Chapter 1: Strange Phenomena in the Underworld

  Knowing that Hei Bai Wu Chang was coming, Lu Xiao Ying curiously greeted the starry sky. Hei Bai Wu Chang slowly appeared, and the two of them were like skeletons that had been dead for many years and then dug up, appearing in front of Lu Xiao Ying. These two ghostly messengers had appeared in the mortal world, everyone knew that someone was going to die, it's just that no one knew who this unlucky person was.

  Out of curiosity, Lu Xiaoying casually asked a question.

  Hei Wu Chang said that there was a man named Yang Hao, when Lu Xiao Ying heard the name Yang Hao, her body shook violently, a suffocating feeling spread through her brain, she felt a sharp pain in her chest, an ominous premonition enveloped her like a fishing net, she was shocked and couldn't speak.

  She was stunned, and black and white suddenly floated up, disappearing in a flash in mid-air.

  Lu Xiaoying rushed back, running like an arrow along the way she came. When she arrived at the entrance of the hotel where she and Yang Huan lived, she saw a crowd of people gathered there, discussing something in a flurry. There were police cars parked on the side, and from these scenes, it seemed that there had been a car accident at the hotel entrance after she left.

  She quickly walked forward, pushed through the crowd to take a closer look, and this glance made her suddenly feel dizzy and faint, and she fell to the ground. When she came to, she was lying in someone's arms, that person had saved her. She glanced at him and didn't even say thank you before throwing herself onto the corpse and bursting into tears. The one lying on the ground was Yang Hua, who had just given her a sweet love.

  After Lu Xiao Ying left, Yang Hua also got out of bed. He smoked two cigarettes in the hotel room, then washed up and prepared to go out and drive.

  As I stepped out of the gate, the sky was dark and the alleys in the city were filled with swirling fog. At this moment, there were no pedestrians on the street, and all was quiet.

  Yang Hao took a deep breath of fresh air and then went across the street to get his car.

  But unexpectedly, just as he climbed over the railing and jumped down to the ground to shorten his journey, a sedan came rushing up with a sharp horn sound, and the wheels rolled over Yang Hua's body.

  The unpredictable fate has arrived, and the one who cried to death was just laughing with Lu Xiaoying, but there is a big difference. However, heaven's will is hard to violate, and they still took Yang Hua's soul away.

  Yang Huan's soul was floating in the air, and he saw Lu Xiao Ying pounce on him, wailing loudly as if she had lost her own mother. He felt quite moved in his heart, and his soul didn't want to leave his body anymore.

  "Come with us!" Hei Wuchang took out a pair of handcuffs, stepped forward and grabbed one of Yang Huan's hands, then cuffed him.

  "What kind of people are you?" Yang Huan asked Hei Bai Wuchang.

  "Sorry about that," said Bai Wuchang with a smile. "Let me introduce ourselves, we two are the infamous Hei and Bai Wuchang, often referred to as the Black and White Impermanence, or Soul Reapers for short, who specialize in reaping ghosts and occasionally assist the underworld in rewarding good and punishing evil."

  "I'm already dead," Yang Huan's soul sighed, and now he could only let Hei Bai Wu Chang take him away. But when he saw the sad expression on Lu Xiao Ying's face, looking at her tearful appearance, he felt a little reluctant to part with her, so he turned around and broke free from Hei Bai Wu Chang's hands, floating towards Lu Xiao Ying.

  Hei Bai was unpredictable, and he couldn't let him escape. With a flash of movement, he stepped to Yang Huan's side, his powerful hand grasping Yang Huan tightly, like a gust of wind sweeping into the air.

  Yang Huan shouted for help to Lu Xiao Ying, but Lu Xiao Ying was too grief-stricken and couldn't hear Yang Huan's heart-wrenching cries.

  Lu Xiao Ying cried like this until the police came forward to support her and took away the body, telling her to go deal with it in the morning. Only then did Lu Xiao Ying think of chasing after Hei Bai Wu Chang, at least she wanted to say a final farewell to Yang Huan.

