Chapter 81 Will she be happy if she resorts to any means necessary?
When people try to grasp time, time always flies by.
Hua Deng counted in her mind: a month, fifteen days, seven days, three days... one day.
When the three-month contract expired, she insisted that he extend it for another three months, and he agreed.
And now, those three months are almost over.
The night was dark and gloomy, with the faint chirping of insects coming from the window.
The room was dark, and the bed curtains were half-drawn. A girl's hand, flushed with a faint red, emerged from the curtains and was soon grasped by another large hand. Their fingers intertwined and swayed slightly.
After a while, both hands disappeared into the bed curtains. Through the gaps, one could see the girl's flushed face as she lay on the mattress, her eyes glazed over.
Hua Deng is now filled with regret, deep regret.
She shouldn't have thought about breaking up; she softened her heart and agreed to come with him tonight. Now look what's happened! She feels like fainting, but he's keeping her hanging on, preventing her from even doing so.
Actually, they don't often do this kind of thing this month.
Hua Deng would always whine and give him a kiss to smooth things over. He was such a crazy person when he did things, yet he was willing to back down at times like this, as if to him, a "I like you" and a kiss had the same effect as agreeing to do such a thing.
Tonight is an exception.
Hua Deng even saw some methods she had never seen before in him, forcing her to keep shouting "I like Shen Zhou" and "Brother Shen Zhou" before his madness subsided a little.
Perhaps seeing how exhausted she had been, the last period of intimacy didn't last long, and it ended abruptly as he held her to rest.
Hua Deng leaned against him, feeling that she must have lost her mind, for she actually blurted out, "You're leaving soon."
Shen Zhou touched her face and said, "I won't leave."
He paused, then lifted her chin: "Or do you want me to leave?"
Hua Deng looked into his eyes: "I want you to be free."
Shen Zhou calmly released his hands, then grabbed her legs instead, leaned down, and went all the way in.
Hua Deng shuddered and cried out in surprise.
Shen Zhou exerted even more force, saying with a half-smile, "Are you sure you want to talk to me about freedom at a time like this?"
Hua Deng: "..."
Why can't she control her mouth!
But since I've already said it, I might as well finish it now, so he won't have to come back a second time.
Her voice was hoarse as she endured his power, and she asked haltingly, "You...you must have been reincarnated many times...right?"
Shen Zhou said, "Yes, this is the thirteenth generation."
After he finished answering, he seemed annoyed by her distraction, so he put his arm around her waist, making it difficult for her to speak a complete sentence for a while.
Hua Deng mumbled and asked, "So what were you like in your second life?"
"That time?" Shen Zhou pulled her into his arms and said, "That time I became emperor."
"Wait..." Hua Deng gasped as she supported herself against his chest, "You...? Where did this emperor from the cultivation world come from?"
Shen Zhou said calmly, "At first, I was the emperor of the mortal realm. Later, I defeated the Alliance of Immortals and became the emperor of the cultivation world."
He gripped her waist and pressed down on her again and again.
Tears welled up in Hua Deng's eyes, and she trembled with shame.
She struggled to continue asking, "And then... ah... and then what?"
Shen Zhou said, "Then they kept remonstrating with me every day, urging me not to be a tyrant. I got annoyed and just went and died."
Hua Deng: "..."
I've only ever heard of ministers killing themselves by crashing their heads into the palace, I've never seen an emperor die!
"Then, what about the third life? And the fourth life, the fifth life?"
Shen Zhou then explained everything to her one by one.
He was born into misfortune, and due to the overwhelming impact of his memories, his mind was in a state of chaos. He was able to remember things and speak very late, so he was abandoned by his parents in every lifetime.
In his fifth incarnation, he became even stronger than before, and soon became the leader of the Immortal Alliance.
Hua Deng laughed and said, "So you weren't any worse back then than you are now."
Shen Zhou hummed in agreement and said, "I didn't encounter any trouble in that life."
What he didn't say was that the fifth incarnation's ending wasn't good.
It seems that one day, he went mad, relinquished his position as leader of the alliance, and wandered alone through the Nine Provinces for many years in a daze.
In his twenties, his body began to show signs of collapse, and by the time he was thirty, he could no longer hold on at all.
He should let the descendants of the Jin family, or himself, end his life with the only sword in the world that could harm him.
But he didn't.
He overcame the tribulation and stopped his body from collapsing, but did not immediately die.
He is still wandering the world.
Later, I can't quite remember. His cultivation level declined day by day, and finally one day, he regained his senses. He used the Fierce Heaven technique to commit suicide and enter a new cycle of reincarnation.
It took him two lifetimes to regain the cultivation he lost in that lifetime. After that, everything returned to normal, and he never went insane again.
The sixth life, the seventh life... He recounted everything about himself, downplaying the details that might upset her.
The sounds coming from inside the bed curtains gradually subsided.
Hua Deng lay in his arms, panting heavily, and it took her a long time to regain her senses.
She was so angry that she slapped him. He had really gone too far tonight!
Shen Zhou smiled, letting her hit him enough, then turned and touched the tip of her nose, whispering, "Hua Deng, I can stay."
The streetlights remained silent.
He said "stay," not "stay for you." Because he knew in his heart that she would care about this.
She really minded it terribly.
