Lawrence was a likable young man—in his lifetime.
Who wouldn’t want a polite, witty, loyal, and gentle friend like him? He was always attentive to your needs, offering timely companionship and support, and willing to help you with all his might when you found yourself in a difficult situation.
Even if you were a madman locked in an attic with a confused mind, and you had only known each other for a short three days, everyone said you were a tainted disaster possessed by a demon, warning him to stay away from you.
But he didn’t waver; he stood firmly by your side until the end.
Although this story didn’t have a fairy tale’s happy ending, he made you feel that there was still a glimmer of hope in this messed-up world.
Anna, who failed to escape from Ceylons Town with Lawrence, introduced Lawrence to the “people” at the hospital.
The humanoid statue had a rough and stiff appearance with facial features that couldn’t convey any shy emotions typical of a young girl. Yet, she undoubtedly desired to be close to Lawrence—even though he had now become a gemstone-covered skeleton, devoid of the handsome face he had when alive, and his mouth would dislocate if he grinned too widely.
Lawrence also wanted to be close to Anna. Instead of sitting in Xu Yintang’s arranged office, working on assigned tasks, he often visited Anna’s statue’s location—sometimes by the vegetable garden, other times by the corridor or garden.
He held work documents that he had recently become familiar with, cradling a newly purchased laptop. He sat quietly next to Anna’s statue, typing on the keyboard, occasionally chatting. The atmosphere was serene and beautiful.
Neither Xu Yintang, the hospital director, nor Yu Kongyou, the vice director, had any objections to this. Although Lawrence initially joined the hospital through self-recommendation, feeling young and not wanting to end up in the soil prematurely, he volunteered to introduce himself and apply for a job.
After listening to his self-introduction and work experience, Yu Kongyou took just a second to fill in the pit that Xu Yintang had prepared.
He even stepped on it twice, compacting the soil, fearing that Lawrence would regret it and want to be buried again.
The hospital lacked field labor at the bottom but needed management personnel even more. Xu Yintang was busy raising his cubs and training them, basically acting as a hands-off manager who merely signed documents. This forced Yu Kongyou to take over the management position in the hospital’s department.
Most of the hospital staff were self-motivated tools, and the routine work felt like managing a game with continuously decreasing difficulty levels. But still, Yu Kongyou ended up covered in black smoke from exhaustion, seizing the opportunity to catch a big fish that willingly threw itself into the net.
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Speaking of which… did they even have working hours in their hospital?
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On the other side, Lawrence was quite satisfied with his new job and felt that his decision to actively apply for it was very wise.
The working environment was beautiful, and his subordinates were interesting and obedient. The leaders were easygoing, and there was great room for career advancement. The flexible working hours and the nature of the work were perfectly aligned with his expertise. While the industry’s future prospects were uncertain, there was minimal risk of closure or layoffs. Plus, the package included meals, accommodation, and even a partner—truly the perfect job for every office worker.
If he hadn’t been told that this was already another world, he would have thought that his former colleagues had hooked him up with this job.
With the addition of a deceased administrative supervisor—also doubling as the personnel supervisor, financial supervisor, and deputy director of government relations—Yu Kongyou finally felt the joy of being a hands-off manager, just like Xu Yintang.
Unfortunately, he could only vent his complaints to Xu Zhongping, who rarely responded positively. This time, seeing the living person Shi Yuebai, he couldn’t help but happily chat with him about how valuable Lawrence was to the hospital. With Lawrence having joined just a few days ago, the hospital had undergone significant upgrades and entered a new era.
Based on the information obtained from Xu Yintang and Yu Kongyou, along with an on-site inspection the next day, Lawrence, on his first day at work, revised a detailed patient management system for the hospital. Simultaneously, he clarified the job responsibilities, work standards, and performance assessment plans for other staff members.
Firstly, the hospital originally had an endless supply of newly produced auxiliary workers, nurses, and doctors. After professional skill training, those who excelled could continue their original duties, not only taking care of existing patients but also gathering and treating lost souls in that eerie cemetery.
The hospital was originally a gathering place for souls and a Feng Shui treasure land. Those lost and disoriented souls, currently only capable of basic farming work, could recover their sanity after some time and become high-quality new souls. Most of them were born in the new era, having received at least nine years of compulsory education. They could be assigned to handle administrative and external communication tasks.
As for those who couldn’t learn professional skills in caregiving, nursing, or medicine, they could either switch careers to work in farming, patrolling, or cooking in the cafeteria, or they could serve as snacks for the cubs.
Next were the patients in the first and second wards, whose existence fell between the living and the dead. These living-dead individuals used to work as core existences, offering their own pain and despair to serve as the hospital’s core ghostly goddess statues before Xu Yintang took office. However, after Xu Yintang took over, they collectively lost their jobs and could only lie flat as decorations, proving that the hospital had not turned into a happy farm.
Regarding how to deal with these patients, Lawrence didn’t have a good idea. They were often absent-minded, occasionally falling into a state of madness, and the majority couldn’t understand human speech. This was a side effect of the souls of the patients entangling and coexisting with the hospital. Although professional treatment could only alleviate the symptoms, not cure them, these patients couldn’t function normally or be left to roam freely.
After all, many severely ill patients in the ward lacked basic self-care abilities.
