Recap
“Now that we have our names, we can go to the ancestral hall and get married.” Rong Yu threw the fruit core away, stood up, and said, “Let’s not miss the right moment.”
Who knew that Yan Zhao stepped back, shook his head, and said, “No.”
Rong Yu started to get angry: “What do you mean? I’m not the person you’re waiting for? Who are you waiting for besides me???”
Yan Zhao looked at him and took a cautious step back.
“After the marriage is completed, you will leave this world.”
“So, no marriage.”
“I’m happy as long as I get to see you.”
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Rong Yu’s anger immediately dissipated.
Why did you say you couldn’t speak well after staying in the coffin for too long? Look at this nonsense—it is much more eloquent than the little bracelet.
“You don’t want me to die?” Rong Yu said, “Isn’t it okay if you don’t take me away?”
There are also many forms of ghost marriage. There is a marriage between the dead and the dead; for example, both parties are deceased, they did not know each other in life, and they were arranged by the family to get married after death. Some people fell in love but were opposed by their families and could not stay together, so they made a private lifelong agreement to die in love together. When they went underground, they would organize a replacement wedding.
There are also marriages between the dead and the living. For example, when an influential person dies, he forcibly wants to bury a living person. Wen Yichu is such a tragedy. Many brides in ghost marriages are also victims of persecution by this evil feudal custom. Some people are born with a dark and ominous horoscope and are prone to die early, so they have elders who marry them and ask for blessings from ghosts. What’s more unlucky is that a living person is spotted by a ghost and is taken away to get married…
The so-called marriage between a dead person and a living person will ultimately lead to the same destination: two dead people. Needless to say, forced burial and indifference will turn the living into the dead. If you look for ghosts to protect you, you will most likely be attacked by ghosts, and your life will be at risk. As for those favored by ghosts, most were immediately taken away from the human world to marry the ghosts.
Wen Yichu was originally in the first situation and was buried alive. As soon as Rong Yu came over, it became the third situation, and the ghost was attracted to him.
According to the custom, a living person who attracts a ghost must go to the underworld to get married. The living person must die so the two ghosts can stay together forever. Therefore, Yan Zhao said, “You will leave this world if we get married,” which can also be interpreted as leaving the world of the living.
But the truth is that living people can not die in this process. Conventions are conventions; there are exceptions. If a ghost is not obsessed with turning a living person into a ghost and taking them away from the world of the living, they can still marry living people. After completing multiple marriage vows between the two parties, it can be regarded as a marriage—or, in other words, a ghost spouse……
There are only a few such exceptions. You must know that ordinary ghosts have been reincarnated long ago. Most ghosts left in the world have intense obsessions, evil thoughts, or resentments. Paranoia and possessiveness are their common characteristics. Naturally, they want to keep the other person by their side forever. They will take the person away instead of letting the other person continue living in the Yang world.
If Yan Zhao doesn’t want to take Rong Yu’s life, he can still marry him as a living person.
But after Rong Yu said this, Yan Zhao still refused: “No.”
Rong Yu: “No, what? Can’t you take me away? Kill me now.”
Blood Jade Bracelet: Big Demon King, what are you talking about? If he kills you, this world will be ruined!
Rong Yu: You must have confidence in your master; he doesn’t dare.
Blood Jade Bracelet: ……
Why is he so confident? Is being a wife-con something to be proud of?
Sure enough, Yan Zhao panicked and explained: “I won’t kill you, and I won’t marry you.”
The blood-jade bracelet felt the scene unbearable to look at. It felt that the Great Demon King had given Lord God a fear that deeply penetrated his soul.
Rong Yu nodded: “Okay.”
The blood jade bracelet was surprised.
Did the Great Demon King compromise so easily?
“Where is the bridal chamber?” Rong Yu looked around and couldn’t find the exit. “If you don’t want to marry me, we can go directly to the bridal chamber.”
Yan Zhao: “…”
A suspicious blush suddenly appeared on Lord Ghost King’s face.
“I’m asking you a question.” Rong Yu shook his head full of jewels and hairpins, “This pile of headdresses is so heavy.”
Yan Zhao fluttered his sleeves, and another moon door appeared before him, leading directly to the wedding room.
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Rongyu walked in and saw that the new room was fully decorated. There was a red double happiness*, a mandarin duck quilt, a red gauze tent, dragon and phoenix candles, and a quilt covered with red dates, peanuts, longans, and lotus seeds.
*(囍)
He clicked his tongue: “You are so well prepared, and you still say you don’t want to get married.”
An apple can’t fill his stomach, so he sat on the bed and cracked peanuts.
