Chapter 132 Planting a Life-Giving Foundation to Exchange Life

Yun Shu said, "It means exactly what it says. Your appearance shows that you are a dead person."

The director frowned. "But I'm alive and well, and I don't feel unwell. Are you sure you're not mistaken about my appearance?"

"Then let me see your birth date and time."

The director took a piece of paper, wrote down his birth date and time, and handed it to Yun Shu.

Yun Shu got the birth chart and did another calculation.

"You read that right, your birth date and time also indicate that you are already dead."

Yun Shu stared at the director for a while, a little puzzled. "Why is that? He still looks alive."

"Of course I'm still alive!"

The director's forehead twitched. "If I weren't alive, how would I be interviewing you here?"

"I see!"

Yun Shu suddenly snapped her fingers and said with a solemn expression, "You must have had your life switched."

The director and the others were stunned for a moment.

"What's the meaning?"

The director asked her.

Yun Shu explained, "It means that someone is about to die, but he doesn't want to die, so he swaps his fate with yours, and that way he doesn't have to die."

"You may appear fine now, but your destiny indicates it's time for you to die. Before long, the underworld officials will come and take your soul away, and you will truly die."

The director immediately panicked, "But he looks like a living person to me! Aren't the underworld messengers supposed to collect the souls of the dead? Why are they taking mine!"

"If your fate is changed, you will be a dead person in the Book of Life and Death of the underworld officials. When the underworld officials come and see that you are still alive, they will only think that you are a temporary reincarnation, and they will still have to take you away to complete their mission."

The director turned pale.

Upon hearing this, the producer couldn't help but ask, "So how can this be resolved? Sister, please help! The director's family is very wealthy. If you help him out, he definitely won't treat you unfairly!"

After the producer finished speaking, he gave the director a push, saying, "Director Xue, you agree, right?"

The director then snapped out of his daze, nodded blankly, and asked again, "Then can you tell who changed my fate?"

Yun Shu looked at his birth date and time, and then did some calculations with her fingers. "I calculated your current birth chart. There is no violent death or illness. You should die peacefully in your eighties. But you are only in your forties. It is impossible for you to die peacefully at this age."

There's only one possibility then: the person whose fate you swapped with is about to die of old age. But they're unwilling to die, so they swapped their lives with you.

Yun Shu looked up at him and asked, "Do you have any long-lived relatives? Some who are over eighty years old?"

The director frowned. "There is indeed such a relative, my maternal grandfather. But my mother and my grandfather had a very bad relationship. I have hardly ever been to my grandfather's house since I was a child, and I haven't seen him for more than ten years."

Have any of your maternal grandfather's relatives contacted you recently?

Yun Shu continued to explain, "The conditions for performing this method of exchanging lives are very strict. Not only do we need to know your birth date and time, but we also need to obtain some things from you."

For example, I know of a method for exchanging one's life called "planting a living grave." This requires taking your hair, blood, nails, and personal clothing, placing them in a coffin, burying them in an auspicious feng shui location, and then having a professional master set up a protective array to conceal the secrets of heaven for it to succeed.

The director thought about it carefully.

After a while, he suddenly remembered, "Three months ago, my mother was hospitalized and relatives from my maternal grandfather's side came to visit."

Because she came from out of town, she stayed at my house for a week, helping me take care of my hospitalized mother.

That person was his aunt, whom he hadn't been in contact with for many years. She suddenly came to the capital, saying she wanted to talk to his mother about some family matters.

When he was about to come, his mother fell ill and was hospitalized. His aunt said he could stay a little longer and help him take care of his mother.

He was very grateful at the time, and when his aunt left, he gave her a large red envelope.

The more the director thought about it, the more uneasy he felt.

“He is my maternal grandfather. Even if he doesn’t get along with my mother and we only see each other a few times a year, there’s no need for him to do this to me, is there? Besides, he’s already over eighty years old. Hasn’t he lived enough?”

Yun Shu said calmly, "Not everyone can take life and death lightly. Some people are afraid of death and feel that no matter how long they live, it's not enough."

The director pressed further, "When will the underworld messengers come to take me away? How can this be resolved?"

"I don't know when the underworld messengers will come to summon you. It depends on how busy they are lately. If they're not busy, they can come tonight."

To resolve this matter, we must find the cenotaph and destroy it.

The director's expression was grave. "My mother's hometown is in a small town in Jiangnan. Even if we go from the capital now, we can't get there tonight. The earliest we can arrive is tomorrow afternoon."

Yun Shu calmly replied, "It's alright. I have a friend who works as a ghost messenger. I'll talk to her and ask her colleague not to seduce you yet."

director:?

The director studied Yun Shu's expression for a moment, and saw that she spoke so casually, as if having a ghost messenger as a friend was a very ordinary thing.

The director couldn't help but ask again, "Are you kidding me? Even underworld officials are ghosts. Aren't you afraid of getting into trouble if you befriend ghosts?"

Yun Shu was about to message Chu Xingnan when she realized the director was questioning her. She turned to him with a blank expression and said, "Then I'll have her come to your house tonight to say hello?"

"Forget it, forget it!"

The director quickly waved his hand.

He dared not let the underworld messengers come looking for him; it was too scary! What if one of them, on a whim, lured him away that very night?

Yun Shu sent a message to Chu Xingnan about the director's situation, and also sent the director's birth date and time.

After she finished speaking, she said to the director, "Lu Shijing asked me to come and keep things in order, and he paid me a salary, so I won't charge you any extra. But you have to cover my travel expenses and food and lodging."

"Okay, okay, no problem!"

This was a matter of life and death for him, so what was a little travel expenses and food and lodging? The director readily agreed.

He also told Yun Shu, "I've had someone book plane tickets, and we'll leave tomorrow."

"Director, there's another round of auditions tomorrow."

Assistant director Chen Qi, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly reminded the director that the actress he had recommended was scheduled to audition tomorrow.

The director said, "Tell them to postpone the auditions! Nothing is more important than my life right now. If I die, this show won't be made!"

Chen Qi frowned at Yun Shu, "But Director, you look perfectly healthy, it's impossible for anything to happen to you. If it really comes to it, why don't you just go to the hospital for a checkup?"

Don't forget, the producer and Lu Shijing have a very good relationship. Maybe the producer has already conspired with Yun Shu to put on an act with you here! Yun Shu's acting isn't good, so they're trying to gain your trust this way to get the lead role!