After Marrying the Lord of the Underworld

Two days later, the skeleton servants in the castle made breakfast. Although the breakfast was just simple bread, fried eggs and bacon, along with a cup of steaming milk, it tasted uniquely delicious and fragrant, perhaps due to the special ingredients used.

 

The Grim Reaper had gone to work early in the morning.

 

After breakfast, guided by the skeleton servants, Lu Yingjiu and Jing Xian went around the castle to admire the monsters.

 

By noon, the Grim Reaper finally rushed back hurriedly, with a few more souls around him, and his scythe carrying a chilling glow, as if he had just beheaded someone. He sighed deeply, “I had to work overtime again…”

 

As soon as he entered the hall, he saw two people sitting on the sofa, heads close together, whispering intimately, which made him raise his eyebrows.

 

Before he could recover from the shock of the dog food after continuous overtime, a skeleton ran over and hesitated for a long time before saying, “The two griffins you brought back a few days ago…”

 

“Hmm?”

 

“They… they had a little incident.”

 

The Grim Reaper frowned, “What happened? What could possibly go wrong?”

 

“Why don’t you come and see?”

 

Lu Yingjiu, who was on the side, also heard this. He quite liked the griffins, fluffy, friendly and cute, so he immediately said, “Why don’t we all go over and take a look?”

 

Five minutes later, they, two ghosts, one human, and one skeleton, stood in front of the two affectionate griffins.

 

The griffins were entwined with each other, their necks intertwined, and even their lion tails were tightly wrapped around each other.

 

…It was clear that these were two male griffins.

 

The Grim Reaper was relieved, “Oh, it’s not a big deal. If they’re gay, they’re gay. Let them be in love. It’s not like everyone is in love.”

 

Lu Yingjiu: “…”

 

He subconsciously glanced at Jing Xian, feeling uneasy.

 

In the following two days, the Grim Reaper was continuously out on business trips and working overtime, while they successively visited unicorns, giants, mermaids, and gorgons in love, as well as zombies, werewolves, bats, gargoyles, and centaurs, all of whom were passionately showing off their love.

 

A terrifying thing, something akin to the law of causality, was spreading in this castle.

 

Lu Yingjiu tactfully said to Jing Xian, “Jing Xian, don’t you think the monsters around us have been a bit strange since we arrived?”

 

“No.” Jing Xian said, “Love is free.”

 

Four days later, the Grim Reaper finally had some free time.

 

He returned to the castle, only to be greeted by a massive army of love.

 

He was shocked, “Jing! Xian! What have you done?!”

 

Jing Xian, with one arm around Lu Yingjiu and a glass of red wine in the other, was puzzled, “I didn’t do anything.”

 

He was telling the truth.

 

Under Lu Yingjiu’s supervision, he had indeed been honest and well-behaved these past few days, just following Lu Yingjiu around to enjoy the scenery and admire more monsters.

 

“Then why are all the monsters together?!” The Grim Reaper was still shocked, “And why are they all paired up in male-male female-female couples?”

 

Jing Xian: “Love is free.”

 

That afternoon, the Grim Reaper secretly approached Lu Yingjiu with a small notebook in his hand.

 

He said, “Can we make a deal?”

 

Lu Yingjiu: ?

 

The Grim Reaper pushed the notebook over and said, “Write down all the ghosts and monsters you like, and I’ll pack them up for you to take away.”

 

Lu Yingjiu was extremely surprised.

 

He had thought that the Grim Reaper would struggle for a long time before succumbing to the temptation of the blood bat.

 

He asked, “What’s the condition?”

 

The Grim Reaper took a deep breath, “The condition is, take your man and go!! Don’t let him come back!” He was almost desperate, “If this continues, the whole world will be destroyed by him.”

 

Lu Yingjiu: “…”

 

Indeed.

 

So five days later, Lu Yingjiu left with the griffins, unicorns, zombies, werewolves, and Jing Xian.

 

They returned home full-handed.

 

Leaving behind a Grim Reaper holding a blood bat, working overtime with tears in his eyes, and a castle full of monsters whispering sweet nothings to each other.

 

The monsters couldn’t take the plane, so they went through the ghost world.

 

Jing Xian ordered the ghosts to escort them slowly towards the ghost world. He and Lu Yingjiu took a plane and went home.

 

In the evening, after a hot bath, they lay back in their familiar bed.

 

Lu Yingjiu asked, “Now that your imported ghosts are settled, what else do you need?”

 

Jing Xian thought for a moment, “We need a band.”

 

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In fact, the existing bands in the ghost world were top-notch.

 

Whether it’s guzheng, guqin, pipa, erhu, or konghou, suona, big drum, hulusi, they have everything. When they play together, it’s like celestial music.

 

But Jing Xian was not satisfied.

 

Because he felt it was not innovative enough.

 

Lu Yingjiu asked, “Where can we find a band then?”

 

Jing Xian said, “I have a bold idea… Do you remember the golden figures in the Heavenly Way?”

 

The formation “Kan” could only locate the polluted area of the Heavenly Way.

