Lu Chuan x Shen Mo
When Lu Chuan wiped the rain off his gym bag, the mirror in the locker room was suddenly covered with a layer of mist. He looked up and saw that his reflection in the mirror was actually wearing a long gown from the Republic of China, with a faded silver crabapple hairpin pinned to his collar - an item he bought casually at the antique market last week as a gift to his girlfriend.
"Have you ever worn this hairpin?" His girlfriend asked last night while sniffing his collar, her eyes turning rouge-like red. Lu Chuan didn't pay attention at the time, but now he saw the silver hairpin oozing dark red in the mirror, the red beads rolling down the virtual gown, and the seal characters "Return to the original owner" spelled out on the tiles.
The LED lights in the locker room began to flicker. Lu Chuan grabbed the towel and turned around, just as he ran into a cold mist. The man's wet crow-green gown clung to his bare chest, and the hypothermia made the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. A pair of gleaming eyes appeared between the opponent's hanging hair, and there seemed to be countless tiny whirlpools spinning deep in the pupils.
"Mr. Lu, why don't you take a shower after exercising?" The male ghost's voice was like ice-soaked silk, and his right hand covered his sweaty back muscles. Lu Chuan froze on the spot, his hand slowly moving up his spine, his fingertips resting on the seventh vertebra - there was a birthmark there, and the shape actually matched the begonia pattern on the silver hairpin head.
The water in the shower was unusually thick late at night. When Lu Chuan closed his eyes and rinsed the foam, the shower head suddenly spurted out a fishy-sweet liquid. He wiped away the red water on his eyelids and saw the male ghost leaning on the frosted glass. What was dripping from the hem of his long gown was not water but fine sand - exactly what the antique stall owner said was the antiseptic cinnabar filled in the coffin when the hairpin was unearthed.
Intention: Study hard and make progress every day