Bringing My Rival Back to Life (Accidentally) - Chapter 16
This time, when Zhu Xiao came to visit Wu Jiu’s grave, he brought a basket of snacks.
At the last academic conference, Zhang Yue had seen these snacks and thought of Wu Jiu, sadly mentioning that Teacher Wu also liked them.
Zhu Xiao had taken note and bought something similar to bring along.
Upon arriving at the cemetery, Butler Bai was also there.
Seeing what Zhu Xiao had brought, he cautiously asked, “Mr. Zhu, is this an offering?”
Zhu Xiao nodded.
Butler Bai let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, this time it was still the mild and non-irritating Mr. Zhu.
At the same time, he felt a bit disappointed, because if it was an offering, he wouldn’t be able to taste it.
Wu Jiu was generous in other aspects, but very stingy in this regard. Zhu Xiao never let others touch the things he brought, let alone share even a tiny bit.
Following the ritual of making an offering, Zhu Xiao placed the snacks one by one on the offering plate and inserted the incense.
“By the way,” Butler Bai, always remembering Wu Jiu’s task for him to gather information, casually brought up the topic, “I heard that you’re going on a blind date recently?”
“Hmm.” Zhu Xiao paused for a moment, suddenly realizing something, “Did Wu Jiu say that?”
He had never mentioned this to Butler Bai.
Butler Bai scratched his face, “Ahaha, I also downloaded the Yin-Yang Messenger app.”
“What else did he ask?”
“When is your appointment?”
“Saturday.”
At this point, everything was out in the open, so Butler Bai directly asked, “What time exactly? Where? With whom?”
This way of asking was very familiar, clearly coming from Wu Jiu.
“Asking so many details,” Zhu Xiao slowly said, “Does he want to come and cause trouble?”
“No, no, I’m just asking. I can also help you screen the person for you. There are many bad people these days,” Butler Bai assured him, swearing by the heavens that such a thing would definitely not happen, “Besides, Mr. Wu is already dead.”
Listening to the latter half of his sentence, Zhu Xiao suddenly asked Butler Bai, “Wu Jiu really can’t come back to life?”
Butler Bai didn’t dare to give Zhu Xiao a definite answer about Wu Jiu’s current situation.
He vaguely countered, “How can the dead come back to life?”
Zhu Xiao pursed his lips and didn’t continue asking.
He also thought it was a bit unrealistic. Wu Jiu had died and become a ghost. The fact that he could now appear in the Yin-Yang Messenger and talk to him was already a miracle. To bring someone back to life was a bit too much to ask.
But for some reason, this absurd idea kept lingering in his mind.
Saturday.
Zhu Xiao walked out of his school office and glanced at the navigation on his phone.
The café that Zhang Ruijun had mentioned was near the school, but it still took about fifteen to twenty minutes to walk there from the school.
While he was looking at the navigation, a message from Yin-Yang Messenger popped up.
Wu Jiu: [Zhu Xiao, what are you doing?]
Zhu Xiao: [Walking.]
Wu Jiu: [Why are you looking at your phone while walking?]
Zhu Xiao raised an eyebrow and replied, [Alright.]
Then he simply put away his phone and stopped replying.
Wu Jiu: [Where are you walking to?]
Wu Jiu: [You’re not going on a blind date, are you?]
Without a reply, Wu Jiu patiently waited for ten minutes.
Wu Jiu: [Haven’t arrived yet?]
Wu Jiu: [If it takes this long, where are you going?]
Another five minutes passed.
Wu Jiu: [If it takes this long to walk, did you meet in such a remote place?]
Wu Jiu: [Don’t go there. This person is not decent at all!!!]
Two minutes later.
Wu Jiu: [Zhu Xiao, where on earth are you going?]
Wu Jiu: [I’m going to call the police!!!]
Zhu Xiao finally took out his phone when he reached the café across the street from the meeting point.
Zhu Xiao: [I’ve arrived now.]
Zhu Xiao also answered his earlier question: [Going to the café near the school.]
On the other side, Wu Jiu was almost about to make a cross-world call to the police, but seeing Zhu Xiao’s reply, he reluctantly calmed down.
However, upon seeing the latter half of Zhu Xiao’s message, his heart, which had just settled, leaped again.
Wu Jiu: [Why are you going there? Are you really going on a blind date?]
Zhu Xiao did not deny it: [Yes.]
Wu Jiu was quiet for a moment.
Ten seconds later, he sent another message.
Wu Jiu awkwardly asked: [Can’t you just not go?]
Zhu Xiao: [I’ve already agreed.]
He did not have the habit of breaking appointments, and it would be better to clarify in person rather than having Zhang Ruijun arrange another meeting.
Wu Jiu was annoyed but had no choice, so he kept pestering Zhu Xiao: [So what are you doing now?]
Zhu Xiao pushed open the café door with one hand while replying to Wu Jiu with the other: [Walking in.]
Wu Jiu: [And then?]
Zhu Xiao: [Then I’m going to sit down.]
He sat down and placed his order. He had arrived ten minutes early, and the other party had not yet arrived.
Wu Jiu: [What now?]
Zhu Xiao: [Sitting.]
Wu Jiu: [Have you seen him?]
Zhu Xiao: [Not yet.]
Wu Jiu immediately seized the opportunity to give him some advice: [Zhu Xiao, this person is really not good. You’ve arrived, and he hasn’t.]
Zhu Xiao: [I arrived ten minutes early.]
It was normal for the other party not to have arrived yet; it didn’t count as being late.
