The nanny muttered to herself non-stop as she put the dirty clothes she had taken from the bedroom into the laundry room. She lingered outside for quite some time, until the feeling of nausea had somewhat subsided, before reluctantly heading back.
At that moment, she was unaware of the horrifying scene waiting for her in Siqing’s bedroom.
The Guh Family Mansion was vast, with the frequently used laundry room on the first floor and Siqing’s bedroom on the second. To get back to the bedroom from the laundry room, the nanny had to walk down a long corridor, passing by the rooms and study of other members of the Guh family.
Humming a tune, she briskly walked past Guh Tian’s study, bedroom, Guh Siqi’s bedroom, and the eldest young miss, Guh Siyi’s bedroom.
At this point, the nanny didn’t know that a tail had already silently appeared behind her.
Her brisk steps gradually slowed as she paused at the door to Siqing’s bedroom. Recalling the scene inside the room, she rolled her eyes and took a deep breath before unlocking the door with her key.
The door creaked open, making a faint noise. The room was eerily silent. As the nanny stepped inside, she felt a bit unsettled.
On previous days, as soon as she entered, Siqing, skittish as a spooked bird, would always ask guardedly who it was. Why was it this time...
Feeling a vague sense of unease, the nanny gently closed the door behind her and made her way towards the inner chamber.
"Miss Siqing?..." she called out softly as she walked.
Gradually, as she drew closer to the inner chamber, a strange sound faintly reached her ears.
It was the sound of labored breathing, but not the heavy breathing of intimacy between a man and woman. This sound was as if a large lump of phlegm was stuck in the throat, causing difficulty breathing, as if muffled by a membrane.
The nanny’s frown deepened with the growing unease in her heart. She hesitated for a second, then placed her hand on the inner chamber’s doorknob and gently turned it.
The door opened with a response.
The sight inside the room made the just-raised head of the nanny bulge her eyes in disbelief.
Her face turned deathly pale in an instant. She staggered backward, tripping over her own feet and crashing heavily onto the floor.
"Th-th-this..." The nanny’s blood-drained lips trembled uncontrollably, her teeth chattering without being able to utter a word.
In front of her, something wearing a strappy nightdress moved towards her step by step.
Right, this could no longer be called a person, but a thing.
The upper half of this thing was completely rotten. One could vaguely make out her former appearance, but the arms, neck, and exposed chest of the upper body were completely decomposed, flesh putrefied, and blood dripping everywhere.
If that were all, the nanny wouldn’t have been shaking like a leaf. The most unbearable thing was that this thing had torn a piece of rotting flesh from its upper body and was savoring it in its mouth, making a bellows-like wheezing sound from its throat.
Watching the thing consume the putrid flesh while slowly advancing step by step, the nanny couldn’t bear it any longer and started to flee, rolling and crawling towards the exit.
"Help! Help! Monster! Monster!"
As she ran out, she screamed hysterically. Even though the bedroom was soundproof, the person secretly standing outside the door still heard the nanny’s screams, panicked to the point of cracking!