Emergence

Chong Ying sat in her seat, listening as "Sister Ping" told a ghost story whose female protagonist bore her name. Though she knew it was only a story, she felt inexplicably uncomfortable, because it really did sound as though it had happened to her.

The story that followed was particularly vile. After the "Chong Ying" in the story killed her first male classmate, she not only felt no discomfort whatsoever, but gradually began to immerse herself in the pleasure of killing.

There had never been any doll by the bed. Everything had been imagined by the girl herself, merely excuses fabricated because she had been restrained by morality while committing murder.

On the second night after the first murder, every male and female student in Accounting Class One was slaughtered in their dormitories. Even the Dormitory Auntie who came after hearing the disturbance in the girls' dormitory met a gruesome end.

When the police received the report and arrived at the school the next day, they were unnerved by the murderer's brutal methods. When they opened the door to the dorm room of the suspected culprit, they were stunned by the sight before them.

Blood was splattered throughout the room, and the suspect stood upright in the center. At that moment, "Chong Ying's" entire body was covered in stitches—her eyelids, lips, fingers, scalp, and more. The threads extended outward, connecting her to the eerie dolls scattered around the room.

During the remaining hours of that night, "Chong Ying" turned herself into a creature that was half human and half doll. At the final moment before her death, she connected herself to all the dolls she loved.

Only after the police took those dolls back as evidence did they discover that each doll contained the hearts of all the students in