Qin Manjiang jolted awake from his dream.
He sat up and looked out the wooden window. The sky was just beginning to brighten, and right on cue, a rooster crowed.
Turning his head, he saw the mysterious woman sleeping at the other end of the bed, her eyes closed.
The woman in his dream and those words left Qin Manjiang bewildered, while a vague, inexplicable fear rose within him.
The third time...
What third time?
Did she mean this was already the third time she had seen me?
A chill settled in Qin Manjiang's heart, and he suddenly felt an eerie atmosphere envelop his surroundings.
He recalled what had happened when he first arrived in this world yesterday.
From his perspective, he really had "just" arrived.
But...
If what the woman in the dream said was true, was it possible...
That this... wasn't my first time entering [Guanyin Flat Lake]?
According to what she said in the dream, after the Game officially began, I had already been through [Guanyin Flat Lake] twice...
But for some unknown reason, my memories were erased, and I "looped" back once again to the moment I first entered [Guanyin Village].
Why? Qin Manjiang suddenly felt his head swim.
He looked at the woman sleeping on the other side. Her figure closely resembled that of the woman in his dream.
If this really wasn't his first time playing, it would indeed explain why "she," a complete stranger, felt familiar.
In fact, Qin Manjiang had taken note of that unknown sense of familiarity the moment it first appeared.
His guess was that either the source of his "soul," Jiang Du, knew this woman.
And this Ghost Story was currently set twenty years ago, when Jiang Du was still alive. Perhaps Jiang Du had crossed paths with this