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Upon leaving the Marquis's residence, Su Peijiu glanced at Xiao Zhan with a complex expression as she got into the carriage. "What do you plan to do next?"
"Go to Cangjian Villa." A fleeting light passed through Xiao Zhan's deep eyes, difficult to discern.
"Have you made up your mind?"
Xiao Zhan smiled slightly at Su Peijiu. "This isn't something I can decide; it's just about seeking a reason and asking for an outcome."
Su Peijiu loosened her grip on the curtain. As it fell, she sighed softly to herself: What kind of feelings do you have for Yue Niang?
If it’s love, why is it so silent?
If it’s not love, then why the relentless effort?
Cangjian Villa was a bit far away. Since Su Peijiu was pregnant, Xiao Zhan decided to let Yan Bai take her back while he went personally.
At the fork in the road, Yan Bai took the reins of the horse. Xiao Zhan elegantly dismounted, and Su Peijiu placed her hand on the curtain but ultimately did not lift it. After all, she was an outsider; what right did she have to interfere in their love and hatred?
"The Mountains Remain Green and the Waters Flow Long. I shall take my leave!" His voice was like a gentle breeze passing by, and he had already vanished from sight.
"Yan Bai, let's go." The carriage paused at the fork for a moment before Su Peijiu spoke softly. The horse's hooves slowly lifted as they headed into the distance.
…………
Inside the forbidden area of Cangjian Villa, Xiao Zhan glanced at the hurriedly approaching Xiao Chuxin and noticed his severed right arm before turning his gaze to the lake.
"Ancestor, why are you back?" Xiao Chuxin exclaimed in shock. The Master of the Building from Nan Xie Tower was supposed to come looking for him, yet now he had returned.
"You are now the Zhuang Master of Cangjian Villa?" Xiao Zhan asked with a hint of calm in his eyes.
Xiao Chuxin bowed and nodded in agreement.
Xiao Zhan made a sound of acknowledgment and entered the forbidden area without saying a word, leaving Xiao Chuxin looking at the lake surface in confusion.
Why did Ancestor come back?
It was still the blue world, still the dilapidated Ancient Tower.
Xiao Zhan slowly moved his steps and stood in front of the Ancient Tower, feeling a sense of sourness in his chest.
“Shuang'er, come out and see me.” He spoke softly, but it seemed as if the entire lake bottom echoed with his voice.
The originally silent lake bottom began to bubble, with clusters of transparent bubbles rising from the ground, quickly making the clear underwater world hazy. Xiao Zhan stood still, seemingly unaware. After an unknown amount of time, the bubbles finally cleared, revealing a woman in a pink dress standing there with her back turned, exuding an enchanting aura.
“You finally decided to come back?” The woman turned around slowly, revealing a face as beautiful as a water lily.
“Come with me to meet someone.” Xiao Zhan said.
Lu Shuang smiled instead: “For a hundred years, you kept me trapped at the bottom of the lake, and now you want me to come out just to accompany you to meet someone?”
“Shuang'er, I did it for your own good.” Lu Shuang was highly skilled in martial arts and often became bloodthirsty on nights of the full moon, needing to kill to dispel her murderous aura. Therefore, every full moon night at Cangjian Villa, there were mountains of corpses, and he had no choice but to trap her here with formations.
“Hahaha... for my own good? Of course I know it’s for my own good. But Xiao Zhan, who do you want to take me to meet?” Lu Shuang swayed her slender waist as she turned to face Xiao Zhan, reaching out to touch his face, and he did not shy away.
“You’ll know once you meet them.”
“But the full moon is only a few days away.” She reminded him of her level of danger.
Xiao Zhan nodded and turned around. "Let's go."
Lu Shuang stood behind him, looking at the broad back that was as vast as the sea, her eyes filled with a madness that almost swallowed the entire world beneath the lake.
How many years had it been? Finally, they were going out...
Liang Qiongshan was beneath their feet.
Lu Shuang's beautiful eyes flashed with anger. "What did you bring me here for?"
Xiao Zhan reached out and grabbed her hand. "To meet an old friend."
"I'm not going!" She swung her hand back, but Xiao Zhan did not dodge or evade, taking the hit head-on. A trace of blood appeared at the corner of his lips, causing Lu Shuang to freeze for a moment.
"Let's go." He pulled her up the mountain.
The cave was quite remote, located halfway up the mountain, without any support. The only way in was to fly down from the top using lightness skills.
At their age, both Lu Shuang and Xiao Zhan were unmatched in martial arts on this continent. In just a short while, they appeared inside the cave.
At the same time, Yue Niang felt a shudder run through her body as she sensed the hatred and fear emanating from deep within her soul.
Lu Shuang had arrived...
Was she here to make herself lose her mind?... Nan Xie Tower had been taken care of, and a successor had been chosen in the final moments; there should be no dissatisfaction left.
The only regret in this life was... that she could no longer see Xiao Zhan again, the man who had once made her act without hesitation; they were ultimately fated never to meet again.
