"Grandmother, you called?" Came the sweet voice of Ning Tian Tian while she carefully entered her grandmother’s room.
Turning towards her, Grandma Ning asked her to come in and patted the empty position in front of her gesturing her to sit.
Adjusting herself in the position Ning Tian Tian kept on looking at her Grandma with her usual bright smile. Even though she knew why she was been called, she was unable to help herself and was quite nervous. She had long anticipated that this day would arrive and she would eventually fulfill her duties.
"My darling granddaughter, I am sorry that you had to see things which you would not want to see. If I had a choice, I would have helped you in some way. You have always been smart and able to understand the situation quickly. Since you have started seeing ghosts, it must have been affecting your life." Grandma Ning was a sweet lady who always cared for everyone. In their whole family, it was only Ning Tian Tian who was able to see ghosts thus everyone was well supportive of her and understood her predicament in living a normal life.
Looking at her grandma who was old and was apologizing to her with sad eyes, Tiantian quickly explained, "Grandma, I am really thankful that I am one of the few people who can see the other world around humans. I have always liked this work and will be happy to help the one's who were not helped. Grandma, anyone can help a living person, but someone should also help a soul, right? I am willing to help wandering, pitiful souls reach their destination and guide them to their path of rebirth or reincarnation."
Tian Tian did not make it up to please her grandma. Since she had understood her final destination, she had been very appreciative of her different powers. She was always happy considering that she would be able to help someone who no one can help.
Looking at Tian Tian, grandma took out a stack of books and a ring. Passing them to Tian Tian she said, "Older sister is now tired of holding the responsibility and wants to pass it on to you. I was worried if you would be ready to accept them. But it seems I was worried in vain.”
Pushing the stack of books towards her, grandma Ning explained, “Tiantian, these books, have been written from the time our family was bestowed with this power. Every person who holds this position has to write down their cases and their difficulties so that the next person who will take over the position can understand better. You can read this if you ever fall into any problem."
Ning Tian Tian nodded and waited patiently for the explanation on the ring.
"You have to wear this ring on the index finger of your left hand. This ring is the one which will give you all the powers. It is the one which will entitle you to the position of the Queen. This ring will also help you to identify the people who have a special ability like you. It can also help you in distinguishing between the humans possessed by ghosts, but it might be of no use in distinguishing between, the pitiful souls and the vengeful ones. That is something which you have to do by yourself. Ning Tian Tian, there is another part of the ring, the ring which you wore is white, but the other one is black."
Unable to control her curiosity, she asked while wearing the ring on her index finger, "What difference will it make? And Who has it?"
Smiling on her question, grandma answered, "The person holding that ring will be the King. His power would involve the destruction of vengeful spirits and maintain the peace in the human world."
Confused Tiantian asked, "Would it affect me or my work?"
"If you unknowingly support a vengeful soul, and the soul destroys peace in the human world, he will kill that soul. But, because that soul was supported by you, the death of that soul might reduce your powers as well. Befriend him, if you meet him. If not forget it."
Leaving her home Ning Tiantian went and sat down in the car.
Asking the driver to drop her to the garden, she started thinking about what her grandmother had told her.
Looking at the ring in her hand, she kept on rolling it while thinking about her responsibilities.
Soon the car came to a halt in front of a little shabby but beautiful park.
Getting down from the car,
Tiantian looked at the garden, a garden where flowers bloomed. The wind made sure to let its presence known.
Behind that, there was a hotel.
A hotel which was used for souls to rest, calm down their grudges, fulfill their wishes. Not all the souls can enter, only the souls who had died before fulfilling their time were allowed.
It has been years that her family was running this hotel. Now she is the queen making her the CEO of the hotel. Walking inside the entrance, she was welcomed by the staff who were working in this hotel since years.
Bowing down to her, she was guided to her office by her assistant, followed by the staff as well.
Sitting on the chair, Tian Tian gestured them to introduce themselves.
Everyone was standing in a line. All the people present in the hotel except Tian Tian were ghosts.
Coming forward the receptionist bowed at her and introduced himself by saying," Boss, I am Su Ming, I work as a receptionist, I will make sure that the protective shell of the hotel is not destroyed and filter the customers coming in.”
Following Su Ming, a middle-aged lady came forward and bowed at her while saying, “Boss, I am Han Qing, I work as a room manager. I will help in taking the guests to their rooms and make sure their needs are catered. By talking to them I can also help a little in figuring out if they are vengeful ghosts or not.”
