Published at 18th of October 2020 06:29:13 PM
Chapter 55
Ch 55.01
In the dungeon, I waited for Zi You to come back. I thought that it would not take him a long time to send a dream, but this waiting had me waiting for him all day. Until the evening of the next day, Zi You finally floated over.
He arrived before my prison, his anxious expression was the same as yesterday as he looked at me, and he said: “I have just heard that you, Big Sis, have been confined in prison. Why did you go take the mirror from Da Yin Netherworld Bank?! How are you doing?”
I looked at him, somewhat distractedly.
Yesterday… Did he not pretty much say the same words?
Behind him, I looked towards Née Zhou mother and son, only to see that the two of them were both silent as well.
“I’m fine.” I answered Zi You’s question. Then I carefully observed him in silence.
Zi You heaved a deep sigh of relief, his expression was the same as yesterday, and he said: “I already helped you make some inquiries. the shopkeeper of that branch from that bank seems to be somewhat angry, and wants to imprison you guys for three days, and then re-examine.”
“Mhm.”
Faced with my somewhat slow reaction, he thought I was angry with him. Therefore, he scratched his head, and embarrassingly said: “Big Sis, it was not that I did not want to help you. It really was because for me… I didn’t have any means to buy the Resurrection Pill.” He paused for a moment and sighed.
“Let me tell you the truth. My recent memories are somewhat vague, so probably my day is coming soon. Before I finally depart, I want to raise enough money to go to the Da Yin Netherworld Bank to take a look at my past life. After all, I want to know what my name was, where I came from, what I had done in the past, who did I know… So in that way, even if all of my memories disappear in the next moment, I won’t even have any regrets.” He merely looked at me, “But I only have enough money to look at my past life once, so I…”
“I don’t blame you.” I stopped his next words, but did not know what else to say to comfort him. When he said these things so calmly, he did not look like he needed me to comfort him, so I just repeated, “I don’t blame you.”
He needed money so much, but yesterday he still agreed to willingly go buy an Entering Dream Pill to help me send a dream.
I slightly pursed the corners of my lips up, but I could not repeat those words to tell him to help me go buy things as easily as yesterday.
“Staying in this dungeon, it’s not bad at all.” I said, “It’s very quiet and super comfy. I even want to make them detain me for a few more days.”
Hearing me talk like this, he was finally able to let his heart somewhat ease. Then I urged him to go back to work at the tavern, eventually he turned around to leave. However, he glanced at the shackle on my hand, and turned back again, repeating all the speculations that he had told me yesterday. Then finally, he swayed away.
After I watched him drift away, I was lost in thought for a while.
“Miss… Zhao Yao.” The scholar called out to me timidly, “This thing is all very normal. It’s just like birth and old age, sickness and death, so you don’t need to be so sad.”
“Little Scholar.”
“Huh?” He froze for a moment, then shyly responded, “Oh…”
“Wait until tomorrow, after the trial is finished, how about lending me another sum of money?” I looked at my own semi-transparent palm, “I want to know if I’ve finally forgotten things that happened in the past.”
As a ghost, one could see really wonderful things. Looking at the world before one’s eyes, but never knowing the most complete appearance of the world even before one’s own eyes. Forgetting things in the past, but never knowing that oneself had already forgotten.
After being detained for three days, we underwent neither a lively nor a dull interrogation, but due to the fact that us three ghosts did not do anything major, and after the scholar helped me pay all of the expenses, we were immediately released.
While I led the scholar to go to the Da Yin Netherworld Bank, Née Zhou did not try to block my path. She continued to drift about in the ghost market to find the next daughter-in-law.
I had nothing to do, so I asked the scholar a question: “Do you even want to marry a wife?”
Once again, the scholar shyly scratched his head: “Actually, marrying a wife or not is not important. Every ghost all needs a reason to continue to stay in this world. My mother wants to let me marry a wife, while I… Just want to let my mother do as she wishes. In this life, I did not have the opportunity to do my filial duty, so I can only accompany her to fulfill her last wish. It’s because who knows, in the next life, there won’t even be a chance to see each other again.”
Who knows, in the next life… There would not even be a chance to see each other again…
I lowered my eyes, and drifted into the Da Yin Netherworld Bank.
In the bank, under the little ghost’s precautionary glare, as the scholar helped me pay the fee, I got ahold of that small mirror.
In the mirror, the lines of words were different from the ones that I had read yesterday outside the Da Yin Netherworld Bank. The words in the mirror were densely packed, it was as if I did not need to read them, as each and every word jumped into my brain, immediately drawing images in my mind. The images even slowly linked up and turned into vivid memories.
I saw that I was born in that hometown full of miasmic energy, my father and mother disappeared, my maternal grandfather single-handedly raised me, and then Luo Ming Xuan came. He disturbed my life, and made me yearn to move away from this dense and dark valley.
Finally, one day, I left the valley, arrived at Chen Ji Mountain, met Ugly Little Monster, and saved him.
I watched this section slowly and carefully.
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I saw that I was gravely injured at that time, carrying him the whole journey, constantly on the move. Finally, we escaped to the broken-down temple on top of Chen Ji Mountain. As I healed my injuries, I even raised him. Every day, I told him that I wanted to go find Luo Ming Xuan. So that in the future, I could learn how to be a good person and how to establish the kind of sect that I wanted.
I said that I wanted to create good fortune for the common people. I wanted to offer shelter to those people who were homeless, and teach them how to be benevolent. So that even the weak would not be disturbed by the chaos in the world, and no longer be homeless and miserable with no one to depend on. When natural disasters occurred in the world, I would donate food, and when the harvest was good, I would let them grow more crops…
Ch 55.02
Mo Qing was simply by my side with an expressionless face, quietly listening to me.
