Translator: ChuRen/ YuQiChen
Two tigers cannot share one mountain. Just days after King Yama arrived, he and the Ghost King had clashed openly and covertly countless times.
At first, Su Ling still tried to mediate, but later on…
On the left, Sheng Ze batted his eyes cutely: “The dessert shop you wanted to try before has opened. Let’s go together!”
On the right, King Yama tugged at his sleeve, acting spoiled: “I haven’t been to the surface in ages, Xiao Ling, can you take me around?”
Caught in the middle of their “blessings”, Su Ling looked thoroughly exhausted.jpg
Sheng Ze looked aggrieved, blinking sadly: “Boss, you only care about your cousin now, not your employees anymore.”
King Yama weakly put on a pitiful act: “Lingling, you’re not as clingy with me as before. Kids grow up and only pay attention to new friends, huh?”
Su Ling: …
Why does everyone look at him like he’s a scumbag ahhhh!
Just then, the company’s customer service phone rang.
Like a huge relief, Su Ling jumped up from his chair, grabbed the phone before Meng Xiaoman could answer, and warmly said, “Hello?”
There was a pause on the other end before a slow question came, “Is this Boss Su?”
Su Ling nodded eagerly, “Yes, yes! Have you encountered any problems we can help with? Exorcisms, ghost hunting, fortune-telling, feng shui—you name it, we can do it!”
There was some hesitation from the caller, then a conflicted question, “Um… what about delivering babies?”
Eager for a new case to distract him, Su Ling agreed at once, “Sure, we can do that.”
The caller happily thanked him repeatedly and quickly rattled off some place names, as if afraid Su Ling would change his mind.
After hanging up, Su Ling suddenly realised what he had agreed to—hmm? Deliver babies?!
“A new case?” Meng Xiaoman peeked over curiously, “Where to this time?”
Su Ling glanced at the note in his hand, sheepishly: “The hospital.”
“Mmm…” Meng Xiaoman grinned mischievously, “So, Boss, have you thought about who you’ll take on this shift?”
Hearing this, Sheng Ze and King Yama exchanged a glance, simultaneously slapping the table and shouting, “I’m going!”
Su Ling paused, blinking: “You really want to go?”
Sheng Ze and King Yama fiercely locked eyes while nodding firmly together: “We want to go.”
Su Ling smiled with relief, feeling great, but still feigned hesitation: “But this commission is really tricky…”
Sheng Ze confidently patted his chest: “With me here, no problem.”
King Yama stood with his hands behind his back: “There’s nothing in this world that can defeat me.”
Su Ling excitedly gave a thumbs-up: “Good!”
Su Ling took Sheng Ze and Gu King Yama to the hospital.
Downstairs, King Yama stared at the little electric scooter, caught in a crisis.
Seeing his expression, Sheng Ze immediately smirked provocatively, raised an eyebrow, straddled the red little scooter, and proudly waved at Su Ling: “Boss, hop on.”
Without thinking, Su Ling swung onto the scooter behind Sheng Ze and instinctively wrapped his arms around his waist.
King Yama gritted his teeth in frustration.
Sheng Ze slowly turned the key and, after waiting a moment, pretended not to understand as he turned back and said in surprise, “Aiya, cousin, why don’t you get on? Don’t tell me you can’t ride an electric scooter?”
King Yama flipped the table in anger—’I’m Xiao Ling’s cousin, not your cousin! *spit*, I’m not a cousin, I’m his big brother, okay?!’
Su Ling looked sympathetically at the ruffled Big Brother Gu and nodded with deep understanding: “That’s really not a flaw. I can’t do it either, I understand.”
King Yama’s face darkened as he gritted his teeth, “It’s nothing. You guys go first; I’ll come later.”
Su Ling opened his mouth to say something, but Sheng Ze started up the scooter sharply and sped out of the underground garage.
He left behind a casual sentence—“Good Luck, cousin.”
King Yama’s eyes darkened, and with a ‘bang’, the Su Ling Life Ltd building shook as if an earthquake had struck.
Meng Xiaoman, Wu Pan, and the Chang brothers rolled down from upstairs in panic, scrambling to kneel before the furious King Yama: “Sir, what are your commands?”
King Yama’s murderous gaze swept across all his subordinates.
Meng Xiaoman shivered, thinking this doesn’t even count as a big deal.
Despite her complaints, she desperately buried her head lower to survive.
And so, she was called out.
“Xiaoman.”
King Yama immediately saw through Meng Xiaoman’s attempt to avoid the issue.
Meng Xiaoman looked up with eyes full of helpless tears.
King Yama said gravely, “Do you know how to ride this vehicle?”
Meng Xiaoman hesitated for a moment, glanced at the little electric scooter beside her, and uncertainly asked, “You mean the electric scooter?”
King Yama nodded with a displeased expression.
Xiaoman quickly lowered her head, forcibly stifling the laughter that almost burst out—hahaha, this is hilarious, King Yama actually can’t ride an electric scooter!
After a long while, Xiaoman finally calmed down and nodded in admission, “I can.”
King Yama pressed his lips tightly and said sternly, “Then you’ll take me for a ride.”
Xiaoman eagerly nodded, “Yes, yes, no problem!”
With a spectator’s interest, apart from Meng Xiaoman and King Yama, Wu Pan and Black and White Wuchang exchanged glances and ultimately, still under King Yama’s dark glare, followed after them.
Because they were delayed briefly in the garage, when King Yama arrived, Sheng Ze and Su Ling were already in the patient’s ward.