Chef Mo Shin was a handsome looking middle-aged man, bowing to Tian Tian he introduced, "Boss, I am Chef Mo Shin, I take care of the drinks and foods. Apart from them I also go out to restock the storage supplies needed for our hotel."
After the three main staff introduced themselves assistant Zhang Beihan came forward to introduce himself, "Boss, I will be your assistant cum manager of this hotel. My duties involve, maintaining the financial status of the hotel, Filing all the necessary documents arranging buses or luxury vehicles for souls to depart, Finding information on the life of the deceased person, and helping you in fulfilling their wishes."
After all the staff finished introducing themselves, Tian Tian stood up and spoke, "I, Tian Tian will be your boss till the next boss is ready to take over the position. Let us work together and fulfill the wishes of most of them."All the staff had returned to work while, Assistant Zhang was giving Tian Tian a tour of the important places in the hotel.Taking her to the garden he pointed towards a single source of light and said, "This Flambeau has been lighted here since the Spirit house has been set up. After each owner takes up their responsibility, the flambeau also changes its light. It represents the soul and health of the owner. It is most important for this flambeau to be burning with utmost brightness. The brightness of the flambeau is the representation of the owner's fulfilled soul. An owner with an unfulfilled soul is not worthy of becoming an owner of a spirit house.""I have heard from my grandmother about this spirit house and the importance of t
"I wish... If you have known about the spirit owner's, then you might also know that not everyone can be the spirit owner, they are born with special powers, unlike us where, every descendant has equal chances of inheriting the dark inn. Because of this very reason, the old spirit owner starts becoming weak when the next owner is born. Unlike us who can change the owner every generation or whenever wanted or needed, the spirit owners are changed every two or sometimes three generations. It is very difficult to weaken them for a small mistake. There are many more things that you will learn as you progress. You both should be careful, avoid if you can or bow down if you can't." Father Gu spoke with sadness evident in his eyes."Got it father." Spoke both brothers unanimously.-----Early morning,Getting up from the bed, Tian Tian noticed that she was again late for school which was actually nothing out of the blue, quickly showering and grabbing a br
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Tian Tian closed her eyes and focused all of her powers to classify the energy she was feeling. Though the energy was weak but she was sure it was there.Opening her eyes Tian Tian murmured, "It's a sad energy. Let's check who it is?"Getting down from the car Tshe said to the driver, "Uncle, I am just walking around. Please wait for me in the car."Walking towards the forest which was not dense Tian Tian followed the energy source. Trying to find the exact location she slowly reached a small lake. Looking around it she thought, 'This place looks quite isolated and calm, but I feel the energy quite strongly over here. Where is the spirit?'Tian Tian started looking around the lake to find out the spirit which was hiding. She circled around the lake, saw around and near the trees but it was of no use. Even after searching for the spirit for almost more than ten minutes when she did not found her, for a second she thought of going back.Just when she
After the school was over Gu Shen wanted to follow Tian Tian to check and find out a little more about the reason he felt such strong energy.Unfortunately, before he could do so he was called in the principal's office for discussion.Knocking the office door Gu Shen entered when he received the permission and sat down on the chair after been allowed to do so by the principal.Passing Gu Shen a list of some students the principal spoke, "Whenever a new student transfers from another school to our school he has to take some extra classes so we can access his study level. Considering your marks from the last school I tried to ask everyone to consider you as a special case and most of them agreed as well. But there needs to be something done by you to get those lost credits. All of the teachers have collectively decided for you to help any of your fellow or junior student in studies and depending on the student's performance we will give you credit. The list that I
After asking assistant Zhang to be careful around the magician, Tian Tian looked at the video that she had just downloaded a couple of minutes ago about the magician Hop.Sitting at her chair she played the video on her computer screen with full voice. The spirit house was made in a way that it was fully sound proof.In the video the magician appeared on the stage and started introducing himself and the tricks that he was about to play on the specific show.The show started with him doing simple magic such as taking out a rose from his empty hat, turning the paper into a string of flowers, swallowing up the sword and so on just basic magic,, nothing too significant.Following which a small performance by clowns and animals were made and then it was the time for the last performance, usually the last performance is the spectacular one in all of his shows.The stage was entirely dark, soon red light's started shining on the stage and on the audience.
