Villainous Malevolent Ghost (1)
This time, when Song Xuyi woke up, she once again saw the familiar modern dormitory layout.
Her head ached severely, and her forehead seemed somewhat feverish.
From the star posters pasted on the wall and the dormitory layout, Song Xuyi guessed that this should be a university dormitory. After all, most middle school dormitories have strict requirements for dormitory hygiene and layout, and do not allow students to post posters inside the dormitory.
From the lower bunk came a rustling sound; a pretty girl was changing clothes.
The girl tried on several sets of clothes, all unsatisfactory. When she raised her eyes and met Song Xuyi’s gaze, her eyes lit up, and she quickly asked, “Xuyi, which set of clothes looks more unattractive?”
Even though her head ached severely, Song Xuyi still straightened her body and looked at the girl with puzzlement: most girls dress to make themselves look prettier, and it was the first time Song Xuyi had heard such a request to dress unattractively.
Given the unfamiliar world situation, Song Xuyi did not show her doubt but nodded and glanced at the girl, enduring the headache to help her choose a grayish outfit. This outfit appeared extremely old-fashioned and made the girl’s originally youthful and beautiful face look somewhat dull.
The girl looked in the mirror for a long time, clearly very satisfied with Song Xuyi’s choice. She quickly changed clothes, brought a cup of water and several pills to Song Xuyi, and touched her forehead: “Xuyi, don’t forget to take the medicine. We don’t have class this morning, so take the medicine and rest well. I’ll come back at noon to bring you lunch.”
Song Xuyi nodded, took the pills, and then lay back on the bed as the girl took the keys and left the room.
The other two roommates were nowhere to be seen, so the dormitory was left with only Song Xuyi. After the girl went out, the entire space suddenly became extremely quiet.
The system still delayed in appearing, but Song Xuyi had almost grown accustomed to the system losing contact for periods. Seeing this, she wasn’t disappointed. Sleepiness surged, and soon she closed her eyes and entered dreamland.
Upon waking again, the dizzy symptoms had alleviated significantly. Song Xuyi breathed a sigh of relief, and the system had also arrived in this small world. Almost as soon as Song Xuyi woke up, the familiar voice of the system echoed in her mind: “Xuyi, you’re awake!”
The system’s voice sounded strange, as if its teeth were chattering: “We encountered another unknown attack!”
“So annoying! What exactly happened? I can’t reach the main god, and what’s even more frustrating is that this unknown attack seems to have become hysterical, clinging to me relentlessly. I struggled greatly to escape!”
Song Xuyi raised her eyebrows: her memories of these worlds were always vague, always feeling like something was missing. For example, in the last world, Song Xuyi remembered living until old age, but she couldn’t recall exactly why she stayed in that world until then.
But Song Xuyi always remembered that the system gradually accepted that it couldn’t contact the main god, so how did it suddenly shift to this… almost fearful tone?
Song Xuyi didn’t speak, and sure enough, the system couldn’t help but continue: “Xuyi, this world is very scary, you must be well-prepared!”
Immediately afterward, the system transmitted a plot summary to Song Xuyi.
Song Xuyi quickly scanned the plot summary, reading at a glance ten lines, and with a headache, held her forehead, finally understanding why the system was so afraid of this world—
For some reason, after experiencing a cultivation world, the system became very fearful of worlds containing supernatural elements.
However, this world may contain something that makes the system extremely fearful—
The female lead of this world is the girl who just gave Song Xuyi medicine, named Xia Tian. Xia Tian’s family is wealthy, and she and the male lead, Bai Jin, are childhood sweethearts. Both families were originally matched in status, with the Xia family recently becoming rich new nobility, while Bai Jin’s family is a wealthy family extending over thousands of years. It is said that the Bai family even produced several generations of royalty. Originally, it was seen that Xia Tian was reaching high to match Bai Jin, and Xia Tian’s parents also wanted her to marry Bai Jin. However, overnight, Bai Jin’s family suddenly became plagued with bad luck:
First, Bai Jin’s father was exposed for having an affair with a female secretary and having an illegitimate child almost the same age as Bai Jin. Then, Bai Jin’s devastated mother died in a car accident, and the family’s head, the grandfather, was exposed for early involvement in a murder case and jailed… Not long after, the once illustrious Bai family fell overnight, with Bai family businesses closing down, and Bai Jin went from high-status youth to homeless wanderer.
