I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 427 What is the noise, let me watch it for a while
"call……"

Although it is already the second reading,

But when he saw this place again, Ye Linhan still couldn't hide his depression.

Put in the shoes of Hawes and Gerrit Jr., they never seem to have a choice.

All predictions about the future can only be easily interrupted by external changes.

After taking a long breath, Ye Linghan remained silent.

Ye Linghan, who had already watched it once, knew what would happen next.

It seemed that the scenes described in the book were emerging in his mind, which made him pause for a while,
I didn't continue to read, but just looked at the cover of "The Ordinary and the Great" which was closed again, and the depression in my heart lingered for a long time.

……

"call……"

The same is Fancheng.

The owner of the noodle shop also exhaled, rubbed his sore eyes,
Two days ago, his son went to buy "Shadow Empire" and put it at home.

Except before his son goes to bed after school, and during meals, he and his son read this "Shadow Empire" together.

When his son went to rest and sleep, he still couldn't put it down, and stayed up late reading with the book in his hand.

After staying up for two nights, I have finished watching "Empire of Shadows",
However, I haven't slept enough in the past two days. It's late at night, there are no customers, and the owner of the noodle restaurant who is idle is a little sleepy.

"Aha~"

He yawned again and finished wiping the dining table next to him.
The owner of the noodle shop sat down on the seat next to him, turned his head and glanced at his son,
Right now, the boy is holding "Empire of Shadows" and watching it intently, immersed in the story,
His dad stayed up all night and finished watching it, but he hasn't.

"Okay, let's see when we go home."

While talking, the owner of the noodle shop yawned again.

Immersed in the story of "Empire of Shadows", the young man who was already a little nervous because of the progress of the plot,

Surprised by this even a small shout,
He almost jumped up from the stool, but the book in his hand was still tightly held.

"Dad, why are you so surprised?"

"...It's you who are so fascinated by reading the book. I have cleaned up the table and chopsticks here, and I haven't seen you move."

"Dad... When you watched it earlier, I called you, and you were shocked."

"..."

"Okay, pack up and go back. I can't stand it anymore, I have to go back to sleep."

The owner of the noodle shop paused, stood up and greeted the boy again.

"Dad Let's stay a little longer, we're going back now, my mother will definitely let me sleep."

"It's right for your mother to let you go to bed early. I'll watch it tomorrow."

"...Dad, you just finished reading it by yourself, so you don't care about my life or death."

The young man looked at his father with some resentment.

The noodle shop owner glanced at him and yawned again.

"Then watch it quickly... After a while, if we don't go back, your mother should come over."

"Hmm...Dad, if you're sleepy, just lie here and sleep for a while. I'll call you when I watch it again."

Listening to his father's promise to let him watch for a while, the boy graciously moved several stools together,
Let his father lie here and rest for a while.

The owner of the noodle shop looked at the young man again, and went to sit on a few stools that were leaning against each other.
Then the sleepiness really came up, and soon fell asleep.

The boy secretly glanced at his father again, then turned his head, and continued to look at "Empire of Shadows",
He has already seen the second half of "Empire of Shadows" and the story of 'Hu Yan', and his spirit is still a little tense.

I'm afraid that someone will suddenly walk in at this moment and ask him why he is here.

A little nervous and looking forward to it, the boy continued to read, and soon immersed himself in the story again,

It's just that the mood changes from time to time with the progress of the story, the muscles in the hands tense from time to time, and he squeezes the "Shadow Empire" in his hand.

……

The plot of "Shadow Empire" is still progressing.

The previous plot progressed to what happened to the associate professor 'Shao Xuan',
The perspective of the story shifts from Hu Yan to the real estate agent Xie Xian, and then from Xie Xian to 'Shao Xuan'.

Earlier, when Shao Xuan came back from the outside, he first heard a knock on the door from his own room.
Then in the house encountered that kind of horrible thing.

When sitting in the living room and squatting down, with complicated and fearful emotions, he wanted to reach out to the shadow on the ground and ask,
I heard the same question from behind trembling and frightened,

And there seemed to be something close to his neck.

That voice turned out to be such a fear.

At that moment, Shao Xuan suspected that he was the damned shadow in a trance.

Another self is looking at him in fear behind him, just like he is facing the shadow in front of him in fear at the moment.

However, Shao Xuan soon came back to his senses, and then turned his head suddenly,
But behind him, as expected, there are only the dining table and stools in the living room, and there is a light and blurred shadow of him reflected on the wall because of the light coming from the direction of the kitchen.

