Chapter 1: The Red-Dressed Loli

The night was dark, and the wind was fierce.

At the Han City Film Academy, on the rooftop of the art building, a girl in a white dress ran helplessly, screaming in panic.

But as soon as her screams left her mouth, they were swallowed by the wind.

“What do you want? Stay away from me!”

The railing was just a few steps away.

The girl stopped abruptly, trapped with nowhere to run!

“Stay back! If you come any closer, I’ll jump!” Tears streamed down her face as she begged, “Please, let me go! I swear I won’t call the police!”

Su Bao felt utterly hopeless.

She had been lucky—until tonight.

She had smoothly gotten into Han City Film Academy, and what’s more, she had done it with her best friend since childhood, Lin Siyi!

Tonight, just before midnight, it would be her birthday. Siyi had told her there was a surprise waiting for her on the rooftop of the art building. But when she arrived at the agreed time, she was caught off guard by what she found…

A few young men, dressed fashionably, approached her with a lazy, nonchalant attitude.

They all looked incredibly impatient.

“We’re just playing around. Don’t you know how to be sensible?”

“Yeah, coming out at night like this, you’re not exactly innocent! Stop pretending to be a pure maiden!”

Su Bao panicked and tried to explain.

“I’m here to meet my friend! I didn’t know you were here doing drugs…”

Her voice cut off abruptly.

Su Bao covered her mouth, stopping herself from saying more.

Her heart was filled with despair and confusion…

Where was Siyi?

Where had she gone?

“No, I didn’t see anything! I promise I won’t tell anyone! Please, let me go!”

The leader of the group, a young man with dyed burgundy hair, smirked wickedly. “Play with us for a bit, and then we’ll think about letting you go…”

With that, the group of boys lunged at her like hungry wolves.

At that moment, Su Bao struggled desperately, as if trying to preserve the last shred of her dignity. She climbed over the waist-high railing and threw herself off the building…

“Bang—”

It was a while before the sound of her body hitting the ground echoed up.

On the rooftop.

After a long silence, one of the young men finally spoke.

“Do you think she’s dead?”

“Of course! Seven floors up, how could she survive?”

“So… is the task complete?”

They all seemed to understand the hidden meaning behind the word “task.” Killing the girl was just part of the job.

“I guess… it’s done! We can get our leverage back!”

Someone else chimed in nervously, “What if someone finds out?”

“What’s there to be afraid of? The cameras are broken, no one will know what happened tonight! Let’s get out of here!”

Then came the hurried sound of footsteps as they rushed down the stairs…

…

The girl who had fallen from the seventh floor, her white dress now soaked in blood, looked horrifying.

Her eyes were wide open, her body twisted in an unnatural position on the ground.

Blood continued to trickle from her mouth, and her round eyes were filled with despair and confusion!

At that moment…

A loli in a long red dress slowly approached.

Her red dress dragged on the ground, embroidered with intricate patterns like a sky full of stars, as if she had walked out of an ancient witch clan…

Ancient!

Mysterious!

Bloody!

And carrying a faint air of eeriness!

A black crow perched on her shoulder, flapping its wings, struggling to keep its balance.

“You’re Su Bao, right?”

The red-dressed loli squatted down, her small face stiff, devoid of any emotion as she spoke.

“…Ugh…” Su Bao, lying in a pool of blood, could only make a hissing sound, unable to speak.

The red-dressed loli reached out and touched Su Bao’s neck. As Su Bao, who was on the verge of death, realized she could speak again, she gasped, “Help… help me…”

Pain!

The pain of broken bones!

It hurt so much she wanted to cry, but she had no strength left!

The red-dressed loli’s face remained expressionless, her voice cold and hard. “I can’t save you.”

Then she added, “But I can help you get revenge. Do you want it? If not, I’ll find someone else.”

Su Bao used the last bit of her strength, forcing a single word through her teeth, “Yes…”

She wanted revenge!

She didn’t understand why Lin Siyi had told her to come to the rooftop, promising a surprise, only for her to be met by a group of wolves ready to kill her!

She didn’t understand why she had been deceived!

Weren’t they best friends?

Why?

“The price is your body. Are you willing?”

“I’m willing…”

As soon as the words left her mouth, Su Bao took her last breath.

A red talisman appeared out of thin air, settling on the corpse’s forehead and merging into it, forming a contract.

The red-dressed loli slowly lay down on the corpse. It was clear she was nothing more than a soul.

Gradually…

She merged with the body!

The twisted corpse, lying on the ground as if shattered, began to rise in an even more twisted position.

“Crack—”

“Crack—”

The broken bones made cracking sounds, as if they were being forcibly restored…

Moments later, the sound of bones snapping into place finally stopped.

If the young men who had forced Su Bao to jump were here, they would have been scared to death!

Just now, the girl had been bleeding from all her orifices, her bones shattered from the fall!

But now…

She stood up, completely unharmed!

If it weren’t for the large bloodstains on her white dress, it would seem as if nothing had happened at all!

“Su Bao?”

The girl’s white dress was still stained with blood, her round almond-shaped eyes blinked, but her face remained expressionless, like a little stoic doll.

Then, tilting her head slightly, she muttered to herself, “I like this name.”

“Da Hei, I have a name now.”

The black crow had reappeared on her shoulder at some point, flapping its wings as if it could barely stay balanced.

Surprisingly, it spoke!

And in a serious tone!

“You’ve already used up a lot of your yin virtue to repair this body. If you don’t hurry and replenish it, it’ll be dangerous!”

The little loli…

Now Su Bao, corrected him seriously, “It’s not a corpse, it’s a body!”

Da Hei: “…” Whatever makes you happy.

“Da Hei, I’m back!” The little stoic Su Bao’s voice carried a hint of curiosity that didn’t match her expression. “Do you think they’ll be surprised?”

“When they die, you can ask them yourself if they were surprised!”

The girl and the crow continued their conversation, as the streetlights stretched Su Bao’s shadow long across the ground, while the black crow…

Had no shadow at all!