Ghosts don't shed tears.
On Li Li's delicate and slender face was an expression of disbelief.
This love between a human and a ghost began with a beautiful misunderstanding.
When Li Li was killed by a villain, she felt a deep sense of regret. She was still young and had never tasted the sweetness of love.
So, she was reluctant to leave this world. Every day, she would hide in the convenience store and cry until Lu Lin reached out his hand and helped her get that bag of candies she might never be able to touch.
She fell in love with this gentle and handsome doctor. She was willing to become whatever he wanted to see and accept his love.
Love is like a greedy abyss that can be addictive.
Li Li originally just wanted to taste the sweetness of love and then leave this world. But she was tempted by the One - Eyed Buddha Mother and wanted to be with Dr. Lu forever.
Humans and ghosts belong to different worlds. The only way for them to be together forever was for Lu Lin to die too!
The world presented to Li Li by the One - Eyed Buddha Mother was even more wonderful than the illusion in a hanged ghost's noose...
Now that the dream had ended, Li Li knew that she couldn't bear to kill Dr. Lu.
In the faint golden light of my Rebirth Mantra, Li Li turned into wisps of mist. She lingered around Lu Lin reluctantly for a few circles before gradually disappearing...
"She's gone," I said softly, looking at Dr. Lu who was staring blankly at the ceiling. "You were very kind to her. She left without a trace of resentment."
"That's good..."
After a long while, Dr. Lu slowly turned his head towards me and asked, "Miss Du, will I see Li Li again?"
"Probably not in this lifetime."
I knew that Dr. Lu still harbored fantasies, thinking that Li Li might be reincarnated and live in this world again.
But I knew that was just a story plot made up in TV shows and movies to touch people's hearts.
The real underworld is extremely strict. Even those souls that, after judgment, don't have to stay in the underworld to serve their after - life, will go through countless steps to forget their past lives when they are reborn. The well - known Mengpo's Soup is just one of them.
When a soul is reborn in this world, it is a brand - new life, free from attachments and thoughts.
Even if two people meet again in the dim expanse of fate, without the red thread of the Matchmaker to connect them, they will just pass by each other without recognizing each other at all.
"Miss Du, you're so straightforward," Dr. Lu said with a bitter smile as he looked at me.
"Isn't that the truth!"
I had already put the magical artifacts I had on hand back into my pocket. I reached out to draw the curtains open. The afternoon sun shone in through the glass window, dispelling all the coldness on my body.
"Dr. Lu, your goal now is to find a real girlfriend, fall in love, get married, and live a happy life!" I said seriously to him. "You've seen so much life and death in the ICU. You should cherish your own life even more. You should experience the world that Li Li never got to see and experience on her behalf."
"I... I'll try my best," Dr. Lu said. His expression was very tired. Everything these days made him feel like he had been in a big dream. Now that the dream had ended, a sense of loss welled up in him.
"Here's the medicine for you," I said as I handed a small bottle of talisman ash to him.
Although Dr. Lu's fortune had improved and there was no more ghostly aura on him, he had been so intimate with Li Li, a ghost. So, it was still necessary to expel the yin energy from his body...
After leaving the hospital, I let out a long sigh.
Si Jiangchen had already driven the car and was waiting for me at the entrance. Seeing me sitting lazily in the car without saying a word, he asked me, "What's wrong? Didn't things go smoothly with Lu Lin?"
He knew that I had gone to deal with Li Li's matter.
"Everything went smoothly," I said, sitting in the passenger seat and turning to look at Si Jiangchen's deep - set profile.
"You once said that I would become an ordinary person, experience birth, old age, sickness, and death, and re - enter the cycle of reincarnation... But why am I still alive?"
I remembered very clearly what was written in the Book of Reincarnation.
"Because I can't bear to part with you," Si Jiangchen said with a faint smile. He reached out a hand and gently pinched my earlobe. "I don't want a marriage where we just get married but never consummate it. If Xiao He re - enters the cycle of reincarnation, where can I find you?"
"... You... You scoundrel! I'm talking to you seriously!"
I knew that he wouldn't tell me the truth. The fact that he said such lewd and ambiguous words proved that he didn't want to continue this topic!
The car soon drove into an area outside a group of buildings that looked like a fairytale castle.
This was the kindergarten where Si Tong went to school.
It was the time to pick up the kids from school. Luxury cars lined up along the roadside. The car Si Jiangchen was driving was an ordinary and low - key Audi.
"You go," Si Jiangchen said as he handed me the electronic card for picking up the child. He parked the car a bit farther away from the kindergarten gate.
"Ah! Sister Xiao He!"
Inside the sky - blue painted fence, Si Tong was carrying his schoolbag and waving desperately at me in the line of kids.
I also smiled at him with curved eyebrows.
Rows of kids were walking towards the gate hand in hand, waddling like little ducks.
"I don't want to hold hands with Lin Tong!"
Suddenly, a little girl in the line raised her chubby hand towards the teacher.
"Why?"
The other kids asked in a chorus.
Even the teacher was attracted over. "What's wrong, Wenwen? Why don't you want to be with Tongtong?"
"Yes! It's Si Tong, not Lin Tong!"
"Wenwen said it wrong!"
The kids corrected the little chubby girl's mistake. But the little girl named Wenwen pouted and hugged her two little hands tightly in front of her chest. "He is Lin Tong! His mom and dad are dead! My mom said he's a jinxed kid! I don't want to hold hands with him. His bad luck will rub off on me!"
"Oh! Really?"
"Si Tong has no mom and dad?"
"How pitiful!"
"What's pitiful? It was him who caused his mom and dad to die. He's a jinx!"
The sudden accusation left Si Tong at a loss. He was surrounded by the kids, looking like a little kitten lost in the crowd, panicked and scared. "I... I have a dad! I'm not a jinx!"
As he spoke, his lips trembled and he was about to cry.
How could I stand by and watch my own be bullied?
Especially this kind of school bullying!
I was about to step over the fence to stand up for Si Tong, but unexpectedly, the kindergarten security guard stopped me. "Ma'am, please wait for your child outside the safety line."
"Safety line? My child is being bullied inside! How can this be safe?"
I pointed at Si Tong, who was surrounded by the kids like a little monkey on display. I was really angry.
"It's just a little joke between kids. Why are you, an adult, taking it so seriously?"
A woman beside me, wearing a nude silk dress, shouted at the little chubby girl who had bullied Si Tong. "Wenwen, come out quickly. Mommy will take you to have a big meal."
Then, she sized me up, showing her disdain without any disguise. "Whose nanny are you? Don't you know how to tidy yourself up? You're really embarrassing your master's family."