The Xia family supported the fallen Bai Jin, providing him with residence and tuition, but no longer mentioned the marriage between the families.
However, after so many years of interaction, Xia Tian had long developed deep feelings for Bai Jin. Even though Bai Jin had now fallen, and her parents were unwilling, Xia Tian persistently sought out Bai Jin.
Through significant change, having experienced the warmth and coldness of human relationships and the fickleness of the world, Bai Jin’s character gradually became gloomy and negative. Knowing that he was unworthy of Xia Tian at this time, he changed his former warmth and consideration towards her, becoming cold, reticent, sharp, and harsh, trying to make Xia Tian give up and stay away from him. Yet, Xia Tian remained infatuated and unwavering: helping Bai Jin work, tutoring him, and even rebelling against her parents’ orders to study abroad for graduate school after university, enduring a swollen face from being slapped by her parents…
Through Xia Tian’s continuous efforts, Bai Jin finally overcame his depressed state, began striving upward for Xia Tian, worked hard to start a business, and established a company. After many twists and turns, he finally moved Xia Tian’s parents, who agreed to their marriage…
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Originally, at this point, the two should have walked towards the perfect ending set by the main god. However, since Song Xuyi came here, naturally, twists appeared once again:
The problem lies in Bai Jin’s old residence.
Bai Jin’s family has an ancient residence spanning thousands of years, the place where the Bai family began, vast in area. The heads of the Bai family throughout generations all lived in this house. Even when in prison, Bai Jin’s grandfather repeatedly instructed not to let Bai Jin sell this house to pay debts.
However, Bai Jin’s company was now thriving, and he wanted to expand his territory. In the city, land is precious, so to save funds and with a desire to sever ties with his past self, Bai Jin decided to demolish the old residence and begin construction on its land—
However, on the first day of construction, something ominous happened: beneath Bai Jin’s old residence, there was a basement where two corpses were unearthed.
One of them was in a woman’s coffin.
According to the construction workers, inside that coffin lay a lifelike beautiful woman. When the coffin was first opened, she even bent her lips and eerily smiled at them. However, perhaps due to oxidation, by the time Bai Jin arrived, only a skeleton remained in the coffin. The other corpse was a male mummy, evidently a tomb robber, as there was an excavated robbery tunnel on the wall.
Bai Jin thought that the coffin might contain one of his ancestors, so he found a feng shui blessed site to rebury the coffin and started construction again, but he didn’t expect that afterward, the construction site would be plagued with disasters—
First, several workers inexplicably broke their legs, then a few suddenly went blind, and then a blood-soaked ancient character suddenly appeared on the wall—”Leave!”…
Although this country has a developed modern civilization, it still quite believes in ghost and god stories. Seeing this, the workers dared not continue construction, and with some people spreading rumors, the haunting of Bai Jin’s old residence quickly spread throughout the city. However, Bai Jin did not believe in ghosts, thinking it was commercial competitors causing trouble secretly. Moreover, Xia Tian studied physics and did not believe in supernatural matters, so the two planned to return to the old residence site to see if they could find any clues.
At first, when they arrived at the old residence, they did not find anything unusual until they walked deep into the old residence, where a huge rock from high above suddenly fell. The two were crushed under the rock and killed instantly…
With the male and female leads dying together, the world line collapsed, so Song Xuyi came here…
After reading the plot summary, Song Xuyi couldn’t help but want to laugh. Considering the system’s dignity, Song Xuyi controlled the urge to laugh and then received the memories of this body.
As usual, the system probably still upheld the principle that a high status makes things easier, arranging for Song Xuyi to be the only daughter of a company, and the close friend of the female lead, Xia Tian.
