Chu Tianshu: ...
Chu Tianshu got off the Ferris wheel with Lin Huai in his arms. They took a taxi at the entrance of the amusement park, and Lin Huai was always fluffy in Chu Tianshu's arms. Finally, under the flickering lights at the entrance of the amusement park, Lin Huai said, "Today was really fun."
Chu Tianshu: "... oh."
"correct."
Lin Huai suddenly stood up from Chu Tianshu's arms, and he stretched out his hands to reach Chu Tianshu's chin. The cotton doll's hands were soft and fluffy, Chu Tianshu lowered his head at this moment, looking into his dark eyes.
Such a serious look on the face of the cotton doll is really a bit scary. Then, Chu Tianshu heard him say: "Did you do something to be sorry for me behind my back?"
"?? What's wrong with you?" Chu Tianshu said.
Lin Huai: "Wrote a novel based on me, secretly took a video of me yawning and tweeted it, and bought props without my knowledge."
"I'm wronged!!" Chu Tianshu rubbed his nose and said, "Actually, it's because..."
"Today is our first reunion—the first anniversary of our reunion in Shangjin Villa." He said slowly, "So I really want to give you a ring... Well, to commemorate it."
The night scene of the amusement park is colorful, and the road at the entrance is full of traffic. Chu Tianshu lowered his eyes, and took out the radiant diamond ring from the small box: "Every couple will give a diamond ring when they propose, and I think you should have one too. If it's not possible, diamond is also the hardest thing in the world. I Specially made the most angular style, someday you can use it to cut the glass to survive when you are bored... "
Lin Huai: ...
"This year is our first year. I really hope that after this year, there will be our second, third, and fourth years." Chu Tianshu said, "I'll put it on for you now..."
Lin Huai: "Don't put the ring on my tail while saying confession!!!"
"Lin Huai, promise me." Chu Tianshu said suddenly, "No matter what you find in the future, you can't go alone—wherever you go, you must take me with you."
Lin Huai: ...
Lin Huai was silent for a while, and when the taxi arrived, he spoke.
"I want to go to 'folder'," he said slowly. "My gut tells me I have to go there."
"—I had to figure out what my life was all about."
Such as his number, such as the system, such as the core, such as Gu Youruo, Advent Foundation, "00000000".
They fell into a mutual silence amid the honking of the taxi's horn.
"Is it just your life?" Chu Tianshu asked softly.
At that moment, perhaps because of the light of the taxi, Lin Huai vaguely saw a golden gleam gathering in Chu Tianshu's eyes. In a trance, he recalled that day after devouring ghosts, he saw the world with green numbers flowing beside him.
"... and yours." Lin Huai said, "Chu Tianshu, yours."
"..."
"Don't you want to know who you really are? Perhaps we met far earlier than the first anniversary represented by this ring—much longer than when we met as 'Chu Tianshu' and 'Lin Huaixu' because of the robbery." Good morning—if we are all monsters from Wen County, as 'Gu Youruo' said."
"... I thought you were just for freedom." Chu Tianshu said softly.
"I found the key you hid in the computer—you've been collecting this since we reunited, haven't you? You've been hiding things from me, too."
"Well, that's just for insurance..."
"To be able to like you freely and be happily with you is also the freedom I want." Lin Huai said, "Don't think of me as someone who only needs to be protected by you."
Lin Huai said, smiling brightly. Although he is now a cotton doll, Chu Tianshu can still see Lin Huai's expression on that doll's face—arrogant, wanton...
But it can always make him move his heart time after time, and recognize his expression time after time.
"Don't you want to see the place where we first met?" Lin Huai said again.
The taxi's horn sounded more and more impatient, the driver got out of the car and walked towards Chu Tianshu angrily. Chu Tianshu stood alone in the light of the headlight, with a long shadow behind him.
"Then I have to change to a bigger ring." Chu Tianshu finally said, "If it's been longer than I can imagine..."
"I've already fallen in love with you at first sight."
As he spoke, he lowered his head and kissed the cotton doll's lips.
Chu Tianshu finally turned around and prepared to get in the car. As soon as he turned around, he saw the driver looking at him with sympathy on his face.
Chu Tianshu:
Driver: "My condolences, brother."
... Lin Huai changed back to human form before midnight. Instead of going back to their respective dormitories, they spent the night in a hotel. Before changing to this hotel, there was an episode—they first went to another hotel. Chu Tianshu strictly checked the bottom of the bed, the wardrobe, and the inside of the curtains to confirm that there was no third party in the room.
Finally, when he breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to take Lin Huai back to bed...
Lin Huai pointed to a wall covered with wallpaper.
Chu Tianshu: "?"
Lin Huai: "There's Ellie here."
Chu Tianshu quickly interpreted the meaning of "there are third parties in the room besides them". He twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "Let's go, this hotel is too unsafe."
Lin Huaixu focused: "I thought it was not safe anywhere, at least in this hotel, we still know where Ellie is."
Chu Tianshu reached out and knocked on the wall and said, "This is a load-bearing wall."
Lin Huai: ...
