"Black and White Impermanence?" Jiang Ruoyi nearly died of fright. These were ghostly deities from myths and legends, and she had actually met them in the flesh today.
Given the choice, she really would rather not have met them.
Seeing that Ouyang Xuanxuan was not only unafraid but actually delighted, she couldn't help asking, "Aren't you scared?"
"Why would I be scared?" Ouyang Xuanxuan asked in puzzlement. "The Seventh Master and Eighth Master are very easy to talk to."
"You've met them before?" Jiang Ruoyi looked at her younger cousin in disbelief. Had she missed something?
"Yes." Ouyang Xuanxuan smiled. "They're Li Yichen's buddies. They even call me their sister-in-law."
"Buddies... sister-in-law..." Jiang Ruoyi froze again.
Just then, Li Yichen began to suspect something, but he couldn't help asking, "Seventh Master, Eighth Master, what brings you here?"
"Her, of course." White Impermanence pointed at Zhou Tingting on the hospital bed and continued, "She's about to die. We've come to take her back to the Underworld."
"How is that possible?" Li Yichen asked urgently. "She's only twenty. How could she be dying?"
White Impermanence reached out and tapped Zhou Tingting's forehead. White light immediately spread across it, with images flickering within the glow like a slideshow.
Soon, the white light vanished, and White Impermanence continued, "She suffered a devastating psychological blow and has lost the will to live."
"Could you leave her here?" Li Yichen asked tentatively.
"Even if we do you a favor and don't take her back to the Underworld, she won't come back to life if she's determined to die. Most likely, she'll become a wandering ghost, never to be reincarnated." White Impermanence sounded unusually solemn.
"But..." White Impermanence was right. Forcing her to remain in the mortal world might not be good for her.
"Seventh Master," Ouyang