Midnight Bookstore

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

When Lawyer An walked to the pharmacy next door, Fangfang was standing inside opening her parcel and humming a song. Her mood was exceptionally good. Opening the parcel was indeed a very pleasant thing.

“Where is she?” Lawyer An asked.

“Who is she?”

“That girl.”

“Oh, that little girl of yours took her out.”

“She went out?”

“Yeah, not long after she went out, she went that way. I think she even took a taxi.”

Lawyer An took out his phone and dialed Lin Ke"s number, but the notification said “The number you have dialed is temporarily unavailable…”

The taxi arrived at the entrance of the county hospital, and the two girls got out of the car together.

“Why did you bring me here?” Lin Ke looked at the girl.

Zhu Shengnan said that she wanted to come to a place and brought her along, so she followed her.

“I came to see some of my friends.” The girl said very calmly.

“Friends?”

“Yes, friends. My family doesn"t allow me to go to kindergarten. They lock me up at home all day and rarely let me go out. So, I rarely have friends, but they often come to play with me.

“So, I never feel lonely.”

“What exactly is it?”

Lin wasn"t an insensible doll. She understood that this girl named Zhu Shengnan was a little special. Thus… the “Friends” that Zhu Shengnan referred to… made Little Loli not dare to let her guard down in the slightest. These were not the so-called children who played together in kindergarten.

This was a hospital in the county town. Even though It was not huge, it had all the internal organs that it needed. It also had all the necessary departments. Usually, there were no problems with the local minor ailments such as having an appendix removed.

However, the local patients would also go to the attached hospital or the People"s Hospital in the city to see a doctor if there were more serious illnesses. Even the doctors in the county town hospital would recommend you to go to the attached hospital or the People"s Hospital to have another check-up. After all, the big hospitals had better equipment and better medical conditions. Even if some people were to have their foreskins cut, they would still choose to go to the big hospitals for the sake of looking more beautiful.

“Your friends are in the hospital?”

“Yes, they are in the hospital.”

The girl walked in front while Little Loli followed behind. The girl did not walk through the door. Instead, she walked around the hospital wall and continued to walk. Little Loli didn"t ask any more questions and just followed her.

“Tell me, auntie, why do so many fathers only like their sons and not their daughters? There are also their mothers and grandmothers. They"re women, but they only like their sons and grandsons. They don"t like their daughters and granddaughters.” The little girl asked, her voice was very soft. Soft to the point that it was almost inaudible.

“I don"t know.” Little Loli answered.

It was very easy to understand. Everyone knew the reason. Because everyone knew what the reason was, there was no need to say it anymore.

The girl continued to speak. It didn"t seem like she was asking a question, but more like she was talking to herself,

“What have we girls done wrong?

“Auntie, you"re a woman too, right?”

“Yeah.” Little Loli was no longer bothered by the fact that she was being called “auntie” For some reason, she was also stirred up.

“When auntie was young, her family was quite well-off and could afford a university student"s tuition fees…”

“However, auntie"s family didn"t allow her to attend university. They were preparing to send auntie"s younger brother to university, but auntie"s results at that time were very good.”

“Auntie is also very pitiful.” Zhu Shengnan said.

“Auntie isn"t pitiful.” Little Loli replied.

“Why?”

“Because that summer, auntie brought her younger brother out together. When they were waiting for the bus, auntie silently gave him a push.

“He was fine, but one of his arms was crushed and fractured.”

The girl turned around and looked at Little Loli seriously. At this moment, Little Loli"s face was also calm. It was as if she was talking about something unrelated to her.

“He was injured and suspended from school. Auntie finished her college entrance exam that year and went to university.”

“Auntie is very powerful, but this is wrong.”

“I had no choice!” Little Loli"s tone suddenly became sharp.

“What choice do you want me to make? To drop out of school? To work to support him in university?!”

“Why?! Just because I"m a girl… I"m an unprofitable commodity in the eyes of my parents… so, should I be wasted like this?”

“To just drop out of school and go out to work… Then, my parents will find a man and arrange for me to get married. Then, they will collect the money from the betrothal gifts. Then, they will save the money from selling me and give it to my younger brother to spend when he uses the money in the future?”

“But it"s still not right,” Little Loli said very solemnly.

In the end, she was still just a child. In her eyes, this world was either black or white. Except for what"s right and wrong. That was why she was still unmoved when her family kept torturing her. That was why, when she saw the person in the painting move, she was very excited to prove it to them.

