After Death, I Discovered My Wife Was the Villainess of a Supernatural Novel - Chapter 8

Of course, the cup would not fall by itself. The culprit was curled up in the corner like a child who had done something wrong.

Mainly, Mu Zhao’s mind was in complete chaos right now. After all, she had just learned a secret she had not known while she was alive.

Senior… liked her?

Li-liked…

Mu Zhao’s expression was blank, but the corners of her mouth uncontrollably curved upward. Even when she tried to pull them down with her hands, she could not stop them.

Actually, she had never told anyone—not even her best friend Qian Youyu—that a long, long time ago, the very first time they met, when Senior pulled her and her suitcase out of the ditch, Mu Zhao had confirmed her first crush in life at first sight.

That time… thinking back on it now, it was really quite embarrassing. Their first meeting had not been beautiful like a fairy tale. Instead, Mu Zhao had embarrassed herself greatly.

Back then, when university had just started, her parents were as busy as usual and had no time to send her off. The family driver’s wife had happened to give birth and needed someone to take care of her, so Mu Zhao did not let anyone come with her. After all, the school was in the city. Self-reliant Little Mu Zhao dragged two huge suitcases to the school all by herself.

Once she arrived at school, she wandered around alone and, unsurprisingly, got lost. After circling around for a long time, she ended up beside a dried-up little ditch. The extremely heavy suitcase made Mu Zhao’s hand ache from dragging it. Just as she was moving her wrist to relax for a moment, perhaps because she had placed it in the wrong spot, the suitcase slid toward the dry ditch with a “zi-liu.” She instinctively chased after it and grabbed the suitcase, only to be dragged into the ditch by its weight, falling into mud all over.

Even thinking about it now, she felt she had been too stupid back then. How dangerous. What if she had fallen headfirst and smashed into a rock?

Senior had said the same thing about her. Ignoring the custom-tailored suit she was wearing, Senior had also gone down into the ditch and brought her out. Seeing that Mu Zhao had been frightened into crying pitifully, she had even stayed with her for a long time.

Later, Senior attended the opening ceremony as a specially invited alumna of the school. Only then did Mu Zhao learn that the kind and beautiful big sister was actually a senior several years above her, and one with an extremely impressive identity. Occasionally, Senior would be invited to give lectures to the students of the School of Economics and Management.

As for Mu Zhao, she was from the School of Arts. In order to see Senior, she shamelessly competed with the economics and management students for seats every few days.

And at the bottom of her suitcase, even now, there was still a thick stack of love letters she had never dared to send.

It was just that the disgusting things her parents did later made her feel more and more unworthy. She gradually became aware of the gap between them in every aspect. And at that time, there were too many outstanding people around Senior. Mu Zhao hid this crush deep in her heart, and their usual interactions were also limited to the identities of senior and junior.

Until something happened to her family and the company faced bankruptcy. When her parents wanted to marry her to an old man, she jumped straight down from the second floor of the family villa in an attempt to escape.

In the end, as expected, she sprained her ankle. While she was limping away, she happened to run right into Senior.

It was Senior who found her, carried her back to her own home, and found a doctor to treat her foot. In the end… Senior gave her a prenuptial agreement…

She had thought… that it was Senior taking pity on her. That Senior had used her own marriage to save her, completely pulling her out of that suffocating mire. Her parents no longer had any means to control her… or rather, everything had been blocked by Senior.

Having taken advantage of Senior’s kindness toward her, even with Mu Zhao’s carefree personality, she did not dare ask for more. Some things, once hesitated over, had dragged on until today.

But! On the eighth day after her death, she learned from someone else’s mouth that Senior liked her too!

If she were still alive right now, she could immediately dig out her stored-up love letters and recite a ten-thousand-word confession to Senior on the spot. Of course she should be the one to confess!

Mu Zhao’s sparkling eyes landed on Fu Yushang. She desperately hoped to receive a definite answer from her mouth. However…

“Don’t talk nonsense!” Fu Yushang’s tone was more serious than Mu Zhao had ever heard before, even somewhat impatient.

“…” So it was nonsense? Mu Zhao felt as though her mood had plunged straight from the top of a roller coaster into the valley below.

But Lan Yujing understood what Fu Yushang meant. She said, “If you don’t want me to go to your wife’s grave and tattle, then you must let me help with what you’re doing!”

The misunderstanding Mu Zhao hung on the window like a salted fish that had lost all dreams. Her head and half her body were outside. She needed the cold wind to clear her mind.

How embarrassing! She had actually really believed that Senior liked her… Luckily, she was now a soul no one could see. Otherwise, if she had really gone to confess, she could directly jump from here right now.

“Hey! Whatever it is, we can talk it out! Don’t move recklessly!”

A commotion came from below the hospital. Mu Zhao had not paid attention at first. After all, no one could see her, and she was still feeling sad. But the noisy shouting below never stopped, which was quite annoying. From the sound of it… someone seemed to want to commit suicide?

Being alive was so wonderful. Do not take things too hard.

With the thought that saving a life was better than building a seven-story pagoda, Mu Zhao raised her head, preparing to see who wanted to jump off the building. At a critical moment, perhaps she could help.

But when she looked at the person below, she froze. How was it the female lead, Kou Zishu?! And the direction she was looking in… no matter how Mu Zhao looked at it, Kou Zishu was looking at her!

