Are all those feelings fake?
Looking at Funo's smile, Su Cheng suddenly felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
He had thought they had some feelings for each other.
He never expected that all of that was just a fabricated story she had woven for him.
It made sense, he never bought lottery tickets, yet he suddenly bought one that day.
And he happened to win.
A beautiful, wealthy woman suddenly confessed her love and proposed to him, and he didn't even find it abrupt.
Everything was so strange.
Yet he had never doubted it, nor had he ever noticed these oddities.
"I even specifically looked into it. You humans really like this kind of thing nowadays~"
Funo smiled, "So, does it matter if I'm a ghost? At least I can give you the life you want, can't I?"
"No! It's not like that, it's not!"
"What did you say?"
"I said it's not like that!"
Su Cheng almost roared, his eyes wide with fury.
"This is not what I want! Let me go back!"
Funo's delicate eyebrows furrowed. "Then what do you want?"
"I want to live! To live a good life! Not to be stuck with you ghosts!"
"Ungrateful fool!"
Funo stood up and in the blink of an eye, she was in front of Su Cheng.
With a wave of her hand, a kick of her foot.
She easily pinned him to the ground, looking down at him.
A phantom skull faintly appeared on her face, terrifying.
Her voice also became hoarse.
"You can still live a good life now because I let you live."
"What's wrong with being a ghost? Would you live any better if you went back?"
"Living in that kind of place every day, exhausted like a dog for a little money."
"Didn't you want a big house, a beautiful, wealthy wife? You have them now, what's not to like?"
"That hits hard."
"What she said makes so much sense, I can't even refute it."
"Even so, something feels off, but I can't quite put my finger on it."
In the live stream, viewers suddenly clutched their chests, feeling offended.
"This female ghost understands so well."
"Look at themselves, toiling away for a living every day, and then look at the female ghost..."
"Truly, humans live worse than ghosts."
"Of course, there are poor ghosts too."
"But this female ghost is clearly genuinely wealthy and powerful."
"Sigh..."
The atmosphere in the live stream turned melancholic.
At this moment, the female ghost was still seducing him.
"When you go back, you'll be nothing. Annoying neighbors, condescending colleagues, high-and-mighty bosses..."
"But here, you can have a house, a wife, everything you desire. What's wrong with that?"
Su Cheng gazed quietly at the ground.
At this moment, he actually calmed down.
"You're right, life torments me, it makes things difficult for me..."
"Living in a shabby rental every day, eating instant noodles, exhausted like a dog, all for that meager salary..."
Funo's eyes lit up, and the phantom skull on her face vanished.
She returned to her radiant, white-toothed appearance.
"Since you've thought it through, then..."
"But,"
Su Cheng interrupted her.
"Even so, I've struggled and lived until now!"
He spoke slowly, as if speaking to her, or perhaps to himself.
"I do want to marry a gentle and lovely wife, and I want to become rich."
"It is precisely because I pursue these beautiful things that I suffer so much."
"But I'm not working so hard to live such a fake life!"
"Nor is it with death as a prerequisite!"
He clenched his fists, his eyes burning with a fierce flame.
What he wanted to do, how he wanted to live, those were his own choices!
Not for a ghost to make choices for him!
"Even if the person isn't that gentle and lovely, as long as we like each other."
"Even if I don't end up rich, I'll definitely find ordinary beauty!"
"Even if I eventually die..."
He endured the female ghost's foot, desperately trying to get up, his face flushed red.
"But as long as the underworld hasn't come to claim me! No one can strip away my right to live!"
"Come on! Keep going!"
"Well said!"
"As long as the underworld hasn't come to claim me, no one can strip away my right to live!"
"I've lived diligently for thirty years, not for a life of false affection! But so that when I return home, there will be a light shining for me!"
"Life is tough, but when you see your wife and children after coming home, your heart warms up!"
As Su Cheng spoke, the melancholic atmosphere in the live stream vanished.
Viewers tapped their keyboards, feeling their blood surge with warmth!
Their lives were indeed a mess!
But they weren't always a mess.
There were also many beautiful moments.
The first ray of sunlight in the morning, the first coat in autumn,
A phone call from a loved one saying they missed you, the myriad lights of homes late at night...
It was these moments of warmth and beauty, inadvertently revealed in ordinary life,
That made them feel their hearts warm up.
That made them feel that the human world was worth it!
Although, sometimes they would complain about life themselves, and act on impulse.
But humans are sometimes so strange.
They could arrange and handle their own things however they pleased.
But if someone else did it, that wouldn't do!
Let alone as a human, the right to live?
How could they easily let go and let a ghost decide?
"No matter if it succeeds or not, you can't lose in terms of spirit first!"
"Go for it!"
"Charge! Get up!!"
"Brother, you don't have to be so hasty, play some mind games with her, like Sun Tzu's Art of War and the Thirty-Six Stratagems!"
"Come on, burn some military treatises over, can she receive them?"
At this moment, hearing the voice from inside saying "Let me go!"
Jiang Lin, who was sitting on the bedroom roof, slowly stood up.
"It should be about time."
"Entering this ghost domain, eating its food, and having contact with that female ghost."
"If Su Cheng himself was unwilling to leave, without any will to survive."
"Then what Jiang Lin had to do would be more troublesome..."
*Bang!*
In the bedroom.
Funo kicked Su Cheng away, her crimson dress and dark hair flowing without wind.
The phantom skull reappeared on her face.
She was angry!
"You can't leave! If you want to die, I can send you off! But to go back, no way!"
Su Cheng let out a pained cry from his throat.
He slowly slid down the wall, feeling discomfort all over.
"Let me go..."
"I still need to go back."
"At home, someone is waiting for him."
"This money-eating beast has finally lived this long and can finally stop taking money from his family."
"He can't just leave like this."
"Otherwise, Dad and Mom would be heartbroken."
Su Cheng curled up, and in his daze, he suddenly heard a loud noise.
With a deafening roar, the roof exploded.
A white figure appeared before his eyes, his voice seeming to come from a great distance.
"If you want to go back, then go back."