Chapter 24：Netherworld Marriage Token

The person who walked out of the kitchen was none other than Mother Lin.

"Mom, you are at home?"

Lin Wu forcefully squeezed out a smile, feeling a little awkward. At the same time, he also felt somewhat lucky that he didn't kiss Li Luyao earlier. If he really did so, it would be even more awkward right now.

However, everything he said to Li Luyao earlier was most probably already heard by his mom.

"Hi aunty…" Li Luyao followed behind Lin Wu, feeling incomparably nervous.

It's over, they didn't expect Lin Wu's mother to actually be at home. Now that she knew that the two of them were married, what would happen if she told them to get a divorce?

Mother Lin had a strange expression as she looked at Lin Wu. She then glanced at Li Luyao and asked, "The two of you got married?"

"Yes." Lin Wu coughed. He then intentionally pretended to laugh. "Mom, didn't you like Luyao a lot? Hence, I married her so she could be your daughter-in-law. Isn't my efficiency good?"

"You and her only got acquainted with each other yesterday, and you guys already went to register your marriage today?" Mother Lin frowned. "Moreover, you stole our household register to do the registration. Are you guys not too negligent? How can something like marriage be a child's play?"

Li Luyao immediately panicked after hearing that. She hurriedly spoke, "Aunty, we did consider it seriously and have never treated it like a child's play. I can make a vow that I will be together with Lin Wu forever."

"You are still young. Maybe you are only doing so because of impulse due to emotions rushing to your head." Mother Lin shook her head. "Hurry up and get a divorce both of you, stop playing around. This isn't playing house."

Li Luyao couldn't help but start. She completely didn't expect that Mother Lin would directly want them to get a divorce.

Lin Wu furrowed his brows. "Mom, I'm already so old. I'm very clear about what I'm doing. I'm not playing around."

"You are not even going to listen to my words?" Mother Lin's expression couldn't help but turn cold.

Lin Wu glanced at her and shook his head. "Don't say anymore. In any case, I can't divorce Luyao."

Li Luyao bit her lips, yet her heart was emotionally touched, as well as filled with nervousness. 

From the contact they had in the morning, she also knew that Lin Wu seemed to be very respectful to his mother. If Mother Lin really disagreed, Lin Wu shouldn't even dare to argue. Thus, she didn't expect Lin Wu would directly rebut against his mother for her.

"Really?" Mother Lin's expression turned cold. "If you don't get a divorce, I'll drive you out from our house!"

Li Luyao's expression involuntarily changed as her heart grew anxious.

She was worried that she would cause the relationship between Lin Wu and his mom to go downhill. Also, she was afraid that Lin Wu would divorce her under pressure. 

"Alright."

Yet, Lin Wu suddenly shook his head helplessly. "Your acting skills are too bad, but there are too many flaws, Xiao Qin."

"Yo, you discovered it?"

'Mother Lin' suddenly smiled. She spun on the spot and instantly changed into the form of a 16-17 years old girl. She couldn't be considered pretty, and there was a bit of baby fat on her face.

Although he didn't recognize this face, other than Xiao Qin, who else could it be?

Li Luyao was dumbfounded. She thought that her eyes were dazzled.

"Is this your true appearance?" Lin Wu curiously asked.

"How can that be? Ever since I became a ghost, no one ever saw my true appearance." Xiao Qin glared at him and asked, "But as for you, how did you discover that I wasn't your mom so quickly?"

Lin Wu lazily spoke, "The slippers of my family members are all placed outside the door. By right, there shouldn't be anyone at home, but you suddenly appeared. Also, your personality is completely different from my mother's. Hence, you are naturally a fake one."

"Completely different?" Xiao Qin was puzzled. "I feel that my acting was quite similar."

"My mom would have used the spatula to knock my head. Also, she would never say things like driving me out from the house." Lin Wu rolled his eyes.

"Alright, I will use the spatula to smash your head next time." Xiao Qin nodded.

"There's no next time. You are not allowed to hoodwink me."

