Chapter 152 You Can’t Even Be a Son-in-Law
She knows everything.
When did you know?
Just now? Or earlier?
The surroundings were so quiet that even the sound of the breeze blowing through the leaves outside became easy to detect. Shen Lang tried to find some clues from her face, but her expression was calm, and her eyes were also quiet, just like every time she looked at him before, without any change.
She knows everything.
Why can I still look at him with such a calm gaze?
He killed her...
He clearly killed her!!
"You don't resent me?"
"No."
In fact, the system has also asked her this question.
No matter who asked, her answer remained the same. Before she regained her memory, she'd thought she'd hate him, but in reality, she simply didn't hate him. For her, this was a painful price to pay, finally allowing her to see clearly what she truly wanted.
And for him...
The answer is too simple.
What's the point of hating someone you've never loved, an ally you've never had any feelings for?
Shen Lang looked into her eyes and could no longer deceive himself.
She said she loved him, she said many words of affection for him, and did many things to express her love for him. For a long time, Chen Lang thought that she really loved him, but when he stabbed her back with a sword, he saw her smiling. He did such a thing. If she loved him, how could she not hate him?
This smile.
Every night that followed, it haunted him like a nightmare.
If she could do it again, even though she had no memory, he could still tell himself that she loved him. Unlike the other men around her, she had loved him, only him, really loved him, and would fall in love with him again in the future.
As long as she didn't recover her memory, he could keep thinking like this.
Sometimes Chen Lang couldn't explain why he was afraid of her regaining her memory. Was he afraid that she would hate him after she remembered it, or was he afraid that she wouldn't hate him after she remembered it?
Under her quiet gaze, his thoughts were very noisy.
His hands at his sides unconsciously grasped, and fear coiled around him like a spiderweb. It was so strange. Clearly, even with his high cultivation, he had never been this frightened when encountering a natural enemy, but now he felt a little breathless.
The bloodshot in his eyes became increasingly vivid, making him look a little distorted. His tone was as light as a nightmare: "Tell me. Does marrying me still count?"
Xie Yanyu didn't answer immediately.
She is too quiet.
As if watching his fear with cold eyes.
From the moment she spoke until now, she had only said two words. The rest of the time, she was quiet. Her body was quiet, her expression was calm. But how could those two words stir his emotions to such an extent?!
Chen Lang also stared at her, eager for her to answer him, but the moment she actually moved her lips, a string that had been pulling at his heart seemed to suddenly break, making a sharp sound. Before she could say anything, he hurriedly said, "Marry me, and I will help you get the Zheling Ruler."
How could there be nothing between us?
Without love and hate, what is left?
He wanted to satisfy her in every way. He had never refused any of her requests in the past, but how could he have nothing? If he agreed to her unconditionally as before, would he be unable to hold her or keep her?
Even if there is resentment between her and me, and I am unwilling to do it, isn't it better than nothing?
Shen Lang looked at her with red eyes.
The sight is like a net, paranoid, distorted, and filled with contradictory love/desire.
After a while, he lowered his eyelashes and said in a strange and gentle tone:
"If you promise me, I will get you the Zheling Ruler. Now go—"
"The barrier between the demon race and the human race has long been loosened. Even if it is repaired, the spiritual energy between the two races will still be interacting. Even if you have placed the jade pendant into the formation to stabilize the spiritual energy at the bottom of the river, you will only be able to use the Broken Spirit Ruler freely for two days. There are other places that need the power of the Broken Spirit Ruler to repair the leaks. After two days at most, its power will be drained to a certain extent and it will be fixed again, and no one can move it.
"so……
"Yanyu, don't think about asking Xie Chengjin to help you get it. He is seriously injured and won't wake up within two days. Only I can help you.
"Marry me?"
*
Walking out of the study, Xie Yanyu was blinded by the sunlight outside.
She paused slightly.
She closed her eyes, then looked back and saw in the dim room that Chen Lang seemed to have been drained of all his strength. His left eye was red, and tears of blood were dripping down. He stared at her without blinking, with a little desire in his eyes, but also a sense of stalemate with her.
She had just rejected him.
In fact, it is reasonable for Shen Lang to make this request.
He has always been paranoid and his nature is not as submissive as he appears to her.
He was originally a very suspicious, cruel and twisted person. Since he was a snake, he could not be considered to be human.
