Chapter 406 Unable to Face It
Jiang Xi looked at him and re-examined him.
"We have dissolved our marriage."
Camus: "I dismissed her, not you."
Jiang Xi remained silent for a few moments.
Clearly, Camus had realized that she was not "her".
Camus's gaze swept over her face, and he pursed his lips before speaking.
"When I broke through, I had many dreams, and I kept dreaming about you. You were by my side from when you were just a tiny baby. I watched you grow up, took you to catch butterflies and fireflies. In your palace, there was the brightest pearl in the sea and the most beautiful silk of the mermaids. You loved the sea and, despite all the obstacles, secretly went to the Sea Kingdom..."
He looked at her, slowly recounted his memories, and then whispered.
“I learned a lot about things from thousands of years ago from the mother tree. Do you believe in past lives?”
Jiang Xi was taken aback, and her gaze towards him gradually became strange.
She hasn't yet regained the power from the Ancestral Forest, so she can't detect the orc's spiritual aura or determine if they knew each other in a past life.
But Camus's words reminded her of someone from a thousand years ago.
A thousand years ago, she was born as a princess of the Giantwood Forest. She had a doting older brother who would become the next king of the Giantwood Forest.
He forbade her to leave the Giantwood Forest, chose a husband for her within the forest, and insisted that she continue to live in the royal court after marriage.
She was a rebellious teenager, so she ran away from home with her servants and headed for the blue sea. She accidentally stumbled into the selection banquet for female champions in the sea kingdom, which led to everything that happened later.
She sent back the message that she was going to marry the prince of the Sea Kingdom.
But all that came were beast messengers who offered generous gifts.
The beast envoy said that his brother was preparing to succeed to the throne.
Nakan blurted out, "You also know about things from a thousand years ago?"
After all, they now know that the female ruler was the princess of the Giant Tree Forest a thousand years ago, so wouldn't the entire Giant Tree Forest belong to her?
The giant tree king in front of them was naturally part of the family.
Camus: "Also?"
Nakan: "Yeah, how come you don't know anything?"
He started reminiscing about so many things, and I thought he knew more than him.
Nakan couldn't stop fantasizing, imagining that he had once shared a deeply moving love story with the female protagonist in the past, like some love stories circulating on the mainland, which were touching to hear.
Jiang Xi didn't intend to hide it, because everyone close to her already knew about it.
But if Camus really is the reincarnation of her brother from a thousand years ago, then she has a bit of a headache.
Jiang Xi raised her hand and pressed it against her stomach, then looked at Lu Liufeng.
"I'm hungry, let's go home for dinner."
When in doubt, go home for dinner.
Jiang Xi once believed that hardship could temper her character, allowing her to truly feel the suffering of the lower-class beastmen and females, thereby changing the world and making the continent develop better and better.
Therefore, in most of her reincarnations, she was like a dragon maiden, unloved by her father and mother, or orphaned, and forced to move forward by fate amidst poverty and hardship.
Hardships did indeed temper her, allowing her to grow into a supreme being even in those lifetimes, yet still remember the path she came from, and to face and help the weaker beastmen and females...
A thousand years ago, she was the only princess of the Giant Tree Forest. Her parents loved her, and her brothers doted on her. Even if she wanted the stars in the sky, they would weave dream stories and pretend to pluck them down for her.
The young talents of various beast tribes in the Giant Tree Forest also doted on her, all for the sake of marrying her and entering the royal court.
Those who are favored are always fearless.
Therefore, in order to see the sea, she impulsively ran away from home, and after falling in love with Osiris, she married him without informing him first, and only then sent someone back to the Giantwood Forest to deliver a message.
She recalled that the reason she acted first and informed her later was because she was afraid her family would disagree.
Later, neither my parents nor my brothers came; they only sent gifts.
She wanted to go back to the Giant Tree Forest, but she didn't dare to go back, afraid of seeing the disappointed looks in her family's eyes.
Later, when she finally decided to go back and see, something happened in the Sea Kingdom, and she could only pass through the Giant Tree Forest with Osiris three times without entering.
A thousand years ago, before the events in the Sea Kingdom, she had never suffered any setbacks.
What she wanted, her father and brothers had found for her before, and later Osiris found for her.
With just a nod or a shake of her head, countless treasures—treasures that no beastman or female could ever see in their entire lives—would be delivered to her.
That's why she felt lost and helpless after those things happened.
Even when she recalled her memories as a dragon-serving girl, the way of thinking that the Giant Tree Princess had developed since childhood made her habitually pass on difficulties to others, once to her father and brothers, and now to her beastmen.
By the time she regained all her memories and realized that only she could solve the problem, it was too late.
In fact, for Jiang Xi, her life a thousand years ago was the most unsuccessful one.
She was willful and reckless, and relying on being the center of attention, she ruined everything.
Therefore, the people she least wanted to face were her parents and brothers from a thousand years ago.
She has let down too many people's love.
Lu Liufeng picked up the female protagonist and glanced at Camille.
"Then we'll head back now."
Just as he was about to leave, Jiang Xi tugged at his sleeve and changed her mind.
If Camus really was her brother from a thousand years ago, she had already run away once a thousand years ago, and this time, she could not run away again no matter what.
She turned around, looked at the handsome young man with long, light-gold hair, and nodded.
"I am Sylvia."
Camus smiled, his emerald green eyes glistening with moisture.
"I knew it, I knew it."
He looked at her, his gaze traversing a thousand years, as if he had returned to a carefree time a thousand years ago.
Jiang Xi lowered her dark eyes, moved away, sat in Lu Liufeng's arms, and patted his shoulder.
"Let's go back and have dinner."
All the schemes and conditions that had led Camus to agree to help vanished in an instant.
Camus will help her and stand firmly behind her.
But what's even more awkward seems to be... being siblings in a past life and husband and wife in this life?
Jiang Xi felt somewhat relieved, relieved that the marriage contract had been dissolved.
Otherwise, if Camille were any one of Mu Ling's friends, it would be even more awkward to find out at this point that they were siblings in their past lives.
But soon, Jiang Xi's eyes turned strange, and she became uncertain.
Because, in her current state, she cannot determine their spiritual entities, nor can she determine whether they had ever had a deep connection...
If something like Camus can happen once, won't it happen again?
Jiang Xi didn't dare to think about it too much and hurriedly urged Lu Liufeng to go home.
Lu Liufeng nodded and, before leaving, extended an invitation to Camus.
"Would you like to come over for dinner?"
Former brother-in-law, now the female protagonist's ex-husband's brother...
Hmm... no matter how you look at it, we seem to be one family, inseparable.
After thinking about it, I think it's better to ease the tension.
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