Chapter 407 Extra: Shen Guiwu (2)
I want to rush up and ask you why you abandoned me back then. I want to ask you if you still remember my existence, and whether... you are still willing to try to plant a paulownia tree in the underworld.
But before I could appear in front of you, you disappeared again.
I dare not bet on when you will appear next time, and I don’t know if you will appear again, but I still don’t hesitate to sacrifice my own cultivation and destiny, rewrite the plot of this world, and weave a grand dream for myself.
A rotten yet gorgeous dream.
The price is that my spiritual energy is exhausted and the world collapses.
Therefore, from the moment I met you at the age of 19, the countdown to my death and the death of this world has begun.
In this dream, because you wanted to conquer Chen Jiangqi and the other two, I was stingy and malicious and changed their names to the plot of my fantasy.
You were born before I was, and I was born when you were already old. Even though I know your true age, I still regret that time and space have reversed for you, meeting you now, aging in middle age. I can only use my spiritual energy to maintain my youthful appearance, so you won't despise me.
I enjoy the pure joy of white tea and nothing else to do. I am waiting for the wind and for you. Even though I haven't fully regained consciousness in the past five hundred years, I subconsciously know that I am waiting for someone, waiting for you to come find me.
I want to leave now, with bitter wine and willow branches, without wind, moon or you. But I know you are Shengwu, you will not love anyone else. I have waited for five hundred years, and finally you are here, but unfortunately, you will not stay for me.
This time, I tampered with the plot in Shen Junsheng's mind. In his mind, he was in love with you, but you almost married me. Firstly, I was selfishly taking revenge on him. After all, you only saw him at that time. Secondly, I knew you needed to conquer him, so I could give you some relief.
As for Chen Zheliu and Shen Qinghuan, I also brought them back to the country in advance, wanting to use them to keep you in the Shen residence, by my side.
I waited and waited for eight years, which is not long compared to five hundred years, and you finally came.
I'm familiar with the plot. Just in case you, Shen Junsheng, and the other two met beforehand, I went looking for you the moment I moved to the city from the opera troupe. Then, I watched you grow up until you were 19.
I knew you were just borrowing that body, so I didn't marry her or see her.
Until one day I had an inexplicable premonition that you were coming, and the original owner of that body fainted for unknown reasons, so I sent someone to bring her back to the Chen residence.
Sure enough, the moment you woke up and looked at me, I recognized it was you.
You came to see me.
In reality, Shen Junsheng and the other two were created from parts of me. I can sense their moods and emotions, and they, too, have some of my emotions. If your system hadn't been dormant at that time, you would probably have heard it the moment you woke up in this world.
[Ding! Male protagonist's favorability, 100!]
[Ding! The heroine's favorability is 100!]
[Ding! Villain Favorability: 100!]
The peak value of the favorability between the three of them is just the peak of this string of data, but it is not the peak of my love for you.
I know Shen Junsheng is deliberately misleading you into thinking I'm just a replacement for the person I was eight years ago, but I didn't explain. I know you don't care. Furthermore, you need this excuse to get closer to Shen Qinghuan, to make her feel pity and affection for you. So I remained silent, allowing everyone except Shen Junsheng to misunderstand me.
Including you.
That day you asked me if I was afraid that I couldn't keep you, so I used Shen Junsheng and the other two to keep you. Yes, I had this plan. I humbly suppressed their affection for you and wanted to delay your time in this world.
I know you need this too.
I am like a voyeur, hiding in the darkness and watching you carefully and jealously as you love someone else, even if it is fake.
But my true heart is given to you willingly.
The first seven days I left you, I wasn't actually going north to discuss business, but I was overloaded with trying to change the world. After waiting for twenty-two years, I was already running out of spiritual energy. I didn't dare let you discover my abnormality in advance, so I went out to hide and heal.
Actually, my daily trips to the Chamber of Commerce were fake, and my real purpose was recuperation. If possible, I would rather be by your side every moment.
This has also resulted in more and more white hair on my face that is maintained by my spiritual power.
And the sycamore tree became increasingly withered and rotten.
In fact, the first time you went to the yard of the Wutong tree and were stopped by Chen Zheliu, I controlled him to lead you away, because I was in the yard, repairing the rotten body of the Wutong tree.
I'm afraid you'll notice something unusual.