Shao Xuan stared at the shadow that kept the same movement as himself, his tense spirit was already on the verge of collapse,
He was silent, opened his eyes, looked at the shadow, and paused his movements,

After a long time, Shao Xuan gasped violently,
Then he lay down directly on the floor of the living room, his eyes staring blankly at the ceiling,
Just mouth open, panting.

This recent horrible encounter, probably related to the shadow, really exhausted him physically and mentally, and tortured him both mentally and physically.

Every moment, the spirit has to be tense, and the grass and trees are like soldiers,
It is difficult to fall asleep at night, even if it is difficult to fall asleep because of sleepiness,

He was soon awakened by the nightmare again, and the first time he woke up, he looked at the shadow beside him.

During the day, it was also difficult to concentrate, and whenever I could see the shadow, I unconsciously glanced at the shadow under myself.

For this reason, he had to ask for leave from school,

But even if he asked for leave, he was nervous to be alone, and he stayed in crowded places like the school more often,
But in that crowded place, he still saw a scary and weird scene,
The person he was talking to suddenly seemed to have changed, and the people who were walking and passing by around him suddenly did some weird things.

At that moment, Shao Xuan knew that it was probably not that he himself was crazy, or that the whole world was crazy.

He would rather be crazy, but unfortunately, it is more like the whole world is crazy.

However, he has also reached the brink of collapse, and maybe anything will stimulate him,

His too tense spirit will be broken like a tight string.

"call……"

"call……"

After taking a few breaths, Shao Xuan stopped,
The same voice can be heard behind him.

Shao Xuan just paused, then got up from the collapsed ground with a blank expression,

With some numbness in his eyes, he walked into the bedroom.

Before, he tried to get rid of this weird thing by changing his residence,
But looking at it now, it was like a shadow under his feet, which he couldn't get rid of.

Back in the bedroom, with blank eyes,

Shao Xuan collapsed on the bed, unwilling to move any more.

"... dong dong."

At this time, there was a knock on the door of the house,

Shao Xuan turned his eyes to look, but it wasn't the sound outside the living room door,

It was the door of the empty bedroom, and the knock came from the inside or the outside of the bedroom.

Shao Xuan kept looking there blankly, until the sound of knocking on the door gradually disappeared.

……

"...Professor Shao, why did you come to the office here? Didn't you transfer to the director's office?"

"... Hey, I guess Professor Shao is not used to it yet."

Professor Shao, who had been on leave for several days, came to the office where he was working again.
But when Shao Xuan stepped into the office, there were two teachers in the office looking at him in surprise and talking.

Shao Xuan paused,
He has been on vacation for several days, but he has not received any news about his position or office changes,
"The director has praised Professor Shao a lot in the past two days. Professor Shao is about to become a full professor."

"Professor Shao remember to treat you then."

The two teachers were still talking, Shao Xuan was silent, and had already turned around and walked to another office.

Seeing Shao Xuan leave just like that, the two teachers were a little puzzled,

"What's the matter, are you still ignoring people?"

"What did you say wrong? It was fine yesterday."

The two teachers looked at each other with some doubts.

Shao Xuan took his own things, remained silent, and walked numbly to the office where the head of the department was.

The director's office is not separate either. In addition to the director, there are several old professors.

When Shao Xuan walked into the office, several old professors were chatting, while the head of the department just stood beside him, packing his things with his head bowed.

"Professor Shao? Why are you here? What's the matter? I'm here to sell my leave, or I have to ask for two more days off."

The dean of the department looked haggard and tired. Seeing Shao Xuan, he asked with some doubts.

It seems that he didn't know that what Shao Xuan knew from the two teachers earlier,
"...Director, you asked me to work in the office here."

Shao Xuan was silent for a while, and said aloud.

"That's right...Old Qian, you called someone over yesterday, you have lost your memory here."

Several old professors beside him were also helping Shao Xuan to speak.

There was a change in the director's expression visible to the naked eye, he paused, lowered his head a little to cover his eyes,

"Really... Ha, I'm getting old, I really have a bad memory..."

"Professor Shao, just sit...sit there..."

The director raised his head again, looked around the office, and saw that there happened to be an empty seat in the office,

On the empty space, some Shao Xuan's things have already been placed,

And Shao Xuan listened to the director's words and watched the director's reaction, and his somewhat numb eyes stayed on the director for a while.

Shao Xuan didn't know this happened,

The director didn't seem to know either, but he didn't refute.

But the professors and teachers around seemed to know about it.

So how did this thing happen.