This person, who once desperately longed for death and liberation, lived longer than anyone else.
He once told Chen Xi that people are born to experience different moments, but after he repeated tens of thousands of years of time, do those moments still exist?
Did he find the path he sought? Was there ever a moment in his life when he fulfilled his wishes?
The streetlight gently brushed against his cheek and asked, "What will happen if you stay?"
Shen Zhou said, "Nothing will happen. I will still kill the Heavenly Dao after I have spent the rest of my life with you."
Hua Deng said, "You're lying. Why don't you do it now and then come keep me company?"
Shen Zhou said, "Because I'm still a little short. I need two more lifetimes before I can..."
He stared at the bright lights, his eyes momentarily stunned, a rare sight indeed.
Why has he never thought about this question?
—Two more lifetimes to come.
From the moment he was born, he had a persistent thought in his mind that told him he needed to wait.
When he gets older and can distinguish between memory and reality, he will be able to grasp this idea more clearly.
From that moment on, he always remembered that if he wanted to live, he would have to wait two more lifetimes, until the fifteenth lifetime, in order to avoid the fate of perishing with the Heavenly Dao and break through this world.
Why the fifteenth generation in particular? Why did he never doubt the authenticity of this matter?
Who planted such a thought in him?
Heaven cannot do it; the only person who can do it is himself.
He used puppetry on himself in some unknown incarnation.
Hua Deng was still waiting for his answer when he remained silent for a moment, then stroked her head and said, "After I overcome the tribulation and regain all my memories, I will answer your questions."
"Go to sleep."
The streetlights dimmed, and without asking any more questions, she was utterly exhausted and fell asleep leaning against him.
Chen Zhou did not sleep.
His voice entered Hua Deng's mind, without disturbing her, but it chilled another being to the bone: "Come out."
The dormant system was forced to wake up and nervously began to speak to him.
"I've blocked the headquarters' signal. You just need to answer the next questions."
The system was startled.
He hadn't figured out how to block signals before, but now he's already done it?!
Shen Zhou asked it, "First, why did you come here?"
Under the influence of the puppetry technique, the system was forced to tell the truth: "After the cataclysm of the myriad realms, the power of the main god was damaged. We found this place, and only by borrowing the energy of the Heavenly Dao here can the main god be restored. And these mission takers are our channel of communication with this realm."
"Do they know about these things?"
"...I didn't know. I only found out later."
If it could, it would also like to take Hua Deng away; she was a good host, while it was useless.
Shen Zhou remained calm and composed; the system could not discern his thoughts. He then asked, "Secondly, if I were to kill the Heavenly Dao, what would become of her?"
“You can’t kill him,” the system said. “If it were just the Heavenly Dao, perhaps you could do it, but we have connected the Main God with the Heavenly Dao of this world. No one can offend the power of the Main God.”
Chen Zhou remained silent and indifferent.
Just then, the system remembered something.
He currently only possesses the cultivation level of the Integration Stage, with half of his remaining power sealed within his divine soul and the other half within the Blazing Heaven Sword.
As for the power within the raging sky, it had never seen him use it.
Shen Zhou suddenly said, "You believe I have the power to kill the Heavenly Dao, don't you?"
The system replied carefully: "Based on my analysis, this is the result."
Shen Zhou gave a faint "hmm".
Even the system, that brat, could see that he possessed the power to destroy the Heavenly Dao, but he was unaware of it.
One day in the past, he deceived himself, and has been deceiving himself ever since.
"The third question is, she has to complete the task you gave her, right?"
"no."
This was somewhat unexpected.
"Why?"
"Because she has the right to choose," the system said. "All she has to do is leave."
"leave?"
"Yes, she has an extra chance to be reincarnated and can leave this world at any time to go wherever she wants."
Shen Zhou's gaze slowly fell on Hua Deng's face, his eyes seeming to be in a daze.
When he returned from his tribulation, he gave her the chance to kill him in order to help her escape the system's constraints. However, she refused, saying that she had her own way of leaving this world.
So that's how it is, that's why.
After a long silence, he said, "Go back to hibernation and forget what just happened."
The system has disappeared.
Shen Zhou kept his eyes fixed on the sleeping girl's face without saying a word.
The night was quiet and still, with only the occasional faint chirping of insects.
Shen Zhou closed his eyes. He finally remembered why he had agreed to let her stay for another three months.
At that moment, Hua Deng carefully handed over the contract, her eyes filled with a hope and trepidation that she herself might not even realize.
So easily, he remembered his past self, the countless times he chased after his mother and sister, and how he held his best friend's sword sheath but could not change anything.
He knew how difficult it was to part ways, so naturally, he couldn't bear to let her go through it.
Even if it's just to delay a little longer, so that she can get used to his departure, he can disappear from her sight, disappear from this world, without leaving any trace.
Now, she has accepted his departure; it was his own choice to stay.
He had lost too much, so he developed delusions and wanted to possess her and take everything away from her.
But that's just who he is.
He's always been a ruthless bastard who'll stop at nothing.
If she really is gone, then no matter how many lifetimes we are reborn, we will never find her.
He cannot tolerate this happening, and he will never let go.
No matter how despicable the means, I must keep her by my side, even if in the end I only receive her hatred and disgust.
He can do it.
he--
"..."
Will she be happy?
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