Chapter 43: Soul Contract (II) "Brother, I am willing to share my soul with you...
In the past, Xie Rangchen could not bear to see Ah Ying distressed.
Now, one more blessing.
At night, the seven main streets of Sixiang City are brightly lit, just like daytime.
In comparison, the area around Taoyuanju seems much quieter.
The afterglow of the moon shone down, and the silvery-white light fell entirely on the two people hugging each other on the roof.
Xie Rangchen gently stroked the girl's long hair twice: "Senior Brother promises you that I won't be in seclusion anymore."
"Really?" Zhu Ciying took the initiative to distance herself from him, and her beautiful face met his eyes filled with autumn water.
"Well, so, Junior Sister," Xie Rangchen's hand stopped just above her nose, pretending to pinch it, "don't cry."
——If you cry, it will make me feel embarrassed.
Zhu Ciying: “I don’t have any!”
Xie Rangchen couldn't help laughing: "Okay, okay, you didn't."
Unexpectedly, she still wouldn't give in and deliberately picked a fight: "I'm going to tell Master that my senior brother bullied me!"
"Master, Master! My senior brother laughed at me and even accused me of being a crybaby..."
The strong liquor paralyzed her nerves and caused her memory to become confused. She believed that she was still in the Qingwei Sect and that she still had a master who doted on her in everything.
Similar "complaint" words made Xie Rangchen reflexively enter the process of apologizing.
"It's all my fault."
"sorry."
"I'll apologize to my junior sister."
Upon hearing the word "apology", Zhu Ciying immediately shut up, assumed a well-behaved sitting posture, and then stared at his senior brother eagerly.
Xie Rangchen lowered his bent leg, touched the ground with his knees, and knelt upright in front of Zhu Ciying.
"Senior Brother?" Zhu Ciying was confused. In her memory, although she had cheated him many times, he had never once knelt on the ground to apologize.
This time, she seemed to have gone too far.
"Brother, I..."
She wanted to clarify that she did it on purpose, but Xie Rangchen suddenly knelt down, grabbed her left foot with his slender jade-like hand, placed it on his thigh, and easily took off her shoe.
"Brother Shishi, what are you doing?" His sudden action made Zhu Ciying's mind even more confused.
Why did senior brother take off her shoes?
Did he know what it meant in the mortal world, in her hometown, for a man to take off a woman's shoes...
Xie Rangchen looked up with amusement and naturally continued, "I'm apologizing to my junior sister. Is the size appropriate?"
Zhu Ciying looked down and found that the embroidered shoes on her feet had disappeared and were replaced by a new pair of purple satin shoes.
The toe of the shoe is adorned with two round, white pearls, and the upper is embroidered with clusters of simple small flowers in gold thread, while green thread is used to embellish the green leaves that decorate the flowers. The workmanship is so exquisite that it looks like a painting.
Her face was as red as a cooked shrimp, her eyelashes half-closed, and she exuded a girlish charm for no reason: "It suits me and looks good. I like it."
"But brother, you must never take off my shoes again next time."
Xie Rangchen: "Why?"
"Because, because," Zhu Ciying didn't dare to look at him, her eyes drifting to the tiles beside her, "Because according to the customs of my hometown, only a woman's husband can change her shoes!"
"That's right..." This was the first time Xie Rangchen heard of such a custom.
He heard from Master Yuyin that Zhu Ciying was born in a village in Xiangzhou. When she was only one year old, the village was massacred by a big monster, and she became an orphan.
True Man Yu Yin couldn't bear it, so he took her back to Shaoyang Sect, accepted her as his disciple, and taught her carefully.
She probably investigated and understood the customs of her hometown only after she grew up.
"Sorry, Senior Brother, I don't know."
Zhu Ciying waved her hands quickly: "It's not your fault."
After the matter was made clear, Zhu Ciying's embarrassment was largely relieved.
She reached out to touch the wine bottles, but they were all empty.
Xie Rangchen looked at her thoughtfully, and after a moment asked, "Want to drink?"
"think."
"Brother, here it is."
Xie Rangchen waved the bottle of wine in front of her, and Zhu Ciying was extremely greedy.
"Good brother, stop teasing me and give it to me."
"I can give it to you," Xie Rangchen said, "but you have to answer a few questions for me."
Zhu Ciying: "Okay."
"Is my senior brother good to you?"
"Good! He is the best among all the brothers!"
"Tell me the good qualities of three of my brothers."
"Strong, looks like a banished immortal, and has a good temper."
"So do you like my brother?"
"like."
Xie Rangchen paused for a moment before continuing, "So, is your liking for us a fellow disciple?"
Zhu Ciying hesitated for a few breaths and nodded: "Yes."
"One last question."
Xie Rangchen leaned forward, resting his hands on Zhu Ciying's sides, staring at her without blinking: "Are you willing to form a soul bond with me?"
God, soul, bond, covenant?
Zhu Ciying could understand each of the four words, but she didn't understand when they were put together.
The Soul-Soul Covenant is a contract unique to the world of cultivation, reserved for couples. Once signed, they declare their loyalty to each other for life, expressing their unwavering loyalty and unrepentant love.
To put it in simple terms, it is equivalent to a couple in love getting married in the mortal world.
Senior brother took the initiative to propose to her that he would form a spiritual bond with her. Would she agree to him?
"Even if my affection is just a friendship between fellow disciples, you still want to form a soul bond with me?"
