Ch114 - Couple ID

Xiao Bai wouldn’t have even dreamt that the CP she was a fan of would actually appear within the same frame in front of her.

She first shouted out in surprise, “Master Lu Xu”, then subconsciously covered her mouth when she saw Ji Xiunian next to him.

She was currently in her “business” state. Her white skirt was covered with bloodstains and looked appalling to others.

When she saw Ji Xiunian turn in a direction towards her, xiao Bai subconsciously wanted to reduce her level of existence before remembering that Ji Xiunian wouldn’t be able to see her. As she thought of this, xiao Bai became much more relaxed. She smiled politely at Lu Xu and asked, “Master Lu Xu, are you here to pick up a new client?”

This car accident had been quite serious; car parts and bloodstains splattered all over the ground. It would make anyone queasy.

Lu Xu was a grim reaper. Other than the competition, any other time he appeared meant that death followed.

But since she saw Ji Xiunian next to Lu Xu, xiao Bai couldn’t help but worry for him. “Master Lu Xu, how are you going to harvest the soul later? Do I need to call some ghost sisters to help obscure you?”

Xiao Bai assumed that Lu Xu had appeared under his identity as a human. If he needed to do work later on, he might be seen.

It was hard to say with others, but if Ji Xiunian saw Lu Xu, it would be a huge hassle.

It was just that Lu Xu was the almighty. He could solve everything no matter what situations he encountered.

This is what xiao Bai thought, so after a moment, she raised her head and asked Lu Xu, “Do you need me to help you by knocking male god unconscious? Even though I don’t want to do it, I really can if you need me to…”

Ji Xiunian had noticed this bloodstained female ghost from the beginning, and couldn’t help but feel a little strange. But when he saw that she was very familiar with Lu Xu, Ji Xiunian didn’t think she was an evil ghost anymore, but he didn’t show much emotion.

Who knew that the female ghost would come up just to provoke him, so he was a little confused. “Why do you want to knock me out?”

“Because I’m afraid you’ll discover Master Lu Xu is a grim reaper ah…” Xiao Bai had lots to say as she smilingly explained it to Ji Xiunian. It was just that once she had spoken, she realised something didn’t seem quite right. When she returned to her senses and looked at Ji Xiunian, she couldn’t help but shout, “Aaaaaaaaaaaaa, male god spoke to me!!!”

Xiao Bai was so scared even her hair flew up, looking very much like a ghost from hell.

The Ji Xiunian who originally thought she was rather scary had to wonder, was he that terrifying?

“He he he, he can see me!” Xiao Bai was scared out of her wits. When she finally returned to her senses with much difficulty, she pointed at Ji Xiunian with a complicated expression.

Lu Xu smiled and glanced at Ji Xiunian before telling xiao Bai, “I didn’t have time to make introductions. This is my new colleague. You recognise him, right?”

New colleague?

Xiao Bai had heard before that Lu Xu was solely responsible for the eastern district. She didn’t know why his partner had temporarily transferred away.

If he was Lu Xu’s colleague, didn’t that mean he was a grim reaper?

After thinking of the hidden meaning, xiao Bai was dumbfounded. She asked Ji Xiunian, “So you are a grim reaper too?”

Ji Xiunian nodded and greeted her politely. “Yes. In the future I’ll also be a staff member of the eastern district. Let’s take care of each other.”

“No no no…” Goodness, who would dare take care of a grim reaper?

Xiao bai hurriedly shook her head, extremely shocked.

When she came to her senses, she saw that Lu Xu was standing shoulder to shoulder with Ji Xiunian, xiao Bai’s head spun around and she suddenly thought of something—

If they were creating a CP between colleagues, didn’t that mean they were engaging in office romance?!

Xiao Bai was shocked by her own ideas, but she couldn’t control the smile at the corner of her mouth.

She and her ghost sisters were often bored and basically all of them were following Lu Xu’s show. Every time Lu Xu stood with Ji Xiunian, it felt like he had a face worthy of Lu Xu. Finally, they kowtowed down to this “Ji Xu” CP.

Originally they had thought Ji Xiunian was a human and Lu Xu was a god of the underworld. Thus, it would be a bad ending because their lifespans wouldn’t match up.

Xiao Bai originally used to eat this sugar with a little bit of sadness and regret. Now that she had learned that J Xiunian was also a grim reaper like Lu Xu, her only worry vanished and her mood became bright.

