Ghost Matchmaking: Ghost Emperor Husband and Campus Queen Wife

"What’s wrong?"

Seeing this, Yun Zhenyue pulled her to her feet.

She helped the woman over to a small chair on the side.

She was very curious about what kind of scene was inside that ghost painting.

The office lady swallowed hard at the question.

Her legs were still a little weak.

After a long while, she finally seemed to recover and said slowly, "Inside... it’s a large lawn..."

"Hm?"

Yun Zhenyue was confused. ’What’s wrong with a lawn?’

"There were also a lot of zombies, but they didn’t attack me," the office lady trembled. "It was like they thought I was their friend and wanted me to invade the lawn with them."

"..."

Yun Zhenyue didn’t say anything.

She had a strange sense of déjà vu.

"And then?"

"And then..."

As she spoke of this, a look of fear appeared in the office lady’s eyes.

"There were lots of strange plants on the lawn. Some could shoot green bullets, some were exploding cherries, and the scariest was a big black mushroom that blew up all the zombies at once!"

"What?"

The more Yun Zhenyue listened, the stranger it sounded.

’Plants vs. Zombies?’

’But on the zombies’ side?’

"Have you never played video games?" Yun Zhenyue asked.

"No, my parents never let me near games growing up," the office lady said reflexively.

"But that’s not important. After I finally cleared out all the plants with my zombie friends and got past the little carts, a crazy man came out of the house behind the lawn."

"He was holding a shovel and just came up and hit me on the head."

"You’ve been through a lot."

Yun Zhenyue gave the office lady a pitying look.

Just then, Shoushou chimed in, "Actually, the painting wasn’t like that at first."

"When you went in, you were on the plants’ side, but Pangpang and the others said it was too easy. So they had Brother Gu Yuan change it and increase the difficulty just a tiny bit."

’That’s not the same difficulty at all!’

Before Yun Zhenyue could even complain, the second player emerged from a ghost painting.

It was the timid-looking female player.

She also wore a look of terror.

She silently distanced herself from the painting of the statue.

"What did you see?" Yun Zhenyue asked.

"I—"

The female player bit her lip gently.

"After I entered the painting, I turned into a little, white-haired pixie-like creature that could fly. Someone even called me ’Emergency Food’."

"Then, for some reason, seven gods appeared and wanted to fight me one-on-one. I tried to run."

"I barely managed to slip away, but then a sentence suddenly appeared in front of me."

"’Let’s explore the area ahead of us later!’"

"And then I was killed."

Yun Zhenyue: "..."

’You play Genshin too?’

Her jaw dropped, her eyes wide with shock.

’Gu Yuan has turned every popular game on the market into a ghost painting!’

Not long after, Bai Mo also came out, looking rather wronged.

"Were you getting hunted down too, little Bai Mo?"

Yun Zhenyue asked, patting her on the head.

"Mhm!"

Bai Mo looked utterly aggrieved.

"As soon as I went in, some blue-haired guy wanted to kill me. He said something about how I was ’courting death,’ and then a bunch of grass wrapped around me."

"I panicked and ran into a rock and died."

...

Seeing this ridiculous situation, the audience from the Dragon Country couldn’t hold it in anymore.

[LOL, what is this random assortment of ghost paintings!]

[Did Gu Yuan pay the copyright fees?]

[Now you’re making me itch to try. If only I could have a go at it.]

[Wait, these ghost paintings are so similar to Yun Zhenyue’s. Don’t tell me they’re all Calamity Star Ghost Artifacts?]

[Now that you mention it, it’s actually possible. Holy shit, letting kids play with Calamity Star Ghost Artifacts? That’s some serious wealth!!]

...

「A short while later.」

The other two female players also emerged from the ghost paintings.

Judging by their expressions, it hadn’t gone well for them either.

Just then, Shoushou finished his drawing.

Luo Huan was finally released.

She zipped over to the group’s side in a flash.

After hearing the female players describe their experiences, her eyes lit up like lightbulbs!

"Kids, I’ll help you get revenge!"

"Be careful..."

Before Yun Zhenyue could finish her warning, wanting Luo Huan to be a little more low-key, Luo Huan dived straight into the painting of the lawn.

「A moment later.」

She leaped back out, carrying a large black mushroom in her hand.

The mushroom swelled rapidly, looking like it was about to explode at any second.

The female players scrambled away in terror.

The office lady, in particular, looked like she was having a PTSD flashback and shivered uncontrollably.

"Hey, hey, make way!!!"

Luo Huan didn’t even have time to greet Yun Zhenyue.

She jumped into the painting Bai Mo had just been in.

「A few seconds later.」

She zipped back out!

"Phew~"

"That was close. It almost exploded."

Luo Huan said, wiping a bead of sweat from her temple.

"What did you do?" Yun Zhenyue asked curiously.

"Hmph, hmph~"

Luo Huan stood proudly with her hands on her hips.

"I used that black mushroom to blow up that blue-haired villain!"

"Some stupid weeds are no match for my giant mushroom."

Yun Zhenyue: "..."

’That’s cheating!’

’Those two things aren’t even from the same world.’

’It’s like if the guy from Contra ate a mushroom from Mario and then one-shotted the boss by jumping into it, isn’t it?’

It was hard to imagine such a bizarre scene.

"Will this have any effect on the ghost paintings?"

Yun Zhenyue walked over to Shoushou and asked.

Hearing this, Shoushou puffed out his chest and said, "It’s fine, play as much as you want!"

"Brother Gu Yuan’s paintings aren’t that easy to damage!"

"Not even a top-tier Evil Star could break through these ghost paintings, let alone you guys."

...

Luo Huan was very interested in these ghost paintings.

She tried to drag the other female players along, wanting to go on another adventure with them.

But no matter what she said, they just shook their heads frantically, refusing to go back in as if their lives depended on it.

"Boring."

"Fine, forget it then!"

Luo Huan deflated.

The group walked out of the art studio.

Just then, the female players all received a system notification.

The hidden quest was complete!

Because their exploration progress wasn’t very high, the ghost paintings they received as rewards were of Dark Red or Blood Red quality.

Some of the ghost paintings were filled with a month’s worth of food that could be retrieved at any time.

Others could be used to trap threatening ghosts!

These ghost paintings all had usage limits. Each use would damage them, and they would break after two or three uses.

But this was still enough to make their eyes fill with delighted surprise!

Something like a ghost painting was several tiers more precious than an ordinary Ghost Artifact!

Not only were they small and easy to carry, but they also looked completely ordinary.

Across the entire Ghost World, they were nearly impossible to buy.

"Thank you..."

The female players were all deeply grateful to Yun Zhenyue and Luo Huan.

"It’s nothing. I’m getting hungry. By the way, does the orphanage have a cafeteria?" Luo Huan asked.

"Probably not. The orphanage is too small. But it does have a kitchen. I’ll take you there," Yun Zhenyue said slowly.

She figured she could borrow it for a bit; she still had plenty of ingredients stored in her ghost painting.

She led the group toward the kitchen.

Just as they arrived, they found Pangpang skulking timidly in front of the kitchen.

"Pangpang?"

Yun Zhenyue said, confused.

"What are you doing here?"

Pangpang jumped, startled by the sound.

But when he saw it was Yun Zhenyue, he breathed a sigh of relief and patted his belly. "I... I was a little hungry, so I came to see if there was anything to eat."

"Speaking of which, are all these big sisters hungry too?"