The spirit of the dead appeared in a dream

"knew."

Gu Lili didn't really want to go. Back in the human world, she hated all kinds of social engagements at work and always refused by saying she'd stay and work overtime. Gradually, overtime became a habit and an obsession. Of course, she ended up working overtime anyway, which was a blessing for her colleagues. The company definitely canceled irregular overtime, much to the secret relief of many.

"Lady Meng Po, you should change your clothes before attending a gathering, right? Look at what you're wearing..."

389 glanced at her phone message and looked Gu Lili up and down. Unlike last time, Lord Guannan had agreed to let Gu Lili bring her assistant to the banquet. She was going to meet all sorts of ghost messengers from mythology, which excited the carefree 389. Her first thought was how to make her BOSS look more imposing.

"I'm not going on a blind date..."

Gu Lili put on her shoes and was about to go out when 389 helped her back. Then, the other woman opened the wardrobe with a smile, revealing a variety of princess dresses and little leather shoes.

“I’ve grown up, and I don’t like these things anymore.”

Gu Lili took out her phone and sent this message to Fangfangfang. It seemed someone had spied on her memories, making her feel both annoyed and vulnerable.

"So, what style of dress does Lady Meng Po prefer now?" Fangfangfang's message popped up on my phone again.

"Let's try Hanfu."

"Yes, I will prepare for Lady Meng Po before the Ghost Festival."

Gu Lili gave Fangfang a perfunctory reply and then collapsed onto the bed. Logically, as a ghost messenger, she should have lost her six senses, but she still felt hungry and tired. Gradually, she couldn't lift her eyelids and fell asleep.

Do you still hate?

A woman dressed in a white robe was facing away from Gu Lili, asking her a question. Looking around, all she saw was a chaotic void, and although she opened her mouth to answer, no sound came out.

May this stroke of luck in this life dissolve your endless hatred.

The woman in white seemed to know that Gu Lili couldn't answer, and sighed softly as she continued.

"Lady Meng Po, Lady Meng Po!" 389 anxiously shook Gu Lili's right shoulder.

"I'm so tired, can't I sleep a little longer?" Gu Lili said with a hint of reproach.

"But you've already slept all night, and we have to go to work again in a little while."

"ah?"

Gu Lili felt like she had just fallen asleep, but 389's tone didn't sound like he was joking. Perhaps it was because she had handled too many things on her first official day at work, and then traversed between Yin and Yang—yes, the origin. For a mortal like her to control Meng Po's origin must have expended a great deal of energy; that must be it. But what about that dream? Whom am I still hating?

"Lady Meng Po, Fangfangfang just brought coffee and sandwiches. Let's eat something and go to work quickly. Can you smell it? It smells so good."

389's carefree, food-loving demeanor amused Gu Lili, and she stopped thinking about those irrelevant things. Indeed, they were all ghosts now, so why waste time on internal strife? Let's just take it one day at a time.

Gu Lili looked at 389, who had already finished half of his sandwich, and sniffed at the plate again, replying, "It's here, it's here. Coffee with a sandwich smells pretty good. I wonder what kind of beans they're made from. But I still prefer a jianbing guozi with two eggs and fruit sauce and soy milk."

"That's easy. Just tell Fangfangfang, and it'll be ready tomorrow. Don't let her cold exterior fool you; she's actually quite nice to us."

Although Gu Lili preferred jianbing guozi (Chinese crepes), the aroma of coffee made her feel a little happy. Before her death, she would only smell this aroma when passing by high-end coffee shops, and the taste was completely different from the saccharin-laden instant coffee she usually drank.

"Ding~~"

The work bell rang, and Gu Lili and 289 walked out of Meng Po's residence. The ghost messengers in the corridor were rushing to the machine at the end of the corridor to clock in.

"Do we have to go and check it out too?"

"No need. Fangfangfang has already explained that it's hard to detect when the ghost messengers are slacking off, so they established a work system like the one in the human world. But the position of Meng Po is a one-off job, and because no one else in heaven or earth can brew Meng Po's soup, even if someone slacks off or takes a break, as long as they don't commit a heinous crime, no one will dare to interfere with Meng Po."

"puff"

At this point, the two girls looked at each other and burst out laughing at the same time. 389 felt that being Meng Po's assistant was a stroke of good luck, while Gu Lili becoming Meng Po must mean that her ancestors saved the galaxy, and the first fire of humankind's origin was probably started by her ancestors.