I know you wrote me a picture of red beans when I first left you, and wrote, "May you pick more, for this is the most reminiscent of my love." But I feigned ignorance, wanting you to say it yourself, and you fooled me twice. But I'm not angry, because I don't think you wanted to lie to me...about missing me.
The token of love you gave me was a piece of jade carved with cherry blossoms. Because I knew that flowers cannot bloom in the underworld, you probably couldn't tell the difference between cherry blossoms and paulownia trees, and you thought I liked cherry blossoms.
actually.
The tree in that painting isn't a cherry tree, it's a paulownia tree. After the phoenix leaves the paulownia tree, it misses it and will fly back to continue roosting there. But I was wrong. I am the paulownia tree, and you are not the phoenix that returns. You should be the king who controls the phoenix.
The sycamore tree is the first tree to wither in autumn, just like I can’t wait for the first snow in this world, and can only use my last spiritual power to promote the last heavy snow.
I've heard that if we get drenched in the snow today, we'll grow old together. I thought I could make it through winter, and getting drenched in the snow with you would be...
I have fulfilled the promise I made to you before, that we will grow old together.
Because the moment you came into this world, I was destined to go step by step towards destruction.
You have asked me more than once why I didn't touch you, and I said I wanted to wait until you thought it through and really loved me, but I know that day will never come, so please forgive me for the biggest blasphemy against you, which is kissing you.
I can't bear to hate you for abandoning me, but I can't bear to touch you either.
During the eight years I waited for you, I thought about selfishly keeping you in this world forever, and I also wanted to ask you why you abandoned me. But in the end, when I saw you wake up and look at me, it didn't matter anymore.
Those five hundred and twenty-two years of waiting don’t matter anymore, I just want you to remember me.
From the moment I expended a great deal of spiritual energy to transform this world, I knew that the moment I met you would be the countdown to my life, but I have no regrets. I refined the energy of this world and those conquerors, and attached it to one of the tokens of love I gave you.
A rib.
That rib is the one closest to the tip of the heart and is also the fifth rib.
I know you only care about profit, and you probably don't just want to conquer everyone in this world. Maybe you've met many people who love you because you're so kind. But only I win. No matter who you meet, conquer, or even fall in love with in the future, I will always be the winner by your side.
Because I am useful and can become your sharpest weapon.
This is my selfish desire. The living can never defeat the dead, especially the dead who are beneficial to you.
The other token of love is the last piece of sycamore branch I saved. With the nourishment of this world, it will never rot and can grow on the barren land of the underworld.
I also lied to you about that meteor shower. It was not something I dreamed of, but I mobilized the control of this world to fall down for you. That time, the sycamore tree bloomed for you for the last time.
The paulownia tree has only bloomed twice in this life, once for you when you were 19, and once for you when you were 27.
I said at that time, "Awu, I love you."
And you replied, “I love you too.”
Then I said, "I know."
I know, I've always known, that you don't love me.
Awu, don’t forget me this time.
May 22, 1963.
There are actually eight lines of poetry behind the marriage certificate that says "The person getting married: Chen Guiwu, Shengwu".
White tea brings me joy, I have nothing else to do, I am waiting for the wind and you. Bitter wine and willow branches, today we are parting, there is no wind, no moon and no you.
Three miles of breeze, three miles of land, every step of the wind no longer contains you. Drinking sake alone is boring, I dream of flowers when drunk and you at night.
The land of the underworld cannot grow flowers, but if you like, the sycamore tree can.
This grand and rotten dream will never end. It will take root and sprout in the underworld along with the paulownia tree.
I am a part of you, you love yourself but not me.
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There are three reasons for Chen Guiwu's death countdown. First, he used his power to create Shen Qinghuan and the other two to maintain this world. However, after Shen Qinghuan and the others were captured by Sheng Wu, the plot was doomed to collapse, and their original purpose was no longer relevant. Second, Chen Guiwu altered the memories and fates of Shen Junsheng and the others, reversing the original trajectory of this world and suffering backlash. Third, Chen Guiwu used all the power he had gained from strangling those tasked with him over the years to refine that rib, giving the best of it to Sheng Wu.
So from the moment Sheng Wu woke up, Chen Guiwu knew that her appearance foreshadowed his own death.
The reason why Chen Guiwu gathered all his strength on the fifth rib was, firstly, because it was the closest to the tip of the heart, and secondly, the "five" in the fifth rib was homophonic to "wu".
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