Ji Li silently watched them. Those ghosts, each representing a different kind of terror, swayed back and forth before his eyes like sheets of human skin fluttering in the wind.
The ghosts wearing human skin were dead, yet he, a living man, stood there watching.
He suddenly realized something—there had not been fourteen ghosts between January 1 and January 15, but fifteen.
On January 15, the wedding night, there was also a ghost.
Such an enormous show of goodwill could only have come from a ghost capable of confronting the Ghost Bride head-on on the wedding day. He could think of no other ghost qualified to do so.
Viewed that way, perhaps things really were very different from what he had imagined.
The Ghost Bride... perhaps she really did only want to complete the wedding. At the very least, she was not an outright villain.
In this marriage arrangement, the true antagonists were the forces Heavenly Sea had placed in their way.
"A ghost that can stand toe-to-toe with the Ghost Bride, even on the wedding night..."
Tonight was January 8. In theory, tonight's trouble had already been resolved, and Ji Li should never have come to the Li residence.
Previously, he had believed the Ghost Bride was responsible for his remaining in the bridal chamber after dealing with tonight's ghost. Now, however, it seemed that mysterious, powerful ghost had been orchestrating everything.
That ghost was probably even more terrifying than the Ghost Bride. The very fact that it could appear at the crucial moment of the January 15 wedding night was proof of its power.
And now, before the wedding night, the Ghost Bride was bound by powerful rules. She was most likely far weaker than this ghost.
Then why had it taken the initiative to help Ji Li