I recalled one thing. The current Wan Lu Sect that was created by Mo Qing, had abolished the magical array, hacked the Hanging Corpse Pillar, dismantled the Whipping Corpse Stage, and returned the land to the people. Did he not do those things that I was not able to accomplish at that time?!
I had already forgotten who had once told me that currently in front of Chen Ji Mountain, when spring came, the field would be full of brilliant spring flowers that were very beautiful…
Indescribably, I actually was somewhat uncontrollably touched.
In the memories, I saw myself saying these nonsense that could fill the whole sky to the super little Mo Qing. I even saw his eyes burning luminously, looking at me with eyes filled with gentleness and tenderness. Then after..
After that, the me of that time did not pay any more attention to him. I just minded my own business, talking to myself. Then after my injuries healed, I immediately abandoned him to go find Luo Ming Xuan, leaving him alone in that broken-down temple.
He covetly hid my words inside his heart up until now. After I died, he took Wan Lu Sect and turned it into that beautiful model that I had imagined in the beginning.
I thought about before, every evening he would work so hard to stay up all night to review Wan Lu Sect’s documents, I did not understand his perseverance nor his risk-taking regardless of the costs.
However, I understood it now, he did it for my sake.
It was for that foolish me, who was dead set on being a good person.
That was my first and most innocent wish. However, after I gave up this wish a long time ago due to reality, I absentmindedly looked back and discovered that there actually was someone, who would help me achieve this matter.
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After the thread that was weaving my dream got broken, there was still one person going through thousands upon thousands of dangerous difficulties. He carried injuries and scars all over his body, but used the rarest perseverance and gentleness in the world to quietly help me completely weave my garment…
And yet, I did not know anything about it.
All of a sudden, I actually felt somewhat furious with my constantly lethargic self. After I was done being furious with myself, I was even more furious with Ugly Little Monster!
This little outwardly cold, inwardly passionate person! He held himself back into this manner and did not even tell me!
While the memories in the mirror were still constantly moving forward. It passed through the process where I expanded Wan Lu Sect, it passed through where I killed Luo Ming Xuan, and finally it reached that evening, the night at Wan Lu Sect in front of the mountain…
Regarding these few nights, I had heard a couple of things from Sima Rong’s mouth. I had burned the building on Xi Yue Peak, and had used a sword to shred thousands of books in Cang Shu Pavilion located on the cliff. So Xi Yue Peak was now luminously ablaze, countless people were shrieking and hollering in the middle of extinguishing the fire. While in Wu E Palace, there were still guests being entertained with traditional Chinese musical instruments, the strikes were jingling and banging. It was lively and bustling, which really shook people to the core.
It was such a beautiful night.
As I recalled the scene, it was on this night that I saw a person in black robes. It was Mo Qing, a lonely shadow standing before the memorial arch at the foot of the mountain.
He raised his head to look upward. However, he did not look at Xi Yue Peak nor at Wu E Palace, but rather he was gazing at me about ten steps up.
My hands were still wrapped up in bandages, even my neck still had herbal paste plastered to my wound. So just like this, I stood above him on the step, holding a wine jug, gazing at him from a distance with my eyes filled with blurriness and my body smelled of alcohol: “Hey.” I called out to him, “Catch me.”
As all of my strength left my body, I flutteringly descended.
Mo Qing’s eyes swiftly widened, he took a quick step forward and caught me in midair. Then I knocked against him and we directly rolled down the stairs. I almost caused him to dive and roll straight into the murderous array before the mountain gate.
Mo Qing glanced back behind him, a few droplets of sweat appeared on his forehead. Then he glanced forward before him, looking at me lying on his chest. It was as if he had burnt his hand from merely touching me, he immediately let go: “Sect Leader…” His voice was deep and low, “You’re drunk…”
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“Shhh…” I pressed down on his lips with my index finger, “Don’t be noisy, I purposely came to find someone to vent the fire..”
Listening to these words that I had unexpectedly said at that time, I ruthlessly slapped my own face. Lu Zhao Yao, oh, Lu Zhao Yao, look at what you had just said!
So direct! Did not understand even an iota of the ambiance of romance!
Uh, that year, I was still too inexperienced.
In due course, in the scene, I had pinned Mo Qing underneath my body, laying down on the flight of steps. His head appeared to be congested with blood, swelling thoroughly red, even the scary black seals on his face could not obstruct his blush.
I took ahold of his lapel to lift his head up, and opened my mouth to unrestrainedly bite his lips.
As soon as Mo Qing’s eyes stared at something beyond reach, he reached out to push me away with his hands. I pressed both of his hands onto the ground, restraining him without any explanation: “Be good.” I said, “Listen to me.” I kiss him again, licking and nibbling his lips from time to time…
I looked at myself at that time, only feeling parched and heated from head to toe. I covered the majority of my face with my hand and whispered, Lu Zhao Yao, you were shameless, you were practically shameless!
Through the spaces of my fingers, I saw Mo Qing from being astonished, shocked, and resistive, then the struggling quickly changed to forbearance, acceptance, and responsive. Immediately after that, his eyes grew darker and darker, and became more and more dangerous…
Ah!
This nonpersevering Ugly Little Monster! You did not even resist for long!
How could this be considered as me raping you! This was clearly mutual consent on both sides, okay?!
I was charged with a rape crime, I refused to accept this verdict!