As far as Skinny and the others were concerned, the "Lin Qi" they knew and had spent time with was Lin Qi. I was the one who had suddenly appeared and taken the place of their friend.
I thought they might overreact and attack me outright. But the four of them only watched me, each with a different expression. None of them spoke or moved. Guo Yujie, the most impulsive of them, stared at me with a puzzled look, as if she thought I'd lost my mind. Skinny and Fatty, who should have been closest to me, didn't lose control of their emotions either. They looked at me with nothing but suspicion and wariness.
Seeing that, I stopped wondering what they thought and told them what I'd been through.
I should have forgotten a lot of the details from that year and more, but my life during that time had been so harrowing. I'd been through too much. My peaceful, ordinary life had been shattered, and even the world I thought I knew had changed.
Besides, I'd told Skinny and the others nearly everything that had happened to me. They knew about every file I'd read and every supernatural incident I'd encountered.
So I told them all of it.
Back then, I'd told them those things... At first, it was because I was amazed. I'd never imagined I'd encounter a ghost, and when I did, I shared it with my friends. That was all. Later, I couldn't handle things on my own, so I needed everyone to put their heads together. After that, I simply wanted to warn them. Greenleaf hadn't dealt with many ghosts, and neither had I. This was the only way I could make them cautious. Those shifting, merging emotions eventually became a habit.
I was used