Every now and then, <Violet> would pat her face hard and tell herself not to think too much. She was twice his age, so she couldn’t possibly have unruly thoughts about him.

Unexpectedly, after a while, he started chasing her, and she realized that this was not a one-sided crush on her part after all. But she couldn’t forget her late boyfriend, and she didn’t like to play casually, so she didn’t allow herself to indulge.

She has been feeling very conflicted in the past few months, so she came to ask An Rugu whether this was a true love.

Unexpectedly, it turned out that he was her late boyfriend from beginning to end!

<Violet> covered her eyes with her hands, her eyes already red, “Then why didn’t he tell me?”

“Perhaps… he thought you would be scared.”

There were very few people who would not be afraid if the dead ever came back.

<Violet> laughed and cried at the same time. In the years after his death, she wished very much that she could see his ghost. If he really came back, she would actually be happy and not afraid at all.

<Violet> immediately thanked An Rugu profusely, then hurriedly hung up the call, as if ready to go find her late boyfriend.

… …

What An Rugu calculated was that her late boyfriend originally lived thousands of miles away from her, and he came to her city only after he got into college. The first time he plucked up the courage to meet her was when he helped her catch the thief and recover her bag.

But even as An Rugu calculated matters carefully with her fingers, she still felt that something was a little strange, so she said to the livestream, “I have something I need to do. I will be back in ten minutes.”

[Host, don’t leave, is there anything that I, a distinguished eighth-level fan, cannot watch?]

[Maybe the host just wants to go to the toilet.]

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

For some reason, <Violet>’s late boyfriend reincarnated to someone who was an orphan, came from a poor family, and had terrible luck.

And his life span was short: only sixty-three years.

The late boyfriend was obviously a man of great merit, and his new life should be going very smoothly, but why has he lived so miserably this time around?

Did the late boyfriend make mistakes that An Rugu couldn’t account for?

…. …

And so, An Rugu left the range of the livestream camera and went to the main hall of Cloud Rise Temple.

She burned three sticks of incense, sat down on the cushion, and took a meditative posture, concentrating and calming her breath. When you couldn’t figure it out yourself, then just ask the gods.

A thin layer of smoke enveloped her as she sat upright.

About a minute later, some pictures finally flashed through her mind.

A huge, mysterious, ancient book suddenly appeared in her mind’s eye, with large words written on the cover: ‘Book of Life and Death’.

Her gaze sharpened when she saw the words.

The ‘Book of Life and Death’ was one of the three books of heaven, earth, and man. This book set forth the life span of all living beings and was in the hands of a judge affiliated with King Yan. Recorded in it was the list of all people and animals in the world, and all life information from birth to death was written in it for the purpose of governing life and death.

At this time, the pages of the ‘Book of Life and Death’ turned on it own without aid. It took about two minutes until it stopped at a certain page.

[…Wei Feng, a person with great merit, would have had a life span of 89 years in the next life. Instead, a contract was established: if he was allowed not to don’t drink Meng Po’s soup, he would exchange 26 of his allotted years, and his life span would be reduced to 63 years, and upon his next death, he would be sentenced to the Mountain of Blades level of Hell for one hundred and twenty-six years.]

After reading the content on this page, she immediately opened her eyes, with a flash of surprise in her eyes.

That’s it!

<Violet>’s late boyfriend was a person of great merit and could be directly reincarnated without waiting in line. He could have used his merits from his previous life to wish for a prosperous and bountiful new life.

However, he found a judge and made a contract: in exchange for all his merits, he would not drink Meng Po’s soup and be reincarnated with his memories intact like this.

He didn’t want to forget his girlfriend…

The Underworld was actually easy to talk to. If you have money, you can make the devil push the wheels. You can bribe the Underworld to facilitate things, but sometimes it was not so easy to talk to.

The merits he had were not enough for him not to drink Meng Po’s soup, so he was deprived of twenty-six years of his lifespan. He was born an orphan in this life and could not make money in his life. After death, he would have to go through mountains of swords and seas of fire for more than a hundred years.

She estimated that because he enjoyed sixty-three years without drinking Meng Po’s soup, he will pay double the same time in hell.

Twenty-six years of life were taken away from him, and he could only live to be sixty-three years old.

She couldn’t help but think of <Violet>’s lifespan. <Violet> would live to be eighty-three years old, which was exactly one year shorter than the other person.

Did he not want to leave earlier than the other person again and make her sad? 

I Livestream Divination to the World translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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T/N: The Mountain of Blades/Knives or Daoshan  is the 7th out of 18 levels of Hell where the penitent are made to climb a mountain of blades over and over. The levels are not geography but rather the length of time served by the penitent being tortured.

One day in the 1st level is said to be 375 years in the human world—it gets progressively longer the higher the level of Hell. So that 126 ‘years’ that the former boyfriend would have to serve in the 7th level is… a long, long time. 

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Chapter 49.1 — Dad Went Missing
Chapter 49.2 — Dad Went Missing
Chapter 49.3 — Dad Went Missing
Chapter 50.1 — I Never Forgot My Love For You
Chapter 50.2 — I Never Forgot My Love For You