"Darling, look at her!"
Jennifer pointed at Emma, who had dashed up to the second floor, furious beyond belief.
Li Dan had just turned on his computer when he saw Jennifer coming to complain again. He could not help but laugh. "Why are you competing with a child? Even if you make her understand that you're my girlfriend, what does it matter?"
Jennifer froze for a moment. That actually made sense!
Why was she bothering with that brat? Wasn't it more comfortable to lie in baby's arms?
Having figured it out.
Jennifer stopped chasing after her, kicked off her shoes to reveal her fair, rounded little feet, and gracefully pounced into Li Dan's arms, wriggling her way deeper into them.
Li Dan had both hands on the keyboard, while Jennifer poked her head through the tiny space beneath his arm and slowly squeezed in. Then she sat on his lap, facing him as she looked at him.
Li Dan felt the soft pressure of Jennifer's chest and knew she was craving him. But who was he?
"Wait a moment. Let me look at this first."
"Fine, but hurry up, baby~"
Jennifer lazily sprawled across Li Dan, resting her head against his shoulder. She ignored Emma's yelling upstairs, only tossing out a reply when she felt like it.
This infuriated Emma. She had not expected this woman to suddenly become smarter.
And she had shamelessly taken over Emma's spot.
That was right. In Emma's eyes, that was her place. As for Jennifer being the official girlfriend?
Please. Emma simply had not grown up yet. Otherwise, how would this woman still have a place here?
You said Emma was the one in the wrong?
Emma's personality was already antisocial. How could she possibly think she was wrong?
Thus, a dramatic scene was born.
Li Dan sat on the sofa in the first-floor living room, holding his grown-up girlfriend Jennifer while reading posts on a horror website. Emma went wild with provocations upstairs.
Jennifer ignored her, merely taking a deep breath against Li Dan in front of Emma.
The look of obsession on her face made it clear that she had taken an epic lungful.
That dealt more critical damage than cursing Emma out a hundred times.
Li Dan browsed through the posts without any particular aim.
Then he suddenly saw a post by someone claiming to be a housewife. That was strange—why would a housewife browse a horror website?
Curious, he opened it.
It was roughly about a woman who lacked any real presence and married a man she did not love simply because he said he liked and needed her.
Her married life had always been happy and ordinary.
Until one day.
Her husband went to the hospital for a checkup and was diagnosed with oligospermia. When he got home, he began throwing a tantrum and rummaging through things, only to accidentally find his wife's diary.
It recorded her secret crush on another stranger.
Then began the endless domestic violence against his wife and son...
Everything up to that point was normal. It was just a family problem.
Li Dan had been about to scroll past when he caught sight of the poster's name: Kayako. His heartbeat skipped half a beat.
Wasn't that fucking The Grudge next door?
Wait, it seemed like the American version also had a The Grudge.
He could not tell them apart, but either one was possible.
After all, this website documented supernatural and horrifying incidents experienced by most people around the world. There were no national boundaries.
But an evil ghost at that level was truly terrifying.
He even wondered whether Kayako, with how absurdly overpowered she was, might crawl over through the internet cable.
No, no, no. Maybe Li Dan was overthinking it.
Could there be someone else with the same name... My ass. With that experience, it was one hundred percent her!
He just did not know which stage it was from.
He looked at the comments beneath the post again. A bunch of Black guys were still making dirty jokes.
Nope. Absolutely not.
Li Dan immediately exited the post and even deleted his browsing history. Right now, the most important thing was to read some posts about Deformed People killing others and calm himself down.
Compared to Kayako, any Deformed Person or serial killer was practically a sweet, soft little cake.
He continued browsing.
After roughly skimming through more than a dozen posts, Li Dan finally stopped once again.
This time, the poster was a young woman. Judging from her profile picture, she had blonde hair. She was not especially beautiful, but she was pleasant to look at.
She called herself Rebecca and recounted her experiences from the years she had spent away from home.
There was a lot of nonsense here, so Li Dan skipped straight ahead.
Rebecca said she had left home for years because of a terrifying nightmare.
Even after returning home years later, she still could not shake the childhood trauma lingering in her heart. This nightmare appeared only when she switched the lights on or off.
She had not wanted to mention it again, but she was making this post because her younger brother Martin had encountered the same thing.
She hoped to get help.
Li Dan looked at the post thoughtfully. Wasn't this Lights Out?
It had been pretty famous back then. He remembered that there were countless Lights Out ghost pictures in some online group, and every time someone posted one, the group members cursed them out.
At first, that evil spirit seemed able to appear only after the lights went out.
Li Dan thought he could give it a try, so he claimed to be an exorcist in the comments.
Why did he only claim to be one? Mainly because there were too many scammers on this site.
He could get verified, but once he was, his private messages would probably explode. If he refused to help, a bunch of people would jump out to accuse him and guilt-trip him.
Rather than deal with that, he might as well not get verified.
Li Dan was no different from an ordinary scammer as he directly left a comment beneath the post.
"I'm a church exorcist. I can help you."
There were relatively few comments on this post. Mainly because there were no photos, no videos, and a pile of trivial everyday matters mixed in. It was already good enough that anyone had read it, much less commented.
More than ten minutes later.
A little red notification dot appeared in Li Dan's inbox.
It was a private message from Rebecca.
"Are you really an exorcist?"
Li Dan inexplicably laughed when he saw the question. It was like asking a scammer whether they were a scammer.
He replied, "I am."
Rebecca asked, "Can you help my brother? What do you need for your help?"
She did not seem too stupid. At least she knew there would be a price to pay.
As for what price, Li Dan lacked neither women nor money, so this was how he replied.
"That evil spirit is my payment. If you want to offer something else in place of the evil spirit, that's fine too."
Rebecca, on the other side of the chat window, was utterly astonished.
She had only posted online seeking help on a whim, never expecting anyone to really respond.
She had thought it might require a great deal of money or something else, but it turned out to be the evil spirit itself. Just reading those words, she could already imagine that the person on the other side had to be a powerful exorcist.
She quickly typed her response.
"Sir, if you want to take the evil spirit away, I have no objections. She seems to be getting closer and closer to us. Could you give me your contact information?"
"Sure."
After entering his contact information, Li Dan confirmed her location and found that they were only one state apart.
He planned to leave tomorrow. It was already getting a little late today.
Li Dan told the two women, who were still sulking at each other, about the news.
Jennifer did not want Li Dan to leave, but she did not want to go with him either. Evil spirits were still far too terrifying for an American girl like her.
Emma, on the other hand, was eager to try, but Li Dan certainly could not take her along.
This would be a solo operation.
Jennifer saw that Li Dan had finished his business. Wasn't it time for some intimacy now?
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