If Yin Zhu really has such a friend, then what she said makes perfect sense.
Do you remember the girl Yin Zhu met at the Ghost Market? Yin Zhu noticed that her clothes were similar to those of modern Earth. Although such clothes also exist in the Ghost Realm, considering her identity, a poor girl from the human world wearing standard assembly-line clothing, even if there are some differences in the technological levels of the two worlds, would not be too different.
Once the outside world enters modern society, even if a child wants to run away from home, they can find a way to support themselves.
Japan has the most experience in this regard.
According to media reports, tens of thousands of teenagers run away from home every year in Japan, a number so large that it has become a social problem. As a result, works featuring this trope as the protagonist appear from time to time. The animated film "Weathering With You," which Yin Zhu watched, uses this premise; the protagonist runs away from home and wanders to the capital to work and make a living.
If the world were still an ancient feudal society, running away from home would indeed be nothing more than falling from one wolf's den into another tiger's lair. Even the most modern person would find it difficult to find a way out in such an environment.
However, modern society offers humans far more opportunities.
With the continuous improvement of laws, the methods of social assistance are becoming more and more diverse, and knowledge is no longer monopolized but can be more easily accessed... In the past, countless people endured oppression and sacrificed their lives to bring about social change, so that future generations could have a better living space.
Just as Yin Zhu said: "The world is so vast, there will always be a place for us to find refuge."
These words seemed to awaken Mao Changji, making her gaze towards Yin Zhu soften with tenderness and longing: "You child, so young yet so insightful. If I could live in this era..."
The rest is self-evident.
Mao, the prostitute, may have been lamenting that she was born at the wrong time, or she may have been glad that the environment had improved and that many young people no longer had to suffer the same hardships she had endured.
Yin Zhu was also relieved.
However, Yin Zhu was fortunate that her body was that of a woman. If she had been in the body of the little boy from "Green House," the female ghost might not have been so gentle with her. She might have just driven the child away and she would have ended up covered in hair and died.
Perhaps Mao Zedong's prostitutes didn't even go through the proper procedures; they just grew hair directly.
Because she saw a reflection of her past self in Yin Zhu, Mao Changji's attitude towards Yin Zhu improved somewhat, and she naturally loosened her grip: "If you really want to return to the human world, it's not impossible."
"Can you tell me?" Yin Zhu blinked, feigning innocence.
“However, this method… might be a bit difficult for you.” Mao Changji sighed, picked up the teacup on the table, and drank it all in one gulp: “If it were so easy to return to the human world, we would have gone there long ago.”
"Too……"
Yin Zhu lowered her head somewhat dejectedly, then forced a smile and said, "Beautiful sister, actually I thought of that a long time ago. When I was still in the mortal realm, I heard that no one has ever gone to the ghost realm and left alive. I was just clinging to unrealistic fantasies..."
"It's difficult, but not impossible." Mao Changji held Yin Zhu's hand and patted it gently to encourage her.
Yin Zhu looked up in surprise.
"Lord Shuten-dōji once had a method to leave the demon realm and return to the human world, but this method was not made public." Mao Changji paused. "Because if this method were made public, it would easily bring chaos to the demon realm. Lord Shuten-dōji finally led us to end that darkest era and created a new order for the demon realm. If possible, we would like to keep this method completely hidden."
This explanation was exactly what Yin Zhu had expected.
As early as when Hana-hime vaguely recounted the story of Shuten-dōji, Yin Zhu had already made a guess. Now, Mao Changji's words were merely a veiled confirmation of Yin Zhu's guess: "This method... does it require sacrificing something?"
If it were just about finding something and running away, it wouldn't harm the interests of the ghosts much, and it wouldn't have made Mao Changji mention "that darkest era." Since she did mention it, and even specifically emphasized "the new order," it means that once this method is announced, it will inevitably cause sacrifices and struggles, allowing that era of vying for power and attacking each other to be reenacted.
Since Mao, the prostitute, knew this method, it means she must be a conservative ghost.
She supported keeping this a secret, hoped that the demon world would maintain its current peace, and did not have a strong desire to go to the human world, so she gained Shuten-dōji's trust.
but……
Considering the location of the Seiryo Palace, Yin Zhu felt that Shuten-dōji's trust in her was actually quite limited, otherwise he wouldn't have sent her away to some remote corner.
"...You're right, this ritual comes at a price."
Suddenly, the prostitute sat up straight, startling Yin Zhu, who quickly imitated her, sitting upright with her chest out and looking up at the stunningly beautiful older sister: "What's the price?"
"There are two ways to leave the ghost realm through this ritual. One is to abandon the physical body and, at the moment when the human world and the ghost realm overlap at dusk, use the ritual to sacrifice a living person. Then, enveloped in the aura of the living person, you can escape the ghost realm and be reincarnated. However, the ghosts you are reincarnated as will be born with a malevolent aura."
When Mao Changji explained this method, his expression was very serious.
From her tone, Yin Zhu sensed that she wasn't very supportive of the ritual method. In addition, the ghost realm might not see a living person for several years, so it was indeed a bit troublesome.
"What's another way?" Yin Zhu asked.
“Another, more complicated method is to send people out of the ghost realm. But you should be able to sense that everyone hates humans, so no human would be alive enough to know the method of this ritual.” Mao Changji rubbed her teacup with her thumb, her tone tinged with self-mockery.
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