The female ghost tried her best to gather her straying thoughts. She picked up the red silk hanging on the ground and once again prepared to hook Wang Ke’s soul away. 

As if thinking of something, she turned to look at An Rugu—she had decided to let her go. “I don’t know how you escaped from the immobilization spell, but I know even more than that. If you don’t wish to die, you’d better go.”

Then she forced the red silk back into Wang Ke’s hand. She raised her hand and slapped it down hard on Wang Ke’s shoulder, pinching his soul—and began to pull it out of his body.

Wang Ke’s parents’ eyes were tearing up, and they wished they could exchange places with him. The experts on the other side of the room could see what was happening but they were helpless, and truly, they might even lose their lives, which was the more painful part.

Wang Ke’s soul was caught, and he had a faint feeling that he was about to leave his body. A marquee of his life flashed before his eyes. He opened his mouth, but he was already too weak to speak, so he could only think what he wanted to say silently.

Dad, Mom, I’m sorry. I didn’t know that I actually made such a promise in my previous life!

However, at this moment, there was an ethereal sigh in his ear: “If this is your decision, then don’t blame me.”

An Rugu took off the five-emperor coins from her wrist and threw it to the female ghost’s hand. The female ghost let out a horrible shriek as if she had been scalded by boiling water and yanked her hand away in pain. 

The seduction of Wang Ke’s soul was interrupted.

“Ahh!!”

The female ghost felt a burst of burning pain and when she looked, her entire right hand had disappeared, turned into nothingness, leaving the end of her arm empty.

Her eyes fell on the culprit that was now lying on Wang Ke’s knee, and she turned pale with shock. “Five-emperor coins? This is impossible! How could ordinary five-emperor coins hurt me?!”

An Rugu was a little puzzled when she heard her words. “These are five-emperor coins that I consecrated myself. How are they any different?”

The female ghost clutched her handless arm and looked at An Rugu in horror.

She had seen five-emperor coins used to exorcise evil spirits before, but they were only weak spirits—it was why she had not been afraid at all when she saw what An Rugu was holding earlier. But those things were nothing compared to what An Rugu had thrown out just now.

As it turned out, An Rugu’s five-emperor coins, when compared to ordinary five-emperor coins, was like a missile to a machine gun!

The female ghost suspected that An Rugu was pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger, deliberately downplaying her skills to better plot against her. But in fact, An Rugu really didn’t know: she had never seen the five-emperors coin crafted by others, so she couldn’t compare it to the ones she made herself.

… …

The five-emperor coins had fallen from the female ghost’s hand when it dissolved and had landed on Wang Ke’s lap. When that happened, Wang Ke was immediately freed from his invisible shackles, his body returned to its original state, and he quickly clutched the five-emperors’ coin like a treasure, never realizing more clearly than now that this talisman was a life-saving thing!

Seeing this, Zhang Ling breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time felt highly annoyed with herself. When she went to Cloud Rise Temple earlier, she had bought a set of five-emperor coins, but she didn’t take it seriously. She had thought of it as just a trinket and put it away in a drawer when she got home. If she had known that five-emperor coins were so powerful, she would have definitely kept it close to her body!

The female ghost looked at An Rugu seriously for the first time. 

But despite looking for a long time, she found that she couldn’t see through the depth of An Rugu’s cultivation, so she could only show weakness, her eyes moist and aggrieved, “Master, it is clear that he was the one who made an oath to me, and I have come to him to fulfill it. Am I wrong?”

Wang Ke’s parents and the other experts still couldn’t move, but seeing that the female ghost was so pitiful, with a look of sorrow that was heartbreaking, they couldn’t help but be touched.

To fulfill a vow, she never wavered and waited for Wang Ke for more than four hundred years. If there was true love in the world, it probably looked like the female ghost.

The balance in their hearts inevitably tilted a little towards the female ghost.

Even Wang Ke, once he figured out the matter, he too felt sorry for the female ghost and, at the same time, he was also very upset.

He and his girlfriend were an ordinary campus love. No need to mention not being a grand love at all, they simply thought that the other party was the best person they could find at the time.

It turned out that the female ghost’s love for him was so strong that she only had him in her eyes for centuries. Her love was as hot as the sun, so hot that he was a little moved.

Who didn’t want to have such a lover who was unchanging in the depth of their feelings and loyal beyond death?

And it was undeniable that the female ghost looked pretty good… 

Wang Ke’s mind moved slightly, like ripples in a pool of water.

If one was with such a person, that person must be very happy.

But An Rugu answered her, her voice quite indifferent, “You are at fault.”

Everyone: “?”

Facing the female ghost’s look of incomprehension, An Rugu said, “You violate the will of the Underworld and intend to seduce the soul of a mortal. This is being unlawful. You disregard the wishes of your loved ones’ parents and insist on separating their son’s yin and yang, which is unfilial. You ignore the thoughts of your loved one and force them to enter into a marriage contract, which is unkind. You are meddling in the feelings of your loved one, this is unrighteous. You are unlawful, unfilial, unkind, and unrighteous. How dare you tell me you are not at fault?”

An Rugu’s words were like thunder, loud and deafening, causing everyone to be in a daze.

The female ghost burst into tears when she heard such words, her tears falling uncontrollably, as if she couldn’t accept that she was such a despicable person, so she could only retort, ​​”But he is Wang Lang!”

An Rugu’s voice became more and more indifferent, “After drinking Meng Po’s soup, all memories of the past life will be gone. He is no longer the same person. You can not be unaware of this, and yet you are still here—persisting. Do you love him or love yourself more?”

The female ghost seemed to have lost all strength, and she fell on the ground slumped and pitiful, covering her face and weeping bitterly. The mournful cry was endless.

Four hundred years of waiting had already long since wiped out her love for Wang Lang. Later, she only held on to receive an answer. When she learned that he had already been reincarnated, she wished she could devour that person.

It turned out that the person she loved was actually a hypocrite! How dare he lie to her?!

The reason why she came to look for Wang Ke’s reincarnation was because she didn’t want to admit that she hadn’t known his true self at all.

She was not reconciled!

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

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T/N: This would be too sad if it wasn’t funny…