In her previous life, she and he were both husband and wife and allies. Except for the initial period, he treated her very well for the rest of the time. But even so, she knew a lot about his true character. He was very cruel and straightforward. Many big monsters in the monster world were very afraid of him.
She had seen him deal with great demons and had also seen him kill people when fighting against humans.
It's just that since his rebirth, he's concealed his true nature and acted very gentle in front of her. But even so, his inherent paranoia remains unchanged. When they first met at the House of Resentment, he followed her, sent her messages, and followed her everywhere. Even after she threw away his heart-protecting scales, wanting him to no longer follow her and monitor her, he still followed her.
He softened his stance, but in reality, he never gave her the option to refuse when it came to following her.
Even if she refuses, he will stalk her in the dark.
Stubborn, twisted.
There weren't that many conflicts between her and him. It was simply because she felt she needed him and his requirements were not high, so he wanted to follow her. This could barely be considered a mutual agreement.
After all, she would never refuse the benefits that came to her.
If just letting him follow her could bring her more benefits, she had no reason to refuse.
But that’s all in the past.
In the past, if it was just a marriage and she could ask him to help her get the Zheling Ruler, she would not refuse.
After all, it was just a marriage. She didn't think her marriage was worth much money. If it could bring some benefits, that would be great.
But I was in the room just now.
Looking into Shen Lang's eyes, she found herself unable to nod again.
Her marriage is worthless, but what about her wishes?
What if she only had four years left to live?
She could not guarantee that what she was doing at this moment would be successful. If she failed, her end would be death.
The world line will collapse and she will die.
Who can guarantee that she won't die?
If these were the last four years of her life, would she continue to live like this?
Xie Yanyu actually felt a little confused.
Because she had never questioned her own willingness before, everything she did was always driven by profit. Over time, when faced with a choice, she never asked herself if she was willing or not. As long as there was a benefit, as long as the benefits outweighed the disadvantages, that was fine.
Her emotions became blurred.
So now, when she asked herself such a question, her first reaction was confusion.
That's why she didn't respond.
Finally, she looked at Shen Lang for a long time and shook her head.
Chen Lang looked a little hysterical, tears streaming down his face. He wanted to raise the price a little more. He would make some very tempting offers, she knew. But this time she wanted to refuse——
She doesn't want to!
I don’t want to! I don’t want to! I don’t want to!!
Seeing Chen Lang's tears feels different from seeing Helan Wei's tears.
When she saw Helan Wei's tears, she would feel a twisted sense of pleasure, but when she saw Chen Lang's tears, she didn't have such a feeling. She would not feel pleasure, nor would she feel distressed.
But the moment I walked out the door.
She felt pleasure.
*
He closed the door and didn't wait for her to walk into the corridor.
As a result, I looked up.
Xie Yanyu saw Li Xun.
The man was leaning against the corridor pillar, the whip wrapped around his wrist, his posture as usual, a little lazy.
But I don't know why.
There was something strange in his eyes.
Xie Yanyu walked over and was about to talk to him.
But the next second, he spoke first: "You remembered."
Not a question.
It is a statement.
Xie Yanyu paused.
When she realized that he was talking about his previous life, she realized that Li Xun had also been reborn.
"I wasn't eavesdropping," Li Xun didn't hear her reply, and added lightly, "I have good hearing, so it's inevitable that I heard some."
Xie Yanyu came back to his senses: "So you remembered it before. Earlier than me."
Li Xun responded: "Yeah."
Xie Yanyu didn't say anything else.
She didn't find it too surprising. After all, the time in this world had gone back, and it was reasonable for Li Xun to recover his memories of his past life. Chen Lang, her, Helan Wei, Li Xun, and even Xie Chengjin might have memories of their past lives.
But she didn't expect that Li Xun recovered his memory earlier than her.
Thinking back, she realized that Li Xun had indeed been subtly different during this period. A person's behavior would always change at different stages of life, but nature was difficult to change. So, when she had noticed his difference earlier, she hadn't deliberately thought of him as a reincarnation.
The atmosphere was a little quiet for a while.
She didn't say anything, and Li Xun didn't say anything either, as if they were thinking about something.
He has always been a talkative person. Once he opens his mouth, he talks endlessly and can talk for several hours without stopping. He is often sarcastic and chattering, and it is rare for him to be silent.
