Suddenly, she smelled a sweet floral fragrance. Shi Mingyue was a little surprised and asked Qin Zheng, "Do you smell it?"
Qin Zheng's mind was completely on the monk in front of him, and he did not smell the flower fragrance that Shi Mingyue mentioned. He was about to reach out to check the monk's breath when he felt a heavy drowsiness coming over him and then fell to the ground unconscious.
Shi Mingyue also fainted and fell on the desk.
After the two lost consciousness, the monk who was sitting cross-legged had his eyelashes trembling slightly, and soon opened his eyes, revealing a pair of light amber eyes.
Under a dim sky, a strong wind blew up a vast avenue, scattering dust so thick it blinded pedestrians. A group of people, carrying a black coffin, slowly advanced along the road. The man on horseback at the front had a resolute expression, his white eyes filled with an indescribable sadness.
Where was this? Why was Fu Yueli here? Who was in the coffin? Upon seeing the man on horseback clearly, Shi Mingyue was utterly astonished and asked these questions. She felt as if she had become a ghost, floating in the air, unable to move on her own, merely following Fu Yueli's movements. She subconsciously assumed this was Qingzhou. Did she miss Fu Yueli so much? So, she imagined what had happened to him in Qingzhou in her dream?
The strong wind was still blowing, and suddenly there was a fishy smell. It seemed that two huge monsters were coming from the distance, and it was unclear whether they were enemies or friends.
Fu Yueli raised his hand to ask everyone to stop, and the coffin fell heavily to the ground. He placed his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist.
It was not until the two huge monsters came to the front that everyone felt the pressure. They were two giant pythons with very strong bodies, one black and one white. They raised their upper bodies, enough to look down at the group of tiny people in front of them.
Could these two pythons be the man-eating snakes that appeared on the outskirts of Shangjing nine years ago? They had long since disappeared into the mountains and forests, so why did they suddenly appear now? Fu Yueli did not dare to neglect his sword and drew it.
When Shi Mingyue saw the true face of the two snakes for the first time, she was really shocked. Just when she was worried about Fu Yueli, the two snakes moved in unison, tilted their heads back, and swung them forward, spitting out two silver keys.
The key! Wasn't it already in Qin Zheng's hand? She had opened the door with Qin Zheng, so how could she be here? Shi Mingyue suddenly realized that things were not as simple as she thought.
The scene before her eyes quickly distorted. Shi Mingyue saw that Fu Yueli had already returned with the coffin. Why did the place where the coffin was placed feel so familiar? It wasn't Prince Ling's residence, but the courtyard of Shi's residence. The wind had ceased to carry the dust, and the sky was no longer dim. She could clearly see Fu Yueli's face. He was definitely not the Fu Yueli she had seen day and night. He didn't have the usual gentleness and restraint. Instead, he looked like someone who had experienced many hardships, a melancholy air about him. Even his eyes revealed a deep weariness of the world.
The person in front of her is Fu Yueli, but he is not the Fu Yueli she knows, so he can only be the Fu Yueli from her previous life. So is she dreaming about her previous life?
Another empty coffin, crafted from the finest golden nanmu wood, lay in the courtyard. In his previous life, Fu Yueli, a stern man, ordered the sealed willow coffin to be opened. Shi Mingyue's vantage point allowed her to see inside the willow coffin. Who lay within?
The coffin was opened, and the person inside had long been dried up by the wind, with a hideous face. When Shi Mingyue first saw the corpse, she was not scared as she had expected. Instead, a faint sadness rose naturally from her chest. Before she could react, tears inexplicably flowed from her eyes and flew out.
A drop of water suddenly landed gently on the back of Fu Yueli's hand, which was resting on the coffin. Was it raining? He subconsciously looked up. The blue sky was clear and cloudless. So where did this drop of water come from?
Without further hesitation, Fu Yueli personally carried the mummy out of the willow coffin. As if afraid that the mummy would get bumped, he placed it very gently into the golden nanmu coffin.
Shi Mingyue had not yet recognized who the mummy was. When her eyes fell on the gold, silver and jade artifacts buried in the willow coffin, she was stunned for a moment and it took her a long time to come back to her senses.
The white jade hairpin with tourmaline flowers, the gold hairpin with peony and phoenix patterns, the multi-treasure flowing hairpin... all of them were given to her by Qin Zheng in the previous life, and they were her favorite accessories.
So this hideous, monstrous corpse was actually her? Shi Mingyue was stunned for a long moment, then suddenly laughed. She didn't know why she was laughing, but it seemed like she didn't know what other expression to make. She had actually seen her own appearance after death. How could such a ridiculous thing exist in the world? It made people laugh, and there was nothing they could do.
She smiled bitterly at her own experience, at the sad and lamentable way things had played on people. She just smiled blankly and watched Fu Yueli close the lid of the golden nanmu coffin.
The scene shifted again, this time seeing the same scene she had witnessed before fainting. It was a simple scene behind a bronze door. A white-robed monk stood before Fu Yueli, looking him in the eye and turning his prayer wheel. The scene shifted again, revealing a desolate mountain landscape. Four graves lay here, and Shi Mingyue could clearly see the words engraved on each headstone: her father, her mother, her brother, and herself.
A white-robed monk sat cross-legged on the ground in front of her tomb, spinning a prayer wheel with one hand, counting his Buddhist beads with the other, and muttering the mantra of rebirth. Fu Yueli stood quietly by, looking extremely tired. Shi Mingyue wanted to give him a hug to stop looking so unhappy.
She was really grateful for everything he had done for her in her previous life. Even though she was not his wife in her previous life and had eloped with someone, which slapped him in the face, he didn't care. He could do this for her, so she could only cherish and love him with her true heart, besides being grateful.
Suddenly, Shi Mingyue realized she could move again, but at the same time, she felt her consciousness gradually being pulled away, or rather, fading from the present. She wasn't afraid, only reluctant and regretful that she couldn't personally thank Fu Yueli in her previous life. So, before her consciousness faded, her soul drifted towards him and reached out to embrace him.
Unable to actually touch him, her soul even overlapped with his body. Shi Mingyue smiled, and a tear flowed from her eyes, floated in the air, and fell on Fu Yueli's face.
It didn't rain, and Fu Yueli was puzzled. Suddenly, he saw the white-robed monk looking at him with a smile, so he asked, "Is the salvation over?"
The white-robed monk stood up and nodded, saying, "There's only one last step left. What do you want to say to her?"
Fu Yueli noticed that the white-robed monk looked at him in a strange way. Without thinking much, he turned to look at the name on her tombstone and gave his most sincere wish: "You will be happy in your next life." When you meet someone who truly loves you and regards you as a treasure, even if that person is not me, I hope you can be happy.
He didn't say the rest of the words out loud, but just recited them silently in his heart.
"Thank you." Shi Mingyue felt like she was about to be torn out of this world. At this moment, she could not say anything other than thank you. Her fingertips touched his face lovingly, reluctant to leave like this. She regretted missing him in the last life, but fortunately she was reborn so that they could meet.
The moment her consciousness completely disappeared, she whispered, "Goodbye."
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