Chapter 187: Don't twist yourself into knots

Xi Zirui follows Ji Limei out of the library and through a series of courtyards until they reach a squat stone building, at the edge of the Jade palace complex. 

Ji Limei moves with purpose through the multiple rooms, greeting all the higher and minor gods as she makes her way across the building, until reaching a wall filled with bound up volumes and scrolls.

She approaches a wooden table where a blank piece of paper and an inkstone and brush sit. With confident strokes, she writes the characters of Xi Zirui's name into the paper. Moments later they vanish into the white sheet, at the same time that a bamboo strip scroll flies out of the shelf and into Ji Limei's hands.

Xi Zirui peers over her shoulder as she runs her eyes over all the names and their specific prayers, coming to a stop when she finds Xi Zirui's.

"Why is a human praying for your safe journey into the afterlife?" she asks, her eyebrows climbing almost all the way up to her hairline.