FV CH 14

Ghost Baby

Chapter 14: “……husband.”

Tang Ning looked at Mo Yunchu in a daze. He saw the deep hints that could not be covered by the long eyelashes. Mo Yunchu was looking at Tang Ning while his hands were playing with Tang Ning’s thin white fingers, curling them wantonly between the fingers, then slipping from the palm. The cake that could feed him was obviously not some kind of cake.

Just touching his finger made half of Tang Ning’s arm numb.

“No more for today, I’m sleepy…” Tang Ning’s voice was filled with confusion and a little bit of pleading.

However, this time Mo Yunchu was not so easy to talk to.

“It is now 4:23 pm.” Mo Yunchu looked at his watch, “Even if we sleep for eight hours, we can start at 12:30, so there is plenty of time.”

Tang Ning’s expression was very confused, It’s like he doesn’t understand why the excuses he used so often before failed. His eyes looked pitiful and made people want to bully him.

“Xiao Ning want to go to bed right now?” Mo Yunchu asked Tang Ning gently, “But I think Xiao Ning looks very energetic.”

Mo Yunchu dipped his fingers into a little cream from the cake on the side. The delicate and sweet cream was smeared by Mo Yunchu on the tip of Tang Ning’s nose and cheeks, making Tang Ning look like a little cat that had accidentally dipped in cream.

Mo Yunchu pinched Tang Ning’s delicate chin, as if he wanted to kiss the cream on Tang Ning’s face.

Tang Ning turned his head in panic, trying to avoid Mo Yunchu’s kiss, but Mo Yunchu grabbed his face. Tang Ning subconsciously covered his face and shook his head at Mo Yunchu with tears in his eyes.

“What’s wrong? Why are you hiding? Do you specifically not want me to eat until full?” Mo Yunchu leaned down and looked at Tang Ning. His extremely aggressive aura made every cell in Tang Ning’s body scream uneasy.

Tang Ning was extremely panicked, his clear eyes were like a frightened deer, and his pupils reflected Mo Yunchu’s oppressive face.

“Then Xiao Ning is too bad.”

“Bad kids should be punished.” The handsome face restrained the exposed emotions, but the dark emotions in the phoenix eyes became more intense.

For a moment, there was an indescribable flavor in Mo Yunchu’s alienated and cold expression, as if a predator toying with its prey had finally torn away its disguise—

Tang Ning’s pupils shrank slightly.

However, the next moment, the thick eyelashes softened the exposed eyes, full of deceit, “Is Xiao Ning a good boy or a bad boy?”

“I…I…” Tang Ning didn’t know how to answer. If he answers good boy then he will be eaten and wiped clean, if he answers bad boy then he will be punished.

Out of a small animal’s instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, Tang Ning learned to give a flattering answer without any teacher, “I love you.”

Looking at the handsome face so close, he timidly added, “…husband.”

This shameful title had great power. The moment it was spoken, it seemed to calm most of Mo Yunchu’s displeasure. Yes, Tang Ning could sense the dissatisfaction dormant under Mo Yunchu’s calm appearance, surging like an undercurrent.

He had never seen Mo Yunchu angry before.
He didn’t want to see this scene either.

Staring at Tang Ning with his deep phoenix eyes, Mo Yunchu raised the corners of his lips and said, “Xiao Ning is so good.”

Tang Ning hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his arms to wrap his arms around Mo Yunchu’s neck. He put his face against Mo Yunchu’s chest like a coquettish girl, and said softly, “There’s a reason why I’ve been like this lately.”

“Didn’t we take the bus home the night before yesterday?” Tang Ning remembered that the system said that he could not reveal the existence of ghosts to Mo Yunchu, as this would affect the balance of the game, so he should be able to talk about it under the guise of dreaming, right?

“As a result, I found out that there was only one funeral car that passed by us that day.” Tang Ning whispered, “I kept dreaming that the funeral car we were riding in that night was the same one, and I also dreamed that I might die.”

“I’m so scared, so I don’t have the heart to do this kind of thing right now.” Tang Ning was really scared, and he really didn’t want to do this kind of thing. He said it with all his true feelings.

“Dreams and reality are opposites.” Mo Yunchu hugged Tang Ning and comforted him, “It’s okay. I know we were on a bus. The surveillance camera couldn’t capture the location where we got off, so that’s why we didn’t capture that bus.”

“Why did you get on that bus then?” Tang Ning huddled in Mo Yunchu’s arms and asked softly.

“Xiao Ning, did you forget? You said you wanted to take the last bus late at night, so we got on that bus.”

Tang Ning fell into silence.

He thought it was reasonable for his character who wanted to die to be haunted by a ghost.

“As long as I find evidence that we took a bus the night before, will Xiao Ning not be afraid anymore?” Mo Yunchu asked.

Tang Ning hesitated for a moment and nodded slightly.

“Okay, then I’ll find someone to investigate now.” After saying that, Mo Yunchu let go of Tang Ning and started to find someone to investigate. At first, he checked the surveillance cameras, and sure enough, there was no bus in the surveillance cameras.

Then Mo Yunchu reported the bus’s license plate number.

Tang Ning’s eyes widened slightly, “How do you know the license plate number?”

“I took a look when we got in the bus.” Mo Yunchu answered.

Tang Ning felt the gap between people. Even if he looked at it for a whole night, he would forget about it after two or three days, let alone look at it twice.

It would take some time to find the specific whereabouts of the bus. While waiting, Mo Yunchu did not force Tang Ning. He chose to watch a touching and healing movie with Tang Ning.

