My Sister Never Said She Was a Creepy Tale - Chapter 103

The lights in the corridor had somehow gone out. In the long, narrow passageway, only the candles in their hands, emitting a soft, orange glow, gently swayed.

Many, many monsters stood in the corridor, hand in hand, facing the wall.

Strange things writhed on their hair, which was of varying lengths, and eyes constantly appeared and disappeared on the walls.

Counting the beats while standing still, Yue Yiyue quickly grasped the pattern of the eyes appearing on the wall.

“Stop every five steps.” Rushing to speak before Gu He could, Yue Yiyue tilted her head: “Is that right?”

Gu He was stunned for a moment; the person in front of her seemed to have undergone a subtle change.

This change wasn’t necessarily bad, but it caused a slight tremor in some part of Gu He’s body.

A long-unfelt sensation surfaced. Gu He nodded: “What kind of attack do you think that hair will launch?”

“Suddenly licking us, or perhaps directly wrapping around our feet to trip us.”

“Ultimately, they will try to frighten us into dropping the candles in our hands.”

If they were being inventive, those things might even turn into Gu Nanqiu’s face, which she could then admire all the way.

Gu He would also work.

Once she knew that Gu He was actually a part of Gu Nanqiu, Yue Yiyue felt that the person next to her, every movement, was exceptionally familiar.

Even the details she hadn’t dared to consider before now served as corroborating evidence.

Yue Yiyue leaned closer to the side and looped her arm through Gu He’s: “Sister Gu He, be careful, okay? If those things trip me, I’ll have a point of support.”

Sensing Gu He stiffen for a second, Yue Yiyue looked up at Gu He expressionlessly: “What’s wrong, sister?”

“No, nothing.” Gu He turned her head and carefully scrutinized Yue Yiyue’s features, confirming that she hadn’t been possessed by anything, but was acting purely out of her own mischievousness.

It seemed that someone had leaked a bit of information beforehand, causing Yue Yiyue’s attitude to be subtly strange.

But it was no big deal.

Gu He took a deep breath, prepared to withdraw her hand, and said earnestly: “Yiyue, I will still try my best to protect you even if you don’t call me sister.”

“Alright, the path ahead is quite dark, and the candlelight is weak. How about this: I’ll carry you, and you hold the candle.”

The suggestion sounded quite good, but unfortunately, Yue Yiyue didn’t like being carried. However, she could be flexible.

Yue Yiyue nodded and smoothly placed the candle into Gu He’s hand.

Three minutes later, Gu He was nestled in Yue Yiyue’s arms, protecting the candle she held: “Yiyue, if you hold me, won’t that little friend you live with get jealous?”

“I don’t think so,” Yue Yiyue said, walking straight towards their destination without glancing away.

The hair on both sides occasionally poked out, trying to get close to the two of them, only to be burned back by a faint orange glow that seemed to come from nowhere.

A strange scorching smell, particularly unpleasant, hung in the air.

Yue Yiyue wrinkled her brow at the foul smell, and her breathing slowed considerably.

They stopped every five steps. The moment they stopped, the eyes all around opened, but since there was no moving object, they closed again.

Men’s screams and women’s comforting voices occasionally echoed through the space.

Cursing, pleading—these things were interwoven.

Yue Yiyue walked towards their destination with single-minded concentration.

Only by reaching the end could they possibly save more people.

Ahead was another purple door. Yue Yiyue noticed that the eyes on both sides were opening faster.

She stopped in place and summarized the pattern again.

“Yiyue,” Gu He weakly prompted: “The candle is about to go out.”

“Is that so.” Yue Yiyue looked down at Gu He in her arms. The flame was down to its last flicker. Following their current pace, they would definitely not reach the end.

This was within Yue Yiyue’s expectations: “Oh, then give the candle to me and hold on tight.”

Gu He met Yue Yiyue’s eyes and instantly understood what she was planning.

Yue Yiyue took the candle from her hand and drew a graceful arc with it in the air. Soon, two blazing flames ignited on both sides, extending forward.

