Chapter 887 - Still Afraid of Ghosts
Chapter 887: Still Afraid of Ghosts
Not long later, Xia Yixuan came out and stood in front of Xia Ruoxin.
“What are you doing here?”
“Why can’t I be here?” Xia Ruoxin held her cup and asked her in a seemingly laughing manner.
“This is the Chu Enterprise, not your Lu family.”
“I know.” Xia Ruoxin curved her lips upwards in boredom. “My amazing brother—Lu Jinrong—allowed me to come here to work so I came. If Ms. Xia wants to work here, you can come here, too. It’s just adding another desk.”
Her words pricked Xia Yixuan’s entire heart, and she was very uncomfortable.
It was not that she did not beg Chu Lui and ask if she could work with him. In that way, she could work here in the day and take care of the stupid old lady at night; then, she could spend the entire day beside Chu Lui and stop those brainless women from pouncing onto her Brother Lui.
However, Chu Lui refused to let her work here no matter what. She did not expect someone dared to take advantage when she went out just once. What was the Lu family trying to do by putting Lu Xiaohua here? Were they trying to let her enjoy the benefits of a favorable position?
“You will never have him.” Suddenly, Xia Yixuan moved close to Xia Ruoxin, and the harshness in her eyes appeared once again; however, Xia Ruoxin just smiled.
“Ms. Xia, you’re really weird. I came here not to look for men. Of course, I won’t be like Ms. Xia who would find my own brother-in-law.”
It was like pricking Xia Yixuan’s Achilles’ heel. If it was an average woman, she would have long slapped her. However, the person in front of her was not anyone else but someone from the Lu family.
So she did not have that much courage to send her hand flying over.
Xia Yixuan was very smart and only knew how to bully the weak while she feared the strong.
She remembered this grudge, and she must hurriedly make Chu Lui marry her. If not, the Lu family might have ideas on Chu Lui.
“Let’s wait and see.” She left this sentence that seemed like a threat or a warning before she left. Just that before she walked far, she heard that woman’s voice talking to herself. It was soft and had coldness to it.
“I personally witnessed a woman get hit by a car until her face was disfigured and her legs broken. However, I heard my brother say that she was not hit by a car but was beaten up. That woman’s face was very ugly and was filled with bleeding scars made by knives. The bones in her legs were literally hit out of her body as the creepily white bones stuck out of her skin. Her eyes were open wide as if she was staring at someone. Luckily, you didn’t see it. If not, you would feel that she was looking at you.”
Unwittingly, a chill ran down Xia Yixuan’s spine. She turned around and saw Xia Ruoxin holding a phone and talking to someone.
“So you must remember that when there are very little people, don’t go on the road alone. It’ll be the Hungry Ghost Festival soon. You need to be careful; if not, the people who died wrongfully will mistakenly take revenge against you.”
Xia Yixuan suddenly hugged her bag tightly and ran out as if she was running for her life.
Xia Ruoxin put down her phone and threw it aside. Since when was she talking to someone? Her phone screen was always black.
She picked up her cup again, and her pair of misty eyes was looking forward lightly. Suddenly, her red lips curved upwards. One must pay back what they owed others; one must return their debt. Even if humans did not get revenge, ghosts would.
Xia Yixuan stumbled back to the Xia household and locked herself in the room. She hugged her head, and the image of the woman getting hit by the car—with her bones sticking out of her skin and her eyes not resting in peace—appeared in her mind.
“Ah!” She hugged her head and screamed.
Shen Yijun dropped the Buddhist beads in her hand. Piak! Luckily, it did not break. She picked up the Buddhist beads from the floor and separated it one by one.
At night, it was quiet and silent. Suddenly, there was a sharp scream coming from the Xia household.
Suddenly, Xia Yixuan sat up; and her forehead broke out in a sweat. She had a nightmare. She dreamed of the person with bones sticking out of her skin and a face where the skin was dropping.
She inhaled heavily from time to time, and her pair of hands clutched the blanket tightly.
In the morning when Shen Yijun woke up, she realized that her Buddhist beads were gone.
That was weird. She told the helpers in the house to help find her beads, but they could not find them even when they flipped the entire house over.
At this time, Xia Yixuan touched her wrist which had a chain of Buddhist beads. Later, she took down the beads and wore it around her neck instead. Then, she heaved a sigh of relief, but as she did not sleep the whole night, her face looked ghastly. There were patches of gray and green below her eyes.
She took out the mirror and added powder to the patches below her eyes, which forcefully covered her eye bags.
When she reached the office on the twenty-eighth level of the Chu Enterprise, she could not help but look towards Xia Ruoxin’s desk. At this point, Xia Ruoxin also raised her head and smiled at her. That smile was very cold, and in her eyes, there was no intention of smiling.
Xia Yixuan turned around and entered Chu Lui’s office.
Xia Ruoxin threw the pen in her hands, and the smile on her face instantly drooped down.
Piak! It was a very loud sound of the door closing which made the pen in Chu Lui’s hand shake. There was his signature on the contract followed by a long line.
“Xia Yixuan, didn’t anyone teach you to knock on the door first?” Chu Lui flipped to another page and signed again. There were no emotions in his nonchalant voice.
He was not angry, and he was not scolding her. He did not care, and he was nonchalant.
However, even so, Xia Yixuan was really scared. He was only nicer to her and gave in to her more than to other people as she had always been taking care of that stupid old lady.
What if that stupid old lady died, and he still did not want to marry her?
She arranged her hair, walked over, and stood beside Chu Lui.
“Brother Lui, when can we be together?” She squatted down and rested her head on Chu Lui’s legs. “I heard from others that once there’s something happy in the house, Auntie will recover faster. Do you agree?”
Chu Lui did not say anything and continued to flip through the documents in his hands rapidly. He flipped through them very rapidly and basically read ten lines in one go to get the general grasp of the information.
There were a few more levels in his office so he started getting busier and busier.
When he upgraded his building, it also meant the start of his responsibilities.
Knock, knock. A knocking sound came from outside.