"You, the newly appointed matchmaker, are quite confident. Don't you want to ask what heinous things Xi Fu has done? Do you have the ability to solve it? Once I order the sale of human-machine tools to stop, if you can't solve my problem, what punishment are you prepared to accept now that the fairy is in front of you?"
Wang Wuguan smiled slightly, showing no joy at the impending resolution of the problem. Instead, he discussed with Wang Yao the punishment for failing to accomplish the task.
"Um...what kind of punishment? At worst, you can just keep selling in the underworld..." Wang Yao's heart skipped a beat at the words of the Five Senses King. He was originally confident, but he was now uneasy.
"What a joke! My Underworld has been selling human artifacts since the dawn of the Underworld. You just stopped selling them so easily with a single word. Even if you resumed sales, what would become of my Underworld's credibility and reputation? If you go unpunished, wouldn't I be seen as a two-faced villain?"
The Five Senses King didn't even blink before replying immediately.
“Uh…” Wang Yao turned his head to look at the fairy, thinking that what the Five Senses King said made sense. Why not listen to how he would punish her? If it wasn’t too serious, he could agree to it first.
But Wang Yao immediately dismissed the idea. These five features had been harmed by Xi Fu for so many years, they had long hated the Old Man of the Moon with a passion. How could the punishment he mentioned not be severe? There was no need to ask at all.
If he can avoid using an axe like Li Chu did, then this King of Five Statues is a truly great benefactor.
“…Alright, tell me first what Xi Fu did to you back then?” Wang Yao had figured out the key point and was no longer concerned about what punishment the Five Observation King would propose. He directly asked the Five Observation King about the old story between Xi Fu and the past.
First, understand what's going on. If you have a solution, then talk about it. If you don't, just pack up and leave. You'll have to think of other ways to stop selling the human-machine interface.
The Five Senses King nodded, but then looked at the fairy maiden who had been standing to the side, watching the two with great interest.
“Fairy Maiden, the banquet at the Dongcheng Prince’s Mansion has been prepared for a long time, but I really want to ask you to be my witness and witness for me and the Old Man of the Moon here. So I have delayed inviting you to the banquet. Please forgive me, Fairy Maiden.”
"It's alright. I didn't come to your underworld for food and drink. You two should settle your past cases as soon as possible and get on with your tribulations." The fairy smiled.
She now recalled that Xi Fu seemed to have had some kind of grudge with the King of the Underworld back then. It seemed to have caused quite a stir, even reaching the Heavenly Emperor, but in the end, nothing came of it. She was very curious about what it was all about.
"To be honest, this matter isn't exactly honorable, but so many years have passed, I'm too lazy to care about saving face anymore," said the Five Senses King, bowing his head in thought as he slowly paced around the room.
"Back then, I had a quarrel with the Old Man of the Moon. The reason was that I was setting up an external affairs office in the Yin-Yang Path of each floor of the Underworld. This matter was originally an internal affair of the Underworld, but somehow Xi Fu found out about it. He also heard from somewhere that this matter was proposed by me, so he came to the Underworld to argue with me."
"I certainly wasn't very nice to him back then. It was originally an internal affair of the Underworld. If you, the Matchmaker, were to discuss matters of marriage and funerals in the Underworld with me, that would be reasonable. But to come and talk to me about whether or not the Underworld's External Affairs Office should be established is too much of a fuss. You, the Matchmaker, are not the Heavenly Emperor. Aren't you meddling too much?"
"When Xi Fu saw that I ignored him, he left a resentful remark before he left, saying that I would definitely regret it. I didn't pay attention to it at the time, but I didn't expect that this bastard would actually secretly do something to me and tie me to a male ghost on the seventh floor."
"Logically speaking, I have lived on the eighteenth floor for a long time and would never go down to the seventh floor. But after that bastard left, I suddenly had a whim to go down to the seventh floor to investigate. On the seventh floor, I met my wife. At that time, I thought I had met the love of my life. I was truly caught in a trap without even realizing it."
“Fortunately, Old Wei has been serving me all along,” said the Five Statue King, glancing at the fat eunuch who had remained silent since he came in to report. “He noticed that my behavior was unusual and, having heard of the Old Man of the Moon’s methods, he reminded me of them.”
"Only then did I realize the truth of my dream, but I could no longer let go of my feelings for my wife. I knew that this feeling was caused by the Old Man of the Moon's tricks, so I could only painfully say goodbye to my wife and go to the human world to find the Old Man of the Moon and beg him to help me break this ill-fated relationship."
"That bastard has been trying to manipulate me in every way. Even though I agreed to let the Underworld abolish its Foreign Affairs Office, he still wouldn't let it go and demanded that the Underworld completely sever all ties with the Ocean World. Even today, I find it hard to say those unreasonable demands."
"For the sake of my happiness as a ghost, I had no choice but to compromise with him. The Kings of Hell sympathized with my plight and did their best to support me. I fulfilled every single one of that bastard's demands. In the end, he had no more excuses and seemed finally satisfied. He then came back to the seventh floor with me, but..."
At this point, the King of Five Senses suddenly paused, and Wang Yao was astonished to find that the King of Hell's eyes had turned blood red.
"It's also my fault for being in such a hurry to end this ill-fated relationship that I didn't have time to take my wife away from the seventh floor. The living conditions on the seventh floor are so harsh. Those rotten ghosts, seeing that my wife had taken a liking to me, actually made things difficult for him in every way, causing my poor wife to... to die on the seventh floor..."
“That bastard Xi Fu, seeing that my wife is dead, used that as an excuse to say that the marriage is now a dead one, and even said that he has no way to break it off for me.”
“I went with him to the Heavenly Emperor to reason with him. The Heavenly Emperor also said that according to the settings of the Matchmaker System, if one party in a marriage dies, the marriage becomes a dead marriage that can never be broken. This is because after a ghost dies, there is no trace of it in the Six Realms, and even the Heavenly Court is helpless.”
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