When Yu Kongyou talked about this, he naturally shifted the topic to Xu Yintang, whom Shi Yuebai was more interested in. Shi Yuebai thought about the new variety of parasitic butterflies bred by Xu Yintang when feeding the cubs. He realized that they were a perfect match for the souls of the hospital’s patients.
The essence of the patients’ souls—despair and suffering—was excellent nourishment for the butterflies. After being parasitized, even if the patients didn’t have self-awareness, they would instinctively take care of themselves, actively accept treatment, and likely become useful tools for mechanical and repetitive basic work.
Of course, Xu Zhongping was not within the range of Xu Yintang’s flower parasitism.
Yu Kongyou noticed early on that Shi Yuebai had lost interest in Lawrence. However, he really wanted to praise Lawrence’s work abilities, so he kept talking until he satisfied himself.
After all, how could Shi Yuebai be interested in a skeleton with a partner? Those bones would probably break with just a slap, and Lawrence’s work abilities didn’t sound irreplaceable. Even the pet contract with Xu Yintang was terminated when Xu Yintang wanted to bury him.
The only thing that intrigued Shi Yuebai was when Lawrence’s persona was described during storytelling. When it came time for Xu Yintang to randomly pair them up, Lawrence became unnecessary in his eyes.
“He really likes things like demons and corpses,” Xu Yintang casually mentioned Lawrence’s preferences, which didn’t even meet the hospital’s admission standards. “So, he quite likes his current body.”
Never having killed anyone, never having abused small animals, and never having participated in brutal blood sacrifices, Lawrence’s death was considered a noble sacrifice. Even if he admired Little Darling with shining eyes and praised endlessly while touching Anna’s twisted and eerie statue body, along with occasionally admiring his own beautiful bones in reflective surfaces, the entire hospital couldn’t find anyone more healthy than Lawrence.
“So, what about you—” Shi Yuebai looked at the wound on Xu Yintang’s lower abdomen, licked his lips, and carefully chose his words, “Will it be very painful?”
“Well… it’s actually not bad?” Xu Yintang, following Shi Yuebai’s gaze, touched the wound that kept trying to heal but was constantly pushed open by Little Darling’s tentacles. His cheeks turned a bit red, “It’s that kind of… um, very comfortable pain.”
He vaguely described the inverted sense of pain and pleasure, and Shi Yuebai, having undergone so many practical training sessions with him, had already guessed it. Only now did he get Xu Yintang’s confirmation.
He had to admit that Xu Yintang’s expression of enjoying pain—the tired, trance-like, and almost lascivious state—was enough to confuse even a sage. However, he couldn’t help but recall a dangerous move that Xu Yintang made during their battles, and a subtle worry surfaced in his heart.
Confusing pain with pleasure could lead to a misjudgment of danger and potentially make a person addicted to that kind of pleasurable pain, gradually losing oneself.
After careful consideration, Shi Yuebai nodded in approval of this inverted confusion that Xu Yintang displayed. He didn’t consider it something so pathological or terrible that required treatment.
He simply expressed his concern and care, seemingly defaulting to this as a sensitive and unmentionable topic. Shi Yuebai spoke with a slightly furrowed brow and cautious wording.
Xu Yintang couldn’t help but be amused by his careful demeanor and waved his hand, saying, “It’s okay, it’s not something we can’t talk about. You don’t have to be so nervous.”
He even wanted to touch the furrow between Shi Yuebai’s eyebrows, making him look more serious. So, Xu Yintang did just that, and the sudden contact on his forehead surprised Shi Yuebai for a moment.
Then he saw Xu Yintang tilting his head, as if contemplating how to explain his symptoms better to make him feel more at ease.
After a moment, Xu Yintang quoted a statement from a previous friend with a penchant for self-harm and pain: “Pain is very comfortable, like making love is also very comfortable. But do you do it every day, every hour, every moment?”
When he heard the words “making love” come out of Xu Yintang’s mouth, Shi Yuebai’s mind went blank. He stood there in a daze for a while before slowly shaking his head.
“So, I won’t either,” Xu Yintang winked at him.
Author’s Note –
Let’s have a transition~
Xu’s mom is really straightforward, standing alone.
The more I write, the more I like him. [Relaxed lying down]
Mama Xu, always so cute! And I love Lawrence’s thoughts about his new job 🤣
Poor Catboi is constantly blue screening due to his crush. RIP, Yuebai!
Is he FLIRTING? Did he really go from being clueless to clued in and purposely saying things like that to him? 😍
Is Xu YinTang FLIRTING with our boy!!!!? Ahhhh!!! I need to go and lay down
LMAO i immediately thought of Shi Yuebai’s reaction to XY words and thought of the lyric “who do you fuck in the city when I’m not there?” And giggled
Tangtang flirts?!?! Please, I need some more😂😍 poor SYB, he needs some confirmation in this relationship before he breaks😂
So real Lawrence 🤧 Hope you and your demon statue girlfriend get married!
Our Gong finally awakening his Gong’s flirt skill.
Praise the BL’s deity!
I’m amazed at what I now accept as a romantic scenario… while Xu Yintang seduces/flirts/lies exposing a gaping wound and tentacle dipping… how could kitty resist? Hahaha. Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️
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