Chapter 36: Claims Not to Be Girlfriend
When An Qinglian woke up again, she found herself lying on a clean, white bed.
Sweating all over, she suddenly sat up from the bed.
She panted heavily and looked around at her location.
Fortunately, it wasn’t a gloomy and terrifying wilderness, nor a bottomless black river. Before her was just a very ordinary double room in a hotel.
“What exactly happened just now?”
An Qinglian, still shaken, tried to recall the face of the girl holding a lantern in her dream. But no matter how hard she tried, all she saw was a blurry image.
She only knew that the girl was… very scary.
Just looking at her made her limbs stiff and her thoughts dull and bewildered.
Her body felt as if it were filled with lead, incredibly heavy, and her brain was completely unable to think.
It was as if all her organs and blood had stopped, and she could only watch herself sink into the darkness bit by bit…
Sinking…
Like falling into a bottomless, icy abyss, with even her life flashing before her eyes.
Fortunately, she woke up.
In her grogginess, she felt a hand pulling her out of the darkness.
The hand was small and soft, like a girl’s hand.
“Where am I…”
An Qinglian tried to recall, but her brain was in such pain that she couldn’t remember anything useful.
“Are you okay?”
A clear, girlish voice sounded in the room.
The voice was very pleasant, seeming to bring a healing comfort.
An Qinglian felt her head become much more comfortable.
She shook her head and said to the voice: “I… I’m fine, I just had a nightmare.”
“That’s good. Would you like some water?”
“Thank you…”
An Qinglian looked up in the direction of the voice.
However, when she saw the person, her entire expression froze.
Standing before her was a girl in a red wedding dress.
At this time and in this place… a girl wearing a red wedding dress…
Then she looked at her hand. Upon closer inspection, she found that the girl’s hand was not holding the cup; the entire cup was suspended in mid-air.
This is a ghost!
An Qinglian’s eyes widened. What was worse was that she felt the girl before her was very familiar, as if she had seen her in her dream.
“Ah…” Seeing An Qinglian’s frightened look, Qin Liu realized that she had seen through her disguise. So, she placed the cup on the bedside table, raised her hands, and said, “Don’t be scared, I’m a good ghost. I don’t kill people.”
“…”
An Qinglian looked at the girl holding her hands up like a Nazi salute and gradually calmed down.
It seemed that…
If this ghost wanted to kill her, why would she have let her wake up?
She would have already dealt with her in the dream.
It’s just her face… it’s really familiar.
But when she tried to recall, she couldn’t.
The girl holding the lantern in her dream looked very similar to her, but because her memory was too vague and chaotic, An Qinglian couldn’t be sure.
“Right, if you’re really scared… look over there.”
Qin Liu pointed towards the bathroom.
“Liu Haoyu is taking a shower in there right now.”
Following Qin Liu’s direction, An Qinglian could vaguely see a tall, mature male figure showering inside through the frosted glass.
But because it was frosted glass, An Qinglian couldn’t see very clearly.
Coincidentally, her bed was next to the frosted glass wall of the bathroom. So, she tapped on the wall and said to the inside:
“Master, are you showering?”
“You’re awake? I am indeed showering, wait for me.”
The voice from the bathroom made An Qinglian breathe a sigh of relief, and she was able to transfer her trust to the girl in the red wedding dress before her.
Seeing that An Qinglian had calmed down, Qin Liu continued to emphasize:
“I told you, I’m a good ghost. Do you want an apple? I’ll peel one for you.”
“Peel one for me too.”
Liu Haoyu’s voice came from the bathroom.
Qin Liu naturally didn’t refuse. She skillfully manipulated her resentment to pick up a knife, peeled two apples, placed one on a plate on the table, and handed the other to An Qinglian.
“I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Qin Liu. As you can see, I am indeed a ghost, but I am a harmless, law-abiding ghost.”
After repeated communication, An Qinglian gradually let down her guard with Qin Liu.
She took a gentle bite of the apple, and the sweet juice gradually eased her uneasy emotions.
“Where is this place?”
“It’s the hotel where Liu Haoyu is staying, but he should be moving elsewhere tonight.”
A hotel room costs over 100 yuan a day, so it’s definitely less cost-effective to live there long-term than to rent a place.
Although Liu Haoyu always wanted to move back to that haunted house that paid him 2500 yuan.
But unfortunately, Zhao Long didn’t give him any chance to go back.
“A hotel…”
An Qinglian looked at Qin Liu, then at the bathroom.
A girl’s intuition told her that the ghost before her was very familiar with Liu Haoyu.
And their relationship was likely not ordinary.
So, out of curiosity, An Qinglian asked Qin Liu:
“Are you two… a couple?”
A man and a woman alone in a room, and they seemed to have no barriers in their interaction.
These two gave An Qinglian the feeling of being like a young couple. Or rather, anyone would think of a romantic relationship in this situation, wouldn’t they?
However, to An Qinglian’s surprise, Qin Liu first froze, then repeatedly shook her head and replied:
“No, no, no! He and I are just clean, ordinary friends. Not a couple, not a couple.”
Qin Liu emphasized it twice, but her tone seemed very guilty.
And why was Qin Liu so guilty?
Because she remembered what had happened before.
Every time she thought about those things, her heart would pound.
It even reminded her of earlier, when she gave Liu Haoyu mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Damn it… After living two lives, her first kiss was given to such a shrimp-head.
Qin Liu pounded the bed in frustration.
