After Saving The Villain, He Had Sex With The Female Ghost. Chapter 17

Chapter 17 The Pipa Toad (VI)

The dark red fluid splashed onto Ming Wanli’s face, dripping down her chin and onto the ground. Director Zheng reacted quickly, dodging to the side. She patted the liquid off her gloved hand, her eyebrows raised. “You are truly naive.”

Ming Wanli wiped her face. The exposed skin was completely intact, showing no signs of corrosion. A warning bell went off in Chu Yu’s mind, and she took a step back into a defensive posture. Li Heru stood beside her, arms crossed, her expression somewhat unusual.

“I don’t have time to deal with you now. We’ll meet again.” Ming Wanli licked the fluid from the corner of her mouth, waved happily at Chu Yu, and then spun around to chase the arrow-shaped ripples in the water.

“If you’d said two fewer sentences, we would have caught up already. Stop wasting time.” Director Zheng followed her impatiently. Halfway there, she suddenly turned back with a smile and said to Chu Yu, “There’s a motivational banquet before the movie release soon. Remember to come. I don’t want people saying I bully my actors.”

The sound of water, footsteps, and voices echoed in the concrete space. Chu Yu turned to Li Heru. Li Heru looked at the fluid dripping on the ground, said nothing, and picked up a small amount with her fingers.

“You…” Ignoring Chu Yu’s surprised expression, Li Heru brought the fluid to her nose and sniffed it.

“It’s the infant spirit’s corpse fluid, but Ming Wanli is immune to it,” Li Heru said.

Li Heru was a ghost, so the infant spirit’s corpse fluid couldn’t harm her. If that was the case… Chu Yu’s eyes widened suddenly. “Is she a ghost too?”

“She is not, but as far as I know, there is one situation where a living person can become tainted with ghostly energy. Infant spirits live by parasitism; only living people can provide them with nourishment, so they only parasitize the living. A living person tainted with ghostly energy, of course, cannot be included in that range,” Li Heru mused.

“Tainted with ghostly energy?” Chu Yu hesitated for a moment and pointed to her lips. “Kissing a ghost?”

Li Heru laughed out loud. She couldn’t help but smile. “Why are you so adorable? It’s eating ghosts.”

“People like that also have a name: Ghost Eaters. They seek out various powerful ghosts, using secret methods to swallow them whole, thereby extending their lifespan or enhancing their strength,” Li Heru added.

“Ming Wanli is a Ghost Eater? No wonder she tried to capture you last time.” Chu Yu suddenly understood. “Then why didn’t you just kill her last time? You had the ability to imprison her; killing her would have ended it all,” she asked.

Li Heru raised an eyebrow, her expression subtle. Chu Yu noticed her reaction and pursed her lips. “She eats ghosts, so she’s clearly not a good person. Killing her wouldn’t be unjust. Moreover, I feel her power is much greater this time than before. What if you miss your chance and she turns around and eats you? I don’t have the ability to protect you.”

Li Heru’s expression softened slightly. She smiled faintly. “It’s not that I don’t want to kill her; it’s that I can’t.”

“Why?” Chu Yu frowned. Li Heru seemed conflicted. She patted Chu Yu and pulled her to walk outside. “You don’t need to know so much, and I don’t need your protection.”

Chu Yu didn’t move. She grabbed Li Heru’s wrist with her backhand. “Why? You said that one day you would let me tell you everything, so I’ll tell you this: the prerequisite is that you also open your heart completely to me.”

Li Heru’s eyes were full of amusement. She allowed Chu Yu to hold her wrist. “Why should I? What is our relationship? A relationship of open hearts? Or a relationship of naked bodies?”

“We are bound by shared life and death,” Chu Yu looked straight at her and said. Without Li Heru, she would be sucked dry and die by the infant spirit. Although she didn’t yet know what her purpose was to Li Heru, based on the fact that Li Heru had begged her to bring her back to the country and needed her help to save resentful spirits and accumulate merit, Chu Yu knew she was also very useful to her.

Li Heru was momentarily speechless upon hearing this. Chu Yu gripped her harder. The touch of her skin was icy cold, spreading from Chu Yu’s palm all the way to her bones, but she didn’t let go.

“Ah, I surrender to you.” Li Heru reached out and ruffled Chu Yu’s hair, leading her outside. “You want to know? Then go look it up. These things will be recorded in books. I don’t want to tell you actively,” she said, looking back with a smile.

The area outside the children’s playground was empty. Neither Huang Lin nor Ming Wanli and the others were in sight. Chu Yu called out a few times, startling several toads that jumped out of the pool.

“Was Huang Lin taken away?” Chu Yu looked around. “No, she’s quite capable, hiding in this broken aquarium for so many years without being discovered. Ming Wanli won’t find her.” Li Heru circled the pool.

“We can find her because she is willing to be found, isn’t that right?” She bent down and knocked on a drain outlet. A moment later, a wet, black head poked out, full of anger.

“Did you bring those people here?” Huang Lin lifted the drain cover, exposing her upper body as she demanded. Chu Yu shook her head. Huang Lin immediately pulled the sleeping infant spirit from her back, pinching its back with five fingers. “Tell me honestly, what exactly did you come here for?”

