Chapter 1001: Wake Up (3)
Shen Miao remembered it clearly.
In her dream, her body was reduced to ash by the fire Fu Xiuyi had set, leaving nothing behind. Yet, her resentment was so strong that it refused to dissipate. Madam Mei ordered a ritual, but she could neither become a ghost nor be reborn. Her soul was trapped within the palace walls, wandering around day and night, growing weaker day by day.
All her relics were burned. If it weren't for the red rope in Xie Jingxing's hand, she would have disappeared into the world long ago.
That red string could save her from some suffering. During those days when she could not pass away, Shen Miao's ghost lived in the red string on Xie Jingxing's wrist, living in a daze.
Until the day the city was broken.
She saw Fu Sheng die at the hands of his own people, she saw Madam Mei and Fu Xiuyi tied up on the city wall, she watched them both being pierced through the heart by thousands of arrows, she watched the palaces that she had hated all her life, with countless flames emanating from them, being razed to the ground and reduced to ashes, the unfulfilled wishes in her heart, the unwilling soul finally found complete peace at that moment.
The red string broke, and she could let it go. Then time suddenly turned back, and Pei Lang paid the price with his life, and she was reborn.
Seeing Shen Miao remained silent, Xie Jingxing frowned and asked, “What’s wrong with you?”
Shen Miao came back to her senses and looked at him without saying a word.
She was a little excited. She said that she and Xie Jingxing had no connection in her previous life, so how could they be tied together in this life by accident, unable to be separated. It turned out that they were involved in the previous life. Xie Jingxing owed her a wish at the beginning, but it was just a joke. She didn't expect that he kept his promise and personally found out about Fu Xiuyi and Fu Xiuyi, and avenged her.
She asked softly, "Xie Jingxing, do you have any wishes?"
Xie Jingxing glanced at her: "Why? You want to finish it for me?"
"I can grant you a wish." She said seriously, "If I can fulfill it, I will do my best."
Her expression was so serious that Xie Jingxing even looked sideways. After a moment, he raised his lips and said with a half-smile, "Okay." He leaned closer to Shen Miao's ear and whispered, "My wish...you can definitely do it."
Shen Miao asked, “What is it?”
"Give me a baby." He said calmly.
Shen Miao stared at him for a moment. Xie Jingxing touched his nose and was about to speak when he heard Shen Miao reply, "Okay."
Xie Jingxing was stunned.
Shen Miao stared at him, a slight smile on the corner of her lips, different from the usual smile, not the kind of reserved smile that she had to put on, but a smile that came from the heart, as if she was truly happy. There was even a hint of tenderness in it.
Xie Jingxing subconsciously reached out and touched her forehead, saying, "You really haven't recovered from your illness yet."
Shen Miao pushed his hand away and said, “Xie Jingxing, you must have been scared on my birthday.”
Xie Jingxing released her hand, and seeing that she looked calm and nothing unusual happened, he felt a little relieved and followed up her question, "What did you think? I thought..." He didn't say anything else. Even now, when he recalled that scene, Xie Jingxing couldn't help but feel a sense of fear. Shen Miao lay unconscious in a pool of blood, as if she would never wake up again. His heart was also gripped by it. It seemed as if he had led the Xie family army to the battlefield in Northern Frontier for the first time, even when he was ambushed and his life was in danger, he didn't feel the same panic as he did now.
He also has things he fears, people he fears losing, and weaknesses. And all three of these things happen to be the same: the person before him.
"Let me make amends." Shen Miao said, "Your birthday has been a long time in the past, how about I make it up to you today?"
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