I Became a Spirit to Scare My Best Friend

The deepest evil in this world isn't in the realm of ghosts. It's in the human heart.

The day Su Yao died was her twenty-seventh birthday. Her best friend, Lin Xiaolu, poured her one last glass of wine, then shoved her into the river, car and all.

When Su Yao woke up, she was in the Realm of Jiuzhou, in Yunzhong County, inside the body of a young woman named Xu, who ran Xu's General Store. A panel had appeared in her mind, too: the Underworld Myriad Realms System, beta version.

The panel said that once she accumulated 500 merit points, she could return to Earth in spirit form once.

What would she do when she got back?

"I won't hurt her. I'll just stand by her bed and see if she can sleep tonight."

So Su Yao hunted ghosts by day and traveled the spirit world by night. She discovered that the spirit world was far more interesting than Earth. Earth ghosts dipped their chopsticks in the spiciest hotpot in the underworld. Skeleton couriers in the magic realm kept losing their heads while making deliveries. Alien ghosts couldn't speak and only glowed. She opened the first courier company in the spirit world, delivering takeout to the dead and helping the insectoid race collect their wages, all while earning merit points.

Once she had enough, she would return to Earth and scare Lin Xiaolu.

After scaring her, she'd come back and get right back to work. The spirit world was huge, and there was so much to do that she nearly forgot about her best friend.

Until Lin Xiaolu died too, and her soul fell into the spirit world. The two met again at the city gates.

Su Yao was now a celestial master. Lin Xiaolu was still a wandering spirit weighed down by terrible sins.

Lin Xiaolu fell to her knees and cried, "Su Yao, spare me!"

Su Yao stood before her and smiled. "You wore gloves when you pushed me. You were afraid of leaving fingerprints. But my scent will always linger on your hands."

"I don't hate you anymore. But you owe me, and you won't get away with paying back a single cent less."