Chapter 3
Standing outside the door was a tall man wearing a black windbreaker, with a straight nose, dark and deep black eyes, and unparalleled handsomeness.
Everyone who has seen Xue Tinghe has discovered that the man looks somewhat similar to Xue Tinghe, but is taller and more handsome, and even his temperament is more noble and mysterious.
He opened his arms towards Gu Yunshuang, his deep dark eyes stained with a gentle smile, which made anyone who saw it feel their heart pounding as if they were falling in love. "Hi, baby, I'm back. Did you miss me?"
Then everyone was shocked to see that Gu Yunshuang, who always remained calm even in the face of a catastrophe, as if no one could catch his eye, actually had tears in his eyes. He took a few quick steps forward and grabbed the man's collar. His tone was fierce, but his voice was soft and a little choked with sobs: "You still remember to come back? Where have you been these years?"
At this time, Gu Yunshuang no longer had any labels of being aloof or indifferent. He was like a kitten that thought it was abandoned by its owner. He was fierce and cute, and also looked aggrieved. He was very adorable, making people want to hug him and rub him hard.
Suddenly seeing Gu Yunshuang like this, not only the staff but also the audience in the live broadcast room were stunned.
I was very shocked, and also... a little bit touched by cuteness. What's going on?
Qi Yue also wanted to hug the aggrieved Gu Yunshuang, rub him hard, and comfort him, telling him that he was back and would always protect him and prevent him from getting hurt again. However, this excitement caused the ghost energy in his body to surge violently, almost making him lose his human form.
He quickly retracted his arm, took a big step back as if he had been electrocuted, and distanced himself from Gu Yunshuang.
Gu Yunshuang was stunned by his sudden alienation and stared at him blankly, as if he wanted to see clearly whether the person in front of him was really the one he had been thinking about and waiting for.
Qi Yue guiltily tried to find excuses: "It's raining heavily outside, and I didn't bring an umbrella. Look, I'm soaked all over. It would be bad if I got your clothes wet too."
Gu Yunshuang finally came back to her senses after the long separation. Seeing the dripping hair on his forehead, she frowned and asked worriedly, "Why are you so wet? You've been in poor health since you were a child. What if you get sick? Come in quickly, take a hot shower and change your clothes."
"Okay." Qi Yue walked past him and into the house, thinking he was being natural, but in fact he was nervous and hurriedly dodged Gu Yunshuang's hand that was stretched out to hold his.
Gu Yunshuang's hand paused in the air for a moment, then he withdrew it as if nothing had happened, but everyone could see his loneliness at that moment.
[Hahaha, I'm laughing like crazy. Gu Niupi's performance is so passionate and beyond his years. He even found an actor who bears a resemblance to Master Xue, but he's just not cooperating. Look how nervous he is, hiding like he's avoiding the plague!]
[Damn, just now, seeing how convincing Gu Niupi was, I thought this childhood sweetheart was real, but it's actually fake. This actor is truly a jerk. A grown man with arms and legs and good looks, what could he do better than to accompany hired Niupi in a play to deceive the public? Tell me the truth, how much did Gu Niupi pay you?]
[Although, don't you think this actor is even better looking than Master Xue? Regardless of whether he's an actor or not, this face and figure are truly amazing! I'm like, hey, husband, what's so good about playing a childhood sweetheart? Come play my husband! I'll give you double the price.]
How could it be such a coincidence that they found someone who looked just like Master Xue, but was only slightly better looking? It must have all been the result of plastic surgery! I wonder if these two plastic surgery freaks together can satisfy the big money sponsor and make his generous investment worthwhile.
Although Gu Yunshuang's fans were shocked by Gu Yunshuang's changes, they could not say against their will that Qi Yue was not hiding from Gu Yunshuang.
The haters became even more arrogant, and the screen was filled with such embarrassing ridicule.
Qi Yue, who had just stepped into the living room, suddenly looked towards the direction of the camera. His eyes were extremely clear in black and white, with more black than white, and the darkness revealed a bit of weirdness.
The audience in the live broadcast room met these eyes indifferently, their hearts skipped a beat, and they forgot to post comments.
“Are you guys live streaming?”
The staff member replied subconsciously: "Ah, yes, we are filming a live broadcast of a supernatural event."
