Courtyard House: My Long and Hard Body Makes Me Play with All the Women in the Courtyard

Xiaoyin finally broke down, tears streaming down her face: "Then come out! We'll help you find her! Lin Wan has a file, and I can communicate with spirits, we're sure we can find out where she is now!"

“It’s too late.” Su Ting’s voice suddenly lowered, like a candle flame about to go out. “My time… is almost up.”

"What?!" Lin Wan suddenly stepped forward. "You said you could hold on! You said you hadn't said goodbye yet!"

“I finished Aning’s,” he said softly, “but mine… no one can finish it for me.”

"You still haven't found her!" Xiaoyin pounded on the door. "How can you give up!"

“I haven’t given up,” Su Ting smiled. “I just… can’t wait any longer. Some doors can only be opened from the inside. And I have to move forward.”

Chapter 1321 Staring intently at that door

Lin Wan roared, "So you're just going to disappear like that? Let that child never know what you did for her? Let her think her father abandoned her in the fire?!"

"No, she won't." Su Ting's voice was so gentle it was heartbreaking. "Because in her dreams, there's always a line—'The candy is sweet, don't cry.' That's what I left behind. As long as she remembers that line, I haven't truly disappeared."

Xiao Yin collapsed to the ground, crying so hard she couldn't speak.

Lin Wan, panting heavily, stared intently at the door, then suddenly whispered, "Have you ever considered... that she might be looking for you too?"

Su Ting was taken aback.

"Lin Wan... what did you say?"

"I said—she might be looking for you too!" Lin Wan's voice suddenly rose. "You think you're the only one looking for her in your dreams? But that girl, who has had amnesia for eight years, dreams every night of snow, dreams of a pair of blood-stained hands pushing her away, dreams of a voice saying 'Don't cry!' She wrote hundreds of notes at the orphanage, all with the same sentence—'Where is my father?'"

Xiao Yin suddenly looked up: "Really?"

Lin Wan stared intently at the crack in the door: "The last page of the tattered file was half burned. But I used developer to recover a few words—'Her first words upon waking were: Where's Dad?'"

Inside the door, all was deathly silent.

a long time.

Su Ting's voice rang out, trembling uncontrollably:

"She...remembers me?"

"She has never forgotten!" Lin Wan roared. "You think you're the only one trapped? She was trapped on that day too! She doesn't remember your face, she doesn't remember your name, but she remembers your warmth! She remembers the way you hugged her last time! She remembers the tone of your voice when you said 'Don't cry'! She even... applied for a special psychic permit last year, wanting to enter the corridor to find you!"

Xiaoyin sobbed uncontrollably, "She failed... but she's still trying... She said that as long as time stops at 5:59, Dad will definitely still be waiting for her..."

Suddenly, a suppressed sob came from inside the door.

It's like a person finally collapsing.

Then came a violent impact—

Boom!Boom!Boom!

Su Ting is banging on the door!

"Let me out—!!!" he roared, his voice ripped apart, "Let me out! She's still waiting for me! I can't die here! I haven't told her who I am! I haven't hugged her! I haven't... I haven't eaten the candy she gave me!"

Lin Wan and Xiao Yin both stood up and frantically pounded on the door.

"Su Ting! Hang in there! We'll think of something!!"

"Tell me! Tell me where she is!!" he roared. "Name! Address! Phone number! Anything! I will find her! Even if I have to crawl, I will crawl to her!!"

Sudden--

The pocket watch trembled again.

The pointer suddenly snapped back.

5: 58.

5: 57.

5: 56.

Lin Wan's pupils constricted sharply: "Time... is flowing backward?!"

Xiao Yin stared at the crack in the door and suddenly screamed, "The door...the door is changing!"

The once tightly closed mahogany door began to emit a faint light. The grain on the door panel gradually became clear—it wasn't wood grain, but a face covered in snow. A child's face, looking up at something, clutching a half-melted orange candy in its hand.

"That's... her?" Xiaoyin reached out her hand, her voice trembling.

Just as my fingertips were about to touch the door—

Inside the door, Su Ting's voice suddenly calmed down.

He stopped crashing and stopped roaring.

He said only softly:

"Xiaoyin."

"……exist."

"If the door opens, will you pass on a message for me?"

She nodded, her voice choked with emotion, "Go ahead."

“Tell my daughter…” his voice was as gentle as snow falling on the ground, “Daddy has always been here. And—”

He paused, as if smiling.

"That candy was really sweet."

Chapter 1322 Who's There?

Su Nian, under the streetlight, shuddered, her fingers clenching tightly, the orange candy cracking softly in her palm.

