Chapter 119 Chapter 119 Joshua was stunned for a moment,...
Joshua was stunned for a moment, knowing that he could not go back. A feeling of sadness flashed through his heart, but his face was still numb, just like when he knelt down and prayed to the statue before, numb to the point of pain.
His original expression gradually disappeared. He nodded and obediently entered the empty room and lay on the bed with his eyes closed, his hands on his abdomen, like a dead body lying in a coffin, already entombed.
His face was indeed pale, and when he closed his eyes, his eyeballs were motionless, as if he was really dead, but his chest was still rising and falling slightly, as if the heat of a living person could come out of it, and he was not so cold and frightening anymore. But after he was covered with the quilt, the faint rise and fall could not be seen clearly, as if it did not exist at all, and a little panic like a ripple of fear arose again, which was terrifying.
Bai Tianming was watching him beside him, and it was hard not to suspect that he couldn't sleep at all, but he really fell asleep gradually. He didn't know when he fell asleep, but he fell asleep just like that.
When he woke up, everything was over. It was already dusk and Bai Tianming was still beside him, but he was not standing.
Bai Tianming found a table by the window on the other side of the room and sat down. While handling his usual matters, he occasionally looked at him and glanced out the window to check the time. This was not surprising.
However, when Bai Tianming glanced over, he happened to be awake and opened his eyes, and they looked at each other.
He sat up from the bed in a daze, and slowly, the thin and smooth silk quilt slid down from his body like water.
He subconsciously looked down, afraid that his clothes would slip down like the quilt, but fortunately, his clothes were still on. He breathed a sigh of relief and touched his clothes again.
The rough cotton and linen texture of the clothes irritated his palms, making his skin feel the slight hardness that was unique to old, furry clothes that had been worn for a long time.
He slowly put his hand down, but he felt something scratching his palm, making it itchy. He scratched it involuntarily twice, clenched his hand into a fist, and hid it next to his clothes to avoid being noticed by Bai Tianming.
My face and body gradually turned red because I was not used to the heat.
"What did you dream about?" Bai Tianming asked him with interest.
"I don't remember." He answered truthfully, lowered his head, and then realized that he was still in bed, so he quickly got down.
When he got out of bed, he found that his pants were missing. Standing on the ground, his legs were as white as if they were illuminated. If you didn't know, you would think that someone had left a peeled lotus root against the bed.
He was startled for a moment and hid back in bed. The sense of absurdity and fear was greater than the shame. His face turned pale and he didn't care about anything else. He was just shocked and his pupils dilated slightly.
Bai Tianming laughed out loud: "Because I heard that it is more relaxing to sleep without pants, so I asked someone to take them off for you. I knew you must be in a hurry to go home, so I didn't take off your shirt."
Joshua's face flickered like a lightbulb. He took a deep breath, a little angry, but helpless. So he asked, "What about my pants? What if I want to go home?" He couldn't go home without pants, could he? That would be too much, too rude, too shameless! Who was he torturing?
Ah, Joshua suddenly realized that everything was Bai Tianming's revenge, and it has not ended yet, because what was happening before his eyes was also part of the torture.
He was still too naive. He thought that Bai Tianming had tortured him by giving him the card. He didn't expect that this was a long torture that would not end easily. He still underestimated Bai Tianming.
His mood suddenly calmed down.
Since there's a reason, it's perfectly normal. Since we know the culprit is Bai Tianming, all we have to do is kill him and everything will be fine. He'll be free sooner or later, no matter who dies. That's great! That's great!
He became cheerful.
Bai Tianming asked the palace maid to bring a new pair of trousers, put them on a tray, and brought them over to Joshua.
Joshua put on his pants before getting out of bed. He stomped his feet and felt that his shoes didn't fit as well as when he first came. He felt a little strange and frowned.
Bai Tianming looked at him and asked, "Do you need a new pair of shoes?"
Joshua shook his head. He was in a hurry to go home and was not keen on changing his shoes. Besides, if he really needed to change his shoes, he could go home and change them instead of staying here.
So, with a serious look on his face, afraid that Bai Tianming might not hear clearly or misunderstand his meaning, he said, "No, thank you."
Bai Tianming nodded, feeling a little bored: "You can go now."