In that instant, Yue Yiyue quickly dashed ahead.

The eyeballs on both sides noticed the intruders and desperately tried to detach from the wall, only to be swallowed by tentacles that had emerged from unknown locations.

The Room of Photographs and Gu Nanqiu’s Shadow

Entering the purple door once again.

The first thing Yue Yiyue saw was a collection of her own photographs.

Small photos from the orphanage in the other world, pictures of herself studying boring high school assignments, and photos of herself working as a delivery driver.

There were also fragmented photos taken after she came to this world.

Many photos were spread across the bed. Some seemed to have been soaked in water. A familiar phone was placed on the pillow nearby.

Yue Yiyue’s expression was strange.

It was particularly indescribable when she saw the puppy doll with her face pasted on it lying on the bed.

She did her best to rationalize it: this was quite normal, just like the room full of sculptures she had seen before.

For instance, many people also collected photos of Gu Nanqiu as wallpaper, or for other uses.

She vaguely guessed the owner of this room.

Yue Yiyue turned to look at Gu He. Gu He awkwardly averted her gaze, asking as innocently as possible: “Yiyue, do you require legal assistance?”

“Why aren’t you curious?” Yue Yiyue picked up a photo of herself wearing a delivery driver’s uniform: “Why would I, a student, be wearing this kind of uniform?”

Gu He’s expression twisted slightly. Just as she was thinking about how to answer this question, she heard Yue Yiyue say lightly: “Speaking of which, you aren’t curious about the one from the orphanage either.”

“I apologize, it’s just that you look so much like my lover. For a moment, I thought my lover had come to find me.”

Logic told Gu He that the lover Yue Yiyue spoke of could only be herself.

But a louder voice in her heart loudly yanked her ear: “Oh dear—Yiyue doesn’t want you anymore.”

Gu He closed her eyes and silently recited her identity information again: “We met by chance. Perhaps my face is simply very common. However, it looks like you, Student Yue, have been through many dungeons and have met someone quite extraordinary. Are you referring to the person surnamed Gu?”

“Oh, met by chance.” Yue Yiyue repeated: “I like that phrase very much.”

“The person surnamed Gu I met should be the same person you’re referring to.” Yue Yiyue didn’t know if she meant Gu Ye or Gu Nanqiu.

She walked over to the desk and picked up the small red notebook. Greed’s intention was too obvious: to completely dissect all of Gu Nanqiu’s dark sides and make her realize that Gu Nanqiu was a monster.

The Seventeen Pages of Confession

Seeing the objects in this room, Yue Yiyue immediately guessed that it belonged to Mom.

The way the photos were taken, the lens language—it was all the same as the pictures they had taken together recently.

Especially the phone on the bedside table.

Was Mom actually a clone of Gu Nanqiu?

This seemed absurd, yet upon reflection, it felt traceable.

Thinking this, Yue Yiyue casually flipped open the red notebook.

Inside were things about herself, recorded personally by Mom.

It meticulously detailed her preferences and subtle events from her life.

Flipping further back, there were also printed chat records.

These things were somewhat acceptable to Yue Yiyue.

But what she didn’t understand was why this notebook contained an embedded, seventeen-page-long confession (chàn huǐ).

Her heart pounded twice. Her sixth sense told her that as soon as she read this, she would quickly remember everything.

After calming her breathing, Yue Yiyue opened the yellowed paper.

It meticulously recorded how Gu Nanqiu came to that world unfamiliar to her, how she used Yue Yiyue to quickly settle down in that city.

She learned human language by following Yue Yiyue and grew by absorbing her abundant emotions.

It recorded that while Yue Yiyue went out to save people, she observed the evil she had sown growing to what extent elsewhere, and incidentally opened a new dungeon, harvested a portion of souls as her spoils of war to strengthen her power, nurtured new alien-headed monsters, and filtered out good specimens.

