This Young Lady Seemed Hard to Deal With

The Blood Moon Hotel lobby.

Four eerie servants wearing white masks entered first.

Then.

Bai Feiyue walked in at an unhurried pace, holding a black umbrella.

Click, click, click.

The sound of her heels striking the stone floor was clear and almost piercing.

Several players instinctively held their breath.

The B-rank doorman, who had been so vicious toward the players just moments ago, now stood obediently to one side.

He did not even dare raise his head too high.

Gu Changsheng also came down from the seventh floor to welcome her in person.

"Miss Bai, welcome to the Blood Moon Hotel."

Bai Feiyue gave him a cursory glance.

"My father always says your hotel is quite good. I thought there might be some pleasant surprise, but now that I've seen it, it's just average."

Gu Changsheng did not get angry.

"The Blood Moon Hotel naturally cannot compare to Blood Rose Manor, but if you need anything tonight, Miss Bai, we will do our best to accommodate you."

Zhou Hai watched from a distance.

He had already reached a judgment.

This woman was dangerous in her own right.

Her background was probably even more troublesome.

Bai Feiyue soon noticed the players.

"Are these tonight's human guests?"

"Yes."

"Then you wouldn't mind if I played with them for a while, would you?"

Gu Changsheng replied calmly, "As long as no hotel rules are broken, I won't interfere in what happens between guests."

The players' faces changed instantly.

The livestream chat was also frantically warning them.

"Gu Changsheng won't interfere!"

"Don't look up!"

"Whatever you do, don't let Bai Feiyue notice you!"

Unfortunately.

Bai Feiyue's gaze had already settled on Wang Jianguo.

"You, come here."

Wang Jianguo went rigid.

He pointed at himself.

"Me?"

Bai Feiyue smiled.

"Is there another human here with a severed finger?"

Wang Jianguo could only steel himself and go over.

Bai Feiyue extended a slender finger and gently tipped up his chin.

"You looked at me just now, didn't you?"

Wang Jianguo panicked.

"No."

The air instantly turned cold.

But the smile on Bai Feiyue's face grew even brighter.

"Lying is bad. I heard your heartbeat speed up."

People in the livestream chat were already flooding it with frantic messages.

"Admit it!"

"Don't lie to her!"

Sweat kept beading on Wang Jianguo's forehead.

"I'm sorry. I did look just now, for about three seconds. I didn't mean to offend you."

"Three seconds, huh."

Bai Feiyue thought about it seriously for a moment.

"Then I'll gouge your eyes out three times."

Wang Jianguo froze.

"Three times?"

Bai Feiyue explained very considerately, "Don't worry. After I gouge them out, I can help you grow them back, so there'll still be eyes to gouge out the third time."

The lobby fell deathly silent.

The livestream chat exploded.

"There's definitely something wrong with this woman's head!"

"Gouge them out and grow them back each time?!"

"Is this how A-rank eerie beings have fun?"

Bai Feiyue's nails were already slowly lengthening.

Wang Jianguo went deathly pale.

"Wait, I already apologized!"

"I know."

Bai Feiyue smiled.

"But I accept your apology too. How does that conflict with gouging your eyes out?"

Wang Jianguo was utterly dumbfounded.

Just as Bai Feiyue was about to act.

Zhou Hai steeled himself and spoke up.

"Miss Bai, he is still a formally registered guest of the hotel. If you incapacitate him and he becomes unable to follow the hotel rules afterward, it could affect the hotel's normal operations."

Bai Feiyue slowly turned her head.

"Are you telling me what to do?"

Terrifying pressure descended on Zhou Hai in an instant.

Cold sweat soaked his back in moments.

But he still did not back down.

"I'm only reminding you."

Bai Feiyue looked at him for a few seconds.

Then she suddenly smiled.

"How interesting."

She withdrew her hand.

Wang Jianguo had just breathed a sigh of relief.

Squelch!

A wound suddenly split open on his cheek, deep enough to expose the bone.

Blood instantly covered half his face.

"I'm in a good mood today, so I'll play a little less. Next time, don't go staring at strange women. It's very rude."

Bai Feiyue wiped the blood from her fingertip.

She turned and walked away.

The livestream chat fell silent for several seconds.

"That's her in a good mood?"

"Shen Niannian, whatever you do, don't come downstairs!"

"If that mouth of hers runs into Bai Feiyue, I don't even dare imagine what'll happen."

The next second.

The livestream feed switched.

The seventh floor.

Shen Niannian was standing in the elevator.

Her finger pressed [1].

The livestream chat:

"..."

"?"

"Ancestor! What are you coming down for?!"

"Don't come down!"

"Bai Feiyue is right there on the first floor!"

Of course, Shen Niannian did not know.

Gu Changsheng had left too suddenly.

She had not had time to ask her question about the checkout voucher.

Besides...

She really was a little hungry.

She had stood at the door of room 701 staring at the strawberry cake on the table for a long time.

But the same things kept circling through her mind:

Corpse oil.

Bone meal.

Rotten flesh.

Blood plasma.

The more she looked at it, the less appetite she had.

Shen Niannian considered it seriously for a moment.

As it happened.

She could go to the first floor and find something normal to eat.

Then ask the front desk or Gu Changsheng about the checkout voucher while she was at it.

Two problems solved at once.

