Chapter 366

Insert 11 The Original Story Was A Side Plot

【West City Park Night Stalls】

【20:47】

Two young men in work uniforms were clinking beer bottles together, celebrating something with a simple dish on the table.

“Ah Yì brother, I’m really happy for you getting promoted so quickly, but don’t drink anymore today, I don’t want to carry you back to the dormitory!”

“I’m also happy! It’s just right when the company is expanding its business. This is my luck. Otherwise, how could I become a team leader so soon?”

The young man named Ah Yì, who had yellow hair, was promoted in the company.

“Come on! Ah Huò! From now on, you’ll follow me! Let’s toast to our beautiful future! Bottoms up!”

Despite some helplessness, the young man named Ah Huò still raised his beer glass.

“Mm, cheers.”

He clinked glasses with his new boss, an old colleague, and then drank half of it.

He reminded him again, “Ah Yì brother, we’re a home service company now, not a gang, can you change your wording?”

“Haha, life is full of challenges, isn’t it the same wherever you go?”

As he spouted what he thought was cool nonsense, Ah Yì patted Ah Huò on the shoulder.

“Ah Yì brother, you’re drunk.”

“Sigh! What’s a little alcohol… burp, but when I was with my brothers before, I always told them to drink less. In a small team, there always needs to be one sober person… let me tell you about my brothers, oh, now one of them is a sister, ah burp… vomit.”

Ah Yì retched, but didn’t actually throw up. Ah Huò patted his back and sighed, “Ah Yì brother, you really shouldn’t drink anymore. We have to climb the wall tomorrow, if you drink too much, the wind will make your head hurt tomorrow.”

“If I wear another hat, it will keep me warm.”

Ah Yì grabbed something from a nearby shelf and put it on his head.

“Ah Yì brother, that’s the store’s mop, hey! Don’t wipe your face with it, it’s dirty… you’re obviously not clear-headed. Boss, check out!”

Ah Huò paid the bill and then helped the staggering Ah Yì stand up.

They were hired by a home service company called “Tan Home Service.” Before this, their services were as straightforward as the name suggested, mostly providing services like babysitting, hourly workers, and cleaning to individual households.

But they recently expanded their business.

Tomorrow, they would be cleaning the glass curtain wall of a 13-story building. For a small company like “Tan Home Service,” receiving such a commission was quite rare. Usually, such tasks would be given to more professional rope access companies.

Of course, although it was a newly expanded business, it didn’t mean they were inferior.

Tan Home Service also purchased high-altitude cleaning equipment and was fully capable of handling medium and small-sized buildings.

Their employee dormitory was near the back gate of the park, and the best way to get back to the dormitory was to walk through the park.

“Gag!”

“Ah Yì brother, don’t throw up in the park, you might get a fine.”

“Go away, who’s going to know at this hour… never mind, help me to that trash bin.”

Vomiting in the park could result in a maximum fine of fifty yuan. Even if drunk, no one wanted to take that risk. Ah Yì was moving in a direction, and Ah Huò stopped him.

“But that’s a broken lawn light, the trash bin is over here… wow!”

Ah Huò suddenly shouted and stepped back, nearly tripping Ah Yì. He couldn’t help but curse, “What are you doing, scaring me to death!”

“Dead person!”

“What?”

“There’s a dead person in the grass!”

Squinting his blurry eyes due to intoxication, Ah Yì followed Ah Huò’s finger and looked towards the broken lawn light. In the relatively darker area around it, he faintly saw a human shape.

“…Don’t joke, would someone dump a body here?”

Ah Huò was nervous, reminding his boss, “Ah Yì brother, let’s go? Let’s not deal with this matter…”

Suddenly, the terrifying atmosphere made Ah Yì’s mind clearer. He took out his phone and used it as a flashlight, cautiously approaching the human shape. He saw the reflection of a down jacket and long black hair.

It was clearly a woman.

Although she was wearing a thick down jacket and it was hard to tell, he felt that she was a beautiful woman. This feeling hadn’t come over him in a long time.

This was eerie, and eerie things were usually ghosts or monsters.

Feeling chills down his spine, Ah Yì, bolstered by the alcohol, pulled Ah Huò toward the “corpse.”

“Brother, are you really going to do this?”

“Don’t be afraid, I’ve got this.”

Ah Yì reached behind and pulled out a self-defense weapon.

Ah Huò asked, “Brother, why are you carrying a wrench?”

A half-meter-long, two-kilogram car repair wrench.

As a necessary tool for a mechanic, it was also a handy blunt instrument.

While approaching, Ah Yì explained, “When you come to a big city, you need to protect yourself. My dad is a mechanic, so it’s normal for me to carry a wrench, right?”

Glancing at the disheveled “corpse,” Ah Huò asked, “Does the ghost eat physical damage?”

“Can you cast a spell with boy’s urine?”

