Let Me Go! Lord Ghost Messenger! (GL)

Lu Pei is an idle celestial official in the Heavenly Court. During a personnel reshuffle, she snags the best assignment of all and gets transferred to the Underworld, just as she has always wished.

For centuries, the old locust tree outside her home has often told her how red the mountains are in the Underworld, how yellow its rivers, and how much more vibrant they are than the drab, lifeless colors of the Heavenly Court.

The old peach tree by Sutaofang has also told her that the Underworld is not as stiff and stuffy as the celestial realm. There, no one dictates how people must live, whether they are getting married or holding funerals. It is just like the mortal world today.

Before she left, the peach tree and the locust tree cast her fortune together. As the two old trees looked at the scattered coins, wrinkles creased their bark, hard as stone.

"Lu Pei, there is an unavoidable romantic tribulation awaiting you on this journey. We two old fellows can't do anything about it. Whether it's a calamity or a destined encounter, that depends on your own fortune."

But Lu Pei didn't understand any of that. All she remembered were the romantic tales of talented women and beautiful maidens that the old peach tree had told her, stories that filled her with longing. The old peach tree called all those stories, whether tragic or joyful, tribulations.

"So when I go to the Underworld, I can see the mountains and play in the water, and I might even find the love of my life?"

At the thought, Lu Pei clutched her heart, feeling utterly delighted.

But her happiness lasted barely a day. Before she could even roll up her sleeves and get to work, the Underworld's strictest Black Impermanence had his eye on her.

Lu Pei clutched her heart, feeling utterly miserable.

From then on, Lu Pei lived in torment every day, catching evil spirits, gathering the souls of the dead, and dealing with Qiu Bi. It was unbearably hard.

At last, one day, as Lu Pei struggled through life, she glimpsed a ray of hope. The ghost messenger famed for his strictness seemed to have a little affection for her!

But life is full of ups and downs, and then more downs. Lu Pei had no idea that from the very beginning, it wasn't Black Impermanence who had been getting seduced. It was her...

Airheaded cutie x fake cold beauty

Happy ending, no melodramatic rival, devoted to each other

Lu Pei: (alert) Li Zi, there you are.

Si Lizhi: (expressionless, pulls out a bundle of immortal-binding ropes from behind his back) You slacked off again today, didn't you? Don't think I'll let you off.

Lu Pei: (screams as she's tied up) Li Zi! Let me go!

Si Lizhi: (still expressionless, hoists Lu Pei over his shoulder) Lu Pei, you haven't brought back a single soul for two days. Come back with me like a good girl.

Lu Pei: (wearing a practiced, heartbreaking smile, pleading) Lord Black Impermanence, put me down~ I can walk by myself, and I'll go collect the souls, too. Won't you put me down?

Si Lizhi: (carrying Lu Pei over his shoulder toward the Impermanence Residence) Lu Pei, have you no shame? Don't think I'll let you off just because you beg like this every time.

Lu Pei: (struggling) Ah! Let me go!

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