Chapter 1 A Cold Bookstore

The Late Night Bookstore was especially quiet in the early morning. Of course, with its exaggerated minimum charge of one hundred yuan, it was destined to never be bustling.

Xu Qinglang was fast asleep upstairs in his bedroom with a face mask on, enjoying his beauty sleep. Having bid farewell to the restaurant life and escaped the erosion of greasy fumes on his skin, he was beginning to cherish and care for his skin more and more.

Ha, a man.

You have to learn to be good to yourself and love yourself more.

Bai Yingying was sitting alone at the bar downstairs, playing a mobile game of PUBG with great enthusiasm.

The door of the bookstore was pushed open at this moment. Bai Yingying raised her head and saw a little loli in a red outfit standing at the door. The little loli's dress was really festive and made her look even more adorable.

Yawning, Bai Yingying continued to lower her head to look at her phone.

The little loli walked to the front of the bar. She was a little short and couldn't reach it, so she simply pushed open the small door of the bar and walked in, standing behind Bai Yingying and watching her play the game.

When a round ended, Bai Yingying stretched and glanced at the little loli. She put down her phone and asked,

"What?"

The little loli raised her delicate chin, looked Bai Yingying up and down, shook her head, and smiled,

"Even your mistress didn't dare to talk to me like that when she first met me."

"You also know that was in the past." Bai Yingying shrugged. "What's the difference between you and me now?"

Everyone was a dog, with their necks leashed by the same man.

Why laugh at someone for being only slightly worse off?

The little loli sat down on a chair on the side, which gave her a special sense of satisfaction. She had always been sensitive about her height and didn't like looking up at people taller than her.

"You think you can compare to me?"

The little loli asked rhetorically.

"Hey, I can even 'weep weep'," Bai Yingying said. "What can you do?

Weep weep…"

The little loli frowned slightly, not knowing how to respond.

To think, a two-hundred-year-old zombie

could actually "weep weep" to serve that man without any sense of incongruity.

"What are you here for?" Bai Yingying asked. "Did your mom go to get her hair done again in the middle of the night and abandon you at the bookstore?"

The little loli took out an envelope from her pocket and threw it on the bar. "The things he asked me to investigate are all in there. The location of that Japanese priest has also been confirmed."

"Why didn't you just call him?" Bai Yingying tilted her head and asked, "Oh, I get it. Do you think it's more sincere to deliver it in person so you can score some brownie points with him?"

Immediately afterward, a sense of crisis appeared on Bai Yingying's face:

"You want to… compete with me for his affection?"

"Bang!"

The little loli slapped the bar,

scolding Bai Yingying,

"Don't think of me like you!"

Bai Yingying curled her lip and muttered, "Little kids always want face."

The little loli restrained her urge to fight Bai Yingying and said, "I can't get through to his phone, I can't contact him. I thought he was in the bookstore, but I found he wasn't here."

"He went out for something," Bai Yingying said.

"He really is busy."

"He's about to become a full-fledged member," Bai Yingying said with a smile. It was clear that she was genuinely happy for Zhou Ze.

"What's there to be happy about him becoming a full-fledged member?" The little loli couldn't stand Bai Yingying's "ugly face," being enslaved and controlled by someone yet still being happy about it.

Because she didn't want to become like the stupid zombie in front of her.

"What do you mean? He's my boss. Wouldn't I share in the glory if he's doing well? Besides, the sooner he becomes a full-fledged member and gets promoted, the sooner you can be free, right?"

"Whether he's doing well or not really has nothing to do with you. You should think about how you're going to spend the next Cold Clothes Festival!"

The little loli really couldn't stand Bai Yingying's naive sweetness.

All the false beauty and freshness

must be pricked with a silver needle,

prick, prick, prick!

The little loli knew Madam Bai. Because of Madam Bai's special circumstances, the little loli didn't attack her, and both sides minded their own business.

You cultivate your merit, and I do my work, and we live in peace.

However, the little loli knew what kind of person Madam Bai was. She could even guess what Madam Bai's purpose was in handing her corpse over to Zhou Ze before she completed her merits and went to hell.

"How am I going to spend it? Of course, I have plans."

As she spoke,

Bai Yingying opened her computer, clicked on a folder, and said,

"I've been designing for a long time. I've designed so many styles."

The little loli saw bamboo beds appearing on the computer screen, with mandarin duck and butterfly-style bamboo beds, small boat bamboo beds, and princess beds, with all kinds of ornaments hanging on them.

The little loli was shocked.

She,

knew all along?

"These bamboo beds aren't cheap to make, but luckily, I still have enough burial goods. I can sell two items to make them. Don't you think it would be very beautiful to lie on them and be burned by fire?"

The little loli covered her face. She didn't know what to say to this zombie.

This wasn't stupid,

this was just being brain-dead!

"You know that day is coming, yet you're still working as a maid for him here?" The little loli could only ask this in the end.

"I quite like my current life," Bai Yingying said matter-of-factly. "It's pretty good."

"You think you can move him by doing this?" The little loli asked rhetorically.

