At two in the morning, Xuan Xu saw a post on his wife's best friend's social media feed. The picture showed two pairs of slippers. He smiled and closed his eyes. That night, he opened a dead person's phone and saw what had happened: his wife was at her friend's place, and beside the slippers was a pair of men's shoes. The next day, his wife's friend was found naked in the bathtub, dead. The police ruled it an accident, and his girlfriend wept inconsolably. But Xuan Xu knew the truth. The night before, through their soul-link, he had watched the “thing” left behind by his wife's friend crawl into his girlfriend's shadow. Tonight, he received another new corpse alert. The girl who had texted him had saved his number as “Hubby,” and her profile picture was a picture of him. The message contained just four words: Run. Don't trust her.
