Clearly, living things shouldn't be able to touch objects from the underworld.
But when its paw came down, the return-to-the-living-world token let out a crisp crack.
The Ghost Gate immediately trembled.
The mist wrapped around my ankles suddenly vanished.
My entire ghostly body was hurled backward, and I landed hard on my butt.
“Yuan Bao!”
I stared at it in shock.
“Do you have any idea how expensive this thing is?”
“I pawned eight necklaces, sixteen handbags, and even my favorite pink diamond from when I was alive just to get it!”
Yuan Bao couldn't understand a word I said.
It simply kept circling the return-to-the-living-world token.
Its back arched as it growled at Lin Wantang.
Lin Wantang was awakened by the commotion.
Annoyed, she sat up and threw a pillow over.
“Damn cat, what's gotten into you in the middle of the night?”
Yuan Bao dodged the pillow and leaped onto the top of the wardrobe.
Lin Wantang was about to continue scolding it when Pei Zhou looked up.
“What did you just call it?”
His voice was perfectly calm.
But Lin Wantang's expression stiffened for a moment.
“I said it was being too noisy.”
Pei Zhou looked at her for a few seconds.
“Yuan Bao is getting old.”
“Don't bother it from now on.”
Lin Wantang bit her lip, then quickly put on a hurt expression.
“I was only irritated because I was just woken up. You care about it, but you don't care about me?”
I had asked him the same kind of question before.
Once, Yuan Bao had gotten sick, and Pei Zhou had stayed up all night taking care of it.
I hugged a pillow resentfully.
“Do you only like cats now? Do you not like me anymore?”
Pei Zhou had wrapped both me and the blanket in his arms.
“It's your cat.”
“If I love you, of course I'll love everything that comes with you.”
I refused to let it go.
“Then what if Yuan Bao and I both fell into the water?”
He had stared at me expressionlessly for half a day.
“Jiang Sui.”
“You can swim. Yuan Bao can swim too.”
“I'm the only one who can't.”
In the end, he kissed the tip of my nose.
“So could Mrs. Pei please save her husband first?”
The memory abruptly stopped.
Now, Pei Zhou simply withdrew his gaze.
“Go to sleep.”
Lin Wantang still wanted to say something.
But Pei Zhou had already gotten up and walked into the study.
After the door closed, the hurt expression on her face disappeared instantly.
“Putting on an act like you're so devoted.”
“If you really couldn't bear to let her go, why didn't you go die with that woman?”
I froze.
The next second, a cold, mechanical voice rang through the room.
【Host, please watch your words.】
【There are twenty-seven days left until the wedding.
Until the mission is completed, do not anger the male lead.】
I immediately turned around.
There was only Lin Wantang in the room.
She rubbed the temple that Yuan Bao had made ache.
“Got it.”
“How high is Pei Zhou's favorability toward me now?”
【Eighty-seven percent.】
She smiled.
“That high?”
【The male lead has cleared out his ex-wife's belongings, renovated the bridal chamber, and publicly announced his marriage.
According to the data, he has essentially escaped Jiang Sui's influence.】
【As long as you successfully complete the wedding, you will officially replace Jiang Sui and become the female lead of this world.】
I stood rooted to the spot.
For a moment, I even forgot how to be a ghost.
Ex-wife.
Replace her.
The female lead of this world.
I understood every single word.
But put together, they made no sense to me.
Lin Wantang leaned against the headboard, casually playing with my wedding ring.
“I told you, how difficult could a dead woman be to deal with?”
“At first, you insisted that I wait six years.”
The system coldly reminded her:
【After Jiang Sui's death, the male lead's mental state became extremely unstable.
Forcing the plot forward could cause the world to collapse.】
Lin Wantang pouted.
“Isn't that because you're useless?”
“When she died, you should have scattered her soul immediately.”
My head buzzed.
A flash of lightning suddenly streaked across the window.
The white light illuminated her smiling face.
She lowered her head and looked at the wedding ring, her voice light as though she were talking about something that had nothing to do with her.
“Who would've thought that even after dying, she could cling to Pei Zhou for so many years?”
I lowered my head and looked at my hand, which was gradually becoming transparent.
So my death had never been an accident.
Someone had taken my life.
And now they wanted to erase every trace that I had ever existed.
## 6
Lin Wantang was still talking to the system.
I flew in front of her and stared at her.
“How did I die?”
She couldn't hear me.
I asked again.
“Lin Wantang, how exactly did I die?”
She still couldn't hear me.
Furious, I raised my hand and slapped her.
My hand passed straight through her face, leaving only a gust of cold air.
Lin Wantang shuddered.
“Why did it suddenly get so cold?”
The system was silent for a moment.
【Abnormal energy fluctuation detected.】
My heart immediately tightened.
【The window may not be closed.】
“……”
No wonder you're only a system.
You're about as sharp as I was when I was alive.
Lin Wantang got up and closed the window.
She walked over to the vanity and took a bottle of perfume from deep inside a drawer.
The bottle was slightly worn, and a tiny character for “Sui” was engraved on the bottom.
I recognized it at once.
It was the perfume Pei Zhou had commissioned a perfumer to create especially for me.
There was only one bottle in the entire world.
Lin Wantang removed the cap and took a sniff.
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