Carrying My Senior's Coffin (GL) - Chapter 33

“In a couple of days, go buy a lighter.” Li Ting waved a hand. “The next time you run into a ghost, burn it yourself.”

A complete one-stop funeral and cremation service.

Fang Yiyi stared at her with round, beady eyes. “A lighter can do that too?”

“If I told you to use matches, you probably wouldn’t even be able to light them.” Li Ting curled her lips in disdain.

Fang Yiyi looked at her pitifully and did not dare make a sound.

The next day, Fang Yiyi skipped class.

The wounds left by strands of hair were not particularly noticeable, but they hurt terribly—fine, dense cuts spread all over her body, each one difficult to endure.

Fang Yiyi lay sprawled across the bed, feeling as though an entire layer of skin had been peeled off her body.

She did not want to move at all.

She could not sleep either, so she could only stare blankly into space.

The cuts were very thin. After one night, they had already scabbed over in rings around her body.

While applying medicine, Fang Yiyi felt she was only a pair of antennae and two legs away from becoming a stick insect.

She looked absolutely hideous.

So hideous that Senior had not even slept with her!

Fang Yiyi sighed silently, picked up her phone, and prepared to indulge herself a little by watching short videos to distract from the pain.

“Are you going to sleep?”

Li Ting, who was sitting at the desk, turned around and asked.

“Huh? No. I want to play on my phone for a while and watch some short videos.”

After all, she could not sleep.

Li Ting disapproved. “Don’t become addicted to electronics. Indulging in entertainment destroys ambition.”

“Oh.”

Fang Yiyi put down her phone.

Li Ting continued, “Come watch a movie with me.”

“…”

Senior, what did you just say?

Would you dare repeat that?

“Senior, I can’t move. I can only lie here. My whole body hurts.”

Li Ting walked over, lifted her sideways into her arms, and settled Fang Yiyi across her lap, letting her lean against her.

Li Ting had no body temperature, but she was not cold either.

Her embrace was cool and refreshing, especially comfortable in summer.

Fang Yiyi’s face turned red.

All her attention was focused on being held by Li Ting, and for a moment, she even forgot about the pain covering her body.

“Senior, this isn’t good. I should get down. We can watch it on the bed…”

Fang Yiyi protested softly.

“Don’t move.”

Li Ting laid one arm horizontally across her body, suppressing every attempt to struggle with unquestionable authority.

She pinched the soft flesh on Fang Yiyi’s arm.

“If you lie around every day, your bones will rust.”

…That did not seem true.

Fang Yiyi sincerely felt she did not spend much time in bed.

The movie had already begun.

Fang Yiyi had rarely watched things like this before, so her attention was quickly captured.

The film looked rather old.

Its visual style and clothing reminded her of movies she had seen as a child.

At the beginning, several young people gathered to play a spirit-summoning game.

The scene looked remarkably similar to the game Nancy and the others had played.

Fang Yiyi could not help asking, “Senior, what movie is this?”

“The Old Corpse of X Village. Have you seen it?”

Li Ting’s chest vibrated when she spoke, though she did not breathe.

The title sounded slightly familiar.

Fang Yiyi felt she had heard people mention it often.

“Is it about a teacher going to a village to volunteer? Senior likes patriotic educational films?”

Fang Yiyi sounded pleasantly surprised.

She had never expected Senior to be such an upright, politically proper ghost.

Li Ting gave her a long look.

“Be quiet and watch.”

Fang Yiyi blinked.

She was unusually sensitive to emotions and naturally noticed the faint impatience in Li Ting’s tone.

She did not think much of it and merely assumed Senior disliked being interrupted while watching a show.

She obediently curled up in Li Ting’s arms and stared at the laptop screen with her, looking perfectly peaceful.

At first, Fang Yiyi wondered why a film about volunteer teaching did not contain a run-down school, hardworking and optimistic students, or…

Which one of these people was supposed to be the teacher?

Then, as she kept watching, she discovered that it was a horror movie.

Fang Yiyi: “…”

When the female ghost with long, disheveled hair appeared, Fang Yiyi was so frightened that she burrowed deeper into Li Ting’s arms.

She pulled Li Ting’s sleeve over her eyes, then peeked through a narrow gap because she was still curious.

She kept squirming around and refused to stay still.

Eventually, Li Ting became annoyed.

She lowered her head and said hoarsely, “You’re nearly a hundred pounds and have already fought through plenty of battles. Can’t you act a little more composed?”

Fang Yiyi raised her head.

Her watery eyes looked completely innocent.

