Chapter 36: Si Xiang City (VIII) How did my online crush show up?
The sound of rain gradually subsided, and Zhu Ciying silently withdrew her gaze.
Four Symbols City was renowned in the cultivation world for its four-seasonal landscape, attracting a large number of cultivators to settle there. Over the past few years, the city had flourished. However, from what she had just observed, the daily events here seemed to be preordained.
A common man who comes to the bun shop to buy buns always has one stolen by a beggar at the same corner; a rich lady visits a clothing store and always falls in love with a dress of the same style and color in the same store... There are many situations like this, which happen over and over again every day.
Zhu Ciying narrowed her eyes slightly, and the raindrops outside the window wet the back of her hand.
The Sixiang City is full of loopholes, and there must be other mysteries hidden.
Unfortunately, she was not familiar with Yuzhou, and there was not much information related to Sixiang City in her memories of both lives.
While thinking, she unconsciously picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and only came back to her senses when she tasted the bitterness.
Zhu Ciying raised his eyes and looked directly at the young man in front of him who was holding a pot of tea with one hand and refilling it with tea. "Brother, what do you think of Sixiang City?"
Xie Rangchen paused for a moment before blurting out his answer: "The scenery is pleasant, it's bustling and prosperous, and it's a good place to live. But there's one fatal drawback."
Zhu Ciying gestured for him to speak.
"This place is an independent space. What you see and hear is a mixture of truth and falsehood, real and fake, as if you are in a dream, so engrossed that it is difficult to escape."
As expected, he had already noticed something strange about Sixiang City!
Zhu Ciying suppressed his shock and continued to play with the teacup, adding more information to confirm his hypothesis: "So as long as you grasp the patterns and understand the rules, you can achieve unexpected results."
"For example, a hungry and poor beggar knows that someone will always go to the bun shop on time. He only needs to wait along a specific route, and the hot buns will come to him."
"As long as the tailor makes sure the dress is made well, the rich lady will bring him endless wealth."
Xie Rangchen nodded with a smile in his eyes: "It is indeed as Junior Sister said."
With all these things stacking up, Sixiang City... is becoming more and more interesting. Zhu Ciying's eyelashes drooped slightly, and her gaze returned to the teacup.
"Junior sister, what are your plans next?"
"The enemy is in the dark, I am in the light. If the enemy does not move, I will not move. If the enemy does move, I will capture him in one fell swoop."
At the same time, in another room of Taoyuanju.
Xu Shuguan, who had been in a coma for three days, slowly woke up.
"Hiss..." She held her head and couldn't help but gasp because of the headache.
She stared blankly at the bed curtains above her. Bed curtains? Where were they from? Shouldn't she be in the demon cave?
Xu Shuguan closed his eyes and opened them again, the bed curtains were still there.
It's definitely not an illusion.
So, where is she now?
Just as he was wondering, the door suddenly opened from the outside. Yun Bujin walked in, holding a bowl of medicine in one hand.
Xu Shuguan propped herself up and sat up, looking at him from a distance. The other party was obviously stunned when he saw her.
Yun Bujin was the first to ask, "Are you awake? How do you feel? Does your head still hurt?"
Xu Shuguan looked at him intently: "Are you... Yun Bujin?"
He nodded slightly in response.
Xu Shuguan's heart skipped a beat, and almost at the same time, he covered his face with the quilt.
As for the reason, 80% was embarrassment and 20% was shyness. Speaking of her relationship with Yun Bujin, it can be traced back to two years ago.
On that night two years ago, she published an old, melodramatic, and tragic love story on a jade slip anonymously as usual. Unexpectedly, the article caused a sensation in the entire cultivation world and became all the rage.
Her fate with Yun Bujin began after this article became popular.
During that time, she received a flood of private messages every day, some asking for new stories, others urging her to write sequels. She responded to each one until she clicked on a unique friend message.
With the jade slip as the medium, Xu Shuguan and the other party gradually became familiar with each other during the chat, developed a good impression of each other, and agreed on a time to meet.
Then they exchanged names, and the other party said his name was "Yun Bujin".
Endless clouds, endless clouds... She immediately felt something was wrong. She seemed to have seen this name somewhere before. She thought about it over and over again, tossing and turning in bed, and finally remembered where she had seen it.
In the old-fashioned, melodramatic, and tragic love story she wrote, the dark, sickly, and jealous villain she painstakingly created was named "Yun Bujin".
Great, now the real boss is in trouble!
She finally understood why Yun Bujin had sent her a dating message.
Faced with this embarrassing situation, Xu Shuguan chose not to face it. He accepted the mission and fled, but accidentally got trapped in Sixiang City.
However, what is even more exciting than being trapped is:
God!
How did my online crush show up at my doorstep?!
Xu Shuguan couldn't accept it. She immediately wanted to find a hole in the ground to crawl into. It would be best if she never saw Yun Bujin again in her life.
"How are you?"
Yun Bujin leaned over, grasped the corner of the quilt with one hand, and slowly lifted it. The woman's beautiful face was revealed bit by bit.
Xu Shuguan raised her eyes with a lack of confidence and saw the other person smiling at her. Then, she felt her wrist suddenly tighten.
Looking down, she caught a glimpse of a bright red string.
The red rope was wrapped around her wrist again and again, as if its owner was silently accusing her, fearing that she would run away.
