Zhao Li calmly looked at the woman in front of him wearing a shiny red wedding dress. Her nearly two-meter-long dark hair dragged on the floor. Her ten fingernails were as sharp as claws, and the cold air covered the temperature of the space.

"You said you found the unfaithful man who had a marriage contract with you and who married Miss Shangguan after passing the imperial examination." Zhao Li repeated to confirm.

After getting a definite answer, Zhao Li remained silent for a moment, sighed deeply, said nothing more, turned around and left.

……

Xia Dongqing was running around in the villa in a panic. His classmates, roommates, and closest classmate and friend in the college, Lu Zhe, had encountered a ghost. The childhood sweetheart of his newlywed wife Su Wenxiu died unexpectedly and turned into a ghost to haunt them.

Lu Zhe had no choice. Thinking of the rumors circulating in the academy, that Xia Dongqing's eyes could see ghosts, Lu Zhe had originally been dismissive of this, but now strange things were happening around him, and he couldn't help but believe it.

As soon as Zheng Wenjie returned to the villa, he could hear Xia Dongqing's voice begging Ya for help upstairs.

Yu'er, who was sitting on Zheng Wenjie's shoulders with her pale legs resting on his chest, raised her head and looked through the second floor. Xia Dongqing was begging Ya pitifully to help.

Ya Zheng sternly rejected Xia Dongqing: "Dongqing, this matter has nothing to do with us. This is your roommate's own fault. Karma is cyclical. What is owed must be repaid."

"You can save her temporarily, but you can't save her forever. You should understand this principle. Besides, Zhao Li wants to help the female ghost now. What can we do?"

As Yazheng was speaking, she suddenly shuddered, her expression serious, and she raised her hand to pull Xia Dongqing behind her.

"What's wrong?" Xia Dongqing staggered after being pulled hard by Ya and asked hurriedly.

Ya looked serious and whispered, "Something is wrong. I suddenly felt a strong negative energy."

"Did Zhao Li come back with the female ghost? Is there a turning point?" Xia Dongqing's face lit up with joy.

Ya shook her head slightly and looked at the door of the room with a serious look: "Impossible, didn't you say that it happened to your roommate in his previous life? It's only a few hundred years old, it's impossible for me to have a premonition from the bottom of my heart."

"What evil ghost that's been around for hundreds of years?" Zheng Wenjie's voice came from outside the door.

"It's Ajie who's back! Ajie!" Xia Dongqing said with blinking eyes, and ran forward in two steps to open the door.

"Mom!"

As soon as Xia Dongqing opened the door, her legs went limp and she sat on the ground, raising her hand and pointing at Zheng Wenjie's head: "Ajie, who... who is this?"

Yu'er's inky black eyes swept across Xia Dongqing, then looked at Ya, and tilted her head, as if thinking about something.

Zheng Wenjie patted Yu'er's legs hanging in front of his chest and looked at Xia Dongqing with amusement: "You have seen ghosts since you were a child, why are you still so timid."

When Xia Dongqing heard what Zheng Wenjie said, she felt inexplicably strange. That was it. She could become good friends with Zhao Li and Ya because they didn't care whether she had met them or not.

Xia Dongqing couldn't help but smile, then his expression paused, and he quickly stood up and said to Zheng Wenjie: "Ajie, human life is at stake, can you save my roommate?"

"Come down and talk slowly." Zheng Wenjie nodded and turned to go downstairs.

"It's like this, Ajie, you know, my dormitory in the college is a double room, and my roommate is a very nice person. He just married my classmate last month."

"He came to me yesterday and said there were two ghosts in his house."

Xia Dongqing sighed and continued, "My roommate's name is Lu Zhe, and his newlywed wife is Su Wenxiu. We all meet her Xiuxiu."

"Xiuxiu had a childhood sweetheart named Fang Wen, but he died young and became a ghost that followed Xiuxiu around. After Xiuxiu married Lu Zhe, she could always feel Fang Wen was by her side."

"Xiu Xiu thought Fang Wen was lonely down there, so she found a witch to arrange a ghost marriage for Fang Wen."

"He dragged Lu Zhe and carried Fang Wen's portrait to go on a blind date with a female ghost. As a result, the female ghost got attached to Lu Zhe and kept following him. He even had a car accident."

Xia Dongqing looked at Zheng Wenjie in frustration: "Yesterday, Lu Zhe asked me to go to his house to take a look, and then Fang Wen took over my body. I didn't know anything. Later, Zhao Li came."

"Zhao Li said that Fang Wen had the intention to harm others and turned into an evil ghost, so he beat him to death."

"But it turns out that the female ghost didn't get involved with Lu Zhe because of the ghost marriage. It was because Lu Zhe's previous life abandoned her and married into a wealthy family."

