Chapter 1 - A Frightening Dream

"Yama is getting married. The living are forbidden to see, hundreds of ghosts dodge--!" Suddenly there was a strange sound like opera, a wooden door rattled open.

I clutched the covers tightly, but my body was so stiff I couldn't move, and a heavy sleep swept over my mind. My throat is very uncomfortable. I wanted to open my mouth to speak, but my lips were covered with cold softness!

The wet tip of the tongue touched my lips, biting my lips bit by bit. I couldn't help but open my lips slightly, but I was entangled by the tongue that suddenly slipped in, and the feeling of my lips and teeth intertwined. My hand went up to his shoulder, and my body went limp against his chest like a pool of water.

The white "wedding dress" on my body was gently lifted, with a pair of big hands walking around my waist, gently lying on my ear, biting my earlobe, and continuing to the inside of my neck. With a sigh, his body was cold, but greatly enjoyed the soft touch.

Her skirt was pushed against my chest, and it felt like something was approaching. This feeling is strange. My two slender thighs were opened slowly, I was anxiously trying to open my eyes to see her face clearly, but it was covered by a cloth, a deep and alluring voice sounded in my ear: "I will slow down a bit."

That hand seemed to have magical power, and wherever I went, my whole body became sensitive, and some uncomfortable groans escaped my mouth: "Ugh~ um~~~"

This feeling of emptiness makes me want to subconsciously capture it, and it is very uncomfortable. Suddenly a tearing pain came from below, and I suddenly woke up.

...

I turned on the light in the room with my bare feet, confirmed that it was just a dream, and then felt relieved. However, weakly leaning against the wall and sitting on the ground, that dream was not a dream, but a real thing that happened when I was fourteen years old.

My name is Alice Fan, I am eighteen years old.

Outsiders don't know our family secret. Every time a girl is born in our family, the mood of the whole family is definitely heavy, without the slightest joy, only because of the human-ghost pact many years ago, our generation of women had to marry. become a 'magical being'. The so-called supernatural beings are not human at all. They are said to be supernatural beings from the underworld.

I remember when I was a child, my grandparents and I lived in a remote mountain village. The people there call the village Du. I don't know what that means, I only know that people there believe that ghosts and gods exist. There are many Taoist monks and priests, the myth in the village is so alive and well that even monks or Taoist priests are invited to perform marriages.

When I was very young, I saw my little aunt being forced to wear a white wedding robe at night. True, it was white, like the white wedding dress I wore years later. Because he is not an ordinary person, he doesn't wear red, but must be white. The makeup on her face wasn't pretty, but the strange one looked very flowing, and her face was eerily white with powder.

He is tied to a new home. The new house was not like a new house, but like a funeral hall. There were white cloths everywhere, and even the word "Happy" was cut out of the white paper. That night passed, and my aunt never opened her eyes again. When his body was taken out, his body was covered in bruises, especially his lower body, which was extremely horrifying...

The people in our family have very little contact with the people in the village, just to prevent this secret that has been passed down for generations from being discovered by outsiders. Granny said that once a 'magical being' got angry, no one could bear the consequences.

After all these years, I vaguely remember the tears that streamed down Grandma's wrinkled face when my aunt's body was carried out of the room. That look of helplessness surfaced again when I was fourteen...

Along with my aunt's body being buried, there was a token sent to her by a 'magical being' before marriage, I heard from grandma that the token is different each time because she didn't marry the same person. Every time a woman in our family approached the age of fourteen, the token would just appear. At that time, the entire family's nerves would tense up and start preparing to get married. Because of that, I still remember that token.

The token I received was an emerald green ring with a faint glow, and what I received was a white jade pendant with a dragon pattern on it. I clearly remember I didn't take that jade pendant out of the hut.

I'm the only one who's been able to survive until now after marrying a 'supernatural being'. In the past, the women in our family lived for less than half a year after marrying a 'supernatural being', most of whom died on their wedding night. After that nightmare, my parents brought me to my current city life, only to get rid of the village nightmares of the past. For four years, I thought I could forget, I could live like a normal person, forget that I married a 'supernatural being'… But recently I had a dream about that night, for half a month, it seemed to drive me crazy!

Everything in the dream just now was so real, as if it was happening again and again, the cold touch, and the heart-piercing pain...

The door to the room was knocked, and I was so shocked that my whole body jumped, the sudden knock on the door almost scared me to death. Mom's worried voice sounded: "Alice? Are you okay?"

Hearing my mother's voice, I felt relieved, and I was about to open the door, but saw the jade pendant I left in the village hut lying quietly on the floor in front of the door! I immediately screamed in fear: "Aahhh!!"

Mother opened the door and entered. Seeing that I was frightened, he looked at the ground in confusion. Upon seeing the jade pendant, his facial expression was stiff. After a while he said, "This jade... maybe I brought it here accidentally, it's okay, I'll take it, sleep. Don't believe what the crazy old lady said, there are no ghosts in this world."

The "crazy old woman" in my mother's mouth was my grandmother. What happened then was that people in the family kept walking behind my mother's back. He went to college and didn't believe in ghosts or gods, but everyone in our family did. After receiving the token, the seniors in the family tricked my mother. My dad knows about this. He probably knew the importance of this incident, so he chose to let it go.

Then my mother found me and took me out of the hut covered in white cloth. At that time I was shocked and scared, and my whole body was like an idiot, only stiff and dumbfounded.