Carrying My Senior's Coffin (GL) - Chapter 13

Hadn’t they already agreed on this?

Fang Yiyi looked at her blankly and made a soft questioning sound.

“Mm?”

Her watery brown eyes were filled entirely with Li Ting’s reflection.

Soft, sweet, and unbearably obedient.

Li Ting narrowed her eyes, then lowered her head and kissed those pale lips.

Just as she had expected, they did not look particularly enticing, yet they were unexpectedly warm and soft, making her want to take even more.

Li Ting had never been the type to deny herself.

The moment the thought arose, the tip of her nimble tongue pried past Fang Yiyi’s teeth and drove straight in, invading every inch.

Her hands did not remain idle either.

She loosened Fang Yiyi’s clothes, pressed her palm against the warmth beneath her, then kneaded and stroked with slow, teasing movements, fanning the flames higher.

Fang Yiyi was completely stunned.

It was not as though this was the first time they had done things in bed, but every previous time, they had gone straight to the main event.

Something like this had never even crossed Fang Yiyi’s mind, let alone happened.

After her initial shock, Li Ting quickly swept Fang Yiyi along until she could no longer think about anything else.

She was kissed senseless, her head spinning.

As Li Ting’s hands moved over her body, a strange pleasure began to rise inside her.

Gradually, even her thoughts no longer seemed to belong to her.

Li Ting propped herself up and stared at Fang Yiyi’s flushed face.

Seeing Fang Yiyi’s lips slightly parted and her unfocused eyes, she could not help scolding her.

“Are you an idiot? Don’t you know how to breathe?”

Fang Yiyi suddenly came back to herself.

In the next moment, her chest rose and fell violently as she gulped in air.

She covered her face.

Whether from embarrassment, lack of oxygen, or something else entirely, her cheeks were flushed an abnormal red.

“S-Sorry…”

“You’re unbelievably stupid.”

After saying that, Li Ting lowered herself over her again.

Their restrained breathing gradually grew rougher.

Two figures intertwined, lingering together intimately.

By the time the human and ghost finally called a truce, the sun was sinking behind the western hills, bathing the entire world in warm orange light.

Fang Yiyi had not closed the curtains.

She lay sprawled lazily across the bed, watching Li Ting sitting on the windowsill.

Sunlight fell across Li Ting’s body.

Her clothes were vivid red, the light outlining a soft, fuzzy edge around them.

Her long black hair hung obediently down her back and seemed to have dried completely.

A faint pink tint colored her beautiful cheeks.

Expressionless, she stared down at something outside the building.

For a moment, Fang Yiyi felt dazed.

Li Ting looked exactly like a living person right now.

She did not resemble a ghost at all.

Compared to Li Ting’s radiant energy, Fang Yiyi looked as though she were the dead one.

She was physically and mentally exhausted and did not want to move even a single finger.

Her phone lay beside her pillow, the screen showing a paused video that had finished playing.

She wanted to close it, but she did not even have the strength to reach out.

She was completely worn out.

Fang Yiyi could not help wondering whether she could truly survive until graduation.

Would she really avoid dying tragically young?

And she was so hungry.

“Senior…”

Her voice came out hoarse the moment she spoke.

Li Ting did not react.

She continued staring downstairs as though she had not heard.

“Senior!”

Fang Yiyi licked her lips and called again.

“Mm?”

This time, Li Ting heard her.

She turned around and looked at Fang Yiyi, her expression unreadable.

“I’m hungry.”

Li Ting chuckled.

“Should I go get you food?”

“…”

Fang Yiyi genuinely imagined that scene for a moment.

It seemed rather fantastical.

For the sake of peace at Zhengling Women’s University, Fang Yiyi weakly said, “Help me order delivery. I don’t have the strength to pick up my phone.”

Li Ting walked over, took the phone, expertly opened the app store, and downloaded a food-delivery application.

At the same time, she mocked Fang Yiyi.

“So weak.”

And whose fault was that?

Fang Yiyi pouted but did not say it aloud.

She also noticed that Li Ting was now walking with both feet touching the ground.

Her posture was graceful and dignified, her figure elegant and upright.

Her poise was immaculate.

She looked better than anyone Fang Yiyi had ever seen.

Fang Yiyi could not help thinking that there really were people whose mere walk could make it impossible to look away.

She suddenly became curious.

What kind of person had Li Ting been while she was alive?

“Have you linked a bank card?” Li Ting asked.

“No…”

The phone was newly purchased, and this was Fang Yiyi’s first smartphone.

She had not set up anything yet.

“Card number.”

Fang Yiyi had an excellent memory and recited a long string of numbers.

“What do you want to eat?”

Holding the phone in one hand, Li Ting tapped around the screen.

Fang Yiyi answered without hesitation.

“Century egg and lean pork congee, and three cabbage-and-pork buns.”

“Mm,” Li Ting said. “It’ll arrive in half an hour. Go downstairs and get it yourself.”

“Okay…”

Fang Yiyi’s eyes shone brightly.

“Senior, you’re so good at using smartphones. Better than me.”

Li Ting looked at her with disdain.

