With the lights on inside the room, the windowpane was pitch-black. Unless someone pressed against the glass to look out, they could not see anything outside.
"Ma Shu" stood stiffly before the window and heard two knocks on the glass.
She reached out and opened the window. The dark figure outside immediately climbed over the sill and landed on the floor. It was a woman wearing the same red reception dress as "Ma Shu," her long hair pinned up with a gold-tasseled beaded hairpin. Her face was a blank expanse of flesh... Under the light, that flesh rippled like a non-Newtonian fluid, then slowly took on the same features as the "Ma Shu" before her.
Bai Yu inspected her appearance in the vanity mirror, then waved a hand at "Ma Shu." "Ma Shu" walked toward the wardrobe on the other side, curled up, and quietly tucked herself inside.
The wardrobe was not far from the bathroom where Fang Yuanwang was. Hearing the footsteps draw closer, followed by the wardrobe door opening and the footsteps disappearing altogether, he could not help pressing a hand over his violently pounding heart. "Shushu, what's wrong?"
"Just getting something," Bai Yu said.
Yet that voice came from much farther away.
If not for the talisman Qi Gu had left over his heart, Fang Yuanwang would not have noticed anything unusual about "Ma Shu." Naturally, he would not have paid attention to the footsteps outside while bathing, nor would he have noticed this subtle detail.
But now that suspicion had taken root, Fang Yuanwang could not help wondering... Who exactly opened the wardrobe just now, and who's talking to me now?
The thought made his hair stand on end.
Is it Bai Yu? Then what happened to Shushu outside?
His worry for Ma Shu outweighed his