Desolate and cold, the city is shrouded in darkness, without a hint of sunset's warmth. I am alone here, with no signs of human presence. Countless loneliness has transformed into death. Countless shadows overlap to form fragments of memories, slowly creeping in.

  This was what I thought when I knew I was already dead in high school, but now that I think about it, describing it like this is actually quite cheesy, and not being a little girl, where did all these flowery words come from?

  Anyway, this feeling is indeed quite annoying, because the word "death" is destined to be equated with separation. You know, going to the underworld is not like returning home, it's a one-way ticket that doesn't come back.

  But let's get back to the point, birth, aging, illness and death are the natural order of things, ordinary people can't resist it. Think about it, who would have thought that I, this unlucky guy, could be so lucky as to come back from the dead? Although, since I came back to life, nothing good has happened to me, damn it.

  The old man stared at me with a blank expression, and I stared back at the female ghost. She seemed unable to accept the fact that she had indeed died. Her current expression was difficult to describe, gazing at her own body on the ground in a strange shape, the face of the corpse had been disfigured by the old man's blows, covered in bloodstains, and the big eyes that stared out no longer shone with the light of life. Yes, this is everyone's final destination, good or evil, beautiful or ugly, all reduced to just a stinking shell.

  The female ghost thought for a long time before finally speaking up. She said to me, "Am I really dead? But why am I in this state?"

  I saw it and asked me, so I told it about the course of events, including who I and Lao Yi were, how it was resurrected. Finally, I and Lao Yi told it how to make its soul leave its body, telling it everything at once.

  After hearing that, it didn't show the fear I expected, but rather a feeling like having swallowed a fly. It muttered to itself: "Could it be... that's how I die? Could it really be that I die like this?! Damn! Why am I so unlucky?"

  This time I was stunned again, why does this big sister speak so inappropriately? Although it's said that death is a big deal, you shouldn't be using foul language, thinking about Li Gong's wealth of hundreds of millions or even billions, how can this young lady from a wealthy family speak so crudely?

  Although these three words are also one of my three oral languages, my three oral languages are 'he Danye', 'he Nainai', and '******'. However, when they came out of the mouth of this elegant and dignified ghostly lady, it really made me stunned, no matter how I listened to it, it sounded awkward.

  Damn it, this is too much. But there's no way around it, since he's already dead and neither I nor Old Yi are in any trouble, let's just coax him into the underworld for now.

  After all, saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda, and sending a ghost on its way can turn it into a golden body. This is an accumulation of virtue, I have to say that I am now too believing in fate, because this ruthless fate teacher teased me, if I don't do some good deeds, who knows how miserable I will be in the future? Now thinking back, at that time, I was indeed at the lowest point in my life, always like walking in a fog, and couldn't get out. Until many years later today, when I chatted with Lao Yi, I still often sighed about that time, it was so unlucky.

  So I smiled and said to the female ghost who was scolding on the street: "Hey, miss, look, things are like this, the situation is also like this. Since you're already dead, why not go to the underworld to receive your ghostly heart and start anew in the next life? To be honest, my master is a civil servant below, I'll ask him to take care of you when I see him next time, how about that?"

  I thought I had already spoken politely enough, and it should have followed my lead to step down, but this girl was beyond my expectation. She still had a shrew's face, staring at me and saying: "Why should I listen to you and go reincarnate? Who are you?"

  I'm speechless, yeah, I was completely stunned by what it said. Why did it have to reincarnate? Where am I supposed to go? In my heart, I was both angry and amused, thinking that this really is the spoiled daughter of a wealthy family, even in death she's still so arrogant. Alas, children from rich families are indeed unruly, whether they're alive or dead, their words are always so harsh.

  Forget it. I thought to myself that after all, it's just a wandering soul now, and it doesn't pose any harm, but it can't just be left floating around like this either. You see, a wandering soul is a homeless soul, without a home or a temple, without roots or connections. Since it has already left its body, there are only two paths left: one is to go to the Nether City to receive a ghostly heart, and the other is to become an ownerless wandering soul.

  The so-called masterless lonely soul, for now, is not yet apparent on its body. After all, it's different from that extremely yin and extremely fierce one I encountered before. Due to the battle just now, it has already dispersed its resentment and evil energy, so it won't take long for it to lose consciousness and drift aimlessly everywhere. This is an endless self-exile. To be honest, in this vast world, there are countless such ghostly souls. Some have good luck and can drift into a temple, listening to Buddhist scriptures every day to purify themselves, perhaps even recovering their divine consciousness one day. However, those with bad luck can only wander aimlessly. Since the road to the underworld is open to all ghosts, of course, wandering souls can also go there, but they no longer have the qualifications to receive a ghostly heart. Most of them linger on that path connecting the world of the living and the underworld, seeing people passing by, wanting to pull them along as companions - it's truly a pitiful fate.

