Horror Shorts: Seeking Comfort from His Wife, the Witch

Selene dropped her aloof facade. Or rather, she couldn't keep it up around Li Dan, and not just because they were on different levels of power.

Besides, she wouldn't have another chance for a long time.

She decided her pride didn't matter that much.

She even clung to Li Dan, asking to try a second time.

He might have agreed if it had been anyone else, but Li Dan refused. He had said she needed to behave, so she would have to behave first.

Li Dan left so decisively that no one even knew when he had gone.

For now, the events in Twilight had come to an end.

Li Dan reached an apartment building in the city at tremendous speed. He should have kept going, but something strange there caught his attention and made him stay.

Of course, unless he chose to reveal himself, no one could see him.

Night had fallen.

Fine rain drifted through the cold wind.

Tall buildings rose on both sides.

A boy named Luo Li lived on the fifth floor. Instead of sleeping that night, he secretly watched the building opposite through binoculars—and saw something horrifying.

Only the fourth and sixth floors of the opposite building were lit.

In one sixth-floor apartment, a woman was lying on top of a man. He lay motionless, as though he had been dead for some time.

Luo Li was watching intently, thinking he had stumbled upon something he shouldn't see, when the woman suddenly raised her head. Her face was twisted into a manic expression, and she pointed straight toward his position.

Luo Li jumped. He couldn't understand how she had spotted him from so far away.

The woman abandoned the man's body, scrambled off the bed, and vanished from his binoculars' view.

Luo Li ducked behind