"Supernatural? Since you all believe in the supernatural, you should also believe in the tongue-pulling hell, right?"
Qi Yue's voice was slow, deep, and eerily ethereal, "Those who commit verbal sins will be condemned to the hell of tongue-pulling."
At that moment, the audience in the live broadcast room felt a chill on their backs and a tingling sensation on their scalps.
The livestream room sizzled, and the screen turned into a snowy mess. As the audience froze in shock, blood slowly flowed down the screen, slowly condensing into a line of words: "Those who commit verbal sins will be condemned to the hell of tongue-pulling."
Then there was another "zila" sound, and the live broadcast room went black.
The audience who had never been involved in an internet scandal didn’t feel much. They were stunned for a moment and immediately started to curse the director, asking him if he had to be so unprofessional and make the next live broadcast so terrifying.
But those haters had a different feeling. Even when the screen was black, they still felt it, as if there was a pair of dark eyes on the screen staring at them coldly, making them feel cold all over, as if they were frozen. Qi Yue's words kept replaying in their minds, dim, ethereal, and weird.
"Committing verbal offenses will lead to the hell of tongue-pulling."
After Qi Yue finished speaking in a deep voice, the staff member also felt a chill down his spine, and an increasingly strong fear inexplicably grew in his heart, which finally made him remember the evil-repelling talisman that suddenly appeared without fire.
His instinct for survival made him not want to stay here any longer. He subconsciously wanted to leave as soon as possible, and he didn't even dare to think deeply about what Qi Yue meant by that sentence.
At this time, he didn't have the mind to think about why the live broadcast room was closed by itself. He hurriedly said that it was getting late and since the live broadcast was over, he would go back first. Then he hurriedly packed up his things and left.
It was not until he entered the elevator and watched it slowly descend and leave the floor where Gu Yunshuang's home was that his panicked heart gradually calmed down.
Without a sense of crisis, the staff member suddenly regretted why he was so inexplicably scared? He should have seized the opportunity to interview that childhood sweetheart who suddenly appeared more, expose his actor identity, and make Gu Yunshuang even more embarrassed!
Unfortunately, I missed it.
At this time, the elevator slowly stopped, and he looked up and saw that it was the 18th floor.
A woman in red walked into the elevator, her head lowered, her long black hair covering half of her face. The elevator door closed quickly after she entered.
The staff was still thinking that since all the people living in this apartment were trendy entertainment artists, this woman should also be a famous artist, and she looked familiar to him.
When the staff wanted to say hello, they suddenly remembered that this apartment building only had sixteen floors, so where did the eighteenth floor come from?
The woman in red in front of him slowly raised her head, revealing the familiar face he knew, and smiled at him.
"Wood, wood, wood orange."
The staff widened their eyes in horror. Isn't this the female celebrity who was exposed by paparazzi some time ago and then jumped off the building to commit suicide after participating in an orgy?
"Now you know how I died."
Mu Ju's bright almond-shaped eyes rolled down and hung in their sockets, blood dripping from her head and body...
"Ghost!——"
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Gu Yunshuang frowned, "Why do I seem to hear someone screaming?" The screams were quite miserable, like a pig being slaughtered.
Qi Yue smiled calmly: "No one is shouting, it might be the wind, you heard it wrong."
Gu Yunshuang agreed and continued rummaging through the closet. Finally, he pulled out his largest-sized pajamas and compared them to Qi Yue's body. He then put them away, complaining helplessly but also with a hint of pride. "What have you been eating these past few years? How did you suddenly grow so tall? I bought you a size larger pajamas, and you might not even fit in them. You can wear my bathrobe tonight. I'll have my agent, Sister Hua, send you a set of clothes that will fit you tomorrow."
He stuffed his bathrobe into Qi Yue's arms without saying anything, with a little shyness that he himself didn't even notice: "Go take a shower quickly and take off these wet clothes. Be careful not to catch a cold."
When Qi Yue came out of the shower, he saw Gu Yunshuang's pair of black and white eyes looking at him brightly, her gaze moving back and forth between his face and the chest muscles that were slightly exposed by his bathrobe. After meeting his gaze, she was stunned for a moment, then quickly looked away, her ears red.