The original owner was also studying in the physics department, a typical research fanatic, wholeheartedly wanting to become a world-renowned scientist. In the plot summary, the original owner was also supposed to investigate the old residence, but because the research institute’s task was temporarily postponed, she escaped calamity and was not affected.
At this time, the original owner is still in her senior year, and the female lead Xia Tian is still in the stage of helping Bai Jin work. Due to Xia Tian dressing too beautifully several times previously, causing others to covet and bringing trouble to Bai Jin, thereafter, Xia Tian would always change into inappropriate clothes when helping Bai Jin, trying to cover her looks.
“System, don’t be afraid,” Song Xuyi thought for a moment and still comforted the system: “Perhaps everything is a coincidence; this world doesn’t have ghosts, and this task isn’t difficult. If we work hard to stay in this world for a few more years, and then prevent Bai Jin from digging the old residence’s foundation, it won’t be like the plot summary…”
However, the system seemed not comforted by Song Xuyi and sighed, still troubled: “You don’t understand!”
—Song Xuyi was not clear, but when the system saw the peerless beauty in the coffin from the plot summary, it subconsciously felt a jolt in its heart, always feeling that the main villain had followed again. Recalling the event of being sealed by the main villain in a certain world, the system felt extremely afraid.
However, the system was afraid for a while and then became happy: if the villain of this world is a female ghost, she might not be able to leave that residence, thus losing the ability to covet Xuyi. Moreover, even if the female ghost’s corpse was beautiful before death, after so many years, the female ghost itself wouldn’t look good, and appearance-focused Xuyi certainly wouldn’t like the female ghost!
Song Xuyi was not aware of the system’s thoughts, and when she saw that the system became happy again shortly after, she felt that the system’s temper was as changeable as a child’s. Then Song Xuyi got up from bed and took a shower, and just after finishing, Xia Tian pushed the door open and returned to the dormitory.
Besides the promised meal for Song Xuyi, Xia Tian also bought many snacks and daily necessities. After noticing that Song Xuyi’s fever had subsided and her body was fine, Xia Tian noticeably breathed a sigh of relief: “I was worried you weren’t well, but now it’s fine. Rest well tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow is a holiday, so you can come with me to Brother Bai’s old residence to play…”
Song Xuyi blinked, only then remembering that at this stage, Xia’s family parents didn’t want Xia Tian to contact Bai Jin, strictly controlling her. Yet, Xia Tian was eager to visit Bai family’s “only future daughter-in-law can enter” old residence. Recently, Xia Tian and Bai Jin’s relationship had warmed up, and Bai Jin invited Xia Tian to visit. Taking advantage of the seven-day holiday, Xia Tian planned to stay at the old residence for a few days, but feared being discovered by her parents who made daily video calls, so she dragged Song Xuyi as a shield, falsely claiming to her parents that she went with Song Xuyi to an ancient-style villa in the deep mountains.
Before Song Xuyi arrived in this world, the original owner had already agreed to Xia Tian’s request to accompany her to the old residence for a few days.
Song Xuyi’s first reaction was to persuade Xia Tian not to go to that old residence, but she tested the waters a bit: Xia Tian was determined to follow the Bai family’s rule that “future daughters-in-law will come to visit,” and feared that going back on her word would cause the hard-won relationship with Bai Jin to fall into a stalemate again. No matter what, she insisted on going to the old residence.
Song Xuyi really had no choice, afraid that saying too much would reveal flaws, she could only agree to accompany Xia Tian.
Since seeing Song Xuyi agree to accompany Xia Tian to the old residence, the system started acting a bit strangely, desperately advising Song Xuyi in her mind to buy some metaphysical items in this world—
“Xuyi! Even if not for yourself, think about Xia Tian, we must be prepared for any eventuality…”
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Under the system’s nagging, Song Xuyi had no choice. The next day, taking advantage of having no classes, she went to a magic tool shop near the school to buy some things.
