The sudden turn of events startled everyone else.
The woman who had been crying also fell silent and looked at the mirror.
The scene in the mirror made her eyes widen. After a few seconds of silence, she let out a scream.
The sound nearly pierced the roof.
The vanity did not shake, but a piece of the mirror fell off.
It bounced off the vanity and landed by the woman's feet. The shard was empty, but an image slowly appeared in it.
The woman's own face appeared in the shard, staring blankly at her. Its lips moved as if it were saying something.
I could only sense the Yin energy. I couldn't hear what the ghost in the mirror was saying.
Maybe it wasn't saying anything at all, and was using the woman's fear to manipulate her mind.
Huangguang suddenly roared and tried to grab the woman, but his hand passed right through her again. Beside himself with worry, he tried to stomp on the shard on the floor. That failed, too.
There was nothing he could do.
We were outsiders in this space, able to do nothing but watch.
The knocking continued.
The woman looked up at the door.
The knocking stopped.
I heard voices outside the door. They sounded anxious, and footsteps followed. The two elderly people had probably gone to find another way.
The woman looked at the shard again.
Her body shuddered, and she tremblingly picked it up.
I had a bad feeling.
Huangguang was even more frantic as he tried to stop her.
He knelt helplessly before the woman, calling out to her again and again.
The woman, of course, had no idea. She simply followed the events that had already been set in the past, just as she had back then, and used