I’m Actually a Bigshot

Chapter 1: Entering the world of horror

Legend has it that after death, people enter the ghost town through the entrance to the underworld.But no one knows exactly where it is or what it looks like.Gossip has it that the entrance to the Underworld can take on many different forms; it could be an ordinary road, a door, a hospital, a river…It could even be an abandoned classroom.When Zhang Biao opened his eyes, he saw the drab walls around him and the headache-inducing incandescent lights above him.When he made it up against the wall, he again saw a rickety, broken blackboard directly in front of him.Is this a……
school? A classroom?”What the hell.” Zhang Biao felt a raw pain in his head, wondering how he could be here in a blink of an eye when he had just been in a fight with a group of bastards on the streets, “Viper, Stick, where are you people?! Where the hell did you go?”There was no response, only the sound of torrential rain pouring through the window.It was raining.”Damn the weather!” Zhang Biao muttered before getting up by holding onto the wall, and then he saw three figures flashing in the flickering darkness of the classroom, standing there wordlessly!”Ahhhhh!”They say that evil people are not afraid of ghosts, but Zhang Biao was still so frightened by the shadows that he almost hit his head against the wall.
Only after the shadows took a few steps forward did he see clearly that they were just three strangers— the living kind.”Damn it, couldn't one of you have made some noise?1!” Thinking of his own scream earlier, Zhang Biao cursed in annoyance for a few moments.”Sorry, we just weren't sure if you were human or not.” The man who came forward was wearing a somewhat tattered camouflage suit, with dried blood still visible on his shoulders and waist.
He frowned at the tattoo on Zhang Biao's upper arm, “Looks like you're a human.””If I were a ghost, I would eat you right now, pretty boy2!” Zhang Biao looked provocatively at the camouflage-clad but stern-faced man in front of him, “Where exactly is this place? Did you capture me here?””I'm not that capable.” Displeasure flashed in the man's eyes, “My name is Bai Gu, and if you want to live, you'll have to come with us.”The flickering incandescent light suddenly stilled for several seconds, also allowing Zhang Biao to see clearly that besides the man in camouflage, there was another man and a woman in front of him.
The woman who fearfully followed behind Bai Gu, seemed to be in her twenties, wearing a super short skirt, with a very good figure.And the other man… should only be referred to as a teenager, right? Dressed in a British-style student uniform, like the aristocratic young master that the group of bastards under Zhang Biao loved to extort, he was currently looking down at his phone.
Although he couldn't quite make out his face, his fair skin looked like it was glowing under the incandescent light, and if Zhang Biao's “girlfriends” could see him, they would have been envious.The long eyelashes cast a fan-like shadow, seemingly focusing all attention on the phone screen.Even this kind of uncaring personality was exactly the same as that of the aristocratic young masters.
Zhang Biao thought so, but he couldn't help but look at him a few more times.
Such pretty young masters were always the ones who made people hate and envy them.”Together? I'm not interested.” Zhang Biao shook his head and headed for the classroom door, “I can take down the three of you by myself.””Boom!”

“You can't get out, it's not time yet.” The sound of Zhang Biao banging on the door and Bai Gu's words sounded at the same time.The next second, the old-looking wooden door did not move at all, but Zhang Biao, a bona fide big man, flew out in the opposite direction, hit the opposite window, and landed with a heavy bang.”What the… hell!” At this moment, even Zhang Biao, who had always called himself a strong man, was confused.”I said, it's not time… yet.”The four people in the classroom felt the floor under their feet shake slightly, and then the originally closed classroom door suddenly opened with a snap, revealing the dark, completely unlit corridor outside the door.Zhang Biao could not help but swallow a little, feeling that something was not quite right.”It's time, let's get out of here.” Bai Gu tried to temper his emotions by taking in deep breaths, “If we don't find a way to escape from here, we'll all die here!””Bah, you say die so you die? It's too unlucky, right?!” Zhang Biao muttered, but didn't dare to speak up.”We have…..
to get out of here?” The beautiful woman hiding behind Bai Gu looked outside at the dark corridor and shrank back fearfully, “can't we just stay here?””Staying here will be more dangerous.” Bai Gu seemed to think of something horrible and turned to Zhang Biao and the teenager who was looking at his phone, “Are you guys coming with me? In this world, I'm barely considered a senior who has had some experience.” Zhang Biao grit his teeth and said with a stomp of his foot, “Pretty boy, although I don't know what a senior is, but what you dare to do, would I not dare to do3? I, brother Biao, am not afraid of anything except ghosts!””If you go, I will follow you too.” The beautiful girl hiding behind Bai Gu tugged tightly at his clothes and made her decision as well.”Good, then we'll go together……”Before Bai Gu could finish his words, he heard a slightly cold teenage voice ring out from beside him—”I'll stay here.” The young master in the school uniform put away his phone and spoke with his head down, “I'm afraid of the dark.
At least there's some light and somewhere to sit here, won't we be able to leave when it's bright outside?””So it's a timid little young master.” A sneer appeared on Zhang Biao's face.In the next second, Zhang Biao saw the teenager raise his head, his beautiful and soft features combined together, making the teenager seem exquisitely beautiful as well as a little innocent4.
Combined with the student uniform on his body, he was sure to attract the eyes of all those little girls in the school.The obsidian-like eyes were staring at Zhang Biao, which actually made him feel a little weak for no reason.”Why are you looking at me? If you don't have the guts, you don't have the guts!” Zhang Biao puffed out his chest to give himself some courage.Just as Zhang Biao finished speaking, he saw the beautiful girl hiding behind Bai Gu tug on Bai Gu's sleeve, causing everyone in the classroom to look in the direction of the window.”There's, there's……” The expression on the pretty girl's face was as if she was about to cry out.Everyone's eyes followed her finger and then they saw……
a girl in a white school uniform sitting squarely in a certain spot by the window, holding a pen and writing something down.The lights were flickering, the lightning was thundering, and there was not even half a sheet of paper on the table, so what, and where, exactly was she drawing and writing?”So there's someone else.” Zhang Biao subconsciously wanted to go over and take a look, but he found Bai Gu tugging hard on his shoulder, and desperately pulling him out.”Run away!” Bai Gu's expression was extremely flustered, but he tried to keep his voice down, “I'm afraid……
that thing isn't human.”

