Midnight Bookstore

Translated by XephiZ

Edited by Aelryinth

The scariest thing was when everything suddenly became still.

Zhou Ze smacked his lips. Doctor Lin lowered her head too. She seemed a little relieved.

One was cheating mentally, while the other was ‘cheating physically’.

If only a person did the wrong thing, he or she would feel guilty.

If both had done the wrong thing, it was gender equality.

Zhou Ze burst out laughing freely.

It turned out that his current wife was the one that had bought his house after he passed away!

Doctor Lin had money; she could easily buy a second-hand house belonging to someone who had passed away in Tongcheng. Besides, only she would clean the house regularly, without wanting to change the furnishings inside.

Was he touched?

He sure was!

Zhou Ze was still himself. Even though he had claimed Xu Le’s body, he was still seeing things from his own perspective.

Xu Le had already passed away. It did not matter if he had twisted relationships or he was lacking dignity, Zhou Ze could not care less about him.

It was similar to a family gathering together for dinner during the Chinese New Year, but someone suddenly took out their phone and showed the others how the poor kids in Africa were extremely skinny because they were starving. Would the others still have the appetite to enjoy dinner?

How could a man not feel proud or touched knowing a woman was still remembering him, like she was obsessed with him?

“Find my clothes and change into them for now,” Zhou Ze pointed at Bai Yingying.

The gyonshi nodded. She did not dare to add more fuel to the fire like last time just because she was thinking of having some fun. She obediently went into Zhou Ze’s bedroom, put on his clothes, and came back out.

Doctor Lin stood there quietly.

She seemed like she had been set free and relieved. However, Zhou Ze did not let her retain her feelings. He walked up and grabbed Doctor Lin’s hand. He said in a serious voice, “I have something to tell you. Come with me.”

Zhou Ze forcibly dragged Doctor Lin’s hand and went out of the door. They went into the lift. Bai Yingying followed behind them quietly. She knew anything she said now would only make the situation worse.

She could not help but think about how coincidental it all was.

After leaving the building, Zhou Ze approached Doctor Lin’s Cayenne and reached his hand out, prompting Doctor Lin to hand over the car key.

Zhou Ze had decided to reveal his identity to her. He did not care whether she could accept it, or if she was just like Lord Ye, who professed to love dragons.

{TL Note: Lord Ye is from an ancient fable. The man claimed to be fond of dragons, but he was scared out of his wits when a real one appeared.}

Either way, Zhou Ze wanted to tell her the truth. He did not want to conceal his identity any further since things had changed. He was once an ‘illegal immigrant’, but that was already in the past.

He had no reason to mistreat himself.

“You don’t have a driving license,” Doctor Lin reminded.

“Give me the key,” Zhou Ze insisted.

He was planning to bring her to the hospital, to the operation room he was familiar with. He wanted to reveal his true identity to her in a practical way.

If he was trying to convince her with words only, she might assume her pitiful husband was suffering from mythomania.

Doctor Lin gave Zhou Ze the key. The three got in the car.

Zhou Ze sat in the driver’s seat while Doctor Lin sat in the passenger seat in front. Bai Yingying obediently sat in the backseat.

Zhou Ze started the engine and started reversing. He seemed extremely familiar with driving a car.

That idiot Xu Le did not have a driving license, but he was an experienced driver-

The car shuddered after a piercing screech.

Zhou Ze fell silent. The two women in the car were quiet too.

The Cayenne had knocked an electric pole by the road and scratched its side.

It felt like a diligent crow just happened to fly past in the night sky and caw at him…

There was an awkward silence between the three again.

Zhou Ze unfastened the seat belt and said, “You drive.”

“To the hospital?” Doctor Lin asked after switching seats.

“Yes, to the hospital,” Zhou Ze rubbed his forehead on the passenger seat while knocking his head softly on the window.

It had been so long since he drove a car, and he now had a different body too. He was simply too rusty at driving.

However, it did not matter what excuses he had, it was still extremely embarrassing…

——

The car soon reached the highway.

It was extremely quiet in the car. Doctor Lin did not say a word. She had no idea why Zhou Ze wanted to go to the hospital, but she did not ask, either.

The husband-and-wife-relationship between them was full of holes.

Bai Yingying observed the scenery outside the window from the backseat. She had not had the chance to come out for a long time. Even though Madam Bai would talk to her almost every day, she never had the chance to visit the outside world herself.

However, she was well aware that it was not the best time for her to talk.

Zhou Ze suddenly straightened up and said, “Is that car going the wrong way?”

The lanes on the other side of the barrier were heading in the opposite direction to theirs, but a white sedan was heading in the same direction…

The car was heading in the wrong direction!

A coach was coming in the opposite direction. Its headlamps were extremely bright.

The sharp screech of emergency brakes followed.