Xiao Bai was secretly happy by herself, wanting to immediately go share this good news with her sisters.

Before she could open her mouth to say anything, Lu Xu suddenly raised his head and said “there’s work to do.”

Ji Xiunian followed his line of sight and saw a man standing by the car and shouting to the crowd, “My wife is still inside, please save her quickly!”

However, no one looked at him despite his shouts. The man lamented the cold-heartedness of human nature, and went to the passenger seat to save her on his own.

He bent forward and saw himself in the seat next to his wife, covered in blood. He took two steps back in surprise, and stood rooted to the ground.

“Sun Jiansheng, male, 30 years old, from Dong Cheng… Cause of death: internal bleeding from a car accident…” Lu Xu walked forward as he calmly delivered his message.

Sun Jiansheng jerked his head back, finally noticing the person speaking and thinking that he looked quite familiar.

“You are?”

“I’m your personal grim reaper, in charge of providing you with your custom service.” Lu Xu introduced himself as usual, then said to Sun Jiansheng, “Please look here and confirm these details. If everything is in order, I will escort you on your way.”

The skull of the person in the car was already a different shape, and didn’t even look human at all.

Having to look at himself like that, even if he didn’t want to believe it, there was no way he could deny that he had died.

“But my wife is still inside…” It wasn’t that the man could not accept reality, it was that he was worried for the safety of his loved one.

Ji Xiunian moved with the intention of helping her, but he was stopped when Lu Xu pulled at his wrist.

“Don’t worry. You can exchange your life for hers, and your wife will live to a hundred.”

Exchange his life?

Ji Xiunian didn’t understand, but it seemed that Sun Jiansheng knew what he meant immediately, and he seemed to relax.

“Let’s go. There’s no use idling around here, you’ll just be a burden for the living.” Lu Xu’s words almost seemed bewitching. Although Sun Jiansheng looked at his wife reluctantly, he still moved.

The seconds leading up to the crash, he had even been discussing with his wife whether they should spend the holidays in his hometown or visit his mother-in-law.

The both of them thought they should each go back to their own hometowns first, then visit each others’.

Neither of them could persuade the other, so they angrily decided to just go back to their own hometowns. Sun Jiansheng had wanted to compromise, but he didn’t want to lose face.

Both of them thought that this was a very big conflict, and neither of them wanted to give way.

Just as Sun Jiansheng was thinking that as a man, he should give way to his wife, a large truck suddenly rushed out from behind a corner.

In that split second, the sudden impact was dizzying.

Every person thought that accidents would never happen to them, that they would live a long, long life.

But this world was full of chances and possibilities. When the time came to say goodbye, most would not even get the chance to do so.

When that truck rushed forward, Sun Jiansheng did not have the time to think, he had already swerved the steering wheel in the opposite direction.

Their car suffered the brunt of the impact, the entire vehicle was bent out of shape.

Even Sun Jiansheng didn’t know what had happened to his wife. Only when Lu Xu said that she was still alive did he feel relieved.

In a way, Sun Jiansheng had swerved the car in a direction so that his wife would be protected, so he did indeed exchange his own life for hers.

Ji Xiunian looked at everything before him, and could only sigh heavily.

Seeing that Sun Jiansheng’s wife was still in the car, he said urgently, “We have to save her…”

Gas was already leaking from the tank and dripping to the floor. There was no telling when the car would explode.

Lu Xu let out a sigh and pointed behind him.

It hadn’t been long since the incident, but in that short amount of time, the firemen had already arrived.

“Confirm status of the patients…”

“Right leg is stuck under the car seat, we need to extract…”

The youthful squadron of firemen moved quickly, made decisions swiftly, and very soon had taken the appropriate measures.

Sun Jiansheng’s wife was not free of injuries; she had suffered an extreme impact to her head and was temporarily in coma.

There were a lot of medics nearby, as well as a few people trying to wake her up. It seemed that she was on the verge of consciousness.

When Ji Xiunian saw all those people, he stopped in his tracks. He could only hope that she would be okay.

It was at this moment that a white silhouette flitted past him.

Ji Xiunian looked up and saw Xiao Bai, who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, and was hurriedly heading over to Sun Jiansheng’s wife.

“Who is she?” Ji Xiunian was confused by her actions, and had to ask.

Without Lu Xu having to say anything, Xiao Bai’s next actions already explained what her goal was.

Just as the woman was being lifted out of the car, Xiao Bai went behind her, reached out a hand and covered her eyes.

