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Wan Yan Kitty was infuriated, relentlessly trying out new tricks every day to escape.

Zhan Yan completely understood.

You two watched cooking anime, tempted the kitty until he was drooling, and then wouldn’t let him go out to find food. How torturous…

However, Xiao Gu had finally found a breakthrough with his older brother. Thanks to Ghost King Wan Yan for his contribution to the friendship between his older brother and Xiao Gu!

Hmm… when Ghost King Wan Yan comes looking for him for a huge feast, he would prepare something even more sumptuous.

His brother and sister both had work to do recently, so the gifts Zhan Yan brought for them were temporarily kept at the bottom of his suitcase.

The WeChat Moments post he made still garnered a bunch of likes, but it seemed only Xia Yuexian, the boss of Mingtang Pictures, understood it.

She sent Zhan Yan a private message.

Xia Yuexian: “Is this your dad’s?”

“Is he planning to record a song?”

Xia Yuexian had always known that Chongming Demon King’s voice was stunning, but it wasn’t until the video of him singing red songs with the elderly art troupe leaked online that she realized he could also sing. Chongming Demon King had never sung before, and given how he read his lines, Xia Yuexian had assumed he was tone-deaf, which was why he didn’t sing.

It was better when he didn’t sing. Now that His Majesty the Demon King had opened his mouth, all sorts of invitations came pouring in, and Xia Yuexian had a tough time rejecting them one by one. Those doing it for profit were easy to handle, but some people were simply pure voice-connoisseurs or music lovers. Their persistence was extraordinary, and they threw all sorts of methods at her.

What could Xia Yuexian do? Since His Majesty the Demon King didn’t want to sing, she could only reject, reject, reject.

But this WeChat Moments post made by Chongming Demon King’s youngest son today… As soon as Xia Yuexian saw the microphone’s cool appearance, she felt it perfectly matched Chongming Demon King’s looks. With the innate ability of a Heart Moon Fox, she sharply determined that this wasn’t for Zhan Yan’s own use, but was likely a gift for his dad.

So… was Chongming Demon King planning to record a song?! That would be wonderful; they could arrange a concert! If not a concert, just releasing an album would be fine too~

Zhan Yan: “Mhm, but we won’t be releasing it publicly.”

Ah…

Xia Yuexian immediately felt disappointed.

Xia Yuexian: “Alright, I thought there was a chance.”

“You have no idea how many invitations I’ve blocked for him recently.”

“And I even get scolded.”

Zhan Yan scrolled through the gossip posts and felt a tinge of sadness for Boss Xia.

Many people imagined that Xia Yuexian was suppressing Zhan Yunkai, firmly believing that someone with such singing talent couldn’t possibly just want to keep singing as a hobby. He must be being threatened!

As Xia Yuexian chatted with him, she suddenly got an inspiration.

Xia Yuexian: “Hey, do you think your dad would be willing to do voice acting?”

Zhan Yan: “???”

Sister Xia, do you hear yourself?

If my dad could do voice acting, why has he always needed someone else to dub his lines in all these years of acting?

Xia Yuexian: “I’m planning to produce a sci-fi movie that features an AI, and we need someone to voice it.”

Zhan Yan recalled the sound of his dad reading his lines… that really could work. He wouldn’t even need to practice; he had a natural AI feel to him.

Boss Xia excitedly went to discuss this with His Majesty Chongming.

Zhan Yan: ? Boss Xia, you’re being a bit too hasty.

Boss Xia was afraid that if she waited, His Majesty Chongming would get busy again and wouldn’t have the chance to record.

A few minutes after sending the message.

Zhan Yunkai: “Is there a script?”

Xia Yuexian: “[File]”

[After Tianshi Ji Yueming heard Chongming Demon King Zhan Yunkai read the script, she was very interested. Chongming Demon King Zhan Yunkai decided to accept the job.]

Besides Boss Xia, Matthias also sent him a message asking if the microphone was a new type of magical artifact.

Zhan Yan: …It’s just a microphone!

Matthias, who was wildly imagining things, didn’t mind at all and even said he had a surprise for him.

A surprise… Zhan Yan wasn’t particularly looking forward to it.

In the evening, Gu Jiancheng’s goodnight kiss phone call came in.

Zhan Yan glanced at the gossip posts; the call was made using a shadow avatar. Xiao Gu’s main body was currently trying to catch Ghost King Wan Yan.

[Taking advantage of Lin Yuan Ghost King Zhan Jinli’s inattention, Ghost King Wan Yan slipped into the ghostly mist attempting to escape. Gu Jiancheng sneered, pinned Ghost King Wan Yan’s shadow, and dragged him back out of the ghostly mist.]

