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"I'm not going back."

"I'll stay here and watch over him. Can't you go back?"

"no."

"If you don't come back with me tonight, you'll never see me again. Are you going back or not?"

"How could that be? Are you going to disappear again?"

“You…” Deng Fei stared at me angrily, then said, “I’ll pay the wages he owes you, and you’re coming back with me.”

"No. Why would you pay off his debts?"

"..." Deng Fei clenched his fist, and I pouted. Just as the two of us were getting angry for no reason, a sneeze, neither too loud nor too soft, suddenly rang out.

Achoo!

I blinked and asked Deng Fei, "Did you hear anything?"

Deng Fei came over and pulled me aside, whispering, "It sounds like someone's sneezing? Is this place haunted?"

I looked at the dim light, then at Gu Ming on the bed, and said, "Deng Fei, I saw Gu Ming sniffing during the day, but the doctor said he couldn't possibly be sneezing."

Upon hearing this, Deng Fei hurriedly dragged me away from Gu Ming, then whispered, "Xiao Mo, have you ever heard of being possessed by a ghost?"

"I've heard of him." I shrugged and looked at the quiet Gu Ming, thinking that it was too much of a coincidence that we ran into him. After all, Gu Ming was a charlatan, and what kind of fool would dare to possess him?

"Has the female ghost we saw in the villa not appeared recently?" Deng Fei asked again.

"Mhm." I nodded.

"Could it be that she's back and causing trouble again?" Deng Fei's grip on my hand tightened noticeably.

"Um... Deng Fei, let's go back to school today."

"Aren't you keeping an eye on your salary?"

"I'm a little scared."

"But what if Gu Ming gets into trouble?"

"Oh right, what should we do?"

After thinking for a long time, Deng Fei finally gritted his teeth and said, "I'll stay too."

Aren't you scared?

"I'm not afraid," Deng Fei said, puffing out his chest.

...

At night, sneezing occasionally broke the silence. Deng Fei leaned against me and told me stories from "Calabash Brothers." I said I preferred Grimm's Fairy Tales, so he started telling me stories from "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Snow White." Later, I said I was tired of hearing those fairy tales, so Deng Fei began telling me stories from "Sailor Moon." When Usagi Tsukino transformed and shouted, "In the name of the moon, I will punish you!", the sky cooperated by brightening...

March 28, 2005: Sunny turning cloudy

As dawn broke, Deng Fei finally couldn't hold on any longer and fell asleep. The sneezing sound kept ringing out. I kept observing Gu Ming and found that it was indeed him who sneezed. We were very confused. If it really was a ghost possession, why did the ghost only sneeze and not do anything else?

I opened a window to let in some fresh air. The lilies on the windowsill were in full bloom, and the fragrance filled the room when the wind blew. I wonder if Aunt Gao will come today.

Achoo!

There was another sound. I turned to look at Gu Ming; he sniffled and continued sleeping, while Deng Fei also snorted and turned over, fast asleep. A nurse came to bring the food: millet porridge with light vegetables and a few soft, silky steamed buns. I remember hospital food always being terrible, but these delicious breakfasts were served every day, even while Gu Ming was unconscious. It seemed Aunt Gao had spent a lot of money; she felt quite guilty about Gu Ming's situation.

I took the breakfast and started eating slowly. Why not eat it? Anyway, the Death God is lying there replenishing glucose and vitamins every day, so I'll just eliminate this sinful food for him.

"Achoo!...Gurgle..."

Huh? I turned my head while chewing on the silver thread roll. This time, besides the sound of sneezing, there was also a rumbling sound from my stomach. Judging from the direction of the sound, it definitely wasn't Deng Fei. Could it be that ghost that possessed Gu Ming again?

He slowly crept over, looked down at Gu Ming's face. His complexion was rosy, quite different from when he was unconscious on the first day. His breathing was also very steady. To an outsider, he was clearly a healthy person who was asleep.

Suddenly, a strange thought popped into my head. I looked at Gu Ming in disbelief, then made up my mind to bring the breakfast to him, placing each plate under his nose so he could smell it to his heart's content.

"Gurgle..."

really!

I slapped the bed with one hand and pinched Gu Ming's face with the other. "You damn Gu Ming, open your eyes! You've been awake for a while, haven't you?"

Gu Mingren's hand pulled his face into an unbelievable shape, but he remained motionless with his eyes closed.

"Gu Ming, I know you're awake. If you don't open your eyes, don't blame me for being impolite." I glared at him angrily, thinking of everyone's worry and exhaustion these past few days. But Gu Ming remained motionless, letting me threaten him, lying flat and expressionless.

"Fine, you charlatan, you think I can't do anything to you, huh?" I chuckled, put the breakfast aside, and reached out to unbutton his shirt, one button, two buttons, three buttons... and he took it off...

Gu Ming remains unconscious.

The shirt buttons, one, two, three... take them off...

Gu Ming remained unconscious, but goosebumps appeared on his arms due to the cold.

If that's really the case, I was so angry I wanted to strangle him. "Gu Ming, you're still not awake? I'll strip you naked again, take nude photos of you, and post them online, how about that?"

Gu Ming remained unconscious, but his brows seemed to twitch slightly.

My hand is on his waist, the belt buckle... Hmm, unbuckle it...

"Xiao Mo, I'm awake." A helpless voice sounded. I looked up and saw Gu Ming looking at me with a half-smile. "Well... I was unconscious when I suddenly heard you calling me, and my mind cleared instantly. The sky was clear, so I opened my eyes and sure enough, I saw you. Ha, ha..."

"Laugh? Show me another laugh!" I straightened up and glared at him through gritted teeth. "Stop pretending. You were clearly awake a long time ago."

