Ch113 - Reality Is The Same

Ji Xiunian wasn’t stupid. He has just crossed paths with two people he was familiar with, both had been people sent by the Grim Reaper Bureau to investigate him. Now when he looked at the Lu Xu who had suddenly appeared by his side, he immediately understood something.

“Ahem…” Although this was actually the truth, Lu Xu still smiled when faced with Ji Xiunian’s questioning. “No matter how a story starts, at least our ending isn’t too bad. Don’t you think so too, Nian ge?”

Our ending isn’t too bad…

Ji Xiunian had merely asked this casually. When he heard Lu Xu respond like this, he inexplicably felt happier.

It had to be said that if it’s not for this misunderstanding, he might not have crossed paths with Lu Xu as soon as he had. By changing his mindset to this, the world suddenly seemed much simpler and happier.

During the time the two of them had spoken, they had arrived outside the bureau head’s office. Outside the office were many workers aged a hundred or so, some were even a few decades old, and there were also the newbie staff members. When they saw Lu Xu and Ji Xiunian walking over at a steady pace, they only felt that the hallway in front of their eyes had brightened up considerably.

Lu Xu had always been the representative face of the Grim Reaper Bureau. Along with the fact that he was also the best at his work, he was extremely popular at the Grim Reaper Bureau.

Originally, everyone believed that Lu Xu’s appearance was something that could only be seen once in a thousand years. After all, there was no one in the Grim Reaper Bureau who could rival him.

Anyone who walked next to Lu Xu would look worse in comparison. That was why he was called the face of the Grim Reaper Bureau, and the top of the rankings in both career and looks.

But now that they saw him walking side by side with Ji Xiunian, everything suddenly felt that there was actually another grim reaper in this world who could stand on equal footing with Lu Xu.

Along with the fact that Ji Xiunian truly was talented at acting, almost all of the ‘people’ present had watched his movies, so they felt strangely familiar with him.

It was just a normal hallway, but the image of the two of them walking together looked like an award ceremony. No matter how they looked, they felt like they were shining.

When the two of them entered the office, the others behaved fairly normal, merely smiling as they greeted them.

After they entered the office, those outside began exclaiming in low voices—

“Heavens, did you guys see. Ji Xiunian is really too handsome!”

“Right right, when he stands with Lu Xu, even the road to the underworld looks like a stage. It’s too invigorating.”

“Hahaha I’m happy. In the future, won’t our Grim Reaper Bureau become the best looking department in the entire underworld. And we’ll have two of them!”

“Ji Xiunian is really the fastest case I’ve seen of someone becoming a grim reaper. I’m just asking without malice. Do you think he has connections?”

There were some occasional voices of discontent among the praise, but overall, there wasn’t much dissonance among everyone—

“So what. Even if he came in with connections, it’s not like you don’t understand Lu Xu. No matter how untalented, he can still bring them up into a great grim reaper. This is the basic qualities a real trump card grim reaper should have…”

“If you say it like that, I’m now a little worried for Ji Xiunian. I bet he’s feeling very bitter over having to work with such a workaholic boss…”

At this time, the trump card grim reaper didn’t know that other people were thinking of Ji Xiunian’s hardships. He was merely bringing his colleague into the head’s office before calling out to him.

The head, who was originally burying his head into documents, heard the movement and immediately looked up. When he saw Ji Xiunian standing in front of him, he couldn’t help but stare dumbly at him. “Alike, really too alike…”

Whether it was his brow or aura, Ji Xiunian looked exactly like his mother, Zhong Huiqing.

When the bureau head saw Ji Xiunian, he couldn’t help thinking of the past. They couldn’t tell what he was thinking about, as he nodded every once in a while, and sighed at other times.

“Bureau Head, does your neck hurt?” Lu Xu casually broke through his recollections, and he smiled a little jokingly.

“My neck is fine. This is xiao Ji ba. Come come come, sit wherever.”

Xiao Ji ba…

This nickname seemed strange somehow. Even Ji Xiunian’s smile grew slightly more complicated.

Thankfully the bureau head only said it once, and didn’t add the “right” again afterwards.

“Xiao Ji, this is your first time at the bureau, right. How do you feel about it overall?”

The Grim Reaper Bureau had overturned Ji Xiunian’s previous conceptions of death. He felt an inexplicable sense of closeness after arriving.

“As long as you’re comfortable, that’s good. Now that you are already a part of the Grim Reaper Bureau, this is your home.” The bureau head’s attitude towards Ji Xiunian was clearly more familiar than his attitude towards others.

Lu Xu watched the bureau head drag Ji Xiunian into conversation, and began wondering exactly what kind of person Zhong Huiqing had been.

Even though she had left the Grim Reaper Bureau, she had still left such a deep impression on the bureau head. She must have been a very special existence.

It wasn’t only Lu Xu who had this thought; Ji Xiunian also had many questions.

His parents had left when he was still too young, and he had absolutely no impression of them.

Yet his mother had even given up her identity as a grim reaper to be with his father. This meant that they should have loved each other very much, right.

Ji Xiunian thought and thought, and finally couldn’t resist asking the bureau head, “Bureau Head, were you close with my mother?”

