Looking up with shaky eyes, Xie Luochen spoke with a trembling voice. "...Th….this...yours?"
Instead of Chu Nuan, the female ghost answered with a gasp. "Those are my panties?!"
She stared at the panties in Xie Luochen's hand then at Chu Nuan with a bewildered expression.
Feeling a need to justify herself, Chu Nuan explained. " I, I heard in the human world, female ghosts are afraid of red underwear. If you wrap it around their head, it stops their movement....if....if I said that…..would you believe me?"
Xie Luochen and the female ghost stare at her, eyes widened with their mouths slightly opened.
"..I…..I..just happened to find it lying around….. Is that more believable?" Chu Nuan suggested as her voice became lower and lower.
The air became stagnant in a matter of seconds. Xie Luochen clenched his fist as his skin took on a reddish hue. Shutting his eyes tightly, he took a long slow breath, trying to control his erupting heart.
"Xie…." Chu Nuan muttered cautiously.
As soon as he heard her voice, Xie Luochen's flaming eyes flew open. If a person's glare can become daggers- no, become grenades, this whole building would have been wiped off the planet at this moment.
Intimidated by his expression, Chu Nuan shrank back a bit. Feeling a bit upset she muttered under her breath. "It's not my fault you didn't listen to me. I even saw you rubbing your fingers all over it happily. What's the point in acting innocent now? Hmph!"
"Chu Nuan!" Xie Luochen shouted. Breaths become raspy as his hand holding the dagger clench and unclenches. He thought, "I want to stab her. I really, really want to stab her."
Observing nearby, the female ghost looks at a secretly smiling Chu Nuan on one side. Then the red as a tomato Xie Luochen on the other. Sighing silently, she suggested, "how about we talk outside? Xiao Bao is waiting." Without waiting for them, she first exited through the wall.
After managing to calm his emotions back down, Xie Luochen threw the panties back at her. He sent another glare her way before turning to leave the room.
Catching the panties in one swift motion, Chu Nuan smiled craftily.
Xie Luochen, he will never know the truth.
The fact is, moments before Xie Luochen came into the room, Chu Nuan was walking around the place, when a bright red object caught her eye. Reaching into the half-opened closet, she pulled out a pair of really provocative panties. This is it! She thought while imagining a certain person's icy expression. This will definitely heal his face paralysis!
Feeling proud of herself, Chu Nuan was about to take a photo reference, when the sound of footsteps approached. Pressured by the sudden presence, she shoved the undies quickly inside her pocket. Just in time to see Xie Luochen walking in through the door. Thus, what happened after is as follows.
As to why she used them to wrap the ghost....Chu Nuan casually reached inside the same pants pocket to pull out a few sealing talismans. If, I told you....it was an accident. Would you believe it?
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"Allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is Xiao Minlan, Xiao Bao's mother." A woman in her early 30's, introduced. She smiled gently at Xiao Bao as she continued, "I am a B-list actress specialising in horror movies. Thus, the way I appeared in front of you two a while ago."
"Do you remember what happened?" Xie Luochen asked. "Someone reported you missing two months ago."
"That..I don't remember the details. But on that day, I remember a reporter coming by. He was ranting about his passion for my movies and that Xiao Bao is the fruit of his passionate love for me."
"........My husband left us many years ago, so I don't have a man in the house to help with these problems. But I did finally manage to make him leave."
" That same night, he broke open the lock of my front door. I woke up to see a dark figure trying to run off with my son. So I struggled with him, before I knew what happened, the reporter stuck me hard on the head. After that, I woke up floating in this room with Xiao Bao missing." Xiao Minlan recalled with a faraway look.
A moment of silence pervades the area.
"Kacha, kacha."
At this sad and somber hour, the sound of crunching melon seeds echo around the room. The corner of Xiao Minlan's lip twitched as her sight landed on Chu Nuan.
Crunching on melon seeds while listening to gossip, Chu Nuan pauses for a moment when she perceives the surrounding silence. " Sorry, was I too loud?"
Feeling another headache pounding in his head, Xie Luochen ignored Chu Nuan and continued.
"Truth be told, we already know what happened to you, that reporter's name is Wen Ming. A great fan of your works, that day you rejected him, he came back the same night. Thinking that you refused him because of Xiao Bao, he thought you would be with him if your son is in his hands. Who would have known, the noise he made woke you up, causing you to struggle with him. He accidentally struck you with his flashlight, causing you to faint. What he did to your body, we're not too sure, but he bought Xiao Bao away. During the kidnapping, your son must have struggled free. He ran all the way to the abandoned construction site a few blocks away, dying there. "
"It wasn't until a few weeks ago, when Wen Ming got himself into a car accident. His car collided severely with another car, causing the back of his trunk to fly open, revealing Xiao Bao's body." Xie Luochen said as he observed Xiao Minlan's expression.
"During interrogation he confessed to murdering you and Xiao Bao in a fit of anger. But there is something strange about him."
"His eyes are unusually empty and there is a dark aura encircling between his eyebrows...." Xie Luochen spoke deliberately. " Signs of being possessed by a ghost."
The moment he finished this sentence, Xiao Minlan's face turned pale. Looking up with jittery eyes, she replied, "Is, is that so."
Casually placing his hand on the hand rest of the sofa, Xie Luochen continued, "Wen Ming also told me. Each night, a bloody woman crawled into his bed, asking for her son. Her hands are always tightly wrapped around his neck."
Saying up to this point, Xie Luochen paused. Staring straight at Xiao Minlan, he said, "there's only one reason why I am saying so much. The dead cannot interfere with the living. Wen Ming is going to jail, and you have found your son. There is no reason for you to stay here any longer."
Xiao Minlan hangs her head silently.
"If you decide to cause harm to the living, no matter if they are good or bad. I will eliminate you."
The room became silent again, with the occasional "kacha, kacha."
Chewing on her bottom lip in contemplation, Xiao Minlan finally looks up in resignation. Sighing disappointingly, she said "I understand."