The couple looked very affectionate. The woman wore a down jacket, her belly slightly protruding. The man held her hand, lowered his head, and thoughtfully helped her tuck her scarf in place. The two smiled at each other, full of warmth and beauty.
The ghost bride looked at them from afar, with envy in her eyes, as if she was looking at the happiness that was once within her reach.
The ghost bride whispered, "That was my husband. We were supposed to get married, but on the wedding day, I had just gotten dressed and was leaving the hotel. Before I could even get into the wedding car, he was killed by something falling from a height."
Shi Ling: "My condolences."
Ghost Bride:?
Shi Ling sincerely suggested: "If you reincarnate now, you still have a chance to be their child."
The ghost bride shook her head and said, "I've been dead for five years, and he's already married and has children. I don't want to disturb his life anymore, nor do I want to be his daughter. Besides, I have to drink Meng Po soup before reincarnation, right? After drinking Meng Po soup, I forget everything, and I won't remember him either. What's the point of staying with him? I just want to watch him from afar and see him happy."
The ghost bride was actually unwilling to give up. She was only one step away from happiness, but was killed by a vase. Her obsession was the unfinished wedding, so she still wore the red wedding dress even after becoming a ghost.
Shi Ling frowned: "Don't you want to reincarnate?"
Ghost Bride: "What's the point of reincarnation? In the human world, there is a serious competition for academic qualifications, high employment pressure, difficulty buying a house, and serious pollution of the natural environment. It's difficult to survive, not to mention the high cost of childbirth. The birth rate in the human world has dropped. I heard from ghost friends that in the underworld, you have to wait in line to be reincarnated. If there is no green channel, the queue will be decades later. And those idle ghosts are rolled from the human world to the underworld, and take the civil service exam in the underworld. Those who didn't make it to the shore went to the construction site to move bricks and rebuild the underworld. I have to work even after I die, so I might as well wander around in the human world."
Shi Ling listened and nodded, "That makes sense. But if a ghost stays in the underworld for too long, without sufficient Yin energy, it will gradually dissipate. Over time, your memories will also be dwindling, until you forget everything, even your consciousness disappears into thin air. Now think carefully, how much of your life do you remember?"
The ghost bride's eyes gradually became confused.
She always felt that five years passed in a blink of an eye. During these five years, she had been watching her husband from afar, watching him help her deal with the funeral, watching him indulge in the sorrow of losing her, watching him meet the true partner of his life again, watching him gradually get out of the sorrow and re-enter the marriage hall.
But now, thinking about it carefully, after these five years, the only thing she could remember was her husband. She couldn't even recall her parents, relatives, friends, colleagues, and work.
Shi Ling: "Do you still remember your name?"
Ghosts that do not go to the underworld after death are mostly left behind by obsessions and resentments. Unlike the trained ghosts like the Ghost King, these ghosts cannot absorb Yin Qi to maintain their souls. Over time, they will forget their memories and eventually dissipate as their obsessions and resentments are released, or only obsessions and resentments will remain.
The former will disappear, and the latter will lose their mind and cause disaster.
The ghost bride was slightly stunned, "My name is..."
When Shi Ling asked her, she thought she would not forget her name, but when she was about to answer, she could not remember those words at all.
Just then, the couple came towards them, talking and laughing.
"Hello, excuse me, could you take a picture of me and my wife?" (End of this chapter)
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