"Who?" She looked up abruptly, her voice trembling. "Who's there?"

The wind and snow howled, and no one answered.

But those footprints stretched quietly to her feet and then stopped abruptly. It was as if someone was standing in front of her, side by side, but she couldn't see them.

Xiao Yin couldn't help but rush out the door, her footsteps stomping on the snow as she ran towards the streetlight: "Su Nian! Su Nian, can you hear me? Your father... he's really back! He's right here!"

Su Nian took a step back in shock, her pupils contracting sharply: "You... how do you know my name? How did you get here? This place... no one knows I come here every night..."

“Because you wrote it.” Xiaoyin gasped for breath, her eyes filled with tears. “You wrote it in your sleep-talking log, in the file of the failed psychic encounter. You said, ‘Dad loves sweets,’ you said, ‘He won’t abandon me.’… Someone has been listening to these words all along.”

"Listen?" Su Nian sneered, but her voice trembled violently. "Anyone who was listening should have died long ago! That day... that day the car overturned, candy was spilled all over the place, when I woke up they said Dad couldn't be saved! Eight years have passed, and now you come to me saying... he was listening? He was watching? You're kidding me!"

Lin Wan walked slowly over, snowflakes falling on her shoulders. She didn't say a word, but simply handed the pocket watch to her.

The clock face still shows 5:54.

"Do you know what this time means?" Lin Wan's voice was cold and steady. "Time in the corridor is frozen from the moment of death. But your memories and your father's obsession are forcibly pulling time back to before the car accident. This is not psychic magic, not an illusion—it is the consciousness of the two of you creating a crack in the gap between reality and the corridor."

Su Nian stared intently at the watch, her face pale: "Who...who are you?"

“I’m the madman who dragged you out of the fire,” Lin Wan sneered. “I’m also the former archivist who secretly accessed your father’s medical records but had my access blocked by the system for three years. You think no one investigated the truth? I did. Su Ting—your father, his heart stopped beating for forty-seven minutes, his brainwaves went to zero, and he was declared clinically dead. But the morgue’s surveillance showed that his fingers moved three times. Nobody paid attention because ‘dead people don’t move.’”

Su Nian's hands began to tremble: "Then... why are you only saying this now?"

“Because only when your obsession is strong enough, only when you put a piece of candy in his mouth and say a word every night, can his consciousness be awakened,” Xiaoyin continued softly. “He has been waiting for you. Even when his body is frozen and his soul is trapped in the corridor, he is still waiting. He said… if you don’t call him, he dares not wake up.”

Su Nian shook her head violently, tears suddenly streaming down her face: "Stop talking...stop talking! How do you know what he's saying? He can't even speak! If he were really alive, why didn't he come back sooner? Why did he leave me to grow up alone? Why...why..."

She choked up and couldn't form a sentence, so she squatted down and hugged herself tightly.

In the wind and snow, the pair of footprints slowly stepped forward and stopped behind her.

A very soft breath brushed past her ear.

Su Nian froze.

She suddenly looked up at the sky, her voice trembling: "Dad... is that you? If you're here... if you can really hear me... tell me, when I was little, I had a fever of 40 degrees Celsius, and you held me and squatted outside the emergency room all night... what did you promise me back then?"

Chapter 1323 You're Not Him at All

The wind died down for a moment.

The snow stopped for a moment.

Then, that hoarse and trembling voice rang out again, as soft as a dream, yet truly piercing to the bone:

"I said... as long as you get better, I'll buy you orange candy every day, and keep you sweet for the rest of my life."

Su Nian suddenly looked up, tears streaming down her face: "...You're lying! That day...that day you said 'orange-flavored candy,' not 'orange candy'! You're mistaken! You're not him at all!"

Xiao Yin was startled and looked at Lin Wan: "Could it be... not him?"

Lin Wan squinted, and the pocket watch in her hand suddenly vibrated.

表盘上，指针开始逆时针飞旋——5:53，5:52，5:51……

“No.” Lin Wan gritted her teeth. “There are limits to memory overlap. If he were an imposter, the corridor wouldn’t have let him take a single step. Those footprints… they were real, the kind of marks left by ‘projection of a living person’s consciousness’! He’s not mistaken—you’re mistaken!”

Su Nian was taken aback: "I...I remembered it wrong?"

“When you were five, you had a high fever and were delirious,” Lin Wan said coldly. “Your father wrote ‘orange candy’ in your medical record, but when you woke up the next day, you said ‘orange-flavored candy.’ There’s a recording in the file. You changed your wording, not that he misremembered.”

Su Nian froze, her mind exploding.