She stood in a pool of blood, lying around her were… corpses of her family members that were too horrible to look at. She did not have any emotions of revenge or fear, she just stood there silently. She looked at the blood of her family members as it stained her sandals bit by bit.

“Do you know how terrible a woman"s fate is when she is casually married off? Especially when your parents only care about the dowry money.”

“Do you have a good life for the rest of your life? Whether you"re happy or not… It depends on luck, purely on luck.”

“It"s like buying lottery tickets in a lottery shop… Who knows which G.o.d-d.a.m.ned guy in a mask took the huge prize pool that was acc.u.mulated every time?” said Little Loli as her eyes started to redden. Her breathing also started to become rapid.

“I don"t want to rely on luck. I just want to live a little better. I just want a little fairness!”

“They… they could have supported me financially for my higher education. They could have had better conditions. After they gave birth to me, they wanted to give birth to a second child. They said they were afraid that I would be lonely.”

“My mother got pregnant later. It was a girl and she aborted it. The next child she conceived was a boy and she gave birth to him.”

“Because of this, my mother lost her public position, and my father was demoted. The most terrifying and cruelest thing in this world was…”

“You suddenly realized that your parents didn"t care about you.”

“Auntie, don"t cry.”

The girl reached out and wiped Little Loli"s tears.

“Life"s tough when you"re born a girl. It"s hard to go to school, and it"s hard to enter the workplace…”

Suddenly… Little Loli raised her head abruptly, a cold expression appeared on her originally dejected face as she reached out and pushed the little girl away. She pushed Zhu Shengnan onto the ground.

Outside the hospital"s wall was a construction site that had been closed for a long time. It was filled with stone fragments. After Zhu Shengnan fell, both her hands and knees were bruised as blood flowed out.

But Little Loli was still unmoved, the tears and blood-shot color in her eyes instantly disappeared, she immediately berated:

“What on Earth did you do to me just now!!!” Lin Ke spread her hands open and looked around.

“Just now… she suddenly became emotional and told her past experiences and even the secrets that she had never revealed to outsiders. This was not an expression of her feelings!”

“She had feelings, but after so many years, she had long learned how to control those feelings.”

“Besides… Why would she confide her feelings and heart to such a young girl?”

“Perhaps… she had been unknowingly affected by something. It entered her heart silently and manipulated her emotions, causing her to be unable to control herself at that moment.”

Lawyer An had spared no effort for the development and construction of the bookstore. Especially after he had personally experienced the deep meaning behind Boss Zhou"s salted fish, he was even more confident in the future of the bookstore.

Therefore, regarding the development of these lackeys under Boss Zhou…

“Oh No, they were capable fighters!”

He had also racked his brains. Even Zhang Yanfeng, whom he thought was a failed investment had planned to help him operate and push to a higher position in his free time. Using his secular ident.i.ty to help the bookstore, not to mention Little Loli who had always been diligent and eager to climb up the ladder.

Lawyer An did not hide anything from Little Loli when it came to the detection and counteraction of illusions. Illusions were one of his specialties. Therefore, after he had unknowingly immersed himself in them… Little Loli immediately regained consciousness.

The little girl sat on the ground. She did not look at the torn skin on her hands and knees and the blood that was seeping out. Instead, she continued to look at Little Loli calmly.

“Why did you bring me here? What did you do to me just now?!”

“If you don"t say anything, I"ll kill you right now and send you to h.e.l.l!”

“Auntie, everyone likes you.”

The girl suddenly laughed, her smile was very bright. For a moment… in the pile of rubble behind the girl… in the river behind the hospital, pink Shadows began to gather above the hospital ward.

The little girl looked around, with a look of shock. This is not a ghost as they have no soul, but they have their consciousness and illusions.

One adorable little girl after another, they ran in all directions. Laughing and jumping as they gathered around Zhu Shengnan. They then walked towards Little Loli again, they were innocent and so adorable.

“They… They are…”

“Yes auntie, they are the same as us.”

The smile on Zhu Shengnan"s face became wider and wider. It was so wide that one could fall into that abyss at a glance, unable to escape.

“But why… we have to do this!”

Zhu Shengnan started to cry. As drops of tears began to flow out, the surrounding girls also started to cry together but what flowed out of their eyes… were ghastly b.l.o.o.d.y tears!

What followed was… their originally clear and clean “Bodies” Because of the b.l.o.o.d.y tears, they began to slowly turn black.

“How is this possible?… This is impossible!” said Little Loli as she took a step back in fear.

“These were not soul bodies, nor were they souls of the dead, but these things… Why were they all showing signs of becoming malicious ghosts at this moment!”