Perhaps you and Chu Kong are really two different people. Without his memory your character is also different, but I still like you.”
I raised my hand and touched his head like before. His face was pale. His lips trembled like he was about to cry.
“I never thought that this lifetime will end in this manner. I also have never thought that the heaven used such a way to let me give up.”
I touched his chest.
“I won’t search for that last mortal soul anymore. I also can’t search for it anymore. You don’t want to remember the past. This lifetime can be considered that I did wrong. In the future, there isn’t I to interfere with the freedom and the living alone that you want anymore.”
“It’s not like this……Xiao Xiang, listen slowly to what I’ve to tell you. It’s not like this…….it’s not like this!”
The world slowly blurred in front of my eyes. I can also no longer see Chu Kong’s face clearly. The cool breeze blew against my ear and made my eyes moist. I almost shed tears. I sighed: “Is or isn’t……let it be as you said……”
The road to the netherworld unfolded in front of me. I walked this road seven times. In the future, I’ll not set a foot on it anymore.
I looked back and saw Chu Kong holding that body that didn’t have sign of life anymore. He choked and whispered: “Don’t leave me, don’t leave me……”
I turned and embarked on the road to the netherworld. No matter which Chu Kong it is, in the future, I won’t search anymore.
The netherworld.
While receiving all kind of looks from the little ghost, I entered Yanwang’s palace. Yanwang was writing something on the desk. Hearing the door being opened by me, he looked up. He was startled and then looked behind me: “Where is celestial……star Chu Kong?”
“In the human realm. He wants to be a mortal.”
The magistrate on the side raised his eyebrows: “You really gathered all his immortal souls?”
I nodded and just felt that I’m really tired: “The seven lifetimes of love fate have ended. Jin Lian also completely disappeared from this world. We……we…..”
I lowered my eyes, paused and then said: “I’ve completed my tasks. Can I now restore my immortal body and return to heaven?”
Yanwang and the magistrate exchanged a glance. Both thought for a while. Yanwang said: “You can, but is it alright letting mortal celestial star Chu Kong on the human realm like that? If this lifetime, he came down to drink the soup of oblivion, in the future he will be a mortal forever.”
How can I not know such a thing? This kind of thing is also what I’m afraid of. In the future, there’s no longer someone who has the same memories as me anymore leaving only I alone reminiscing about the past until I also gradually forget.
The promises that we made, there be no one to fulfil them. The experience of I and Chu Kong and all those emotions will become a thing of the past and cease to exist.
“Let him be a mortal,” I said. “This is what he desired.”
Yanwang pondered for a while before he said: “Xiao Xiang Zi, can it be that you’re sulking? But what did that celestial star Chu Kong without the memory did that made you unhappy?”
I glared at Yanwang. There’s an unhappy feeling and a sense of being seen through.
“What does it have to do with you?! Take me back to heaven! I want to go back to heaven!”
Yanwang touched his nose and advised me: “Lovers can quarrel, but a quarrel is a quarrel. Such an important thing is not child’s play. If in the future lifetimes, Chu Kong is a mortal, the one that’ll be bitter is still you, ah. Besides……”
He whispered: “I bet ten golden teals.”
When he said his ten golden teals, I thought about my ten copper coins. My heart felt more anger: “Yanwang, go persuade yourself if you want to take that thing back to heaven! I don’t care anymore. He wants to endure in the human realm, then let him endure in the human realm! Just let him be!”
After saying that, I turned and walked away. I walked to the palace door and still didn’t hear someone persuade me. I pouted: “Hey…..that, borrow your mirror of the past to me to let me play with it for a few days in heaven.”
Yanwang looked at me with squinted eyes: “You, this brat, what for tricks are you planning?”
“A woman’s secret.”