Chu Tianshu: "I never thought they would actually bury the corpse in the load-bearing wall!!"
... Both Lin Huai and Chu Tianshu could use their bodies to resist ghosts, but they couldn't guarantee that they could use their bodies to resist the falling load-bearing wall and the hotel that collapsed with it. They went downstairs to take a taxi, after the driver surnamed Li stopped the car and saw their faces...
Then he flew away again.
Lin and Chu had no choice but to change to a taxi and arrived at the new hotel smoothly. The new hotel was still full of ghosts, Chu Tianshu had to spend a lot of time to get rid of the ghosts before going to bed.
Seeing all the ghosts leaving the room, Chu Tianshu finally took a shower wearily. Lin Huai lay on the bed boredly as a cotton doll, and finally, the hour hand pointed to twelve midnight.
Just as Cinderella's magic effect disappeared, Lin Huai's body also changed from a cotton doll to a slender human body—the kind with clothes on.
He moved his fingers, and was about to get up with a dissatisfied face, and then...
He heard Chu Tianshu's panicked footsteps.
Lin Huai raised his head and saw Chu Tianshu who was in a panic and whose hair hadn't been wiped clean. He couldn't help showing a "?" expression.
Chu Tianshu seemed to be finally relieved: "Fortunately, I thought..."
"What do you think?"
Chu Tianshu: "I thought that ring... I put it on your tail, I thought it would be on ○○ when you transform back..."
Lin Huai finally stood up unbearably, and slapped Chu Tianshu's head back on the bed.
…
The two hugged Tie Tie on the bed for a while, but after all, they were in the dungeon, and they didn't make it to the last step. Lin Huai turned over and pressed against Chu Tianshu, raised the corners of his eyes slightly and said, "Do you really want to go into the 'folder' with me?"
"Yes." Chu Tianshu said, "Really."
Lin Huai smiled contentedly. He pressed against Chu Tianshu's cheek, rubbed his ears like a cat, and said, "You are so kind."
"It's forbidden to be cute." Chu Tianshu pushed him away solemnly, and covered himself with a quilt so that only his head was exposed.
Lin Huai couldn't hold back a "puchi". He said nonchalantly: "Speaking of which, why do you have the quirk that you are not in the dungeon below the neck?"
Chu Tianshu coughed and said, "It's really not my fault. I don't want to risk..."
Lin Huai:
Chu Tianshu: "... There is a risk of ghosts crawling out from under the bed."
Lin Huai was overjoyed immediately. He turned over on Chu Tianshu's body, biting his palm and laughing wildly. Chu Tianshu pushed his head: "You are not allowed to make an inch, classmate Xiao Lin."
They all tacitly didn't mention any more things about the folder, as if Lin Huai didn't mention how he found out that Chu Tianshu was secretly collecting keys. On this issue, they all tacitly chose not to ask in depth—just like Lin Huai knew that Chu Tianshu would always design, calculate, and find ways to prevent Lin Huai from entering certain vortexes, with that almost domineering desire to protect. at the same time.
Chu Tianshu also knew that Lin Huai was by no means always a pure and kind person who could lie in his arms obediently, without thinking or doing anything.
So Lin Huai didn't ask, and neither did Chu Tianshu. All they've ever been able to do side by side is tackle the problems that come to them one by one.
In the middle of the night, Lin Huai was still awakened by the sound of the chainsaw on the roof. He stared at the roof with a dark face, and woke up Chu Tianshu by the way. Chu Tianshu rubbed his eyes and went upstairs to knock on the door.
Chu Tianshu: "What kind of people are you sawing in the middle of the night, do you have any sense of public morality?"
After speaking, he went downstairs. When he was about to go downstairs, he saw another ghost fleeing down the stairs in a panic.
Chu Tianshu: "?"
"This ghost is too enthusiastic. After you left, it came to knock on the door, pretending to be you, saying that I forgot to bring the room card." Lin Huai stood at the door and replied, "So I opened the door and invited it in, but it Just saw me, asked 'Have I ever delivered a courier' and ran away."
Chu Tianshu: ...
Lin Huai: "Tsk, there are really rumors about me all over the city."
Lin Huai felt more and more that he really had no place to live in this West Wood District, and the ghosts who were enthusiastic about him in the past were now full of malice towards him.
The feeling reached its peak the next morning. When Lin Huai and Chu Tianshu arrived at the cafeteria on the first floor, they found it was empty and there was no food.
Except for a whole row of ghost chefs.
A whole row of ghost chefs bowed deeply to him, and the head chef said with tears in his eyes, "Master Courier, we didn't know that you came here last night. Everything is prepared for a supernatural breakfast. Now I will help you unload it." I'm sorry, if you want something to eat, go out and buy it yourself."
Lin Huai: ...
"By the way, I'll give you the money!" The chef handed him a RMB for a long time, "Don't worry, it's not a ghost coin in disguise!"
Lin Huai: ...
…
After that, the peaceful courier life continued for a few more days, and Lin Huai soon discovered the ultimate horror in Ximu District.
He found that from a certain day onwards, he suddenly never encountered ghosts again!