes and food, let alone rent a house? You and I have to leave here! Sleep on the streets, understand?"
"Sorry," Zhou Qingyan admitted his mistake with a good attitude: "I forgot."
“…”
Yu Jiao sighed: "I'm generous and won't bother with you. I'm going to work... If you want to drink soup tonight, any soup will do."
Watching Yu Jiao leave, Zhou Qingyan finally remembered the most fatal problem. In fact, he couldn't be blamed. His way of thinking had long since changed. All his actions were driven by Yu Jiao. But now he remembered that he had actually stayed in Yu Jiao's house for so many days without any purpose...
Zhou Qingyan's brows furrowed. After thinking for a while, he remembered the location of his house, changed his clothes, and walked directly out of the gate of the community.
…
Yu Jiao has been extremely unlucky recently.
She met Liu Jing.
To be precise, Liu Jing was waiting for her.
After getting off the bus, I found Liu Jing wandering at the school gate. Her eyes accurately captured Yu Jiao, and she raised her foot and walked towards Yu Jiao's position.
Yu Jiao wanted to hide, but she thought of Zhou Qingyan's abusive words without any bottom line. When the vicious words came out of his mouth, she felt envious and relieved. While she was thinking about what was happening, Liu Jing stood in front of her.
Yu Jiao looked at her secretly, and was inevitably frightened by her aggressive attitude. But then she thought, she has nothing to fear, and it was not her who did anything wrong, so why should she be afraid?
Yu Jiao blinked twice and quietly straightened her legs.
Those photos were not only circulated in the company, but even old players who downloaded the game received emails in the form of announcements. Liu Jing forced herself to work, but the looks from her colleagues made her feel uncomfortable. The most annoying thing was that they would gather together to gossip. Although she couldn't hear clearly, Liu Jing was sure that they were talking about her. Such days made her feel that it was no different from walking naked in broad daylight.
The most hateful thing was that the company's top management fired her for damaging the company's image. Liu Jing completely lost her job and cried at home, hating Yu Jiao. She had long forgotten what happened at Yu Jiao's house. She only remembered that she and Shi Wanning fell down the stairs, injured themselves, and had skin scratched...
Liu Jing once suspected that Yu Jiao had pushed them down, but she knew Yu Jiao's character. She would never speak out when being bullied, and would endure it silently. Although she was not sure whether she had pushed them down the stairs, she was sure that Yu Jiao had done something wrong in the photo! She was furious.
Liu Jing vented all her recent frustrations on Yu Jiao. "I never thought you were this kind of person. Yu Jiao, how could you be so vicious? You've ruined my life, you know? I was fired, my photos are even circulating in the company group, and Shi Wanning was almost killed by you. Yu Jiao, aren't you afraid of retribution?"
Yu Jiao subconsciously wanted to escape, her legs already in a backward position, when Zhou Qingyan's words suddenly came to her mind.
She has never been a confident person and longs for recognition from others. Praise is her source of strength, but at the same time, those malicious and critical words are like a sharp blade that can easily crush the false confidence built up by praise and turn it into mud.
It's your fault.
You did something wrong.
Yu Jiao was defeated by these words and followed the other party's accusation, shifting the blame to herself. But - even if she was wrong, so what? What she lacked was thick skin, a sharp edge that was not afraid of hurting others.
In Yu Jiao's eyes, Liu Jing's red eyes and pale skin were even more terrifying than Zhou Qingyan, the evil spirit.
Thinking of Zhou Qingyan, Yu Jiao recalled his appearance, raised her eyebrows slightly, raised a wicked smile at the corner of her mouth, and her eyes were filled with deep disgust for the other person - disgust was very simple, treating the person standing in front of her as rotten food or a garbage can full of filth.
"You deserve it."
