Southern Archives: Strike First with a Gu

[TV Adaptation, Happy Ending] Shrimp and Salt

A sharp-witted Nanyang weapon, Shrimp, versus a reborn, unhinged, ghostly Salt

Zhang Hailou spent a century searching for the resurrection medicine, only to die because of it. When he opened his eyes again,

he had returned to the first day of the Panhuahai Reef case, before anything had happened. Zhang Hailou could barely keep from laughing. If he'd known it was this easy, he would have gone earlier.

“Xia Zai, this time we absolutely have to live and die together.”

Zhang Hailou's voice carried a faint, cloying tenderness, while his eyes were full of gloom and stubborn resolve.

Beneath his skin, the life-sharing gu he had nurtured for a hundred years stirred softly, making its presence known.

After composing himself, Zhang Hailou pretended to be the man he had been back then and walked toward the person he had yearned for over nearly a century. As usual, he reached over to feel for a cigarette on the other man's body, but his eyes remained fixed on Zhang Haixia's face. There was something inexplicably ghostly about him.

“Xia Zai, the mother gu... has already been planted. You... don't even think...”

“Don't even think of... leaving... me... in this life.”

“Hate me, Xia Zai.”

“If you die, I... will die with you too... Xia Zai...”

“Zhang Hailou!”