Chapter 329 "What did you say?"...
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Yu Chang's eyelashes trembled, as if there was a light mist between him and Wen Yu, making people feel unreal.
They traveled together in dreams and couldn't stop crying. Many times when he woke up in the Yuan River, he couldn't tell what the little moisture in his eye socket was.
He remembered every word she had said, and so for the past thousand years at the bottom of the Yuan River, he practiced diligently day and night, just to be able to prove it to Wen Yu when the agreed deadline arrived.
He has become strong enough.
But later he realized that no matter how powerful he became, he could not get what he wanted.
For example, freedom was what he valued most at first, and then Wen Yu was whom he wanted to see most.
Yu Chang was in a state of confusion, and he couldn't tell whether he was happy or sad at the moment. It was obvious that he had always wanted Wen Yu to remember, but now his dream had come true.
He was a little timid.
"It was obviously you who visited the Yuan River at night and disturbed people's sweet dreams." Yu Chang sneered, but tears fell.
This cannot be blamed on him, Wen Yu brought it upon herself.
Yu Chang's shoulders, which had always been as steady as a mountain, trembled slightly. He felt quite fortunate. After all, although the thousand-year appointment was delayed, it was Wen Yu who came to him first.
——It can be considered that she kept her promise.
Wen Yu tried to smile appropriately, but her expression looked so ugly that she looked like she was about to cry. "I broke my promise."
This was the first and only time that Yu Chang cried in front of her.
From the mysterious water ghost by the Yuan River at the beginning, to the feminine Wen Xing who lived in the Song residence, and later when she heard that he had become the White Dragon King at the Wangsheng Inn, she had seen all kinds of Yu Chang, but she had never seen someone this fragile.
There is too much debt between her and Yu Chang.
She shouldn't have made a promise easily if she couldn't guarantee to do it that day. Not only did it make Yu Chang unable to get away, but it also implicated her master... Zizhan was left to clean up the mess.
"I practice day and night, thinking that once the millennium is up, I will... pierce you to pieces." Yu Chang's voice was low and hoarse, but with an inexplicable lightness that prevented the atmosphere from being too depressing.
At first he did think so, and even used it as a belief to support and encourage himself.
But later, what he thought about most was——
Yu Chang's eyes lost focus for a moment. Through Wen Yu's face, he seemed to see himself at the bottom of the Yuanshui River. "You didn't come until a thousand years, two thousand years, and even thousands and thousands of years later."
——As long as you can come, as long as it’s Wen Yu, it’s fine.
"I..." Wen Yu felt like there was something stuck in her throat, and she had no way to argue.
Things in the world are unpredictable, life and death are hard to predict, and not everything is under her control.
Even as a god, one cannot dream of being the master of all things. This is the most important thing she learned from her death.
Seeing Wen Yu's reaction, Yu Chang shook his head. He didn't want her guilt.
At first he wanted freedom, so he tried his best to break free from the Dingyuan Lock, but later even without this restriction, he was willing to be trapped in the Yuan River.
Because he had to wait for Wen Yu and ask her face to face -
"Why don't you come to see me?" Yu Chang clenched his fists, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't stop the tears from flowing.
At this moment, he was not the White Dragon King who later lived on the banks of the Yuan River. He was just the one who was born at the turn of dawn and dusk and was inexplicably given a name - Yu Wushi.
He already knew the answer, but Yu Chang wanted to hear it from Wen Yu herself.
"At that time, the spiritual veins of Gouwu Mountain in Zhongzhou were damaged, and Mother Earth was no longer in her place." Wen Yu didn't deliberately recall it, but the memory just surfaced naturally. "I died here to protect the safety of the Nine Heavens and the Ten Directions."
Gouwu Mountain, it’s Gouwu Mountain again, but these words are exactly the same as what Ju Mang said.
Yu Chang's hands were shaking, but his wide sleeves did not move at all, just like the turbulent undercurrents are often hidden beneath the calm surface of the lake.
——He was really a little jealous.
The slight bit of reluctance he had felt towards Ju Mang instantly disappeared. After all, he and Wen Yu had spent so many years together, and some sacrifices were justified.
"If you don't come to find me." Yu Chang raised his lips slightly and laughed at himself sarcastically, "I will try to find you."
Anyway, he has been performing this one-man show for thousands and thousands of years.
Wen Yu closed her eyes. Yu Chang's smile was like a flood of water rushing towards her, making her almost suffocate. But when it was about to drown her, it suddenly retreated. She lowered her eyes and looked at -
It just wet a small part of the skirt.
She had already guessed that everything that happened in Jiangyang Mansion at that time was not a coincidence. "That's why you took the initiative to find Zhou Lehui."
If he was just being kind-hearted, then there would be no need to break the Dingyuan Lock. The merits he accumulated would be enough for him to ascend to heaven on the spot.
"Yes, if you don't come to me to fulfill your promise." Yu Chang's mood was completely different now, but he still wanted to tell Wen Yu about his past self, "Then go and seek your... revenge."
He was crazy. He had been crazy since the coldness of the Yuan River flowed through his body again and again.
Some hatred turns into its opposite, and secret thoughts give rise to even more distorted hatred.
It went back and forth like this, almost tearing him in half.
"Yu Chang..." Wen Yu opened her mouth. She could feel the madness beneath his restraint. "Yu Wu Shi—"
For some reason, Yu Chang always felt that Wen Yu was going to say something he didn't want to hear.
"Wenyu." He began to interrupt desperately, saying quickly, "I hated you at first, and it's not that I didn't think of taking the opportunity to kill you."