After uttering the first sentence, Yu Jiao felt a vent for the resentment she was harboring. She took a few steps forward, her eyes gleaming like clear spring water, reflecting Liu Jing's disgusted and unwilling face. Her smile was a little stiff, but to convey her fierce aura, she could only maintain it. "...You are the vicious one, the immoral one. No one can ruin your life. The consequences you face now are your own fault, Liu Jing... Even if there is retribution, it's you who should suffer it."
Liu Jing looked resentful.
She laughed sarcastically: "Even if you scold me, what does it matter? Cheng He still slept with me, and was still seduced by the young and beautiful Shi Wanning. He doesn't want you anymore, so just wait and cry..."
"You're wrong," Yu Jiao folded her arms across her chest and looked at her calmly, "I didn't want Cheng He. The man I slept with was someone I didn't want and someone I'd used before. Even if he came to me and begged me now, even if he knelt down, I wouldn't want him again. He's dirty to me."
After saying these words, Yu Jiao let out a long sigh.
Liu Jing maintained a proud face that was like a dried clay sculpture, cracked inch by inch. She came here to see Yu Jiao's fragile face crying after being cheated on, instead of letting her refute herself, curse herself, or even... look at her with disgust and ridicule, as if she was looking at a ball of dirty mud.
"Yu Jiao...just wait, you will get your comeuppance!"
Yu Jiao took out her phone and checked the time. Just when Liu Jing thought she was about to burst into tears, she suddenly said, "It's getting late. We're going to be late."
After she finished speaking, she trotted into the school.
Liu Jing stood there in a daze. The man she wanted most could be abandoned by Yu Jiao with just a wave of her hand. Such a result seemed like an insult to her, and endless malice surged from her body.
The lines hidden under the clothes slowly squirmed with a dirty, black breath. The breath became stronger as the hatred in Liu Jing's heart grew. Gradually, the sunlight falling on her body made a crackling sound. Liu Jing came to her senses and saw her body that was so shriveled that it seemed as if all the water had been sucked out of it. She couldn't even shout for help and hurriedly hid in the shadows.
She naively thought it was her own hallucination, and a terrifying scene happened before her eyes——
The flesh and blood of the body visible to the naked eye turned into something like a thick black thread. As the black thread left, Liu Jing was left with only her head. She watched in horror as her body turned into black silk threads and flowed into the ground.
She didn't even cry for help.
…
Yu Jiao came to the office, and the excitement in her heart had not dissipated. She fiddled with her mobile phone twice, and was notified that there was an incoming message. She opened it and saw that it was indeed from Zhou Qingyan.
He asked: Jiaojiao, have you arrived at school?
Yu Jiao held her chin and recalled what had just happened. Zhou Qingyan was half her teacher, so why not... reluctantly report the results of the battle to him?
She decisively pressed the video.
Yu Jiao was suspicious of the speed at which Zhou Qingyan answered the call. The moment he sent the message, his eyes were glued to the screen, waiting for her message. As long as she didn't reply within the corresponding time, he would immediately start bombarding her with messages.
Zhou Qingyan's face magnified on the screen. He seemed surprised that Yu Jiao had taken the initiative to call him via video. His dark pupils burst into thick and intense joy, and he spoke without any shame: "...Jiaojiao, I miss you. I missed you as soon as you left home. When will you come back..."
His eyes were darting around, almost looking into the screen.
Yu Jiao thought.
He might be looking to see if there's anyone else around me.
She didn't let Zhou Qingyan get what he wanted. She brought the screen closer to her and interrupted his rambling: "...Zhou Qingyan, be serious. I have something to tell you. I met Liu Jing today..."
He raised his eyebrows and laughed, "I scolded her severely. Well... I didn't scold her very harshly, but it felt so good. It turns out scolding someone can be so comfortable!"
"Jiaojiao did a great job," Zhou Qingyan praised her, his brows darkening. "...She actually had the nerve to cause trouble for you. Why doesn't someone like her just die? Jiaojiao, I must stay by your side at work tomorrow. Someone as vile, despicable, and disgusting as her, who knows what she might do. It's better for me to stay by your side at all times, to rest assured."
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