Yan Zhao was about to speak but stopped: “You can’t eat this.”
Rong Yu finished eating peanuts and red dates like a hamster had entered a granary: “Is it poisonous?”
Yan Zhao said: “It means something. Blessing the couple for an early birth…”
He suddenly fell silent.
In hindsight, he felt something was wrong.
He died a thousand years ago, and the wedding and funeral customs a thousand years ago were very different from what they are now. Even if they were the same, he couldn’t remember them.
Today, he noticed the person he was waiting for had arrived, so he hurriedly set up this new house. The wedding room layout and the wedding process were all based on these families. A female ghost was also captured to ask about wedding etiquette. The female ghost taught him a few words of blessing and their auspicious meanings, and he carefully wrote them down one by one.
The female ghost didn’t know that the bride was a man.
“Pfft.” Rong Yu smiled and threw a lotus seed into Yan Zhao’s arms, biting open a longan, “You want me to give you a baby?”
Lord Ghost King’s face turned even redder: “Yes, yes.”
Rong Yu: “…Say that again?”
Ghost King: “I mean, yes, they are edible.”
He thought eating something with an auspicious meaning would be harmful, but since the meaning is to have a child early… Two men obviously can’t give birth to a child, and a male ghost can’t make a man pregnant with a ghost fetus. Then, these red dates, peanuts, and the like are meaningless; they can be eaten naturally.
“This amount of food is not enough to fill me.” The more Rong Yu ate, the less delicious it became. “Is there anything else? If you don’t ask for jade wines and heavenly porcelain, delicacies from mountains and seas will suffice.”
Blood Jade Bracelet: delicacies from mountains and seas will suffice.
Rong Yu said it as it should be. The original owner’s living standard was that of a poor scholar with a simple diet. Rong Yu himself would never be able to survive on this.
“Yes.” Yan Zhao flicked his sleeves again and created a table of sumptuous food and wine, including fish and meat, the aroma of which was overflowing.
He looked at Rong Yu shyly, “I won’t let you be hungry.”
Rong Yu’s eyes lit up, and he immediately abandoned the red dates and peanuts on the bed, sat down at the table, and picked up his chopsticks.
“Where did these food come from?”
Even ghosts can’t conjure things out of thin air, and their relatives in the human world need to burn them for food and clothing. The Ghost King has been dead for a thousand years, and even thinking about it, he knows that no one will burn incense to worship him again.
Yan Zhao said: “The little ghosts who worship me.”
Rong Yu: “Oh.”
No wonder. A thousand-year-old ghost king is worshiped by many little ghosts. Then he won’t have to worry about food and drink.
That’s good. Rong Yu finally let go of the big stone in his heart. It feels so good to eat soft rice.
Yan Zhao sat opposite and watched him eat. Ghosts don’t need to eat. Food can only taste good, not fill their stomachs. Ghosts eat incense. If they cannot get the incense for a long time, they will be so hungry that they lose their minds and devour other ghosts. Without both, the ghost will starve to death over time, which is a complete annihilation of body and soul.
No one burned incense for Yan Zhao, and Yan Zhao did not eat ghosts, but he still existed clearly and did not even feel hungry.
Just one obsession is enough for him to exist in the world forever.
But at that moment, watching Rong Yu eating happily, Yan Zhao also felt a long-lost hunger, as if he had indeed come to life from that moment on and was no longer the walking corpse he once was.
…Although he was already dead.
Yan Zhao touched his abdomen. His stomach was uncomfortably bloated, but he did not show it. He has seen his obsession, so it is no longer as deep and strong as before, and he is no longer invincible.
Rong Yu buried his head in his food and casually said, “I will go out tomorrow and burn incense sticks for you. Now you have a name, and there will be people to worship you. However, the tombstone cannot be inscribed with the tomb of the late husband Yan Zhao, only Yan Zhao’s Tomb. Who made you refuse to marry me?”
Yan Zhao was startled, then covered his lips and smiled.
After eating and drinking, Rong Yu finally remembered to take off his makeup.
There was a mirror in the room, so Rong Yu sat down and began to take off his headdress. To say that Wen Yichu was a man, but the Hu family buried him dressed as a bride, isn’t this insulting?
The face in the mirror is indeed lovely. Wen Yichu was fair-skinned and handsome. He applied makeup and rouge, wore a skirt, and wore jewelry. He looked like a beautiful girl without any sense of disobedience.
Hu Wei once teased him, “Young official Wen is a good-looking girl, so why should you insist on studying to get fame? You may lose your reputation after these ten years of hard work, so why not marry into my Hu family as a concubine and enjoy the glory and wealth?”