However, Wu Jiu was indignant: [Arriving early is basic etiquette in such situations, right? This person is really not good.]
If it were him, he would arrive half an hour early—no, he would drive to Zhu Xiao’s building and pick him up.
Just then, someone pushed open the café door.
Zhu Xiao looked up, and the person was walking towards his table.
It must be his blind date, Wu Jiahe.
Just as Wu Jiu sent another message: [So what now?]
Zhu Xiao: [He’s here now. No more talking.]
Wu Jiu quickly replied: [You can look at your phone during a blind date!!!]
Unfortunately, Wu Jiu was doomed not to receive a reply to this message. Zhu Xiao did not have the habit of looking at his phone while talking to someone; it was basic manners.
Next, Zhu Xiao experienced the fastest blind date of his life.
The total duration was even shorter than the time it took him to walk here.
“Mr. Wu, you are excellent in every way, but I don’t have the intention of dating right now. I’m sorry.”
“Quite a coincidence, neither do I,” Wu Jiahe nodded, “Then let’s go back and tell our families that it’s not a good match.”
“Okay.”
“Oh, here’s my business card. As you can see, I’m a lawyer. If you ever need any help, feel free to come to me,” Wu Jiahe smiled, “Of course, it’s best if you never need it. Wishing you all the best.”
This person was straightforward and didn’t linger. Zhu Xiao also politely accepted his business card, “Same to you.”
“Then I’ll leave first. Take your time. I’ve already paid the bill,” Wu Jiahe nodded at him and got up briskly.
After taking two steps, he seemed to think of something and came back: “By the way, when you said you don’t have the intention of dating, you meant you don’t have the intention of dating ‘with me,’ right?”
Zhu Xiao didn’t understand why he was asking this, but he answered him directly without leaving any room for ambiguity: “Yes.”
This answer was so blunt that it could be a bit hurtful. If it were someone else, they might have been offended. But this person seemed to be in a good mood, cheerfully saying, “Alright, see you.”
…
Outside, Butler Bai was anxiously pacing around.
Ten minutes ago, the young master had asked him to go in and disrupt Zhu Xiao’s blind date, but he had to be careful and use a polite method that wouldn’t make Zhu Xiao angry.
But he stood outside, racking his brains, and couldn’t think of any way that was “polite and wouldn’t make Zhu Xiao angry.”
Just as he was worrying, Zhu Xiao’s blind date ended at an astonishing speed.
Butler Bai looked closely and saw the blind date walking out.
He quickly turned his back and pretended to be a passerby.
“Ah, Xiao Bai, what are you doing here too?”
Butler Bai twitched his ears, hearing the word “Bai,” but he wasn’t sure if it was calling him.
… But why did this voice sound so familiar?
He hesitated, not daring to turn around.
Wu Jiahe looked at the tense back and stiff posture, walked over, and patted his shoulder, “Stop pretending, I know it’s you.”
Butler Bai turned around and his eyes widened in shock, “M-My lord!”
“Tsk, I’m not that old.”
Butler Bai respectfully bowed and called again, “My lord.”
It turned out that this person was not Wu Jiahe, but his old master, the previous King of Hell, Wu Jiu’s father, Wu Xingdong.
“Good timing, I was just looking for you.”
Butler Bai: “What is it, my lord?”
Wu Xingdong asked with a face full of gossip, “So Wu Jiu is so infatuated with this young man named Zhu Xiao in the human world that he forgets to return and suffers backlash?”
“Well… I’m not quite sure,” Butler Bai hesitated, “But the young master said he has his own plan.”
“He doesn’t have a plan!” Wu Xingdong snorted, “If it weren’t for me today, his wife would have run off with someone else!”
He spent eight hundred and eighty-eight to buy this precious blind date opportunity from the young lawyer and additionally spent six hundred and sixty-six as a gratuity to have himself packaged as a lawyer.
It was a lot of money, and he would have to remember to charge it to Wu Jiu.
Wu Xingdong was very pained. His wife only gave him so much pocket money a month, and it all went to cleaning up after this unfilial son!
The old King of Hell was still as straightforward and unreserved as ever. Butler Bai dared not say much and just nodded and agreed with a dry smile.
Coincidentally, Wu Jiu sent a new message at this moment.
Wu Jiu: [Butler Bai, how did it go?]
Wu Jiu: [What’s this person’s name? How old is he? What’s his date of birth? What’s his ID number?]
Wu Jiu had already prepared to look into the Book of Life and Death. As soon as Butler Bai told him, he would thoroughly investigate this person to see how strong his fate was to dare to go on a blind date with Zhu Xiao.
Wu Xingdong was right there, and Butler Bai, sweating profusely, tactfully said: [Young master, maybe don’t check, his fate is very strong……]
Why was Butler Bai siding with the other party? Wu Jiu was annoyed: [How strong? Can he be stronger than me?]
There was no one in the world, neither in heaven nor in hell, whose fate was stronger than his!
Butler Bai trembled, caught between the young master and the old master. Their fates were both as hard as steel, while his was as thin as paper.
Wu Xingdong glanced at Butler Bai’s phone, “Alright, don’t tell him it was me. Just go back and praise me highly.”
“Unfilial son, really a headache. I have to step in at crucial moments,” Wu Xingdong complained, “Back in the day, I wooed his mother in a flash! With the time he spends on this, he could have had so many siblings by now.”
“Oh, right,” Wu Xingdong smiled mysteriously, “Remember to say that the blind date went very well, we both had a good impression of each other, and we will continue to meet in the future.”
Butler Bai lit a candle for Wu Jiu in his heart, “……Okay.”
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