“I’m not you.”

“Senior is amazing!”

Fang Yiyi’s praise was completely sincere.

“You’re simply too stupid.”

“No, Senior is just too amazing.”

Li Ting smiled.

“Oh? In what way?”

“In every way! It’s just a shame you died too young.”

Fang Yiyi sounded regretful.

“Heh.”

Li Ting laughed.

Her gaze traveled down Fang Yiyi’s body and stopped somewhere specific.

With obvious ill intent, she asked, “Am I amazing in that way too?”

At first, Fang Yiyi did not understand.

Then she followed Li Ting’s line of sight and abruptly realized what she meant.

“Senior, you’re terrible!”

The wicked senior who had successfully teased her junior let out two delighted chuckles.

After a while, Fang Yiyi recovered some energy.

Her voice was no longer as hoarse as before, and she began chattering at Li Ting again.

“Senior.”

Li Ting lowered her head to look at her.

“?”

Staring at the ceiling, Fang Yiyi asked, “How did you die? You were around my age when you died, right?”

“Why?” Li Ting asked with a smile. “Do you want to imitate me?”

After absorbing Fang Yiyi’s essence, Li Ting’s temper had improved considerably.

She was also more willing to chat with her.

“Um… I heard people say,” Fang Yiyi began, “that only people with unresolved obsessions become ghosts after death.”

“Either they have an unfulfilled wish or they carry enormous hatred, so they can’t enter reincarnation.”

“But I don’t think Senior seems like someone filled with hatred.”

“Are you planning to perform a ritual to release my soul?”

“Huh?”

Fang Yiyi looked completely lost.

“I probably can’t do that…”

“I only know the Song of Don’t Get Angry.”

She forced herself to recite, “‘Don’t get angry. Life is only a play. We meet in this lifetime because fate brought us together…’”

She asked awkwardly, “Would that work? Should I recite a few more lines?”

“…”

Li Ting reflected on why she had bothered speaking to her at all.

She said bluntly, “You look so stupid. If I stay with you too long, will your low intelligence become contagious?”

“Huh?”

Fang Yiyi stared blankly.

“Never mind.”

Li Ting waved a hand, floated back toward the window, and sat on the windowsill again.

“Stop talking. Rest properly and save enough strength to go downstairs for the delivery.”

Fang Yiyi obediently lay still.

“Oh…”

Senior seemed to like the windowsill very much.

Fang Yiyi blinked at the snow-white ceiling.

Sunlight refracted through the window, covering it in a warm orange glow like wallpaper printed with geometric patterns.

She still found it such a pity.

Someone like Li Ting must have been very popular when she was alive.

Back then, the newspaper bearing Li Ting’s photograph and the headline declaring her the country’s top college entrance examination scorer had spread through every street and alley.

When Fang Yiyi walked home from kindergarten, a journey that took only five minutes, she had seen that newspaper at least ten times.

Even in black-and-white ink, Li Ting’s beauty had been unmistakable.

Her features were as exquisite as a painting, and her bright eyes sparkled with charm.

At first glance, one might have mistaken it for the front page of an entertainment newspaper featuring a famous actress.

Half an hour later, Fang Yiyi slowly made her way downstairs, one careful step at a time, to retrieve her food.

She ran into the director of student affairs.

“Hello, Director.”

The director’s surname was Tong.

She was a young woman, not yet thirty, and very beautiful.

She was the kind of accomplished young goddess people admired.

“Fang Yiyi?”

Director Tong seemed extremely surprised.

Fang Yiyi supported herself with one hand on the stair railing while holding the takeout bag in the other.

“Director, you remember me? What brings you here?”

Director Tong smiled.

“Pretty young women always leave a deep impression.”

Realizing that Director Tong was complimenting her, Fang Yiyi’s face reddened.

She said shyly, “I’m not pretty. You’re the pretty one.”

Director Tong spoke kindly.

“I went away for training a few days ago. As soon as I returned, I heard what happened to you.”

“At the end of the day, it was because I failed to manage the students properly that they behaved so outrageously.”

“I came to check on you, but before I even reached your room, I ran into you here.”

Fang Yiyi was hardly familiar with this director.

In the year and a half since enrolling, she had only seen her a handful of times.

She immediately felt overwhelmed by the attention and hurriedly said, “It’s fine, really. How could this be your fault?”

“I’m perfectly fine. Look, I’m lively and healthy.”

After saying that, she even attempted to spin in a circle.

Halfway through, pain shot through her waist.

She doubled over while clutching the railing and hissed through her teeth.

Director Tong froze, then quickly stepped forward to support her.

Looking down at the crown of Fang Yiyi’s head, her expression became complicated.

Fang Yiyi noticed nothing.

She only felt embarrassed.

“Sorry. I made a fool of myself in front of you.”

“Not at all.”

Director Tong smiled.

“There’s nothing to be embarrassed about. I’ll walk you back.”

Fang Yiyi wanted to refuse.

However, she had already exhausted every phrase she could think of and had no idea what else to say.

If Director Tong walked her back, the journey might become awkward.

But the director had already taken her arm and was helping her climb one step at a time.

