A Boring, Suggestive Ghost Story
After becoming a college student, I finally began the long-awaited experience of living alone. Although it was just a very ordinary apartment, it was, after all, my very own castle!
However, there was one thing that bothered me. When I first moved in, the property manager told me that someone lived next door, but in the three months since, I had never seen my neighbor, which struck me as a bit strange...
What was even stranger was that every night, at the dead of night, I would always hear some slightly oppressive female laughter from next door, and it was always exactly at 3 a.m. Could it be that there was some weird woman living next door?
One day, I went home early because I was feeling unwell and happened to see the property manager showing the apartment to a new client through the window, so I went over to ask him about the neighbor. The property manager said, 'Hmm, your neighbor is a boy around your age, and I think he goes to the same university as you. He should be at home now.'
After thinking about it, I felt I should go say hello: 'Hi... I live next door...'
'Yes, can I help you?' (Finally, I saw him!) The door was opened by an ordinary man.
'Nothing much... I just heard from the property manager that we go to the same university, and it seems we haven't met before, so I wanted to say hello.'
'Ah! So you're also a student at XX University! Nice to meet you! Because I work at an izakaya, I often come home very late!' (I see!) Then we began chatting casually...
'By the way, I often hear the voice of a woman...'
'Oh, my girlfriend and I work together at the izakaya, so sometimes after work she comes over.' (Really!! I'm so jealous!!!)
'Uh, please say hi to your girlfriend for me.'
'Sure! If you have time, you should bring your girlfriend over to have a drink too!'
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Answer: At the beginning of the story, 'I' mentioned hearing a female voice every night at 3 a.m., but the neighbor said his girlfriend only comes over sometimes, so the female voice that 'I' heard was different from the neighbor's girlfriend. Additionally, the neighbor said, 'If you have time, you should bring your girlfriend over to have a drink too!'
Why did the neighbor think 'I' had a girlfriend? The reason is that the neighbor also heard that female voice coming from next door late at night.What exactly is there in that narrow wall between 'me' and the neighbor?