“Ah Yì brother, I’m not a virgin anymore.”

“…Neither am I.”

The two men stared at each other in silence for ten seconds.

Ah Huò asked, “Ah? Brother, aren’t you supposed to dislike women?”

“Go away, I just haven’t met the right one yet.”

Thinking about the strange attraction the corpse had on him, Ah Yì felt uneasy.

Ah Huò suggested, “Brother, maybe we should just leave this alone?”

“That won’t do. If it’s raining tonight and she’s still alive, we can’t leave her here.”

Ah Huò trembled, “If she’s dead?”

“…Report it. Coward, you’re not afraid of being hung dozens of meters high, but you’re afraid of a dead person?”

Ah Huò also took out his phone as a flashlight and together with Ah Yì, they illuminated the whole figure of the woman. She was a pretty woman with a plain face, tilting her head, looking around twenty years old, close to their age.

Tsk tsk, this face is not bad at all, a good woman…

Ah Yì mumbled in his heart.

Although he himself wasn’t a good man, ever since meeting the transformed Tao sister, he found that women, regardless of their looks, were all mediocre and uninteresting. They no longer held any appeal, and he found them annoying.

He missed the days spent with Tao. So, he went back to his hometown to fix cars with his father for a few days and then came back to work, planning to contact his good friends once he stabilized his job.

Ah Yì prodded the corpse with the wrench, but it didn’t move.

“Brother, it hasn’t decayed, looks like she hasn’t been dead for long.”

“Die, look closely, she’s not dead!”

Ah Huò took a closer look and noticed the rise and fall of the woman’s chest.

Since she wasn’t dead, Ah Yì’s courage grew. He put away the wrench, squatted next to the woman, checked her pulse, and turned her over to examine her.

“She’s alive, normal pulse, no external injuries, but she’s unconscious… let’s carry her back.”

Ah Huò asked, “Brother, where to?”

“To the dormitory, let her rest. It’s about to rain, we can’t leave her here. You don’t need to support me, I’m already awake.”

“Brother, but my legs are still weak.”

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【21:22】

Supporting the unconscious young woman, Ah Yì and Ah Huò left the small park. Both of them reeked of alcohol, so the woman was mistaken for a drunk female. No one suspected or paid attention to them, and they returned to the dormitory assigned by the company.

“Tan Home Service” had decent benefits. The dormitory was a youth apartment for four people, though not large, it had independent kitchen, bathroom, and living room. To Ah Yì, this was already quite a nice environment. If he had to find such accommodation on his own, it would be a considerable expense each month.

There were two bunk beds in the room. Since only Ah Yì and Ah Huò lived here, they each occupied the bottom bunk and used the top bunk for storage.

So there were no empty beds.

“Put her on my bed, be careful, don’t hit her head.”

“Oh… what do we do next?”

The woman showed no signs of waking up, and there were no visible injuries. Ah Yì was conflicted about whether to take her to the hospital.

“Let her stay here for the night. I’ll sleep in the living room.”

“Brother, you seem really concerned about her. Are you attracted to her?”

“Don’t talk nonsense. Go get some hot water and clean her face. She’s covered in mud from lying in the grass.”

To mask his inner turmoil, Ah Yì sent Ah Huò to the bathroom for water.

Ah Yì felt restless. He took off his coat and rubbed his face with the moonlight coming through the balcony.

He tried to calm himself, but the moonlight had no warmth, and his heart was racing with excitement.

“Ha, is this what it feels like to like someone?”

In fact, Ah Huò was right.

Ah Yì was surprised. He realized that besides Tao, there were other women who could stir his emotions.

And this one was a complete stranger whose name and personality he didn’t even know.

He muttered, “Just because of her looks, saying I like her, isn’t that just lust?”

But deep down, he denied it. Although he had no evidence, he felt it wasn’t quite like that. Even if this girl was beautiful, there must be other qualities attracting him.

To uncover these qualities, he sat on the edge of the bed, examining her delicate sleeping face.

“She’s really beautiful, maybe even prettier than Tao?”

Ah Yì became increasingly captivated.

Even the contours of her cheeks were so appealing. If this was really a damned ghost, perhaps being a victim wouldn’t be so bad?

The apartment had central air conditioning, which was much warmer than outside. Though Ah Yì had taken off his clothes, the unconscious woman was still wrapped in a thick down jacket.

Ah Yì swallowed.

“It must be very hot, and lying on the grass like that and now on my bed isn’t appropriate.”

Though it was a bachelor’s youth apartment, this room was kept fairly clean by Ah Huò.

“…I guess I should take it off.”

Without anyone supervising, Ah Yì’s internal struggle ended instantly. His hand trembled as he reached for the zipper of the woman’s collar.

His wrist was seized.

Ah Yì looked up, and the woman, who had somehow woken up, glared at him with shock and anger.

“Oh,糟糕.”

Ah Yì’s heart stopped.