Shang Xingyan sighed: "My colleagues didn't tell me until I returned to the underworld. In fact, being reborn as an official in the underworld also comes with water."

"How do we, the civil servants of the underworld who do not travel to the world of the underworld, know what the world is like outside?"

"If there is a wise king above, there must be famous ministers below. When we are reincarnated into a prosperous age, we will surely be able to fulfill our ambitions."

"When the world is in chaos and people are struggling to make ends meet, it is most difficult to be an official, but it is also the best. It depends on what kind of official you want to be."

Shang Xing said: "My third reincarnation has made some changes. However, my original intention to be an official has not changed. In the end, I still became an abandoned child in other people's games and was sent to the guillotine."

"On the day I was executed, the people under my rule took the risk to bring me a bowl of water and wine, and chipped in to buy me a thin coffin. This was the greatest comfort in my life."

"After I returned to the underworld, someone showed me my experiences in the third life."

"Let me think about it carefully, should I be reincarnated as a human being, or should I stay in the underworld and become an official?"

Shang Xing said: "Do you know what I thought of after seeing myself in three lives?"

I was silent for a moment and said: "You are too scared to reincarnate. Do you think that if you stay in the underworld and serve as an official, you can at least know what you are doing?"

"When you are reincarnated as a human being, you forget your past life and have to start over."

"You know that you will forget everything after reincarnation, but you can't control your fear of the future. So, you compromised, right?"

"Yes!" Shang Xingyan whispered: "I don't want to suffer losses again and again, and I don't want to repeat the same mistakes of my previous life again and again. So, I chose to stay in the underworld."

"But I am no longer the person who only wants to do things."

Shang Xingyan took a deep breath and said, "Father, have you heard such a sentence?"

"Being able to do things is worse than being a person; being able to be a person is worse than being able to make a game."

"Anyone who can do things is a capable person."

"If a person who knows how to do things meets someone who knows how to be a good person, he will definitely be conquered by them."

"When a person who knows how to behave meets someone who knows how to play games, you are just a pawn in his hands."

"It's better to show off when doing things!"

"We can do things beautifully, but if we meet someone who has the world in his hands and grasps the general trend of the world, we will never be able to escape from his grasp."

Shang Xingyan said with a smile: "I have complained, been decadent, struggled and worked hard for so many years in the underworld."

"But I finally recognized myself."

"I'm just a person who can do things. Apart from doing things, I can't even figure out my own future. Let alone being a person, I'm just a person."

"I also want to pass. If I can meet a master who is a pitiful subordinate, even if I am lucky, if I follow him, at least I will not end up in those two lives."

"If I can't meet such a person, then I'll just leave it to fate! Wherever I can go, that's fine."

"Either you wait to be reincarnated again, or you wait to disappear into ashes."

"As for the upright Confucian?"

"I'm not that anymore!"

Shang Xingyan opened his palms and released the power of ghosts and gods like fire: "Look, I don't even have Haoran's righteousness, how can I still say that I am a disciple of Confucianism?"

Although Shang Xingyan was smiling, there was endless vicissitudes and desolation in his smile.

Shang Xingyan may have been fit to be an official, but it took him three lifetimes of suffering and endless suffering to realize all this.

I patted Shang Xingyan on the shoulder and said: "Old Shang, in terms of age, I am much younger than you, and I have not experienced as many things as you."

"There are some things I have to say, and if I say them wrong, don't blame me."

Shang Xingyan smiled and said, "If my foster father has anything to say, I am all ears."

I said slowly: "There's nothing wrong with doing things. At least, you have your goals."

"When people focus on doing one thing, they will inevitably not behave well. If you want to do something well, you will offend others. This is an unavoidable knot."

"When you know how to be a human being, all you have in your eyes is the human world, and you have to think twice before doing anything. However, there are only so many people left in your vision."

"If you don't have vision, how can you make a plan or make a show?"

"Lao Shang, I know that you have experienced too much and your true nature has been tempered."

"But it's not your fault, and you're not wrong either."

"That's how people are in the world. Sometimes, good intentions can't win any recognition in the end. What's wrong is your way, not your heart."

"Actually, you haven't lost your original intention, it's just that you are afraid and don't dare to do it."

"You smashed your own memorial arch with your own hands. It's not that you are compromising with the world, but that you are burying your past self. You are afraid that you will go back to where you started."

Shang Xingyan was speechless for a long time after listening to my words.

But I said seriously: "Old Shang, if we say goodbye today, you and I will say goodbye forever."

"I will never go to you again, nor will I ask you to do anything for me again."

"No one will know what happened between you and me!"

"Just be yourself!"

"The more chaotic a place is, the more it needs people who stick to their true intentions!"

"The road ahead is difficult. I can't accompany you. I can only help you take off some of the shackles on your body."
Chapter completed!