21. Even the ghost has a tale

Why was the expression so similar in a crazy way? Why was the feeling so similar also in a crazy way? And why does the sight crazily reminds her of herself also in some ways?

YiMing couldn't get answers to these questions if she didn't ask or try to find out. But she was quite reluctant to find out as well.

She stood there, Watching the ghost from her distance. The pathetic movement, the pathetic expression on her face was one to ache a heart who knew what it was. And YiMing knew.

The ghost finally stood and looked around as though she was looking for something. And then she had looked up, meeting YiMing's gaze.

Both eyes had locked for a while before YiMing quickly looked away and then began walking out of the gate.

The ghost quickly followed behind after recognizing who she was.

She had run out of the school and then stopped outside the gate looking around, but this ghost didn't seem to find YiMing anywhere. She had panicked for some time before she took off again moving around the place nearby in search of YiMing.

She looked up, down left, and right looking for YiMing but she didn't seem to find her anywhere.

"You must be looking for me"

The ghost heard someone say as she quickly looked to her right to see YiMing walking towards her.

The ghost stood there, watching as YiMing approached. The expression of pity was written on YiMing's face as she approached.

"You...You really can see me. I was right...You really can" The ghost said.

Standing at a distance from The ghost, she had sighed for a while before she said "Yes...I can see you..."

The ghost wanted to get all excited and happy after finding someone who could see and maybe help her. But then again, she seemed to have recalled something important.

"But...." The ghost hesitated, looking at her "You're a friend to that Grim reaper guy, right?"

YiMing hesitated" No.... we're not friends at all," She said " I'm just being punished to meet him"

"O You mean he's holding you captive?" The ghost asked "You know what, I don't like him...He never understands me, he always just wants to take my life away and send me to the Afterlife without first listening to me...."

The ghost's expression went down. Her voice had drifted into a sad tone "No one wants to listen to me...." She finally said.

YiMing looked at her pathetic expression as she sighed "Well that's why I'm here...." She smiled as the ghost looked up to meet her gaze "I'm here to listen to you...."

The ghost looked at YiMing with no precise expression. She had multiple feelings running through her. Perhaps a feeling of relief. She couldn't tell exactly but she was glad to have someone listen.

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"...We had promised to be together forever..."

The ghost had said as both ladies sat on a bench. "We had promised to love each other forever, time would never be an obstacle, no one would come between us as an obstacle, not even death...We had promised each other that."

YiMing sat there looking ahead at the birds who had flown down, walking about and feeding on the pieces of meals on the floor...

"He had given me all I wanted...He had promised to give me more...He had even promised me the moon...He would give his all. He said, And we would be happy toget her . We were ready to get the everlasting joy we deserved since we had fought all obstacles...Then..."

She hesitated, as though her voice had drifted off...

YiMing had observed it and then looked up at the ghost "Then what?" She asked gently.

"He was to leave for someplace, He said it was urgent business and didn't tell me the details. I didn't bother making inquires from him, nagging him, or suspecting him because I trusted him...and I wanted to trust him with all I have..."

"Then I supported him even after knowing his sudden leaving was suspicious, I knew... But I bade him farewell on his trip...Then...Then I waited" Tears slowly and steadily began rolling down her eyes...

YiMing looked at her, she was crying! YiMing didn't know what to do or say. She didn't know if it was okay to comfort her. Maybe it was odd. So perhaps the best option was to let her cry it out...

Maybe she'd feel better...

"I waited.." She continued "Waited and waited... Watching the sunset alone... watching the flowers bloom alone, watching the falling snowflakes winter alone from my window...I had indeed waited."

"Calling his lines, restless calling and sending him letters... But he didn't reply to any...Then I became frustrated"

"After waiting for him five years. I was losing my patients, I was worried and at the same time angry with him. why hadn't he called him, what could be wrong with him... Many ideas came into my head...And then I decided to look for him..."

"But as I drove to look for him...who would have imagined that my car had suddenly gotten involved in a fatal accident...and I....became like this..." The tears were still rolling out.

YiMing looked at her now. S Sheas even more pathetic than she imagined. Her story was indeed one that moved her. Truly YiMing was right when she said her eyes had sad tales to tell...

"And..." YiMing managed to say..." You are still looking for him?" She asked to get the sobbing Ghost to continue...

"My soul had gone everywhere looking for him...Searching everywhere I could... but there was no single Trace of him...It was like he never even existed. I couldn't trace His family or so...I ...I just couldn't find him...." She broke out into sobs...

YiMing watched her sob for a while as she slowly brought up her hand and patted her on the back. "It seems...Your heart couldn't let go of him.....and so your soul didn't either...."

She said watching her sob. After a moment of thinking in silence, a teardrop ran down her cheek.

"Let go of him..." She said.