Aaaah! The gauze over her left eye had been removed!

Kou Zishu thought that “person” was about to jump off the building. Seeing that the other party had been frozen there all this time, she judged the position and immediately rushed into the inpatient department. She knocked fiercely on the door of the high-level VIP ward.

Lan Yujing opened the door. Seeing the panting Kou Zishu, she asked, “Is something wrong?”

“You’re asking me what’s wrong? Can’t you see someone is about to jump off the building?!” In her anxiety, Kou Zishu had no time to care about her attitude.

“Jump off the building? There’s only me and the patient in the ward. No one is jumping. Did you find the wrong room?” Lan Yujing looked utterly baffled.

With this, Kou Zishu also fell into self-doubt. Had she really found the wrong place?

“Would it be convenient for me to go in and take a look? I’m a police officer.” Kou Zishu opened her ID to prove her identity, indicating that she meant no harm.

Lan Yujing frowned and turned back to ask Fu Yushang. After receiving an affirmative answer, she stepped aside and let Kou Zishu enter.

How strange…

Kou Zishu opened the window and checked the position. She was certain this was the place where she had just seen that woman hanging outside.

“It really is here…” Kou Zishu’s sharp gaze swept across the entire ward, trying to find traces of a third person’s presence, but there were none.

“Officer, what exactly are you looking for? Our patient still needs to rest.”

“Sorry. I just saw a woman hanging from this window. I thought she was going to jump, so I got a little anxious.”

“What?” Lan Yujing’s gaze carried confusion, surprise, and also horror.

The patient’s eyes also held only confusion. From that perspective, there was nothing abnormal about either of them.

Wait. This patient looked familiar… She was Director Fu’s younger sister! The two of them really did look quite alike!

Kou Zishu reflexively stood up straight and said to Fu Yushang, “Sorry for disturbing you!”

“It’s fine.”

Kou Zishu left with a stomach full of doubts, leaving Lan Yujing with endless fright.

“Is there something wrong with that person’s brain? What woman hanging from the window? She made it sound like a ghost story… Old Fu, why don’t you change wards? I suddenly feel like it’s a little cold here.”

At that moment, Mu Zhao quietly crawled out from under the bed, crossed through the ward, and followed Kou Zishu.

How strange…

Kou Zishu was certain she had not seen wrong. In her previous team, she had ranked first in every aspect of training, including shooting practice. Her eyesight was unmatched in the entire team. It was even more impossible for her to make such a huge mistake with a full-grown person.

“Gela, gela…”

Not far away, a nurse pushed a cart forward. Kou Zishu instinctively prepared to step aside, but she realized that other than herself, not a single person was avoiding that nurse!

Kou Zishu was just about to speak when an ice-cold hand suddenly covered her mouth.

“Don’t speak. Unless you want to be treated like a lunatic and taken away by everyone else.”

“Walk forward. No matter what happens, don’t look surprised. If you can’t accept it, you can move a little to the side.”

A mysterious voice sounded from behind her. Kou Zishu broke out in cold sweat from fright. If that had been an enemy just now, they would have been able to take her life!

Fortunately, the other party meant no harm…

Just as she thought that, Kou Zishu’s eyes suddenly widened, because she saw the nurse pushing the cart pass straight through the bodies of everyone who came face-to-face with her.

“Don’t look at her. Walk forward.” The mysterious voice reminded her again. This time, the cold hand covering her mouth disappeared.

Kou Zishu walked forward stiffly, moving the arm and leg on the same side together. This time, she strictly followed the mysterious voice’s instructions and kept her eyes straight ahead.

When she brushed past that nurse, Kou Zishu felt herself enveloped by an icy aura, just like the strange incident she had encountered last time when she was catching tomb robbers.

No, that was not right! The nurse’s clothes and her cart were absolutely not things from this era!

Only after the sound of the nurse pushing the cart gradually moved away did that mysterious voice appear again.

“Find a place with no one around.”

“Who exactly are you?” Kou Zishu was extremely wary of the person who had remained behind her without showing herself.

“Pfft!” The mysterious person suddenly laughed. “All right, all right. Stop talking. Didn’t you see the way that person was looking at you?”

Kou Zishu raised her head and saw a person not far from her looking at her strangely. Kou Zishu’s face immediately flushed red, and she hurriedly left the area.

She rushed all the way back to her car and sat in the driver’s seat.

“Are you there?”

“I’m here~”

A frivolous voice suddenly appeared beside her, and Kou Zishu almost yanked the steering wheel off.

At some point, a young woman had appeared in the passenger seat. She even looked inexplicably familiar.

“You’re the one who was about to jump off the building just now!”

“Haha… Miss Kou, I wasn’t trying to jump. You misunderstood!”

“An action like that is very dangerous! Even if you had no intention of jumping, what if you accidentally slipped and fell? It would be too late for regret!” Kou Zishu habitually entered lecture mode.

“Yes, Officer. I know I was wrong.” Mu Zhao instinctively became obedient in front of the police officer. But in the next second, she reacted. Wait, no! This was not the original plan! How had she been suppressed by the female lead?!

“Then… what was that thing just now? And what exactly are you?” Kou Zishu’s gaze was sharp, carrying a slight sense of pressure.

“Th-That… I’m just a cute and innocent ghost~”

Mu Zhao tried hard to widen her eyes, hoping the police officer could clearly see the innocence in her gaze.