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"Before I met you, nothing would make me happy."

"I have always lived alone, watching people I don't like, doing things I don't like."

"But, the time with you is the best."

"So, can you not leave me?"

"Even if only I can see you..."

On October 10st, Huo Xun should have been happy to have a five-day holiday after a busy month, but he couldn't be happier now.

It's about his cousin.

Cousin Huo Yanling, because her parents were on a business trip, they left her at Huo Xun's house for a few days.

The last time Huo Xun saw Huo Yanling was ten years ago. This introverted cousin who is two years younger than him, if his parents hadn't mentioned it, he really would have never thought of such a person.

Parents like her very much.On the day Huo Yanling first came, on the evening of September 9th, Huo's mother cooked more vegetables for a rare occasion.This is a benefit that Huo Xun didn't have when he won the prize in the Olympiad competition.

Of course, this is not the root cause of Huo Xun's displeasure.

He was very tired when he drove back from the car. He fell asleep as soon as he got home, but a cousin came halfway, and his parents had to drag him to eat together.

Huo Xun absent-mindedly looked at the rice in the bowl, and suddenly trembled. The creepy feeling came so suddenly that his body moved subconsciously before he could react.

He raised his head and looked at Huo Yanling who was sitting beside him.

"Xun, what are you doing in a daze? Hurry up and eat, you've been sitting in the car for so long, you'll starve if you don't eat any more." Mother Huo said with concern.

"Oh..." Huo Xun, who just came back to his senses, withdrew his gaze and moved his chopsticks complicatedly in his heart.

What was that like just now?

From Huo Yanling...

It seems that something is weird.

Huo Xun thought to himself, but he didn't think of a reason, and later concluded that he was too tired and had hallucinations, so he put the matter behind.

Take a bath after dinner and go to bed early.Woke up in the middle of the night due to thirst, Huo Xun went to the kitchen in the dark.

After drinking a cup of warm water, Huo Xun returned the same way, but when passing by the guest room where Huo Yanling lived, he found that the door was not closed.

The light coming out from the crack of the door glowed with pale green light.

Like the glow of fireflies.

Huo Xun felt that something was wrong. There was no lamp or desk lamp with such light at home, so where did the light come from?

Although he knew that peeping at girls' rooms was not good, but driven by curiosity, Huo Xun still got close to the gap in the door.

He saw-

Huo Yanling sat on the ground, with a chessboard in front of her.

She picked up a white piece and gently placed it on a certain position on the board.

Then she smiled, as if there was a person sitting opposite, she raised her head and said softly.

"You lost, Ying."

Huo Xun sat on a bench in the park downstairs, unmoved by the scorching summer sun.

He didn't sleep, stayed up all night, with two dark circles under his eyes, lied to his parents and went out.

He had been sitting here all morning, and he couldn't go back to face Huo Yanling. The strange feeling last night was not a hallucination.

"Could it be that I have the kind of physique that easily recruits those things?"

Thinking of all the things that happened in the back mountain of the school when he first entered school, Huo Xun sighed, holding his head and talking to himself.

Thinking of something, Huo Xun took out his phone.

Then put it down again.

"No, no, no, what am I thinking, I can't find him! But..." But when encountering such a thing, I can only find him!

After Huo Xun struggled for a while, he still took out his mobile phone and dialed the number he least wanted to call.

"Hey?"

It was still a voice that made Huo Xun inexplicably annoyed.

"Hey, your surname is Xue. Your father is the abbot of the temple. If he knows that, he is a magic stick, right? I have something to ask him."

"To be precise, it's a monk." Xue Jingxiu corrected, "Although it's not the kind with shaved hair."

"It doesn't matter what, something happened at my house, so hurry up and take a look."

Hearing Huo Xun say that something happened at home, the phone was silent for a few seconds before Xue Jingxiu's voice came.

"Okay, send me the address."

Xue Jingxiu and Huo Xun lived in the same city, and were once classmates. The distance between the two families is not far away, and the distance between them can be reached within five or six bus stops.

Before Huo Xun could sit down after returning home, there was a knock on the door.

Huo Yanling locked herself in the guest room when her parents went shopping. Huo Xun had previously discussed with Xue Jingxiu that if she came, she would knock on the door and not ring the bell, lest she would be surprised.To find out about this matter, you still have to avoid her.

Huo Xun hurriedly opened the door, but showed a surprised expression when he saw the person behind the door.

"Ci'ao, why are you here?" Huo Xun was depressed.

"Why, don't you welcome me?" Standing at the door, compared with the slovenly Huo Xun, the neatly dressed Xue Jingxiu said with a smile.

"Didn't you call your dad?" Huo Xun said.

"You said that it would be more appropriate for me not to surprise your cousin to find out the matter?" Xue Jingxiu said, "Which one do you think is normal for a junior high school and college classmate to come to your house than the father of a junior high school and college classmate?"

"Gonna, I really lost to you, come in." Huo Xun surrendered.

Huo Xun went to the kitchen and poured a glass of water for Xue Jingxiu.

"Then, tell me what you saw first." Xue Jingxiu took a sip and asked.

Huo Xun sat beside Xue Jingxiu and told what he saw last night.

"Playing chess with an invisible person? Hmm...interesting." Xue Jingxiu chuckled, "What happened after that? You just ran away with your tail between your legs? And sat outside all morning?"

"I didn't have my tail between my legs! No, how do you know I sat outside all morning?!"

"It seems that I guessed right."

"You..." Huo Xun was angry.

"but……"

"What are you doing... grinding(what)... um..."

Huo Xun was grabbed by both cheeks by Xue Jingxiu's hand. Xue Jingxiu pressed his cheeks so hard that his fingers hurt, and he couldn't even speak clearly.

"It can actually shake the body protection spell I cast. The thing your cousin can see is not simple."

"Same... let go of the mud nest (pain...you let me go)!" Huo Xun was so painful that tears were about to flow down.

But seeing Xue Jingxiu's expression of enjoying his painful expression and his complete lack of willingness to let go, Huo Xun felt like letting the wolf into the sheep's nest.

"Ah!" Huo Yanling's cry interrupted the situation.

"Huh?" Xue Jingxiu let go, looked at Huo Yanling who was standing not far away and looked at them, and smiled politely: "Hello."

"Damn! It hurts me to death, you pervert... Huh...? Yan Ling, when did you come out?" Huo Xun covered his face with tears in his eyes, and his words were also very ambiguous, as if he was violated by Xue Jingxiu.

This scene made Huo Yanling's entire cheeks turn red. The introverted child was at a loss, and said falteringly, "Holding... I'm sorry to disturb you, you two."

Then ran back to the room.

Hearing the sound of the lock being locked, Huo Xun thought to himself, it's over.

was misunderstood.

Xue Jingxiu rubbed his chin and thought, um, it's really interesting.

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Xue Huo's home game~A (ghost) story about chess~