Liu Sheng with severed arm

  Impulsiveness is the devil, words have already slipped out of my mouth as soon as I threw away my shoes. Only then did I secretly regret it in my heart. Why provoke such a cold and intimidating god? Those eyes are so frightening, who knows if he's a tough cookie, looking for trouble with me until I'm dead? Yin Yue, when can you change your impulsive ways? Even if I were to die, I couldn't be caught like this!

  I cursed my own foolishness in my heart, but what was done was done and I could only grit my teeth and glare at his back with a scowl on my face, praying that he wouldn't get hit.

  The shoe fell from the parabola I threw out and landed on his head with great precision, but didn't hit him. Instead, he caught it and stood behind me in place. Then, stiffly turning around, he looked at the shoe and then at me, his cold eyes suddenly becoming a bit complicated, as if angry and also somewhat disbelieving. Finally, they all turned into an uncontrollable smile, and he burst out laughing.

  "Today I'm in a good mood, so I won't treat you like an ordinary woman. Luckily, you don't have stinky feet, otherwise it would ruin my good mood and I would kill you mercilessly."

  He threw the shoes back at me, and what he said made my scalp tighten. Ignoring those nauseating words, that last sentence didn't sound like a joke at all, but rather a serious warning.

  After sizing me up with interest for a while, he turned around with a cold smile, slightly disdainfully patted the dust off his hands, and disappeared into the corner with his hands in his pockets.

  Ming Yan stood beside me, his usually gentle face furrowed in a frown. He withdrew his gaze and looked at me very seriously, saying: "This person has a strong bloody aura, it's best not to provoke him in the future. Ling Jie, you still can't control yourself well, and I can only help you avoid the invasion of demons, but I cannot intervene in the world of living people, or else I will drag you down."

  My fist clenched and unclenched, responding with a skeptical tone. I lowered my head to put on my shoes, "Got it, I'm not interested in messing with someone like that anyway. Don't worry, I'll be careful. Besides, what are the chances of running into a complete stranger again?"

  What does it mean that such a cold gaze appears on a rainy day like today? Perhaps he still has a kind heart. But what about that icy gaze and that cold, arrogant tone?

  I bid farewell to Aunt Sun and walked out of the orphanage. The rain outside had subsided a lot, and the scattered raindrops and the gradually dispersing dark clouds in the sky were hinting that the weather was about to clear up.

  I walked out of the gate with an umbrella, accompanied by Ming Yan, along a shaded path. The streets were empty and no one would notice that I was wearing headphones, not making a phone call, but using a blindfold technique to avoid drawing attention, so I could communicate normally with Ming Yan.

  "My business is done, what's next? Am I really going to the underworld to find Liu Sheng? What if it's a wild goose chase and he's already been reincarnated?" I know nothing about the world of the dead, except for common sense.

  Ming Yan smiled, "It won't happen. You've only been dead for less than half a year and you're a new ghost with a bad record. The people below wouldn't arrange reincarnation so quickly for such a ghost. Besides, a ghost like Liu Sheng probably doesn't have the chance to enter the human world again. He might fall into the animal realm or stay in hell doing hard labor to make up for his past mistakes."

  I bit my lip and couldn't help but shiver, thinking to myself that it's true after all, you really can't do bad things, or else you'll really go to hell when you die.

  The godly person was walking ahead, and when I came back to my senses, Ming Yan wasn't following behind me. I turned around with an umbrella in hand and saw that he was staring forward with a surprised expression. I followed his gaze and was shocked to the point where my jaw almost dropped.

  Isn't it! So coincidental? Just mentioned Cao Cao, and he appears before our eyes!

  All I saw was a young man standing not far from me, covered in blood with one arm broken off, his face as pale as paper, and blood still dripping from the corner of his mouth. The word "狼狈" (desperate) is used to describe him, but I couldn't find a more suitable one.

  That face I've seen in the documents for the past two days, it's all too familiar. "Liu Sheng? Aren't you supposed to be in the underworld?"

  He doesn't seem like the kind of person who would do something bad, a rebellious outlaw without regard for law or propriety. His refined face and dull eyes, although appearing empty and lifeless, give me the feeling that they are filled with hesitation and perplexity.

  His right hand, clenched into a fist and stained with crimson, gripped tightly as he bit his lips and stared at me for a long time. Just when I thought he would immediately speak up and ask for my help, he unexpectedly knelt down.

  As it was a soul body, there were no ripples on the water surface.

  I was stunned, scratching my head in confusion, and had already forgotten that Ming Yan had arrived by my side. He also looked at Liu Sheng with surprise, furrowed his brow, nodded to me, "He has a request for you, so he shouldn't harm you. Let's go take a look, since he's delivered himself to our doorstep, we don't need to go to the underworld to find him."

  He walked ahead of me, seemingly aware of his surroundings. The rain stopped and I closed my umbrella, walking behind him. Those feelings that had been buried deep in my heart seemed to be sprouting again.