Qiao Family Village, Soul Return Realm.
She could not get out...
Qiao Ziruo had tried many methods, but none let her leave the area around her courtyard. She could plainly see the village at a glance, yet she always wound up back at the courtyard gate in some inexplicable way.
She was trapped here...
Qiao Ziruo leaned against the courtyard entrance, her eyes vacant.
She rubbed her temples in pain, vaguely remembering... that she had forgotten something. But what exactly was it?
Try as she might, she could not remember.
But this place... this Qiao Family Village felt so strange to her.
It was so silent that it made her heart tremble.
She glanced back. Her grandmother had vanished again. Her grandmother always appeared very suddenly and disappeared just as suddenly.
Qiao Ziruo took out her phone and checked the time. It was nine in the morning.
It's already nine...
She gazed blankly up at the sky.
Thick clouds blocked most of the sunlight. Looking closely, she could see a rim of red light along their edges. The sun was very red, but... it did not dazzle her eyes.
The village... perhaps because she had not returned for so long, it felt both familiar and unfamiliar to Qiao Ziruo. She had even begun to find it eerie and frightening. Especially with someone having died recently, she was even more afraid.
But now that she had calmed down somewhat, though she still felt that she had forgotten something, her basic ability to think had returned.
I can't leave the village. Is it because... something is playing tricks in the shadows?
But what could it be...
I came back so suddenly because I got a phone call saying a relative had died. Before the call, I was still attending classes at university...