"Can you see me?" the ghost asked, looking at Su Xuan with surprise.

"If I said I couldn't, would you believe me?" Su Xuan shrugged.

"Do you want to save him?" The ghost glanced at the young man she was controlling.

"It's less about saving him and more about saving you," Su Xuan's voice turned cold. "If you insist on harming him, you won't even get to be a ghost anymore."

"Are you threatening me?" The ghost didn't believe Su Xuan could kill her.

After becoming what she was, she had lost her physical body, but her perception had become extremely sensitive. She hadn't detected any dangerous aura from Su Xuan. She figured he could probably only see her and might not even be able to touch her.

Su Xuan couldn't be bothered with pointless banter. "Let me ask you," he said, "why do you want to harm him?"

"Why?" The ghost gave a scornful laugh and rolled her eyes. "He was my boyfriend. I'm dead, and he's still alive and well. Is that fair? Once I kill him, we can finally be together again."

Su Xuan pursed his lips. "Only a ghost would believe that."

The ghost frowned at him. "Are you mocking me?"

"Just be honest," Su Xuan said. "Do you have some kind of grudge against him?"

This wasn't his first encounter with a ghost. Whenever they wanted to harm someone, it was always rooted in some deep-seated grudge from when they were alive.

"A grudge?"

As soon as she heard the word, a vicious aura erupted from the ghost. Her expression became frigid as she said, "You're a perceptive one. Yes, we have a grudge. He's the one who killed me!"

"Oh?" Su Xuan narrowed his eyes. "How did he kill you?"

Could there be a murder case involved here?

"He..." The ghost hesitated, seeming reluctant to speak. But then she looked down at the ex-boyfriend she was straddling and gritted her teeth. "He's a cheapskate, a total miser who wouldn't part with a single cent! When I was alive, it was like pulling teeth just to get him to buy me a birthday present!

She paused, staring at Su Xuan. "I mean, LV bags are a dime a dozen nowadays, right? He wouldn't even buy me an old model that costs, like, eight bucks! And it wasn't just bags. Shoes, clothes, phones, jewelry... he refused to spend money on me for anything! The only things he was willing to buy were books that cost a few dozen yuan, saying that reading was a shortcut to improving one's disposition and looks!

"I ask you, does that sound like something a human being would say?

"Was that true love?

"We fought every single day. I wanted to correct his twisted worldview and make him like a normal man, someone willing to spend money on me and spoil me like a little princess! But he wouldn't listen. Instead, he said that *I* was the one with a twisted worldview!

"How could my values possibly be twisted?

"All the advice columnists on Weibo say it: don't believe a man who swears he'd die for you. A man who's willing to spend money on you is the one who truly loves you! And when I thought about it, it made perfect sense. If a man isn't even willing to spend money on you, how could it possibly be true love?"

The ghost rattled on and on, then fixed her gaze on Su Xuan's face. "You get what I'm saying, right? This is a material world. Only possessions can truly express a person's feelings, right? Right? Surely you don't think folding a thousand paper cranes is more romantic than getting a luxury handbag?"

Su Xuan remained silent. Even though the System had strengthened his willpower many times, he couldn't stop the anger rising in his heart.

I only have one thing to say to this woman: you fucking deserved to die!

"What did you just say?" the ghost shrieked. "Who deserved to die?"

Her eyebrows shot up in fury, and the malicious aura around her intensified.

Huh? Su Xuan was baffled. How is this possible? I only thought that; I didn't say it out loud. How could she have heard me? Does she have telepathy? Or maybe you don't need to speak to communicate with ghosts—you just talk to them in your mind? A soul-to-soul exchange?

Filled with curiosity, Su Xuan averted his gaze from the ghost and thought, What else could it be if not deserved? You think you were in the right?

This time, the ghost didn't hear him. She just said, "Why did you stop talking?"

I have been talking. Can't you hear me? Su Xuan tried again in his mind, but the ghost still heard nothing.

Then, he looked directly at the ghost again, consciously directing a thought at her. You want me to speak? I'll speak when I feel like it.

"I bet you don't dare say it again," the ghost snarled, having heard him this time. "If you do, I'll kill him this instant!"

I get it now...

Su Xuan had finally figured out the secret. He began to communicate with the ghost soul-to-soul.

*You still haven't told me exactly how he killed you,* Su Xuan directed his thoughts at her.

*I just told you the reason!* she shot back, pointing at her ex-boyfriend. *He didn't truly love me! He was always making me angry, and my friends all looked down on me because of him. I literally died of anger! A heart attack, and they couldn't save me!*

Su Xuan was speechless.

So that was how she died. She really had no one to blame but herself.

*Well...* A barely perceptible, sly glint appeared in Su Xuan's eyes. *If you measure a person's love with material wealth, then you should have been with me!*

*With you?* The ghost was taken aback.

*Yeah, I'm loaded!* Su Xuan boasted without a hint of exaggeration. *If I cashed out all my money and piled it up, you couldn't count it or spend it all in a lifetime!*

*Really?* The ghost sized him up. *You don't dress like a rich person!*

*See this watch...?*

*See this pen...?*

*See this training building...?*

*Just look...* Su Xuan casually listed off his assets. *Any one of these things is priceless, and they're all mine!*

He even waved at Principal Xu and the others watching from the rooftop of the opposite building. They didn't know what he meant, but they immediately waved back respectfully. Principal Xu couldn't help but shout, "Boss, can you handle it?"

He was genuinely concerned. He had seen Su Xuan talking at first, but then he had fallen silent, just standing there. Had the negotiations failed? He had no idea that Su Xuan was having a silent conversation with the ghost perched on the young man's head.

Hearing Principal Xu call Su Xuan "Boss," the ghost was completely convinced. This man was a billionaire!

*Let him go, and come shopping with me. I'll buy you anything you want,* Su Xuan thought, seeing from her expression that she was wavering.

*Why are you being so nice to me?* The ghost wasn't a complete fool. *You don't actually like me, do you? Not looking like this?*

*I'm worried he'll die,* Su Xuan told her honestly. *If he dies here, it will hurt this place's reputation, which is the last thing I want. To me, reputation is money. You understand?*

*I understand!* the ghost nodded.

*So, do we have a deal?* Su Xuan asked.

*Deal!* she replied. *Buy me whatever I want, then burn it while chanting my name so I can receive it!*

The ghost suddenly launched herself off her ex-boyfriend and swooped toward Su Xuan's head.

She was actually trying to ride him

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