Warning: See the author's note in Chapter 1.
1. Crawling Around
From childhood to adulthood, Zhong Xinrou had never won the lottery once. She thought she was someone fate had no kindness for, but at 21, a pie fell from the sky and knocked her senseless.
She'd heard plenty of stories about Cinderella marrying into a wealthy family, but never one about it happening because of someone's birth chart. Were rich people really this superstitious? Did they want someone with good luck more than a well-matched young lady from a respectable family?
Her life had taken off overnight, and a life she'd never dared dream of had become real: luxury cars, mansions, designer handbags, gold jewelry... Every morning, waking up in her enormous bed, Zhong Xinrou would ask herself: Is this really not a dream?
Everything was perfect, except for that intermittent rustling sound.
"Honey, did you hear something?"
The sound always brought to mind some wild animal crawling around.
"You imagined it."
The same conversation took place night after night. Zhong Xinrou hoped she was just being paranoid, but she couldn't stop herself from waking in the middle of the night and looking up in confusion.
It seemed like something was crawling back and forth across the ceiling.
2. The Longest Winter
A car accident. Amnesia. Li Changzhou never expected such a clichéd plot to happen to him. Even more clichéd, he'd forgotten his parents and friends, and even who he was. The only memory that survived was of his little sister.
But when he told his parents, they looked at him strangely.
"Changzhou, have you lost your mind?"
What did they mean?
"You don't have a sister."
Li Changzhou searched every inch of the house, but there was no trace of her anywhere. His friends said he was delusional, and his family urged him to continue treatment. Only Li Changzhou knew there was nothing wrong with him.
Changdong. That was her name.
If she'd never existed, where had the hideous, wormlike scar on his stomach come from? His parents couldn't remember, but he could. The memory reached far back, all the way to when he was still in the amniotic fluid.
In that peaceful, quiet world, a voice called his name.
"Big brother, big brother..."
Changdong had been inside his body ever since.
3. Love of a Madwoman
As a devoted girlfriend, Ji Lan not only had to take care of Sun Xiaobai's daily needs, but also had to keep a close eye on his mental health. Being treated differently might make him lose control, so even though assistive listening technology was highly advanced, she still forbade him from using a phone.
So how was Sun Xiaobai supposed to get information? It was simple: she read it to him.
She helped him bathe, get dressed, eat, and drink. How hard could it be to help him use the internet?
Ji Lan wanted nothing in return from Sun Xiaobai. All she wanted was for him to love her.
She loved him beyond reason.
But their quiet life was shattered by a sudden kidnapping.
She'd only been out to buy groceries, but Sun Xiaobai had vanished from their home without a trace. Ji Lan searched for him until she was frantic. What had the kidnappers done to him? Were they after money or his life? Was he hurt? Was he dead? Was he scared? She imagined the worst, but never expected that they hadn't hurt him at all.
"Xiaobai!" The moment she saw Sun Xiaobai again, Ji Lan rushed at him in a frenzy. "You're okay! That's all that matters. What did they do to you? You have no idea how worried I was!"
"Don't come any closer!"
He fell to the floor in terror and backed away, trembling. The look in his eyes made it seem as if she were a monster.
Here's a preview of an upcoming story:
Theme: Never lose hope.
It feels like there are foreshadowings in every chapter. I remember Ye He said when she walked out of the door, Du Yinsheng's usual trick is to turn things upside down, and "probably he was plotted as soon as he entered the room."
So, is it impossible to escape from the moment Rougang entered the room? Everything that follows may be a fantasy, or it may be a replay of what has already happened.
I don't know if the author did it on purpose or if he forgot to write it. Zi Yi clearly said that he would tell Rou no matter what the outcome was, but until the hard seat of the train arrived at the end of the long journey, until Zhang found a job, until Sister Chen was discovered, they had no new conversations.
So, is it the same as the previous dream within a dream? From the moment she opened her eyes, Rou was already on the path of half-death. She might even have died at a certain point in the middle of the incident. Everything after that was what she saw people doing later. It was just because of the endless pain that she thought she was making efforts and planning to escape.
There are too many mysteries, and the paradoxical dead ends, if you have to talk about them, there are foreshadowings and imaginations that can be connected in every link of the death.