  She rushed back home, explained everything to Qian Xiaohong, and asked Qian Xiaohong to take care of her physical body while her own soul left her body and floated out, soon floating into the air.

  At this time, the sky was about to brighten up, and the air before dawn was the coldest. Adding to that, the gloomy aura from hell kept drifting over, causing Lu Xiao Ying's soul to tremble non-stop. However, she couldn't care less about the cold; all she wanted was to hurry up and catch up with Hei Bai Wu Chang. She wanted to bid farewell to Yang Hua because she liked him. Ever since Yang Hua told her that his family was poor, she had secretly planned to take care of Yang Hua's elderly mother. Now that Yang Hua was dead, but he hadn't told her where his hometown was.

  Her soul was floating in mid-air, and finally, when the black-and-white impermanence quickly arrived at Naihe Bridge, she caught up.

  "Yang Hua!" Lu Xiao Ying shouted as she chased after him.

  Hei Bai Wu Chang and Yang Huan both turned their heads to look at Lu Xiao Ying.

  "Yang Huan, wait!" Lu Xiao Ying rushed up from behind and saw the three souls' shadows, so she hastily shouted loudly.

  Three souls turned back, but saw Lu Xiaoying panting and running up to grab Yang Huan and say: "Yang Huan, you can't die. I just found happiness and now you're going to leave me. What am I supposed to do in the future?"

  "May I ask who you are?" Yang Huan furrowed his brow as he looked at the unfamiliar face of this stranger, feeling somewhat perplexed.

  Lu Xiaoying's soul revealed her true form, so her original ugly appearance made Yang Huan unrecognizable.

  "I'm Lu Xiao Ying," Lu Xiao Ying also forgot herself due to anxiety, she had forgotten that before Yang Hua's death, she used someone else's body to interact with him. Now that she has revealed her true form, she still hopes that Yang Hua can recognize her. She thinks that Yang Hua loves not just her physical appearance but the person she is, and even if she reveals her original looks, Yang Hua will still remember their sweet love and her tenderness. Because although her body was someone else's, her soul was her own, and it is the soul that truly shows tenderness, not the flesh.

  "You don't remember, we were together just last night?" she said.

  "Impossible," Yang Huan shook his head and said, "Lu Xiao Ying is so beautiful, look at you, you're so ugly, like a ghost. Don't say that you know me, to be honest, I don't have any girlfriends as ugly as you."

  "What did you say?" Yang Hua's words deeply hurt Lu Xiao Ying's hopeful heart. The man she had always deeply loved actually despised her for being ugly, and even said he didn't have such an ugly girlfriend. Didn't this make her feel that everything she had done during this time was in vain?

  Yes, Lu Xiao Ying admitted that she was very ugly and didn't dare to show her true face to others before. However, when she met Yang Hua, she thought that someone as kind-hearted as him wouldn't care about appearances. With someone like Yang Hua who understood emotions, what he pursued was substance, the beauty of the soul. So, she believed in Yang Hua and had even hinted to him, saying "If I were a very ugly person, would you still like me?" Yang Hua had sworn that even if she were ugly, he would be sincere. It was because of this one sentence that Lu Xiao Ying dared to interact with Yang Hua boldly, taking him seriously as someone she could rely on, thinking of him everywhere, and even wanting to marry him. This time, coming to the underworld was also to find out Yang Hua's hometown address in order to help take care of his family. Now, when she thought she had found happiness, she unexpectedly heard such an unfeeling sentence.

  "I'm very ugly," said Lu Xiao Ying, "but I'm sincere with you."

  "Listen, miss, I've never met you before, I don't know you. You say your feelings for me are real, how can I believe that? Even if they were true, I wouldn't want to believe it anyway. I only love Lu Xiao Ying, she's beautiful, gentle, and most importantly, she has money to spend on me. And as for you? I'm already dead, seeing you in a place like this means you're also a dead person, and an extremely ugly one at that. Would I fall for a dead person? So even if you do know me, please don't go spreading it around, someone like you would only bring me ridicule."

