Lin Fang stood at the old bus stop, his head was a bit messy. Without knowing anything, his body moved automatically as he entered the bus and sat in the last second row alone.
The bus moved on, the scenery changed continuously, and the bus came to the next stop. A few more passengers came in. Among these people, a familiar couple came on the bus, sitting in the last row.
Lin Fang unknowingly gave them a few extra glances like he seemed to know them, or he may have seen them before. Slowly, Lin Fang stopped paying attention to them.
The journey continued on just like this; people came and went, some familiar, and some unfamiliar.
As the bus moved from day to night, the bus started to empty. No more extra passengers, just him, the driver and the girl sitting on the last corner of the bus. She had made a single moment since the bus started. Lin Fang hadn't seen her when he came nor after him, but she was there from the moment he sat here.
As the bus continued to move on, the temperature started to drop. Lin Fang started to feel the cold, which was intensifying with each passing second.
Lin Fang's body started to shiver because of the increasing cold. Just as he felt his body would freeze, the girl who had been sitting in the last row sat beside him, giving him a warm embrace.
Lin Fang turned to look at her face and was mesmerised by her looks.
She was one of a kind beauty despite having nothing to highlight about her, just ordinary black hair, and pretty sharp nose, and black eyes; her lips curved slightly, smiling at Lin Fang as his head rested on her shoulder.
The bus was still moving, the cold was still increasing, but Lin Fang was strangely warm. He didn't feel awkward because of this random woman giving him a warm shoulder, nor did he have any thought of leaving the bus. He was completely lost in the moment.
Slowly, the temperature started to drop even further, even though the woman's shoulder was turning cold. Lin Fang didn't seem to notice it all as his eyes remained cold.
After some time, the woman's body temperature had almost reached freezing point, and even a thin layer of ice formed around her skin. Only then did Lin Fang seem to notice it as he looked at the girl whose appearance had changed completely. Her hair turned white, her pupils were frozen beneath the blue ice. She had turned into another person in a few moments, but Lin Fang wasn't scared of her. He wrapped his hands around her waist, embracing her cold body like a blanket.
The girl didn't like his sudden advancement as she tried to struggle free from his grasp, but Lin Fang didn't let go of her. Lin Fang's body had started to get cold as his warmth seemed to be sucked into the girl's body. After some time, the woman stopped struggling and hugged him tightly as tears streamed down her face.
Lin Fang's body completely froze into an ice crystal, but the girl continued crying while hugging his cold body. But a gust of wind came, turning both bus and Lin Fang into icy particles merging with the blizzard outside. Everything vanished, but the girl remained there crying all alone in the icy abyss.
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When Lin Fang opened his eyes, he found himself in his room. He glanced at himself only to find his body wrapped in white bandages. When he tried to move, his whole body was hurting.
His moments, also noticed by Li Yun, as she entered the room carrying a bowl of soup, placed it at the table and said, "A demon possessed Aunt Yu's body and attacked you."
After giving her a vague explanation, she left him alone. There wasn't any expression in her eyes. She was even colder than the girl in his dreams. For some unknown reason, he was unable to forget that girl he had just dreamed of, and his fear for Li Yun had also seemed changed, a bit like his fear was turning into something else. It compiles many different messy emotions.
Lin Fang took the bowl of the soup, as he dipped the spoon into the bowl, he saw a familiar figure of the woman within dressed in white, her face was covered in a transparent veil, her eyes staring at him.
Lin Fang wasn't horrified or shocked for some reason. Now he doesn't want to avoid this woman; he wants to meet her, if she really exists. The feelings that appeared in his heart and mind when seeing her were strangely warm despite not having a single memory of being close to her. She left like the person he had known for a long time.
She was smiling at him, as Lin Fang stared at the bowl of soup like a fool. She faded after some time, and Lin Fang's heart became desperate, wanting to meet her but not knowing how.
After some time, Lin Fang calmed down and took the spoonful of soup in his mouth, smilingly.
No matter the consequences, I have to see it myself. So at least the death will be peaceful. Lin Fang thought as he finished the soup.
He stood up and went to the washroom, just as everything felt normal as he washed his face with cold water, only to see the silver-haired girl again, she was smiling at him as usual.
Lin Fang stretched his hand towards her. Seeing this, a joyous expression appeared on the woman's face, but after it was just an illusion. Lin Fang's hand touched the mirror and paused.
But Lin Fang's hands didn't exert even more strength as hundreds of cracks appeared on the mirror. Seeing the cracks, Lin Fang paused, and the woman on the other side also sighed.
Her lips moved as if trying to say something, but her voice couldn't reach him. Lin Fang was in shock. It was the first time that she had tried to talk to him.
Lin Fang wanted to tell her that he couldn't hear but didn't know how to, but the woman seemed to read his thoughts as she stopped blabbering and started to draw something on the white snow.
But just as she started to draw, the mirror broke into pieces, and she vanished, making Lin Fang freeze in his tracks. He was so close to the answer he wanted, but now there was nothing.
He tried to look at the mirror fragments to see if she was still there, but she wasn't. Then, we tried to check every single mirror he had sitting in front of the mirrors for almost an hour, only to be disappointed at the end.
Finally, Lin Fang stood up and went to cook some instant noodles for himself because he was feeling extremely hungry. As he cooked the noodles, he gave Li Yun a few glances and felt strangely wary of her.
But seeing her behave normally, he ignored his uneasiness, enjoying his cup of noodles before going back to rest.
Seeing him behave normally, Li Yun was ready to leave for her hunt.
Lin Fang was lying in his room scrolling through some news, but his thoughts were still on that woman. To his shock, he actually did something that made him pause his doom scrolling.
It was an article talking about some ancient ruins that were found hundreds of years ago. The information about ancient ruins wasn't any special, almost the whole world knows about conspiracy theories revolving around these ruins, among them one of the most famous ones says the gateway to the heavenly demon clan is hidden within these ruins.
People say that the government and special forces already know the way. But they are keeping the public blind to maintain their authority. Today, he saw pictures of another ruin, but the thing was that the statue on this ruin was quite familiar to him. It was the silver-haired man, wielding a long obsidian sword.
The familiar wasn't like he knew the man or he had seen him before; it was the feeling that felt almost similar for Li Yun. A lot of jealousy was hidden beneath the gratitude and admiration.
He stared at the statue for a while before closing his phone and lying flat on his bed.