In the dead of night, inside his room, Chi Chen suddenly shuddered, as if he had just woken up from a terrible nightmare.
"What's going on? Why do I suddenly feel a chill?"
Chi Chen sat up in bed, rubbed his eyes, and stared at the bedside for a while with some confusion.
"Why would I have a nightmare?!"
Chi Chen muttered something to himself with a puzzled expression, then lay down on his side, pulled the blanket over his head, and prepared to fall asleep again.
"Can't you see me or hear my voice?"
Standing by Chi Chen's bedside, Hu Miaomiao murmured in confusion, curiously reaching out to pull at Chi Chen's blanket, only to find that her hands passed right through the blanket and Chi Chen's body.
Yes, right after Hu Miaomiao, disregarding her own life, rushed into the center of the magic array and transformed into specks of starlight that merged into the light spots formed by Chi Chen's soul, Hu Miaomiao suddenly appeared in this false world in which Chi Chen had fallen.
"It's better that you can't see me, it seems quite interesting this way!"
Hu Miaomiao suddenly smiled mischievously. She had never seen another side of Chi Chen before, and this was a good opportunity to observe him properly.
"However, how exactly can we help Chi Chen escape this world he has become so mired in?"
Then, Hu Miaomiao began to ponder again.
However, now that I have entered Chi Chen's world, there is no use in being anxious. Now I can only slowly look for an opportunity to help Chi Chen leave this world.
The next morning, Chi Chen was woken up from his bed by Zhang Qin as usual.
"Xiao Chen, what's wrong with you lately? You seem to be in low spirits every morning. Is it because of the pressure of studying for the college entrance exam? Maybe we should go to the hospital to get it checked out!"
Zhang Qin looked at her son's dark circles under his eyes and asked him with great concern.
"Oh?! It's okay, Mom, no need!"
Chi Chen glanced at the room, inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief, and then replied.
"Okay, son, if you feel unwell, be sure to tell Mom right away! The college entrance exam is coming up soon, you can't afford to have any health problems!"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Qin still seemed somewhat uneasy.
"Okay, Mom!"
A few minutes later, Chi Chen got dressed and came to the living room. As usual, Chi Yuan was reading the newspaper while eating breakfast.
But when Chi Chen's gaze swept over an empty chair next to Chi Yuan, Chi Chen's body suddenly stiffened.
"Um?"
Hu Miaomiao, who was looking at the living room decorations, suddenly turned around with some confusion and looked at Chi Chen at the door.
However, when Hu Miaomiao's eyes met Chi Chen's, Chi Chen subtly looked away and walked to the dining table as if nothing had happened.
"Holy crap! Last night wasn't a dream, there really was a ghost? And a female ghost at that?"
Chi Chen appeared outwardly unchanged, but inwardly he was as panicked as a wild horse galloping across the grassland.
Yes, the moment Chi Chen suddenly woke up last night, he saw Hu Miaomiao standing in front of his bed, staring at him with her big, watery eyes.
However, Chi Chen didn't know where he got the composure. When he saw Hu Miaomiao appear out of nowhere in front of him, he didn't show the slightest panic. Instead, he was surprisingly calm.
Afterwards, in order to conceal the fact that he could see Hu Miaomiao, Chi Chen pretended that nothing had happened and continued to sleep.
Last night, Chi Chen buried his head in the blankets and couldn't fall asleep for a long time, afraid that if he fell asleep, someone would suddenly appear in the blankets—no, a female ghost.
Chi Chen also enjoys reading strange novels, and these novels often mention that female ghosts love to suck people's yang energy while they are asleep.
So Chi Chen stayed up until four or five in the morning before cautiously lifting the covers and peeking out to look around the room. After not finding Hu Miaomiao, he finally succumbed to sleepiness and fell asleep.
This is also why Chi Chen had two panda eyes this morning.
"Heavens above! I haven't done anything wrong, you can't be doing this to me! All the bad things were done by Lin Bai, let the female ghost go after him!"
