My Ghost Lover Is Too Annoying

12. Haunted House

Translator: Flora

Zhou Nan’s method worked and Chen

Ming, as the former said, calmed his angry girlfriend with a glass of lemonade.

However,

holding his girlfriend’s small leather purse obediently, he

felt uncomfortable,

wondering: What’s the purse for? I

am the one who pays the bill.

“Do you know what projects

in the amusement park can show your masculinity?” Zhou Nan asked abruptly.

Chen Ming wanted to say: “My masculinity comes from the inside and I need to do nothing but standing here.” But he was not stupid and knew how to act. In the end, he

didn’t say anything and pretended he heard

nothing.

Zhou Nan knew

that Chen Ming would not answer,

so he continued talking to himself, ” The haunted house! Think

about it, girls are timid.

How lovely is that when she

snuggles up in your arms when frightened! Go for it! Of course,

I won’t go in.” The last

sentence was the

point.

Chen Ming squinted at

his girlfriend who had just pulled his ear and yelled at him,

thinking: Who? She is timid? You’re the timidest one

here!

His girlfriend didn’t want to go around aimlessly, “What’s

the next?”

Being asked abruptly, Chen Ming answered without

thinking, ” The Haunted

House.”

A summer resort on

a blistering summer day, from

the body to

soul.

In the daytime, the haunted house stood in the bright sunlight and there was nothing to fear. Those rusty two words were askew, with curled edges. One could not tell whether they were deliberately made, or the house was long in

disrepair.

After storing the purse, Chen

Ming and his girlfriend joined the queue, waiting for the staff to send them

in.

It was so boring

that Chen Ming asked,

“You’re not afraid of ghosts anymore?”

“Yes,

I am afraid of ghosts and

darkness.” Chen Ming’s girlfriend took his arm and leaned against his shoulder,

“So you have to stay with me and don’t disappear suddenly.”

Chen Ming looked at

his girlfriend. He didn’t move away or get closer to the girl. He just stood there and frowned

lightly, looking worried.

He forced a smile, “What is to be afraid of? There are no

ghosts in this world.” After that, he turned

to look for Zhou Nan’s figure, who was nowhere

to be seen.

“What are you

looking at?”

Chen Ming turned back,

and he was still smiling, “Nothing, I thought

someone called me.”

His girlfriend looked back

and didn’t see any beautiful girl, “You have been paranoid since I met you a few years ago. You gave me some spells to protect me and told me a lot of things like soul taking and

reincarnation. Those notes are quite unusual and I keep them.

Now you say ghosts don’t exist.”

Chen Ming smiled

awkwardly and didn’t reply. He scolded himself for being

naive and hoped something could interrupt the topic.

Fortunately, the

previous group was out and the queue got shorter.

“Don’t think about

those silly things. Let’s go.”

The staff counted

and sent them in one by one. Finally, it was the turn of Chen Ming and

his girlfriend, and they were the last group.

“Alas? Are we the

last?” His girlfriend was a little panicked, “Shall we wait for the next round?”

The iron bars

were already down. It was too troublesome to go back and shameful to flinch.

Chen Ming held his girlfriend’s hand tightly, and said

manly, “Don’t

be afraid! I’m with

you.”

After just a few seconds, the tourists ahead were long gone. Chen Ming tried

to catch up, but he didn’t hear anyone’s sound after

walking down the aisle for a while.

The lights dimmed and the surroundings changed dramatically. The electric lights were replaced by flickering candlelight.

Suddenly, with a

loud beast roar, the lights were all out.

His girlfriend screamed

and grabbed Chen Ming’s arm. Her nails pierced into his flesh and the pain was

unbearable.

Just as Chen Ming was

stuck in pitch darkness, the walls and floors were ablaze with red patterns extending along the passage as if saying:

Please come in.

“It’s

weird… Chen Ming… Let’s go back!” His girlfriend’s grip was

lighter, but she

still trembled slightly.

Having got no response, she looked up and found Chen Ming frowning. She was even more flustered and called again, “Chen Ming?”

Coming back to his senses, Chen Ming showed a dazed look.

But soon, he raised his eyebrows and restored his casualness, “This special effect is good. I was shocked. Sorry, what did you just say?”

His girlfriend wiped the

cold sweat from her forehead and took a deep breath, “I

said, let’s go back. I don’t want to play anymore.”

Chen Ming curled his lips and said, “This is just

man-made effect. Don’t be too afraid. I paid for this. Isn’t it very-”

“Chen

Ming!” His girlfriend stomped in

anger and her

scream echoed in the corridor,

“Money, money, money! Why are

you so

stingy?”

Chen Ming stared at

her, stopped smiling, and said helplessly, “Then you go back the way you came, I’ll

continue.”

He wanted to say that he

didn’t care about money, but he couldn’t tell her the

truth, so even if his girlfriend was angry, he had to go on. Perhaps

for the purpose of avoiding his girlfriend, he left without looking back and

walked in a hurry.

His girlfriend kicked

up a row behind him, but Chen Ming didn’t respond

at all. Finally, she

said angrily, “Go then! When I

get out, we’ll break up!”

Chen Ming paused and

sighed, “Whatever you want.”  He threw her purse back

without turning around.

“Chen Ming, you asshole!” His girlfriend wanted to smash him with the purse,

but she didn’t because of the expensive cosmetics inside, “This is about …”

Before she

finished speaking,

the patterns dimmed one after another. Darkness followed like the mouth of a giant beast, ready to swallow

the two.

The way back was lost in the dark.

His girlfriend hurried to Chen Ming, wanting to grasp the only “life-saving straw” before

she was in complete darkness. But the

reality played a joke on her.

Just as her hand was about

to touch Chen Ming, he nimbly dodged. In an instant, all the lights were out, and there was pitch darkness.

“Chen Ming!”

No one answered.

“Enough! Chen Ming!” His girlfriend was about to cry.

Suddenly, there was a sound

of wood cracking and heavy objects

falling behind

her. She thought

it was a Chen Ming and groped to

approach, but the squeak of a mouse stopped her.

Looking left and right,

she decided to run

forward and catch up with the tourists.