Chapter 155 Do Whatever You Want
I don’t know how long it took.
She then asked Xie Chengjin in her mind: "Who are you——"
You are... you are...
She couldn't say it!
She didn't even know his name. How could she address him back then? How could this happen? How could such a person become the cold and rule-abiding Xie Chengjin he is now?
Should she ask? Should she be puzzled? Should she be surprised?
No……
She heard the elders talking intermittently. Even with the buzzing in her ears, she could only catch a few key words, so she already knew the answer.
After he went back that year, he did take responsibility. As he told her, it was his own decision to crush the treasures at home, and what happened afterwards had nothing to do with her.
Therefore, she didn't even know that the Xie family had come to find her that year, trying to capture her and refine her into a magic weapon to fill the gap.
His parents were also killed because of this incident. Was this also the source of the residual poison that had been tormenting him for years? The wound in his palm had never healed since the moment he bled her to feed her!
Xie Yanyu's scalp exploded, her thoughts became blurry and confused, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
Helan Wei felt that she began to tremble.
He and Li Xun looked at each other, not knowing whether she was hot or cold. After a while, the fanning stopped and Helan Wei put a piece of clothing on her.
But Xie Yanyu was shaking even more violently.
She repeated in her mind over and over again: "You, you...you..."
She wanted to say something, but she didn't know what to say.
On the other side, Xie Chengjin did not respond to her for the time being.
Because she heard
He was silent for a long time, and only spoke softly after the elders had finished speaking -
"Because it's the same thing, I want to try a different approach this time."
As soon as the words fell.
The ancestral hall was completely silent.
It was like a heavy hammer falling, knocking the elders unconscious. They thought they were hallucinating: "What?"
Xie Chengjin didn't say anything else.
He withdrew his gaze from the elders, raised his head slightly, and looked at the family tree in front of him again, his eyes falling on his name and Xie Yanyu's name.
In his previous life, after the war with the demon clan, he often thought about this question.
Xie Yanyu defected to the demon clan and became their counselor. He assisted the Demon Lord in stealing the Zheling Ruler and spread rumors everywhere. However, at that time, the two clans were fighting fiercely and no aristocratic family dared to stand up and attack the Xie family. In fact, because the Xie family was too powerful, the aristocratic families even tried to please the Xie family.
At that time, some people even wrote letters to Xie Chengjin, their words full of flattery.
She said she would help him get rid of the stepsister who betrayed the family.
How did he feel at that time?
Two lifetimes later, he still remembered how he felt at that time. It was absurd and funny.
For so many years, he deliberately avoided thinking about what happened back then. He thought countless times, who should he hate? Finally, he thought, maybe he should hate himself. Why did he think so? Because he couldn't find anyone else's fault in this matter. He didn't know who to hate, but this hatred could not be eliminated, and ultimately he could only project it back onto himself.
But there was never a day when he felt that he was truly wrong.
What's wrong with saving people?
He surrendered and decided to fill the seal himself. What could be wrong? He had no power, so even if he resisted, he would have little chance of success. Could he really resist the Xie family and the clans that were suppressing them?
But--
Xie Yanyu had no chance of winning, so why didn't she know how to kneel down and surrender?
Is she more powerful than him? Why didn't she kneel, and why did she find a new way out?
She didn't kneel down, but he did.
She tried, but he didn't even try. He was a coward who never resisted. How could he not hate himself for what happened back then?
If he had to do it all over again, with the same thing happening, would he make the same choice?
Why couldn't he give it a try just like her?
Xie Chengjin raised his hand.
My fingertips touched Xie Yanyu's name on the family tree, and I felt a faint warmth.
The next second, a bit of spiritual power burst out from his fingertips, and he used some unknown spell to erase her name.
That is the moment,
The elders reacted immediately and rushed over to stop him!
For a time, there was chaos and disorder.
Xie Yanyu couldn't see the scene on their side, nor did he know what exactly happened. He could only hear the shocked and angry voices of the elders. They called Xie Chengjin's name, saying that he was rebelling, and some even said to stop him!
There was a constant cacophony of noise.
Xie Yanyu paused, still unable to sort out the clues.
But the next second,
She could hear Xie Chengjin's painful groans in her mind, but his tone was unusually relaxed. She didn't know how he could spare the time to talk to her when things were so chaotic over there. "I'm not forcing you to come back."