“This…” For a moment, the bureau head didn’t know how to respond. He saw that Ji Xiunian’s expression was serious, and he couldn’t bear to trick a child. “I wasn’t in the same bureau division as your mother. We didn’t interact much, so we couldn’t really be considered good friends…”

Zhong Huiqing was both beautiful and good at her work. There were many grim reapers who had had feelings for her.

The bureau head had been one of them. It was just that the times had changed, and when he looked back he didn’t feel much anymore.

Ji Xiunian didn’t suspect this response, but he felt somewhat disappointed.

After a moment of silence, Ji Xiunian asked the bureau head again, “Bureau Head, did my parents really die from a car accident?”

If it had been a car accident, then their ghosts should still exist.

But even Lu Xu had said that their ghosts were missing, which clearly meant that there was something else going on.

When the bureau head spoke, he had glanced towards Lu Xu first. When Lu Xu smiled, he knew that Lu Xu had already told Ji Xiunian everything.

But since Ji Xiunian was already an employee of the Grim Reaper Bureau, there were many things that should not be buried any longer.

“I assume xiao Lu has already told you everything about the situation with your parents, right?” When he saw Ji Xiunian nod, the bureau head continued, “I’ve told xiao Lu basically everything I know, including the results of a few follow-up investigations. If you want to investigate, I can help you apply for the investigation records from then. But you have to prepare yourself mentally. We didn’t find any clues of use back then. Now that it’s been so many years, it’s possible that…”

The bureau head didn’t continue with saying what was possible, but everyone at the scene understood.

Perhaps the investigation would be futile, but no matter what, they would only know if they tried with hope.

Noticing that the atmosphere had become considerably heavier, Lu Xu opened his mouth to break through the silence. “Bureau Head, I’m about to head out to work. Where’s Nian ge’s work permit?”

“Oh oh oh, look at me only concerned about talking about our feelings. I almost forgot about actual matters.” The bureau head hit his forehead, and then stood up and took out a piece of yellow talisman from the drawer.

So was this so-called work permit just a piece of yellow paper?

As Ji Xiunian pondered this, the bureau head had already walked over to him and handed the talisman to him. “Come come come colleague Ji Xiunian, with this business license you are now an official full time employee! Welcome to our Grim Reaper Bureau. Now we are all family. You are in charge of the Eastern District along with Lu Xu. I look forward to your cooperation and innovation!”

These welcoming words sounded very similar to the marketing team’s style.

Ji Xiunian cleared his throat, and smiled at the bureau head. “I will work hard, and definitely won’t betray the trust of the organisation…”

While he spoke, Ji Xiunian had taken the yellow talisman, but when he had just touched it, the talisman disintegrated, and his palm felt a prick.

Ji Xiunian subconsciously raised his hand to take a look, and saw that there was an extra black dot on his palm. At first glance, it looked like a mole on his palm.

“This is?”

Seeing that Ji Xiunian was a bit confused, his senior Lu Xu answered enthusiastically, “This is your license certificate. Our grim reaper licenses are all embedded into our bodies.”

“So it’s like this.” Ji Xiunian didn’t think that the Grim Reaper Bureau would have such intelligent functions. He glanced at his palm again, and couldn’t help asking Lu Xu, “Then is your grim reaper license also on your palm?”

Lu Xu smiled and didn’t speak, but the bureau head had words to say. “We don’t know where xiao Lu’s license mark is. He’s never revealed it before, ai”

“Since you’ve already gotten your business license, let’s go take orders.” Lu Xu clearly did not want to continue on with this topic, and took out his work phone to see if he had any new orders.

There had been an accident on Kaicheng Road in the eastern district; the client was still breathing, but was about to pass away.

Although the bureau head also really wanted to know where Lu Xu’s grim reaper certificate was, work was still important, so he told them, “Go quickly. The clients’ satisfaction is our biggest goal. Xiunian, this is your work phone. Lu Xu will teach you how to use it…”

Lu Xu smiled at the bureau head and let him know he understood, then reached over to pull at Ji Xiunian’s hand. The two of them went directly from the bureau to the scene of the car accident, there they saw many stationary cars.

At the centre of the accident was a large, overturned warehouse truck, with a small car crushed under it.

The warehouse truck’s windshield had broken into pieces all over the ground. The body of the truck was fairly intact.

But the car had not been so lucky. The entire front of the car had been crushed in, and the three people inside were covered in blood. It seemed that their injuries were not light.

“How scary, ying ying ying.” As Lu Xu waited for the clients to ascend to heaven so he could collect their souls, he suddenly heard an emotional cry near him. When he turned aroukd, he discovered it was the female ghost, xiao Bai.

As a resident ghost of this road, Xiao Bai saw countless car accidents every year.

But even so, every time she saw a car accident, she became very anxious and scared.

She was just emphathising with the tragedy of the car accident when she suddenly saw that Lu Xu and Ji Xiunian were standing next to her, and was immediately dumbfounded. “Heavens, Master Lu Xu!”

Ever since Lu Xu had left to participate in the competition, xiao Bai had only been able to see him through the TV screens at the shopping mall. She was inevitably very excited to see that there was now a “living” Lu Xu next to her.

When she looked again at the Ji Xiunian standing next to him, she became even more excited, to the point where she wanted to immediately send a message to her ghost friends’ circle—

Aaaaaaa, my CP has become reality!!!