Chapter 53 – Just like you
The biting, ice-cold air in the room seemed to hang stagnant. The eerie and uneasy feelings vanished without a trace.
Seeing this, Liu Haoyu continued to speak with increased intensity.
“Perhaps you don’t understand this, perhaps your heart is full of questions,”
“But for white stockings, I can do anything!”
“I love you, Qin Liu, please marry me.”
“…”
The air in the room became extremely awkward. Qin Liu, with a flushed face, looked at the roses in front of her, feeling a bit lost. Liu Haoyu was overjoyed to see Qin Liu reappear, looking shy.
He stood up from the ground, gently took the girl’s hand, and the two, one person and one ghost, stared at each other. Liu Haoyu had to admit that seeing the girl’s shy appearance made his heart feel like it was about to jump out of his chest. She was truly beautiful.
“So… Qin Liu, what’s your answer?”
Under Liu Haoyu’s gaze, Qin Liu, her face flushed, took a deep breath, closed her eyes, then stood on her tiptoes and raised her small hand high. She then slapped Liu Haoyu hard on the head.
“Slap!”
The crisp sound and the sudden force caught Liu Haoyu off guard, making him fall face-first onto the ground.
“Die! You perverted white stockings freak!”
Qin Liu, blushing, didn’t forget to kick Liu Haoyu’s head twice before fleeing back into Hong Yu.
The Black Book looked at Liu Haoyu, who was face down on the ground, and after a long pause, it asked, “Are you okay?”
“Qin Liu took off her shoes and stepped on my head with her white stockings, she has me in her heart.”
Liu Haoyu, still in that position, slowly raised a hand and gave a big thumbs up.
“As expected of you.”
The Black Book opened, and a pale hand stretched out from within, giving Liu Haoyu a middle finger for his absurd statement.
“But I have to admit, your method is indeed effective.”
Liu Haoyu wasn’t proposing for no reason. For Qin Liu to not become a guide, she needed to maintain her human rationality and cognition. His proposal was precisely to help her maintain that human anchor. After all, what ghost marries a human?
Another point was that Qin Liu was easily flustered. With that combo of actions just now, no matter how composed she was, she would break. It also helped boost her favorability, killing two birds with one stone. Wasn’t that wonderful?
After recovering on the ground, Liu Haoyu slowly got up and sat down against the cabinet.
“I told you, I’m just pretending to have low emotional intelligence. My emotional intelligence is actually very high.”
“No, no, no, I think given your situation just now, it didn’t look like high emotional intelligence at all. It was more like the screws in your head were loose.”
The Black Book, recalling the scene, couldn’t help but sigh.
“Oh well, at least we both survived. I really thought I was going to die just now…”
Liu Haoyu sat on the ground, listening to the Black Book, and couldn’t help but look at it. Ever since the Black Book was frightened by Qin Liu, its voice had become much higher-pitched. It sounded like… a girl’s voice?
As Liu Haoyu was observing the Black Book, it realized something was amiss. It closed its mouth, manipulated the blood on the ground, and gradually formed lines of bloody text.
“Qin Liu’s current condition has improved a lot.”
“What you need to do is maintain the stability of her condition.”
“I’m sure you’ve realized the terrifying nature of a guide.”
“She won’t go easy on you just because of her dependence.”
“If you don’t want to be permanently locked in the Black Coffin with her, you need to honestly think of a solution.”
“Here’s a breakthrough: Qin Liu’s abnormality might be related to Liu Zining.”
“Start with her, and perhaps you’ll find a different answer.”
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Inside Hong Yu, the girl, her face flushed, whether from anger or shyness, was repeatedly kicking an innocent scarecrow. Qin Liu had never been so flustered in her entire life, let alone combined with previous lives.
Qin Liu’s physique wasn’t very good, and after kicking the scarecrow for a full minute, she stopped. The main reason was that she couldn’t kick anymore. She was so tired. Was her body really this weak? If she did some aerobic exercise, wouldn’t she be exhausted and screaming? The girl clutched her aching abdomen; after just two minutes of kicking, she felt like she had run a kilometer, completely exhausted.
“Hoo…”
Taking a breath, the girl calmed her annoyance. Recalling Liu Haoyu’s sincere and unpretentious marriage proposal… Qin Liu felt her face almost burn again. She never expected that after a lifetime as a human and a lifetime as a ghost, she hadn’t even received a confession yet, but a proposal had come first.
More importantly, could what Liu Haoyu said be considered a proposal?! Qin Liu couldn’t understand. Who proposes by specifically mentioning liking white stockings?! Someone like him could only sleep with white stockings on the sofa for the rest of his life! Get lost! Qin Liu mentally criticized someone like that.
However, after calming down, she had to admit that Liu Haoyu’s emotional intelligence was indeed very high. If he hadn’t had such a sudden burst of inspiration, she might have truly gotten lost in the darkness and never found her humanity.
“Hoo~”
Qin Liu steadied herself, repeatedly rubbing her aching temples. She certainly didn’t want to become some useless guide. Could a Night Walker without emotions still be considered human? But what should she do?
The girl fell into thought. As she pondered, her consciousness began to waver, sinking… until she fell deeply asleep within Hong Yu.
After Qin Liu fell asleep, her consciousness plunged into an endless, bottomless darkness. In that hazy dream, whether of the past or the future, Qin Liu could only vaguely feel that she was lying down somewhere. But she could vaguely see the bright, silvery moonlight cast upon her face. In that brightly decorated wedding chamber, the girl, dressed in a red wedding gown and veiled, inexplicably wore pure white stockings. The groom stood before her, slowly lifting the veil, and they embraced and kissed, their bodies involuntarily falling onto the bed.
The moonlight shone on the girl’s bare body, appearing cute and alluring. The two embraced, and amidst soft murmurs, a faint patch of red stained the bedsheets. The girl clutched the blanket, the pain in her body unable to conceal the happiness and satisfaction in her eyes…
“?????????”
Qin Liu, inside Hong Yu, suddenly sat up with a gasp. Her clear eyes were filled with question marks. What was that dream just now?
