At Room 604, Unit 1, Cuixing City, Ping An Road, Bao Shui District, Xidu City, Yan Country, not a soul was home, but the lights were still on.
It didn't seem to be because someone had rushed out and forgotten to turn them off. It was as if they had deliberately left them on, waiting for someone.
Suddenly, the utterly ordinary security door opened, and a girl stepped out of what should have been an empty apartment.
A strange scent of blood and sourness clung to her, and her shoes were soaked through with a blackish-red substance. The sight was so much like something straight out of a horror movie that, in the dead of night, it would have been enough to make an adult scream bloody murder.
"I'm home? I'm home!"
Chen Xiyao looked around as if she couldn't believe it: the familiar door across the hall, the familiar corridor, her familiar front door...
"Uh, why's the door closed?" Chen Xiyao looked back, only to find that the door, which should have been open, had shut. Awkwardly, she realized she hadn't brought her keys...
"Uh..."
Chen Xiyao looked at the first crisis she'd faced since coming home and knocked her head in frustration. She tried the doorbell a few times, then pounded on the door, but got no response.
"Mom and Dad still aren't home at this hour..." Chen Xiyao felt a pang of guilt at the thought of running away from home. Although it had actually been her own front door that had sent her to another world, she couldn't help worrying about her parents.
"At least it's only been half a month. Mom and Dad probably haven't given up and moved away, right?"
Chen Xiyao scratched her head and looked at herself. If she went out like