At the same time, Sun Jiansheng’s wife also opened her eyes, but was a bit confused because she could not see anything. “My dear- My dear, where are you….”

The firemen looked at the body beside her, and felt a rush of complicated emotions.

It was obvious that the husband had used his last moments of his life to steer the car in such a way to save his wife, but in doing so, sacrificed himself…

To their eyes, there was no way the wife wouldn’t be able to see what had become of her husband from such a close distance.

But it didn’t seem like she was faking it. It really was as if she could not see anything.

“You’re injured. We’re taking you to the hospital,” the paramedics said, and a few people worked together to move her onto a stretcher.

“Wait, where’s my husband?” The woman saw the firemen gathered around her messily, but the only person she couldn’t see was her own husband.

“We’re already in a safe place. Ma’am, please refrain from talking, we’ll take your blood pressure…”

On the other side, Sun Jiansheng’s body was also being lifted out of  the car. The paramedic shook his head. No one said anything in front of the woman.

Soon, the woman was sent to the hospital.

She would eventually find out the news about her husband’s passing, but there would be a buffer period until then.

Seeing Xiao Bai quietly watching the ambulance leave, Ji Xiunian could not help but ask, “Were you covering her eyes just now?”

Xiao Bai listened to Ji Xiunian speak, then glanced at him and smiled, “Yes. I just didn’t want the first thing she saw when she opened her eyes to be the image of her husband’s corpse. That would be too cruel…”

Xiao Bai’s face always carried bloodstains, and she looked like a frightening ghost.

But her gaze was soft, so she seemed like a friendly ghost.

Ji Xiunian saw her immerse herself back into meditation, and wondered if xiao Bai had experienced a similar experience.

This counted as the first time he went to work with Lu Xu after he received his business license. He hadn’t thought it would make him feel so complicated.

They bade goodbye to xiao Bai, then turned around to leave.

When they left, Ji Xiunian couldn’t help but look back at xiao Bai, only to see her once again begin the scene of the moment right before she died—

Time after time, she was hit by a car. Afterwards, she would crawl through the car window as if she was searching for someone.

“What’s she doing?”

“She wants to find the driver of the accident from that year, but she became so obsessed that she repeats the scene of her death over and over again.”

Lu Xu spoke calmly, as if nothing was out of the ordinary.

Ji Xiunian didn’t know whether this was good or bad, but only felt that xiao Bai was very pitiful. She had to repeat the same actions over and over every day. He assumed she was very upset about it.

At the same time, the xiao Bai whose heart was “very upset” as she went around running into cars, sent a message to her ghost sisters—

[Car Accident—Xiao Bai: Aaaaaaaaaaaaa sisters, a shocking secret!!! Do you know who the new grim reaper is?!]

It was a long time before someone responded—

[Staying Up Late—Xiao Dong: Whoever it is, they probably don’t have much relation to us. After all, we’ve already died]

Xiao Bai smirked and didn’t interact much with them. She continued sending messages—

[Car Accident—Xiao Bai: You guys won’t believe me if I say it. Master Lu Xu’s new partner is someone we all know. He’s also recording the same variety show as him right now. Hahaha that’s right, he’s the Film Emperor!]

Someone who was in the show with Lu Xu and was also a Film Emperor could only be Ji Xiunian.

When others realised this, her phone began popping up with infinite messages—

[Drowning—Xiao Qu: Aaaaaaaaaa, is it Ji Xiunian oh my god? If it really is, then I’ll have to unilaterally declare that the “Ji Xu” CP has been securely locked in]

[Jumped a Building—Xiao Luo: Oh my god, if it’s actually Nian ge, I can die once again!]

[Poisoning—Xiao Ke: Wu wu wu I can taste all of the poisonous mushrooms in the mountains once again. That’s Ji Xiunian, oh my god! Who doesn’t want exclusive customer service from the Film Emperor!]

It wasn’t long before all of the ghost world knew of the news that Ji Xiunian had become a grim reaper. Even some of the living had heard of the news.

On the other hand, Lu Xu had separated from Ji Xiunian when they had reached the apartment building.

Lu Xu returned to his own dorm room and lay down. He took out his phone and sent Ji Xiunian the rules of a grim reaper before seeing that a prefix had been added to his name—

ss-Ji Xiunian.

The two of them had the same beginning to their usernames, and it strangely seemed like a couple ID.