A Good-for-Nothing

3. Entering a Dream?

Translator: DragonRider

As Qiao Peiyu exited the room, He Zheng subconsciously tried to hide himself only to find that Qiao Peiyu mysteriously kept walking forward, as if she didn’t see him.

He Zheng was briefly stunned, standing on the spot. Unaware of exactly what was going on, he told himself that the spirit of his mother was helping him by letting him know the context of his engagement to Li Zong. He Zheng was relieved in the knowledge that Qiao Peiyu was unable to see him.

A man unafraid to take risks, he boldly followed in the wake of Qiao Peiyu with an intention to find out exactly what tricks she was going to play.

Along a corridor both sides of which were well-spaced flowers and trees, Qiao Peiyu walked directly to the backyard in a very cautious manner, occasionally looking around to see if anybody was stalking her.

He Zheng just swaggeringly followed Qiao Peiyu like this. After progressing a certain distance, Qiao Peiyu stopped in front of an old tree. He Zheng also stopped a few steps away from her.

This was the backyard of He family, where hardly anybody would come at ordinary times. Judging from the look on Qiao Peiyu’s face, she was going to do something. He Zheng quietly waited for a while and then saw that Qiao Peiyu produced a shovel from somewhere and started digging under the old tree.

He Zheng furrowed his brow, wondering why Qiao Peiyu was doing this.

After a while, Qiao Peiyu dug a small hole in the ground. She didn’t stop but kept digging.

He Zheng took a step forward and looked into the hole that Qiao was digging. His eyes gradually widened as a grayish white thing emerged from dirt. ‘Tha–That is…’

Qiao Peiyu lowered her head and, as if having just discovered some kind of treasure, rapidly crouched down, tossed the shovel aside and began digging with her hands.

He Zheng watched Qiao Peiyu’s crazy behavior, feeling a faint chill down his spine. He couldn’t help but draw a step back, so that he could get a better view of Qiao Peiyu’s every move.

He Zheng’s breathing had become somewhat heavy. The item that Qiao Peiyu was trying to dig up with her hands had come into full view of He Zheng. It was an ulna. Given the length of it, it was probably not some animal ulna but a human ulna…

Seeing that Qiao Peiyu mysteriously looked around, He Zheng swallowed hard in nervousness. He saw Qiao Peiyu carefully wipe the dirt off the bone and then put the clean bone into her mouth…

He Zheng abruptly dilated his eyes and couldn’t help but draw back. Though aware that his stepmother was no good person, he had no idea that she was a psychopath! He had no problem crossing normal people, but who would mess with a psychopath!

“Who’s there!” Qiao Peiyu, who was chewing on the bone, seemed to have heard something, an eerie paleness on her good-looking face. He Zheng held his breath and stood still on the spot, too afraid to move. Qiao Peiyu happened to twist her head back and looked in his direction. He Zheng felt as if his heart stopped beating in this instant.

Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, this young master had never seen anything of this kind before. His palms were wet with cold sweat, his mind in a total mess.

Qiao Peiyu, who was facing him with a length of ulna between her teeth, gave a weird smile. Her mouth stretched sideways so dramatically that the corners of it almost touched her ears, which was definitely not something that a human was capable of doing.

The hair on the back of He Zheng’s neck rose as Qiao Peiyu grinned hideously while chewing at the bone, her voice reverberating around his ears. “It’s you, He Zheng. You found out about my secret…”