"That female ghost... is also very pitiful." Xia Dongqing pressed his hands on his forehead and whispered, "The female ghost and Lu Zhe's previous life secretly agreed to spend their lives together and signed a marriage certificate, but Lu Zhe didn't come to find him."

"After receiving the news, she hanged herself. Her body was not found until three years later. Zhao Li said that she was holding a grudge and her hair and nails have been growing naturally over the past three years."

"Even the Yellow Springs Ferry cannot take her to reincarnation, so she can only stay in the world of the living to look for Lu Zhe."

"Nonsense." Zheng Wenjie said calmly, watching Xia Dongqing look up at his eyes: "Keep talking."

Xia Dongqing nodded: "The female ghost wants to kill Lu Zhe at twelve o'clock tonight, and Lu Zhe... just sent me a text message."

As Xia Dongqing spoke, he quickly took out his cell phone and was about to hand it to Zheng Wenjie, but suddenly his hand felt light, and when he looked again, the phone had fallen into Yu'er's hand on Zheng Wenjie's shoulder.

Yu'er's voice was cold and sinister, giving people a malicious feeling. Xia Dongqing felt goose bumps all over his body. Ya patted Xia Dongqing on the shoulder, indicating that it was okay.

Xia Dongqing didn't dare to stare at Yu'er. He lowered his head and listened quietly to Yu'er reading the content of the text message.

"Thank you, Holly."

"Thank you for coming to help me. Things have come to this point. Maybe it's really just like what your friend said. It's all a cycle of cause and effect."

"Everything has its own cause and effect. The debt I owed in my previous life should be repaid in this life."

"Honestly, Holly. You know me, otherwise I don't think you would be friends with me."

"If nothing else, my ideology and morality are probably above average, right? When I heard your friend talk about the female ghost that haunted me, I felt really bad. I never thought that in my previous life, I was a Chen Shimei who killed such a girl."

"Giving up my life is a very difficult choice, but I have no other choice. Xiuxiu is a good girl and I love her very much."

"When I made the decision to give up my life to repay the debt I owed in my previous life, the person I was most worried about besides my parents was Xiuxiu."

"I actually had an idea. If Fang Wen's soul didn't fly away, when I die, he can possess my body just like he possessed yours. Then, can he take good care of Xiuxiu on my behalf?"

"It's too late to say anything now, Dongqing. If Xiuxiu encounters this kind of thing again in the future, I hope you can help her and prevent her from getting hurt because we are classmates."

"In addition to thanking you, I also want to apologize to you. You almost died in my hands. When you were possessed by Fang Wen, I was irritated by him and my mind went blank."

"I actually wanted to stab you with a knife at that time. Fortunately, your friend came over at the last moment and made me sober in time. Dongqing, I am ashamed, but I still hope to get your forgiveness." After hearing this, Zheng Wenjie tapped Yu'er's calf with his finger. Xia Dongqing's hand sank, and the phone returned to his hand.

Xia Dongqing had read this text message several times, but this time, after hearing what Yu'er said, he recalled the days when he and Lu Zhe were classmates.

Lu Zhe is a rich second-generation, but he did not look down on Xia Dongqing just because he came from an orphanage. Instead, he admired Xia Dongqing for being able to be self-reliant and get admitted to the same graduate school as him.

Although Xia Dongqing always refused Lu Zhe's help, Lu Zhe was still very friendly to him and really treated him as a friend.

Listening to Lv Zhe's suicide note, Xia Dongqing felt tears welling up in her eyes. She wiped her tears and looked at Zheng Wenjie and asked, "Ajie, Lv Zhe is really a good person, and so is Xiuxiu. They just got married, and now they are separated by heaven."

"Save him."

Zheng Wenjie took out a new mobile phone developed by the underworld, a high-tech Apple XII. With a swipe of his finger, he dialed Zhao Li's number, but the call was hung up after just two rings.

Zheng Wenjie was stunned when he looked at Apple XII. He didn't expect that Zhao Li would hang up his phone.

"It seems that Zhao Li is not willing to give up." Zheng Wenjie said, looking at Xia Dongqing and then at Ya, and asked: "Ya, what do you think? Do you want to help Xia Dongqing's friends?"

Ya didn't expect Zheng Wenjie to ask her, so she thought about it seriously and said honestly: "I don't think we should interfere, Dongqing, Lu Zhe is your friend, but so is Zhao Li."

"Zhao Li obviously thinks that Lu Zhe did something dishonest in his previous life, and now he wants Lu Zhe in this life to pay back his debt. He is determined to help the female ghost."

"Don't say that Lu Zhe was a Chen Shimei in his previous life. He should have paid the price."

"I'm being realistic. Of these two friends, Lu Zhe and Zhao Li, Zhao Li is the more important friend to you."

