Tong Xiaosong silently shook his head.
Zhu Fan lowered his voice, “The four-corner game is played in a pitch-dark rectangular room. Each person stands in one of the four corners, facing the wall and unable to look backward. The game begins with one person from a corner walking towards another corner, gently tapping the shoulder of the person in front, and staying in that corner. Then, the person who was tapped follows the same method, continuing towards the next corner. This cycle repeats until the fourth person walks into an empty corner, finds no one, and coughs. After that, they continue towards the next corner, and so on. Until… all four corners are occupied, and no one coughs, that’s when the… fifth person appears.”
The other two covered the windows with messy bedsheets, and the darkness swallowed the room, making everything pitch-black.
Zhu Fan chuckled ominously, “Tong Xiaosong, this time we are inviting ghosts. Are you scared?”
Tong Xiaosong whispered, “Yes…”
Certainly, he was scared, but not of ghosts; he was afraid of the three people in front of him.
These three were scarier than any ghost.
Cui Jian said, “Alright, let’s begin.”
The other three opened their phones and walked towards the corners.
Since Tong Xiaosong didn’t have a phone, he stumbled along the desk, eventually reaching the wall, and then followed the wall to a corner.
As the light disappeared, the room plunged back into indistinguishable darkness.
Zhao Shanyi volunteered, “I’ll go first!”
Footsteps echoed in the silent and dark classroom.
Tong Xiaosong felt a tap on his shoulder. He walked towards the next corner until he saw someone in front of him. Judging by the back, it was Cui Jian.
He gently tapped Cui Jian.
Without turning around, Cui Jian continued towards the next corner.
After a few seconds, a cough echoed in the room.
After waiting for a while, Tong Xiaosong’s shoulder was tapped again.
With each rotation, a cough would sound.
After many rounds, everyone realized that there hadn’t been a cough for several minutes.
Tong Xiaosong didn’t pay much attention, thinking that someone was staying in a corner.
However, Zhu Fan and the others were uneasy. Why was there someone in every corner?
Weren’t they supposed to scare Tong Xiaosong together?
They hadn’t heard any movement.
Even if there was movement, scaring Tong Xiaosong would be enough. Why did he keep encountering corners where there was someone?
At this moment, a strange sound suddenly occurred. Zhu Fan breathed a sigh of relief and finally began to take action!
***
Tong Xiaosong felt a tap on his shoulder, thinking he would walk to the next corner. Unexpectedly, a large hand pushed his shoulder, pressing him against the wall.
An indescribable smell surrounded him, like a burning odor mixed with the scent of ashes.
The person behind him was tall and strong, with a sturdy body pressed tightly against him.
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Expecting a beating, Tong Xiaosong was surprised when those large hands landed on his waist first.
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Lips pressed against his neck, slightly parting, and the cool tip of a tongue slid gently across his sensitive earlobe, sending shivers down his spine.
Tong Xiaosong snapped back to reality, tears instantly filling his eyes. He fiercely struggled to break free.
“No! Let go! Don’t touch me!”
The other person easily released their grip.
“Let me go! Let me go!”
Tong Xiaosong cried out in a mix of sobbing and wailing. He was terrified to the extreme—how could someone do this to him!?
So disgusting, so disgusting!
His scalp was tingling, and he just wanted to escape from this disgusting place and these terrifying people.
Tong Xiaosong vehemently resisted, stumbling and fumbling towards the door while crying out.
Fortunately, a metal gate was beside him. He immediately rushed towards the door, desperate to escape.
***
Inside the classroom, the first beam of light flickered to life.
Holding his phone aloft, Zhu Fan and the other two people, who were also using their phones for illumination, exchanged puzzled looks.
Zhu Fan: “What happened to Tong Xiaosong? Did you guys beat him up?”
Zhao Shanyi looked at Cui Jian, and Zhu Fan’s gaze shifted to Cui Jian as well.
Cui Jian looked utterly perplexed. “What the hell are you all looking at me for? I have no idea. I thought you two did something to him.”
Zhu Fan: “I was waiting for your signal. I just patted his shoulder.”
Zhao Shanyi: “Me too. What’s wrong with him? Did he get scared out of his mind? Wait a minute, I heard some noise. I thought, Cui Jian, that you pinned him to the wall and beat him up!”
The three of them became even more mystified. After a moment of silence, fear started to creep into their expressions.
Zhu Fan: “…No way, is it really possible?”
Could there really be a fifth person?
In the silence… creak.
“I can’t believe it!”
“Ah—”
“Damn!”
The three individuals looked in horror toward the source of the sound and saw a familiar person—Gu Xuan.
The three of them, clutching their frightened hearts, let out a relieved sigh.
Zhu Fan, with a mournful face, exclaimed, “Damn it, Gu Big bro, when did you arrive? You scared us to death.”