An Qinglian saw her blushing face and her cute appearance, and seemed to have come to a conclusion.
However, she didn’t expose her. Instead, she turned and asked:
“What time is it now?”
“Oh…” Qin Liu snapped back to attention, picked up the mobile phone on the bed, and glanced at it: “It’s 9:30 now.”
Heh~ To be able to look at her boyfriend’s phone directly, who would believe it if she said they were innocent?
“Nine o’clock…” An Qinglian was about to say something more, but she suddenly realized something.
“What?! Half past nine!?”
The girl quickly picked up her mobile phone and tried to turn it on, only to find that it had no battery.
After hastily plugging in the charging cable, she turned on the phone.
As soon as it turned on, a string of missed calls and WeChat messages made her face turn very ugly.
Finally, she slumped onto the bed, like a salted fish that had lost its dream.
“My salary… my attendance…”
“Oh, this?”
Qin Liu looked at the other party’s appearance and felt a bit fortunate.
Fortunately, she was a ghost and didn’t need to go to work or school.
It was just a bit boring to live…
But ever since she met Liu Haoyu, it wasn’t that boring anymore.
She even felt quite fulfilled by catching ghosts every day…
Fulfilled my ass! Last night, she almost lost her soul when she saw that 230 km/h electric scooter.
Qin Liu never expected that when she poked her head out of the red jade, she would see Liu Haoyu speeding on an electric scooter.
It was ridiculous that this thing could go 230 km/h, even silencing a group of street racers.
Fortunately, she found the source of the resentment and cleared it away, so it was a close call.
Returning to the hotel, Qin Liu looked at the dreamless An Qinglian and said:
“If it doesn’t work out, just ask for leave.”
“It’s not about asking for leave or not…” An Qinglian sighed. “Our stingy boss deducts 500 yuan even if I ask for leave. I only earn 2500 a month, so this is a direct loss of 1/5.”
The girl’s voice was filled with melancholy and helplessness towards life.
“How can people live like oxen and horses?”
Facing An Qinglian, who had entered a state of philosophical contemplation, Qin Liu was at a loss for how to comfort her.
After all, she didn’t have to go to work.
Fortunately, at this moment, Liu Haoyu had finished washing up and came out of the bathroom.
He looked at An Qinglian, who was slumped on the bed, and then at Qin Liu, who was sitting on his bed, and asked a bit strangely:
“What’s wrong?”
In response, Qin Liu very thoughtfully explained for An Qinglian:
“She was late for work, was deducted 500 yuan, and completely lost her dream to become a salted fish.”
Liu Haoyu was also a bit at a loss for words after hearing this.
However, being very emotionally intelligent, he chose to actively comfort her:
“Look on the bright side, just consider it as using 500 yuan to experience the thrill of speeding.”
“Who wants this kind of thrill!”
An Qinglian said angrily and sat up abruptly in bed.
“At that moment, I felt my body flying ahead, and my soul chasing behind. I looked fine, but in reality, I had already been gone for a while!”
It could be seen that the trauma from the previous night’s speeding was quite significant.
But what could Liu Haoyu do?
Anyway, in supernatural events, human life is the most important thing to protect.
As for psychological issues caused by fear… Liu Haoyu could only offer his sympathy.
“Sigh…” An Qinglian sat on the bed, sighed, and then said to Liu Haoyu very solemnly: “Master, thank you so much for last night.”
Given the situation last night, An Qinglian knew very well that if she had been driving, she would probably have been scooped up with a broom and shovel and sent directly to the crematorium.
She wouldn’t be complaining about the hardship of going to work here.
“It’s nothing.”
Liu Haoyu waved his hand and said to An Qinglian.
“However, your situation is indeed very precarious.”
“Yeah, so I’ll stay with you for a while,” An Qinglian said without hesitation. “Otherwise, I might just fall to my death the next time I go out.”
As for being shy?
Compared to her life, what was this little embarrassment?
Moreover, An Qinglian was no longer afraid that Liu Haoyu would do anything to her, because there was still a “good ghost” who claimed not to be his girlfriend watching him.
“That’s fine too.”
Since they had discussed this before, Liu Haoyu didn’t refuse her.
The two of them walked out of the hotel and onto the road in front.
At this time, An Qinglian suddenly thought of something.
“By the way, Master, why don’t you just sleep at my rental apartment? My roommate just moved out yesterday because she’s going to a new place for work, so there are two beds. This way, it can also save you some money.”
In the short time they had known each other, An Qinglian had noticed Liu Haoyu’s financial difficulties, so she proactively invited him to her place.
Liu Haoyu was about to refuse, but Qin Liu, the little ghost, tugged at his sleeve and winked at him.
This was a signal for him to agree.
“That’s fine too.”
Liu Haoyu nodded.
The two of them called a Didi. After a while, a very cool supercar stopped in front of them.
“Are you two the ones who called for a Didi?”
“Yes…”
Although a bit strange, Liu Haoyu and An Qinglian still got into the car.
“Driver, this is the first time I’ve seen a supercar running as a Didi.”
Hearing An Qinglian’s words, the driver, Brother Wu, the street racer who had been defeated by an electric scooter, sighed sadly.
“You might not believe it when I say it, but last night I was street racing and encountered an electric scooter. It was going at a full speed of 230 km/h. I couldn’t defeat it even with all my might, so I had no face to see my ancestors and could only drive a Didi for a few days to alleviate my grief.”
Liu Haoyu and An Qinglian exchanged glances and gave an awkward smile.