After hearing this, Wen Yu did not feel frightened or afraid, because she knew Yu Chang would not do that.
"It's just that I always hold onto the hope that you can remember my name." Yu Chang never thought that the cheap name he got that day would one day be so loved by him, "Just like now."
Wen Yu was stunned. She didn't expect that the name she picked casually would make him remember it for so long.
No wonder that day at the Song residence, when she accidentally took off the Dingyuan lock, prompting him to transform into his original appearance, he said to her with such expectation -
I am Yu Chang.
It’s me, Yu Chang.
You... don’t recognize me?
But what was Yu Chang's mood at that time when he faced her who remembered nothing?
Each word adds to the feeling of loss, just like no matter how delicious the food is, it will be hard to swallow if it gets cold.
"In Gouwu Mountain, you asked me if I was the same as them." A self-deprecating smile appeared on his lips. Yu Chang would not mistake Wen Yu. "No, I never thought you were Yuan Que."
When Wen Yu heard these two words again, she couldn't help but stiffen.
She's not used to it yet.
Compared to the earlier rejection, acceptance is obviously more difficult now.
"From the beginning to the end, you have always been yourself." Yu Chang lowered his eyes and looked at the person in front of him steadily, "Wen Yu."
He thought about letting go countless times when facing Wen Yu's unfamiliar eyes, but he was never able to do it.
But now Wen Yu thought of him, but it seemed that she should...
Yu Chang spoke to himself, as if replaying those days in his mind again, "It's just that while I was still trapped in the past, you had already started a new life."
Was it a new life for her to go from Chengyunyan to Houchunshan? Wenyu couldn't help but think of Zizhan's words about just being herself. What kind of life did she lead when she had powerful divine powers?
"I can't avenge you, but I can't talk to you about the past either." The three hundred years in the Rebirth Inn always felt like stolen time to Yu Chang. "So I thought that as long as I could follow you, it would be great."
Yu Chang has always been a man of few words and he values words very much. It seems that he has never said so much.
Wen Yu had a premonition that it was probably time for her and Yu Chang to say goodbye.
From Jiangyang Mansion to the Rebirth Inn, from the Spring Temple to Gouwu Mountain, Yu Chang seemed to have been following her just as he said.
"But..." Wen Yu felt reluctant, but had to tell the truth.
As if afraid that Wen Yu's words would make him even more heartbroken, Yu Chang simply continued, "But I promised that once this matter is resolved, I will return to the banks of the Yuan River."
This was the promise he had made in person at the Temple of Spring.
"Originally, I just wanted to coax you into letting me go to Gouwu Mountain with you." Yu Chang made no attempt to hide his shameful intentions, but was very frank. "I never thought that my words would come true."
First, there was Guan Lan who inexplicably tracked him down, and then there was Ju Mang who made him feel extremely ashamed...
Yu Chang had never thought about it before he came to Shangcheng Yunyan, but during the few days he was here, he kept thinking about it over and over again, wondering whether he and Wen Yu had really reached a fork in the road and were bound to go in two different directions.
"You have your own hometown. You shouldn't live for me." Wen Yu raised the corners of her lips and forced a smile. "Yu Chang, from now on, live for yourself."
Just like what Zizhan said, she can just be A Yu, and Yu Chang should just be Yu Chang, not someone who is saved by someone or someone who is waiting for someone.
After all, no one is born to be someone else's vassal.
Wen Yu looked at Yu Chang with hope in her eyes. No matter how much she hated it, she couldn't continue to waste his energy and time.
Live for...yourself?
Yu Chang knew in his heart that he should have agreed, but after several attempts he chose to change the subject, "Let's not talk about this anymore. I have something important to tell you."
It is indeed time to go back to the banks of the Yuan River, but he cannot give up Wen Yu completely.
After all, the matter wasn't settled yet, was it? It was uncertain when he would return to the banks of the Yuan River.
Wen Yu probably guessed what he wanted to say. This was Chengyun Mountain, and the important thing Yu Chang wanted to tell her couldn't be anything else. "You've met my master."
She had just come all the way here, but hadn't found Chi Huang at Broken Cloud Edge or the Temple of Spring, so she thought of going to Chengyun Rock to take a look.
"Yes, what I want to talk about is your master Ju Mang." Yu Chang took a deep breath and said cautiously.
He had been thinking about it day and night for the past few days and finally figured out what was wrong.
Did Ju Mang really think that no one could see through his self-righteous secrets?
Lifting the small fish lantern in his hand, Yu Chang handed it to Wen Yu, "He is——"
As soon as Wen Yu saw this small fish lantern, he couldn't help but be in a trance for a moment. The patterns and patterns on it were exactly the same as what he remembered.
She thought she was seeing things.
But after confirming it again and again, Wen Yu looked at the hand-woven tassels hanging under the fish lantern and dared to believe that she was not mistaken.
"I already knew it at Gouwu Mountain." Wen Yu's thoughts were drawn back to the past regarding the origin of this lamp. "Master... is Zizhan."
Only his hands could be so skillful as to make a paper fish lantern so lifelike that it seemed as if it would swim if he just let go.
But Yu Chang was not as calm as she expected, instead his expression changed drastically.
He was not unfamiliar with the name Zizhan. Zang Ling and Tai Ai had mentioned it repeatedly at Qipan Pass and Gouwu Mountain. What shocked Yu Chang was...
It took him a long time to find his voice and he asked in surprise, "What did you say?"
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