"Okay, don't embarrass Dongqing." Zheng Wenjie shook his head and looked at Xia Dongqing, who looked in pain: "Let's go and visit your friend's house."

Xia Dongqing nodded and brought Zheng Wenjie and the others to Lu Zhe's house. Just as Xia Dongqing was about to ring the doorbell, the door was opened by Zhao Li.

"Zhao Li, you are still here." Xia Dongqing said with a conflicted look.

Zhao Li looked at Xia Dongqing expressionlessly, then looked at Zheng Wenjie: "Shouldn't I be here?"

Yu'er tilted her head, her black hair floating up, her dark pupils staring straight at Zhao Li, and said maliciously: "Why don't you smile."

Zhao Li's expression froze, and it felt like a large hand was squeezing his throat tightly. He forced a smile with great difficulty.

Zheng Wenjie patted Yu'er's leg and looked at Zhao Li and said with a smile: "I told you not to answer my call, and you gave me a cold shoulder. See, Yu'er is angry."

As soon as Zheng Wenjie finished speaking, Zhao Li felt that the surroundings had returned to normal. He stretched out his hand to press his neck and twisted it: “Yu’er is getting stronger and stronger. If she condenses her Yin body, she should be more powerful than Yurong.”

Xia Dongqing glanced quietly at Yu'er on Zheng Wenjie's shoulder, and saw Yu'er turned her head without warning and made eye contact with him. Xia Dongqing was startled and quickly pushed Zhao Li away and walked into Lu Zhe's house.

"Where are Lu Zhe and Xiu Xiu?"

Xia Dongqing shouted, turned around, and looked at Zhao Li with a worried look on his face.

Zhao Li sneered: "You haven't given up yet? I told you, this is what he should pay back."

"Okay, I know everything. Zhao Li, what's wrong with you? I have never heard of a ghost that cannot be brought down by the ferry to the underworld." Zheng Wenjie interrupted the two and said.

"Even if there is, it's just this evil ghost resisting. Give her a lesson and let her know the pain, then she will behave herself."

"She is not a fierce ghost, she has never harmed anyone, and she has no intention to harm anyone. She just wants to find her lover... She has done nothing wrong." Zhao Li said awkwardly.

Zheng Wenjie ignored Zhao Li and looked around the decorations in Lu Zhe's house. The happy blessings on the doors and windows had not been removed yet, and next to the TV there were still wedding photos of Lu Zhe and Xiuxiu.

"People often say that just after getting married, you want to destroy the family." Zheng Wenjie shook his head.

Zhao Li looked at the photo of Lu Zhe and Xiu Xiu coldly: "In his previous life, he and Yan Yan secretly got married, and then he married into a wealthy family."

"Yanyan was hated by her family, rejected by the villagers, and suffered all kinds of injustices. She only had Lu Zhe in her heart. But what she waited for was such bad news. She committed suicide and was not discovered until three years later."

Zhao Li sneered: "Three years, three whole years, what does this mean? How much pressure did Yanyan endure? What kind of life did she go through while waiting for Lu Zhe?"

"Yanyan is very silly. To use today's words, she is love-brained and her head is full of Lu Zhe."

Zhao Li took a deep breath and continued, "But Lu Zhe and his wife from a wealthy family lived happily together until old age, and they are still together in this life."

"So what do you want to say? You couldn't bear it, so you helped Yanyan and let her wander around the world?" Zheng Wenjie frowned and looked at Zhao Li.

"What you should do is to find a way for Yanyan to reincarnate, let her forget the past and live a new life, instead of torturing her."

"This is what she wants too!" Zhao Li said loudly.

Zheng Wenjie looked at Zhao Li and shook his head: "After hundreds of years, tell me how you felt when you first learned about Yanyan's affairs."

"And how do you feel now?"

"Back then, you helped Yanyan and didn't force her to reincarnate because you weren't as mature as you are now."

"You're not as unsympathetic as you are now, right?" Zhao Li continued.

Zhao Li laughed at himself and said, "Yes, when I first learned about Yanyan's story, now there are only pictures left in my mind, just like watching a movie, without any emotion in my heart."

"But I promised her that I would go against the rules of the underworld and choose to help her. I must have felt sympathy or something like that at the time."

"Although I can't feel it now, I still want to fulfill my promise, even if it's just for the feelings that have passed away."

Xia Dongqing didn't dare to breathe. He had never seen Zhao Li look so desperate and painful. He whispered to Ya beside him, "Xiao Ya, what's going on?"

Ya looked at Zhao Li with pity and transmitted the voice into Xia Dongqing's mind to explain.

"The ferryman has no soul, only a spirit. The seven emotions and six desires will only exist in the ferryman for a short time before being forgotten."

"The reason why Zhao Li helped Yanyan was more because of the obsession caused by the pain of forgotten emotions."

(End of this chapter)