Eerie, sinister background music echoed through the quiet bedroom.
The movie’s opening built up slowly. At first, Su Ruanruan gripped her quilt tightly, but after watching for fifteen minutes, she started to feel like she could handle it.
‘Tch, just this?’
Su Ruanruan munched on a small snack from her bedside table while scoffing internally. ‘The lighting is so fake; you can tell they dimmed it on purpose. And that blood is definitely just watered-down ketchup! That female ghost crawling out of the TV is so stiff — it’s way too unrealistic.’
Although the occasional jump scares on the screen still made her sensitive loli body tremble involuntarily, overall, Su Ruanruan felt the movie was “just okay.”
An hour and a half later.
As “The End” appeared on the screen, Su Ruanruan let out a long sigh of relief and turned off her tablet with a hint of pride.
“Ha! I told you, how could a mere horror movie scare me?”
Click.
To create the right atmosphere for the movie, she had turned off the bedroom lights earlier. Now that the tablet screen was dark, the entire room instantly plunged into a deathly silent darkness.
Only a sliver of faint moonlight filtered in through the window, casting long, twisted shadows of the furniture across the room.
It was a bit too quiet.
Gulp.
For some reason, Su Ruanruan suddenly swallowed hard.
When she was watching the movie, there was sound, a plot, and her mind was busy criticizing it, so she didn’t feel much. But now, being alone in this pitch-black room…
The fear she had suppressed began to grow like mold festering in the dark. Whether it was a hallucination or not, Su Ruanruan felt the temperature in the room suddenly drop several degrees, and even her breath felt chilly.
“Cough, cough… It’ll be fine once the lights are on…”
She had just stretched out one fair, tender leg when her toes hadn’t even touched the floor yet.
Rustle —
A night breeze blew past, causing the heavy curtains to sway.
The shadow stretched by the moonlight danced wildly against the wall, looking… exactly like that disheveled female ghost from earlier, preparing to pounce!
Su Ruanruan’s breath hitched violently.
The image of that ghost crawling from behind the curtains in the movie flashed through her mind like an uncontrollable virus, magnifying and looping!
‘It’s a hallucination! It’s just the curtains! Believe in science!’
Su Ruanruan bit her lip hard, forcing herself to look away.
She looked toward the wardrobe. The door didn’t seem to be closed tightly, leaving a dark, narrow gap. In that gap… was there a pair of pale, bloodshot eyes staring fixedly at her?!
She looked down at the floor under the bed. Ghosts in movies loved hiding under beds. If she put her foot down now, would a cold, purple hand suddenly grab her ankle and drag her under?!
“Ugh…”
Su Ruanruan’s heart raced with fear.
Like a frightened ostrich, she pulled her leg back and dove into the covers, wrapping herself up tightly like a silkworm cocoon, not even daring to let a single strand of hair show.
It was stuffy and oxygen-deprived under the quilt, but Su Ruanruan was shaking all over, her back already drenched in cold sweat.
‘No… As soon as I close my eyes, I see that ghost’s face…’
After suffering under the covers for ten full minutes, feeling her own heartbeat sounding like a death knell, Su Ruanruan finally collapsed.
Su Ruanruan grit her teeth, threw off the quilt, and sprinted out of the “ghost-infested” room barefoot at top speed.
“Xiaoxiao! Xiaoxiao!”
She rushed to her sister’s door. Without even thinking of knocking, she twisted the doorknob and burst inside.
Hearing the sound from behind, Su Xiaoxiao, who was in the middle of doing something “bad,” froze instantly as if struck by lightning.
Her long legs kicked out, sliding her and the chair back half a meter. She took advantage of the momentum to stuff the piece of fabric in her hand with extreme precision into the pocket of her baggy sweatpants.
At the same time, with a thwack, she slammed her palm onto a shortcut key on the keyboard. The “Boss key” instantly switched the screen, changing the full-screen “Sister’s Sleeping Recordings” into a dense interface of code that looked quite professional!
The entire process of “destroying the evidence” took less than zero point five seconds, executed with fluid grace.
“What… what are you doing? It’s the middle of the night, don’t you know how to knock?”
Su Xiaoxiao tried her best to make her voice sound raspy and annoyed.
However, if one looked closely, they would notice that the hand she had placed on the keyboard was shaking violently, her palm covered in cold sweat.
Meanwhile, her other hand, hidden in the pocket of her baggy sportswear, was deathly tight around that piece of pink fabric that still held her sister’s warmth. Her knuckles were white from the force.
“Ahem… Well, Xiaoxiao…”
Su Ruanruan, who hadn’t seen any of this, let her eyes wander frantically while her two index fingers poked at each other nervously in front of her chest. “I, I was in my room just now… um… and I felt a bit cold! Yes, very cold! And… and I think you’ve been playing games every day lately… so…”
“…”
Su Xiaoxiao looked down at this silly sister whose toes were digging into the ground from nervousness and who couldn’t squeeze out a full sentence after stammering for a long time. The heavy stone in her heart finally dropped.
‘So she was scared and came to me for comfort. Looking at how stupid she is, she probably didn’t see what I was doing just now…’
However, Su Xiaoxiao’s hand in her pocket still didn’t let go. Those Strawberry Panties were like a time bomb; as long as her sister stayed in this room for another second, there was a chance she would notice something was wrong.
No, she had to find a way to get her out and hide the “crime tool” properly.
Thinking this, Su Xiaoxiao forced herself to stand up calmly. Her tall frame instantly cast a shadow over Su Ruanruan.
“Why do you smell so much like cold sweat?” Su Xiaoxiao said with a deliberate scowl, using a tone of extreme disgust. “You’re filthy, don’t rub against me.”
“Ugh…” Su Ruanruan pouted aggrievedly at being rejected.
“I’m going to take a shower.” Su Xiaoxiao took the opportunity to issue an eviction notice, even deliberately pulling her hand out of her pocket to pretend to grab a change of clothes. “If you’re cold, go back to your room and cover yourself with a thicker quilt. Don’t get in my way here.”
After saying that, Su Xiaoxiao turned and walked toward the door, intending to go to the bathroom to destroy the evidence.
“Eh? Sho… Shower?!”
Hearing those words, Su Ruanruan’s brain instantly short-circuited.
If Xiaoxiao went to shower, then she would have to be alone in a room! Whether it was her own room or Xiaoxiao’s room, as long as she was alone… as soon as she closed her eyes…
The female ghost crawling out of the TV, the shadows behind the curtains, the eyes under the bed…
“Don’t, don’t go!”
Just as Su Xiaoxiao was about to step out the door, Su Ruanruan let out an extremely shrill, tearful cry.
Like a little white rabbit pouncing on its prey, she lunged forward from behind and wrapped her arms tightly around Su Xiaoxiao’s waist. Due to the force of the impact, the two of them nearly tumbled to the floor together.
“What, what are you doing!” Su Xiaoxiao was startled. Her body went stiff, and the lace panties in her pocket almost fell out.
“Waaaaah… Don’t leave me alone…”
Su Ruanruan buried her face in Su Xiaoxiao’s back, hugging her for dear life and refusing to let go as tears streamed down her face.
With her eyes squeezed shut, she abandoned all pride and yelled:
“I, I’m also very dirty! I broke out in a cold sweat today too! I want to shower too! I want to shower with you!”
“…”
The air suddenly fell into an extremely eerie, deathly silence.