“Unemployed, relying entirely on my parents.” Yu Nan winked at her. “If you really want to know, it’s related to games, which is why I’m asking you to play games for me.”
Since Yu Nan didn't say anything, Zhu Yao wisely refrained from asking further, but her curiosity only grew stronger.
However, Zhu Yao was certain that Yu Nan's job was definitely more flexible than her own, the kind where she could go to the hospital every day without any problem.
Undoubtedly, what she saw in the elevator was Yu Nan's private study, the place where Yu Nan worked from home.
Immediately afterwards, the elevator went up to the second floor.
Zhu Yao saw a room twice the size of her own bedroom, highlighting her status as the villa's owner.
It's not hard to guess that this is Yu Nan's bedroom.
Standing in the elevator, you can see an exterior wall made up of floor-to-ceiling windows. Although the curtains are drawn, you can see the front yard of the villa through the gaps. White flowers are blooming and wind chimes are swaying. It's a great view.
Yu Nan led Zhu Yao into the bedroom. The furniture inside was all coffee-colored. On the dark blue sheets and duvet cover were several game consoles and a super large shark pillow. Next to the bed was a floor lamp, and next to the lamp was a beanbag chair with several books on it.
Zhu Yao turned around and found a large screen on the wall opposite the beanbag chair.
There was a computer desk near the bed, on which sat a laptop and a game controller.
There were many posters on one side of the bed, and a dartboard with several darts on it hung in the center.
Next to the dartboard hung a painting. It depicted a cat that looked like a tabby but had leopard-like markings, carrying a fish in its mouth and shaking off the water. Next to it were four large characters: "Happy Birthday, Fishing Cat!"
The room also has a more luxurious private bathroom, and there's even a small door behind the bathtub. Pushing it open reveals a lot of massage equipment and a separate sauna!
On one side of the bedroom, next to the bed, there was a hidden door beneath layers of posters. If Yu Nan hadn't shown it to her, Zhu Yao would never have discovered the secret hidden beneath the layers of posters.
Open that door, and you'll find many compartments filled with figurines, a Lego wall, and next to it a workshop with sandpaper, pliers, a paint sprayer, and other equipment.
However, the workbench was spotless, and none of the items showed any signs of having been used.
Chapter 11 portrays Yu Nan as a tool ghost.
"You're a rubber dealer?" Zhu Yao was a little dazed...
"I'm currently progressing through the stages," Yu Nan said without denying it.
Although I've never done it before, I've already progressed to the stage of buying all the necessary tools.
"The figurines in the game room downstairs..."
"They're all from the display case upstairs. I bought an extra one, so I put it downstairs."
"..." Zhu Yao was quite shocked.
Is this the world of the super-rich? They buy two sets of the legendary figurines, one for collection and one for playing with.
"Excuse me, besides the house, how much did you spend on everything else in your home, including electronic devices, renovations, furniture, figurines, etc.?"
"Probably..." Yu Nan thought for a moment, "Probably a little cheaper than this house?"
Zhu Yao almost knelt down to the tycoon Nan on the spot.
She was internally screaming the words she had learned from straight women—"I beg a rich woman to take care of me as her sugar daddy."
The nouveau riche, Nan, seemed to be in a good mood; flaunting her wealth made her happy.
“Aside from eating, I usually stay in my bedroom, study, and basement. Next time the machine rings, just follow the elevator to find me.”
If Yu Nan hadn't shown her around the villa, Zhu Yao wouldn't have discovered that it was full of hidden secrets.
"I've got it." Zhu Yao nodded quickly.
Even if Yu Nan collapsed in the wine cellar or in the glue studio, she could still find her.
The two walked out of the bedroom door, and Yu Nan saw three pieces of milk candy placed in front of Zhu Yao's bedroom door across the way.
Zhu Yao remembered that she felt the candy was too hot to handle, so she threw it on the ground...
Zhu Yao quickly picked up the three candies and held them in her palm, gesturing for Yu Nan to see them.
Yu Nan felt a little embarrassed, watching the other person accept the gift she had given them as a perfunctory gesture, like a primary school student exchanging gifts only to be caught by a classmate for only providing an old eraser.
"It's almost noon, shouldn't we take a nap?"
"This is what Zhu Yao, a person from the underworld, asked."
Yu Nan, the Underworld Man, was also a little sleepy. "Shall we meet at the game room at dawn tomorrow?"
Zhu Yao walked directly out of Yu Nan's bedroom through the front door and returned to her own bedroom.
She took a piece of milk candy that Yu Nan had given her, put it in her mouth, and added warm water, intending to take a bath.