Wen Yichu was so angry that he kicked Hu Wei out of the academy on the spot: “Vile desires, I can’t teach you!”
Rong Yu looked at the face in the mirror: Wen Yichu is not bad.
Blood Jade Bracelet was shocked. You don’t think he looks ordinary anymore?
You must know that the Child of Luck’s appearance is alright. Still, the big devil thinks everyone is average-looking, and ordinary people may be unable to catch his eye.
Rong Yu: Did I say he has a lovely face?
Blood Jade Bracelet: …Where is it lovely?
Rong Yu: His value lies in his talents and virtues. How can a person who has the world in mind and is stunningly talented and beautiful be judged and insulted by his appearance?
The blood jade bracelet is unbelievable: Oh my god, you don’t just look at your face. Have you started paying attention to your inner beauty?
These words were actually spoken by the Great Demon King. Is he influenced by the Lord God?
Today’s big devil is starting to lose his character!
Rong Yu:? Do you think I am such a superficial demon?
Aren’t you?
The blood-jade bracelet slandered him, but it didn’t dare say it out loud: “Then what do you think of the fact that Hu Wei told Wen Yichu that after ten years of hard work, he will amount to nothing, so why not enjoy glory as a concubine once.”
Rong Yu: The sparrow knows the ambition of the swan.
The blood-jade bracelet was shocked. The Big Devil actually had such a high level of ideological consciousness! This is too rare for the Big Devil!
Blood Jade Bracelet: Let me ask. Do you choose to study hard and have a humble life or to live in glory and wealth?
Rong Yu: Then you still need to ask? Of course, it is glory and wealth.
Blood Jade Bracelet:……
Okay, the big devil is still the same big devil.
Rong Yu: I can’t be a concubine; I’ll just enter the Hu family, ruin his family, and then take over all his property.
Blood Jade Bracelet:……
Okay, the character of the Great Demon King can be maintained in the letter.
Blood Jade Bracelet: You, the Great Demon King, are strange. At one moment, I feel that you appear to have a correct outlook on life, though sometimes, you appear to have an incorrect outlook. That’s right; you are both good and evil.
Rong Yu: scoff.
Blood Jade Bracelet: What are you laughing at???
Rong Yu: You little bracelet, don’t use it randomly when you hear a word. Three views refer to the world outlook, values, and outlook on life. Even the world I live in, the race I was born into, and my past experiences differ from yours. How can I be right or wrong in your eyes? Do you decide what is right and what is wrong? Have you been brainwashed by the mortals?
Blood Jade Bracelet: …What have mortals done?
Rong Yu takes off his jewelry. Some mortals are arrogant and think there are only two kinds of people: those who are righteous and those who have erroneous views. If he is the same as theirs, he is correct, and if he is different from theirs, he is wrong. It seems they don’t know the term “three different views” at all. There are tens of millions worldwide, and so many people have different ideas that reaching unity will never be possible. Who can say he is the correct answer and everyone else is wrong?
Blood Jade Bracelet: It makes sense.
Rong Yu: If you don’t necessarily have the correct answer, why should you assume that others are incorrect? Wen Yichu, who had spent ten years in poverty, wanted to pray for the people, could teach and educate people for free, and was able to meddle in other people’s affairs to the point of being beaten by the government for asking for justice for a peasant girl. What he had in mind was not the fact that those villagers remained silent when he was killed. Not hate but guilt for not being able to save them. Even if I were dead, I couldn’t do these things, and I wouldn’t say these things are wrong. I can respect those whose views differ from mine, but some people cannot respect others and do not allow different voices. Aren’t those people more arrogant than me?
The blood-jade bracelet was in a trance.
Was it being brainwashed by the big devil…?
Rong Yu: Why don’t you speak?
Blood Jade Bracelet: Slow down; my three views have been impacted…
Rong Yu: Don’t change so quickly. Wouldn’t sticking to your heart like me be better? Even if you say I have incorrect views ten thousand times, I will not possess those virtues. If I, a demon, were the same as gods and humans, I would have really betrayed the demon clan.
Blood Jade Bracelet: Thank you. I’m much better now.
It became firm again.
The blood jade bracelet silently took notes: I understand. Three views are a very personal thing. It’s best to find like-minded people. If you can’t find one, there’s no need to force others and convince them. You should not use yourself as a benchmark to blame others arbitrarily or quickly shake yourself by using others as your standard.
…No one paid any attention to it.
Blood Jade Bracelet: Great Demon King, why don’t you speak?
You’re going to embarrass me if you stay silent like this!
Rong Yu frowned: “Hey, my hair got caught on the headdress, Yan Zhao, come here and help me!”
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