Although people in this world believe in ghosts and gods and have many ghost and god-related films and television works, in real life, very few people encounter ghosts. The so-called ‘magic tool shops’ around the school mostly sell ‘peach blossom charms,’ ‘fortune-changing bracelets,’ and ‘pass exams placards,’ these best-selling ‘magic tools.’
When Song Xuyi said she wanted to buy ghost-expelling magic tools, the shop owner, wearing a big gold chain, was instead stunned for a moment. After hearing Song Xuyi’s excuse of wanting to explore an old residence for safety, the shop owner scratched his head and pulled out a big box from under the pile of peach blossom charms—
“Don’t underestimate these charms and magic tools,” the shop owner said wistfully. “Back in the day, my ancestors were also the most famous sorcerers, even blessed by Master Bai Yu…”
Master Bai Yu is a legendary figure in this country, rumored to have been born into a famous sorcerer family, full of treasures, naturally restraining evil things, and exceptionally talented in metaphysics. During his tenure, he expelled plagues, subdued evil ghosts, wrote metaphysics textbooks, and did countless good deeds, revered as the patriarch of metaphysics… Unfortunately, such a good person did not meet a good end. Master Bai Yu perished together with evil spirits after an exorcism, making later generations sigh endlessly.
Today’s metaphysics frauds, eight out of ten will use Master Bai Yu’s name as a banner.
As he spoke, the shop owner opened the big box and looked at Song Xuyi with a sincere expression: “Back then, my grandfather was the only sorcerer in ten miles and eight villages, and these are talismans my grandfather drew. There aren’t many left in my generation, and seeing that you have fate, today I will sell you five sheets at a discount! Each for only one thousand yuan—”
Song Xuyi glanced at those peach blossom charms outside costing fifty yuan each, and knew the shop owner planned to overcharge her because she was wearing name brands. She originally did not plan to buy, but after noticing Song Xuyi’s hesitation, the system in her mind howled out: “Xuyi, quickly buy…”
Song Xuyi couldn’t resist the system’s crying and howling, and with the thought of appeasing the system, she bargained with the shop owner, finally reluctantly buying three talismans at six hundred yuan each.
“All because you have fate! If it were ordinary people, I absolutely wouldn’t sell these talismans at such a low price! These talismans guarantee to keep you safe and sound, evil spirits dare not approach!”
The shop owner, having earned a large sum, couldn’t hide the smile in his eyes, but still pretended to be regretful as he carefully packed the three talismans in a box. Then, looking around, he finally picked up a bead strung with a red string from the box and handed it to Song Xuyi: “This bead is also a curse stone passed down by my ancestors. My grandfather said it is an ancestral treasure. I had an expert look at it, and although this curse stone isn’t of high quality or valuable, it looks quite pretty and is suitable for young girls like you. Today, consider it a gift for you…”
“All is fate…”
The so-called curse stone involves adding a sorcerer’s drop of blood into jade. A great sorcerer’s blood not only has a blessing effect but can also expel evil spirits, and in ancient times, it was extremely rare. Because genuine curse stones were hard to find, they gave rise to a batch of curse stone dealers, selling poor-quality curse stones under various banners.
Therefore, later great sorcerers, to show their status, often chose extremely rare beautiful jade as curse stones. The curse stone given by the shop owner to Song Xuyi, although its blood color was bright red, was made of the cheapest chalcedony, which great sorcerers disdained to use, and on the market, it was worth at most a few dozen yuan.
But this bead was truly too pretty, with red blood flowing like fine threads within the translucent chalcedony stone. When Song Xuyi touched this jade stone, she felt a faint sense of closeness and a feeling of extreme comfort all over, so she couldn’t help but wear the bead on her wrist.
Seeing that Song Xuyi had bought the protection talisman, the system finally quieted down a little, though it continued to nag worriedly: “Xuyi, I’ve heard that those fierce ghosts use a pretty appearance to confuse people, but behind it is actually a rotten skeleton. You must not be confused by the ghost’s appearance…”
Song Xuyi promised the system for a long time and assured it she would never take off the curse stone, which finally quieted the system a bit.