As soon as she saw the infant spirit, Chu Yu felt a burning pain on the back of her hand. She raised both hands in a gesture of surrender and explained the matter of resolving obsessions and saving resentful ghosts. Unexpectedly, Huang Lin’s eyes widened when she finished. “I knew you came for my baby! You won’t succeed!”

With that, she was about to pinch the infant spirit awake, but Li Heru stopped her. “Why bother? There’s no need for us to suffer mutual destruction. You must be in great pain when the infant spirit cries, right? After all, you are one of the hosts. It is a ghost, and you are human. You still have a human path to walk. Why inflict such suffering upon yourself?”

Li Heru’s voice was soft and persuasive. Although Chu Yu had long suspected that Huang Lin might still be alive, hearing the confirmation now still startled her.

A living person parasitized by an infant spirit, hiding in a sunless aquarium for many years, surviving by eating live toads, and having to endure gut-wrenching pain whenever the infant spirit got angry—a situation where harming the enemy meant hurting oneself severely.

Thinking of this, Chu Yu couldn’t help but shiver.

Huang Lin took a deep breath and hugged the sleeping infant spirit tightly. “I can’t go back. I can never go back.”

“Why can’t you go back? If the infant spirit is saved, the curse on everyone will be lifted, and you can return to a normal life. Why insist on this?” Chu Yu interjected.

But the moment the words left her mouth, she realized she had said the wrong thing. Huang Lin sneered when she heard this. “I thought you might understand me, which is why I tolerated you for so long. I didn’t realize you were just like those other people.”

“Like which people? Your mother?” Li Heru stepped forward. Chu Yu gently pulled her back and said to the terrified Huang Lin, “I haven’t told her your location. You can rest assured.”

“If you trust me, you can use this phone to call me. We can help you. You don’t want your child to be eaten, do you?” Chu Yu took a phone from her pocket and slowly placed it on the ground.

Huang Lin’s lips parted, her face full of disbelief. After a moment, she stammered, “I, I don’t need your help. Besides, they can’t find me at all.”

“Once a Ghost Eater has tasted a ghost, they become exceptionally sensitive to ghostly aura. Their power increases greatly with every ghost they consume. You know, this world is not lacking in people, and certainly not lacking in dead people,” Li Heru said, a faint smile playing on her lips.

After returning from the aquarium, Chu Yu went to the hospital twice more. The condition of the staff members was deteriorating rapidly. They suffered from persistent high fever, blurred consciousness, and lay in their beds, seemingly being consumed by a black hole.

The attitude of the person in charge was not very good, and by the last visit, he even refused Chu Yu entry.

“I told you I’m trying to find a solution. Besides, what’s wrong with having one more person helping?” Chu Yu grabbed the person in charge’s arm. His expression had gone from enthusiastic to utterly frosty.

“I’m sorry, thank you very much for your help, but we can’t afford to wait any longer. We have found a new master, and the master said no unauthorized personnel are allowed inside. Please leave.” The person in charge shook her off and was about to enter.

Chu Yu was about to say something else when someone bumped into her from behind.

“Oh dear, excuse me.” The woman wore sunglasses and was dressed in all black, looking suspicious in broad daylight. Her tone was flippant, showing no genuine apology. Chu Yu frowned.

The person in charge quickly greeted her. “Master Ming, you’ve worked hard. Let’s go upstairs.” The woman waved her hand, took off her sunglasses, and gave Chu Yu a playful look. “Isn’t this the big star? What are you doing here?”

It was Ming Wanli. Chu Yu felt like she had gone to a banquet, lifted the lid, and found the main course was rat sashimi. She immediately turned to leave. Ming Wanli shouted after her, “Farewell, big star! But Director Zheng is holding the motivational banquet tonight. Why are you still here? Weren’t you invited?”

Hearing this, Chu Yu paused. She remembered Director Zheng’s words at the aquarium that day. She opened her phone. Just barely—she had been invited, but the invitation message was buried among a flurry of spam. The event was starting in two hours.

When Chu Yu entered the banquet hall in casual clothes, quite a few people had already arrived. Today was a small, casual dinner, and everyone was dressed informally, which relieved Chu Yu.

Chengzi had not contacted Chu Yu since the accident. Director Zheng, however, had used the video of Chengzi encountering the ghost to market the film to great success. It was even hailed as the top horror film of the year, causing quite a sensation both domestically and internationally.

Many people Chu Yu recognized were present today, but she wasn’t close to them. She currently didn’t have anyone to talk to in the crew. After the opening speeches were finished, the dinner finally began.

The food was served buffet style. Chu Yu took a plate, picked up a few slices of ham with figs, poured a glass of champagne, and found a corner seat. However, as the second female lead of the film, she couldn’t find peace even in the corner.

People kept coming over to talk to her. Chu Yu had no choice but to put down her knife and fork and force herself to listen to their insincere pleasantries. After seeing off several people, the edges of her ham had hardened, and Chu Yu was somewhat distracted.

Director Zheng walked over. Today, she wore a sharply tailored suit paired with stylish accessories, giving her a powerful aura. The people in front of Chu Yu immediately tactfully moved away, not forgetting to toast Director Zheng on their way out.

Chu Yu picked up her plate, intending to leave, but Director Zheng grabbed the corner of her clothing. “Don’t go. Let’s talk about your partner.”

Chu Yu turned back in surprise, meeting a pair of eyes filled with veiled amusement.

[Author’s Note]

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