"Then we have to go over there too, the dead are still queuing up."

Then, Gu Lili felt a little guilty and still pulled 389 toward the Yellow Springs.

The two arrived at the Bridge of Helplessness, where Fangfangfang was already maintaining order.

"119 can come and have some soup now."

After Gu Lili dripped Meng Po's essence into the spoon and swung it 20 times, Fangfangfang slowly spoke.

"I'm not in a hurry, Lady Meng Po, and these guys behind me aren't in a hurry either. Could you... could you please take a look at this child?"

The person in the first place, number 119, did not come forward to drink the soup. Instead, he went to the back of the line and carefully carried a little girl with the number 128 on her head.

She's the little girl who helped number 108 pick up her sunglasses, but then got scared and cried.

Gu Lili looked at the little girl in front of her. She looked about 7 or 8 years old. She had her hair neatly braided into a fishtail braid and wore a light blue princess dress. Several gems on her matching light blue crystal shoes shone slightly under the light. She was a little thin and frail. Her face, which should have been tender and plump, was lifeless and was constantly streaming with tears.

Gu Lili asked, "Little friend, do you have any unfulfilled wishes?"

But the little girl in front of me, perhaps because she had been frightened earlier, kept sobbing and didn't say a word.

Seeing that the child refused to speak, No. 119 hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Lady Meng Po, this child has been queuing with us for a very long time and has never spoken, but... we brothers saw that the child kept crying, so we thought he must have some attachments when he was alive. We brought him over for you to see first."

"Fangfangfang, please help me check this child's records."

"yes."

"Liu Lanlan, 9 years old, died of illness."

Fangfangfang used her phone to project a video showing the little girl being resuscitated at the hospital. Her family members surrounded the emergency room, crying until they nearly fainted, constantly calling her name, until the monitor showed her heartbeat and blood pressure no longer fluctuating, and the doctor finally pronounced her dead.

"Mommy, Daddy!" Upon seeing the familiar figures on the screen, the little girl finally cried out, tears streaming down her face.

"Grandma, I want to go back to my mom and dad," the little girl continued.

“Grandma… well, children say the darndest things,” Gu Lili said with a hint of helplessness, but still patiently explained, “Little one, your mission in the human world is complete, even if it was very short. Everyone has their own destiny.”

"Lanlan, don't cry. Drink this and be reborn. You'll have loving parents in your next life too," 389 said, leaning closer.

"I don't want to drink it, I want to go back to my mom. Waaah, I want to go back to my mom." The little girl cried even harder after hearing what 389 said.

"In that case, we'll have to ask the Bai family's PR team to handle it," Fangfangfang said coldly.

Since Gu Lili took over the reincarnation office, the Bai family's PR staff have rarely come to the Underworld, and the queue-jumping incidents have stopped. Everyone knows that a formidable newcomer has arrived in the Underworld, because even Meng Po (the Goddess of Forgetfulness) was driven to death by queue-jumping, let alone a mere PR person. So, whenever they hear that someone is coming to the Underworld to work, they try to avoid it if possible, and if they can't avoid it, they push it to Fangfangfang.

But with so many things to do, Fangfangfang was also very annoyed. So now that there were unruly ghosts to deal with, her first thought was to pass this hot potato to the Bai family's public relations department.

Gu Lili thought for a moment and slowly said, "No, don't rush to kick her away. Can we do what No. 93 did, take her back to the human world to see it and then bring her back to be reborn?"

"No, No. 93 is a self-controlled adult who knows his granddaughter is doing well and has no more obsessions. This child has no self-control and is too obsessed. If he is brought back to the mortal world, he will definitely try to stay. He might become a fallen soul and disturb the mortal world. We must not let such a thing happen."

Fangfangfang was speechless when she heard Gu Lili's idea. She felt that this new Meng Po was not taking the rules of the underworld seriously at all. However, she did not dare to overstep her bounds and could only sternly explain the seriousness of the matter.

"Okay, little one, give Grandma some time. Grandma will help you think of a way to let the uncles and aunties behind you have their soup first, okay?" Gu Lili said, then stretched out her finger and summoned a bit of her essence, gently touching the little girl's forehead. The girl stopped crying.

"Can Lanlan just wait for Grandma over there?" The little girl finally smiled when she heard that Gu Lili was going to help her find a solution, and stepped aside to stand quietly and wait.

