One and a half years ago.

Summer vacation.

In the park where the cicada sounds were incessant, Chen Hao sat on a bench holding two rapidly melting ice creams, a look of impatient anger on his face.

"Lin Xiaofan, why do you always have to be late!" Chen Hao complained, looking up at the scorching sun.

At that moment, the melting ice cream trickled down the cone and onto the back of Chen Hao's hand. With no other choice, he had to eat the ice cream first; it was purchased with the money he'd saved up for three days, and it would pain his heart to waste it.

Not until Chen Hao had finished the two ice creams did the skinny figure of Lin Xiaofan appear before him,

"Hao Hao," Lin Xiaofan said with an embarrassed grin, looking at Chen Hao with eyes that curved into two rainbows. "I'm sorry, I'm late again. Please don't be mad, okay? You're the most generous and caring to me!"

"Lin Xiaofan!" Chen Hao glared, coming up to Lin Xiaofan with his fist raised and lightly tapped Lin Xiaofan's head with his hand. "It wasn't easy for me to save enough money to buy two ice creams. I wanted to share them with you!"

"Wuu wuu!" Lin Xiaofan pretended to sob pitifully. "Hao Hao, you're bullying me, you hit me, you don't love me anymore, and you even ate my ice cream!"

Chen Hao sighed in resignation and took Lin Xiaofan's hand. "Alright, stop feeling wronged. I'll buy you another one next time, and I'll give you mine too!"

"Really!" Lin Xiaofan smiled cutely.

"Haha!" Suddenly, Chen Hao laughed loudly, pointing at Lin Xiaofan's childish face. "Xiaofan, you've got a pimple!"

Lin Xiaofan, still with a cute smile, immediately frowned and glared. "Really? It's so annoying, Hao Hao, you dare to tease me!"

Thereafter, Lin Xiaofan took out a mirror from her bag and examined her face carefully.

Chen Hao moved close to Lin Xiaofan and pointed at the pimple that was emerging on her face in the mirror. "See? Xiaofan, what now, you're not pretty anymore?"

To Chen Hao's surprise, Lin Xiaofan remained unresponsive for a long time, her gaze horrified as she looked at the mirror. If it had been any other time, if he had said she was getting ugly, she would have pounced on Chen Hao like a cat and lightly scratched his cheek with her nails, their usual way of playful banter.

"Xiaofan, what's wrong?" Chen Hao asked anxiously.

Lin Xiaofan spoke with a heavy tone, "Did you not see the things changing in the mirror?"

"What are you talking about?" Chen Hao was astonished; then, he quickly covered the mirror with his hand. "Xiaofan, what exactly did you see?"

Two seconds later, the dullness in Lin Xiaofan's eyes gave way to a renewed light, and suddenly, she let out a "meow" and raised her left hand to grab Chen Hao's face.

..

"Lin Xiaofan, what nonsense are you talking about!"

When Lin Xiaofan said she could take him into the world inside the mirror, Chen Hao found it unbelievable, thinking she was speaking madness.

"Chen Hao!" Lin Xiaofan glared at him sternly, "If it weren't for Tang Jing being taken into this world inside the mirror, I reckon I would have never let you know this secret!"

"How could you..."

"Don't ask!" Lin Xiaofan interrupted Chen Hao hotly, "I told you not to ask anything!"

"Why?"

Ye Yuqiao looked at Chen Hao and answered for Lin Xiaofan, "It's for your own good. Some things, if you don't know them, you won't be in danger! Right?"

As she spoke, Ye Yuqiao turned her gaze to Lin Xiaofan.

Lin Xiaofan nodded, managing to squeeze out a bitter smile towards Ye Yuqiao.

"You guys!" Chen Hao gritted his teeth, hating the feeling of being clueless. It was clear that he was the one being kept in the dark, and yet he was expected to be grateful to those deceiving him, with the justification that it was all for his own good. Rather than this, Chen Hao would have preferred to know the truth, even if it meant dying with clear understanding rather than living in ignorance.

Only when he felt the warmth and softness of Ye Yuqiao's hand in his palm did Chen Hao give up. With a grim face, he looked at Lin Xiaofan and asked, "So, what should we do next?"

"You need to carry me on your back, and we'll chase that female ghost through the mirror!"

..

Night had fallen, and the group of four, including Chen Hao, returned to Y City Comprehensive University. Unlike the previous night, Tang Jing was replaced by Lin Xiaofan this time.

Upon finding a secluded corner near the girls' dormitory buildings, Lin Xiaofan took out a mirror from his bag and said, "Once that female ghost appears, Hao... Chen Hao, you'll immediately carry me into the mirror."

"Are you sure it's this mirror?" Chen Hao asked with some doubt. The mirror Lin Xiaofan produced was a small vanity mirror, which made Chen Hao question whether they could truly enter it; and even if they did, how would they catch the female ghost? Logically, they should enter the mirror where the female ghost appeared.

Lin Xiaofan gave Chen Hao a sharp look and said, "You don't know, do you? Actually, the worlds inside mirrors are connected. Each mirror is just an entrance to that world."

"That world?" Chen Hao was full of curiosity, "Is it like a world that's the opposite of our reality? For example, where the left is on the right, streets are in the sky, and the sky is actually underground?"

"It seems you do have some common sense!" Lin Xiaofan said mockingly, "But you're still wrong. Although from our world's perspective, the world inside the mirror does indeed seem opposite; however, from the viewpoint of entering the mirror, the world seen in the mirror is the same as the one we see in our reality. Viewing the world through a mirror is like looking at our world from inside that world."

Hearing this, Chen Hao didn't understand at all, only grasping that the conclusion was that both the mirror world and the real world would appear the same. After thinking for a moment, he asked again, "If they're all the same, then how do we differentiate between the mirror world and the real world? What if one day, by mistake, you take me into the mirror world from a dream, and if you don't tell me about it, wouldn't I be kept in the dark forever?"

Lin Xiaofan's face darkened, looking rather displeased.

"There are hardly any people in that mirror world!"

"Hardly any people?" Chen Hao exclaimed in surprise, "So you're saying there are some people inside? What kind of people are they?"

Lin Xiaofan's eyes suddenly widened, and he coldly said, "I've told you before, don't ask anything!"

Suddenly, Ye Yuqiao, who was standing next to Chen Hao, frowned and shouted loudly, "There's Yin Qi!"

Instantly, a scream came from dormitory building number six.

"Carry me quickly!" Lin Xiaofan said urgently, walking right behind Chen Hao and leaped onto his back like a cat.

In that moment, Chen Hao's mind flashed with scenes of carrying Lin Xiaofan in the past. Instinctively, his hands reached back, grabbing Lin Xiaofan's thighs.

This was a flawless cooperation.

Lin Xiaofan tossed the vanity mirror into the air, quietly uttering, "Charge in."

"Dammit, be careful!" Ye Yuqiao's voice echoed in Chen Hao's mind.

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