This movie stars Mo Yunchu. The male protagonist is a gentle, considerate, kind and reliable character.

In the film, Mo Yunchu is wearing a white coat and is a doctor with a mysophobia. When the screen showed Mo Yunchu slowly and meticulously washing his hands, Tang Ning couldn’t help but curl his toes together—

His body automatically recalled the bathroom cleaning that night.

Tang Ning couldn’t help but look back at Mo Yunchu. Mo Yunchu was looking at himself in the movie intently. Unlike the character of the officer in the previous movie, the character of the doctor in this movie was closer to Mo Yunchu’s character in real life. It was so similar that Tang Ning couldn’t even tell the difference between Mo Yunchu on the screen and Mo Yunchu in reality.

Although Mo Yunchu wears a white coat in the movie, the temperament conveyed by both is the same.

Just as calm, gentle, and reliable.
They are so similar that they seem to be performed using the same techniques.

Thinking of this, Tang Ning was stunned for a moment and found that his choice of words was a bit strange. It should be said that the doctor in the movie was Mo Yunchu’s true character.

“What are you thinking about?” Mo Yunchu did not change his voice like he was playing the role of an officer. His voice was as calm as in the film.

Every word he pronounced with his nice and standard pronunciation was exaggerated with a gentle and firm charm, so much so that Tang Ning couldn’t tell for a moment whether it was the character speaking in the play or Mo Yunchu speaking in reality.

“No, it’s nothing.”

……

The next morning, Tang Ning was awakened by the phone ringing. Mo Yunchu answered the phone, lowered his voice and communicated with the person on the other side of the phone for a few words, and then hung up the call.

“Sorry, did I wake you up?” Mo Yunchu kissed the sleepy Tang Ning and said softly, “Do you want to sleep a little longer?”

Tang Ning shook his head, “I think I heard you talking about the bus’s issue…”

“Well, my friend just found out the whereabouts of the bus.” Mo Yunchu said calmly, “The bus crashed into a lake next to a mass grave. The driver died and the driving recorder disappeared. No one knows why the driver drove the bus there.”

Tang Ning felt that this story seemed familiar to him. He thought about it with his sleepy mind, and found that it sounded very much like the urban legend recorded on the task list given to him by the program team.

“But what is certain is that we took this bus back that night.”

Tang Ning was still a little confused.
When Lu Yingxing checked the surveillance camera at that time, he found that the funeral car passed a route close to the villa area, but the surveillance camera did not clearly capture the footage of them getting off the funeral car.

If Mo Yunchu remembered the license plate correctly, Did they really didn’t get off from the funeral car at that time?

Then why did Lao Liu react so loudly when he asked him if he had any passengers that night?

Why didn’t the surveillance camera capture the route of this bus?

Mo Yunchu inserted his fingers into Tang Ning’s hair and helped Tang Ning suppress a few raised hair. He said gently, “Although some funeral cars look similar to buses, they have freezers inside. Such cars are not suitable for carrying passengers, so Xiao Ning, your dream is not scientific. We must believe in materialism.”

Tang Ning: “…”
It was the biggest unscientific thing for me to enter this dungeon.

Mo Yunchu pushed a few strands of hair away from Tang Ning’s eyebrows and placed a kiss on them. After these few days of contact, Tang Ning had become very accustomed to Mo Yunchu’s kisses. He closed his eyes and smelled the warm woody fragrance coming from Mo Yunchu’s body.

It seemed like Tang Ning had smelled this faint woody fragrance somewhere before, but he couldn’t remember it for a moment.

After Mo Yunchu went out to work in the morning, Tang Ning received the news that the eldest brother of the Lu family would have a funeral at noon today.

Tang Ning got up and went to the cloakroom to find suitable clothes. He chose a black suit and put it on. Even though the person in the mirror was wearing a mature black suit, his body still exuded a clean and pure aura of ignorance, like a rose coddled in a flower bed or a bird raised in a golden cage. The oppressive blackness made the skin look like snow.

Worried about encountering a ghost baby, Tang Ning filled his suit pockets with candies.

When Tang Ning arrived at the Lu family, it was time to carry the coffin. Lu Yingxing was not married yet, so eight people were required to carry the coffin. These eight people were all coffin bearers specially hired by the Lu family, and they were all full of strength.

Eight people worked together to lift the coffin and walked at the front of the funeral procession. Tang Ning walked in the middle of the funeral procession. He kept Boss Hao’s instructions in mind and turned back every seven steps on the road. After walking for a while, the coffin bearer’s pace suddenly slowed down.

The person walking at the head of the team slowed down, and the entire team would be affected. Lu Junchi stuffed red envelopes for each coffin bearer. However, after the red envelopes were sent, the coffin bearers not only did not speed up, but also slowed down.

This kind of slowness is not deliberately slow.

The morning wind was cold and the weather was cool, but the eight coffin bearers seemed to be walking under the scorching sun. Tang Ning saw beads of sweat on the dark backs of the eight strong coffin bearers, and veins sprouting from their strong arms.

It seemed that the coffin they were carrying was unusually heavy.

Once the coffin is carried, it is not allowed to be put down until it is carried to the designated location. If the coffin bearer is really tired, the coffin can be temporarily placed on a bench.

The people carrying the bench hurried to the front of the team upon seeing this, but before the bench could be put down, a thick rope broke and the golden nanmu^[1] coffin crashed to the ground.

When the rope breaks and the coffin falls, the deceased has a grudge and does not want to die.