Shao Xuan sat down in his seat silently.

On the desk, there are many books by Shao Xuan.

He reached out and picked up the one closest to the outside,
Reaching out to turn it over, it turned to the place where a page was folded,

Looking at the place where the pages of the book were folded, Shao Xuan paused for a while,
Then silently unfold the folded pages and flatten them again.

After searching around, I found the bookmark, and clipped the bookmark to the previous page.

Although he folded everything he saw to save trouble, Shao Xuan is a person who cherishes books.

Bookmarks have always been put inside, and he hasn't seen this place yet.

"...You guys go ahead, Professor Shao, you can just take care of your own affairs first, I'll go out here for a while..."

At this time, the director walked out in a hurry.

The other professors in the office were still a little puzzled by this scene,

But after that, he continued to talk to himself, and from time to time, he also said a few words to Shao Xuan.

Most of the time, Shao Xuan just responded with an 'um', looking outside the office door,
Can't stop thinking about something.

If the director also encountered a similar thing.

If the world is really crazy,
That seemed crazier... not just the shadow doing something,
Between shadows, there is still their own communication and their own behavior.

Like at this moment, the professors in the office are talking about something,

Perhaps the shadows are also communicating with each other behind the person.

Shao Xuan couldn't help turning his head to look at the wall again,

On the wall next to me, the shadow of the lamp in the office is reflected,

Shadow moved the same as him.

"...Professor Shao, you should be a full professor soon. I heard that the letter of appointment from the college is coming soon."

"Um……"

A professor spoke to Shao Xuan, but Shao Xuan just responded,

Then turned his head and asked another thing,
"Professor Qian...did I come to school yesterday?"

"what?"

Professor Qian was taken aback by Shao Xuan's question,
"Professor Shao, weren't you here the whole time yesterday?"

Shao Xuan was silent.

Yesterday, he tried to find a house to move away from his original residence, although he finally gave up,
But it can be said that he was seen on the road, in the real estate agency, and even in the community, but he should not appear in the school.

"Are you okay? Professor Shao?"

"It's okay, maybe I fell asleep last night."

Shao Xuan just answered Professor Qian's doubts in this way.

Turning back again, just waiting for him to turn back to look at the wall beside him,
The original shadow is gone.

But the lights in the office were still on.

……

"Dong dong..."

"what!"

The boy who is immersed in the story, and his emotions are also substituted into it,

Hearing the sudden knock on the door, the whole person trembled, and the book in his hand was really almost thrown out this time.

And the boy's father also suddenly sat up from the row of stools he was leaning against, gasping for breath as if he had woken up with a start.

"What are you two doing here? You don't go back until midnight."

It was the boy's mother who came,
The woman reached out and knocked on the open door next to the noodle shop, walked in,
"One is sleeping on a stool, and the other is holding a book and reading on the dining table here."

"Is it because the bed in the room is not comfortable to sleep in, or the lights in the room are not bright enough."

The woman said angrily,

"I said, I waited in the house and waited for you two to come back, so I fell asleep here."

"Mom... Huh... You almost scared me to death."

Seeing that it was his mother, the boy was relieved,
The owner of the noodle shop who sat up from the stool also breathed a sigh of relief, stretched out his hands and rubbed his face,

"It's scary enough."

"How did I scare you?"

The woman was still a little annoyed and glanced at the father and two who hadn't been home these two nights.

"I'm not concentrating on reading the novel. The content of the novel is very tense. Suddenly there is a sound... It scared me to death, Mom..."

"What about you?"

"Me? I had a nightmare. I dreamed that I suddenly couldn't find my shadow. I was looking for it all over the world. It was scary."

"Lying here now, I can't sleep well. Can I not have nightmares? Pack it up quickly, show me the book, you two go pack up your things, and go back to me quickly."

"It's time to sleep, it's time to wash up."

The woman spoke, and took the "Empire of Shadows" in the boy's hand.

"Oh……"

The boy was taken aback, and now he honestly packed up his things,
The owner of the noodle shop also got up from the stool and walked to the back kitchen.

After looking at the two of them, the woman found another stool next to her and sat down.

I also opened "Empire of Shadows" and took a look,
Then I couldn't look away any more,

The whole body is also like the boy before, tensing up from time to time,

But still looking forward to it, flipping through the next page.

"Mom Let's go, everything is packed."

The boy followed his father to pack up his things,

The father and two came out from the back kitchen, and the boy picked up his homework bag and called his mother again.

"...What's the noise, let me watch it for a while..."

"..."

(End of this chapter)