Wu Yue blinked, her eyes reflecting the girl's radiant smile, and then slowly nodded.
"Thank you for giving me this opportunity." The girl placed her fist on her chest, her lips curving upwards in a sweet smile.
Xiang Dongshu was completely bewildered. "What are you talking about?"
Yan Chiyu kicked him, "Just let her go with Xinian, don't ask so many questions."
"That Xi Nian's yin-yang eyes...?"
"It opened, just now."
Xiang Dongshu: ? ? !!! !
After a long pause, he asked, seemingly resigned, his mind conflicted: "Isn't it a bit inappropriate for people from feng shui families to raise ghosts?"
Yan Chiyu corrected his choice of words, "It's just companionship and cooperation. Don't talk about raising him."
Wu Yue glanced at the bright-eyed little girl beside her and sighed softly, "You deliberately lured the old Taoist here and then intentionally arranged to run into Xi Nian. Are you sure that's the ending you wanted?"
"This old Taoist priest wants to refine me into medicine, so I'll just give him one soul and two spirits. His family has an intelligence database; it records exactly who comes from what place and who will come from what place. I've waited so many years to finally meet Xiang Xinian, I'm not going to let him go." She looked like a ten-year-old girl, but her words were as steady as an old dog's, revealing her own calculations and considerations.
"Pretty sister, this is my destiny. It was destined from the very beginning." The girl's face always wore a longing smile.
She was willing to shield Xiang Xinian from disaster, even at the cost of her own soul's destruction.
"Can I ask why?"
"People often talk about past and present lives. In the past, there was the Crimson Pearl Fairy repaying the Divine Stone Attendant's kindness in watering her. Why can't there be Meng Po repaying the companionship he gave me?" The girl bent down, her voice suddenly lowering. "I really, really searched for a long time. Yama said I was the most useless Meng Po, and he even whipped me ten times with the Soul-Severing Whip as punishment, saying I shouldn't have peeked at his Book of Life and Death. The Soul-Severing Whip hurt my soul so much when it struck! Otherwise, how could I have fallen into the old Taoist's trap and almost had my soul refined by him? He even used a vicious contract to bind me."
"The Yama you're talking about, is it Mu Junyan?" Wu Yue admired such a person; making a promise is difficult, but putting it into action is even more difficult.
"yes……"
The female ghost paused for a moment, then said, "I knew it looked familiar."
Wu Yue looked puzzled.
The female ghost chuckled to herself, recalling the notice posted in the underworld. Wasn't this beautiful woman before her the same beauty in the notice picture? Although the notice was later ordered to be torn down by King Yama, by then the ghosts in the underworld had basically already known her name and appearance.
The female ghost smiled. "Pretty sister, thank you for granting my wish. In return, I'll give you some information. The old Taoist priest lives in the Xu residence."
"Thanks." Wu Yue smiled slightly.
Great, another household added to the blacklist.
The female ghost floated forward, then suddenly stopped, and said meaningfully, "Go visit the underworld sometime."
"I don't want to, I don't want to go, I don't want to." Wu Yue refused three times in a row; she kept her distance from ghosts. Only Meng Po knew how to conceal her aura, so she dared to approach.
The female ghost smiled and said nothing more.
She ran towards Xiang Xinian's location and gently introduced herself under Xiang Dongshu's wary gaze: "Hello, I am the previous Meng Po of the Underworld. My name is Li Chuan, Li as in dawn and Chuan as in mountains and rivers. Mr. Xiang, please let me stay by Xiang Xinian's side. My mission is to protect him for the rest of my life."
She found him in her first life, and that was her only one.
Xiang Dongshu's hands trembled with surprise. He opened his mouth, unsure of how to react.
Meng Po... shouldn't be the same as Black and White Impermanence, right? She's not here to collect Xiao Xinian's soul, is she?
Yan Chiyu lowered his eyes and walked out of the alley first: "Let's go back."
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On the Bridge of Helplessness.
The young man, dressed in a bright yellow brocade robe, removed his jade crown and set up a stool next to the woman in a gray robe. “Since I ascended the throne, I have only lived for three years. I entered the underworld and lingered for three days before making a decision that was not quite right, but which I am very satisfied with. Li Chuan, I will stay with you on the Bridge of Helplessness for thirty years, and then I will reincarnate.”
"No." The woman in gray robes scooped up a spoonful of Meng Po soup and handed it to the ghosts in line. "King Yama will not grant it."
The young man raised the official document in his hand, his smile hearty: "I can work in the underworld for thirty years."
Li Chuan, I know the taste of loneliness.
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