“That’s different. At least I knew those other ghosts when they were alive, and they bullied me. I had anger boosting my strength when I fought them. I don’t have that with the one in the movie.”

Li Ting bared her teeth in a smile.

“Have you forgotten? I’m a ghost too.”

Fang Yiyi blinked, turned around, and threw both arms around Li Ting.

She pressed her cheek against Li Ting’s soft chest.

“Wow, how could Senior possibly be the same? Senior is so beautiful!”

After a moment of silence, Li Ting said, “Raise your head.”

Fang Yiyi did not understand, but she obediently looked up without the slightest precaution.

A horrifying ghost face instantly filled her entire field of vision.

The face was so close that it nearly touched hers.

Its skin was damaged and rotting, with dark-red and black blood hardened into scabs.

One corner of its mouth had torn all the way to the ear, exposing white and crimson flesh.

Its eyes were covered in blood vessels and looked as though they might fall directly onto Fang Yiyi’s face at any moment.

Fang Yiyi’s entire body instantly stiffened.

Even her breathing stopped.

Having successfully bullied the child, Li Ting let out a pleased little chuckle.

The wounds across her face healed at astonishing speed.

In the blink of an eye, she returned to her former appearance, as lovely as peach blossoms and beautiful as carved jade.

Fang Yiyi did not dare breathe loudly.

Her eyes had gone completely blank.

“Still scared?”

Li Ting asked in a soft, gentle voice.

“N-No.”

Fang Yiyi answered with a stammer.

A demon.

Senior was definitely a demon.

That face had been even more frightening than when Fang Yiyi first met her.

She had absolutely done it on purpose!

Fang Yiyi remained dazed until the movie ended.

Senior was far scarier than the main character.

At least the ghost in the film would not jump out of the screen and frighten her from close range.

Li Ting patted Fang Yiyi’s soft, plump bottom.

“Have you gained weight recently? My legs are getting numb from you sitting on them.”

Fang Yiyi fell into her usual confusion.

She thought blankly, So ghosts’ legs can go numb too.

A few days ago, Li Ting had complained that she was too thin.

Now she was complaining that she was too heavy.

Honestly, a woman’s mouth could deceive even a ghost.

Female ghosts were no exception.

Fang Yiyi took a deep breath in indignation.

Li Ting carried her back to the bed.

Fang Yiyi pinched her own waist and discovered that Li Ting had not lied.

She really had developed a small belly!

Fine.

She had indeed been eating rather a lot lately.

Li Ting watched her sitting there in a daze and pinched her nose.

“Were you truly frightened? Xiaoyu was braver than you when she was ten.”

No, Senior.

I was frightened by you.

Fang Yiyi talked back inside her mind.

Out loud…

She did not dare.

She was as cowardly as ever.

“Senior,” Fang Yiyi asked, “what happened to your sister afterward? She must have been… very upset, right?”

“She was all right, I suppose.”

Li Ting reopened Plants vs. Zombies.

“She always wanted to inherit the company. Once I was gone, the old man had no other choice. She became the sole heir.”

“Is that so?”

Fang Yiyi still felt something was not quite right.

“Mm-hm.”

Li Ting neither confirmed nor denied it.

She had also bought a separate mouse shaped like a tiny hamster.

It was soft, adorable, and overflowing with girlish charm, completely inconsistent with her aloof image.

At that moment, her beautifully defined hand was controlling the hamster-shaped mouse as she selected plants.

Clearly, she did not intend to pay Fang Yiyi any further attention.

Fang Yiyi picked up the phone Li Ting had neglected ever since getting the laptop.

She checked the time.

As expected, it was already mealtime.

She ordered chicken-leg braised-pork rice.

When she saw the fragrant, tempting lion’s-head meatballs listed under optional side dishes, she hesitated and ultimately did not order them.

After placing the order, she became bored.

She did not feel like studying, so she tapped aimlessly around her phone until she opened her online banking app.

Then the balance stunned her.

This…

How had the money disappeared so quickly?

Where had it gone?

How had they spent it?

Still in shock, Fang Yiyi opened the transaction history with trembling fingers.

It was an endless stream of in-game purchases.

Fang Yiyi: “…”

She raised her head and looked at Li Ting, unable to understand why anyone would spend so recklessly on a match-three game.

Did a match-three game even require spending money?!

Was this the world of the wealthy?!!

Fang Yiyi wilted.

She collapsed lifelessly across the bed and calculated how much longer they could survive by steadily draining the remaining balance.

Then she discovered miserably that it might not last even three months.

That meant she still had to find work.