Gu Lili nodded in agreement to the little girl. To coax the child, she also called herself "Grandma." The child was adorable, and she didn't care about appearance or age. Meng Po is a title, and doesn't necessarily mean "Grandma."

Gu Lili looked at 389, who was serving soup: "What should we do? 389, you have so many clever ideas, why don't you tell us?"

389 panicked as if suddenly called on by the teacher in class: "Me? How would I know? I joined the company on the same day as you, I...I don't know. Besides, I don't have any clever ideas. What I have is wisdom."

Gu Lili curled her lips in disgust, then put on a smiling face and turned to Fangfangfang: "Sister Fang, can you think of a way for me? Hehe."

Fangfangfang felt goosebumps when she saw Gu Lili's fawning smile, but since the other party was her superior, she still put away her disdainful expression and said, "Lady Meng Po, you can't save all the millions of souls in the underworld."

Huh? Gu Lili didn't directly refuse when she heard that, so there's a chance!

In that instant, Gu Lili seemed to have grasped the key to winning over Fang Fangfang. She moved closer to Fang Fangfang and took her arm: "Sister Fang, we'll save as many as we can. I find this job quite boring, but helping the dead gives me a sense of accomplishment and can prevent depression. Otherwise, what if I have a moment of despair and end up drinking soup and jumping into the river myself?"

Upon hearing this, Fangfangfang thought, "Oh dear, this seems like they're being subservient, but they're actually threatening me."

"I just saw that her parents have had their second child. Eight months along." Fangfangfang sighed, helpless against the new Meng Po's shameless tricks.

"Huh!!?? Ah??? Oh!!!" Gu Lili exclaimed in surprise, her voice changing rapidly. "You can do that???"

Fangfangfang glanced at her reluctantly: "The little girl doesn't have enough points, but her parents signed an organ donation agreement, which saved many people. This has given the child immense merit and doubled her points. So as long as the child's parents are willing, she can have this privilege."

Gu Lili was shocked: "We need our parents' permission?? How do we get their permission? I'll go ask them?"

"Send the girl to a dream and ask her mother. If her mother agrees, then it will be done. But..."

"But what then?"

“Using this privilege to be reincarnated will clear her points. This girl should have had a wonderful life in her next life because of her good deeds, but after the underworld interfered, her life is uncertain. The child is too young to understand these things, so let’s ask her mother if she is willing,” Fangfangfang added.

Upon hearing this, Gu Lili turned to the little girl and said, "Is this okay, Lanlan? Although you don't quite understand, there really isn't any other way. Let's go into the dream and let your mother make the decision."

"Okay, I'll listen to Mom." The little girl's long eyelashes fluttered, and her eyes, which had stopped crying, were full of life. After hearing Gu Lili and Fangfangfang's suggestion, her eyes curved into crescent moons with a smile, making her extremely cute.

"Then let's set off, sir. She's eight months along and there's a possibility of premature birth at any time. If the spot is taken by another ghost, there'll be nothing we can do."

"Shall we go? I'll go too? Is there such a thing as taking up a spot?"

Gu Lili listened helplessly, "Taking up a spot" and "cutting in line" are the same in the underworld and the human world, so down-to-earth.

"Lady Meng Po, the Dream Administration Bureau is not a place where a small-time PR firm like mine can just go and do business. Besides, when Lord Guan Nan fulfilled Dream No. 93, he said that you had to help the deceased fulfill their dreams and take responsibility for it. How can you not go?"

"Besides, those who took the spots were born normally; Lanlan is the one who cut in line. These rules are actually written in the employee handbook; it's obvious you don't know..."

"Shh!" Gu Lili's eyes widened; the other person had clearly noticed that she hadn't properly familiarized herself with the "New Underworld Staff Handbook." "I just haven't had time yet, but I will. I'll study it carefully these next couple of days. Just don't let...who knows?"

"Then you'd better hurry, otherwise, given that person's personality, he might make you copy it all night until you memorize it."

Gu Lili thought that what the other person said was indeed true, and quickly agreed, "Yes, yes, I'll watch it after get off work today, I'll watch it carefully, shall we set off now to send a dream message?"

"Yes, Lady Meng Po."

As they were talking, Fangfangfang used a teleportation spell. The group fell several times due to the huge spatial twist. Gu Lili had to hold Lanlan with one arm and tightly hold Fangfangfang's arm with the other. It wasn't until the black smoke dissipated that the group was able to stand still in front of a castle.