"Huh, it's not so much that I possessed you, but that you brought me out." The female ghost named Chubai said proudly, "If you hadn't knocked over my vase, I wouldn't have noticed You human. I have been wandering there for a long, long time, and you are the first human to enter in such a long time, of course I will seize the opportunity to sneak out."
"Why me?" I asked with a headache.
"You have to ask yourself, who told you to run from the sun to the gap when you have nothing to do." She acted as if it was a matter of course.
Yes, that's right, it was Wen Jiubai's fault from the very beginning, why did he insist on me making this trip!
"Then, what is your purpose?" I stared at my face in the mirror seriously.
"Is there a purpose?" Chu Bai had an indifferent expression on his face, "I just came out when I thought about it. After all, no one wants to stay in that kind of place forever, right?"
I was taken aback, "Don't plan to reincarnate?"
"I missed the time of reincarnation hundreds of years ago."
"... and don't plan to become the party that brings evil to the ghosts?"
"Why does this girl do such a boring thing, it's all harm but no benefit."
"Then, don't you plan to find a body and live in the world?"
"Didn't I find this?" Chu Bai said with a face of course, "It's you."
This time I didn't even think about it, and walked directly to the door of the room.
"Sure enough, I'd better go to Wen Jiubai to get rid of you!"
Want me to share my body with a woman? This woman was trying to kill me ten minutes ago? What a joke!
"Ah, wait, wait!"
Just when I was about to walk out of the room, my right foot was suddenly tripped by my left foot, and I fell like a dog eating shit suddenly.
"It hurts!" I said angrily, clutching my forehead, "What are you doing!"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I really didn't do it on purpose this time!" Chubai hurriedly apologized, "Well, I promise, I will never take a long time. That... a week! Just a week!"
"Huh?" I was baffled.
"Let me use your body for a while, it won't be long, just a week!" I could hear the pleading from Xiaobai's tone, "Just a week, I'll leave after a week, how about it ?”
What's the matter, this woman seems to have suddenly changed into a different person.
I simply crossed my legs and didn't get up anymore, just sat on the floor.
"You like being in my body so much?"
As soon as I finished speaking, I was hit on the head.
"Rogue! How could I like to stay in a man's body!"
I rubbed my head, "Why is that?"
"Does it need to be said? If you stayed in that kind of place where you can't find your way for a hundred or two hundred years, you would really want to come outside for a breath of air." Xiaobai's voice seemed to be angry, "I am Ghosts, if they don’t have a body, they will disappear after a few days in a place with strong yang energy. I want to see more about what the world looks like now!”
I hesitated, and the obvious reluctance made Chibai even more anxious.
"Really! Just a week! I swear, after a week, I will never pester you again. I will go back to that alley, or disappear into some cemetery. In short, you don't have to worry about it!" She He said eagerly, "Also, I will definitely not affect your normal life this week, nor will I take control of your body. Me, me, whoever lies is a puppy!"
As soon as I heard her say that, I couldn't help but soften my heart. There's no way... No matter what, the soul in my body belongs to a woman. If I continue to argue, I'm afraid I will be said to be incapable of pity.
"Then... okay." I sighed helplessly.
"Really!"
"Well, but you have to keep your promise. In this week, we have three chapters of the law. First, you must not appear in school, and you must not control my body when there are people around. Second, without me Allowed, you can't arbitrarily-"
As a result, before I could finish my sentence, Hinabai interrupted me directly—or rather snatched my mouth away.
"Ah, I feel so hungry! Didn't you have lunch at noon? Why is your stomach so empty!" Saying this, Chibai stretched her waist and began to rummage in my backpack, "Yes Nothing to eat?"
"I just said it! You are not allowed to control your body without my permission!"
"But I'm hungry, I'm not eating to feed your body, you should be grateful to me!"
"Meat didn't grow on you! Don't eat my bread! That's tomorrow's breakfast!"
"You are so long-winded!"
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Obviously I lived alone in the hotel, but when I lay down on the bed, it felt like I had a party with a dozen people all night. When I was so tired that I couldn't even open my eyelids, Hina finally calmed down and stopped talking quietly.
Maybe she fell asleep before me. As I thought about it, I fell asleep in a daze.
That night, I had a dream.
Said it was my dream... But after waking up and thinking about it carefully, that dream was not so much mine as it belonged to another soul.
In my dream, I was a woman. No, I was once a woman.
Hundreds, even thousands of years ago, I was a woman.
Time ceases to mean anything in the afterlife, leaving only fragments.
Prostitutes, beatings, rape, betrayal... The memory of who I was and how I died is blurred.
What is left, probably, is only the hatred that is still clear.
But after a long time, even the object of resentment will become blurred. The person I resent should have died a long time ago, and he should have been reincarnated several times, but I still stay in this world, wandering aimlessly with a hatred frozen by time.
Since I was a child, adults have said to me. After death, people will go to very beautiful places, there will be people to guide the soul, there will be Meng Po soup to make the soul forget the pain of the previous life, sit in a canoe, cross the Santu River, and reach the other shore.
However, my name seems to be forgotten by black and white, no one has ever found me, and no one has led me through. I was confused, and I spent thousands of years in the confusion, forgetting my life and hatred, and finally I couldn't even remember my own name.
I only learned later that not all souls are lucky enough to meet the mysterious guide. Like me, wandering souls lost in time are as numerous as the leaves on a big tree.