Chi Chen picked up a piece of bread and started eating with a calm expression, but inwardly he was groaning. How could a model student like him encounter such a thing?
"However, this female ghost is quite pretty! Such a pretty female ghost shouldn't harm people, right? Hmm, she shouldn't, otherwise I probably wouldn't have woken up this morning."
Chi Chen didn't know where he got the courage from, but he still managed to glance at the pretty female ghost a couple of times when she wasn't paying attention.
"How can I still feel a sense of familiarity and warmth towards her?"
You don't know until you look, and once you startled him, the more Chi Chen looked, the more he felt like he knew that female ghost, as if they had known each other before.
But no matter how hard Chi Chen tried, he couldn't recall ever seeing such a beautiful face.
Although Chi Chen didn't believe he had a photographic memory, he was still very confident in his memory. If he could have this feeling, he must have met her quite a few times, so why didn't he have any impression of her at all?
However, while Chi Chen was bold now, he wasn't bold enough to go directly to Hu Miaomiao, whom he saw as a 'female ghost,' and ask, 'Hello, do we know each other?' just because of his doubts.
At that time, Chi Chen didn't even think about what the female ghost's expression would be. He was afraid that his mother would see him talking to thin air and immediately drag him to the hospital to see a psychiatrist.
Looking at Zhang Qin and Chi Yuan, who were eating breakfast with smiles on their faces, Chi Chen was certain that they couldn't see Hu Miaomiao.
Hu Miaomiao, however, was unaware of Chi Chen's constantly changing thoughts. She was simply looking around the room with curiosity, as everything here seemed to be a figment of Chi Chen's memory.
This place is the place that Chi Chen most wants to return to, buried deep in his heart.
Hu Miaomiao was slightly stunned when she saw the smile on Chi Chen's face as he ate with Zhang Qin and Chi Yuan. This was the first time she had ever seen such genuine and undisguised joy on Chi Chen's face.
"Is this why you don't want to leave? Maybe only here can you be your truest self?"
Hu Miaomiao suddenly fell silent. If she broke all of this, it would be very painful for Chi Chen.
But he also had his reasons for bringing Chi Chen back.
Ten minutes later, when Chi Chen met Lin Bai downstairs.
"Chi Chen, what have you been doing at night lately? Young man, don't be so reckless at night!"
Lin Bai looked at Chi Chen's two panda eyes, reached out and patted Chi Chen's shoulder, and said meaningfully.
"Get out of my way! If you keep messing around with me, I'll have Aunt Zhang deal with you!"
Chi Chen was in a bad mood and had no interest in joking with Lin Bai, so he directly brought out a powerful figure to suppress Lin Bai.
Because right now, Hu Miaomiao is watching Chi Chen and Lin Bai playfully bickering with a smile on her face.
"The book says ghosts are afraid of sunlight, right? How come this is?"
Chi Chen looked up at the bright sun overhead and his heart pounded. Why did this thing follow him out?
Chi Chen had originally planned to take advantage of school today to research how to perform a ritual to help a ghost pass on, but with this ghost following him around, how was he supposed to proceed?
Is it really appropriate to discuss how to perform a ritual to help others pass on to the afterlife in front of them?
So, after Chi Chen spent a somewhat dejected day studying, when the two returned to the dilapidated building at night, Chi Chen was disappointed to find that the female ghost had not followed Lin Bai home. After observing for a day, Chi Chen also discovered that the female ghost who had been following him could only be seen by him.
This immediately made Chi Chen even more depressed.
"Hey! I'm taking off my clothes! I mean, even if you're a ghost, could you please step outside for a second?"
At night, when Chi Chen was about to take a shower, he saw that Hu Miaomiao was still following him, which made him almost speak.
Fortunately, when Hu Miaomiao saw Chi Chen's actions, she quickly turned around and went to the living room.
Do ghosts blush?
As Chi Chen entered the bathroom of his room, a question popped into his head: he had clearly seen a blush appear on Hu Miaomiao's face the moment she left.
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