My love game is too abstract

"So, you're saying that's how you caught her?"

It was late at night, in the closet room of the attic. Everyone was in their pajamas, having been awakened by Yarrow's shouting, and they were now gathered in front of the large closet.

Serena pursed her lips, looking at the closet door that had been chopped to pieces, and then at the female ghost kneeling on the ground, sobbing.

Well, she couldn't be called a female ghost anymore; it was more appropriate to call her a violated young girl. Without the terrifying bloody makeup, her eye sockets now contained eyeballs. She looked like a girl of eighteen or nineteen, only her skin was a little pale.

And she looked somewhat pitiful.

Serena covered her face and sighed.

"I feel like I've been scared so much lately that I'm just tired now."

"I didn't expect the evil spirit that scared us for so long to look like this," Peach Fox said in surprise, looking at the weeping female ghost.

"Yarrow is bullying a girl," Ji Xiaofei said quietly.

"Huh? I'm bullying her? I was trying to help her pass on!"

Yarrow snorted, stepped forward, and pointed the dried lizard at the female ghost's head.

"Eek! Please keep it away from me!"

The female ghost moved backward in a panic, as if she had seen a ghost herself.

"Don't move, girl, or I'll shove it in your mouth," Yarrow said coldly.

The female ghost closed her mouth tightly, revealing a pitiful expression.

"Do you have a name?" Yarrow asked.

"Yes, it's Vinea," the female ghost Vinea said.

"All the ghostly happenings in this villa, were they all your doing?"

Vinea nodded vigorously, then said aggrievedly, "I also have my reasons, and I only scare people, I've never hurt anyone."

"Scaring people isn't hurting people?" Yarrow brought the lizard closer.

Vinea quickly said, "I told you I have my reasons!"

"What reasons? Tell me in three seconds, or I'll help you pass on directly!"

Vinea trembled her lips and sobbed:

"Originally, I was just the daughter of the owner of this villa, with a happy life. But, on my eighteenth birthday, my parents gave me a crystal projector..."

"Huh? Isn't that great? How did you die?" Yarrow asked, puzzled.

Vinea sobbed again: "That night, I was eating popcorn while watching a horror movie. As a result... at the scariest moment, I got a fright, and then I choked to death on the popcorn!"

"I died so tragically, but when my mom and dad heard that I choked to death on popcorn while watching a horror movie, they actually... they actually couldn't help but laugh!!"

Vinea wailed.

Everyone fell silent.

"After I died, my parents moved away, but I became a ghost. So, I wanted everyone who moved into this house to taste the feeling of being scared!"

Yarrow stared at her for two seconds, then asked, "You, you said your parents were the original owners of this house, then what's your last name?"

"Hegel," Vinea looked at him.

"Heh, I knew I was being deceived. The salesperson said the original owner of this house was named Boden. Sure enough, they used a fake identity."

He snorted, then, remembering something, pointed to the closet behind him that he had smashed to pieces and asked:

"What's the deal with this closet?"

"I just made it with horror elements, to create a scary atmosphere," Vinea said softly.

"Wait, wait, wait, could it be that those paintings, and the murder in the bathroom, and the noose hanging from the tree, were all your doing?" Serena suddenly remembered and asked.

Vinea nodded.

Serena and Yarrow exchanged glances, and Yarrow asked, "Then what are your reasons?"

Vinea widened her eyes: "That's my reason, because even after dying, I'm still being laughed at, so I want others to feel fear too."

Yarrow was silent for two seconds, then raised the dried lizard:

"I guess I should help you pass on after all."

"Eek! I, I, I, I know I was wrong! I'll never scare people again, please spare me!" Vinea screamed.

"Huh? You're already a ghost anyway, wouldn't it be good to pass on and be reincarnated early? Why don't you want to?" Yarrow frowned.

"Because... because I feel like I'm doing pretty well now. Although I can't leave this house, I can do whatever I want. I can control everything in this house, and it's still fun to scare people every day. I've already scared away six tenants."

"You really deserve to die," Yarrow sighed.

"Wait," Serena suddenly thought of something and asked Vinea, "You said you can now connect to the entire villa?"

Vinea nodded: "Yes, but I don't know why either. I could do it after I became a ghost."

"No wonder, I was wondering why you're neither like a ghost nor like a spirit. So you're a spirit of an object!"

"Spirit of an object? What's that?" Yarrow asked, puzzled.

Not only him, but Vinea also looked confused at the term.

Serena rolled her eyes at him: "I taught you a hundred characteristics of magical creatures before, have you already forgotten?"

"Uh, you say it, let me recall," Yarrow scratched his head embarrassedly.

Serena began to explain: "The so-called spirit of an object is a spirit that exists attached to an object, but they don't belong to the ghost category and don't have obvious aggressive desires. The objects they are attached to can be freely controlled by them."

"Because spirits of objects don't have the demonic attributes of ghosts, ordinary purification rituals are ineffective against them. That's probably why exorcism rituals don't work."

"So, you're saying this guy is attached to this villa?" Yarrow asked in surprise.

"It seems that should be the case," Serena nodded.

"Oh, so, as long as I help her pass on, my villa will return to normal, right?" Yarrow pondered.

"No, why do you keep saying that! I, I, I know I was wrong!" Vinea said in a panic.

"Shut up, I don't want to have a mischievous, scary brat in my house," Yarrow said sternly.

"I, I promise I won't scare people anymore," Vinea said quickly.

"What's the use of listening to your promise?" Yarrow pressed closer.

"Yarrow," Serena stopped him, "Spirits of objects are very rare species and not aggressive. It's rare to encounter one now, let's keep her around. It'll be convenient for us to do research later if the academy has this kind of topic."

Hearing someone pleading for her, Vinea quickly ran behind Serena and hid.

Yarrow thought about it and felt it was okay too.

"Thank you, big sister. I was wrong to scare you before. I'll help you make the bed, squeeze toothpaste, and prepare your bathwater every day from now on," Vinea tried to grab Serena's hand to please her, but couldn't because she was in spirit form.

"Hmph, don't be too happy yet. You said you can control the whole house, right?" Yarrow said to her.

"Yes, yes..."

"Good, from today onwards, all the cleaning and housework in the house will be done by you!"

"Eh?"

Vinea was stunned.

Yarrow smiled triumphantly in his heart.

"This deal is really a big win. Not only did I get a villa for a hundred gold coins, but now it also comes with a free servant and housekeeper!"