Ghost Matchmaking: Ghost Emperor Husband and Campus Queen Wife

The dust settled.

The thick clouds on the horizon slowly dispersed.

A few rays of faint light pierced through the red mist and shone down.

Yun Zhenyue stretched out her hand. When the gentle light shone on her palm, she felt a bit dazed.

’This mission of mine has been a real mess.’

’I was only supposed to be learning etiquette, but I ended up running all over the place with the kids. I completely blended in, reliving my childhood and even becoming a little troublemaker myself.’

’In the end, Gu Yuan even had to step in personally to clean up the mess.’

’But the outcome was pretty good, all things considered.’

"Miss Yun, Miss Yun! Can you still send a message to Brother Gu Yuan?"

Meimei suddenly asked with anticipation.

The rest of the children gathered around as well.

They were all clamoring to talk to Gu Yuan.

"Hold on."

Seeing their excitement, Yun Zhenyue started a video call with Gu Yuan right away.

BEEP... BEEP...

He picked up almost immediately.

Gu Yuan appeared on the screen, sitting on a sofa and watching anime.

He looked as laid-back as ever.

It was as if his recent intervention had nothing to do with him.

If it had been Luo Huan, he would have jumped at the chance to brag about it long ago.

"Long time no see. Did you miss me?"

Gu Yuan looked into the phone’s camera.

He smiled and greeted the children.

He could see a few little heads huddled together.

In truth, if he’d wanted, he could have given the children a whole pile of phones at any time.

But that would have been far too chaotic.

He’d probably be fielding a ton of calls from morning till night every day.

Besides,

Gu Yuan also wanted to cultivate the children’s independence.

They shouldn’t be too dependent on him.

"Of course we missed you like crazy! Brother Gu Yuan, when are you coming back to the orphanage?!"

Meimei was the most excited.

Her eyes seemed to be sparkling.

Gu Yuan just smiled without saying anything.

"Oh, right! This trip out of the orphanage has been so exciting! Miss Yun took us wandering all over, we had all kinds of great adventures, and there was so, so much yummy food and fun stuff..."

She recounted many of their experiences from their trip.

Gu Yuan listened with a soft chuckle.

He nodded from time to time, listening attentively.

"Brother Gu Yuan..."

Suddenly, Meimei grew a bit bashful, her cheeks turning red as she spoke.

"You and Miss Yun aren’t married yet, right? Can you take me too? I don’t mind being the junior wife."

"Well... let’s talk about that when you’re older."

Gu Yuan casually deflected the topic.

"And when will that be? By the time I’m grown up, you and Miss Yun will already be on your third kid!" Meimei immediately shot back.

"Meimei, you’ve been talking to Brother Gu Yuan forever! It’s my turn, my turn!!"

Pangpang couldn’t take it anymore.

He immediately gave a hard shove, pushing Meimei aside with his head, which was as round and pale as a steamed bun.

"Heh heh... Brother Gu Yuan..."

As Pangpang looked at Gu Yuan, he scratched his head sheepishly.

Then, clutching the small pouch on his chest, he asked.

"When will you have time to make me more jerky? My whole stash is gone."

"Don’t worry, I’ll make some for you in a bit. As it happens, Lily is a picky eater, and I was already planning to make some jerky for her. The ingredients are all ready—two whole spectral cows. You can have one each. That should be enough to last you a year."

"Thanks, Brother Gu Yuan!" Pangpang said, his eyes lighting up.

With that, he moved aside.

He gave Shoushou a turn.

"Brother Gu Yuan, I’ve drawn lots of beautiful pictures this time. I’ll show them to you when you get back," Shoushou said, gripping his paintbrush tightly.

"Okay," Gu Yuan said with a nod. "Just remember not to draw anything too terrifying. You’ll scare the neighbors."

"I know! Everything I’ve drawn on this trip is totally normal!" Shoushou said with a pout.

’Normal?’

Everyone struggled to keep a straight face when they heard that word.

’Is he talking about the stuff that would cause even other supernatural beings to have a mental breakdown?’

Finally, it was Kuku’s turn.

And Yuan.

Gu Yuan first praised Kuku for their commendable courage, then nodded to Yuan and said, "Well done."