  Hei Bai Wu Chang stood by, listening to the conversation between the two, and couldn't help but feel angry in his heart. Although Yang Hua didn't know Lu Xiao Ying's true identity, Lu Xiao Ying's dedication to him was genuine. Even if Yang Hua didn't like the current Lu Xiao Ying, it wasn't necessary to say such hurtful words. The two Mo Hun messengers exchanged a glance, and with a swift motion, they pulled out the handcuffs from their hands, which clamped down on Yang Hua's wrists, causing him to cry out in pain.

  Such heartless words, Lu Xiao Ying took a few steps back, her whole body trembling with rage, wanting to step forward and slap him. But she didn't do that, she could only smile bitterly and retreat, then looked at Yang Hua helplessly for a while, coldly smiled and said: "You have to remember what you said today!" As she spoke, she shed a few tears and floated away.

  Lu Xiao Ying, who had just escaped from hell, was left with a heart full of despair. Yang Hua's ruthless words made her lose faith in the existence of true love and she would never again yearn for romance. This experience taught her that true love and sweet affection were merely illusions created by people, and apart from beauty and the glamour of wealth, everything else was dull and uninteresting.

  Back in the apartment, Qian Xiaohong was still anxiously waiting for her.

  Qian Xiaohong saw her hastily leave her body, and she didn't even have time to ask "what's going on".

  Lu Xiaoying is back now and has returned to her body, soon after she sat up straight.

  "What's wrong with you?" Qian Xiaohong asked hastily after Lu Xiao Ying returned to her body and got up, "What happened? You came in such a hurry that I didn't even have time to ask questions. You just told me to take care of your physical body and then left."

  "Yang Hua is dead!" Lu Xiao Ying said with a expressionless face.

  She said it with such a poker face that no one could see any signs of distress or pain on her face, as if the dead was not a person but just a pig or a dog.

  "Dead?" Qian Xiaohong's face was shocked, she saw him last night, how could he be dead? "Then are you going to catch his soul?"

  "I didn't know love was so worthless until you stopped chasing me." Lu Xiao Ying said calmly, his face expressionless.

  "What's going on?" Qian Xiaohong sat beside her, asking with concern. Although she didn't know how Lu Xiao Ying felt at the moment, she was clear that judging from Lu Xiao Ying's current expression, she must have been hurt badly and was furious to the extreme.

  "Nothing matters anymore!" Lu Xiao Ying stood up stiffly, walked slowly to the back of the door, opened it and just walked out like that.

  She walked out of the apartment and wandered aimlessly on the street, at this time it was already noon, people came and went on the street, groups of men and women brushed past her, some men also took a colorful look at her departing back when they passed by her, using their strange eyes to comment on her slender figure and stunning appearance.

  However, if it were in the past, she would definitely smile at the men who secretly looked at her, and flirt with them by raising an eyebrow. But now, as long as someone looks at her a few more times, she feels disgusted, and even some uncontrollable anger.

  She walked like this, unknowingly coming to the outskirts of the city. At this time, the cold wind was like a knife, and the withered grass stretched across the mountains. In the wilderness, solitary graves could be vaguely seen, dotting the desolate autumn land.

  This scene reminded her of the scene before she died, which was also in late autumn, with withered grass everywhere and cold winds piercing to the bone. She had gone up the mountain to chop firewood, but accidentally fell off a cliff. When people carried her body back home, her parents didn't show any sadness at all. Her soul floated in mid-air, clearly seeing her father kick her corpse and scold her as "Pig Eight Precepts". Her mother was sad, but her sadness was only that the family had lost another labor force.

  Thinking of this, she feels that returning home is a must now. She suddenly thinks that her parents are also to blame for where she is today. In her heart, she vows to take revenge on those who have hurt her, and her family is now shrouded in a layer of gloom.