I think the effect is pretty good.

"Hiss!! I've got goosebumps." Ji Bo rubbed his arms.

By this time, the girls were already curled up on the sofa, shivering with fear.

Even Pan Ning was a little scared. She subconsciously turned her head to check the balcony behind her, feeling that it wasn't quite safe.

Then she looked at Su Yang. "Come here."

"Hmm?" Su Yang paused and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Come stand next to me."

"Stand next to you?"

"Yeah."

Su Yang smiled helplessly, nodded, and got up to walk over to Pan Ning. He whispered, "How about I hold you on my lap?"

Pan Ning shook her head. "There are so many people here!"

"Alright, then I'll just stand." He looked at Liu Bo and gestured, "Continue~"

"Alrighty."

"After Ah Hua saw a soaking wet woman appear behind him in the mirror, he screamed and turned around, but there was no one behind him."

"Thinking of something, he abruptly turned back to look at the bathroom mirror, but the person in the mirror had also disappeared."

"Ah Hua's face turned green at that moment. Not daring to look anymore, he hurriedly ran to the room door and tried to open it to escape. But no matter how hard he pulled, the door just wouldn't open."

"Right at that moment, the power came back on in the entire town. The lights in the room flickered on, illuminating everything. The sudden brightness instantly soothed Ah Hua's tense nerves, and in that split second, he felt saved."

"He looked at the door, only to realize that his hand hadn't been on the doorknob at all; he had been pulling on an iron cabinet next to the door."

"Ah Hua flung the door open, wanting to leave the room. But by then, the hallway was also brightly lit, and there were two or three guests chatting and laughing as they headed back to their rooms."

"He suddenly suspected that he might have just been sleep-addled. Thinking of the water on the floor from before, he turned around and quickly walked over to the bed to look. There was no water on the floor at all; it was completely dry and clean."

"At this point, Ah Hua completely believed that he had just been groggy from sleep and that everything just now was his hallucination. He shook his head, walked out of the room, and returned to the front desk on the first floor to calm down for over an hour. It wasn't until he officially got off work at midnight that he went back to his room."

"After returning to the room, he subconsciously glanced at the bathroom mirror again. There was nothing. There was no water on the floor by the bed either."

"He was extremely sleepy at the time and couldn't be bothered to think too much about it, but he didn't dare to turn off the lights again. He just went to sleep with the lights on."

"After sleeping for a while, just as he was groggily drifting off again, he suddenly felt something like a liquid dripping onto his forehead. He sleepily reached up to touch it, and upon feeling it, he suddenly realized—wasn't that water? He instantly snapped his eyes open and looked up."

"He saw the soaking wet woman in white from the mirror earlier, hanging upside down right above his head."

"Ahhh." Liu Bo told the story vividly, and when he reached this part, several girls on the sofa screamed in terror at the exact same time.

Because they had already experienced it once before, the others weren't startled by the screams this time.

Seeing everyone staring at him, Liu Bo continued the story: "The water from the woman's body kept dripping onto Ah Hua, and her head was spinning around, making a cracking sound."

"Ah Hua was completely scared silly this time. His eyes bulged so much that his eyeballs almost flew out of their sockets. A second later, he let out a loud cry, threw off the blanket, and tried to get up and run. However, his entire body went weak. As soon as he rolled over, he fell to the floor. When he looked up at the ceiling again, the woman in white had disappeared once more."

"Ah Hua no longer believed it was some hallucination this time. He felt that he was definitely being haunted by this woman. He tried to prop himself up from the floor, but his body had no strength. Suddenly, he felt a pair of eyes looking at him from under the bed."

"Compelled by some unseen force, he turned his head to look. Fortunately, there was nothing under the bed. He scrambled to his feet with all his might, but as soon as he stood up, he saw the woman in white lying on his bed, staring at him with bloodshot eyes and smiling..."

"Ahhh, alright, alright, seriously, stop talking!! Why is your story so long? It just never ends." Tang Ziyun really couldn't hold back from crying out.

The other girls screamed while tightly covering their ears.

Seeing this, Liu Bo laughed. "Then I won't say anymore. It's pretty much over here anyway."

"That's it?" Su Yang asked.

"Yeah."

"Damn, you've been talking forever. What happened in the end?"

"In the end, Ah Hua fainted directly from fear and didn't wake up until the next day. As soon as he woke up, he went to resign. However, from then on, no matter where he went, he would see that woman every now and then. Eventually, he went completely insane."

"Tch, is that all? Boring~" Meng Wenzhou said speechlessly.

"You still think this is boring?"

"What's so interesting about it? Who was this woman anyway? Why did she want to scare Ah Hua?" Meng Wenzhou pressed for details.

"Uh... Actually, the room Ah Hua stayed in used to be a guest room. That woman had stayed in that room, and for some reason, she committed suicide while taking a shower in the bathroom."

"After that, the hotel closed down for a year. Later, when the incident faded from memory, the hotel boss converted that room into a staff dorm. Ah Hua moved in without knowing anything, and from then on, he was haunted," Liu Bo explained.

"Is this story you're telling true or false?" Zhang Ziming asked.

Liu Bo grinned broadly. "I don't know either. Anyway, my classmate told me about it in the past."

Meng Wenzhou scratched his head. "Alright, but your story gets a 9 at most."

"That high? But what's the total score?" Liu Bo asked with a smile.

"A hundred."

"What? Out of a hundred, you only give me a 9?!"

"It's somewhat far-fetched, and it's not scary at all, okay? I could basically guess what was coming next."

Ji Bo nodded along and smiled. "Me too."

"That shouldn't be. I think the effect was pretty good?" Liu Bo said, looking at the girls.

Although Su Yang, Meng Wenzhou, and the other guys didn't feel much, the girls were indeed frightened. Meng Qianyu, who had previously claimed to be interested, ended up trembling the most.

Even though she didn't scream or shout throughout the whole thing, she was already terrified to the core on the inside.

Mainly, the story Liu Bo told also took place in a hotel and involved a power outage, which closely matched their current situation.

Just thinking about going to sleep later made her afraid that someone would actually stand by her bed and drip water onto her forehead.

"You guys say my story is no good, then why don't you tell one?" Liu Bo looked at Su Yang and Meng Wenzhou.

While listening to the story just now, Su Yang had indeed thought of a personal experience a former colleague had told him about.

However, before he could speak, Tang Ziyun, Gao Yue, and Mao Xiaorong hurriedly stopped him. "No, you can't tell anymore! If you tell another one, we won't be able to sleep tonight!"

Looking at the frightened expressions of the three, Su Yang gave up on the idea.

"Then let's play cards~"

"That works."

Next, everyone started playing cards, continuing until 1:00 AM.

Meng Wenzhou raised his hand, glanced at the time, and said, "It's one o'clock. We should probably get some rest now, right?"

"OK, OK, let's call it a night then. Everyone back to their own rooms~" Liu Bo stretched lazily and stood up.

Zhang Ziming, Chu Qiunan, and Ji Bo followed suit and stood up.

The girls on the sofa, however, did not move an inch.

"What are you guys doing? Time to head back to your rooms and get some sleep," Meng Wenzhou said with a smile, looking at them.

Meng Qianyu swallowed hard and muttered, "I... I'm too scared to go back."

"What?"

"I'm also a bit scared to go back. We have to walk quite a distance, and what with the hotel corridors and everything, I'm really terrified that once I fall asleep in my room, someone will be standing right next to me, dripping water onto my forehead," Tang Ziyun said, clinging to Meng Qianyu's arm.

"But you can't just stay here. This is Old Su and Pan Pan's room."