hello, I just wanna know if I should do a Master bus before sending it to master engineer, because im bit confused about it
I think you should use whatever tools you want and deliver the mix the way you want it to mastering. I tend to deliver final mixes that are even 10-8 lufs. I’m not so concerned with the mastering guy setting level.
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So a rule of thumb usually is that the master bus/stereo mix bus you’re running into is your special weapon, it’s your glue, extra width and dynamic control etc.
It should absolutely be there when you bounce out to a mastering engineer HOWEVER, when doing so just make sure that you give the mastering engineer roughly -6dB headroom so that they can do even more to it, or not, it totally depends on how your mix translates to them in the end.
Understandably you’re concerned with the loudness, so don’t worry about the loudness, just make sure that your final limiter or whatever is at the end of your stereo mix bus is allowing roughly -6dB headroom and you’ll be golden. 
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thanks, i appreciate you man!