Ghost Matchmaking: Ghost Emperor Husband and Campus Queen Wife

After hearing the Purgatory Factory's origin story.

Aside from shock and disbelief, the Dragon Country audience was left utterly dumbfounded.

[You gotta be kidding me. How is she this cringey?]

[What's the difference between her and those crazy stans? I thought she'd say it was for some grand ideal or that she went off the deep end because of a tragic past, but this is it?]

[She founded such a twisted Purgatory Factory just to be a fangirl. If Yun Zhenyue had said Gu Yuan was in Wansheng District, I bet she'd ditch the factory and camp out at his door every day.]

[I'm a minor singer, and to be honest, these are the fans I'm most scared of. I have to keep my curtains drawn at home to stop people from hiding in trees and taking pictures of me.]

[It's a good thing Yun Zhenyue didn't reveal her relationship with Gu Yuan. She would've been killed, wouldn't she?]

...

The foreign audiences, seeing this, fell silent.

Should they be happy?

They now knew the deepest secret of an SSS-rank instance. If their nations' players were to enter the factory, they could use this to their advantage—pretend to be ardent fans of Gu Yuan to curry favor, or sell information about him.

But the president of this instance was Gu Yuan's fangirl!

If he so much as breathed a word!

Konglan would probably just hand the entire factory over to him.

But should they be upset?

It didn't seem that upsetting, either.

After all, whether Gu Yuan even wanted the factory was another matter entirely.

There was a high probability Gu Yuan wouldn't accept it.

Knowing his personality, he'd probably be annoyed to death by Konglan.

If she were to do something extreme, it wouldn't be impossible for him to just run her through with his sword.

This combination of feelings was a real pain in the ass!

If only the object of Konglan's obsession wasn't Gu Yuan but one of their own nations' paired ghosts, they would have been overjoyed!

Worst case, they would just have to tolerate it!

They'd even let their nation's contestant be the junior partner.

This was an SSS-rank instance, after all!

And Konglan was a high-level Great Evil!

Controlling her would be like possessing the world's only superweapon!

What nation wouldn't be terrified?

This factory held tens of thousands of powerful ghosts. At Konglan's command, in the name of a "mission," she could order them to do anything. Be it slaughter or intimidation, it would be enough to make every nation's blood run cold.

Perhaps only Yun Zhenyue could face this so calmly.

Furthermore.

The thing that terrified them the most...

Was actually the earlier news!

Gu Yuan had truly slaughtered a hundred thousand Crimson-robed Ghosts with a single sword strike!

The power of a single strike!

It had created the very soil from which the Purgatory Factory grew.

It was actually true!

Konglan had admitted it with her own mouth.

In the face of the truth.

Any and all doubt seemed so fragile.

Just how powerful was he?!

This spine-chilling fact made most of the foreign audience subconsciously avoid the subject, discussing only topics related to Konglan.

[Damn it, Konglan is a complete lunatic!]

[I don't accept this! My Holy Kingdom is the only true path! The master of such heretical ways is a heretic!]

[This is terrifying. To exploit so many ghosts just to be a fangirl, does she have any humanity left?]

[Gu Yuan is the real culprit! He's the killer who orchestrated all of this! The Dragon Country should hand Gu Yuan over to be judged by the rest of the world!]

[Right! And they should hand over Konglan too, and divide the Purgatory Factory among those of us nations that haven't been eliminated yet.]

...

Konglan already considered Yun Zhenyue her most trusted confidante.

She hadn't even fully revealed these secrets to her own general manager.

After all, she had to maintain her image as president.

'Being a little fangirl and all... isn't very professional.'

Still, throughout the entire factory, practically everyone from the mid-level managers on up were fanboys and fangirls of Gu Yuan.

'Their loyalty wasn't built up for nothing.' Yun Zhenyue was confident that if Gu Yuan were to appear and order the top executives to kill themselves, it would only take a single sentence.

However, Yun Zhenyue didn't reveal anything about Gu Yuan.

The thought of a horde of obsessive fans camping outside the district was enough to make her skin crawl.

"Oh, right, Lan..."

Yun Zhenyue asked about something that had been puzzling her ever since she entered the factory.

"Did you secretly give me some kind of buff? I feel like I've been incredibly lucky ever since I joined our factory."

It was something she couldn't figure out.

The feeling had come out of thin air.

Ever since she started going on missions, she'd been able to reap rewards without even trying, as if benefiting from a conflict she wasn't part of.

Take the incident with the laxatives. How could that have been such a coincidence?

Living Body Company could have set their trap at any other time, but their plot was exposed right when she was about to be found out, conveniently justifying her actions. It was just too perfect!

Yun Zhenyue didn't believe in that kind of coincidence.

It was as if a giant, invisible hand was manipulating everything from behind the scenes.

Logically speaking, only a high-level Great Evil like Konglan should have that kind of ability.

"What do you mean?" Konglan gave Yun Zhenyue a strange look upon hearing her question.

The word "our" put her in an excellent mood.

It meant Yun Zhenyue was truly starting to see the factory's people as her own.

'Getting lucky just by entering the factory?'

'It's not like I have nothing better to do than secretly buff people!'

'I don't even have that kind of ability, you know.'

'Besides, making someone lucky?'

'It's possible!'

'Ghost Artifacts like that do exist!'

'But to affect the entire Ghost World, it would have to be at least a Celestial Calamity Ghost Artifact!'

'And it would suffer wear and tear with every use!'

'Even if I did have such a luck-granting Ghost Artifact, I wouldn't be willing to use it on a regular day.'

'Perhaps the Ghost Lord could bestow a blessing on someone.'

"Hmm..."

After pondering this for a moment, Konglan explained.

"It's possible your personality is just a good fit for the factory. What you see as lucky coincidences are actually events that were bound to happen."

"Besides, I only started looking into you after you became a five-star employee. Your luck has nothing to do with me."

Huh?

'It has nothing to do with Lan?'

'That's strange.'

Yun Zhenyue racked her brain but still couldn't figure it out.

After eliminating all other possibilities, the only one left was...

—Gu Yuan?

'Could it be that my husband secretly gave me a buff?'

'That's possible!'

The moment Yun Zhenyue thought of Gu Yuan, it all clicked.

'No wonder Gu Yuan didn't offer any obvious help during this mission. He must have done it secretly when I wasn't looking. How sweet of him.'

The reason Yun Zhenyue hadn't considered this...

...was mainly because Gu Yuan never hid it when he helped her in the past. 'Could it be that Gu Yuan has a tsundere side?'

"I think I understand now,"

Yun Zhenyue said, a look of sudden realization on her face.

"Good, as long as you understand." Konglan nodded in satisfaction, thinking Yun Zhenyue was referring to matters of the Purgatory Factory.

"Lan, is there anything else? If not, I'll be on my way."

"Or should I go to the Sacred Place now?"

Yun Zhenyue asked curiously.

'I'm pretty curious about Gu Yuan's phantom image.'

'I wonder if it's as handsome as the man himself.'

"There's no rush to go to the Sacred Place."

Konglan hesitated for a moment.

Then, her expression turned grave.

She assigned Yun Zhenyue a task that caught her completely off guard.

"Since we can't make a move on the Soul Inn, it just so happens I've found some information related to you."

Konglan gazed at Yun Zhenyue, her eyes filled with trust.

"Me?"

Yun Zhenyue was confused.

'Is it related to Gu Yuan again?'

"I've discovered a rift that leads to another world."

"In your human terms, that place is... the real world."

"I need you to lead a team there and invade the real world."