The dim world stirred to life with the appearance of a white dress, which seed to radiate a faint luminescence.
Lu Li watched in silence as the figure erged, confined within the narrow fra that hung upon the wall. Her presence broke the quietude. With echoing footsteps, he approached the oil painting, which now seed illuminated by an unseen beam of light.
The girl in the white dress looked up at the sound of his approach, her gaze eting Lu Li's dark eyes.
A faint blush crept silently from her snow-white neck to her delicate features, clearly visible in the dim glow of the oil lamp.
No one could say why a ghost would blush, but it was just as Lu Li rembered seeing her before.
Lu Li extended his hand. The shy girl hesitated for a mont before her spectral, pale palm gently rested on his, allowing him to help her out of the fra.
She seed a little flustered. As she stepped forward, her feet, clad in a long, pleated lace dress, caught on the edge of the fra, and she stumbled.
The hand he had offered Anna shifted to an embrace around her waist, while his left hand moved behind her back, making the gesture resemble the start of a formal dance.
For a mont, Anna lingered in Lu Li's arms, lost in the starry depths of his eyes, but she quickly pulled away in a fluster.
"My apologies... Thank you."
Anna shyly averted her gaze, no longer daring to look at Lu Li. But soon, her girlish nature and the awkward silence compelled her to break it, asking with curiosity:
"Have we t before? You seem to... know ."
"This is our first ti eting."
"Are you a new employee?"
"I'm an exor—" He caught himself. "A friend of Benjamin's." Lu Li's voice sounded softer than usual.
"You certainly don't look like an employee..."
The image of Lu Li's handso face and dark eyes lingered in Anna's mind, but it was soon replaced by a more pressing concern.
"Did he leave you here? He's not a good person. This gallery is haunted by ghosts..."
Anna added hastily, despite being one of those very "ghosts."
Just then, a bone-chilling cold radiated from the oil painting, now an empty landscape.
"Have... you... seen... my child...?"
"She's coming, she's coming! We have to run!"
Terrified, Anna hid behind Lu Li, tugging at the hem of his coat and urging him to flee.
Lu Li rely tilted his head, his gaze calm as he watched the spectral shadow erge at the edge of the lamplight.
A long white dress, like a nightgown, was stained with blood. Sothing swollen and grotesque hung from beneath its hem, dragging behind her as she moved.
The child's body was likely upstairs, in the office.
"Why... haven't you... avenged... ...?"
Asina's line of questioning had suddenly shifted. Lu Li lowered his dark eyes and said nothing.
"Why... haven't you... avenged... ...?"
When Asina asked a second ti, her voice growing more vicious and tornted, Lu Li finally responded:
"He's already dead. He died in agony."
Having received her answer, Asina fell silent. Repeating "Have... you... seen... my child...?
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