Chapter 410: 12.18

[Alright, Pupa, we've seen enough. I'm quite satisfied with the outcome. Let's restart now, shall we?]

[Pupa:… we can't restart now.]

Yunyu raised his brows. Now that they were at it, he just realized that it had been twelve hours, and there was no restart notification from Pupa at all.

[What do you mean? I'm literally dead here. My body is decomposing right in front of us, hugged by that crazy Huang Shu. What do you mean we can't restart now?]

[Pupa: Didn't I tell you before about the Rewind Stone that Huang Shu owned?]

[Pupa: In this realm, we are controlled by that Rewind Stone, I cannot transmigrate you out of this world or do a restart.]

[Then, what can we do now? Don't tell me that we will be stuck like this forever.]

[Pupa: Not quite, we will be here for a while, but not forever. When Huang Shu used the Rewind Stone, we shall follow his route of a restart. But I don't know the timeline of when he wants to stop. Maybe you'll restart when you're just a baby, maybe when you're a teenager, or perhaps after you got banished. It all depends on Huang Shu.]

[Whaaaaaat?! So I will be a ghost for a while!?]

[Pupa: Indeed.]

…

…

[THAT'S AWESOME!]

[Pupa: Huh? Are you not scared? You'll be a ghost for a while, you know.]

[No, no, I have been imagining about turning into a ghost and scare people and do some peeping.]

[Pupa: Peeping? Do you—]

[Hehe, yes~ I will peep on Xu Jiansheng, Huang Shu, and other handsome men while they took a bath or doing another thing, hihi~]

[Pupa:… even as a ghost, your main objective is voyeurism? Sometimes, I really feel bad about myself.]

[Eh, why?]

[Pupa: Because I will have to follow you, peeping on those poor men! We're bound, remember? Why do I have to see cocks every single day!]

[Sshh, Pupa, you're so vulgar. Just call them... the dragons~]

**

Yunyu thought that Huang Shu would finally stop crying after a while. But he kept on crying after almost twenty hours, and Yunyu's body starts decomposing.

Huang Shu was surprised when he smelled a foul odour coming from Yunyu's body, and he was utterly terrified when he imagined his wife's rotten body.

"W—Wife, let me embalmed your body, okay? So when you wake up, you'll have your body intact!" Huang Shu said. He finally left Yunyu's room after the whole day locked there. He searched for his guard and told them to call the embalmer from the west that was hired by the empire previously to embalm a deceased general.

Huang Shu ordered the embalmer to persevere Yunyu's body and put it on the glass box, which was absolutely ridiculous and mad for a noble to do. Because the tradition here was still to cremate the body so it could reincarnate.

"My son, you shouldn't do this! Just bury or cremate that man! Do you want to sleep beside a dead body every day?!" Empress Dowager protested, but Huang Shu seemed to be determined of doing it.

"My wife is not dead. He's just sleeping," Huang Shu said coldly. "Stop your pestering, Mother Empress. I will only love him, just him forever."

One day after Bai Yunyu's death, his body was embalmed and put on a glass cabinet. Then, Huang Shu ordered the guards to put Empress Xiuying's body inside his previous palace, in the Palace of Serene Harmony.

Ghost Yunyu watched everything with Pupa, and he was absolutely mortified. He floated around his embalmed body. It seemed that the embalming in this era was actually quite advanced, mainly because the embalmer came from the west, or in the modern time, Europe.

But Yunyu wasn't happy with this. In fact, he was creeped out.

[Pupa, I don't know what'll happen in the future.]

[Pupa: Hm? What do you mean?]

[I think I've underestimated how much Huang Shu loved me. I thought his 50% Fatemeter means a love that a couple had when they got married. But this… this is a lot more.]

[Pupa: An Emperor's love is very costly and enormous. For you to get 50% Fatemeter in this world is almost similar to at least 80% in other worlds. Yes, he broke his promise, but his love for you never disappeared even from the start up until your death.]

[That just makes him a hypocrite. If he really loves me, then why did he banish me like that? He literally tortured my body until I can't persevere.]

[Pupa: That, I don't know. But did you see his eyes?]

Yunyu darted at the man in a golden Emperor robe, sitting beside the glass case of his wife. It had been four days since Yunyu's death, and Huang Shu hadn't left this palace of the Empress. He only left to do his Emperor duty for a moment and then returned again. He even ate beside Yunyu's corpse.

[He's slowly descending into madness.]

[Pupa: I think your Guilt Tripping no Jutsu works too well here. Look at this eyes—]

[I know, it's empty...]

[Looking at him like this makes me unable to do my mischief ah! How can I peep on other handsome guys while he keeps staring creepily at my corpse!]

Huang Shu caressed the glass box in front of him. He saw his wife, Bai Yunyu, was sleeping peacefully inside the glass box. Even though his cheek was still sunken, but he was covered in his favourite white hanfu.

Bai Yunyu always complained to Huang Shu that he hated the Empress robe or any clothes inside the Imperial Palace. Because it was humid, heavy, and overall uncomfortable, unlike his white hanfu.

Huang Shu smiled, but his smile only exuded creepiness in his face. Because his eyes were indeed empty, like a man who had lost all his willpower to live.

"My wife, you're now in your favourite clothes. You're now back in your old palace, and you are now with me. But why don't you wake up sooner? It's been four days, and I can't do my Emperor duty. I can't even do morning report with the minister right now."

"Because I keep thinking about you. I want you to accompany me again. Can you help me here?"

"Bai Yunyu… I miss your voice. Can you talk to me? I can even listen to your jealousy of me all day. It'd be a music to my ears, really," Huang Shu said while he kissed the glass case.

[Yo, babe, I'm like… totally dead here.]

[Can you please bury my body instead? It's hella creepy, not gonna lie.]

[Or at least, use your Rewind Stone now, what are you waiting for? You're basically insane now!]

[Pupa: He can't hear you, you know.]

[Aish, can I do the ghost thing? Like apparition, possession, or at least, let me whisper to him first.]

[Pupa: You can do apparition and whisper, but you can only do it once because you're not from this world, your energy is not strong enough to be a powerful ghost. And you can't do it for a long time, probably only ten second at best.]

[Pupa: So choose wisely. If you want to show yourself to Huang Shu, then make sure you will deliver the message. Though I suggest you look around first, it's crucial for you to pick the right target, or we will be stuck here for a long time.]

[Hm... right target, huh...]