It recorded that she watched Yue Yiyue enter the dungeon specifically arranged for her by Gluttony, a dungeon from which she could never escape unscathed.

The reason Yue Yiyue couldn’t escape was that the boss inside was Gu Nanqiu.

When everyone forced Yue Yiyue to distance herself from the monster Gu Nanqiu, when they forced Yue Yiyue to kill Gu Nanqiu with her own hands…

Yue Yiyue stood firmly by Gu Nanqiu’s side until her heart was pierced by a tentacle. The warm blood flowed down the tentacle and dripped onto the shirt that Yue Yiyue had barely managed to save two months’ worth of money to give to Gu Nanqiu.

Gently closing the notebook, the fog in Yue Yiyue’s mind completely dispersed, and memories surged like a spring.

She had to mention one thing: that designer shirt definitely suited Gu Nanqiu.

She sat in place for half a minute to compose herself before opening the notebook to continue reading.

What followed was Gu Nanqiu’s dense confession.

Confessing that she had killed Yue Yiyue with her own hands, confessing that it took her so long to taste that delicate love.

The deep longing and guilt led her to a decision: she had to resurrect Yue Yiyue and give her the life she wanted.

Yue Yiyue carefully savored the emotions on the paper. Was there love?

Further back, Gu Nanqiu divided herself into seven clones, and the main body was placed in the deepest Chaos, suffering constant erosion. This was one of her acts of atonement: experiencing the pain Yue Yiyue had endured.

After that, Gu Nanqiu made two more bets with the Main God…

The words that followed were blurred. Yue Yiyue understood that the Main God did not want her to know what the bets were.

Unwavering Love and the Home Rule

Gu He stood in place, anxiously rubbing her hands.

The Main God had tampered with this area, so she couldn’t see the words in the notebook.

And she didn’t know what was written inside.

She only knew that Yue Yiyue’s expression was extremely strange.

She vaguely felt that Yue Yiyue might have learned everything.

Yet, she also felt that perhaps not.

If she knew the truth, she shouldn’t be so calm.

In their past life, after learning the truth, Yiyue had constantly sought opportunities to kill her.

Later, Yiyue even used a sliver of power gained from the Main God to directly chop Gluttony into Chaos, then sent the forensic doctor in, using the method of guiding him to assist the forensic doctor in completely subduing Gluttony.

After doing that, Yiyue must have wanted to kill her main body.

However, for some unknown reason, Yue Yiyue didn’t strike.

She ultimately curled up quietly next to the main body, waiting for her own body to collapse.

And the main body could do nothing but watch Yue Yiyue’s breath grow weaker and weaker until it vanished.

Finally, the body was taken away by the Main God.

The room was extremely quiet. Gu He dared not speak, and Yue Yiyue did not want to speak.

She sat there, somewhat lost, carefully savoring the choices she had made.

She didn’t understand why, even after being killed by Gu Nanqiu’s own hand, her heart still fluttered when she saw the other woman’s face.

She didn’t understand why, after all that she had been through, her love for Gu Nanqiu had only increased.

Was it because when she was little, only Gu Nanqiu, disguised as her Mom, came to pick her up?

Was it because when she was little, only Gu Nanqiu, disguised as her little sister, kept her company?

Was it because when she grew up, only Gu Nanqiu, after deliberately reuniting with her, told her over and over that she loved her and that they would be happy forever?

Carefully recalling the past, at every stage, there was Gu Nanqiu’s accompanying act of atonement, entwining herself around her, taking root, and growing wildly.

Even Yue Yiyue’s heart and the crevices of her bones were densely written with Gu Nanqiu’s name.

Eventually, she herself could not distinguish what this emotion was.

Hate?

She genuinely did not hate her.

Love?

Yue Yiyue could not deceive herself. Regardless of everything, when she saw Gu Nanqiu, it was love.

Don’t be too concerned with a small monster who doesn’t understand anything. This was the decision she made after taking Gu Nanqiu in and realizing that the other was different from herself.

But a home still needed house rules.