Lin Jingting: "What if you fall in love with someone in the future? If you don't love me, then I will definitely tear that person to pieces!"

Chu Nian thought of those vanished young heartthrobs and couldn't help but sigh, saying, "So-called love is nothing but a beautiful fantasy of humankind. As an independent person, love is merely a subjective feeling; as long as you don't fantasize about it, you won't have this feeling."

Lin Jingting gave a cold laugh and said, "Your thinking really hasn't changed at all!"

Chu Nian found his words very strange and asked, "Have I said something similar before?"

Lin Jingting let out another cold laugh.

Chu Nian thought for a moment and then said, "Lin Jingting, can you tell me about your past?"

Lin Jingting said, "You won't even tell me about your past, so why should I tell you about mine?"

Chu Nian's lips twitched: That makes so much sense, I'm speechless!

Although the conversation was somewhat heavy and clearly did not end happily, Lin Jingting seemed to become even more attached to Chu Nian, and more obedient to her, probably because he already knew that Chu Nian was leaving.

Chu Nian couldn't help but feel soft-hearted towards him, but she really had nothing to give him, and she couldn't possibly reciprocate his feelings. So she could only helplessly accept it and treat him better than before.

Late at night, Chu Nian felt a sudden jolt and found herself separated from Bai Nian's body.

"Niannian, one day, you will come back." She heard Lin Jingting's voice drifting back, and as she left, the voice faded into the distance, eventually becoming somewhat ethereal.

Chu Nian found herself passing through the Underworld again. As she had planned, she intended to stay there and have a proper talk with the Underworld. So she immediately cast a spell to freeze her body, and her soul stopped in front of a bookshelf in the Underworld that was shrouded in black mist.

In front of the bookshelf stood a handsome man dressed in ancient black clothing and wearing a tall hat.

The man's age was unclear, but he was clearly startled when Chu Nian suddenly appeared, instinctively taking a step back. However, there seemed to be something wrong with his leg, preventing him from taking a step like a normal person. In his panic, he tripped and fell flat on his back.

He screamed "Ah!"

What left Chu Nian speechless was that after he fell to the ground, he propped himself up and looked at Chu Nian, screaming in extreme terror, "A ghost!"

Not only that, the man in the black clothes and tall hat got up from the ground and turned to run away, but in his panic, his legs were still stiff, causing him to stumble forward and fall face-first into the mud.

He got up again, and this time he seemed to finally remember that his legs were stiff and he couldn't walk like a normal person. So he hopped and fled, shouting in panic, "My lord, my judge, there's a ghost! There's a ghost!"

He only managed to escape from the huge bookstore after crashing into several bookshelves.

Watching his fleeing figure, Chu Nian pondered his attire and movements, and finally confirmed that this person was likely the Black Impermanence from folk legends.

Honestly, when he was alive, the old folks would turn pale at the mere mention of death, but who would have thought he had such a lack of courage?

Besides, even if there are ghosts, what are you afraid of? Aren't you a ghost yourself? You are a more terrifying, deadly being than any ghost!

This made Chu Nian wonder if she looked particularly scary.

To avoid losing the demeanor of a beautiful ghost, she even used her spiritual power to carefully examine her appearance, and found that she was still as extremely beautiful as when she was a movie queen in the mortal world.

Could this impermanence be a fake impermanence, with the element of "fearing her" pre-programmed into artificial intelligence?

She had no idea why such a strange thought had popped into her head.

Soon, a commotion was heard outside, which quickly grew closer. A handsome man in ancient brocade robes entered the study, turned left and right, and bypassed several bookshelves before appearing in Chu Nian's sight.

The Black Impermanence was still following behind him.

Chu Nian felt that this must be the judge that Hei Wuchang had just mentioned, the one who knelt on the ground when she passed through the underworld last time. The one sitting there, she remembered that this judge called him "King of the Underworld," so he should be the lord of the underworld.

Perhaps it was because Chu Nian's gaze was too cold that the judge instinctively turned around in fright, as if he wanted to run away. But he quickly calmed down and turned back to look at Chu Nian.

There is more than one judge in the underworld. As far as Chu Nian knows, there is one named Cui Yu and another named Zhong Kui; as for whether there are any others, Chu Nian does not know.

Chu Nian felt that the person in front of her should be named Cui Yu. Don't ask her how she knew; she didn't know either. It seemed like she knew a lot about the underworld.

She thought that perhaps before she was reincarnated as the movie star Chu Nian, she had lived in the underworld. Of course, this was just her conjecture; until she awakened to these memories or had concrete evidence to prove it, it couldn't be taken as fact.

"You, you, you, you...you are..." Cui Yu pointed at Chu Nian and began, "That drama queen? The drama queen who reincarnates in these books to eliminate resentment?"

Chu Nian nodded and said, "Yes."

Cui Yu: "You...you...how did you get out?" He took a deep breath: he didn't want to stutter like this anymore.

Chu Nian: "Yes, I'd like to have a talk with the person in charge of your underworld."

Cui Yu: "Talk...talk about what?" She took another deep breath: Why is she still stuttering?

Chu Nian: "When I eliminate resentment, can I selectively eliminate it?"

Cui Yu: "You can choose which ones you want to eliminate first; leave the rest for later, when new souls can enter the book to eliminate these resentments in your place."

Chu Nian: "When will a new soul come to replace me?"

Cui Yu remained silent for a long time before saying, "It will happen sooner or later."

Chu Nian stared at him, recalling the conversation she had overheard between him and the King of the Underworld. It seemed that finding a soul like her that could enter these books to eliminate resentment was quite difficult!

She sat down on the chair next to her and said, "If that's what you're saying, then I won't go into those books anymore. Those resentments have nothing to do with me, so why should I bother trying to eliminate them?"

Cui Yu: "Eliminating these resentments can increase your merits. Perhaps you won't need to reincarnate anymore and can directly ascend to become an immortal."

Chu Nian stroked his chin, stared at Cui Yu and Hei Wuchang for a while, and then pointed at them and said, "Are you gods?"

Cui Yu immediately puffed out his chest and said with some pride, "Of course. We underworld officials have also achieved enlightenment and have long been among the immortals. We are true gods."

Chu Nian said with some disappointment, "It seems that being an immortal isn't so great after all!"