Chapter 167
Chapter 167
The next second, an enormous force knocked her to the floor.
Su Manqing lay there, completely stunned.
Yun Youyou looked down at her with a beaming smile.
“Sorry! I bumped into you. I am so, so sorry!”
When the woman beside Su Manqing saw Yun Youyou suddenly attack, she hurriedly blocked her from leaving.
Yun Youyou glanced at her and made as if to ram into her too.
The woman immediately scrambled out of the way in panic.
Yun Youyou swaggered off.
The spectators quickly opened a path for her, terrified they would end up on the floor like Su Manqing.
“Aah!”
Watching Yun Youyou’s carefree back, Su Manqing could not hold back a furious scream.
That woman was utterly hateful!
Yun Youyou, on the other hand, was in an excellent mood. She felt refreshed in both body and mind.
Unfortunately, there truly were no affordable clothes in the mall.
Yun Youyou decided to go home.
At a corner, she brushed past someone.
They both walked several steps, turned at the same time, and came back.
Yun Youyou stared at the person in front of her.
The other person stared at Yun Youyou.
“Youyou!”
“Wang Yuanyou!”
They looked as delighted and excited as relatives reuniting after years apart.
After his joy faded, Wang Yuanyou glanced around in confusion.
“Am I dead already? Is this hell?”
It was hardly surprising he thought so. Anyone would question reality after seeing a ghost swaggering through the land of the living.
Yun Youyou briefly explained what had happened.
Wang Yuanyou suddenly understood. “Got it. You came up here to scam ghosts.”
Yun Youyou said, “…If you insist on putting it that way, sure.”
The two of them began chatting.
Halfway through, Wang Yuanyou suddenly smacked his forehead.
“Crap, I forgot Ji Lin! I was supposed to take him to the hospital!”
Yun Youyou could not believe he had managed to forget something like that.
Curious, she asked, “What happened to him?”
Wang Yuanyou said, “Nothing serious. It was a friend’s birthday, and he drank a little too much. A piece of glass accidentally cut his arm, so I was going to take him to the hospital to get it disinfected.”
After speaking, his eyes suddenly shone as he looked at Yun Youyou.
Yun Youyou: “…”
Trouble was coming.
As expected, Wang Yuanyou gave Yun Youyou a pitiful look.
“I skipped the blind date my mom arranged tonight. She just gave me an ultimatum and said she’d chop off my head if I didn’t go home right now.”
Yun Youyou asked, “So?”
Wang Yuanyou spoke rapidly. “So could I trouble you to take Ji Lin to the hospital?”
“Oh, right. Do you have a driver’s license?”
Yun Youyou said, “I do, but are you really comfortable letting a ghost drive?”
She knew how to drive. She was simply out of practice and rather lazy.
Last time, she had lied to the Ghost Manager that she could not drive purely because she could not be bothered.
Wang Yuanyou’s eyes overflowed with trust.
“Of course! I’m completely comfortable with it!”
Forced into the role, Yun Youyou had no choice but to follow Wang Yuanyou to the underground parking garage.
“Ji Lin is already in the car. I forgot my phone and went back for it, and that’s exactly when I ran into you. What a coincidence, right?”
Wang Yuanyou chatted excitedly with Yun Youyou the entire way.
He took the elevator with her to the underground garage and finally stopped beside a black Porsche.
Wang Yuanyou handed Yun Youyou the keys.
“I’m leaving this to you. I know you can do it!”
He gave Yun Youyou an encouraging gesture, then ran off cheerfully.
Yun Youyou watched helplessly as he climbed into a flashy red Ferrari and a hired driver took him away.
After hesitating, Yun Youyou finally opened the Porsche’s driver-side door.
Light from the parking garage shone through the tinted windows onto the back seat.
Ji Lin reclined against it with his eyes closed.
One long, pale hand rested against his forehead, and the hazy interplay of light and shadow made his profile look even sharper and more sculpted.
Hearing movement in front, he opened his eyes.
His normally deep, piercing gaze was now filmed with moisture and blurred by drunkenness.
When he saw Yun Youyou, surprise flashed through his eyes.
Ji Lin sat upright and regarded her in astonishment.
“Why are you here?”
Seeing Yun Youyou, who should have been inside the Game, Ji Lin wondered if his drinking had made him hallucinate.
But the Yun Youyou before him was far too vivid and alive to be a dream.
Yun Youyou sighed. “All because I looked at Wang Yuanyou one extra time in a crowd.”
She switched on the headlights and slowly drove the car out of the underground garage.
That “slowly” was not a literary turn of phrase. It was slow in the strictest physical sense.
How slow?
Slow enough that Ji Lin could look through the window and watch roadside joggers pass their car.
Ji Lin: “…”
He endured and endured before finally speaking. “At this speed, my wound will probably heal before I reach the hospital.”
“Shh… Remember, a ghost is driving right now.”
Yun Youyou stared unblinkingly at the road ahead, her expression tense.
“If you don’t want to become my coworker, I suggest you stay quiet.”
Ji Lin gained a clear understanding of Yun Youyou’s driving ability.
After a moment of silence, he quickly fastened his seat belt.
Fortunately, there were very few cars on the road this late at night.
Only two or three vehicles traveled along the broad street.
Once she got used to the car, Yun Youyou increased her speed considerably.
Ji Lin turned his head and watched the roadside greenery streak past the window.
The intoxication he had suppressed began rising again. The car was quiet, and the darkness was the best sleeping medicine.
While they waited at a red light…
“Which way is the hospital…?”
Yun Youyou wanted to ask Ji Lin which direction to take.
But when she turned, she discovered he had fallen asleep against the window, his long, thick lashes casting shadows beneath his eyes.
Yun Youyou paused and swallowed the rest of her question.
Better to let him sleep.
She faced forward again and began studying the car’s navigation system.
Navigation in an expensive car really was different. Somehow, after she pressed a few buttons, it even switched to English.
Yun Youyou struggled with it for ages before barely managing to follow the directions.
Orange streetlights accompanied them through the night.
No one knew how much time had passed when Ji Lin awoke.
The car had already stopped.
They had arrived.
Ji Lin rubbed his increasingly painful temples and looked through the window.
XX Mountain Crematorium.
Ji Lin: “…”
Why did it feel as though most of his life had passed while he slept?
Even if life had a fast-forward button, it should not work this quickly.
Ji Lin helplessly drew his gaze back inside.
“I was only asleep, not dead. I don’t think I need to be cremated yet.”
In the front, Yun Youyou was busy arguing with the navigation system.
She had clearly asked for a hospital, yet this lousy thing brought her to a crematorium and announced, “You have arrived at your destination.”