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Author: Why Does It Cost Money To Change Your Name |
Original Source: SFACG |
Translator: Ainsel |
English Source: Re:Library |
“Mingyue, I have some things I want to ask you.”
Lu Liangting, as the male lead of the manhua, naturally wouldn’t have low attractiveness. He wasn’t effeminate like some male stars on TV, but instead was full of sunshine and confidence, with bright eyes and sword-like eyebrows, and a spirited look. He had a contradictory temperament, both the freshness and cheerfulness of a young man, and a maturity and reliability that didn’t match his age.
His hair was neither long nor short, neatly groomed, with no tattoos or piercings, dressed casually, white sneakers.
“Eh, this doll…” Feeling someone looking at him, Lu Liangting looked down and noticed the bloodstained rabbit doll on the table.
Dark red buttons as eyes, shining brightly, one ear drooping while the other stood tall.
The doll was still cute, but inexplicably gave a sense of horror. Lu Liangting hadn’t reached out to touch it when Zhao Mingyue quickly grabbed the doll into her arms.
“This doll is a toy from my childhood, I happened to find it and brought it with me, that, didn’t you say you wanted to ask me something?”
Zhao Mingyue’s smile was somewhat awkward, this doll couldn’t be touched by Lu Liangting.
Pausing, Lu Liangting just looked up and met Zhao Mingyue’s eyes, that somewhat awkward smile in his eyes was completely different: the girl’s eyes were smiling, her cherry lips curved into a gentle arc, with a bit of playfulness and cuteness.
“This, it’s like this, I heard that you live in Sunshine Apartments.”
Not staring at Zhao Mingyue, he took out his cell phone, scrolled through the information he had found, and opened a picture, which was the Sunshine Apartments where Zhao Mingyue lived.
He showed it to Zhao Mingyue, Lu Liangting’s tone was very serious, “I have some things to do tonight and need to go there to find someone, so I came to ask you about some things regarding this apartment.”
“Uh, I do live there, but I haven’t moved in for very long.”
“No problem, but what I’m going to say next might be a bit scary, if you don’t know then forget it, it can also serve as a warning for you.”
His finger lightly slid across the phone screen, another photo appeared, showing the fourth floor of the apartment, which was basically the same as Zhao Mingyue remembered, except that this photo seemed to have just had a fire, even the walls were blackened.
The next photo was the same, blackened walls, some places still showing yellowed walls smoked by the fire, irregular burn marks, only it changed from the fourth floor to the fifth floor.
The apartment had only five floors, and the next was a news photo, vaguely showing words related to a fire.
“Mingyue, do you know about the fire incident at Sunshine Apartments seven years ago?”
“Fire incident?” Zhao Mingyue frowned, shaking her head.
Seeing Zhao Mingyue’s confused look, Lu Liangting hesitated, it seemed she really didn’t know anything, telling her now might scare her, after all, she was living there alone.
Seeing his hesitation, Bai Yu directly spoke in Zhao Mingyue’s heart: “Mingyue, let him continue, this is important for you.”
Zhao Mingyue replied okay in her heart, casually stuffing Miss Rabbit into her pocket: “I don’t know, can you tell me?”
“If you don’t know, then forget it.” Lu Liangting put away his phone, his face serious, “If you don’t know about this, listen to me, don’t try to find out.”
“But, I live there, I can’t move out right away, at the earliest it would be next year.” Zhao Mingyue feigned a sigh, “A fire is a big deal, the landlord didn’t tell me anything, maybe he deliberately hid it from me, you don’t have to worry about me being scared, I’m quite brave, and it also satisfies my curiosity.”
Seeing Zhao Mingyue’s expectant little eyes, Lu Liangting helplessly said: “This matter is indeed a bit scary, you rented a room there, the landlord must have hidden this from you, so, I’ll tell you what happened, during this time, if you have the chance, move out as soon as possible, I can help you with the money for a new rental.”
“No no no, no need.”
“You need to, listen to me, then you’ll understand.” Lu Liangting organized his thoughts in his mind, the usually sunny and confident him now had a furrowed brow.
“I’ve been researching Sunshine Apartments these past few days, including the big fire seven years ago, it’s like this, the fifth floor of that building, there used to live a woman, she also had two children, this woman had some mental issues, even just came out of a mental hospital.”
“Her husband was the owner of that apartment, after bringing the woman back, he locked her on the fifth floor, and also left the two children with her.”
“I don’t know what happened, but that fire, was set by that woman, she burned herself to death on the fifth floor along with the two children.”
“At that time, the fire wasn’t very big, but it still burned the entire fifth floor, even the fourth floor was burned, even firefighters couldn’t understand why this would happen.”
“In that fire, besides the woman and two children, the husband living on the fourth floor and four other tenants were also burned to death, from the scene, it was clear they had plenty of time to escape.”
“The apartment took three years before someone came to renovate the fourth and fifth floors, because the children were also gone, so the original owner’s father took over the apartment.”
“There’s another detail, this apartment wasn’t originally called Sunshine Apartments, it was after the old man took over that the apartment was renamed Sunshine.”
“The fifth year it started renting out again, that year, two tenants on the fourth floor died, three tenants on the fifth floor died, all suicides.”
“In one year, how could there be five tenants who committed suicide one after another?”
As soon as he finished speaking, a hand with blue nail polish suddenly rested on Lu Liangting’s shoulder, clearly seeing his body stiffen.
Talking about such a scary thing, suddenly having a hand on your shoulder, anyone would be scared.
“I caught you~”
A sickly sweet voice came from behind him, a girl in a black jacket and pleated skirt jumped out, the girl had a red hair clip on her head, her hair loosely tied, no other makeup applied, but her lips were painted with lipstick, although it was applied crookedly.
Aside from the strange attire, it was clear the girl had good foundations, definitely a beautiful girl.
It’s just that Zhao Mingyue felt that her tone of voice was so strange, a bit like she was pressing her voice, and as if she was speaking through clenched teeth.
The red hair clip girl stood next to Lu Liangting, trying hard to press her delicate body against his, while not forgetting to glance at Zhao Mingyue, her phoenix eyes narrowing, her tongue licking around her lips.
The already crooked lipstick was licked even more messily by this action.
“Yo, who is this old woman, what are you looking at, you think you’re worthy to talk to Liangting?”