Военный советник и принцесса

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"They went to bed early that night. Because of the thunder—you know how strong and scary thunder is in Beijing in the summer—the dogs in the yard stopped barking. They slept until around 2 a.m. His wife got up to use the bathroom and suddenly found that the child wasn't asleep. He was waving his limbs, not crying or making a sound, just kicking off the blankets. His wife went to check on him and found that the child was smiling at her, and his eyes were completely black. She was terrified and quickly woke him up. They found that the child was like he was possessed, only able to smile, not crying, not making a fuss, not eating or drinking, and his smile was particularly eerie. Then the whole family was busy, taking him to the hospital."

"The doctor couldn't find anything wrong, and then the child's maternal grandmother suddenly said that the house must be haunted. She dreamed that the child's deceased maternal grandfather asked her to burn paper money, but she was busy and forgot. Now the child's maternal grandfather is coming to take revenge. You know, in the countryside, people really believe in this. The child's maternal grandmother and his wife were very anxious and started arranging to invite a shaman or something. He had no choice but to go along with it."

"It was just bad luck for the child. Before the shaman even arrived, the child started vomiting and looked like he was about to die. At that moment, he panicked and carried the child around looking for someone. By sheer coincidence, he ran into a spirit hunter—actually, this was his fate; he was destined to become a spirit hunter. This spirit hunter used his magic to temporarily save the child's life, but at the same time told him that the child's soul had been taken away by an evil spirit and was now inhabiting a spider. He told him to go to his house to find it, and that the child would only have three days to live at most. His wife actually found a huge spider in the house, about half the size of a palm, with the child's face patterned on its abdomen."

"At that time, who wouldn't believe the spirit hunter's words? They begged him to save the child. The child's maternal grandmother also burned paper money for her husband. But it was too late. The spirit hunter couldn't bring the child's soul back. Three days later, the child died. He was very impulsive at the time and insisted that the spirit hunter save the child. As a result, he accidentally injured and killed the spirit hunter."

“His wife saw this, and she went crazy that night. She was holding the child’s body, crying and laughing at the same time. The child’s maternal grandmother also hanged herself. In one night, the family was destroyed,” Sister Liu said with a sigh.

I also let out a long sigh.

"Now he's all alone, with his insane wife and that giant spider. But he still doesn't give up. After burying the spirit hunter's body, he obtained the spirit hunter's notes, hoping to find a way to redeem his child's soul. He didn't find a way, which made him half a spirit hunter. And that's how he embarked on this path."

"Later, when he was 27 or 28, the spider died, and all his hopes were shattered. He only had his wife who had gone mad. He saw many doctors, but there was no improvement. Until one time, in order to chase an evil spirit, he used his wife as bait and sucked the evil spirit in, but his wife fell from the 7th floor."

I exclaimed "Ah!"

Sister Liu turned to look at me, stubbed out her cigarette, and said, "From now on, he's all alone."

“After what happened, he really won’t get married again,” I said. “He’s better off alone.”

“That’s right. He’s obsessed. Although he’s become much more mature and rational when he met me, he still has that same drive to achieve his goals at any cost. So I’m saying that if I follow him, I might very well die at his hands one day.”

I nodded: "A man like that is too persistent, or to put it bluntly, selfish."

“Yes,” Sister Liu said, “From that time on, I decided to leave him.”

"Yes, it's better to leave sooner rather than later," I agreed.

“However…” Sister Liu frowned, “I…did not take immediate action at the time.”

"Why?" I asked quickly.

"Because..." Sister Liu began to stammer.

"I understand." I looked at her hesitant expression and realized what she meant. "You like him, you can't live without him, right?"

Sister Liu nodded slowly.

"Ouch!" I slapped my thigh and said, "You teach us to make decisive decisions and cut through the mess quickly, but you're the one who does it!"

Sister Liu smiled at me. "It's my fault. I... I really should have explained to him and left him."

"And then? What happened next?"

"Later I forced myself to gradually distance myself from him, but to my surprise, on Christmas Day, he presented me with a ring and asked me to be his girlfriend."

"What?!" I exclaimed in surprise. "He really has a crush on you?!"

Sister Liu nodded and smiled. I had never seen her smile so charmingly before, completely different from her usual confident, bossy smile. I stared at her face, stunned, while Sister Liu was already immersed in the events of that day and did not notice my surprised expression.

