A Report for Your Excellency, Chancellor: Your Humble Wife Has Left You

Gu Qingyan, a senior white-collar executive at a company in the 21st century, somehow got diarrhea after drinking cold water and died of exhaustion. Still in spirit form, she hadn’t come to her senses and could only watch helplessly as people carried away her “body.” “Am I dead?” Gu Qingyan muttered to herself. “No, you’re not. It was just a little slip-up, hehe.” A voice from nowhere whispered in Gu Qingyan’s ear. At that moment, the King of Hell looked down at the Book of Life and Death beneath his hand. A drop of ink had accidentally fallen and completely covered Gu Qingyan’s name. Then, for some reason, the stain gradually disappeared. Gu Qingyan’s presence faded along with it, as if she had never existed. “Could this be fate?” the King of Hell murmured, frozen in place. Gu Qingyan came to in a daze, only to hear a piercing voice cry out, “You can’t die! If you die, what will happen to your husband, who’s away in the capital taking the imperial examination?”