"This... sigh, I really can't do anything with you." Gu Ming slapped his forehead. "My plan..."

"Huh? What plan?" I asked, while secretly plotting how to rob some high overtime pay.

"Achoo! I wasn't unconscious at all that night." Gu Ming said, sneezing as he spoke.

"Huh?" I looked at him in confusion. What do you mean?

"Xiao Mo, could you please throw away those lilies? I'm allergic to the smell, achoo, achoo!" Gu Ming said, pointing at the bouquet while sneezing.

"I see," I glared at him and tossed the lily into the hallway.

"Breakfast, I'm starving." Gu Ming reached out and took a bite of my beloved silver thread roll. "I thought you two would leave last night, but you both stayed and were excitedly telling fairy tales instead of sleeping, which prevented me from sneaking out to eat."

“You…” I gasped for breath in anger, thinking to myself that this guy had been taking advantage of our company to go out and eat and drink extravagantly these past few days.

"Don't be angry." Gu Ming looked up at me with a sinister smile. "I didn't mean to make you worry. I wanted to lure the thing behind that female ghost into a trap."

"Huh? What's behind the female ghost?"

Gu Ming nodded and explained to me why he had been feigning unconsciousness these past few days. It turned out that when Gu Ming fought the female ghost that night, he discovered that although the ghost's aura was strong, it was definitely not her own. In other words, the female ghost was also being controlled by someone, and there was an even more powerful force behind her. So Gu Ming pretended to be distracted and was ambushed by her, then fainted, actually hoping to use this opportunity to lure out the mastermind behind it all.

"Aren't you afraid that female ghost will pounce on you and kill you? After you die, how will you ever see the mastermind?" I asked.

"Xiao Mo, do you think my formations are so useless? That day, I had already set up pure Yang formations in various places in the manor, and with the moves I used when I fought her face to face, even if I couldn't destroy her soul, I eliminated all her lingering energy. She couldn't hurt me at all," Gu Ming said helplessly.

"Then you didn't lure the guy behind you out either." I rolled my eyes at him.

“I underestimated my opponent. I thought he could ambush me these days.” Gu Ming smiled. “Do you remember that night when the female ghost was saved by a dark figure? The dark figure’s aura was many times stronger than that of the female ghost. I suspect that was the person behind it all.”

"It seems so. I was so busy checking if you were dead or not. You owe me a lot of wages, so I didn't think about anything else."

Gu Ming laughed even harder, "But I remember someone crying terribly that day, saying they didn't want to suck my blood, didn't want to argue with me, and didn't want overtime pay."

You're hallucinating!

I threw the millet porridge in front of him and said righteously, "You're not allowed to deduct my salary these few days, and you should pay me double overtime pay."

"No problem." Gu Ming agreed readily, "If you're willing, I'll double your salary."

"ah?"

"Isn't that enough?"

"ah?"

"Add some more?"

"ah?"

I feel like I'm dreaming. In my dream, Gu Ming has a change of heart and gives me a big raise, 5,000 a month, not including overtime pay. This amount doesn't seem like something a waiter should get.

"Xiao Mo?" Gu Ming waved his hand in front of my face. I ignored him and continued calculating: 5,000 a month, 10,000 every two months, 60,000 a year, and 300,000 in five years...

"Xiao Mo, why are your eyes glowing green?" Gu Ming grabbed my shoulders and shook me hard. I smiled foolishly, all I could see were images of money, which was much happier than any illusion.

"Xiao Mo, you haven't been so heartbroken these past few days that you've developed a mental problem, have you?" Gu Ming asked, looking at me like I was a monster.

"Gu Ming, is it true that you said it's 5,000 a month?" I smiled at him. Gu Ming looked so handsome right now.

"Okay." Gu Ming nodded.

"Gu Ming, do you really have that much money to pay my salary?" I asked again.

"Well, it should be possible. Just catching ghosts and selling alcohol would make more money than you could ever spend. If you're too free, you could write some programs, create some advertising plans, or invest in a few companies to make some money..." Gu Ming said with a smile.

"You can also write programs, do advertising, and run a business?" I blinked.

"Didn't Xia Canyue brag to you that I got two doctorates in computer science and economics when I was eighteen?" Gu Ming retorted.

I felt like I wasn't facing a person, but a mountain of banknotes. "Gu Ming, do you have a girlfriend?"

"Xiao Mo, are you stupid?" Gu Ming patted my face. "Why are your eyes glowing blue again?"

"Because I suddenly discovered that there was a very eligible bachelor in front of me."

"Ha, haha." Gu Ming chuckled dryly, "You just realized that?"

"Ah, yes."

When Deng Fei woke up at noon and found that Gu Ming was already awake, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then, he tried to drag me back to school, who was still immersed in the joy of getting a raise, and said, "Go back to sleep."

Gu Ming smiled and said, "Let's go back to Moonlight. I'm going back anyway; her room is there."

Deng Fei disagreed with a sour expression, "I'm afraid there are too many ghosts on your side, and she won't be able to sleep soundly."

Gu Ming said, "No ghost would dare to enter Moonlight's backyard. Let her come back to Moonlight with me. It's more convenient there than at school, and we have everything we need."

Then Deng Fei disagreed and insisted on taking me back.

I stood between the two of them for a long time, then suddenly asked, "Oh my god, are you two jealous of each other over me?"

After they finished listening, they both suddenly fell silent. Then Deng Fei looked at Gu Ming, Gu Ming looked at Deng Fei, and the two of them looked at me together. At noon, Deng Fei woke up from his nap and found that Gu Ming was awake. He finally breathed a sigh of relief and then tried to drag me back to school, who was still immersed in the joy of getting a raise. He said, "Go back to sleep."