Love Is a Sweet Addiction

It indeed worked. But suddenly, a strange sound came from behind her when she just managed to calm down. She immediately turned around in fear. “Who is it?”

The only lights in the large hall were from the dim light of the incense and candles. She opened her eyes wide and looked around but found nothing behind her except the existing ornaments. There was not even a mouse.

Was that noise from a mouse or a cat?

Well, there were no ghosts in the world. So it must be animals like those. Esther comforted herself in her heart as she lit several candles on the candlestick, trying to make the surroundings brighter.

However, even if she lit all the candles in the room, it was far bright as a small lamp. She could not even see the corner slightly further.

Esther took a deep breath at the dark hall. She finally understood the Gibsons’ family rule wasn’t that easy. Indeed she only needed to kneel for three days. But the most terrifying thing was that she would be surrounded by fear for three days in the sinister hall.

A timid girl would probably become insane if not mad after being scared like this for three days.

A burst of fine footsteps came outside the hall just as she was imaging that. Her scalp was tingling and all the hairs on her body stood up in an instant. This time, she only held her breath and listened quietly.

She was sure it was light and slow footsteps…

It was from animals, but not human, and it sounded more like from a woman.

Esther gasped, constantly reminding herself not to be afraid, not to believe that there were ghosts. Last time, when she was scared by the crying of a woman outside the window. But then she found that it was Meadow. She cried because she was bitten by the cat she was helping Sarah look for.

So it must be someone secretly monitoring her this time. Although… the footsteps came from the back door of the ancestral hall, she would rather believe she was right.

Esther carefully stood up from the cushion to prove that she was right. She moved towards the back door. However, the footsteps suddenly stopped and didn’t appear again.

Esther opened the wooden back door a little bit and found that it was beyond her imagination. It wasn’t a garden or park but a hall that was enshrined with many strange immortal bronze statues.

She was completely creeped out because she could be sure that the footsteps were coming from the back hall. Besides, this wooden door was the only one connecting the back hall. So it wouldn’t be a maid or someone supervising her, let alone someone just sneaking in.NôvelDrama.Org content.

She quickly closed the wooden door and sat back onto the cushion in the front hall, beginning to pant heavily.

She was truly afraid…

But suddenly a bang came from somewhere for memorial tablets. It seemed something had fallen to the ground.

Esther was instinctively moved back in fear. She stared in the direction where the sound came from and found that it was indeed a tablet.

But there was no wind and no others here. How could the memorial tablet suddenly fall?

She swallowed her saliva with difficulty and picked up the tablet with a trembling arm. But she immediately screamed in fear when she saw the name on the tablet. She immediately threw it far away.

Shirly! On the tablet was Shirly’s name. How could her name appear here?

No, she was Terence’s wife, and all the memorial tablets were the Gibsons. But why did her memorial tablet suddenly fall off the shelf?

Was it a coincidence, or was it a kind of sign for Esther?

It seemed Esther often saw Shirly ever since she married Terence and saw the picture of Shirly in Terence’s study.

She saw Shirly on the Fairy Mountain when she had an illusion, and then Shirly starred her dreams many times. Now her memorial tablet suddenly fell in front of her.

Everything seemed too strange. Did Shirly hate her so much? She didn’t let Esther go after her death.

Esther stepped back bit by bit as she stared at the tablet that she had thrown to the ground. Then she rushed in the direction of the exit.

But the door was locked, so she couldn’t open it at all. She could only knock on the door heavily as she screamed angrily, “Is anyone here? Let me out! Let me out!”

But all her efforts were in vain. The surroundings were still terrifyingly quiet.

Esther felt like she was about to become mad, unable to control her emotions at all. She didn’t stop even if her hands were red from slapping.

The only thing she could think about was immediately running as far away as she could. She didn’t want to see anything related to Shirly. She just wanted to have her own normal life, instead of thinking of her or dreaming of her.

“Let me out, please let me out!” Her voice was hoarse, and she fell to the floor on the verge of collapse, crying.

“It won’t be that easy…” Esther suddenly trembled at the dream-like voice. Her tears instantly stopped, and then she quickly turned around.

Then she vaguely saw a girl in white flashing past her eyes and disappearing behind those tablets.

Esther was stunned. She rubbed her teary eyes. But when her vision became clear, she could not see anything.

Was it an illusion? Was she hallucinating again? Did she see Shirly again?

She had taken pain to return to her normal life, but now she became suspicious again.

She was tired of such a life! Her hands clenched into fists bit by bit. She stood up from the floor and strode in the direction where the white shadow disappeared. She also had no idea where she gained the courage. She shouted angrily, “If you can, just come out, instead of hiding in the dark. Come out and let us talk face to face!”

However, nothing was behind the memorial tablet, let alone any white figures.

Her scalp went tingling again. Esther picked up a candle next to her and carefully looked at the back of the memorial tablet. She didn’t turn around until she found that there was nothing behind it.