Lin Wu cast an annoyed glare at her and also introduced her to Li Luyao. "Her name is Xiao Qin, and I don't know if she's a male or female. She's the ghost friend I was talking about."

"Hi…" Li Luyao felt some conflict toward supernatural things like ghosts and monsters.

Xiao Qin glanced at Li Luyao. Her gaze was a little strange as she smiled. "Oh, Li Luyao? Before you reincarnated, we have met each other a few times before. I didn't expect that you have also reincarnated."

"We have met before?" Li Luyao was a little dumbfounded. Could it be that she had seen Xiao Qin in her other forms before?

"Let's not talk about this."

Lin Wu waved his hands and speechlessly glanced at Xiao Qin as he asked, "Why did you come to my house? Wait, you can't even pass through walls. How did you enter my house?"

"How would there be ghosts that cannot pass through walls?" Xiao Qin spread her hands open. "Isn't passing through walls something basic for a ghost?"

Lin Wu couldn't help but ask, "You can pass through walls? In that case, why did you have to wait for the lift back then? And every time, you only enter after the lift's doors are opened. I thought that you are unable to pass through walls."

"I was only intentionally scaring you." Xiao Qin shrugged.

"…"

Lin Wu helplessly shook his head and spoke, "Didn't you say that your profession is a 'connector'? You should know of many pieces of news, right? I have some questions that I wish to check with you for."

"Speak." Xiao Qin nodded slightly.

Lin Wu took out the two marriage certificates from his pocket and passed it to Xiao Qin. "In our car, there's a malicious ghost named Pei Jianing. When I and Li Luyao went to the bureau to register our marriage, she possessed her and after that, the photo and information of the marriage certificates changed into this."

Xiao Qin took the certificates and looked at it. She then returned them back to Lin Wu and casually spoke, "The marriage certificates are considered netherworld marriage tokens. They are the same as the silver ring on Li Luyao's finger."

"Netherworld marriage token?"

"Silver ring?"

Lin Wu couldn't help but start. Li Luyao also involuntarily glanced at the ring on her finger.

"For example, a marriage between living humans also needs a certification before they are considered married." Xiao Qin casually explained. "As for someone who died, they would need a netherworld marriage token, so they can verify their marriage relationship if they married someone from the living world. For scenarios like a ghost possessing someone to substitute them for marriage and changing the marriage certifications to make it into netherworld marriage tokens, they aren't rarely seen at all."

"Then...what should I do?" Lin Wu involuntarily asked.

"What do you mean what you should do?"

Xiao Qin lazily spoke, "Since a malicious ghost is willing to be married to you, this means that you have obtained her approval. Most probably, she wouldn't harm you. What are you afraid of?"

"Most probably?"

"Eh, if you antagonize her, she might decide to kill you, so you can join her in death."

"..."

Lin Wu involuntarily perspired cold sweat.

"Naturally, it would be fine as long as you don't purposely court disaster." Qin Xiao shrugged and continued, "However, as for this malicious ghost named Pei Jianing, I don't know her as well. There are no solutions to it, who asked your future wives to be so many? There are many among them which I've not met before."

"Then, can you help me to ask her?" Lin Wu furrowed his brows slightly. "I wish to know what happened to her. But no matter how I call out to her, there's no response. It's like she didn't want to bother with me."

"No need for that." Xiao Qin directly shook her head.

"Why?" Lin Wu was astonished.

"You are her husband, and since she is ignoring even you, it means that her resentment aura is very deep and has covered over her intelligence. Hence, she couldn't even talk now. For malicious ghosts that cannot talk, I too, cannot converse with them." 

Lin Wu frowned, after that he shook his head. "Alright then. In that case, do you know anything about the matters of Li Luyao's family? In the future, how did her family cause a malicious ghost to haunt them?"

Li Luyao involuntarily stared at Xiao Qin nervously.

"I heard of your matters before."

Xiao Qin glanced at her. "I'm not too sure about the specifics either. But it seemed that your family had collected an antique that was filled with resentment. That was what led to the tragedy…"