Chapter 157 The Immortal Hua Yingxiong (Part 2)
Unable to see Aman, I had no choice but to return to my rented apartment alone. After taking a shower, I lay down, thinking I would definitely not be able to sleep, but to my surprise, as soon as I closed my eyes, I fell into a deep sleep.
In my dream, there was an endless, dark night.
In the darkness, there was a figure, so lonely, like a lost soul.
He hung his head, holding something in his hand, and muttered to himself.
I curiously stepped forward, then was surprised: Cao Cao?
He lowered his head, and his long, jet-black hair was streaked with white frost. I couldn't see his face clearly, but I could see that he was holding a broken bracelet in his hand.
That's... a centrifugal buckle?
His thin lips held a faint smile, opening and closing as if he were saying something.
"Cao Mengde!" I stepped forward to push him, only to find my hand passing through his shoulder.
Am I just a wisp of soul?
I crouched down and listened carefully to what he was saying.
"I love you..." Those thin lips moved as they spoke, uttering only the three words repeatedly.
Only those three words... three words that were crystal clear.
It's like a curse...
I was stunned; I couldn't believe those three words would come out of Cao Cao's mouth.
"Where are you...? Do you know...? I love you...? Do you know, do you know..." he murmured, "I love you..."
Suddenly, his body tensed slightly, and he covered his head with both hands, his face contorted in pain.
"The Prime Minister's headaches have flared up again! Quickly, fetch the imperial physician!" a maidservant hurriedly said.
"Get out of here, all of you!" Cao Cao gritted his teeth and squeezed out a few words, his words carrying a chilling and murderous intent.
Everyone was afraid, and no one dared to step forward.
Inside the room... he was alone again.
As lonely as a solitary soul...
"Where are you! Where are you?! Why can't I find you?! How could you disappear so completely!"
He placed the centrifugal clip on the table, covered his head, and growled.
In the empty room, only his painful growls could be heard.
Suddenly, the centrifugal clasp seemed to be corroded, gradually turning into a ring of dust. A breeze blew in from the window, and the dust flew around in the wind...
"No!" Cao Cao exclaimed in alarm. "Close the window! Close the window quickly! Close the window!"
But……
The powder has disappeared...
"Prime Minister! Prime Minister, what's wrong!" Someone rushed in from outside the door.
Cao Cao turned to look at them, his face slightly alarmed, "Do you... still remember Lady Huan?"
"Madam Huan?" The crowd exchanged bewildered glances.
"Father, didn't Lady Huan die of illness?" Cao Pi asked as he entered.
"No! No!" Cao Cao shook his head. "Where is Pei Xiao? Does anyone remember Pei Xiao?"
He was talking about... Pei Xiao?
Is it me?
I froze, then slowly raised my hand to cover my mouth.
"Who is Pei Xiao?" Everyone was completely confused.
"Get out," Cao Cao said through gritted teeth.
Everyone looked frightened and retreated.
"Pei Xiao... Pei Xiao..." Cao Cao slammed his fist into the wall, and crimson blood slowly flowed down from the cracks in the wall. He called out softly, his voice like the mournful cry of a cuckoo.
It was as if... that name was to be ingrained in one's very bones.
"Why... won't you even leave me with memories..."
"Why……"
My heart began to ache uncontrollably.
Suddenly, I seemed to hear a soft sigh, a sigh that sounded like reluctance and helplessness...
Hua Yingxiong?
I suddenly opened my eyes.
A man in a cloud-white robe sat beside me, with an ancient jade pendant at his waist. His long hair reached all the way down to his heels, and his features were so beautiful that he seemed otherworldly.
"Hua Yingxiong?" Although he didn't look like Hua Yingxiong at all, for some reason, I felt that he was Hua Yingxiong.
"Mm," he replied with a slight smile.
"Aren't you... already dead?" I blinked, and when I thought of the rotting corpse I carried on my back that day, my eyes stung with tears.
"I'm a god, how could a god die?" He smiled and raised his hand to stroke my cheek, and I realized that I was indeed crying.