Xie Chengjin is a person with a strong desire for control.
Earlier on the boat, he wanted to kiss her hands, and in the carriage, he went even further and wanted to kiss her, not just her hands, he wanted to kiss every part of her body;
Going back in time, he didn't want her to get engaged to anyone else, he didn't want her to go to Shangqing Palace, he wanted her to stay by his side, to surround her tightly with his gaze, to keep an eye on her at all times, to keep her under his nose, to monitor her every move -
He couldn't deceive himself.
There were many moments when he wanted to lock her up and shut her away. This was not a brotherly relationship.
If the kite's skeleton and the bird's wings could be broken, she would never be able to fly out of his side and would be trapped in a cage forever. But the kite itself should not be restrained by a rope, and the bird itself belongs to the sky. The fire that will not go out should continue to burn.
So he grasped her fate disc tightly and crossed her name out of the family tree.
He suddenly exerted force, crushing the fate disc into pieces, as if saying to the little girl from back then: "You once called me brother, but I was a coward. I didn't try many things back then, so you never need to feel guilty. Now, do whatever you want."
Interspersed with his words,
Xie Yanyu heard even more violent curses and the sound of jade breaking.
But the next second, it seemed as if all the sounds paused!
Those voices all faded away, and her mind fell into silence. She could no longer hear anything from the Xie family. The noise disappeared, and it was as if something had broken free and floated back -
That bit of soul returns to the body.
The car curtain was half open, and looking back, I could still see the direction of Tiandu.
Xie Yanyu could not see the scene over there, nor could he hear any sound.
But she knew.
From then on, she was no longer a member of the Xie family.
*
In the afternoon, Xie Yanyu arrived at Helan's house.
This was her first time here in her past and present lives. The Helan family did not have as many rules as the Xie family. Compared with the low-key Xie family, the Helan family was more extravagant. There was a garden every three steps and a pavilion every five steps in the mansion. Even a pavilion for resting was covered with glazed tiles.
Apart from Helan Wei and Helan Mingci, there are also several elders of seniority in the clan, but no other masters.
But Helan Mingci fell seriously ill for unknown reasons some time ago and is now unable to get out of bed. Helan Wei took advantage of this opportunity to seize real power and did not take the elders of the clan seriously at all. The elders were helpless, so he is now the only master of the Helan family.
Wherever he went, all the people he saw were servants.
A swarm of servants waited on their master with meticulous care. Helan Wei got off the carriage and had just walked a few steps into the mansion when a group of servants carrying several sedan chairs came over. "Sir, would you like us to carry you and the two distinguished guests to your residence?"
Helan Wei tilted his head, as if asking what Xie Yanyu meant.
Xie Yanyu had really never seen anything like this before. Why did he have to ride a sedan chair just to walk a few steps?
She was quiet for a moment, thinking that Li Xun would like it.
So he turned around and looked at Li Xun.
He was seen sitting down very rudely, just like the owner of the house.
The next second, Li Xun reached down and grabbed her wrist, then pulled her up to sit with him. Then he lazily ordered, "Lift her, but lift her slowly. My wife is not feeling well and can't walk far."
Xie Yanyu: "..."
Xie Yanyu didn't react in the end, but Helan Wei sneered. How on earth did a gigolo have the nerve to dictate things here? He acted so arrogantly that anyone who didn't know would think this was the Li Mansion, not the Helan Mansion.
He wanted to pull Li Xun off, but seeing Xie Yanyu's still pale face and remembering her condition in the carriage just now, he felt so uncomfortable that he felt like he was about to fall apart. In the end, he didn't pull her off and ordered the servants to carry her away.
The Helan Mansion is very large, much larger than the Xie Mansion. From the outer house to the inner house, one has to pass through several large gardens, and even horse farms, training grounds, and lakes. If one comes in by carriage, it will probably take a cup of tea to travel from the outer house to the inner house.
If I walk, I'm afraid I'll be really tired.
It took about half an hour to carry the sedan chair to the inner house. She didn't have to walk, but she didn't know if it was because she was too uncomfortable in the carriage just now. She hadn't recovered yet and was swaying, feeling dizzy and a little nauseous.
Waited to the residence.
Only then did Xie Yanyu feel a little more comfortable.
Helan Wei arranged her residence next to his yard and Li Xun's residence far away, but neither of them went back to their own place and they squeezed in with her.
