Chapter 46
At the moment of the kiss, the entire ghost realm shattered into pieces like flying flowers, and continued to dissipate around them. The real Pingyang City appeared, and the dazzling sunlight above their heads shone on the two of them, brightening each other's eyes.
The noise of the people filled the air all around, and Shi Ye subconsciously hugged the man, took a step back, and caught him as he had done before.
The boy's ponytail and gold hairpin were tangled together, covering their pressed lips.
Shi Ye was startled and hurriedly pushed the person away, but not only did he fail to push him away, he also pulled his scalp and caused a pain, and was pushed towards the other person.
Wang Sheng said straightly, "Ah, ah, ah, Master! Don't move, I'll do it."
Wang Sheng tugged at the ponytail while wrapping his fingers around it, but it didn't budge. He simply took the gold hairpin off, watched it being taken out, and then put it back on himself.
"How did we get out?" Wang Sheng was a little flustered. He could not help but deliberately ignore what had just happened and deceive himself that it was just a dream.
He also spread the curly hair in his hand and looked at it with his head down.
Then he looked up at Wang Sheng and said with certainty, "You are Wang Sheng."
Wang Sheng said curiously, "Of course I am me. What are you talking about?"
I didn’t recognize him when I saw him in the ghost realm just now, so why don’t you recognize him now?
Seeing that Shiye's expression was not right, he tilted his head and opened his mouth. Could it be...
People were coming and going on the street, and everyone was looking at the two people in the middle of the road curiously, pointing and talking at them. Wang Sheng pushed them aside and ran quickly to a stall, took a bowl, filled it with water, and then took a look. In an instant, his whole body tensed up and his mind went blank.
His, where is his fake face!
Wang Sheng kept thinking about what happened before, and then came to an answer. That was that it could only be that when his soul was trapped by the paper bride, it was exposed by it. No wonder Shi had never recognized him.
The stall owner hid behind the stove and looked at the person in the wedding dress in horror, not daring to come out. He thought that some bride had gone crazy and came to him to have an attack.
Shi Ye walked over with mixed feelings and looked at Wang Sheng, "Wang Sheng..."
Wang Sheng leaned on the table, lowered his head, and remained silent for a long time.
Maybe he could say that he was not Wang Sheng.
Even Shi Ye was just unsure now. As long as he tried his best to deny his identity, Shi Ye had no way to confirm that he was Wang Sheng.
Can he trust him?
If this question had been asked a few months ago when they had just met, Wang Sheng would definitely not have hesitated. He would have directly denied it and left, hiding in a place where no one could see him, making a new mask, and then coming out to meet Shi Ye.
But after such a long time, even an ordinary friend would choose to explain himself, and Shi Ye...
He looked straight at Shi Ye and said with a smile, "Master, thank goodness you didn't cut my neck with your sword. I'm still scared now, hahaha."
It's really him...
Shi Ye looked at the smiling face. It was extremely familiar, yet extremely strange. He had never noticed that the person next to him was wearing a fake face.
When he thought about how Wang Sheng was lying to him all the time, his breathing quickened.
Shock, anger, and the nervousness and worry he'd felt before finding the person in the ghost realm—all these emotions mixed together and made his chest swell immensely, ready to burst. He might as well just explode, revealing his heart to this person who could still smile.
Wang Sheng's statement that he was not panicking was actually a lie. He had been deceiving Shi for so long. Given Shi's personality, he would most likely be angry with him and might even want to part ways with him.
But the next moment he was hugged by someone and was held tightly by the person who might be angry with him, making it difficult for him to breathe.
Shi Ye leaned on his shoulder and said, "I'm glad you're okay."
Wang Sheng was choked and couldn't speak for a moment. He could only be held in his arms in a daze.
On the other side, Yin Jianyue was like a madman, grabbing everyone he saw on the street. When he found that it was not his cousin, he let go and continued to grab the next person. Everyone dodged him for fear of being caught by him, and ran away hurriedly from the side of the road around him.
Yin Jianyue looked at everyone's face and said to herself: "It's not my cousin, it's not my cousin, where is my cousin?"
He walked all the way to the street where Shi Ye was, and saw the familiar red clothes at a glance. He saw his cousin being held in someone's arms, and immediately rushed towards the person, knocking Shi Ye away.
After knocking him away, he couldn't hold back any longer and burst into tears.
He looked at the face that resembled the eldest princess and her husband, and his longing was beyond words. He hugged Wang Sheng and called out, "Cousin."
Wang Sheng's expression darkened. He grabbed Yin Jianyue's hand and forcefully pulled her away. He shook her hand off and wiped it on his body. "What are you doing? Who is your cousin?"
When Yin Jianyue saw that Wang Sheng didn't recognize him, he hurriedly said, "Cousin, I am Jianyue! Don't you remember Jianyue? I, I am Jianyue..."
Wang Sheng showed a disgusted expression on his face, as if he hated him very much, "I don't know anyone named Jianyue, you might have recognized the wrong person."
Shi Ye also walked in front of Wang Sheng to block him, staring at Yin Jianyue.