Xie Rangchen: "Yes."
Zhu Ciying stopped talking.
"Junior sister, don't worry. I will change the rules of the soul bond. We don't have to be bound by love. Junior sister, you can like anyone except me."
"After the contract is completed, no matter where you are, I will be able to find you. If I am not by your side, my spiritual power and magical instruments will be at your disposal as long as you wish."
Xie Rangchen said: "My original intention in forming a bond with you was to protect you, not to engage in romantic affairs."
"I see." Zhu Ciying's long eyelashes drooped, just enough to conceal the surging emotions in her eyes.
"Besides," Xie Rangchen took out the wedding candy Zhu Ciying had given him earlier and joked with her, "Junior Sister, you even gave me wedding candy. Isn't it... that forming a bond with me is a natural and natural thing?"
Zhu Ciying curled her lips: "Senior brother, you are making fun of me again."
"Junior sister agreed?"
"Well, Senior Brother is so sincere and considerate of me. There is no reason for me to refuse."
"Brother, I do."
Zhu Ciying said, "I am willing to form a spiritual bond with you."
"Okay." Xie Rangchen lowered his head and touched his forehead to hers.
The warm breaths of the two were so close that Xie Rangchen's brows felt hot. His soul palace opened wide, allowing Zhu Ciying's spirit to enter. And a wisp of spirit separated from his soul palace entered Zhu Ciying's soul palace for the first time.
Zhu Ciying's spiritual palace was pitch black, without a single ray of light. But ever since his spirit had entered, it had taken root, sprouted, and spread like a seed.
Thus, he became the only light in her soul.
[Heaven and earth are witnesses, the soul-spirit contract is complete.]
Because neither of them rejected the other, the soul contract was concluded very smoothly.
As if to celebrate the contract they formed, fireworks were set off in Sixiang City.
Xie Rangchen stuffed a sour fructose into Zhu Ciying's mouth, saying it would help her sober up.
He himself had peach candy.
"Since you like candy so much, I'll just call you 'Tiantian' from now on." Zhu Ciying slurped the sour candy.
She deliberately stretched out her voice and called him, "Thank you, Tian, Tian."
Xie Tiantian?
Xie Rangchen didn't mind this nickname. She liked to call him "Xie Tiantian", so what was wrong with letting her do as she pleased?
"Xie Tiantian, Xie Tiantian, hehe, from now on I won't call you senior brother, I will just call you Xie Tiantian!"
Seeing her smug smile, Xie Rangchen raised his head and sighed, but his eyes never left her face.
He imitated Ah Ying's habit of arguing and defending himself: "Junior sister, don't you think it's unfair to me that I'm the only one with a nickname?"
Zhu Ciying's smile suddenly stopped and she was speechless for a moment.
Why do you want to learn from her?
"Tell me your nickname, and we'll be even."
Zhu Ciying was stunned: "My nickname?"
Xie Rangchen: "No?"
some.
Zhu Ciying pursed her lips and wrinkled the hem of her skirt.
In her previous life, she was born into a wealthy merchant family in the mortal world.
Before she was born, her father had already chosen a name for her:
Full.
She has a father, mother and brother who love her, and the four members of her family love each other and live in harmony.
When she was two years old, she fell ill with a strange disease. Her father spent a lot of money to hire a doctor to treat her and used various precious medicinal herbs, but none of them worked.
Later, my father met an immortal who was traveling in the mortal world. The immortal diagnosed her illness in a few words and ordered the immortal boy under his chariot to go up the mountain to collect herbs.
The fairy boy was very capable and easily killed the evil monster and quickly collected the medicine.
Zhu Ciying was able to save her life.
After she recovered from her illness, she asked her father what the fairy boy looked like.
My father had little education, so he used the words he had learned from my mother to describe it. Zhu Ciying remembered it very clearly.
——My father said: "It's probably because of his picturesque eyebrows and handsome face. If you add the pair of red moles under his eyes, he has the appearance of a phoenix and a dragon."
After saying that, he tied a jade pendant around her waist.
At that time, she had not yet learned to read and did not recognize the two words engraved on it: Qingwei.
When I was five years old, my parents passed away.
When she was seven years old, her brother, who depended on her for everything, left her.
From then on, no one could call her "Manman" anymore.
She was also seven years old. When she was almost dying, the jade token sent her senior brother to her.
When she was eleven years old, her master took her up the mountain.
She became the youngest junior sister in Qingwei Sect, the junior sister who was most attached to her senior brother, and also the junior sister that her senior brother was most helpless with.
Even though she knew from the first time they met that her senior brother no longer remembered her.
"Bang--"
The fireworks in Zhu Ciying's eyes bloomed brilliantly and then faded away alone.
After the loud noise ended, she spoke in a very small voice.
Xie Rangchen knew what she was saying just by the shape of her lips.
“…Yes, there is.”
"Full."
"My nickname is Manman."
Xie Rangchen: "Full."
Zhu Ciying's heart trembled, and she asked unsurely, "What did you call me?"
"Full."
"May it be full."
Zhu Ciying wanted to laugh. She was really happy and wanted to laugh out loud.
But she saw her own tears flowing endlessly in Xie Rangchen's suddenly dilated pupils.
"It's been... a long, long time since anyone said it was full."
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The author has something to say: To clarify: in the previous life, the male and female protagonists really just had a friendship among fellow students.
The love line starts from this life.
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