I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse
Chapter 396 Mirror_1

Chapter 396: Chapter 396 Mirror_1

As soon as these words were uttered, Xian Qianling deflated on the spot.

In fact, compared with Zhao’er and Wu Qiyi, Xian Qianling was the one with the least advantage.

On one hand, her relationship with you was not as profound as theirs, and on the other hand, there were the elders to consider.

Everyone knew that the most important relative to you was your mother, and whether a daughter-in-law could enter the family or not also hinged crucially on passing that hurdle posed by your mother.

Both Zhao’er and Wu Qiyi had no issues in that regard, whereas Xian Qianling hadn’t yet met your mother, let alone won her approval.

After a moment of silence, Xian Qianling finally gathered her courage, looked up and said to you, "When is aunt coming back? When she does, I’ll go with you to pick her up, okay?"

"Big sister, elder sister, please can you stop making trouble? There aren’t many days left until New Year’s, just let me have a peaceful and good year," you almost bowed deeply in thanks to Xian Qianling when you heard she wanted to meet your mother.

Xian Qianling’s eyes suddenly flickered, and she smiled charmingly, "Fine, I won’t cause trouble, but since I’m already here, you can’t rush to send me away, right?"

You covered your head with a look of constipation, "Alright, have it your way."

Xian Qianling raised her eyebrows in a smile, displaying a self-satisfied demeanor.

Meanwhile, Su Xiaomeng took the bus back to the apartment she was renting.

"Oh, Xiaomeng, why didn’t you go to work today?"

Grandma Wang, who lived on the first floor and was cradling her grandson, greeted her with a benevolent smile.

Su Xiaomeng smiled back, "I felt a bit unwell today, so I took a leave and came back."

"Oh, then you must take good care of yourself. It’s not easy for a girl to be out and about on her own, you have to be extra cautious with everything, especially your health – you can’t overwork yourself to illness."

"Yes, thank you, Grandma Wang, I understand."

She turned and went upstairs. Passing the second floor, she glanced at the glass mounted on the wall.

Gazing at her reflection in the glass, Su Xiaomeng sighed softly.

Her younger brother was due to take the college entrance exam the following year, while her younger sister was in her first year of high school; the meager income her parents earned from farming could hardly cover the tuition and living expenses, much of which depended on the three thousand yuan Su Xiaomeng sent home.

Three months prior, her father had injured his back while working on the farm and had to lie in bed for several months to recuperate, essentially depriving the household of its main breadwinner. Additionally, there were the increasing medical expenses each month.

To cover the cost of treating her father’s back, her mother had borrowed tens of thousands from relatives and friends.

Su Xiaomeng was counting on the nearly twenty thousand yuan end-of-year bonus to pay off some of the debt. But now that the bonus had gone up in smoke and she had to find a new job at the beginning of the next year, the already unstable Su Xiaomeng became increasingly agitated.

She opened the door to her room, walked in, and slammed her bag down on the bed. She entered the bathroom, turned on the faucet, and continuously splashed the ice-cold, bone-chilling water onto her face.

"Why has it come to this?"

Su Xiaomeng, with her face dripping wet, stared powerlessly at her reflection in the mirror.

"What should I do? What should I do now?"

Su Xiaomeng rested her forehead against the mirror, her face etched with distress.

At that moment, the mirror again produced ripples, and two long, sharp-nailed, skeletal hands slowly reached out, wrapping around Su Xiaomeng’s head.

Just as the gaunt hands were about to clasp Su Xiaomeng’s head, she suddenly looked up: "No, I can’t continue to waste away like this, no matter how..."

As Su Xiaomeng talked to herself, she suddenly noticed the hands extending from the mirror and immediately "swooshed" back two steps, evading the embrace of the skeletal hands!

"What, what is this thing!?"

The two gaunt hands slowly retracted back into the mirror, and the ripples in the mirror gradually subsided, revealing Su Xiaomeng’s reflection once again.

"Ah!"

Su Xiaomeng staggered back in horror, for the reflection in the mirror was actually smiling at her, a smile extremely sinister and malevolent!

Soon after, the "Su Xiaomeng" in the mirror stretched out her hand towards her, and the once normal hand became skeletal under her gaze, with sharp, knife-like red nails growing on the fingers!

The "Su Xiaomeng" in the mirror beckoned at Su Xiaomeng with a smile.

Without a word, Su Xiaomeng immediately dashed out of the bathroom, grabbed her bag from the bed, and fled from the house.

As she descended the stairs, Su Xiaomeng passed by a wall mirror, and she deliberately glanced at it, only to see her reflection also greeting her with sharp-nailed, skeletal hands!

"How can this be, what is this thing!"

Su Xiaomeng hurried down the stairs and ran into the sunlight.

Although the winter sunlight was not glaring, it still brought a bit of warmth to Su Xiaomeng’s chilled heart.

Su Xiaomeng, clutching her head, mumbled to herself: "This must be a hallucination, right? There are no ghosts in this world."

With this thought, Su Xiaomeng went up the stairs again, and in the second-floor mirror, she saw nothing unusual, the same was true when she returned to her rented room.

She let out a long sigh of relief, and at that moment her phone rang.

She picked it up and saw that it was her only good friend in this city, Little Lan: "Xiaomeng, my cousin has opened a high-end ladies’ clothing store. The year-end is coming, and she’s really busy. One of her employees just left due to some personal matters, and they are short one person. You have such great figure and appearance; you’d be perfect for the job. Plus, I’ve talked to her, you’d be paid by the hour, fifty yuan per hour. If you exceed the sales target, there’s a commission too."

"Really!?"

Su Xiaomeng, overjoyed, immediately agreed.

Half an hour later, Su Xiaomeng met a girl who had dressed herself in pretty pinks at the entrance of the Yuhang Building mall.

The two held hands and went up to the fifth floor, entering a high-end women’s clothing store.

Cousin Lan was very pleased with Su Xiaomeng’s appearance; after all, during her college years, Su Xiaomeng was one of the top ten beauties at Zhijiang Academy. Back then, many rich and handsome men pursued her, but she had no interest in these silver-spoon brats with hearts full of gold-plated excrement, so she had been single over the years.

The two quickly signed a simple contract, with Su Xiaomeng working there for a month and a half, earning sixty yuan per hour, and an extra two percent commission on any daily sales over one hundred thousand.

Upon hearing about the two percent commission, Su Xiaomeng was ecstatic as none of the dresses here was priced under six thousand!

Su Xiaomeng quickly followed Cousin Lan’s instructions, entered the fitting room, and put on a twenty thousand yuan suit to serve as a live mannequin, in order to more effectively attract the rich ladies and young heiresses.

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