On his way to school, Xiao Lin witnessed a tragic car accident.
The traffic light was a glaring red, but the driver seemed to be blind. He drove at a high speed into the middle of the road, hitting a pedestrian who was crossing the road.
It all happened in a swift moment, leaving everyone unable to react in time and just dazedly watching the accident happen.
The impact sent the pedestrian hurling and colliding heavily with the ground. His body lay on the ground in a puddle of blood, twisted into a weird posture.
Xiao Lin stared blankly at the blood splattered on his shoes, thinking that if he had taken even half a step forward, he would’ve met the same fate as that person.
The traffic police and ambulance arrived quickly, and the scene was thrown into chaos. Seeing that he was running late, Xiao Lin didn’t even bother going home to change into a new pair of shoes, merely hurrying back to school.
Throughout the entire day he spent sitting in the classroom, a feeling of unreality clung to him uncomfortably. Every now and then, the scene would replay vividly in his mind, of how the man was thrown in the air, of his head cracking open, of blood pooling beneath the twitching body. The more he tried to wash away the scene from his mind, the more it stubbornly lingered.
Xiao Lin was absent-minded all day and failed to focus on the lectures. When he returned home that evening, he found his mother cleaning the house. By chance, she happened to take a glimpse of his shoes, and questioned him, “Did you go out in the wild? Why are your shoes so dirty?”
After wearing the shoes for a whole day, the blood on them had dried up, turning brown and black. It indeed appeared as if the shoes had simply been soiled in the mud.
A shiver ran through Xiao Lin, and the horrifying memories came back rushing into his mind like waves. Without uttering a word, he picked up his shoes and ran out the door, throwing them far away. As a result, he got scolded by his mother for being wasteful. When he explained the reason, his mother’s face changed, and she said, “I’ll get some grapefruit leaves to ward off the pungent smell.”
His studies had reached a critical stage, and constant exams followed one after another, either minor or major. Xiao Lin did not dare relax. He was seated at his table, his thoughts a complete mess. In the end, he unzipped his school bag and took out 《Three-Years and Five-Years of College Entrance Examination Simulation》.
As he did so, his ears suddenly felt cold, as if someone was blowing air in his ears. Xiao Lin turned his head, and realized the window was not shut tightly. The wind kept billowing the curtains.
He got up and shut the window properly, then settled down again to solve the questions.
If that straight line…..and the straight line 4x+ky…..then the constant k would be equal to…
“Idiot, it’s -6.” Suddenly, a voice rang out in his ear.
Xiao Lin, who was nibbling his pen and pondering in a trance, jumped almost three feet high, and his chair also tumbled and fell over.
He whipped his head and looked around in horror.
Of course no one was present, he was the only one in his room.
I must be simply hallucinating because of over-exhaustion. Xiao Lin comforted himself.
“Why aren’t you hurrying up and solving the questions? What a fool.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
Ktf nblmf rbecvfv jujlc.
Wljb Olc’r ojmf aegcfv qjif, ogbw ktlaf ab ugffc, jcv ogbw ugffc ab yijmx.
“Qtb jgf sbe?” Lf jrxfv klat qbbgis-mbcmfjifv agfwbgr lc tlr nblmf.
“It seems like I’m a ghost,” said the voice.
Wljb Olc, “…..Qtja vb sbe wfjc, “rffwr ilxf”? Slatfg sbe jgf, bg sbe jgfc’a.”
The ghost, “Okay, fine.”
C atbeuta mgbrrfv Wljb Olc’r tfjv, jcv tf jrxfv, “Cgf sbe atja qfgrbc ktb kjr tla ys atf mjg atlr wbgclcu?”
The ghost was surprised: “How did you know?”
Xiao Lin explained, “I was walking behind you this morning, and I almost ended up just like you….Wait, you’re not looking for a substitute, are you? I heard that after a person dies, they will look for a substitute in order to be reincarnated.”
The ghost, “It seems so.”
Xiao Lin felt unnerved. He couldn’t see the ghost, nor could he deduce the other party’s temperament.
He earnestly persuaded the ghost, “Brother, as you can see, I’m not handsome, nor am I good at studies. I only got a glimpse of your back, but I remember you. You were tall, with a straight posture, and also well-dressed. I definitely won’t be to your liking. It’s best if you don’t use me as a substitute. Though, if you have any unfulfilled wishes that I can help with, I’ll try my best. But please don’t use my body to reincarnate and start a new life, I really don’t desire such.”
The ghost said, “I’ve forgotten everything. I don’t remember my name, address, occupation, or relatives nor friends. I only seem to recall the scene where I was hit by a car.”
Xiao Lin, “Well, as long as you don’t hurt me, you can request anything.”
The ghost couldn’t be seen, but Xiao Lin could hear his voice. His mother came into his room, carrying a bowl of sliced, tender fruits.
Xiao Lin asked, “Didn’t you want to bring grapefruit leaves to wash off the odor?”
His mother said, “After thinking about it, I feel that I need to start believing in science, and not in these feudal superstitions.”
Xiao Lin, “…..”
The ghost spoke beside him, “Why don’t you go find a monk or a Taoist priest and ask if they can help me gain my memories and reincarnate as a human being as soon as possible?”
What a good ghost, Xiao Lin thought. Most ghosts he’d seen in movies were extremely desperate and insisted on catching a substitute to return to the world as soon as they can. This one actively asked to be converted. Such high-level ideologic awareness!
“What’s up with you? I’ve already solved the tenth question, yet you’re still stuck on the first one. The answer is 14, which is the root number, you idiot!” The ghost noticed he was in a daze, and promptly scolded him.