Cui Jian rolled his eyes. “So it’s you. We almost thought we really summoned the fifth person.”
Zhao Shanyi chuckled, glanced up and down at Gu Xuan, and said, “Didn’t you say you threw away this limited edition tactical jacket last time? Why are you wearing it again today? Damn, looks so cool!”
The three chatted among themselves for a while, finally realizing something was amiss.
Gu Xuan, with a cold expression but strangely calm eyes, gazed at the three of them as if he were looking at lifeless objects.
Zhu Fan’s laughter froze on his face. “Bro Gu, what’s wrong?” He shifted his gaze around, suddenly enlightened. “Oh, did Bro Gu not have enough fun earlier? Let’s go grab Tong Xiaosong now. However, Bro Gu wants to handle it, we’re fine with it, right, guys?”
A slight curve finally appeared at the corner of Gu Xuan’s mouth, but it wasn’t a smile.
The next moment, the light from their phones instantly went out.
The entire classroom was engulfed once again in a blood-red darkness.
A scream of extreme terror pierced through the air.
“Who are you?!”
“You’re not Gu—”
The voice of fear and despair abruptly came to a halt.
***
Tong Xiaosong ran out of the old school building, crying, gasping for breath. Tears covered his vision, and no matter how he wiped them away, everything remained blurry.
He didn’t know where to escape.
He dared not return to the dormitory, unwilling to face those three people again.
How could they treat him like that?
It was so disgusting!
He realized there were things more painful than being physically beaten.
Those people could still treat him like this.
The sharp blade pierced his heart, like a towering tree emerging from the ground, growing wildly and brutally, obscuring all the light.
Sorry, sister.
I don’t know how to endure this.
I can’t endure it anymore.
Sister, I’m sorry.
I really can’t go on.
Why?
Why is it so dirty, so disgusting?
Sister, if we can’t resist, why don’t we leave together?
Let’s leave together…
With a loud bang, Tong Xiaosong instantly regained all of his senses. Something seemed to have fallen not far in front of him.
He tried hard to clear his eyes, staring fearfully to discern what it was.
A struggle sound, indescribable in nature, echoed.
He first saw the ground beneath him, where some red liquid seemed to be flowing.
Slowly lifting his gaze, Zhao Shanyi appeared before him, but almost unrecognizable as a human.
He still remembered that night when Zhao Shanyi personally suspended him outside the window. He had contemplated various ways he could die if the rope broke, including the one unfolding in front of him right now.
Zhao Shanyi’s upper body was tightly pressed against the ground, his face shattered.
His legs bent at an unnatural angle, piercing into his chest, and you could even see his heart beating slowly through the ribs.
The arms looked like twisted lines made of clay, curving in irregular patterns.
Blood overflowed from his eyes, and his lips desperately opened and closed on the blood-soaked ground.
“There… are… ghosts…”
Tong Xiaosong couldn’t clearly hear what the other person was saying. His entire soul seemed to have flown out of his body. He even wondered if he was in a nightmare that he hadn’t woken up from; how could there be such a horrifying scene in the world.
No, he had to wake up!
It was too terrifying!
This dream was too horrifying!
Tong Xiaosong stared in horror at those lifeless red eyes, his tears already dried up.
He felt that his whole body had become numb, and his body was almost beyond his control.
Dragging his two weak and trembling legs, he took two steps back.
Anywhere would do; he needed to leave this place.
This must be a nightmare!
All he needed was to wake up from this dream!
Tong Xiaosong turned and ran, exerting all his strength to escape from this terrifying place.
With a bang, he burst into the dormitory, trembling as he pulled the curtain around his bed. He didn’t even have time to take off his shoes before burying himself under the covers.
Sleep, everything will be better when he wakes up.
Just sleep…
Omg so he posses that Gu whatever guy… :-(). Thank you for the chap MiniPickle! ^0^
ˁ•ᴗ•ˀつ～ 💞
The question is if it was the ghost or gu xuan behind the Bad Touch. If it’s the ghost, he needs to relearn his manners after being a malevolent spirit for so long
agreed, from the smell I think it was the ghost. it’s sad how I was almost relieved when it was Gu Xuan we see, so our boy didn’t have to go through that at the hands of the love interest, but it was shattered when it’s clear Gu Xuan was possessed or it just looked like Gu Xuan.
baby ghost, you need to learn to be a gentleman.
One down… 3 to go (including that nasty gu xuan)
Ok !!! One down 3 more to go. Thank you for a satisfying chapter.
This whole story is way darker than I was expecting, but I have to admit, I’m glad that the bullies are getting some serious comeuppance. Too often stories let them off lightly to demonstrate how kind or good the protags are, but sometimes you just want to see the antagonists’ insides turned outside. Sorry, not sorry. 🤷🏼♀️