Snap.Just as Zhang Biao wavered, the pen in the girl's hand suddenly slipped and rolled all the way to the edge of the table, falling directly to the floor.In the next second ……The girl whose face could not be seen suddenly turned around and opened5 her mouth to let out an ear-piercing scream -“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ！！！！！””Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ！！！！” Zhang Biao and the others followed with terrified screams as they saw that the girl who had turned around had only half of her body!It was as if it had been split down the middle of her face; the right half of the girl's body was intact, while the left half was only a clearly visible cut of blood and shredded flesh; it was not a living person at all! “Run!” Bai Gu was reckless at this moment.
Grabbing Zhang Biao with his left hand and tugging the woman behind him with his right, he ran with all his might towards the classroom door and just rushed into the pitch blackness.”Pop!” The classroom door closed behind the three of them in an instant, as if it had never been opened in the first place.There was no turning back!And the teenager in the school uniform was still in the classroom, not following Bai Gu and the others out.”Pretty boy! That young master is still in the classroom!” Zhang Biao's voice came from the corridor.”If you want to save him, then you can go by yourself! Is your own life more important, or his?” Bai Gu's voice followed, “In this world of horror, those who are fearful can only die! Their life is only a burden!”Soon, the whole corridor returned to silence.And in the classroom, where the lights had been flickering, the incandescent lights surprisingly returned to normal, illuminating the whole classroom with a warm bright light.The female ghost with only half of her body was still sitting there, but the young man called “Young Master” was not frightened, his delicate eyebrows glanced at the closed classroom door, and then he turned around and walked straight towards the scary female ghost!The teenager who was ridiculed by Zhang Biao for being too timid and unwilling to follow them out of the classroom…..
surprisingly walked straight towards the female ghost with half a body.His pleasing face, too, no longer had a hint of fear.After walking step by step to the female ghost's seat, there was still no hint of fear in the teenager's eyes, but rather a gentle smile bloomed on his face, as if he was meeting a friend.He even bent down to help the ghost pick up the pen that had fallen on the floor and gently put it back on the table in front of her while sitting down in the seat in front of her.”Hello.” The young man sat face to face with the female ghost, resting his cheeks on his palm6, and asked with a smile on his face, “Can you tell me what's going on in this school?”Looking at the teenager in front of her, who looked like he was chatting about something trivial, the remaining half of the female ghost's face surprisingly had an expression of fear, and even her body was trembling slightly.Female Ghost: “Ooo ……Lord Guide!””Shhh.” The teenager smiled and made a shushing gesture, “Just pretend that you don't know me, I'm just an ordinary trialist now.”The female ghost nodded her head as if pounding garlic7.