Fang Yiyi truly did not know how to phrase a refusal.

The presence of an unfamiliar person beside her made her extremely uncomfortable.

It would be nice if Senior were here, Fang Yiyi could not help thinking.

The weather was hot, so Fang Yiyi wore short sleeves.

Director Tong held her arm, and the Buddhist bead hung loosely around her wrist.

“Yiyi, are you wearing a bracelet?” Director Tong asked.

Fang Yiyi glanced at it.

“Oh, you mean this Buddhist bead?”

She did not know how to explain it, so she could only answer, “Yes.”

Then she ran out of words.

“What is carved on it? There are so many characters.”

Director Tong seemed very interested.

“Probably Buddhist scripture. I’m not sure.”

Director Tong said, “One of my ancestors practiced Buddhism, and I’ve studied Buddhist scriptures a little myself.”

“Your Buddhist bead looks unusual. May I examine it?”

Fang Yiyi panicked slightly.

She definitely could not let Director Tong examine it.

The problem was how to refuse.

When no answer came, Director Tong prompted her.

“Yiyi?”

“Ah? Oh…”

Fang Yiyi said apologetically, “Sorry, Director. You can’t look at it.”

As she spoke, she pulled her arm away.

Director Tong’s smile vanished instantly.

Her gaze deepened, and she asked without emotion, “Why?”

Fang Yiyi was extremely sensitive to other people’s emotions.

Naturally, she noticed that Director Tong was unhappy.

Her palm-sized face immediately scrunched up bitterly.

She wished she could slap her useless mouth.

See? She’s angry. I knew she would be angry.

Forcing herself to continue, Fang Yiyi said, “This… this was given to me by a friend. It’s very important, so…”

“I’m not going to steal it,” Director Tong interrupted coldly. “I only want to look. I’ll return it immediately.”

“Then… then…”

Fang Yiyi extended her wrist.

“Maybe you can look at it like this? Please don’t take it off.”

Director Tong did not move.

She only stared silently at Fang Yiyi until her scalp tingled.

Fang Yiyi shrank her neck, suddenly feeling frightened.

“Director…”

Director Tong abruptly smiled.

She looked completely different from a moment earlier.

“I was only joking with you.”

“Since a friend gave it to you, of course you should treasure it properly.”

“Yiyi must be a friend worth making.”

Her expression had changed so quickly that Fang Yiyi did not immediately recover.

She stared blankly.

“Oh… I see.”

What had the director just said?

She had been joking?

Then was Fang Yiyi supposed to…

“Ha ha ha ha ha…”

Fang Yiyi forced out a long string of dry laughter.

“…”

As she continued laughing, even she began to feel foolish.

Director Tong said, “Yiyi, you’re very humorous.”

Fang Yiyi replied, “…Ha ha.”

While they spoke, the two of them arrived outside Dormitory 404.

Fang Yiyi breathed a long sigh of relief.

For the first time, she was this happy to return to her dormitory.

Finally.

“Director, I’m here. Thank you.”

“So Yiyi lives in 404?”

Director Tong did not leave.

She looked up at the room number, and for some reason, her voice carried a strangely benevolent warmth.

“Yes.”

Fang Yiyi scratched her head.

She had no intention of inviting her inside.

“I once had a classmate who lived in this room too.”

When Director Tong said this, she did not look at Fang Yiyi.

Instead, she stared up at the room number with a nostalgic expression.

Hm?

Fang Yiyi froze, then asked in surprise, “H-Huh? Your classmate?”

“Yes.”

Director Tong sighed softly, her voice gentle.

“She was an exceptional student.”

“Oh…”

Fang Yiyi could not help wondering whether she meant Li Ting.

It was said that five people had died here before.

Or perhaps Director Tong’s classmate had been one of the five people Li Ting killed?

“Later, she moved away.”

“…Oh… I see.”

Fang Yiyi blinked repeatedly, thoroughly confused.

Director Tong laughed.

“Go inside. I’ll leave now and come see you again tomorrow.”

“Oh, okay. Goodbye, Director.”

Fang Yiyi waved at her.

She could not help thinking, No, please don’t come tomorrow either.

Fang Yiyi released another long breath and once again reflected that interacting with people was harder than completing ten sets of exam papers.

She pushed open the door.

“I’m back.”

Li Ting sat beside the window.

When she saw Fang Yiyi, she responded, “Mm.”

Supporting herself against the wall, Fang Yiyi carefully made her way to the desk.

She placed the delivery on top and began unpacking it.

“I ran into the director of student affairs. She walked me back and said one of her classmates used to live here.”

“Is that so?”

The corner of Li Ting’s mouth lifted into a mocking smile.

“I don’t know.”

Fang Yiyi did not see her expression.

She opened the lid of the century egg and lean pork congee, and the delicious aroma immediately made her appetite surge.

“She said the classmate moved away later.”

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Fang Yiyi: Senior, watch me release your soul! “Life is like a play. We gather in this lifetime because fate brought us together. When others anger me, I refuse to be angry. If anger makes me ill, no one can suffer in my place…”

Li Ting: Get out!