After a long pause, he finally said, "In my previous life... I didn't even get to see him for the last time. I was trapped in the secret realm for three years."
Xie Yanyu responded: "Yeah."
He added, "After you died, I took your body back."
Xie Yanyu: "Hmm?"
She had no memory of what happened after her death, nor was it mentioned in the original plot. The system had only briefly mentioned it a few times before. It said Helan Wei had gone mad, and Li Xun had committed suicide. But she didn't know the details, so she glanced at him, waiting for him to continue.
It's rare that she's interested in a topic.
But Li Xun did not continue.
After a while, he asked, "If you don't hate him, do you hate me?"
Xie Yanyu thought for a moment and said, "I hated her a little."
She had indeed done many things wrong, and she knew it in her heart, having never denied it even in her previous life. Although she had saved him, he had always protected her, taught her how to read and write, and helped her vent her anger during the time they lived together. How could she not repay the favor of saving her life? She had also betrayed his whereabouts to the demons, stolen his treasures, and indirectly caused his spiritual vein to be severed, and a finger to be broken.
After the reunion, he wanted revenge, which was just the cycle of cause and effect.
Although I know all this in my heart, it is difficult to say that I have no hatred at all.
How could a letter of withdrawal of engagement destroy everything for her?
But it had been too long, a lifetime, and even in her previous life in the demon world, she had been entangled with him many times.
Now that I have a new life, all the hatred is gone.
So she said "hated a little" instead of "hated a little".
Li Xun knew her too well.
He knew what she meant.
so--
"Qingqing."
He called her name.
In fact, he seldom called her by her name, no matter what her name was, because he felt that speaking by her full name was too serious, and he did not like talking to people in such a serious manner. But at this time, he said:
"If I were to say I've never hated you, I'd be lying. But if you ask me to hate you, I can't. It's just that I can't forgive you for what happened back then. So, in my last life, I never explained anything to you.
"I've regretted many things. Why did I go to the secret realm? If I hadn't gone, would you have died? But I haven't regretted this one thing. At least, I didn't regret it in my last life."
He was talking about the letter of rescission of engagement.
"So if I could go back to that time, that moment, I still wouldn't explain it to you. Because for me at that time, only in this way could we finally make things clear between you and me."
"You've hated me a little, and I've blamed you a little." But he added, "But now that we're back together, the past is over, and neither of us owes the other anything. So I think, perhaps, at least now, I should explain myself to you.
"Back then, the notice I sent to cancel the engagement was blank."
The words fell.
Xie Yanyu was stunned: "Blank?"
But the divorce notice clearly stated everything, which was why she was ruined. "The content on it..."
That’s all I have to say.
She seemed to have thought of something and suddenly stopped talking.
At this moment, the system whispered in her mind: [It's me.]
"The Lord God initially injected too much energy into this world, and you developed self-awareness, which is why I said it's very difficult. Some plot points are about to deviate. If I don't correct them, the rest of the story will continue to deviate until it collapses."
*
When he returned to Xie's house, Li Xun became his carefree self again.
He said sarcastically, "Last time I came here, I was an honored guest, and the Xie family had to host a banquet to entertain me. This time, I'll soon be a live-in son-in-law. Will the people in your house look down on me?"
Xie Yanyu: "..."
She glanced at him and said, "Don't worry."
Li Xun said lightly: "Why, are you going to say that you will protect me and not let anyone bully me in the future - right?"
He grabbed her wrist and started talking again, chattering non-stop. He didn't finish his words yet and felt suffocated, so he had to continue talking, asking about her share in the mansion and whether she could take good care of him.
But before the words were spoken—
Next second.
Then I heard her say, "You can't even be a son-in-law."
The words fell.
Then Li Xun's face turned gloomy.
But before he could speak, she added, "I probably won't be a member of the Xie family anytime soon."
because--
She was going to get the Zheling Ruler herself. If she took this treasure, the Xie family would never tolerate her.
Only two days left.
Xie Chengjin was unconscious and couldn't get it for her.
Shen Lang seemed to be certain that she had no other choice.
But……
Before she recovered her memory, she didn't know where the Zheling Ruler was, but after she recovered her memory, she knew it. In her previous life, she was the one who told Chen Lang the location of the Zheling Ruler.
She could get it herself, so what?
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