Chapter 401: Chapter 401: Haunted

Yes, one blow didn’t knock him out, and neither did a second. In the end, I had no choice but to grab a thick book from the car…

Lin Fangwei mulled it over and decided to take Shen Ci to a small building owned by Li Fangwei that had been long deserted.

As for the building being uninhabited and uncleaned, she didn’t see it as a problem: The shopping center was nearby. After locking Shen Ci in a room, she could just go out and buy some stuff to set up another room, right?

Lin Fangwei exerted significant effort to help Shen Ci into a room on the first floor. After tossing him onto a sofa inside one of the rooms, she locked the door and twisted a piece of wire around the handle. She then immediately went out to shop.

To be honest, if it weren’t so cold outside and the place lacking heating, she could have pinned Shen Ci down right there.

However, Shen Ci was so heavily drunk that he wouldn’t wake up until the middle of the night, giving her plenty of time to buy what she needed.

Thinking about the good things that were coming later, Lin Fangwei’s face turned as red as the evening sky.

For her dream to become reality, she dashed towards the shopping center as fast as she could.

After Lin Fangwei left, Meng Chuyue immediately instructed Erhu to use a spell to open the door and took Shen Ci into her own space.

She intended to give Shen Ci hangover medicine right away but then thought better of it and ordered Erhu, “Twist the wire back in place on the door. I want to give Li Fangwei a good scare.”

Erhu hurried off to do so.

Since Shen Ci would still be needed as a prop in a little bit, Meng Chuyue didn’t wake him immediately. Instead, she applied some colorless and odorless medicinal ointment to the back of his neck, which had been bruised by Lin Fangwei.

Okay, and then she kissed his face.

When Lin Fangwei had been helping Shen Ci inside earlier, if not for Erhu’s interference causing Lin Fangwei to stumble, Lin Fangwei might’ve actually kissed Shen Ci.

Thinking back to how Lin Fangwei may have kissed Shen Ci when helping him into the car earlier, Meng Chuyue felt like her heart was being pricked by needles. She wished she could kill Lin Fangwei with a slap.

She realized her feelings for Shen Ci seemed to have changed.

He used to seem more like a comrade-in-arms to her; whenever she imagined their future, she felt more at ease thinking about leaving Shen Ci behind and living on her own.

The reason she stayed by his side and allowed his closeness was out of a sense of responsibility and pity for him.

But now, provoked by Li Fangwei, her feelings for him had finally become more complicated. For the first time, she felt like those characters in novels: unwilling to let him go.

Unwilling to let him belong to someone else.

…

Lin Fangwei returned rather quickly.

Upon seeing the wire still on the door, she breathed a sigh of relief, followed by an overwhelming joy.

Ha-ha, she was about to have Shen Ci all to herself.

In this way, not only would she be blissfully happy, but she would also witness Meng Chuyue’s suffering.

Ha-ha, even if Shen Ci didn’t want her afterward, Meng Chuyue would suffer for a lifetime, tormented by this incident.

Regardless of whether Shen Ci and Meng Chuyue broke up, they wouldn’t be happy together in the future.

Lin Fangwei’s imagination ran wild as she quickly made the bed and moved Shen Ci from the sofa to the bed.

She initially wanted to kiss him before getting into bed. Yet, as she leaned in close to him, she felt an itch on her calf…

She had to put Shen Ci down first.

However, after scratching the itch and turning back around, she discovered that Shen Ci had vanished.

Could he have fallen to the floor?

She quickly looked down.

Nothing there.

She checked under the bed, but it was also empty.

Aside from the sofa, the bed, a desk, and a few chairs, there was nothing else in the room.

Lin Fangwei searched every possible hiding spot but couldn’t find Shen Ci anywhere.

Could it be that Shen Ci somehow managed to escape?

That conjecture was instantly quashed by the windows nailed shut and the door barred from the inside with a stool.

Was the house haunted? Had a ghost taken Shen Ci?

Or was she dreaming?

Or perhaps, were all those events just her own hallucinations?