Especially Su Ling, who had his right hand resting gently on a pregnant woman’s belly, softly speaking and caring for her.
“Nine months along? Then you really need to pay attention to nutrition.”
“Prenatal education should start early; you can talk and sing to the baby every day.”
“Do you know the baby’s gender yet? Planning to breastfeed or use formula? Hmm, I think breastfeeding is best—natural and healthy…”
Su Ling babbled nonstop, his “fatherly aura” almost blinding everyone.
—No matter how you looked at the scene, it was strangely surreal.
King Yama instinctively furrowed his brows and shot a questioning gaze at Sheng Ze.
Sheng Ze wasn’t in a good mood either; he rolled his eyes at King Yama and tersely said, “Look at the belly.”
King Yama narrowed his eyes slightly, his sharp gaze scanning over the pregnant woman’s belly—there, swirling within was only a lingering black aura.
King Yama curled the corner of his lips, a strange emotion swirling in his eyes. “Interesting.”
Sheng Ze twitched the corner of his mouth, not bothering to respond.
Finally, after Su Ling finished his caring words, he turned back and took a sip of water. “Everyone saw that, right?”
All the ghosts present nodded.
Su Ling smiled with relief. “Good. Does everyone have confidence?”
The ghosts nodded again.
Su Ling said, “Excellent. So, who’s going to accompany Miss Zhao into the delivery room?”
The ghosts: …Huh???
Sheng Ze looked puzzled. “Why go into the delivery room?”
Su Ling gave him a peculiar look, as if not understanding why he would ask that: “Of course, to help deliver the baby.”
Sheng Ze struggled to say, “Why… help deliver the baby?”
Su Ling seemed equally confused. “Don’t you all know? This time our commission is to assist with childbirth!”
The ghosts: What the heck?!
“We’re a bunch of big men… oh well, we have Xiaoman but she’s not much help. Who here can actually deliver a baby?” Chang Bai said, bewildered, sensing his whole worldview was about to collapse.
—How broke is our company that the boss is taking on this kind of request?!
Su Ling pouted unhappily and said disapprovingly, “You can learn if you don’t know. Before starting here, none of you knew anything either! But after a few times, you’ve gotten pretty good at drawing talismans, chanting spells, and fighting ghosts!”
That’s because we already knew how to catch ghosts!!!
All the big shots silently shouted inside.
Su Ling said, “Nothing’s impossible. Once you’ve done it once, the second time will be smoother.”
The ghosts: Wait… there’s a second time?!
“Xiao Ling,” King Yama sighed, finally speaking some truth, “The one she’s carrying isn’t an ordinary baby…”
Su Ling nodded without surprise, “I know.”
King Yama was momentarily stunned—‘You knew, and you’re still?’
Su Ling explained, “The client told me that this pregnancy is very likely a ghost fetus.”
“But precisely because it’s troublesome, that’s why they came to us,” Su Ling said.
King Yama had nothing to say.
“A-ze, Big brother Gu, can either of you help her?” Su Ling asked eagerly.
King Yama and Sheng Ze were silent for a long time, then abruptly broke character and began to be humble.
King Yama said modestly, “I heard you’re working in the Underworld and are knowledgeable and experienced. Surely delivering babies wouldn’t be a problem for you. For the baby’s safety, I won’t compete with you.”
Sheng Ze smiled gently, his words like hidden needles: “Cousin, what are you saying? I’m just a rough man; I couldn’t handle such delicate work. Unlike you, cousin, I saw you carefully supervise the office renovations recently — you’re definitely more suitable to deliver the baby than I am.”
King Yama laughed twice heartily, “Too modest. You are practically perfect. Your only flaw is that you’re too humble.”
Sheng Ze shook his head modestly, “Not at all. Although I’m handsome, capable, and of great character… yes, practically perfect, I can’t compare to your greater compassion! If you deliver the baby, he’ll surely feel the most meticulous care.”
King Yama: … Why aren’t you playing by the script? Praising yourself like that—have some shame!
So King Yama laughed again…
Su Ling angrily interrupted them, cutting off their back-and-forth.
“You two usually argue the loudest when bored, bragging about being capable of anything. Now that there’s real trouble and people need your help, you each try to pass the buck even more than the other!” Su Ling said disdainfully, looking at them.
King Yama and Sheng Ze shut their mouths and stood there calmly.
—Being scolded is fine; better that than actually going to deliver the baby.
Whether the birth succeeds or not is a minor point. Imagine the Ghost King himself delivering a baby in the delivery room—he’d be laughed to death if anyone found out.
Sheng Ze seriously suggested, “Don’t rush. Since it’s the delivery room, it’s better if we don’t go in. It’s best if Xiaoman stays to watch over.”
King Yama agreed with Sheng Ze’s rare insight and nodded, “Indeed, pregnant women would get nervous seeing us, which isn’t good.”
Meng Xiaoman: ……
Is this the legendary saying, ‘It’s better to let your companions die than to get hurt yourself’?
Su Ling took several deep breaths to finally calm his anger and said, “Xiaoman can’t do it.”
Sheng Ze: “Why not?”
Su Ling: “Xiaoman is an administrative staff member with no fighting ability. If the ghost fetus goes wild, she can’t handle it.”
Ghost King/King Yama: Can you not belittle your employees?!
Meng Xiaoman rolled her eyes, facing the hostile gazes of the two kings, weakly clutching her chest and whispering, “Right, I can’t handle it…”
Author’s note:
Xiaoman: I’m basically watching this show with my life on the line.
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