The three men who had been running through the corridor felt the light behind them getting further and further away, but they could see nothing but darkness in front of them, and even if there was an abyss ahead of them, waiting for them to fall to their deaths, they wouldn't notice anything at all.”Mr.
Bai, why don't we, why don't we just go back?” For the only woman in the group, even if there was a scary, scary female ghost in the classroom, a classroom with lights was a much safer place to be in than this never-ending darkness.”Up ahead! There's light!” When light suddenly appeared in the darkness, it was a lifesaver for the three humans who had almost drowned in the darkness.The three people, who were running desperately, finally stopped and took a break to catch their breath while looking ahead towards the place where the light had suddenly appeared.The light illuminated the corridor around them, allowing them to see that they had reached the end of the corridor on this level, and ahead of them was the corner of the staircase, where the dimly lit overhead light was surrounded by moths.In addition to this, there was a standing mirror at the end of the corridor, which looked like a large mirror used in ordinary schools for students to sort out their clothes.
But when this mirror appeared in front of the three people, there was an inexplicable sense of panic.”If we just go down the stairs, we should be able to escape from the building.” Bai Gu did his best to suppress the fear in his heart, then glanced behind him.It was still pitch black behind them, and there was only a little light a long way away from them, which should be coming from the classroom they had just escaped from.”That mirror, it's scary.” The woman who was following behind Bai Gu was too afraid to walk up to it, “It always……
feels like something is going to appear in it.””There are things like that all over the school, don't worry.” Looking at the stairs that were close at hand, Bai Gu took in a deep breath and walked towards the mirror.The next second, Bai Gu saw something in the mirror!Eyes widening and pupils narrowing, his entire body trembled.”Close your eyes!”Bai Gu suddenly shouted, startling Zhang Biao and the woman who were following him.”Don't ask why, just close your eyes!” Bai Gu rushed over and re-dragged the two humans' hands, making sure they both closed their eyes before rushing into the stairway with a frantic speed, dragging them along with him.”Pretty boy, how can you walk up the stairs with your eyes closed!” Zhang Biao fell straight down the stairs when he was unsteady on his feet, and with an angry face he yelled at Bai Gu, “Why did you go crazy just now!”But Bai Gu just leaned against the railing of the staircase, looking at the mirror placed above with lingering fear, shaking his head and refusing to say anything.It was only after a while that Bai Gu gasped, “Don't look at that mirror, we just have to go all the way down the stairs and we'll definitely be able to leave!”Seeing the 'confident veteran' Bai Gu in such a state, Zhang Biao and the woman dared not imagine what he had just seen in the mirror, and after taking a glance at each other, they could only continue to follow Bai Gu's pace and walk down the stairs.The staircase beneath them seemed like an endless corridor, and if it weren't for the green “safe passage” lights in the corners, they might have fallen many times.
Five minutes.
Ten minutes.
Fifteen minutes…….No one could remember how long they had been walking down the stairs.”There shouldn't be ghosts on this staircase, right?” Zhang Biao couldn't help but start to doubt this, he now fully believed what Bai Gu had said, that this was a scary world with ghosts and the only way to survive was to escape from here.

But the question was, how were they going to escape?”Our luck doesn't seem to be that bad.” A joyful smile appeared on Bai Gu's face as the staircase that continued downward was no longer in front of them, instead replaced by a wooden door where the light of incandescent lamps could be seen, “We should be on the ground floor!”Zhang Biao could understand Bai Gu's joy, but……
he always felt that the wooden door in front of him looked familiar.The moment Bai Gu pushed open the wooden door, Zhang Biao, who was following behind, saw the dilapidated classroom, the messy tables and chairs, the rickety blackboard……This was clearly the classroom they had just escaped from! Even the sound of the rainstorm, which had disappeared for a long time, had returned to Zhang Biao's ears.”You guys finally came back to save me!” The delicate teenager wearing the British school uniform got up from one of the chairs and looked a little scared as he patted himself, “It was really scary just now, that female ghost disappeared in the blink of an eye and the classroom door wouldn't open, I really didn't know what to do.””How……
how is this possible……” Bai Gu's face turned white and his speech became stuttered.There was something unbelievable about what was in front of them.After running along the corridor for so long, and walking down the stairs for so long, they had just casually pushed open a door and now they were back where everything had started.Back to square one.The hearts of the three humans were mirroring the storm raging outside the window.”Thank you for coming back to save me.” The teenager's face wore a touched expression and his eyes were a little red, “My name is Su Qingxing.
After we leave here, I'll make sure my dad repays you guys properly!”

Footnotes:

1.
声吗 shēng ma: squeak, make some noise, basically a classifier of sounds.

2.
小白脸 xiǎo bái liǎn: little white man, pretty boy(usually derogatory), gigolo

3.
但你敢做的事情，老子会不敢做: basically, he means that if you, a weak pretty boy can dare to do something, how can I be scared of doing the same thing when I am a BiG mAn

4.
些清隽 xiē qīng juàn: xiē some; few; qīng clear; distinct; quiet; just and honest; pure, juàn significant, meaningful;

5.
The phrase used here is 长大 (zhǎng dà) which means to grow something, and the actual phrase would translate to “growing a mouth” which doesn’t make a lot of sense.
However, it’s supposed to be horror so who knows, maybe the pretty little ghost did grow a mouth on the spot just to scream and welcome these ‘guests’

6.
It can also mean “holding his cheeks” but I thought this phrase seemed smoother.
It’s basically the hand on cheek posture.

7.
点头如蒜: nodding as if pounding garlic.
(Nod very fast).
A similar idiom to chicken pecking on rice.
In ye olde days when grinders and blenders hadn’t been invented, garlic and chilli were pounded by hand using some kind of mortar and pestle (idk).
It’s fast and it’s supposed to mean that she was nodding really fast.