Afterlife Department

"So, it has only been six months that passed since I died in this world?" Huo Ling asked Mo Shi as they watch the giant television on top of the building play an advertisement.

"Mn!" Mo Shi nodded as he ate the crepe in his hand.

Huo Ling looked at him. "Your superior really permitted you to accompany me?" he asked, referring to Jin Wu.

Mo Shi nodded. "Senior Yi asked me from him, telling him that I will help you by assisting you in your task. This is also for me to gain an experience." He explained.

Huo Ling nodded in understanding. "But, you really… were imprisoned by your family when you were alive?" he asked as he looked at Mo Shi with a complicated gaze.

But, Mo Shi didn't look sad. "En. I was really na?ve back then and they told me that I am sick, so I had to stay at home and not leave or else something bad will happen to me." He answered. "They also had me sign some papers. Before I knew it, I already died in my room." He shrugged.

Huo Ling stared at him, doesn't know what to say.

"But, even if I was imprisoned, I still am free to do anything, watch anything or listen to anything." Mo Shi continued. "This Hyacinth Li… her real name is Li Fengxin. She was supposed to debut with the other trainees of Yuhua Entertainment after she won in a variety show, earning a debut spot for herself." He said as he looked at the folder in Huo Ling's hands. "But, the small fans she earned during the variety show were shocked that she didn't debut." He said.

"Why is that?" Huo Ling asked.

"No one knows." Mo Shi answered with a shrug. "It created only a small ripple and then that's it. Hyacinth Li is only a small artist and didn't even debut, and I also heard that she is from a poor family so who would support her in this circle where waters ran deep?" he asked and shook his head, feeling pity to Hyacinth Li.

Huo Ling fell silent. Then, after a while, he spoke. "You really know a lot about this circle?" he said.

Mo Shi looked at him. "That is because my family owns the Yuhua Entertainment." He nonchalantly answered.

Huo Ling's face froze and cracked. "… what did you say?" he asked, feeling as if his ears turned deaf and he didn't hear what Mo Shi said.

But, Mo Shi didn't answer again and just looked at the giant television above the building where a certain news is playing. Huo Ling looked at Mo Shi's back. He didn't expect for Mo Shi to be a young master of a wealthy family! No wonder Yi Bing asked for Mo Shi to assist him! It is because Yuhua Entertainment is actually owned by his family!

Huo Ling placed a palm on his forehead as he sent Yi Bing a message. 𝒇𝐫ℯ𝑒𝒘ℯ𝑏n𝑜ѵ𝐞l.c𝗼𝗺

0000: why didn't you tell me about Mo Shi??

Yi Bing immediately replied. He must be currently idle, browsing the forum again.

0001: It is trivial.?

Huo Ling who was shocked by this something 'trivial'. "…." What the fck! Owning the most famous and biggest entertainment company is trivial?! He thought with his face covered in dark lines.

Huo Ling took a deep breath to calm himself. Then, he looked at Mo Shi who is still watching the giant television which now plays a music video. He thinks that this kid his deeply, but then he also thought that Mo Shi didn't really hide anything. It is just he didn't ask him. After all, asking about one's past is a taboo for grim reapers. If he just didn't hear Jin Wu and Mo Shi talking about Mo Shi's life before in the apocalypse world, Huo Ling wouldn't know that Mo Shi, who seems to be a cheerful young man, was actually imprisoned by his family for six years starting when he was sixteen years old.

Unfortunately, before Mo Shi turned twenty-two, he died.

…

Lower Heaven, Afterlife Department, Disciplinary Committee.

"Why are you still here?" Jin Wu asked as he looked at Yi Bing who is browsing the forum on his touch-screen tablet.

"Why can't I be here?" Yi Bing asked back without lifting his head from his gadget. He opened a game app and started to play.

It was a game where a grim reaper harvest souls and also perform various tasks. This game, without a doubt, was developed by R&D, Sha Jiu and his team so that the grim reapers could kill time or have a time of relaxation. Of course, they also sold this game in the mortal world. This is one way the R&D makes money.

"You already taken away my apprentice – " Jin Wu said.

Yi Bing cut him off. "'borrowed'." He corrected him. "If I really want to take your apprentice away, will you allow me?" he asked him.

"No." Jin Wu immediately answered.

Yi Bing just shrugged.

"You already borrowed my apprentice. What more do you want?" Jin Wu asked and frowned and his brows knitted as he glared at Yi Bing.

"Well, how about a chat?" Yi Bing asked as he placed his tablet on the table and he looked at Jin Wu.

Jin Wu's face immediately turned black. "I get it. You just want to piss me today." He said as a vein popped in his forehead.

"No. I just really wanted to chat." Yi Bing said.

"Go find San Di. I am busy." Jin Wu told him.

Yi Bing acted as if he didn't hear him. "As far as I can remember, you are now a senior grim reaper and the souls that you have ferried were nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight, correct?" he asked.

Jin Wu didn't answer.

"You are only one soul away for completion… and if a senior grim reaper can complete his nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine soul assignments, he will be given a wish." Yi Bing said. "I already did, and my wish was that I will be given special privileges. Shen Taizi granted my wish by handing to me the management and ownership of the City of the Dead, and he also didn't tie me up with the Afterlife Department, thus the directorship fell into Gu Shi's hands." He explained.

Jin Wu remained silent.

"So far, aside from me, only you are the next to have a completion." Yi Bing looked at Jin Wu. "But, suddenly, you went and became the head of the Disciplinary Committee, which really baffled me before since I didn't expect for you to suddenly give up the completion task." He said.

"What do you want to say?" Jin Wu finally spoke as he placed his pen down the table.

Yi Bing leaned his back on the chair. "If I remember right, you died six years ago." He started. "You are also from the Stable World. I was supposed to ferry you, but then your attachment is too strong. And then you told me that you don't want to be reincarnated." He said as he looked at Jin Wu in the eyes. "So, I had Shen Taizi turn you into a grim reaper. And you really worked very hard as a grim reaper." He said.

Jin Wu just looked at him.

"It was only just recently did I realize your reason for becoming a grim reaper." Yi Bing said as he crossed his legs and arms. "You are waiting for someone." He said.

Jin Wu's eyes dangerously narrowed. free𝚠𝚎𝚋𝒏𝚘ѵ𝐞l.𝑐oｍ

But, it is as if Yi Bing didn't see it. "Six years ago, Mo Shi's parents died and his inheritance was stolen from the fifteen year-old him by his relatives." He said. "In order to clean their reputation, they 'beat up' a street kid that Mo Shi had gotten friends with before. They said that this kid is vicious because he is a gangster, always fighting. So, they taught him a lesson." He made a snowflake that suddenly turned into a kid. "This kid thought that it was Mo Shi who hated him because of his background as an orphan and a gangster. He thought that way until he died due to the vicious Mo family's beating." He said as he looked at the kid made of snow lying on the table.

Jin Wu's face is dark.

"It was only after he died that he found out everything. That Mo Shi didn't hate him, and instead was looking for him, wanting for him to take him away after he was locked up by his own family and even his inheritance was stolen from him." Yi Bing said as the snow turned into a kid locked up inside his room while gazing outside the window.

Jin Wu clenched his fists as he watched Mo Shi with reddened eyes.

"But, Mo Shi didn't know that you actually died." Yi Bing looked at Jin Wu whose face is dark. "And by his own family's hands.." He added.