Zhan Yan listened to him whining playfully on the phone: “Yan Yan, I miss you so much…”

Zhan Yan stifled a laugh as he watched him show off his power in the gossip posts: “School starts in a few days; I’ll bring you good food then.”

[Extremely annoyed, Ghost King Wan Yan let out a “Meow-aow” and charged at Deep Shadow Gu Jiancheng. Gu Jiancheng turned into a shadow, and Ghost King Wan Yan’s desperate pounce passed right through him.]

Gu Jiancheng: “A few days is a long time… I want a kiss.”

Zhan Yan: “Didn’t we already kiss?”

[After being blocked from escaping by Deep Shadow Gu Jiancheng for the 123rd time, Ghost King Wan Yan was extremely furious and cursed Deep Shadow Gu Jiancheng to drop the call as soon as he got on the phone.]

Gu Jiancheng: “One more, please?”

It was unbearable how clingy he was…

Zhan Yan: “M…”

“Beep—beep—”

The call dropped.

Gu Jiancheng: ???

Where was the kiss he had worked so hard to ask for?!

He turned around, rolled up his sleeves, and beat the cat!

Undo my curse!!!

Lin Yuan Ghost King returned from his busy work and helped Deep Shadow undo the curse.

…Why was Deep Shadow looking at him with such a resentful gaze?

Gu Jiancheng angrily clicked open the cooking anime, shoved it in front of Ghost King Wan Yan, and pulled Lin Yuan Ghost King to watch it together.

What was the use of undoing it! Several hours had passed, and Yan Yan had gone to sleep long ago.

He missed out on a kiss today!

The next day, Zhan Yan made up for it with ten kisses. It was really unbearable if he didn’t make up for it; Xiao Gu’s clinginess had doubled compared to his most clingy moments in the past. Moreover, he didn’t even feel shy anymore!

Zhan Yan: “Hang up, hang up!”

Gu Jiancheng: “Let’s chat a little longer, okay?”

It wasn’t even bedtime yet.

Zhan Yan: “No, Sister Zhen Hua asked me to take on a rush job.”

True Science News Agency.

President Zhen Hua was sighing at Xi Wen.

Zhen Hua: “Why is it so hard to recruit people?”

Ever since Zhan Yan and Gu Jiancheng had run off, True Science News Agency hadn’t been able to poach any materialist warriors of such high quality. Whenever there was a major operation, they started scrambling in a panic.

Xi Wen was buried in his work, fiercely typing on his keyboard.

Recently, something unknown had gone wrong in the Underworld, causing daily issues. People were constantly reporting seeing things like ghostly soldiers passing through. This caused him to work intense overtime for the past few days.

Zhen Hua stared resentfully at Zhan Yan’s Weibo account: “I had originally planned to poach him…”

Previously, when the apocalyptic world connected, “mirages” were everywhere, and President Zhen Hua was so busy she was practically coughing up blood. At that time, she had wanted to ask the two precious temporary workers they had poached earlier to help out in an emergency. However, considering they were both students and still in school, Zhen Hua forcefully held back and didn’t contact them, waiting until after they graduated to poach them with high salaries—animal medicine either didn’t make money or was tiring; how could it compare to the benefits at their news agency?

As a result, some time ago, Zhen Hua came across a grape advertisement online. Following the ad, she discovered Zhan Yan’s Weibo and learned that the promising talent she had her eye on was the young master of a large company. Zhen Hua tearfully ordered five boxes of grapes.

Xi Wen scribbled furiously: “If you can’t poach him, then poach his classmate. Has Mount Chaofu replied yet? What exactly is going on with them?”

Zhen Hua: “His classmate doesn’t look like someone lacking money either…”

Xi Wen exploded, throwing his pen: “If you can’t get people, then put down your phone and help work!”

Zhen Hua: “Cough, cough, cough, I’ll go ask them if they can take on an outsourced job. They should be on holiday right now.”

[Deep Shadow Gu Jiancheng and Ghost King Wan Yan caused chaos while fighting, resulting in a portion of ghostly mist leaking from the Underworld, with a few little ghosts hiding within to escape the Underworld.]

Zhan Yan hung up the phone and started working. President Zhen had taken good care of him in the past, so since he had time now, he would help out. Furthermore, Xiao Gu was also partly responsible for causing so much trouble…

Those two found each other displeasing to the eye, so the fuss they made was exceptionally intense.