Xiao Lin, “…..”
When he checked the answer, the ghost was indeed correct.
The thing is, calculations don’t require being solved on paper, they can just be done mentally.
Xiao Lin admired the ghost, “Brother Gui, you can participate in “The Most Powerful Brain”!”
The ghost, “What’s that?”
Xiao Lin explained, “In a variety show. You can speak the Northeastern dialect, right? Could it be that you are from Northeastern China?”
The ghost brushed it off, “Don’t remember. Guawazi, hurry up and solve the next question!”
Xiao Lin realized the ghost had an unusual enthusiasm for solving the questions. That, or he was simply too bored. Moreover, his IQ was very high, so he must’ve been an extraordinary person in his life.
Under the ghost’s supervision, Xiao Lin solved several pages of questions in one night. The ghost also seemed to have obsessive-compulsive disorder, forcing him to keep solving.
Xiao Lin surrendered. “No, I’m exhausted! Just let me sleep. Anyway, today’s homework has been completed, the teacher asked us to do only three pages. I’ve already done five pages, which is more than complete!”
The ghost, “Now I have an unfulfilled wish.”
Xiao Lin: ???
“That is, I want to see you finish the “Three-Year and Five-Year College Entrance Examination Simulation”, otherwise you’ll be arrested as substitute.”
Xiao Lin, “…..”
The next day, the Chinese teacher took an exam on a whim. The paper was densely packed with questions that were not required to be memorized, but the students still had to do their best. Xiao Lin’s Chinese scores were always good, and with a flourish of his pen, he started writing the answers with ease.
But the ghost was still unsatisfied with his level and kept nagging at him.
“It’s “frost and dew that stains your clothes”, not “frost and snow”!”
Xiao Lin muttered in a low voice, “This was originally an extra question. I memorized the answer well, but I just got one word wrong.”
The ghost ridiculed him, “In the college entrance examination, will the grader give you a free mistake?”
After a few seconds, the ghost chirped up again, “You’ve got to choose C for the question just now.”
Xiao Lin, “I think D is the correct answer.”
The ghost, “CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC…”
Xiao Lin, unable to bear it anymore, stood up and yelled, “Stop being annoying!”
The whole class shifted their gaze towards him.
The teacher, “Xiao Lin, what are you doing?”
Xiao Lin froze for a few seconds, then hastened to reply as he came back to his senses, “Teacher, when I saw the test paper, I couldn’t suppress my passion, and had the urge to express my feelings. Listen carefully—the seagulls are squawking before the store comes, squawking I say! They’re flying across the sea, trying to hide their fear of deep-sea storms!”
The whole class burst into laughter, and a faint blush appeared on Xiao Lin’s face. He started this whole chaos himself, and must end it too.
The Chinese teacher was considerate and, in the end, didn’t punish Xiao Lin to stand in the corridor.
Even after the exam was over, the ghost kept nagging him.
“You must’ve chosen the wrong answer for the reading comprehension just now…”
Xiao Lin couldn’t stand it anymore and searched online for the Ksitigarbha Scripture, wanting to take matters in his own hands and save the ghost.
The ghost knew it was for his own reincarnation, so he naturally had no objections. In fact, he was quite happy. It didn’t matter to him whether Xiao Lin could stand him or not.
Dusk fell, and after eating his dinner, Xiao Lin sat down in his room and began to chant 《The Original Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva》 downloaded from the internet.
“…… the sibilant sounds are numerous. The silicon sounds are pinpoint. The sounds of distant departure are pinpoint. The sounds of ships are many, the sounds of small waves are pinpoint…..”
Xiao Lin felt the ghost must be sitting upright and listening carefully.
Everything was steering in the right direction so far.
But then the ghost suddenly said, “You mispronounced those two words. It’s not ban ruo, it’s bo re.”
Xiao Lin, “…..”
He stubbornly bit the bullet and continued chanting.
“Jie…”
The ghost, “It’s “Shijie”.”
Xiao Lin finally lost his patience. “Why don’t you come chant it instead??”
The ghost, “Do you know why it’s called Saha? Because this Is the transliteration of Sanskrit, which means tolerable, and the Saha world refers to the three thousand worlds taught by Sakyamuni….”
Xiao Lin listened to him nagging for another half an hour, and finally said in despair, “Why do you even know that? You remember this, but forgot your own name? You’re not playing tricks on me, are you?”
The ghost, “Maybe I’m destined to be with you.”
Xiao Lin submitted his experience to a public marketing account dedicated to supernatural events, and the netizens below complained one after another, “Handwritten applications are becoming less and less nowadays, and even elementary school students have the nerve to submit applications!”
Rage nearly made Xiao Lin vomit blood. He gritted his teeth and decided to tell his mother about this matter, requesting her help to find an expert to save this ghost.
Hahaha, that ghost sounds kinda annoying. Let’s light a candle for XL’s nerves xDD
Thx for the ch (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘)
But he would be a good cheat tool lolol
Haha looking for ward to this story😁
Thank you for the chapter 🦊
wait, why do i feel like i’ve read this story before? istg it was this same story, especially the ghost teasing the guy to complete his homework and stuffwas this translated previously in any other website? im so confused lolstill going to read it again tho!
well yes chapter 1 was uploaded by another translator but it hadn’t been updated for like 9 months so i picked it up
I remember reading it long time ago and I’m happy to see it here! o(≧∇≦o) Time for re-read~ ^^ ❤
Bro got a free tutor 🤣