Master, Your Wife Has Become a Super Star Through Fortune-Telling-Chapter 160 - 161: Pretty Good Acting

’Don’t sleep, or it will see?’

The man’s frenzied state and the words he spoke made Su Nian’s brow furrow once again.

’This is getting stranger and stranger.’

"Everyone in the village died in their sleep. All of them. That can’t happen to me. I can’t die!"

The pitch-black handprint on him grew even darker, radiating an irrepressible, sinister energy.

[This feels so creepy!]

[Streamer, this is kinda scary. A whole village of people died.]

[Give me a break. The streamer’s title is Heavenly Venerable Bailian, and her nickname is Ghostly Worry. The ghost is the one who should be scared.]

[So his ghost friend killed everyone in the village?]

Just then, something occurred to Su Nian.

’He’s an orphan with no parents, not even adoptive ones. How could he be living in a village?’

’Don’t tell me even small villages have welfare centers and orphanages these days?’

’That’s not very likely.’

However, all schemes are meaningless in the face of overwhelming power.

"Did you notice anything else unusual?"

Su Nian’s eyes were fixed on the man. He was utterly terrified, and now he was stammering as he spoke.

"I... I don’t... rem... remember."

Su Nian changed the subject. "How did you and your childhood friend meet?"

"He was a very close playmate of mine when we were kids. He was smart, but his grandfather always locked him in the house. I would always pick the lock to let him out so we could play together. Over time, we became closer and closer."

The man was no longer stuttering nervously; instead, he seemed rather calm and composed.

[I found a plot hole. The streamer just said he has no parents, but also that he did well in school. I want to know who paid for his education.]

[Hey, that’s right. The streamer just said he doesn’t even have adoptive parents.]

[What are you talking about? There are still orphanages and welfare centers, aren’t there? So many people do good deeds these days, who knows?]

[That makes even less sense. A village from over a decade ago? There’s no way it would have those kinds of institutions.]

Su Nian wasn’t looking at him. She just gave a lazy nod and casually took another bite of her peach.

Then, just as casually, she picked up a sheet of talisman paper.

She burned it, then blew the ashes onto the man.

Su Nian’s movements were fluid and uninhibited, with a certain indescribable flair, but the man couldn’t suppress his terror and stumbled a step back.

Su Nian raised an eyebrow. "Hm?"

"I... I’m afraid... of fire."

He was back to his stuttering tone.

"Heh..."

Su Nian didn’t say anything else. She just chuckled softly, her gaze falling on the shimmering black handprint on his palm.

A small smile touched her lips. ’So that’s what’s going on.’

"When did your friend become a ghost?"

"He... him..."

"He died in a car accident a few days ago. After that, I kept dreaming about him. And with everything that was happening in the village, I realized something was off about him. It wasn’t until I saw he didn’t have a shadow that I knew... he wasn’t human anymore."

[It’s probably his friend trying to protect him.] 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

[I just want to know what on earth happened in that village.]

[I’m also really curious. What could have killed an entire village of people?]

"Not human?"

Su Nian took another bite of her peach, her tone still relaxed and casual.

"My dear ghost friend, your acting is pretty good. But I wasn’t asking you. I was asking *your friend*."

The man’s entire body went rigid, his face a mask of disbelief.

Su Nian’s gaze drifted to the pitch-black hand. Following the line of that hand...

...Su Nian saw a figure holding the man’s hand. Its head was bowed, and a copper bell hung from its neck. Its eyes were completely black, with no whites to be seen.

Without a doubt, it was a ghost.