"I'll go to the first floor, get a clear answer about the checkout voucher, and find something normal to eat. As soon as I'm done asking and eating, I'll go straight back to my room. I won't stop to watch any commotion, talk to strange ghosts, or touch anything weird."

Shen Niannian carefully made a plan for herself.

(ง •̀_•́)ง

A clear goal.

Simple actions.

Very safe.

In theory...

Nothing should go wrong.

Ding-

The elevator reached the first floor.

The doors slowly opened.

Shen Niannian had barely taken half a step out when she noticed that the atmosphere in the lobby was clearly off.

Wang Jianguo's face was covered in blood.

Zhou Hai's expression was tense.

Gu Changsheng stood to one side.

There was also a strange woman holding a black umbrella in the middle of the lobby.

An identity profile immediately appeared.

[Target: Bai Feiyue]

[Race: vampire eerie being]

[Danger level: A-rank]

[Identity: young lady of the Blood Rose Family]

[Current status: delighted]

Shen Niannian's eyelid twitched.

Another A-rank!

She silently pulled her foot back.

(｡ŏ_ŏ)

Forget it.

It was not as if she had to ask about the checkout voucher right now.

Suddenly, she felt that the strawberry cake was not entirely inedible after all.

She reached out and frantically pressed the door-close button.

The viewers in the livestream nearly cried from how moved they were.

"Right, right, right!"

"Hurry back!"

"As long as Bai Feiyue doesn't spot her, she'll be safe!"

The elevator doors began to close.

Just as only a narrow gap remained,

Bai Feiyue suddenly turned her head.

Her gaze passed straight across the lobby

and landed on Shen Niannian.

The livestream erupted instantly.

"She saw her!"

"We're screwed!"

"Wang Jianguo nearly died just from looking at her for three seconds!"

"Shen Niannian's really run into a brick wall this time!"

Meanwhile,

the file before Shen Niannian's eyes began changing rapidly.

[Current status: shocked]

[Current status: incredulous]

[Current status: extremely delighted]

Shen Niannian: "..."

(ΩДΩ)

Why delighted again?

Just as the elevator doors were about to close completely,

a pale, slender hand shot into the gap between them.

Ding!

The elevator doors opened again.

Bai Feiyue stood outside,

staring fixedly at her.

Silver hair.

Red eyes.

A petite figure under one and a half meters tall.

And that little movement of getting ready to run at the first sign of trouble.

Exactly the same.

A few seconds later,

Bai Feiyue tentatively called out a name.

"Shen Niannian?"

Shen Niannian stiffened.

"You know me?"

As soon as she said that,

the expression on Bai Feiyue's face slowly froze.

The temperature in the lobby plummeted.

Fine cracks even appeared in the walls.

The livestream viewers were frantic.

"This is bad!"

"Did she say the wrong thing?!"

"Gu Changsheng, hurry up and save her!"

Bai Feiyue's voice was eerie.

"You forgot me?"

A chill ran down Shen Niannian's back.

No matter how she heard it, that line sounded like something a yandere would say while blocking the door.

She quickly resorted to the adult art of choosing her words.

"Is it possible that we did meet before, but it's been so long that I just can't remember right now?"

Bai Feiyue was silent for a moment.

Then she gritted her teeth and said, "I was your maid for seven whole days when I was little, and you can't even remember me?"

Dead silence fell over the room.

The livestream fell silent for two seconds as well.

The next second,

the bullet comments erupted like a flood.

"?????"

"What the heck?!"

"Bai Feiyue was her maid?!"

"The doorman's afraid of her! Gu Changsheng humors her! And now this A-rank eerie young lady was her maid when she was little?!"

"I was just worried Bai Feiyue would play her to death. Who's playing with whom here?!"

The way Zhou Hai looked at Shen Niannian had completely changed.

Once was a coincidence.

Twice could still barely be explained.

But three high-level eeries all knew her?

This definitely wasn't a coincidence.

Shen Niannian herself, however, didn't relax.

She had none of her predecessor's memories.

Whether what Bai Feiyue said was true or false

was impossible to confirm.

The safest approach was-

to remain half-convinced.

"It really has been a long time. I don't remember very clearly right now."

Bai Feiyue was visibly a little displeased.

But when she saw Shen Niannian take an instinctive step back, she suddenly froze.

The Shen Niannian of the past-

when had she ever been afraid of her?

Confusion flashed in Bai Feiyue's eyes.

But she didn't press the matter.

"Never mind. It's all right if you've forgotten. We can just get to know each other again. My name is Bai Feiyue. You used to like calling me Xiaoyue."

Shen Niannian hesitated for two seconds.

She carefully touched the hand Bai Feiyue held out.

"Shen Niannian, human, barely still alive at the moment."

Bai Feiyue burst out laughing.

Then she slipped her arm through Shen Niannian's as naturally as could be.

"I happen to be bored tonight. Come play with me."

Shen Niannian instantly stiffened.

(ΩДΩ)

Just as I thought!

This A-rank female ghost still wants a taste of me!

Meanwhile, in the livestream,

the screen had been filled with "Run!" just moments ago.

Now it had completely changed.

"Why run?"

"I don't think she's the one who should be running, is she?"

"I declare that we've found the safest place in the Blood Moon Hotel tonight."

"Next to Shen Niannian."