Yin Jianyue wanted to push Shi Ye away, but couldn't move him no matter how hard she tried. She looked at Shi Ye angrily, "Get out of here! You want to die, huh? Cousin, I recognized you, so why didn't you recognize me? Why didn't you go back if you were still alive? Why didn't you come back to find me?"
Wang Sheng sneered.
Why?
"I don't know you. Please don't make a scene here and embarrass yourself." He took Shi's hand and left, leaving Yin Jianyue standing there with tears on her face.
Zhao Hongde and the others finally found Yin Jianyue and rushed over and asked, "Master, why are you here?!"
Yin Jianyue was blocked in the middle, feeling powerless.
He actually knew the reason why his cousin didn't recognize him, because of his mother, the Empress Dowager.
He had long guessed that his mother was behind the tragedy in the Princess's Mansion, but there was nothing he could do. The dead cannot be resurrected, and he could not turn against his mother without any evidence just to overturn the verdict.
And his cousin must also hate him, hating him for not telling him everything in time, and hating him for being the son of the culprit who killed his family.
He was frightened by the sight and stood there, not daring to look for Wang Sheng.
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Shi Ye was led back to the inn by Wang Sheng's hand. The two held hands until they stopped at the door of the room.
Wang Sheng only reacted when he was about to return to the room. He let go of his hand embarrassedly and said, "I'll go in first. This clothes is quite uncomfortable to wear. I'll go change it first." Besides, it would be weird for a man to wear this.
He pushed the door open and was about to close it when a hand suddenly grabbed the door frame to prevent him from closing it. Then a pair of brocade boots stepped in, pushed the door open, and squeezed in with a sense of oppression.
Wang Sheng took a few steps back, "You..."
Shi Ye reached behind him, closed the door, and locked it.
He looked at Wang Sheng and said, "Don't you have anything to say to me?"
Wang Sheng: "I was thinking of telling you once I changed it."
"I want to hear it now," Shi Ye said seriously, "Wang Sheng, I want to hear it now. Why do you lie to me about everything? You never believed me, did you?"
Wang Sheng was amused. Why did he say that? Why did he act as if he was guilty of the most heinous crime? He just said nothing.
"You didn't ask anything, did you? If you had asked, I would have told you."
Shi Ye brought up the past: "I asked you that time in the village, but you didn't tell me."
Uh, I don’t think I said that time.
"Why do you keep remembering these things? Seriously."
Wang Sheng: "I just thought this face is very ostentatious. No one would believe me if I set up a fortune-telling stall. Don't you think that mask looks very convincing?"
Shi Ye felt dazed for a while when he saw this man talking nonchalantly with such a face. He shook his head. The man's previous appearance made people even more unbelievable. He looked like a little liar at first glance.
Wang Sheng: ...Okay.
Shi Ye was still a little puzzled and asked him, "But I've never seen anything wrong with your face. Even the most concealing mask will inevitably have flaws after wearing it for so long. Why don't you have any?"
Wang Sheng had a lot to say about this. He raised his eyebrows and said, "You're the only one allowed to be good at something, but I'm not? Do you still remember those peach wood carvings I made along the way?"
Tokiya nodded, but what does this have to do with the mask?
"I collected all the remaining peach wood chips and mashed them into a paste at night. I applied it on my face. It will keep the mask going for a long time, so you won't be able to tell there's anything wrong with it."
When he was not living in the same room with Shi, he would repair the mask alone in the room, and the next day he would pour out the remaining wood pulp as if nothing had happened.
"But I didn't expect the paper bride to take off her mask straight away. I put so much effort into making it. What a pity."
Wang Sheng thought Shi Ye would believe him for a while after he finished speaking, but he didn't guess that his train of thought was completely different from his. Shi Ye suddenly said, "So, if it wasn't a paper bride, how long would you have kept it a secret from me? I would have given you a peace locket."
"What does this have to do with the peace locket you gave me?" Wang Sheng scratched his head, annoyed at his slow reaction. "Then why do you always carry the peace locket with you and never ask me anything? Are you afraid to ask?"
Wang Sheng was stumped by his question and could not utter a word with his mouth open.
Just as the two were arguing and in a stalemate, something happened to Wang Sheng's wedding dress, and the gold hairpin and tassels on his head disappeared. Except for his underwear, Wang Sheng stood there with his upper body naked, not knowing what had happened.
Shi Ye immediately turned his eyes away, but was still dazzled.
Wang Sheng covered his upper body, quickly dug out his only change of clothes from his backpack, and put them on. As he put them on, he asked, "Master, what's wrong with me?"
Shi Ye thought about it, and then watched Wang Sheng get dressed without hiding anything. "It must be that when we came out, the aura of the ghost realm was still lingering on us. Now that the aura has disappeared, the things the paper bride gave you have naturally disappeared."
After Wang Sheng put on his clothes, he wanted to take down his hair bun, but he had no eyes on his head, and the paper bride had combed her hair in a very complicated way, so the more he took it down, the messier it became.
Shi Ye stepped forward, took his hand, and said, "Let me do it."
The two of them were very close, and Wang Sheng's eyes were just at the tip of their noses. He lowered his head and looked at the two people's feet facing each other.
With Shi Ye's help, the bun was quickly undone, and the osmanthus hair oil on it got all over their hands.
The fragrance filled the room, disturbing their breathing.
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