All along, Ji Li had believed that the Ghost Bride had issued him a Marriage Certificate because of some secret he did not know, perhaps for reasons similar to why Heavenly Sea had sought him out.
After all, regardless of Ji Li himself, he was ultimately special aboard the ship that was Heavenly Sea.
But now, that answer seemed to have been overturned.
The reason Ji Li had become the target of the Ghost Bride's Marriage Certificate was not due to any external cause. It was entirely because of a mistake he himself had made.
During that first encounter, he had done something he should not have.
If the Dream Ghost had not paid the price with itself to recreate the complete scene from three months ago, allowing him to reexamine that first encounter from a more unique perspective, this secret might never have been uncovered.
Three months ago, on November 1, 2025, six people arrived at Republic Street, where time and space had gone wrong.
Faced with the sudden Red and White Collision, Yu Guo, Fang Shenyan, and the others became part of the procession. Tao Xiaoyi entered the coffin, while he entered the Sedan Chair. It was there that he first saw the Ghost Bride.
Had it not been for the Dream Ghost, Ji Li would have long forgotten even the details from that time.
Back then, Ji Li had been trapped inside the Sedan Chair. Beside him was the painting where the Ghost Bride resided, and he made an action that had seemed ordinary then but now appeared utterly wrong.
He had touched that painting...
It did not sound like much. After all, at the time, he had sensed a powerful Supernatural Aura seeping from the painting, and in that cramped space, there had only been him