The original owner had already reached the senior year, and Song Xuyi planned to continue applying for this school’s graduate program, studying extremely hard. After buying the curse stone, Song Xuyi followed the original owner’s study schedule and studied all afternoon, returning to the dormitory past nine in the evening, by which time Xia Tian and the other two roommates had already returned.
When Song Xuyi returned, the three roommates were watching a horror film. In the movie, the female ghost had a pretty face one moment and became a walking skeleton the next. The three girls laughed dryly, saying, “What’s there to fear? We are physics students with a materialistic worldview; we won’t be afraid of fictional stories…”, yet their eyes wandered, not daring to watch the screen. Listening to the system’s screams in her mind, Song Xuyi silently sighed and helplessly packed for the next day’s trip to the old residence—
Seemingly afraid to be the last one to bed, after the movie finished, the other three girls quickly washed up and climbed into bed, leaving Song Xuyi to be the last to turn off the light and climb into bed.
But Song Xuyi did not immediately fall asleep, as her roommates couldn’t sleep, and she could only chat aimlessly with them. Finally, when her roommates all drifted off to sleep, the system started trembling in Song Xuyi’s mind: “Xu, Xuyi, are you asleep…”
Knowing the system was scared, Song Xuyi chatted with it for a while and took advantage of its inattention to put it in sleep mode, finally quieting her mind. Song Xuyi then fell into a deep sleep, unexpectedly starting to dream that night—
It was a very strange dream.
In the dream, Song Xuyi emerged from a dark passage to find herself transformed into a baby, lying in a cradle. A beautiful yet sorrowful-eyed woman often cried beside her cradle. Song Xuyi slowly understood the meaning of her words: the woman was the legitimate wife of the household, but the master was fickle and, seeing that the woman had not borne children for years, took many concubines who bore many sons. The woman, after a near-death experience, finally gave birth to a daughter but forever lost the ability to bear children… The woman was extremely worried about her and her daughter’s future, but she was gentle by nature and did not know how to seek a better life for herself and her daughter…
And besides humans, through the baby’s eyes, Song Xuyi saw countless bizarre evil spirits: some had only half a body, some had eyes bleeding tears, some had long tongues, and some had two heads… These evil spirits lingered by the baby’s bedroom, trying to break into the room to scare the tiny baby. However, the talisman on the baby’s window kept all the evil spirits outside, and the baby never cried.
Because the woman only gave birth to a daughter, the master increasingly ignored her, and the servants followed suit, treating the woman with increasing disrespect. The only comfort for the woman was that her daughter was very obedient and sensible. Despite suffering various oppressions, she was kind-hearted and very considerate of her mother.
In the dream, time passed quickly, and soon the baby reached three years old. The little girl was intelligent and sensible, born as cute as a small glutinous rice dumpling. She never asked about her father, was considerate of her mother, and was lovable. Yet only Song Xuyi knew: the little girl would talk with evil spirits in the air when no one was around, and through their words, she had long understood the reason for her mother’s melancholy.
A turning point occurred when the girl was three years old.
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That day, the master, who was a great sorcerer, had just returned from expelling spirits, when a somewhat familiar little girl stood seriously in front of him—
“There is a hanged ghost on your back!”
The great sorcerer was naturally not afraid of a hanged ghost, but was extremely amazed by the little girl’s ability to see ghosts. After all, in the sorcerer profession, talent is key, and someone with innate yin-yang eyes can often become an unprecedented genius!
……
“Xuyi, wake up, it’s time to go to class!” Song Xuyi was awakened by Xia Tian’s call. She did not expect to have such a strange dream… It was probably because she bought talismans and watched a horror movie yesterday. Song Xuyi yawned and didn’t think much of it. She quickly washed up and followed Xia Tian to class.
Almost immediately after class, Song Xuyi received a call from the driver—
The car to the old residence was already waiting at the school gate.
The author has something to say:
The first day the flag hasn’t fallen.
Hehe.
LP: Re-translated on September 07, 2024
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