From the opening of the eyes of the wedding sacrifice at the beginning, to the connection of "this is not a soup, but a curse" when feeding, the failure of the dragnet search, the ghost breaking the wall of the teaching building, the fire sacrifice, the unconscious association of the "blind world" on the insect fetus operating table, the upside down and trapped in the lair, and Zhang's silence when escaping.
Rou, if possible, I really hope you can have a liberating ending, instead of watching "endlessly and endlessly" day and night without any peace.
I hope you can write a detailed analysis in the end. My brain really can't understand it. As for the ending, I don't feel much about it. Anyway, it's a thriller story and I accept it well.
No, this ending is so uncomfortable. I like to watch horror and weird movies, but I don't like the main character dying tragically in the end... It's so frustrating. If it's this style, I won't be able to watch it anymore.
After reading the first story, I was so scared that I broke out in a cold sweat. You, the author, are a genius. There is no doubt that you should eat horror. I am a lover of horror novels. I have been reading for more than ten years, and my vision is unmistakable. If I refine the logic of this short story, I can definitely become a god. Domestic horror novels have been silent for too long. The last short story that scared everyone after reading it and was widely popular was a letter from home in 2001. Long-form horror novels tend to be weak in the end, and your writing can completely reach the level of a letter from home. It seems that your new work has nothing to do with horror. It's a pity. You shouldn't be limited to romance and female videos. You are totally talented and can do better.
I don't understand. Can anyone tell me what I'm talking about? 😭
Don't do this next time. I feel cold even when I'm basking in the sun.
It probably didn't start with five million. The heroine drowned when she was a child, and then liked the smell of the hospital very much. It should be that the problem started at that time. Maybe the heroine was possessed by a frog. The neurasthenic roommate was harassed by the heroine at night, and then she felt that there was another person in the house (the heroine at the end), and the snake followed the heroine. Maybe because of the effect of the food chain, Sifan should have committed suicide at the beginning. Because his parents worshiped him, his mother-in-law let something parasitize in and pretended to be alive, so the snake wanted to eat him, so he joined forces with the heroine and asked the heroine to deal with the snake. Finally, Sister Zhang may have come to find a new object of worship, the new Granny Frog, who is the heroine.
So the heroine didn't actually escape at all. Even when she knew that one million or even five million were greedy, she was destined to have a bad ending. Even the theme is her at the end, and she is the one who climbs from beginning to end. Maybe she imagined that she had done the right thing or wanted to make the right choice. The author tells us this story. Maybe there was someone who was really good to her and loved her before she died, but she missed it and lost it. I was speechless when I saw it. Others gave you so much money and you sold yourself without checking. What if you have a ghost marriage? I was really convinced at that time. Even when I knew about the evil sect, oh, maybe, I didn't obey and opened my eyes and already sent it. At least I asked for a venue to hold the wedding. It's outrageous, right? You didn't run away?
I've finished reading the first story. I haven't seen such a pure supernatural novel in JJ for a long time. It's so good and I love reading it. In fact, after Zhang Sifan committed suicide, I thought about whether this might be the beginning of a series of sudden deaths. Due to personal preferences, I like indiscriminate death in supernatural works. I may feel that death treats both good and bad people equally to give people a more terrifying and despairing feeling, so when I saw the ending, everyone was basically still alive and well, so I couldn't help but sigh (you). In the ending, Xinrou did not escape her fate. Although it was a pity, I accepted it well because it matched the foreshadowing in the previous article. However, after reading the comments, it seemed that I was the only one who felt that way 🥺. The other details of this unit are actually quite interesting, such as Xiaoye and the teacher behind her. If it can be expanded and written more, I would also like to see it 😭 I wonder if they will appear in the subsequent story.
I don't understand, is everything Zhong Xinrou's dream? In fact, the woman Zhong Xinrou saw crawling around in the first few chapters was her final self? !