Joshua was stunned for a moment. He had originally thought that this card would not be so easy to resolve, but it was still worth being happy to be able to leave now, so he didn't think about anything else.
He smiled and replied, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
After he said that, he turned and left.
Bai Tianming turned his pen around, tapped the paper on the table with the tip of the pen, and asked the statue on the table, which had been turned back into a decoration, "He seems to have forgotten something, right?"
The statue nodded and replied, "Yes, but it doesn't matter. He will remember it when he returns home. He doesn't need anyone to remind him."
"Isn't it a bad idea to think about this kind of thing at home?" Bai Tianming raised his eyebrows and said with a half-smile: "After all, his wife is still at home."
"It doesn't matter," Shab sneered. "His wife is just a corpse."
"I heard," Bai Tianming asked with some interest, "that people have souls after death. What do you think?"
"Perhaps," said Shab nonchalantly, lying beside a pen holder as if on a soft silk bed, "but that thing will never exist."
"Ordinary humans are dead when they die," Shab's disdain was evident in her words. "Nothing is left behind except their bodies, and when those bodies are gone, there's nothing left."
Bai Tianming blinked and asked, "Some storybooks say that after two lovers die, their souls cling to each other and reunite. Is that true?"
"It may be true, it may not be true," Shab rolled over, "but there's no way they could be."
"Why?" Bai Tianming asked curiously.
"It's simple," Shab narrowed her eyes, sat up, raised her fingers, counted, and sneered, "One is alive and the other is dead, how can they be together? Even if they are both dead, it's just that. If they were both alive, maybe they could be together a little longer, but aren't they already dead? Then there's no need to mention it."
"What if there is a world where they live together?" Bai Tianming asked again.
"Maybe that's the case?" Shabu said noncommittally. She withdrew her hand, lay down on the table, and began to roll around. "But so what? They are not destined to be together. One of them will die, and then they will be separated.
Unless you're not talking about any of them at all, but something conceptual like husband and wife, not just any one person, then that's another matter."
"Why are you so sure about this?" Bai Tianming was puzzled.
"It's very simple," Shab paused, pointing to the sky outside the window with a smile. With a mysterious and righteous expression, she replied, "I observed the night sky, and the stars told me. The stars know a lot, and if you make an astrolabe, you can know even more, but—"
Shab lay back down, arms outstretched, legs hopping like a fish. "What a shame! I can't catch the stars. Such a wonderful astrolabe, but I can't use it. Better not to mention it."
"What kind of person can be caught?" Bai Tianming asked.
"I don't know." Shabu shook her head and answered calmly.
"He must have returned home already?" Bai Tianming glanced outside and saw that it was gradually getting dark.
"Perhaps." Shab stood up and looked out the window. "If you ask me, I can give you a definite answer, but that's another matter. You only have one wish, and you've already given it to him. I can't give you another! Unless—"
Shabu suddenly jumped off the table. Bai Tianming stood up and stepped back. Shabu, who had become a normal human size, fell on the chair where Bai Tianming had been sitting before.
Shabu suddenly bumped into the chair and groaned. Her knees immediately turned red. She lowered her head and rubbed them, frowning and muttering, "Really? Why are you running at this time? I won't eat you! What are you worried about? And you're so fast!"
Bai Tianming shook his head and stood aside, his arms folded across his chest. He looked at Shabu like a fitness coach looking at a lazy student, and said clearly, "Do you think I don't know? If I had sex with an ordinary person, I might have a chance of surviving, but if I had sex with you, there's no telling what I'd end up with."
"Then why did you let me go after him?" Shabu raised her head, put her hands on the chair, and tried to stand up, but was blocked by the table, making it difficult for her to walk out. She looked at Bai Tianming in an extremely twisted, snake-like posture, her eyes appearing dark red in the setting sun, flashing with dangerous light. Her voice was charming and smiling, but there was a hint of temptation hidden in it.
"Because," Bai Tianming thought of Joshua, his usually stern face now showing a look of pain, and then he felt a sense of joy, as if he saw the wind blowing a colorful windmill, and he smiled slightly. "The cards are in his hands, and he doesn't know how to use them. As his senior, of course I should find a way to help him. You are the one who provided him with the solution. If he wants it, he can take it. If he doesn't want it, he can leave it. How did it become like I asked you to mess with him?"
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