 

After the pollution was resolved, theoretically, they couldn’t go back.

 

But Lu Yingjiu modified the formation, and after a long time, it finally allowed him and Jing Xian to return to the hall They couldn’t do anything, couldn’t go to the inner hall, couldn’t see the giant tree of the Heavenly Way, they could only see the golden figures in the outer hall.

 

Two hours later, they stood in the outer hall.

 

The whole sky was full of dancing figures, like lively birds.

 

With an academic spirit, Lu Yingjiu studied them and finally came to the conclusion: The Heavenly Way’s fragments were countless, some of them became birds and beasts, flowers, birds, insects and fish, and ordinary people like him. And some stayed in the palace and became golden figures.

 

When the Heavenly Way was polluted and destroyed, one of the fragments became the successor – which was why they greeted Lu Yingjiu with respect at that time.

 

In this sense, they were of the same origin.

 

And now, Jing Xian was trying to teach the fragments of the Heavenly Way to play Western musical instruments.

 

Saxophone, violin, piano, and guitar.

 

Accordion, clarinet, trombone, and drum set.

 

The sheet music was neatly stacked on the ground, as high as a small mountain. The radio was playing music, and there were instructional videos on the electronic device next to it.

 

Lu Yingjiu said, “This is too cross-industry.”

 

“Anyway, they fly here every day, being idle is also being idle.” Jing Xian said, “They always need to find some hobbies, whether they can learn or not is fate.”

 

Lu Yingjiu was somewhat skeptical.

 

And after they both left the hall and disappeared, the golden figures in the air slowly stopped.

 

They hovered in the air, with a touch of curiosity, looking at the pile of musical instruments on the ground. After a long time, a figure finally came down and gently pressed the black and white keys of the piano –

 

“Do, re, mi -”

 

“Fa, sol, la, si -”

 

The sound of the piano keys rang out, and the golden figures danced in the air, seemingly not understanding what had happened.

 

Then more and more figures came down and approached the instruments.

 

The whole sky was intermittently filled with the sound of broken music.

 

After that, Lu Yingjiu and Jing Xian both got busy and didn’t care about this matter.

 

Lu Yingjiu took on an emergency commission, catching ghosts during the day and planning the wedding at night; while Jing Xian also went out to fight, sweeping away the raging ghosts on the border at night and planning the wedding during the day.

 

And so, it wasn’t until half a month later that they had some free time to return to this hall.

 

As soon as they returned, Lu Yingjiu saw the instruments scattered all over the place and said to Jing Xian, “You see, they really aren’t interested.”

 

“Toot——”

 

Just as he finished speaking, a clear sound rang out, followed by intermittent horn sounds. Although it wasn’t fluent and there were many wrong notes, you could actually make out the melody.

 

Lu Yingjiu went over and saw a golden figure holding a horn, blowing hard, with another figure holding sheet music in front of it.

 

Then, various other sounds followed.

 

A golden figure flew to the center, holding a baton made of a branch, and began to conduct left and right in a professional manner. The other figures looked up, holding instruments in their hands, and the sounds of drums, horns, pianos, and flutes came together in a lively manner.

 

The entire palace was filled with music, and because it was originally a huge enclosed space, similar to the structure of a concert hall, when they all played together, coupled with the golden crowd all over the sky, there was a sense of grandeur.

 

…It just didn’t sound very good.

 

There were a lot of wrong notes, the rhythm was sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and from time to time there was the sound of sawing table legs.

 

But Lu Yingjiu was already very surprised, “This learning speed is too fast! It’s only been half a month.”

 

“They don’t eat or drink, and they’re idle all day, isn’t it fast?” Jing Xian laughed, “By the time of the wedding, maybe it will sound quite good.” He leaned closer to Lu Yingjiu and affectionately said, “When they come, it can be considered that the Heavenly Way is witnessing our wedding.”

 

Lu Yingjiu said, “This is not just witnessing, you are letting them play music for us.”

 

“Ah, it’s the same idea. Anyway, our wedding must be grand.”

 

Lu Yingjiu also said, “I thought you had no feelings for the Heavenly Way at all.”

 

“I don’t.” Jing Xian honestly said, “But I quite like these figures. Besides, isn’t it more satisfying to invite your enemies to your wedding? I want to invite all my enemies – although there are only a few, the others were accidentally killed… Anyway, I want them to see how happy my wife is.”

 

Lu Yingjiu: “…No.”

 

That night, he paid some physical price again to dissuade Jing Xian from this terrible idea.

 

By the time the price was paid, the two of them lay in the same bed and realized that everything was almost ready.

 

In addition to the tasks they had initially ordered, the imported ghosts were ready, and the band was also ready.

 

Everything was ready except for the last essential one.

 

The days went by.

 

Three days before the wedding, hairball suddenly howled and lay on Lu Yingjiu’s leg, as if it wanted to say something to him.

 

Lu Yingjiu picked him up, listened for a while, and suddenly raised his eyebrows, “Hmm? You want to invite your relatives to the wedding?”