It feels like there are foreshadowings in every chapter. I remember Ye He said when she walked out of the door, Du Yinsheng's usual trick is to turn things upside down, and "probably he was plotted as soon as he entered the room." So, is it impossible to escape from the moment Rougang entered the room? Everything that follows may be a fantasy, or it may be a replay of what has already happened. I don't know if the author did it on purpose or if he forgot to write it. Zi Yi clearly said that he would tell Rou no matter what the outcome was, but until the hard seat of the train arrived at the end of the long journey, until Zhang found a job, until Sister Chen was discovered, they had no new conversations. So, is it the same as the previous dream within a dream? From the moment she opened her eyes, Rou was already on the path of half-death. She might even have died at a certain point in the middle of the incident. Everything after that was what she saw people doing later. It was just because of the endless pain that she thought she was making efforts and planning to escape. There are too many mysteries, and the paradoxical dead ends, if you have to talk about them, there are foreshadowings and imaginations that can be connected in every link of the death. From the opening of the eyes of the wedding sacrifice at the beginning, to the connection of "this is not a soup, but a curse" when feeding, the failure of the dragnet search, the ghost breaking the wall of the teaching building, the fire sacrifice, the unconscious association of the "blind world" on the insect fetus operating table, the upside down and trapped in the lair, and Zhang's silence when escaping. Rou, if possible, I really hope you can have a liberating ending, instead of watching "endlessly and endlessly" day and night without any peace.
I hope you can write a detailed analysis in the end. My brain really can't understand it. As for the ending, I don't feel much about it. Anyway, it's a thriller story and I accept it well.
No, this ending is so uncomfortable. I like to watch horror and weird movies, but I don't like the main character dying tragically in the end... It's so frustrating. If it's this style, I won't be able to watch it anymore.
After reading the first story, I was so scared that I broke out in a cold sweat. You, the author, are a genius. There is no doubt that you should eat horror. I am a lover of horror novels. I have been reading for more than ten years, and my vision is unmistakable. If I refine the logic of this short story, I can definitely become a god. Domestic horror novels have been silent for too long. The last short story that scared everyone after reading it and was widely popular was a letter from home in 2001. Long-form horror novels tend to be weak in the end, and your writing can completely reach the level of a letter from home. It seems that your new work has nothing to do with horror. It's a pity. You shouldn't be limited to romance and female videos. You are totally talented and can do better.
I don't understand. Can anyone tell me what I'm talking about? 😭
Don't do this next time. I feel cold even when I'm basking in the sun.
It probably didn't start with five million. The heroine drowned when she was a child, and then liked the smell of the hospital very much. It should be that the problem started at that time. Maybe the heroine was possessed by a frog. The neurasthenic roommate was harassed by the heroine at night, and then she felt that there was another person in the house (the heroine at the end), and the snake followed the heroine. Maybe because of the effect of the food chain, Sifan should have committed suicide at the beginning. Because his parents worshiped him, his mother-in-law let something parasitize in and pretended to be alive, so the snake wanted to eat him, so he joined forces with the heroine and asked the heroine to deal with the snake. Finally, Sister Zhang may have come to find a new object of worship, the new Granny Frog, who is the heroine.
So the heroine didn't actually escape at all. Even when she knew that one million or even five million were greedy, she was destined to have a bad ending. Even the theme is her at the end, and she is the one who climbs from beginning to end. Maybe she imagined that she had done the right thing or wanted to make the right choice. The author tells us this story. Maybe there was someone who was really good to her and loved her before she died, but she missed it and lost it. I was speechless when I saw it. Others gave you so much money and you sold yourself without checking. What if you have a ghost marriage? I was really convinced at that time. Even when I knew about the evil sect, oh, maybe, I didn't obey and opened my eyes and already sent it. At least I asked for a venue to hold the wedding. It's outrageous, right? You didn't run away?
I've finished reading the first story. I haven't seen such a pure supernatural novel in JJ for a long time. It's so good and I love reading it. In fact, after Zhang Sifan committed suicide, I thought about whether this might be the beginning of a series of sudden deaths. Due to personal preferences, I like indiscriminate death in supernatural works. I may feel that death treats both good and bad people equally to give people a more terrifying and despairing feeling, so when I saw the ending, everyone was basically still alive and well, so I couldn't help but sigh (you). In the ending, Xinrou did not escape her fate. Although it was a pity, I accepted it well because it matched the foreshadowing in the previous article. However, after reading the comments, it seemed that I was the only one who felt that way 🥺. The other details of this unit are actually quite interesting, such as Xiaoye and the teacher behind her. If it can be expanded and written more, I would also like to see it 😭 I wonder if they will appear in the subsequent story.
I don't understand, is everything Zhong Xinrou's dream? In fact, the woman Zhong Xinrou saw crawling around in the first few chapters was her final self? !