What to Do If You're Too Handsome: Section 12

"That was A Le's voice. What did he run into?! Why was he screaming so horribly?!"

At the same time, the night that had still been lit by moonlight turned completely dark.

The clouds hung incredibly low, as if they were about to crush Kowloon Walled City.

The howling wind sounded like ghosts shrieking, and waves of bone-chilling cold kept washing over Jia Hui.

Just as she stood there helpless and lost, a warm, large hand pulled her into an embrace.

Who else could it have been but An Xinghe?

An Xinghe said, "Your production crew does everything well except value your own lives. Do you know what day it is today?"

"Huh?" Jia Hui trembled. "Isn't it the Ghost Festival?"

An Xinghe rapped Jia Hui sharply on the head. "You know it's the Ghost Festival, and you still dared come to a place like this!"

"The Ghost Festival is also called the Ghost Festival. On this day, the gates of hell open wide!"

Jia Hui muttered, "Ghosts and stuff... aren't they all made up...?"

An Xinghe rolled his eyes and held Jia Hui close.

"Let's find a room and rest for a while. It's cold outside."

"Mm, okay~"

For some reason, Jia Hui's face reddened again.

Following the route in his memory, An Xinghe found the home of He Ruming, Dentist He, from Ghost Tale of Hong Kong.

Seeing how skillfully An Xinghe navigated the area, Jia Hui could not help asking,

"Xinghe, have you been here before?"

"No, but I've heard the legends about this place."

"Huh? What legends?"

An Xinghe gave a mysterious smile and began recounting the tale.

"Legend says that there was a highly skilled Dentist He in Kowloon Walled City, but his wife lost every tooth in her mouth due to illness."

"Dentist He possessed a hereditary evil art that could regrow teeth, but something went wrong when he used it on his wife!"

"His wife was killed by the evil art, and he suffered a backlash from it as well. He fled far away, leaving behind only their daughter."

"But Daughter He, who was only six or seven years old, did not starve to death. According to her... her dead mother had always been cooking for her."

As An Xinghe told the story, his tone was incredibly eerie, as though he had witnessed it himself.

Danmaku.

[An Xinghe's story just gave me goosebumps.]

[Fuck! I need to change my pants.]

[Bring me my yellow pants!]

[Streamer, can you stop scaring us?!]

Jia Hui had clearly been frightened too. She shivered as she said,

"Xinghe, what you said isn't real, right?"

An Xinghe flashed a brilliant smile and pointed at the ground beneath them.

"Of course it's real. We're in Dentist He's house right now!"

"Ahhh!!!"

With a scream, Jia Hui tried to run outside, but An Xinghe swiftly pulled her into his arms.

If Jia Hui ran out there, she would one hundred percent turn into a ghost.

For some inexplicable reason, once An Xinghe held her like this, Jia Hui actually calmed down.

She neither shouted nor struggled. Instead, she weakly poked An Xinghe's arm.

"Xinghe, your hand..."

"Ah, sorry. It slipped a little too high."

Without blushing or missing a beat, An Xinghe withdrew his hand, then earnestly advised Jia Hui,

"Going outside now would be no different from courting death. Let's search this place and see if there's anything useful."

Jia Hui nodded with a red face.

"I'll listen to you."

Dentist He's home was tiny, and having gone untended for years, it was a complete mess.

After searching the table for a while, An Xinghe found an aged sheet of yellow paper with five words written on it.

Tooth Fall Rebirth Formula

Chapter 18: Bark!!

An Xinghe picked up the Tooth Fall Rebirth Formula.

[Name: Tooth Fall Rebirth Formula]

[Type: Plot-Related]

[Quality: Common]

[Effect: None]

[Can Be Taken Out of the Scenario: Yes]

[Remarks: The savior of the shameless!]

An Xinghe's eyes widened in surprise!

What surprised him was not the formula's remarks, but the fact that it could actually be taken out of the instance!

The moment An Xinghe obtained the Tooth Fall Rebirth Formula, it was as if he had triggered some kind of mechanism. A piercing howl came from outside the house.

Frightened, Jia Hui burrowed into An Xinghe's arms.

"Xinghe! There's a ghost! There really is a ghost! I heard it!"

An Xinghe patted her head.

"It's fine, don't be afraid. With me here, the ghost can't get in."

As soon as he finished speaking, the front door was smashed to pieces with a crash.

A Female Ghost in white rushed inside!

Her hair was disheveled, she looked to be around forty, and every tooth in her mouth had vanished without a trace. Her grotesque appearance was terrifying!

An Xinghe guessed that she was He Ruming's wife, the one killed by the evil art.

In the original game, Madam He had possessed Jia Hui and committed all sorts of evil.

But this time, Jia Hui was under An Xinghe's protection. Madam He had lost her target for possession and could only exist in ghostly form!

Jia Hui pushed An Xinghe, trying to make him run, but not only did An Xinghe fail to retreat, he actually took two steps toward the ghost.

Jia Hui's face went pale with fright.

"Xinghe! What are you doing?! Hurry up and run!"

An Xinghe looked as though it were only natural. "I'm going to kill the ghost!"

Jia Hui urgently tried to persuade him.

"Xinghe! Don't be stupid! She's a ghost! Ordinary weapons can't hurt them!"

An Xinghe grinned smugly.

"You're right. Then I'll use an extraordinary weapon!"

An Xinghe reached into his clothes and pulled out a pair of Scissors. They were enormous, a full meter long! The chilling aura they emitted was no weaker than that of the Female Ghost before them—if anything, it was even stronger!

They were the Slit-Mouthed Woman's Scissors!

Madam He froze in fright at the sight of the Scissors. By the time she came back to her senses, An Xinghe was already charging at her with them.

She knew she was no match for the Scissors, so she turned and ran!

How could An Xinghe let her go so easily? He chased after her relentlessly!

A chase immediately began between the two in Kowloon Walled City!

Livestream chat.

[In horror games, I've only ever seen ghosts chase people. This is my first time seeing someone chase a ghost!]

[Madam He can only blame her bad luck for running into a freak like An Xinghe!]

[An Xinghe got Scissors capable of harming ghosts in his very first instance. Madam He is in for it.]

[A perfectly good horror game got turned into a dating game by An Xinghe, and now he's turned it into a stalker simulator.]

[Madam He: Don't come any closer!]

[Why do I suddenly feel like Madam He is kind of pitiful...]

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Since Madam He was in ghost form, she could float up to heights An Xinghe could not see. In the end, she successfully escaped.

An Xinghe was not discouraged, because the man and ghost would meet again soon enough.

Jia Hui panted as she caught up, gasping for breath as she asked,

"Xinghe... where's that Female Ghost?"

"She ran away."

"Good. Good that she ran away." Jia Hui let out a long breath, then suddenly asked,

"Xinghe, you can actually drive ghosts away! Are you the successor of one of those Hidden Sects?"