Helan Wei found something to do and helped her make the bed. She was so virtuous that it was a little abnormal. Li Xun felt that this style looked like Chen Lang, which was an eyesore. She sold this man to a brothel and learned all the ways of a brothel and the appearance of a virtuous husband. She should have listened to Chen Lang at the beginning and killed him in the Tianyun Secret Realm.
Li Xun was upset.
Watching Helan Wei's movements, he felt that he was just standing there idly, making himself look even worse than a blind man like Helan Wei.
But Helan Wei had already done all the work, so what else could he do? After making the bed, he went to make tea for her. There were a bunch of servants around, but he insisted on making it himself in front of her, pretending to be hypocritical and forcing himself to do it.
Li Xun had nothing to do, so he simply stopped competing with him.
He sat down next to Qingqing, acted like a superior, and drank the tea that Helan Wei handed over.
Then he turned to look at Xie Yanyu.
Xie Yanyu was thinking about something.
Seeing Li Xun looking at her sideways, she was a little confused: "What..."?
Before I could even utter the word "了",
The next second, Li Xun pinched her chin and kissed her.
In front of Helan Wei, he kissed her and gave her a sip of tea: "Drink tea, I'm afraid you're tired. What kind of tea can make you kiss your lips? I'll feed you."
Helan Wei's face darkened instantly, and he looked at the two people in front of him numbly.
Even though he could only see a vague outline, it was enough for him to see that Xie Yanyu had not pushed Li Xun away at all.
Li Xun was much taller than her, but at this moment he hugged her, smiled at her, and rubbed his lips against hers, looking very spoiled. He then bit her lips a few times before turning her head to look at him and said coldly, "Thank you, Master Helan, you are so kind to my wife."
Helan Wei's face turned a little gray.
He "looked" at Xie Yanyu somewhat stubbornly.
But Xie Yanyu wasn't looking at him.
She was still thinking about Xie Chengjin, and it took her some time to digest it. To her, whether he was the same person back then or he finally crossed her name out of the family tree, it was a surprise. It was a feeling that was both unexpected and reasonable, so much so that her mood was very complicated and she kept going around in circles on this matter.
Thinking of what the system said to her a while ago,
She asked: You said before that in your previous life, Xie Chengjin was tortured to death by the residual poison?
System: [Yes.]
Xie Yanyu: I dissected out the root bones, so didn’t I leave the magic weapon to him?
System: [He is useless.]
Xie Yanyu didn't quite understand this.
However, she could never truly fully understand other people's thoughts, so she did not ask the system about this matter again.
She took out the Zheling Ruler, thought about it, and decided that it would be better to get down to business first.
By injecting all the power of the Soul-Breaking Ruler into the jade token, the jade token will be effective. She does not need to use it to reshape her spiritual roots, but to try to bring out the system.
So she turned around and wanted to ask Li Xun for the jade token, and pulled Li Xun's sleeve.
It was at this time that she discovered that Helan Wei was "looking" at her.
She paused: "What's wrong?"
Helan Wei took a deep breath.
Her hand gripping Li Xun's sleeve was too annoying. He wanted to pull her hand off, but he suppressed the urge and said calmly, "How was the tea just now? Was it delicious? I've never brewed it for anyone else."
Xie Yanyu nodded.
Helan Wei felt a little relieved, pinched the teacup, and prepared to make some more for her.
But the next second, she said, "Please go out for a while. I want to talk to Li Xun alone."
——Since she entered the yard, he has been helping her make the bed and making tea, busying himself here and there. Even if it was Chen Lang who did these things, she would praise him; but just now, Li Xun followed him in and sat next to her acting like a big shot, doing nothing and being idle. But now she ignored his flattery, kept Li Xun, and asked him to go out!
Helan Wei felt a sweet taste in his throat and almost laughed out of anger. He was about to speak when he met her gaze.
Her eyes were a little wary, as if she was afraid that he was going to go crazy again, but then she seemed to have thought of something, and there was a hint of sarcasm in her eyes.
The breath was suddenly blocked in the throat, unable to be released or suppressed.
Suddenly, he remembered that he had treated her like this many times before, throwing away the food she gave him, ignoring her flattery in a condescending manner, and when she made tea for him, he ignored her hard work and told her to go back slowly. How come he couldn't stand it when the positions were reversed?
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