Yuan didn’t reply right away.

’Affirmed by his creator.’

The negative emotions in his heart seemed to ease.

Yuan had always felt he was superfluous, wondering why he even existed.

Now, however, he was gradually finding his reason for being.

’To protect his family.’

’But compared to Gu Yuan, he still hadn’t done enough.’

At least, with all those negative emotions deep in his heart, he couldn’t appear as outwardly normal as Gu Yuan.

A short while later, the video call with Gu Yuan ended.

Meimei and the other children were still not satisfied.

"Our escape plan was a huge success! Even Brother Gu Yuan praised us," Meimei said cheerfully, raising a small fist.

Pangpang said, "I guess there are no other items on the agenda, right?"

"...I have a feeling we forgot something."

’Forgot something?’

The children frowned slightly.

’Oh, that’s right...’

’What were we supposed to be doing again?’

They had been so excited to see Brother Gu Yuan that they’d forgotten their objective.

"Aren’t we supposed to be saving Loli?" Kuku whispered.

"Oh, right, I think so," Meimei said, looking bewildered.

...

"COUGH, COUGH!"

Loli awoke from an endless darkness.

She was promptly hauled out of a coffin by Yun Zhenyue.

"Are you okay?"

When she heard Yun Zhenyue’s words of concern,

she looked at the group in a daze as they helped her to her feet.

"You—"

Loli asked in a hoarse voice.

She remembered parting ways with Yun Zhenyue and the others.

She had just been about to turn into a bat and fly home,

when she was suddenly captured by a group from the Blood Race.

She had resisted with all her might at first, but the moment she saw the Blood Race Duke, she fell silent and lost all hope.

After all, she was only a Crimson-robed Ghost, while a Duke was a top-tier Evil Star.

She could only watch helplessly as the other young women from the Blood Race who had been captured alongside her were drained dry.

But just when it was supposed to be her turn,

the Duke seemed to run into some kind of trouble. He knocked her unconscious and locked her in this coffin.

The next thing she knew, she was waking up to the scene before her.

"Don’t be afraid! We already took care of that old bat!" Meimei said with a triumphant sniff.

"Yeah, he died a real miserable death. He just went POP! and exploded like a balloon."

Pangpang said, munching on the last of his jerky.

After all, Brother Gu Yuan had said he’d make more, so there was no need to save these last few scraps.

"It wasn’t a balloon. You can at least hear a pop when a balloon bursts. It was like a bubble, it just vanished without a sound," Shoushou corrected.

"It was too a balloon! The balloons I used to blow up popped just like that!"

Pangpang turned and retorted indignantly.

"If you don’t believe me, just have Brother Yuan pop another one. It’ll be just like I said, I’m sure of it!"

"..."

Hearing the children’s argument,

Loli’s dizzy brain was still in a state of confusion.

’What are they talking about?’

’The Duke was... a balloon?’

Loli found it difficult to connect those two concepts.

"In any case, he’s dead now."

Yun Zhenyue said softly, seeing her confusion.

"From now on, nothing can hold you back."

"Does your promise to take us to see the cherry blossoms next year still count?"

"I didn’t even realize you were tempting fate last time. If I’d known, I wouldn’t have let you say it."

"It... counts..."

Loli hesitated for a moment, not quite understanding.

Her foggy brain couldn’t get on their wavelength.

Just then,

she saw a familiar figure walking toward her.

It was her father.

The Blood Race Marquis had arrived.

The moment he heard the children were going to save Loli, he had rushed over, his heart pounding in terror.

He had originally intended to beg the Duke to spare the children’s lives.

But he had arrived a little too late.

He didn’t see the Duke.

He only saw that giant, giant, giant eyeball in the sky.

The Blood Race Marquis was completely dumbstruck.

From that eyeball,

he sensed an aura entirely different from that of an Evil Star.

Even a Great Evil would seem like a mere ant before it.

He was filled with incredibly complex emotions.

He looked at Yun Zhenyue, wanting to speak but hesitating.

’Why didn’t you just say you were this damn powerful?’

’To think you could summon such a being in an instant... I would have had Loli get on her knees and beg you to be her godmother! At least then I wouldn’t have spent the whole way here sweating through my pants in terror!’