Gu Jiancheng unwillingly hung up the phone and was angrily complaining about True Science News Agency, when he suddenly saw the message Zhen Hua sent him, asking if he could help take on an outsourced job.

One look at those news reports and everything became clear.

Gu Jiancheng: …So the culprit who ended up increasing Yan Yan’s workload, resulting in him missing out on 47 minutes of sweet bonding time, was actually himself?!

Gu Jiancheng: “I’ll take it.”

He could only secretly reduce a bit of Yan Yan’s workload…

After finishing the outsourced job, Zhen Hua still couldn’t resist and asked the two of them again if they wanted to develop their careers at the news agency; even doing it part-time would be fine.

Xi Wen stood up and rolled his shoulders after finishing his work: “How did it go?”

Zhen Hua: “I was rejected by both of them.”

QAQ

Zhan Yan rolled his neck.

Doing a part-time job was definitely out of the question; Sister Luoluo wanted to pull him to work part-time and continue shooting commercials, but he had rejected her too—Sister Luoluo’s career ambition was truly strong.

The next day, the incredibly career-driven Sister Luoluo brought Zhan Yan Matthias’s surprise.

Luo Luoluo: “Matthias is here.”

Big Strong Ma enthusiastically gave Zhan Yan a hug.

“Yan, I missed you so much! I came to play with you.”

Zhan Yan: …That’s a bit of a shock, bro!

Play what play, school starts for me in a few days!

Big Strong Ma didn’t mind at all: “Then let’s travel to your school together!”

Zhan Yan: ?

“What are you saying?”

The straight-line distance from Yunjin City to Beiling City was nearly four hundred kilometers; even taking the high-speed rail would take over two hours.

Big Strong Ma was elated: “We can cycle there!”

Zhan Yan ultimately chose to fulfill Matthias’s small wish; for no other reason than this guy brought the contract for the overseas version of the game.

Besides, there actually was a tourist route between Yunjin City and Beiling City.

But cycling was out of the question; Zhan Yan insisted on driving—he still had a bunch of luggage.

Matthias didn’t have a domestic driver’s license, so Zhan Yan was the one driving. The elated Big Strong Ma simply drank a few glasses of champagne and spent the entire trip chattering in Zhan Yan’s ear about the supernatural information he had collected since returning to Spain.

Two hours later, the wicked navigation system led them to the side of a three-meter-wide river and told them to drive across.

There was indeed a bridge over the river, but it was a wooden bridge meant for pedestrians.

Zhan Yan: …

[You believed the wicked map navigation system was more reliable than your own cheat map navigation system, and unfortunately took the wrong path.]

Zhan Yan: …Enough! You didn’t introduce that it could navigate over long distances before; didn’t it only show the surrounding 30 meters…

Zhan Yan fiddled with the mini-map function again, reversing the car to find a new path.

Because of the time wasted taking the wrong route, they didn’t manage to reach the farmhouse on the map by nightfall. Furthermore, the engine stalled while they were passing a wasteland. Zhan Yan tried several times, but the engine died immediately after starting, and they barely moved ten meters forward in total.

The late summer night breeze carried a damp chill, the vegetation rustled, and a few faint green lights flickered in and out of sight; it was unknown whether they were fireflies or the eyes of wild beasts.

The drunken Matthias’s eyes shone even brighter: “Yan, I learned some incantations from another friend of mine; they told me these work in this kind of situation.”

Zhan Yan: “Ah?”

Matthias opened the car door and stepped out. Standing in front of the car, he cleared his throat and yelled at the wasteland in poorly pronounced Chinese:

“If you dare cause trouble, I’ll dig up your graves!”

Zhan Yan: …

Who taught you that?!

Matthias continued to output: “You bunch of wandering ghosts, I didn’t mess with you! If you keep acting up, I’ll dig up your bones to make soup.”

[Your car has broken down due to insufficient fuel.]

Zhan Yan: “Come back, the car is out of gas.”

This wasn’t a wild graveyard below them, nor had they encountered a ghost wall; what was he blindly cursing at…

No, who was ruining this silly foreigner Matthias?

Matthias had just climbed back into the car when their vehicle suddenly started.

Zhan Yan: ???

Wasn’t this car out of gas? How was it driving?

[Ghostly Essence, Ghostly Bright, Ghostly Crafty, and Ghostly Clever took advantage of the battle between Ghost King Wan Yan and Deep Shadow Gu Jiancheng to escape the Underworld. Passing by this place, they decided to lift your car out, afraid that the commotion caused by Matthias would attract ghostly messengers.]