She found WeChat buried in some obscure corner of her phone and opened it to see whether the clothing-store owner had contacted her.

Then she suddenly remembered the day Chen Sike asked for her WeChat.

What had she said?

She seemed to have claimed she did not have it.

Fang Yiyi covered her face.

She had not deliberately lied.

She had genuinely forgotten.

Still, it did not matter.

It was fine that they had not added each other.

That vicious woman was someone Fang Yiyi now hated.

The clothing-store owner really had contacted her several days ago.

But WeChat had been hidden so deeply that neither she nor Li Ting had noticed.

123: Hello, Boss. I’m sorry. I haven’t checked my phone these past two days.

The clothing-store owner replied almost immediately.

Lolaberg Clothing Boutique: Hello, Student Fang!

Fang Yiyi began typing:

Manager Sun, you—

Before she could send it, another message arrived.

Lolaberg Clothing Boutique: Long time no see. How have you been lately?

Fang Yiyi continued typing:

Hello, Manager Sun. Recently, I—

Another message arrived.

Lolaberg Clothing Boutique: The last batch sold incredibly well. It was all thanks to you. I’ve brought in another batch, and I was wondering whether you’d be interested in signing a long-term contract with us.

Fang Yiyi looked at the message, deleted the words Recently, I, and began again:

Hello, Manager Sun. Thank you for your recognition. I—

Lolaberg Clothing Boutique: Student Fang, why aren’t you saying anything?

Fang Yiyi: “…”

She closed the chat window and called him directly.

Boss Sun’s hearty laughter came through the phone.

“Hahaha! Student Fang, are you in class and unable to type?”

“No, Boss Sun. You type too quickly. I can’t keep up.”

“So that’s what happened! I thought you didn’t want to speak to me. I thought all you young people typed very quickly, hahaha! Since you contacted me, does that mean you’re willing to sign a long-term contract with us?”

In the end, Fang Yiyi signed a six-month contract with him.

They agreed that she would go over for shoots during holidays and school breaks, which was a fairly considerate arrangement.

Two days later, Fang Yiyi had finally recovered almost completely.

Then she received shocking news.

Feng Xue, the class president, was dead.

Her body had been discovered inside the equipment room.

According to the rumors, she had died horribly, as though carnivorous animals had devoured her.

More than half her body was missing.

Her skull had been pried open and tossed aside.

Her brain had vanished without a trace.

Several police cars arrived at the university.

Anyone who had recently interacted with Feng Xue was taken away and questioned one by one.

Feng Xue had been the only daughter of an ordinary family, but she had many extended relatives.

Her family had now hung banners outside the university and sat by the gate crying every day, demanding that the school provide an explanation.

For a time, panic spread throughout the campus.

Because Feng Xue’s death was so strange, no one dared go outside at night.

As for the supposedly haunted Dormitory 404, everyone avoided it whenever possible and took detours rather than passing nearby.

Fang Yiyi, who lived inside, naturally became the first person they treated like a dangerous monster.

This did not affect her much.

She had already been isolated before.

Now, no one merely approached her.

Everyone hurriedly moved aside whenever they saw her.

Fang Yiyi was delighted by the peace.

Even her steps became lighter, and she could speak with Li Ting whenever she liked.

She was extremely satisfied.

“Yes, yes, that cousin of mine is incredibly strange.”

“Ever since she was young, she never made friends or spoke with anyone. Whenever she had nothing else to do, she would run off to the cemetery and stay there all day. It was extremely suspicious.”

“Exactly! Don’t joke around. How would I dare go looking for her? My dad was always the one who brought her back.”

“You have no idea how frightening our hometown was back then. It hadn’t been developed yet. It was the countryside, completely dark at night, and sometimes she wouldn’t even come home.”

“That’s why you should stay far away from her. Look at your class president. She only patted Fang Yiyi’s shoulder in the library…”

“Oh, how tragic. Who knows what she went through?”

From a distance, Fang Yiyi saw Bai Xuan sitting in the covered walkway, enthusiastically telling two female classmates something.

Her instincts warned her that something was wrong, so she walked over to investigate.

“Of course it’s true!”

“What do you mean, is it really that bad? Go ahead and try it yourself if you don’t believe me.”

“But don’t say I didn’t warn you. Your life belongs to you. If you don’t value it and something happens, don’t blame me.”

Bai Xuan raised her chin, her expression arrogant and mocking.

“Bai Xuan, are you spreading rumors about me?”

Fang Yiyi rested one hand on the railing.

A faint smile that was not truly a smile appeared on her face as she looked coldly at Bai Xuan.