After a whole night of fussing, she smelled of hospital disinfectant mixed with the fragrance of white evening primroses from downstairs.
Zhu Yao breathed a long sigh of relief.
Everything... is quite good. Yu Nan is surprisingly easy to talk to.
She looks fierce, like a glamorous and wealthy villain from a novel; but in reality, she's cold on the outside but warm on the inside, surprisingly easy to talk to, and doesn't hold a grudge for scaring her to the point of fainting.
She's very timid, which is surprisingly endearing.
He's a young man who's four years younger than me.
The villa's game room, study, and bedroom are all exquisitely decorated, making it extremely suitable for living. Coupled with her amazing collection, it's clear that Yu Nan is a person who loves life.
However, the frustration that Yu Nan inadvertently revealed made it hard for her not to notice.
It's as if it's watching something through the white evening primroses blooming in the summer night.
With Yu Nan and the events of the day filling her mind, Zhu Yao was wide awake.
I might as well write something after taking a bath; I get sleepy when I try to type.
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Lin Luo bit the tip of his tongue and spat a copper coin mixed with blood from his tongue into the face of the red-clad, white-haired ghost.
The female ghost covered her face and wailed, the sound resounding through the sky and piercing Lin Luo's eardrums, making her momentarily dazed.
"Oh no, it's an illusion!"
A sweet aroma wafted towards Lin Luo, who quickly covered her mouth and nose and looked around.
The first floor of the villa had been transformed into a sea of flowers, the very white flowers unique to the courtyard, swaying wildly in the strong wind.
Looking at the flowers, Lin Luo's mood suddenly began to sink.
She remembered her parents, whom she hadn't seen since she was seven; her master, who had succumbed to fate and cut off his right hand; and the director, whose fate was unknown after being dragged to the basement by a female ghost.
If only... she weren't here...
Lin Luo's mind began to cloud over, her eyes became bloodshot, and her left hand slowly reached into her pocket, grasping the Evil-Repelling Golden Knife.
"If it weren't for you, your parents wouldn't have gone bankrupt!"
"If it weren't for you, your master wouldn't have been injured!"
"If it weren't for you, Director Mu wouldn't have been tainted by the curse!"
Countless accusations turned into sharp swords, tearing her to pieces.
"Disappear quickly!" a white flower said to her.
"Disappear quickly!" Bai Hua shouted along with them.
The white flowers covering the mountains and fields began to repeat those four words, their sweet fragrance turning pungent, and the harsh sound making Lin Luo unable to think.
"Disappear now!"
Lin Luo pressed the knife against his neck, about to stab him hard.
"Smack!"
In an instant, the sea of flowers in front of me disappeared.
Lin Luo saw that Mu Han, who had been dragged to the basement, was staring at her with tears in his eyes and then slapped her hard across the face.
"What did you promise me?" Mu Han stared at her and said, word by word, "Only do what I ask you to do."
"I told you to commit suicide?"
"I didn't..." Lin Luo tried to explain, but only got halfway through her sentence.
Mu Han took a step forward and put his arm around her neck.
Lin Luo felt something cool pressed against her lips.
She stared blankly at Mu Han's enlarged face.
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"call…"
After taking a bath, Zhu Yao finished the article she had written in the early hours of the morning.
Yu Nan's dejected appearance just now gave her a lot of inspiration, and before she knew it, she had written Yu Nan as a very tragic ghost.
In her story, the red-clothed, white-haired ghost not only lived a miserable life and died a resentful death, but was also transformed into a gatekeeper monster, and even sacrificed his own soul to warm up the protagonist's feelings.
You could say he was a complete tool, or rather, a tool ghost.
Zhu Yao will include the images of many people she knows in real life in her writing, since straight women won't see it anyway.
After efficiently uploading and publishing the article, Zhu Yao, having completed her day's tasks, put on her eye mask and drifted off to sleep.
But she didn't sleep peacefully.
Very rarely, she had a nightmare.
Dreams that would normally be considered nightmares are violently deciphered by Zhu Dadan, who doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, as lucid dreams "with supernatural elements," and these dreams often provide inspiration for her writing.
But on this day, she had a rare, real nightmare that was beyond her control.
She dreamt of Yu Nan. A Yu Nan completely different from the one she saw during the day.
The scene in the dream was very similar to Yu Nan's study, except that the whiteboard had been replaced by a high-tech electronic screen, and the room felt at least twice the size.
"How did a player get in? Is there a bug?" Yu Nan looked down at her with an impatient air, as if she were a stranger, an ant.
In her dream, Yu Nan had wine-red hair, looking alluring yet strangely unfamiliar, which set off alarm bells in Zhu Yao's heart.