  I mentioned earlier that when I was a soul, the yellow chicken that guided my soul walked this way. Those wandering souls had transformed into countless things that tempted people to lure me back. In the end, I fell for Huang San Tai's plan in the hospital and turned back. What I saw was a dark mass with countless arms stretching out from it, which were the ownerless wandering souls that had entwined together.

  If this young lady in front of me doesn't go to the underworld soon, her fate will probably be like that. Thinking about it is tragic. So I said to her: "Hey, I'm not some old nobody, I told you earlier, I'm Mr. Yin and Yang, I'm here to help you. Think about it, the living have their own lives, the dead have their own paths to death. If you don't go to the underworld to be reincarnated, to be honest with you, your fate will be miserable. You'll lose your consciousness, just like an infant without intelligence, wandering aimlessly forever. There won't be another chance for you to become human again."

  The female ghost was stunned when she heard me say that, although she may not have understood what I said very well, but she also understood that if she didn't go to the underworld to pick up her ticket, the consequences would be severe and tragic.

  I saw it like this, and I had a plan in my heart. Whether it was human or ghost, females are always timid, so I took advantage of the situation and said to it: "How about it? If you've come to your senses, if you head west now, you won't have taken many steps before you'll automatically enter the City of Ghosts."

  After hearing what I said, he looked at me and then looked at old Yi who was sitting on the ground, exhausted, and asked with some doubt: "You two... are really Mr. Yin and Yang? Was it my dad who invited you?"

  Isn't that a no-brainer? If it weren't for the two of us, seeing you in such a dignified state would be enough to scare someone's pants off! So I just nodded.

  She saw me nodding, and then resumed that arrogant expression, saying to me: "Since you were invited by my dad, you must have received money, right? Since you've received money, you should get things done! I don't want to leave now, think of a way to keep me like this!"

  I swear, really, I swear, if I had been as hot-tempered two years ago, I would have died from anger long ago!!

  What kind of person is this, ah no, you say what kind of ghost is this? This is clearly the temperament of that rumored big sister from the Jianghu, her grandfather's, who is she used to ordering around? Does she really think I'm her lackey? No mistake, I did take money, took 250, you say this number is auspicious, originally I thought it would be a quiet night, didn't expect tonight's events would also be so auspicious. First, encountered a fake corpse, then was even extorted by the ghost of a big sister.

  I want to tell it that the one who took the money was actually Uncle Wen, and let it go find Uncle Wen directly. Can a poor working-class person like me afford to indulge its bad habits?

  To hell with it, I don't care anymore! Whoever wants to go to the underworld can go, whoever doesn't want to can just stay wherever they please!

  Lao Yi saw my angry face and asked me, "Old Cui, what's wrong? Has something gone wrong again? What did that wandering soul say?"

  I said to Lao Yi, "What a wandering soul! You're just like a mother."

  After that, I turned my head and said to the female ghost in a very impolite tone: "Sorry, the business I took was just to guard your corpse. Tomorrow you will be cremated. As for how to preserve your consciousness, I don't know, and I don't want to care about it either. Since I've already said this much, whether you're willing to listen or not is your own business. If you want to go somewhere, just go there. Don't think that I'm happy to serve you like a young master."

  That female ghost saw me suddenly uttering harsh words, and my expression also changed from the servant's face to a three-inch tall man's face in an instant. She was stunned, I reckon she knew her own position now. Originally, I saved you with good intentions, but you thought I was easy to bully. Who would be happy if they were treated like that?

  It saw my attitude was very strong, yet it seemed to be very wronged, and its attitude suddenly made a 180-degree turn. It looked like it was about to cry as it said to me: "Sorry, I know what I said earlier really hurt you, please forgive me because of my young age, okay?~~~, Oppa~~~~."

  I suddenly got goosebumps all over my body, what the heck is this? How can flipping faces be faster than flipping books? It's too fake! And 'oppa'! Looking at it, I realized that it was a victim of those brainless Korean dramas before. You know I hate those Korean dramas the most! If I still fell for it like this, then I'd be even more stupid than Wu Laowu!

  So I said to it in a bad temper: "Do you really take me for a brain hemorrhage? Stop giving me this, the road is all yours, which one you want to walk is your own business!!"

  It saw that I still didn't give it face, and it was really a bit heartbroken. It lowered its head to think for a while, then raised its head to look at me with an expression that I had definitely seen before. I remembered that the yellow-robed female ghost also had this same expression when I trapped her in the bottle!

  "All I saw was her murmuring: 'Can I ask you for one thing? Please, please help me, or else I really won't be able to rest in peace!'"