After Death, I Discovered My Wife Was the Villainess of a Supernatural Novel - Chapter 7

“It’s good that you’re not. Then, little cutie, Big Sister will be leaving first~ Be more careful next time. This world is far more dangerous than you imagine.”

“Wait, wait, wait!” Mu Zhao hurriedly grabbed the woman in red’s clothes.

The instant she grabbed her, the image of this “person” killing those two thugs without even blinking flashed before Mu Zhao’s eyes again. Her heart could not help trembling. She did not know whether it was just psychological, but the clothes she was holding felt especially cold.

She… she was also a ghost, right?

The female ghost in red raised an eyebrow and asked her like she was talking to a child, “Is there something else?”

“Um, well, I wanted to ask you…” Mu Zhao was so frightened she stammered a little.

“Is there a way for ghosts to become stronger?”

“So that’s what it is. Little cutie, you were just born, so you probably haven’t killed anyone yet, right?”

Mu Zhao shook her head frantically.

“Figures. I can smell only incense on you. If you don’t want to take a shortcut, then just keep eating incense and take it slow.” The woman in red took out a business card and stuffed it into Mu Zhao’s hand.

“Come here to play when you have time. There will be many kind sisters there who can answer your questions~” The female ghost threw Mu Zhao a flirtatious wink.

Mu Zhao lowered her head and looked at the business card in her hand.

Indulgence Club…

This club… was it proper?

“But Big Sister really, really hates men. If you bring friends, make sure you don’t bring any male creatures, understand?” The female ghost’s voice suddenly became as cold and sinister as a venomous snake.

“C-Can I bring human women?” Mu Zhao asked, trembling as she glanced at her.

“Pfft…” The woman covered her mouth and laughed. “I really don’t know whether I should say you’re bold or timid… Of course you can, as long as she isn’t afraid. After all, living people are very, very rare in our place.”

“All right, Big Sister has something to do, so I’ll leave first. If you have any questions, you can come to the club. All information is clearly priced~”

Mu Zhao had just been about to ask something else when the phrase “clearly priced” choked her words back.

Good heavens. She sold information?

“Hell money?”

“Renminbi. US dollars are fine too. Gold works as well. We don’t accept hell money.” The snake-and-scorpion beauty narrowed her eyes. Mu Zhao did not know whether it was her imagination, but she felt that the woman’s face now carried a hint of worldly shrewdness.

“I see… But I’m already dead. Where am I supposed to get those…”

“Judging from what you’re wearing… is it a new release from some brand? Looks like your family is pretty rich?” The other party looked her up and down.

“Mm, mm… My family runs a company. We have some money.” Mu Zhao endured the discomfort and did not move, letting the other woman appraise her like she was evaluating merchandise.

“Then that’s easy. When the time comes, we’ll help you solve it, little rich lady~” The female ghost in red blew her a kiss. After hearing that Mu Zhao had money, her attitude visibly improved. She waved her sleeve and disappeared into the alley.

Suddenly, the two “corpses” beside them moved, startling Mu Zhao.

“Hehehe…”

“Hehehehe…”

The two men climbed up, giggling foolishly as if they had lost their minds, drool spilling all over the ground.

“They’re alive?! And stupid now… Forget it, forget it. Not my business.” The thought of that enormous creature made Mu Zhao shudder. Even floating outside gave her a feeling of fear, as if some ghost might appear from somewhere and shout, “Mu Zhao is here!”

She was just an ordinary cannon-fodder ghost who had only recently died. What was there about her that was worth remembering? How strange…

But sure enough, there was no such thing as a free lunch. If she wanted information, she had to spend money. What that woman meant was probably that she could help Mu Zhao get money from home, but… wouldn’t doing that expose the fact that she was Mu Zhao?

Mu Zhao sighed. Was there anywhere ghosts could work? Otherwise, should she have her family’s Coal Ball work at a cat café to support her?

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Hospital.

The woman Aunt Liu had called Miss Lan picked up an apple and a fruit knife from the fruit tray, swiftly peeled the apple, then stuffed it into her mouth and took a vicious bite.

“Why didn’t you tell me? Something this huge happened to your wife, and I didn’t even make it to her funeral! Do you still treat me as your friend?” If not for the fact that the other party was a patient, Lan Yujing would have loved to smash the half-eaten apple in her hand onto Fu Yushang’s face.

But now, seeing Fu Yushang so haggard after just a few short days, she really could not bring herself to do it.

“Have they found the murderer? Do you need my help? My girlfriend has many connections. Maybe she can help you.”

“They haven’t found them yet, but my sister has roughly narrowed down the direction. Still, I keep feeling like something isn’t right.” Fu Yushang covered her violently aching forehead. Her sleeve slid down slightly, revealing her thin, pale wrist.

“If you feel something isn’t right, then unless something unexpected happens, there’s definitely a problem. Fine.” After saying that, Lan Yujing took out her phone and made a call.

“Hello.”

“Ayu? Um, listen to me explain!” A woman’s ingratiating voice immediately came from the other end of the phone, begging for mercy.

“Cut the nonsense. Help me investigate something. If you do it well, I won’t hold it against you.” Lan Yujing’s face reddened, and she turned her face slightly aside.

“Okay, okay, go ahead.”

“That intentional homicide case on the mountain road from a few days ago. Can you help me look into who’s behind it?”

“That case? I remember the victim seemed to be called…”

“Mu Zhao.”

“…” Upon hearing that name, the person on the other end of the phone fell silent for a moment.

“What’s wrong? Is there a problem?” Lan Yujing frowned, and her tone sank at once.

