My House of Horrors Chapter 205 - She Is My Sister

Chapter 205: She Is My Sister

Translator: Lonelytree Editor: Millman97

“Quickly close the door.” The woman quickly rushed into the room as if she knew how scary she looked.

“Okay.” Chen Ge did not close the door completely but left a small sliver open. Before he got deeper into the house, he was already considering his exit options. Chen Ge stood in the middle of the living room and looked around. The woman sat on the bedside and pulled over a thin blanket to cover her body. “Don’t mind the ss, just sit anywhere you want.”

The place could not be considered ssy, but it was littered with many pill bottles. Chen Ge picked up a random one, and it was labelled with terms that he could barely understand.

“Don’t touch my stuff,” the woman urged. She looked at Chen Ge with eyes filled with uncertainty. “What is inside your backpack? It doesn’t seem like you’re here to buy any real estate.”

“The bag might be old, but all my life savings are inside it.” Chen Ge gave a random excuse. “Your apartnt’s location is nice, but can you nudge the price further?”

“The apartnt is huge. If not for the fact that I’m in need of money, I wouldn’t be selling the place.” The woman’s skin was unnaturally white, and it was weirding Chen Ge out.

“If you don’t mind asking, what kind of illness are you suffering from that you need to sell your ho to make money?” Chen Ge was not there to buy the apartnt; he was there to find out more information.

“Cancer.” The woman pointed at his face. “Long term chemotherapy makes lose all my hair and brows.”

“I’m sorry.” Because that was the logical thing to say.

“Now, I just want to live as many days as I can. There’s nothing else that I can ask for.” The woman was selling her ho to extend her life. It sounded logical on the surface, but upon closer inspection, the story was flawed.

“Let’s talk about the price.” The woman had taken a huge step back. The price she had given was thirty percent lower than the market price for a similar apartnt. “If you agree, we can sign the docunts tomorrow.”

“It’s not that I want to take advantage to of you, but the price is still quite high.” Chen Ge pretended to be a shrewd hobuyer.

“A price like this is still high?”

“I pity your condition, but before I ca here, I asked around. The place that you’re selling was haunted several years ago, and that is why it hasn’t been sold until now.” Chen Ge patted his backpack. “I admit that I have a bigger heart than most, but honestly, I don’t have that much capital, and that’s why I’m reaching out to you.”

The woman knew her tail was caught, so she asked, “Then how much you’re preparing to pay?”

“One-tenth the market price, I only have that much.”

“One-tenth‽” The woman scoffed. “And you said you’re not trying to take advantage of ?”

“After all, the place is haunted. If not for the lack of money, I wouldn’t buy a haunted apartnt.” Chen Ge had completely morphed into his character. Hesitation appeared in his eyes like he found pity for the woman’s condition. “How about we both take a step back? I know you’re selling this house to pay your dical bill, so I can borrow so loan from family and friends, but your asking price is still too high.”

Perhaps the woman was feeling the pressure since the place had been vacated for a long ti. She was silent before saying, “One-tenth is too low. My bottom line is half the market price. If you want, I can have the lawyer draft up the docunt tomorrow. If you don’t want it, then leave.”

“Half...” Chen Ge lowered his head like he was contemplating.

“Don’t listen to those rumors. None of the tenants have been injured before, so how could there be a haunting?” The woman lay down on the bed. She noticed that Chen Ge’s stance was loosening, so she started to persuade Chen Ge.

“Don’t try to lie to . Your security guard told that he personally saw a white shadow enter your ho several years ago, and his story was corroborated by the police. You weren’t ho that night, so you might not know these things.” Chen Ge followed the woman’s thread of conversation, picking for information that he wanted to know.

“How can I not know about things at my own ho?” The woman sighed. There was a conflict in her eyes. “Actually, I did not want to tell you in case it scared you, but that white shadow wasn’t a ghost.”

“Not a ghost?” Chen Ge’s heart rose. Things might advance further than he thought.

“Yes, the white shadow is my sister. She was a ntal patient who was just taken out from the ntal hospital.” The woman’s face scrunched up in pain, and she coughed violently for several minutes. “My sister did sothing wrong when she was small, and her illness was discovered then. After that, she was sent to the ntal hospital and only ca out four or five years ago.”

“Sothing wrong? Was it anything serious?” The woman’s sister matched the description of Patient No. 2, so Chen Ge paid closer attention.

“It was very serious, and it ruined her life.” The woman sighed for her sister. “My sister’s condition is very unique. She was a patient that needed to be quarantined because she could pose a danger to the public. If she was discovered by the police, they might have pulled her away from and locked her up in another ntal hospital.”

“So, you have harboring her inside your ho?”

“After ten years of treatnt, her condition has gotten a lot better.” There was a shift in the woman’s tone like she had faith in what she said. “How many decades are there in a person’s life? She has suffered too much in her early life, and it’s only fair that she has the chance to enjoy a normal life now.”

Chen Ge felt like there was sothing wrong with the woman’s words. “So, you hid your sister inside your own ho, but you didn’t expect that she would go out to haunt other tenants? That was the truth behind the haunting?”

“Yes, the haunting was rely their imagination.”

“Then, what happened to your sister? You’re so sick now; shouldn’t she co take care of you?”

“I also have no idea where she has disappeared to. Since that night, I have not seen her again.” The woman appeared rather helpless. “She’s my only family, and occasionally, I return to Fang Hwa Apartnts, hoping to run into her.”

“I understand your pain. If no one cos to buy the place, can you please help reserve the place first? I’ll go ask for a loan tomorrow,” Chen Ge said sincerely, but what he did was to try to stabilize the woman first. He had sothing else that he needed to check desperately.

“Okay, then I’ll see you tomorrow.” The woman ended the conversation. She seed very tired already, leaning against the headboard.

“See you tomorrow.” He picked up his backpack and left.

When the door closed, the expression of the people inside and outside the door changed. Chen Ge stood where he was and inserted the few English terms that he rembered from the bottle label into his phone.

“It’s as I expected—this woman is very suspicious. The pills in her room have nothing to do with cancer treatnt. They’re mostly for wound recovery and anti-infection.”

Chen Ge called a taxi to rush to Fang Hwa Apartnts. Chen Ge called Inspector Lee on the way there and told him everything about Xin Kang Apartnts.