She slowly revealed herself, sealing the cave in darkness. Her voice was cold and chilling: "After all these years, sister, you finally want to come see me?"
Lu Shuang was her sister, twin sisters who looked almost identical, the only difference being that she had a pair of Azure eyes.
Xiao Zhan almost instantly saw the ferocious female ghost hanging in mid-air, her hollow eyes filled with crimson blood, her lips sewn shut with steel wire, her complexion pale, and her limbs mutilated... her death was extremely tragic.
Yue Niang could not see Xiao Zhan or Lu Shuang; she could only rely on the aura of life to discern where they were. However, this aura was only useful for ordinary people. Both Xiao Zhan and Lu Shuang were capable of evading the tracking of Black and White Impermanence, so naturally, she, who had lost her sight, could not see who else was in the cave.
She could only confirm that Lu Shuang had definitely entered based on the hatred she felt in life.
"My dear sister has been missing me day and night, wondering when you would come down to keep me company..." The cold wind grew stronger.
Xiao Zhan glanced at the expressionless Lu Shuang and then at the tragic-looking female ghost, his throat dry: "...Yue Niang?"
Upon hearing someone call her name, Yue Niang's spirit flickered slightly, becoming somewhat transparent.
She... couldn't have misheard?
That voice seemed to belong to that person...?
"Xiao Zhan? Is that you?" She struggled to utter those two words, and her chest felt as if it had come back to life for a moment.
"It's me."
Little did she expect that their reunion would be across realms.
Lu Shuang snorted coldly and squeezed the jade stone in her hand: "Are you showing off your affection here? You are no longer from the same world. Luan Yue, you should have died forever with your useless mother at Mingyue Bay; you shouldn't have come back! Now that you've fallen into such a state, you can't blame me!"
“Shuang'er!” Xiao Zhan grabbed the jade stone in Lu Shuang's hand, quickly holding it in his palm, then pressed on her acupoint: “Do not be willful!”
Do not be willful...
The soul of Yue Niang floating in the air trembled slightly.
From a long time ago, he had always been different towards Lu Shuang, always treating her differently. For her mistakes, he had always said four words: do not be willful, even now seeing her so tragically harmed... he continued to favor Lu Shuang.
“Xiao Zhan...” Her hollow eyes looked ahead, not knowing where he was, only able to speak to one spot.
“Yue Niang?”
“I want to ask you something.”
“Go ahead.”
Her soul became a bit more transparent: “...Why did you want to marry me back then?”
Since you never loved me, why did you want to marry me?!
...
She, Luan Yue, was the last witch of Mingyue Bay, in charge of the fate of the entire Mingyue Bay, destined to guard this land for life.
Until a boy's intrusion changed everything.
That day, the boy fell into her formation covered in blood, tightly clutching a Cold Sword.
Uncertain of her own feelings, she ultimately spared his life and even helped him clean and bandage his wounds. She saved him, unaware that in the days to come, his presence would lead her to ruin.
The priestess could read the fates of others, but she could not foresee her own... One day, on a whim, she decided to divine the fate of the young man, only to discover a path shrouded in mystery ahead.
When the young man awoke, she had just returned from a ritual. As soon as she entered, she fell into a pair of deep blue eyes, and her heart couldn't help but tremble.
Just that one glance drained her of all her energy.
"You saved me?"
"What is your name?"
"Thank you."
The young man spoke three sentences, and she felt entranced by how pleasing his voice was.
"My name is Luan Yue; you can call me Yue Niang." She steadied herself, standing awkwardly at the doorway, reluctant to enter.
"My name is Xiao Zhan. Thank you for saving my life. Yue Niang, that name sounds really nice..."
He thought her name was beautiful...
That afternoon, she fell into a deep nightmare, eventually losing herself within it.
"What?! You want to leave Mingyue Bay?!" The tribe leader and tribe members stood angrily at the exit, blocking their way.
With a cold expression, she severed a connection to her lineage: "Is this enough? With this severed lineage, I am no longer a priestess. Can I not leave now?"
She remembered the time when the clan leader glared at her and the man behind her with red eyes, his lips trembling: "You will regret this one day, Yue Niang! You will regret it—!"
You will regret it...
Yes, she would regret it one day, surely.
On the night of their wedding, she shyly asked him if he loved her, but all she received was a deep kiss.
That night, she gave him her best self, completely and wholly, feeling that her entire life was filled with happiness.
She taught him the witchcraft of Mingyue Bay, doing her best to impart to him the secrets of immortality, even risking punishment because of it.
As a witch, she could not have children, so she planned to spend this long life with him.
Xiao Zhan was her beloved, the one closest to her heart, difficult to part with and untouchable.
After decades of harmonious days together, Cangjian Villa gradually began to get on the right track. On a day when the sun shone just right, he stood before her with a woman who looked remarkably like her, cruelly speaking.
"This is your sister Lu Shuang. I have also taught her the secrets of immortality..."
It turned out that all her sacrifices in this world were one-sided; this man, as deep as the sea, would always open your wounds at the most tender moments and sprinkle salt on them...
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