"I got it from Yue Lao Temple on Penglai Island. It's said to be very effective." Yun Bujin handed her the medicine bowl. As he moved, his wide sleeves fell down, inadvertently revealing another red rope around his wrist.
"Thank you..." Xu Shuguan blushed and took the medicine bowl with his other hand, secretly clutching the quilt.
He looked calm on the outside, but his heart was pounding:
I have lived two lifetimes and have never encountered such an embarrassing thing.
The medicine was bitter, so she drank it in small sips. In between sips, she secretly looked at Yun Bujin.
He has sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, is elegant and noble, and behaves in a measured manner.
He is her ideal Taoist partner.
"We..." Xu Shuguan wanted to mention how their relationship would develop next.
Yun Bujin felt something in his heart and smiled, "I have come all the way to Sixiang City. It's a bit too late for you to back down now."
Xu Shuguan: “…”
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When Zhu Ciying and others heard that Xu Shuguan had woken up, they all came to visit her.
The small table was full of people.
Zhu Ciying told everyone about her newly discovered anomaly in Sixiang City and Xie Rangchen's inference.
"Independent space?! I've only seen it in ancient books before, but it really exists." Qu Wanqing's curiosity peaked, and his focus shifted. "The Four Symbols and Four Scenes converge into one city. The person who founded Four Symbols City must have had a romantic heart."
Xu Feihuai: "Not only that, but it also requires a very high level of spatial understanding and construction capabilities."
Zhu Ciying: "And the immense, endless supply of spiritual power."
"It would be best if there was another magical artifact to bless it." Zhou Mingran made the Ji Feibai puppet into an enchanting dance pose and nodded with satisfaction at his masterpiece.
Seeing Xu Shuguan remained silent, Qu Wanqing took the initiative to talk to her: "Senior Sister, do you have anything to say?"
Xu Shuguan's body stiffened. After hesitating for a moment, he decided to confess: "Um, that... I am the person you are talking about, the one who founded Sixiang City."
"Ah?" Zhou Mingran was the first to make a sound of shock.
Xu Shuguan sighed deeply, composed himself, and revealed his little secret: "I founded Sixiang City. I was born with a strong sense of space. When I was young, my mother gave me a piece of jade as a birthday gift. That jade is a divine artifact, named 'Jiangyu'."
"The crimson jade has the ability to manage space and time. Using the crimson jade as a pillar, I single-handedly constructed a space, integrating the Four Symbols and Four Scenes within it, and named it 'Four Symbols City'."
"Later, I felt that although Four Symbols City was beautiful, it was too deserted. Furthermore, I considered that it would be impossible to attract a large number of cultivators to relocate in such a short period of time. Therefore, I used my pen as a medium to create some 'living beings'."
"Yan Chengyun, Yao Taotao, and Yao Qin were all characters I created. Originally, the three of them had no connection. Yao Qin doted on her younger sister and considered Yan Chengyun her confidant, while Yan Chengyun remained loyal to Yao Taotao from beginning to end... In other words, Sixiang City was a giant makeshift troupe, and these three were the protagonists."
"Things have developed to this point and it is beyond my control. By the time I found out, it was too late."
Xu Shuguan looked at everyone with guilt: "I was just having fun at the beginning, I didn't expect to cause so much trouble for everyone."
"sorry."
She stood up and bowed to everyone.
Zhou Mingran quickly stopped her: "We've investigated and found that Yan Chengyun was exploited by the demon, which led to a series of incidents. How can we blame you?"
"If you ask me, it's all the fault of the big demon's cunning mind, maliciously seizing the body and forcibly separating the two lovers." Qu Wanqing angrily winked at Xu Feihuai, "Junior brother, you tell me."
Xu Feihuai: "It's the big demon's fault."
"You..." Xu Shuguan looked at them blankly, feeling warm in his heart.
"No one wants to blame you. Think carefully about the next countermeasures." Yun Bujin rubbed her head.
Zhu Ciying brought the conversation back on track: "Senior Sister, we have a very difficult problem right now. You just said that Yan Chengyun was your creation. Now that he's been possessed by a great demon and has lost his memory, do you have any solution?"
"Amnesia is easy to deal with."
Xu Shuguan reached into her storage bag and, with a flick of her mind, pulled out a spiritual pen. She scribbled and wrote a bunch of runes that no one could understand.
As she placed the last stroke, she silently chanted a spell. The runes seemed to come alive in an instant, leaping and dancing as they filed out of the room.
Zhu Ciying took a look and saw that they were heading towards the Demon Suppression Division. She believed that soon, Yan Chengyun, who was in the body of the great demon, would regain his memory.
A thin layer of sweat appeared on Xu Shuguan's forehead. "I can use my spiritual pen to rewrite the plot and make Yan Chengyun remember his past, but as for the matter of being possessed, I'm afraid my ability is limited and I can't help you."
Congratulations made my heart sink.
Zhou Mingran slammed the table and stood up: "Then fight with the big monster until he is willing to exchange it back."
Xu Shuguan's back was leaning against the chair, her face slightly pale, but when she saw the puppet in Zhou Mingran's hand, she perked up a little.
"Is this puppet your companion?"
She twirled the magic pen in her hand: "I have a way to help him return to his original appearance."
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The author has something to say: Yes, that’s right, Xu Shuguan is a second-generation traveler.
And Xu Feihuai, you really look like a human-machine.
Xu Feihuai: “…”
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