Qi Yue felt like he was back in his childhood. Seeing the well-behaved and soft little Shuangshuang, who would blush shyly at the slightest teasing, his heart softened. He wanted to tease him like he did when he was a child, but he held back. He turned away and urged him, "You haven't washed yet, have you? Go wash quickly and go to bed early. Staying up too late is not good for your health."
Gu Yunshuang lowered his head, nodded randomly, took two quick steps into the bathroom, and took a quick shower twice as fast as usual.
Only then did he realize that after waiting for so many years, Qi Yue had finally returned.
Although Qi Yue had changed a lot, his figure had become taller, his facial features had become more three-dimensional, and he looked more mature and handsome, he was still very sure that this was the Qi Yue he had been waiting for.
He was looking forward to sleeping on the same pillow with Qi Yue like before, whispering in the dark about their missed past.
But when he finished his shower and came out, excited and expectant, he found no one there. There was only a note on the table, telling him that Qi Yue had left in a hurry due to something urgent and that he would come back tomorrow.
Gu Yunshuang stared blankly at the familiar, vigorous, and sharp handwriting on the note.
My mind is blank, as if I'm thinking about a lot, but also as if I'm thinking about nothing.
After a while, he rubbed his red eyes, rolled into the quilt, and buried his head like an ostrich.
It seemed that in this way, they could pretend that nothing had happened tonight. Qi Yue did not come back, did not avoid him strangely, and did not leave suddenly without saying a word.
In the past, he just wanted to find Qi Yue and know whether Qi Yue was doing well. He wondered if something had happened to him outside after so many years of no news.
What he was more afraid of now was that Qi Yue had returned, but he was no longer the Qi Yue that belonged to him alone.
He finally had to face the fact that there were seven years of strangeness between them. These seven years were enough for a familiar person to grow into a stranger and forget their previous agreement.
He couldn't imagine how he would react if one day Qi Yue suddenly told him indifferently that it was just a child's joke and there was no need to take it seriously.
What Gu Yunshuang didn't know was that Qi Yue didn't leave. He was sitting lightly and weightlessly on the air conditioner outside the window, only separated from him by a wall.
He leaned against the wall, looked up at the dark sky, and held a cigarette he had obtained from the staff between his fingers. He didn't light it, just held it there, thinking about the person in the room.
Shuangshuang hid in the quilt and cried secretly again. In the past, every time Shuangshuang hid in the quilt and cried, he would dig Shuangshuang out from under the quilt, hug him, pat his back again and again, and tell him not to be afraid, he is here and will accompany him.
There were not many such opportunities. Shuangshuang stopped crying after she started elementary school, until she suddenly received the news that Grandpa Qi had passed away. Shuangshuang hid under the quilt and cried again, and the night before he left.
He still clearly remembers the child nestled in his arms, clinging to his waist tightly, asking repeatedly in a tearful voice, "You'll definitely come back, right? No matter how long you're gone, we'll still be the best in the world!"
Qi Yue was also very upset and reluctant to leave. He knew that he was going to the battlefield and might die gloriously like Grandpa Qi. However, he still stroked Shuangshuang's back and pretended to be very relaxed again and again: "Yes, yes, yes, don't worry, I am going to study abroad. I will definitely come back. I will come back after graduation and I can write to you."
He also wanted to hug Shuangshuang tightly when they first met again, and tell him loudly and firmly that he was back and would never leave.
What I want more is to lie in the same bed with him at this moment, let him nestle in my arms, and listen to him chattering about the years I have missed.
Unfortunately, none of these work.
He is not a human being now.
He thought he could control himself well, but he didn't expect that when Shuangshuang grabbed his collar, his ghost energy almost got out of control. If he touched Shuangshuang, he was not sure if he could still control himself.
Shuangshuang is a human being and is so fragile. If he fails to control it properly, the ghost energy will get out of control and hurt Shuangshuang, which he will never allow.
But he had already hurt Shuangshuang by hastily avoiding her embrace, and he really couldn't be cruel enough to find a reason to refuse to sleep in the same bed with her.
I could only flee in a hurry.
But this undoubtedly caused greater harm to both of them.
Qi Yue was helpless.
The rain was still falling, and soon it soaked the cigarette. The stem could not bear the weight of the moisture and broke, just like the broken thread of their fate.
After all, humans and ghosts have different paths.
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