Once you've started saying things you couldn't say aloud, the rest will be much easier.
The nanny slowly wiped the blood off her face, explaining as she did so.
"I didn't know about this at first; Mr. Wang hid it very well, but..."
Her eyes looked behind the curtains with fear and a complex mix of sympathy.
Jiang Nuo looked in the direction of the gaze. "You know the female ghost behind the curtains just now?"
The nanny nodded, her neck stiff, as if she had returned to that most terrifying time.
"She... is Sister Liu. She used to be a nanny here. She had a baby at home, and Mr. Wang took a liking to her. The baby died on the first night he brought her here! Later... later Sister Liu also died."
The nanny seemed to know very little about the situation; she only knew what had happened but not the cause and effect.
Just then, several policemen arrested Madam Wang and brought her back.
"I don't want to go in! I won't go in!"
Madam Wang was very reluctant to enter the nanny's room. The three policemen almost couldn't subdue her, and they were also afraid of touching the porcelain doll she was holding.
Jiang Nuo was disturbed by her noise, so he went to the door, grabbed Madam Wang, and threw her into the house without giving her any room to refuse. The porcelain doll was also snatched away, and a talisman was casually stuck on it and stuffed into the young policeman's arms.
"Hold on tight," Jiang Nuo instructed with a smile.
police. "..."
However, you really do look more like a gangster than a gangster!
Jiang Nuo grabbed Madam Wang and tossed her aside, her tone lighthearted, "You two have done quite a few bad things, haven't you, since you've been trying to change fate through pregnancy."
"I don't know, I don't know anything about it. I've never heard of any 'changing one's luck' before. Don't make baseless accusations!"
Madam Wang covered her ears tightly and buried her face in the quilt, as if she wouldn't have to be afraid as long as she couldn't hear or see.
Si Yan waved her hand, closing the curtains as if they were out of thin air, and whispered a few words.
The curtains fluttered again without wind, and the ghostly hand slowly reached out.
The nanny cried even harder, it was hard to tell whether it was out of fear, sympathy, or pity.
Zhang Gou was so scared that he hid in the corner. "I want to leave... I believe it, I believe it! It's fucking terrifying, I have to get out of here!"
He opened the door and tried to run away, but then he saw a notification on his phone.
"Leaving here now would be suicide..."
[A well-established rule in horror movies: if you split up, something bad is bound to happen!]
Zhang Gou swallowed hard. "Then... then I'll stay here."
He found a corner to squat in, using the police officers to shield himself.
Jiang Nuo grabbed Madam Wang's head and forced it up, making her face the ghostly face behind the curtains, while threatening, "If you don't talk, I'll give you to this poor lady as food."
"Aaaaaaah!"
Madam Wang screamed in terror, her face turning deathly pale and covered in cold sweat, her hands and feet trembling uncontrollably with extreme fear.
"I said..." She no longer had the strength to struggle; all she could think about was surviving.
"That's more like it."
Jiang Nuo moved a single sofa into the room and squeezed in next to Si Yan, sitting close together. "Tell me," she said, "What have you done?"
This scene suddenly gave the young policeman a hallucination of the basement of the gang leader he had once infiltrated, where he interrogated a traitor. The scene wasn't exactly the same, but it was even more terrifying!
After all, the gang leader uses a gun, while Jiang Nuo uses a ghost.
Madam Wang huddled by the bedside, her mind clouded by fear, yet she knew perfectly well what she had done, as if it were imprinted in her mind.
"When I met Laoliu, he was a penniless middleman. He was unwilling to live like this for the rest of his life. Later, while collecting goods at the Old Stockade Gate, he met a sorcerer who knew how to Luck-Altering Technique. He wanted to worship a pure and spiritual ghost fetus that had not developed any consciousness or resentment."
"Then, then they bind their souls to the ghost fetuses, nourishing themselves by consuming fetuses no more than six months old, thus feeding back to the ghost fetuses. The ghost fetuses, imbued with resentment but untainted by human lives, can absorb the fortune of the families of those fetuses."
Madam Wang spoke, a faint smile still appeared on her face, making her seem somewhat eccentric.
And just like that... our luck really changed! Our business boomed, we bought houses and cars... even those who used to look down on us were now begging us on their knees!
Jiang Nuo's voice was low and somber, "I'm not asking you to reminisce about the good old days."
Madam Wang's smile vanished abruptly, pulled back to reality.
She shrank back, unwilling to face the ghostly face behind her. "But I never expected... that Laoliu would lay a hand on the people around him. Six months ago, our nanny, Sister Liu, came to resign, saying that her husband had won three million yuan in the lottery and that she would no longer be a nanny."
"She had just given birth not long ago, and we had no intention of terminating the pregnancy... But who would have thought their family would win the lottery! Isn't that just good luck?"
As Madam Wang spoke excitedly, the female ghost behind her grew increasingly terrifying, tears of blood streaming from the corners of her eyes, dripping onto the floor. Her wet feet also emerged, drawing ever closer to Madam Wang.
" Laoliu told Sister Liu to take the child into the villa to raise, saying the environment there was better. The first night the child was brought in... Laoliu ate the child, and she saw it. We were scared! We were afraid she would call the police, and all our wealth from so many years would be gone... So... So in a fit of rage, we drowned Sister Liu in the toilet."
[Ugh, I'm so angry!!]
[How come only Wang Laoliu died? This woman isn't innocent either, she might as well die with him!]
[Damn it! What did Sister Liu do wrong?! Life was just about to become happy!]
"Ho!" The female ghost shrieked, her sharp fingers reaching for Madam Wang's neck. Jiang Nuo held her head down through the sofa fabric, letting Madam Wang crawl around on the floor in terror.
"Look at Wang Laoliu, he's shameless," Jiang Nuo said to the police. "I don't think Madam Wang is innocent either. Why don't we just let this ghost eat her up? That would calm us down."
Police: "... No, she committed murder, and we will certainly prosecute her."
"Boring."
Jiang Nuo froze the female ghost, trying to make her behave.
He turned his head away, almost unable to hold back again, and quickly rubbed his eyes against Si Yan's shoulder, complaining in a voice no one could hear, "I clearly don't want to cry at all, but these damn tears won't listen to me."
Before, I was completely incapable of empathy, but now that Love Soul has returned, I'm overly empathetic. I want to cry at everything I see; isn't that insane?
Si Yan gently patted the top of his head to comfort him, then wiped away the faint moisture from the corner of his eyes with her fingertips. "It's alright, no one noticed."
"Let's go see Grandpa tomorrow, maybe he can help."
Jiang Nuo nodded slightly, and when she stood up to face the others, she was fully recharged.