Looking at his boss having such a pitiful face Assistant Zhang spoke while trying to help in something, "Boss, can I help you with something?"Looking at the assistant who was asking her if she needed help Tian Tian just shook her head in a dejected motion saying, "Assistant Zhang, you can help me with everything... but my mother!"Sigh.Taking a deep breath Tian Tian got up and started packing her stuff while instructing,"I will go for now. You can try to gather the information on the magician Hop, but make sure to use the human powers while going close to him. I have a hunch that he is someone, who we cannot afford to mess with at this time. We will have to be careful.""Make sure that Kim Mi So is treated and ask Han Qing to try and talk with her so we can know why was she killed or anything that can help us to help her. You know right, she has limited time, though I am sure that her body won't be discovered too soon, still let's act as fast as
"Dad, I can feel weird but strong energy from a person over here. I tried hard to find out the reason for it but even after trying for a long time, I was unable to do so. I am even unable to see through the person's soul. Though the energy is strong, it doesn't look malicious. But I am scared, what if my thinking goes wrong, so I thought of consulting with you." Explained Gu Shen what he felt and what was his thoughts on the matter.Thinking for some time Mr. Gu asked him if he tried to go close to that person and feel the energy again as sometimes there are chances that when Viewed from a distance, the energy gets diverted and sometimes it might seem as if being emitted by someone else instead of the actual source.Hearing that Gu Shen had already done what he was suggesting made Mr. Gu think even more about it. As a king, they are blessed with extra powers than any other normal person. In such a case when they cannot see through a soul, it makes their work much tough
The moment old lady spoke those words, a smooth and innocent laughter was heard. This laughter was scary. The old lady’s legs trembled and almost gave up. If not for her stick supporting her she would have already been kissing the ground. "You… Why are you laughing? " The old lady questioned in a trembling voice. This was never good. In fact, whenever she would come out to talk it was never good let alone laughing. Tian Tian was a really important person and most importantly everything right now had happened so abruptly that non
The moment Gu Shen noticed that bright red liquid on his palms his whole facial expression instantly changed.As compared to the smile, relief and mischievousness his face was now clad in darkness and seriousness. He quickly flipped all the clothes on the ground and spread them around.Kneeling down he kept his left hand which was stained with red aside and used only his right hand to look it through the clothes.
On the breakfast table, Gu Shen simply stir fried some frozen dumplings and prepared some orange juice. Apart from that, he also made a plate of fruit and added some veggies to it. A cup of coffee was kept in front of both of them.Even though it seemed like it was nowhere close to breakfast or a hearty breakfast, this was more than enough for both of them who had been tired.
Gu Shen and Tian Tian did not speak anything. She neither said yes nor did she say no. confusion was clearly seen on her face.Gu Shen suddenly frowned.He wondered if living with him was such a big deal for her, where as she had just shared a hotel room with him even though it was separate rooms.Was he such a terrible person in front of her?His hands suddenly clenched into a fist as it dropped from her shoulder.Tian Tian was still busy in wondering, if she would be disturbing Gu Shen with her weird
After Gu Shen and Tian Tian caught the spirit, Tian Tian picked it up in her hands and spoke some words following which she started crushing the big shell in between both of her palms. In no time, the shell had now shrunk into the size of a small tablet. Taking out a small box from her pocket Tian Tian carefully placed the shell into the depression which already was present in the box and secured it firmly with a small belt already attached on the box.
Tian Tian felt excited and almost jumped when she saw that due to Gu Shen's help she was able to catch the spirit. No one else except her knew that how much she would be feeling sad and guilty if she was unable to help out anyone even after seeing the miserable state of everyone.
Tian Tian felt excited and almost jumped when she saw that due to Gu Shen's help she was able to catch the spirit. No one else except her knew that how much she would be feeling sad and guilty if she was unable to help out anyone even after seeing the miserable state of everyone.
Since the maze was already broken, it didn't take long for Gu Shen and Tian Tian to find the door. It in fact did not go inside with the map but it was still there. "Let's open it! " Gu Shen spoke while waiting for Tian Tian to answer.
After having an eye contact with Gu Shen Tian Tian winked towards him following which she turned towards the tiger painting hanging on the wall.A gentle and mischievous smile sat on her lips and her eyes started gleaming with brightness. Folding both of her hands behind at her waist Tian Tian started decreasing the dista