“I was really happy when I received his ring.” Sister Liu lowered her head as she spoke, and even blushed. “I didn’t expect that he still cared about me. I thought he never took me seriously and always saw me as a man.”

I stared at her, mouth agape, speechless.

"At that moment, I even forgot everything, forgot my past." Sister Liu continued to speak to herself, "I had never loved a man before, but I never expected that when love came, it would be so intense."

She finally turned to look at me, and when she saw the expression on my face, she became a little embarrassed.

"You...you agreed to his request?" I asked. At that moment, I didn't know how to make a judgment. If it were before, I would have said without hesitation, "Get lost!" But now, I wasn't sure I could say that.

“I returned the ring to him.” A sad expression appeared on Sister Liu’s face. “I didn’t agree to be with him.”

"You're already like this, and you still haven't agreed to his proposal?!" I was surprised again.

"No!" Sister Liu said firmly, her tone hardening, as if she had suddenly become a different person. "I didn't agree to be with him, I rejected him, I can't be with him, not only because of him, but also because of you. I can't abandon you, understand?" Sister Liu said, grabbing my hand. I seemed to feel that her hand was warm, not the cold hand I had imagined.

Although Sister Liu's answer met my requirements, at that moment I really didn't know whether to congratulate her or feel sorry for her. I started to feel confused.

Before I could even process my thoughts, Sister Liu continued, her voice returning to its usual tone, devoid of any emotion. "After I rejected him, he seemed very sad, but our last meal together was the same as before. After we parted, I never saw him again. I was afraid that if I saw him again, I wouldn't be able to control myself."

I nodded to indicate that I understood.

"After that, I started working on my own. I continued my old life." Sister Liu took a deep breath. "I came back to you guys. When I was with you, I thought it wouldn't be so bad if things continued like this forever. But when I was working at night, I was focused on surpassing him. I wanted to make myself more capable than him. So I used some unusual methods and obtained a powerful ghost."

"What unusual methods?" I asked casually.

"I slowly torture living people, making them wish they were dead, causing them immense physical pain, so that they can have a powerful soul field after they die," Sister Liu said with a cold laugh. "I tortured four people, three men and one woman, and I found that women's willpower is much stronger than men's."

I felt a chill run down my spine and stared at her in disbelief.

"I'll stop at nothing to surpass him," Sister Liu said coldly. "Only by surpassing him can I feel safe and not be afraid of his retaliation. I always feel that he will retaliate against me. My rejection of him without any reason or explanation must have made him misunderstand me. He won't be satisfied. He is willing to give up everything to achieve his goal, so he definitely won't let me off so easily."

I didn't comment or answer her, but I vaguely felt that this was inappropriate, and that Sister Liu might be overthinking things.

"Sure enough, he started tracking me down, trying to kill me," Sister Liu said. "He wanted to talk to me in person, but I refused. So, in a fit of anger, he and his assistant started hunting me down."

As she spoke, I began to feel nervous.

"In the end, he caught me, but I was still no match for him. Later, the house caught fire, and I couldn't escape. I died there," Sister Liu said calmly.

I took her hand in return to comfort her.

“Now I realize that dying isn’t so bad.” Sister Liu pulled her hand away and stood up from the bed. She spread her arms and easily left the ground. “You see, I can do whatever I want.”

"Did you kill DouDou and the others?" I suddenly thought of this and asked coldly.

"Aren't you angry with Dou Dou ?" Sister Liu turned around and asked me. "She dumped you and ran off with another man. Aren't you angry?"

I fell silent. I was indeed very angry at the time, but after learning of Dou Dou's death, I felt that Sister Liu's revenge had gone too far.

"I gave up an opportunity for them, and even thought of them and protected them at every turn, but they betrayed me. Of course I won't let them get away with this," Sister Liu said with a sneer. "If it were you, you probably wouldn't forgive them so easily either, right?"

I nodded somewhat reluctantly. I honestly didn't know what I would do if I were in her shoes.

"Alright, that's the end of my story." Sister Liu returned to me. "Did you remember everything?"

"Um."

“Someone will want to hear this, and she really wants to hear it.” Sister Liu winked at me. “She’s not an ordinary person. I can’t pass through her dream portal, and he’s protecting her, so I have no choice but to go through you.”

"You mean... he's protecting that person? I'd like to meet him," I said.

"I can't see him anymore, he's dead too!" Sister Liu laughed. "He finally died, he was caught off guard, hahaha!"

As her laughter faded into the distance, I woke up.

【over】