Zhou Ze subconsciously closed his eyes and wrapped his hands around his head. The coach was on the other side of the concrete barrier, so it was unlikely that the coach would hit him. However, his subconscious was treating it as the scariest thing he could remember.

It was similar to the heavy truck ramming into his car after he left work. It forced him to remember the scariest thing he was unwilling to recall.

BANG!

There was a huge crash. Doctor Lin immediately stopped the car.

The coach had crashed into the white sedan driving in the opposite direction. The sedan was thrown into the concrete barrier before the coach rammed into the sedan again. It was mangled beyond recognition.

Doctor Lin put on the double signals and quickly left the car. She was slightly disappointed when she saw her husband curling up and trembling in fear in the passenger’s seat. She opened the boot and placed the warning sign behind the car. She then climbed over the barrier to the other side.

She was a doctor. She had an obligation to lend a hand if she happened to be around an accident. The aid of a professional would significantly increase the chances of survival of the victims.

“Boss?” Bai Yingying yelled.

Zhou Ze lowered his hands and looked at his surroundings in confusion. He saw the crash on the other side of the highway. Doctor Lin was already on her way.

“Come with me, we’re going to save them.”

Zhou Ze got out of the car. His legs were still trembling.

It was a subconscious attempt to protect himself when he was reminded of the trauma. He was feeling extremely weak.

Zhou Ze took a deep breath and did not hesitate further. He jumped over the barrier and ran toward the crash.

Bai Yingying followed too.

The driver of the coach had blood on his face. He must have hit his head on the steering wheel or somewhere else. Three other people got out of the coach. They had to be passengers. The coach was surprisingly empty.

The driver of the coach held the wound on his forehead and cursed, “Are you out of your mind, driving in the wrong direction on a highway? You can’t put other people’s lives in danger, even if you are trying to kill yourself!”

Anyone would be infuriated if they found themselves in the same situation.

“Stop yelling, save them first!” Doctor Lin snapped at the driver.

They could discuss responsibilities after. Their first priority was to rescue the people in the sedan.

“Hey, are you awake still? Can you hear me?” Doctor Lin yelled at the people inside the car that was bent out of shape.

There was no response.

The driver was still murmuring under his breath, but he did try to lend a hand. They happened to on a remote part of the highway, so there were barely any vehicles. Some did pass by, but they did not stop in curiosity. They simply drove on by.

“Pry open the door!” Zhou Ze suggested.

“How are we going to do that without the right equipment?” Doctor Lin was a little agitated, especially at how her inexperienced husband was trying to give confusing orders.

There were two people in the car, a woman and a child. Both were in extremely bad condition. They were covered in blood and not responding to her calls.

The door had caved in from the impact. It was stuck. They had to wait until a fire truck came to pry it open.

Zhou Ze went up and grabbed the door. Bai Yingying came over too. She was a gyonshi, so her strength was remarkable. She pulled together with Zhou Ze.

The door fell off with a crack. Bai Yingying pushed the car seat down, as it was in the way.

Doctor Lin was startled, and the driver and the passengers of the coach were stunned too.

They must be lucky, and the door was only stuck a little…

Zhou Ze bent forward. He used a hand to cover the woman’s neck and held her legs with another hand. He cautiously moved the woman out of the car. He then moved the boy out too.

Doctor Lin inspected the woman’s condition with a stern face. She checked the boy’s condition when he was dragged out of the car. Her expression fell immediately.

Dead, they were both dead!

“They are dead?” the driver of the coach blurted out in disbelief. His expression twisted too. He was surely having bad luck. “These assholes, why does it have to be me? I’m screwed!”

“Call the cops and 120,” Doctor Lin yelled at the driver. She had left her phone in the car.

{TL Note: 120 is the emergency number in China.}

The driver was furious, but he still took out his phone and dialed the number.

Zhou Ze flipped the bodies of the woman and the boy over. Doctor Lin was quite confused when she saw that.

“I took a close look at them when I was moving them out. Most of their injuries seem to have been caused by the crash, but they both had a similarity. The back of their heads has caved in from a strong blow. I believe it’s the fatal wound.”

“What do you mean?” Doctor Lin immediately went closer to inspect the wound. She soon realized, “They were already dead before the crash!”

It was almost impossible that both the woman and the child would have this fatal wound in the same spot from a crash.

“They were already dead. The culprit put them in the car and sent the car in the opposite direction.” Zhou Ze looked at Doctor Lin and said with a faint smile, “The culprit was trying to disguise it as an accident with the crash.”

Zhou Ze turned around and looked at the driver that was calling the cops. The passengers who were initially standing still were slowly surrounding them…

The driver looked at Zhou Ze with a complicated grin as he spoke into the phone, “Boss, we have a problem. We bumped into a few busybodies.”