“Baby, this matter… may be difficult to investigate. Can we change to something else?”

“Difficult to investigate? Why?”

Fu Yushang suddenly looked up at Lan Yujing, who had blurted that out. A sharp glint gathered in her eyes.

“There are a lot of messy things involved behind this person. Some of them aren’t convenient to investigate further…”

Lan Yujing’s brows furrowed deeper and deeper. Fu Yushang suddenly said to her, “Would it be convenient for me to speak with your girlfriend for a moment?”

“Sure. My childhood friend… that is, Mu Zhao’s wife, wants to talk to you.” After Lan Yujing said that to the person on the other end, she handed the phone to Fu Yushang.

“Hello…” Fu Yushang glanced at Lan Yujing.

“Her surname is Liu.”

“Hello, Miss Liu.”

“Ayu’s childhood friend… Miss Fu, right? Listen to my advice. Don’t get involved in your wife’s matter. I believe living well is also what your wife would have wanted.” The voice on the other end was alluring and seductive. Anyone whose will was not firm could have their mind quietly changed by the suggestion hidden in her voice.

But Fu Yushang was completely unaffected. She said, “I will definitely continue investigating this matter, but I won’t implicate Yujing. If Miss Liu has any clues…”

“…” The voice on the other end fell silent for another brief moment, then suddenly laughed. “What a devoted person. I’ll think a little more highly of you. If you really aren’t afraid of death, then go investigate that place.”

The person on the other end of the phone gave Fu Yushang a name.

“Remember what you said. Don’t drag Ayu into this.”

“Fuck you, Liu Qiyu! Who were you saying would drag who into this? This is my childhood friend, the one I practically lay in the same cradle with! Do you not want to come back tonight either?!” The phone fell back into Lan Yujing’s hands.

“I misspoke. Ayu, don’t be angry…” The person on the other end admitted her mistake very proactively.

Obtaining a name meant they had a lead. Fu Yushang hurriedly searched for her phone. But in her current unrecovered state, even the weight of a phone made her hand tremble nonstop.

“The needle shifted, my god!” Lan Yujing’s sharp eyes noticed that the back of Fu Yushang’s hand, where the IV needle was inserted, had swollen into a large lump. She no longer had time to scold her girlfriend. She hung up the phone and called the nurse.

After that, there was a burst of chaos.

Once the doctors and nurses left the room, Lan Yujing saw that Fu Yushang was still sending messages.

When Lan Yujing had just returned, she had barely dared to recognize this person as the once high-spirited childhood friend she knew. Never mind that Fu Yushang had already wasted away until she looked neither human nor ghost; even the vitality she once had was gone from her eyes. Her wife’s sudden death seemed to have taken half her life away too.

Lan Yujing felt a little panicked. After Fu Yushang succeeded in avenging her, what would she rely on to keep living? Could time really heal wounds?

Lan Yujing glanced at Fu Yushang. In this woman’s love, it seemed that other than regret, there was only more regret. After all…

“I told you back then to seize the chance and confess, but you insisted on saying you’d wait a little longer and didn’t want to take advantage of her vulnerability. Great. Now she died still seeing you only as her senior.”

“Fu Yushang, I really don’t know how I should praise you. You’re practically the number one saint in the whole world.”

Back then, when Fu Yushang decided to marry Mu Zhao, Lan Yujing’s jaw nearly dropped.

She was not shocked by the marriage itself. She had long known that Fu Yushang liked that little junior of hers. What shocked her was that their marriage was in the name of a business alliance, and the reason was that Mu Zhao had been forced into a dead end by her parents!

Lan Yujing had thought that since Fu Yushang had already married her and brought her to her side, the advantage of proximity would surely let her get the moon first. Within a year, Fu Yushang should have been able to coax the person into her arms, right?

But no. Fu Yushang had been able to endure having meat right by her mouth for so many years without eating it. They had been married for three years, yet Mu Zhao still only saw her as her senior. Even a Ninja Turtle was not as patient as she was!

After simmering the frog in warm water for all those years, Fu Yushang had seemed to finally be about to make a move. Who knew that misfortune would descend at that very moment? It really was…

Fu Yushang’s hand paused as she typed. Then her typing speed visibly slowed down.

The reason her typing slowed was nothing else. Her hands were trembling too badly, causing her to keep typing the wrong words.

When Lan Yujing looked up, she saw the reddened corners of Fu Yushang’s eyes. The next second, she slapped herself on the mouth. When had she ever seen her childhood friend with red eyes? “I talk without thinking. Don’t stoop to my level.”

“And don’t listen to Liu Qiyu’s nonsense either. No matter what, I’ll help you.”

“Don’t get involved. I can handle it myself.” Fu Yushang refused her.

“With you looking like this ghostly mess right now? I’m afraid you’ll collapse halfway before getting your revenge! If you won’t let me help you, then I’ll—I’ll go to your wife’s grave every day to tattle on you. I’ll say you’re recklessly ruining your own body! I’ll also tell her the ugly truth that you had a crush on her but stubbornly didn’t have the courage to confess!” Lan Yujing wished she could slap a mirror onto Fu Yushang’s face and make her see what a ghostly state she was in right now.

Fu Yushang, who had originally shown little reaction, suddenly raised her head and glared angrily at Lan Yujing.

“What are you looking at? Are we competing to see whose eyes are bigger?”

Crash!

Suddenly, the glass cup on the nearby table fell to the ground and shattered.

And the two people present were both far away from it.

How had the perfectly fine cup fallen by itself?