Bai Yingying didn't answer.

"Last time, a corpse demon was able to increase his performance by so much. Do you know how much a real, two-hundred-year-old zombie is worth?"

Bai Yingying still didn't say anything.

"Forget it." The little loli didn't want to say any more. She looked at the envelope she had just thrown on the bar and asked, "Where did he go?"

"It seems he went to some school," Bai Yingying said. "He's just one ghost away from completing his mission. The boss is anxious."

"School?" The little loli tilted her body, not taking it to heart. "I'll go first. When he comes back, give him the envelope."

"Okay."

Bai Yingying nodded to indicate that she understood.

The little loli got off the chair and prepared to leave. Just as she reached the door, she inadvertently glanced at the teenager sitting in the corner of the bookstore, reading a book.

The teenager was holding a book and reading it with great enthusiasm, occasionally laughing like a pig.

The little loli stopped.

When she came in,

why didn't she sense that there was a ghost in the bookstore?

This ghost

was one she saw

rather than sensed.

The little loli reached out and pointed at the teenager, asking Bai Yingying, "Who is he?"

"A ghost. According to the boss, he's a high-level idiot. He walked into the bookstore himself. Because his soul isn't complete, he can't be sent to hell, so he's being kept here for now. Once the boss has settled things, he'll send him away."

"Incomplete soul?"

The little loli walked towards the teenager who was reading the book. The teenager didn't notice the little loli's approach at all, completely immersed in the world of the novel.

"What's his name?" the little loli asked.

"Sun Qiu, a middle school student."

The little loli reached out and took the book from his hand.

Sun Qiu was stunned and said with some dissatisfaction, "Little girl, what are you doing? Don't be naughty."

As he spoke, Sun Qiu reached out to take the book back.

However,

in the next moment,

the little loli suddenly stuck out her tongue. In an instant, her tongue lashed out like a whip, striking Sun Qiu's soul hard.

"Pa!"

Sun Qiu was knocked to the ground, constantly crying out in pain.

For a soul body, the little loli's tongue skills were absolutely terrifying.

Upon seeing this, Bai Yingying immediately walked out of the bar. "Hey, what are you doing? That's the boss's reserved performance."

"Performance?" The little loli was a little confused, even amused. She pointed at Sun Qiu on the ground and said, "Are all of you in this bookstore a bunch of idiots?

This isn't a soul at all. This isn't a ghost at all!"

Zhou Ze hadn't been in the ghost messenger circle for a long time. Of course, he couldn't compare to the little loli. She was a veteran ghost messenger who had experienced much more.

"This isn't a ghost?" Bai Yingying was stunned. If this wasn't a ghost, what was it?

"So, the reason he can't be sent to hell isn't because his soul is incomplete, but because he's not a ghost at all. Of course, it's impossible to send him down through the gates of hell."

The little loli walked to Sun Qiu and whipped him with her tongue non-stop, causing him to scream incessantly.

"Look, his soul is just weak, but it hasn't dissipated. He's just a virtual energy body, not a soul body."

The little loli said with great certainty.

"He's not a ghost, but he came to the bookstore specifically..." Bai Yingying immediately thought of something, and her face suddenly changed.

A guy who wasn't a ghost came to the bookstore and told a ghost story?

Then the boss took the old Taoist priest to school?

"Tongcheng, has anyone else come recently?" the little loli asked.

"The one from Rongcheng came."

Upon hearing this, an unconcealable look of horror appeared on the little loli's face, but she immediately suppressed it and said, "What else?"

Bai Yingying thought for a moment, and then she suddenly thought of the little girl who said she had come out of Sanxiang Village, and then the little girl actually knocked her down and tied her up.

"There does seem to be one, a very powerful one, who can knock me down in one go. By the way, you haven't said yet, how did this thing come about?"

Bai Yingying pointed at Sun Qiu and asked.

"Every inspector, when advancing to become a judge, will be granted a yin-yang brush by the underworld, which can determine the universe and distinguish right from wrong. There is also a book of yin and yang, and yin and yang are hidden within the book of yin and yang.

This thing should have been born from within the book of yin and yang… a puppet."

After saying this,

the little loli suddenly raised her head and laughed loudly,

"Hahahaha…"

A little loli,

with her hands on her hips,

laughed out loud.

She seemed to want to create a heroic feeling, but in reality, this action was as silly as it could be, endearingly affected.

"So, the boss is in danger?" Bai Yingying said.

The little loli shrugged and looked at Bai Yingying, saying, "Shouldn't we be happy? If someone takes him out, both you and I will be free."

Yes,

if Zhou Ze were killed,

then the little loli would be able to break the alliance made that night and regain her freedom!

"Have you forgotten what kind of person the boss is?" Bai Yingying suddenly asked.

"What?" The little loli was puzzled.

"If the boss knew that he couldn't escape and was really going to die… according to his character, he might feel that dying alone would be too lonely, and in the instant before his death, he might crush your soul blood and make you be buried with him."

"…" The little loli.