"You're going to the Capital City. I should be able to help you a little," Double Happiness Bride said, her tone very serious.
She seemed determined to follow Jiang Qiao.
"I have no interest in getting a ghost to help me. Once we leave this place, I'll take my broad road, and you'll take your narrow bridge. We'll go our separate ways and leave each other in peace."
"Wherever you want to go has nothing to do with me. I can't control you."
"Whether you return to Xiao Fang Town is your own business, too."
Jiang Qiao refused outright, leaving no room for discussion.
"We've been through hardships together. Do you really have to be so heartless?" Double Happiness Bride said calmly. "I've never tried to harm you along the way. I've always faced danger together with you."
"I thought we were friends. At the very least, we could be allies."
"That's right."
"We're friends."
"But I don't like having friends follow me around."
"Thanks a lot."
"I'm used to being alone."
Jiang Qiao smiled, but though his face was smiling, there was not the slightest hint of amusement in his eyes. "I don't like forcing others, and I don't like being forced. If you don't understand that principle, then you're not my friend."
At that point,
he looked at Double Happiness Bride, and a flash of icy killing intent crossed his eyes.
Double Happiness Bride was a ghost!
No matter how much she resembled a human, she was still a ghost!
She might look friendly now, but as the saying went, "ghosts were full of lies." One should never overestimate a Vicious Ghost's morality, because they did not possess the concept of morality in the first place.
She wanted to cling to him.
It absolutely wasn't because they were