Zhang Yexin's home.
Zhang Yexin had already been discharged from the hospital and was now recuperating at home.
At the thought of another huge medical bill, his face twisted into a bitter melon.
Right now, he lay on his bed, scribbling over a pile of newspapers and magazines.
"Ugh... The situation at home has gone from bad to worse. I can't even apply to any of the better vocational technical colleges anymore. Do I really... have to settle for Blue Sky Vocational Technical College and learn to operate an excavator?"
With a pencil clenched between his teeth, Zhang Yexin suddenly spotted a scrapbook beneath several vocational technical college admissions brochures.
The scrapbook was filled with news clippings about supernatural powers.
'Dragon sighted in the Donglin Mountains! Pictures prove it!'
'White Crane Martial Arts School successor displays White Crane Fist, soaring three zhang into the air!'
'Ghost Mother descends upon the world, turning the human realm into a ghostly domain!'
Some of the news inside was true, some false. Before this, Zhang Yexin would certainly have scoffed at it all.
But ever since seeing Ghost Mother with his own eyes, he had become a staunch believer in supernatural powers.
But alas...
Ideals were often defeated by reality.
"Excavator operators can find work easily, and construction sites pay better than hauling bricks..."
Just as Zhang Yexin was persuading himself, he suddenly shuddered.
The temperature around him plummeted in an instant. The surroundings inexplicably dimmed, as though he had stepped into an old black-and-white photograph.
'This feeling! This feeling!'
Zhang Yexin screamed wildly in his heart, but his body had already stiffened beyond movement.
'That woman—the Ghost Mother... Is she still unwilling to let me go?'
But in the next moment, that bone-chilling sensation vanished.
"Huff... huff..."
As if he had narrowly