"Was it you that time?" I asked, suddenly recalling the thunder that had sounded on the ground when I carried Hua Yingxiong's body off the city wall that day, and the faint sigh I had once thought was an illusion.
He nodded. "Did you get a clear look at Zi Mo's face?"
Recalling my previous dream, I felt somewhat confused. "Who is Hongchen? And who is Zimo?"
“In your past life, you were the Rain Master, named Hongchen. Zi Mo was the Wind God, Cao Cao, and also Aman.”
I laughed, "Then you wouldn't happen to be the Thunder God, would you!"
Hua Yingxiong surprisingly nodded with a cold expression.
I was dumbfounded.
Is this really necessary...?
"You're not trying to tell me... that the three of us are involved in a complicated love triangle, and that because you couldn't have me, you were jealous of your rival and, in a fit of rage, split the soul of the Wind God in two, one half becoming Cao Cao and the other half becoming Aman, which is why one of us suffers from headaches and the other is mentally unstable?" I began to unleash my boundless imagination.
Hua Yingxiong looked at me with a guilty expression.
Uh... could it be that I guessed right?
"Huh? You really have fallen in love with me." I blinked and suddenly said.
“I have atoned for my sins and returned to Heaven. I have been ordered to come here to have you repair the history that you have altered yourself.” Hua Yingxiong raised his hand and coughed lightly.
I'm puzzled, "Go back and change the history I altered?"
"Yes, your appearance has affected Sima Zhao, and a rift has appeared in history."
"You mean I have to travel through time again?" I raised an eyebrow.
"Mmm." Immortal Hua Yingxiong nodded.
"I don't want to!" I shook my head firmly.
"Why? Don't you... want to see Cao Cao again?" The immortal Hua Yingxiong tempted me.
Recalling my previous dream, I hesitated slightly.
"You say I am the Rain Master, and have a predestined relationship with the Wind God, then why would Cao Cao like An Ruo? If it weren't for the order of time and space, he certainly wouldn't have forgotten An Ruo." I'm not someone who's easily fooled.
"Do you know where Cao Cao first met An Ruo?"
"How should I know?" I rolled my eyes.
"It happened by the lake. An Ruo fell into the lake, and Cao Cao rescued her from the lakeside."
"So what?"
"Did Cao Cao ever say that you have a special affinity with water?" Hua Yingxiong suddenly asked.
I thought about it, and it seems to be... uh, that time I had a drunken one-night stand... Cao Cao seems to have mentioned it.
“Although he has no memories of his past life, the only thing Cao Cao subconsciously remembers is… you are the Rain Master, the god of water in the Heavenly Court…” Hua Yingxiong looked at me, “All the times you dreamed about Cao Cao before were not just dreams, but because you sensed Cao Cao’s intense pain…”
My heart skipped a beat. To be able to feel his pain across more than 1,800 years... how much pain must he be in?
"And steamed buns... Don't you want to see steamed buns again?" Hua Yingxiong intensified his enticement.
"The steamed bun was clearly already..."
Hua Yingxiong laughed nonchalantly, "I am a god, an omnipotent god... and because Baozi died at the age of nine, which is different from history, I can let Baozi be put back into your womb, so that you can continue your mother-child bond..."
“But Ah Man…” I deliberately looked troubled.
"I will reunite the souls of Cao Cao and Aman."
"Then Cao Cao won't have a headache, and Aman will regain his senses?" I raised my eyebrows.
"Yes." Hua Yingxiong nodded.
"Since you're my rival in love, why are you helping A-Man like this?" I squinted at him, looking at him suspiciously.
"Look at what you're saying, I'm just atoning for my sins," Hua Yingxiong said, looking at me with a mournful expression.
I was overjoyed and nodded, "Deal!"
The immortal Hua Yingxiong grinned, revealing a set of gleaming white teeth. He flicked his sleeves, and I felt a wave of drowsiness wash over me as I slowly sank into darkness.
Okay, look! I've time-traveled twice.
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