Crying under the moon
The aunt sat down beside the corpse, casually grabbed an arm and began to devour it. However, her expression was horrified and painful, and her tears kept flowing, which was enough to show that she was deeply opposed to eating raw human flesh.
The scene stayed there, her stomach seemed to be never full, it was filled numbly.
The mountain wind carried a strong smell of blood and blew across Yuanli's face. She smelled a special scent in the smell brought by the mountain wind.
But she couldn't smell what it was.
Heng Jin pointed to the forest on the right and said, "Look there."
Yuanli looked in the direction Heng Jin pointed, and the forest began to move. The trees in front of her eyes gradually grew larger, approached, and then quickly disappeared, until her sight passed through the forest and stopped on the child squatting in the woods.
His skin was bronze in color, and his body was covered with dense dark red spells. There was a bright golden pattern painted on his forehead. The pattern was simplified in one stroke and somewhat resembled a butterfly.
His eyes were gouged out and replaced with two red gems. A mist containing tiny black particles surrounded the gems, just like the ruby taken out from Huamian Village.
He was not wearing a piece of cloth, and his body was wrapped in long yellow talisman paper. He wore thin gold bracelets on his wrists and ankles, and a small longevity lock was hung on the gold bracelets.
He hid alone in the bushes, looking in the direction of the pile of corpses.
"This is the ghost boy." Ai reminded.
As soon as he finished speaking, the ghost boy crawled up the mountain and disappeared. Yuanli noticed that when the ghost boy left, the parts of the plants that touched his body withered and turned yellow, and a thin black mist was emitted from the tips.
"Ghost energy shouldn't cause plants to wither." Yuanli muttered to herself.
"Normal ghost energy won't, but the ghost energy on a ghost boy will. And it has to be a ghost boy with extremely deep resentment for killing." Ai explained.
"But that white flower and the withered little yellow flower are right next to each other, so close that their petals are overlapping. The white flower should even be closer to the ghost boy, so why doesn't it show any signs of withering?"
"Because there's a corpse buried beneath that white flower, and it's a corpse whose desires, such as greed, anger, ignorance, resentment, jealousy, and hatred, were absorbed by the ghost boy before death, within three months of death, when buried in the earth, these small white flowers will grow on the skull. This flower blooms year-round, but because it's so tiny when it first grows, it's easy to overlook. It grows extremely slowly, but it grows a little bit each year."
"How big can this flower grow?"
"I don't know about that. These flowers are still growing in Guanshan Town. I went to see them recently, and the largest one is almost as big as the lily that the Emperor brought out that day."
The ground beneath his feet spun again, and the smell of blood completely dissipated, replaced by the rich smell of burning incense, candles, and paper money. There was also a faint smell of decay in the air.
Everything around her calmed down. Yuanli saw herself standing in the middle of a rotten coffin like a half-transparent soul. She felt nauseous and moved to the open space next to her. Out of habit, she pulled Heng Jin, who was also standing in the coffin, to her side.
With a gentle pull, he came closer and stood close to her, looking down at her and smiling.
"Don't think too much about it. I just think, if I remember correctly, that the black cats came out of this coffin when the illusion appeared in the back mountain last time. Evil things are always disgusting."
After hearing her explanation, Heng Jin smiled even more, and the curves of his eyes and eyebrows became more obvious.
He bent down slightly to meet her eye level. "I know."
"What do you know?" Yuanli regretted asking the question.
Noticing the gazes of the other people present, Yuanli realized that their current distance was indeed a bit too close for their status as colleagues in the Immortal Realm.
She wanted to step back quickly to increase the distance between them, but just after taking two steps back, Heng Jin reached out and put his arm around her waist. With a gentle pull, he pulled her back to his side and even closer to him.
Heng Jin raised her chin and motioned for her to look behind her. "If you retreat any further, you'll end up standing in another coffin. Didn't you say it was disgusting?"
After saying that, he took away his hand that was holding her waist, without moving a step, watching her move away.
She politely bowed slightly and said, "Thank you, Emperor, for the reminder."
"Are you going to be so distant with me when there are other people around?" He pretended to be aggrieved and sad, looking at her as if no one was around.
She touched the tip of her nose, signaling him to listen to her, and then cursed loudly in her heart: "You are a dignified emperor, and you are at least known as the God of War. You put on such a pitiful and aggrieved look in public. Aren't you afraid that it will get out?"
He immediately replied through telepathic communication, "Then let them spread the word and discuss it more. That way, no matter where you go in the six realms, four seas, and eight wildernesses, you will hear people talking about me. Even if you want to forget me, my appearance and our past will still appear in your mind when you hear them talking."
Yuanli said in her heart, "You may be shameless, but I still have some! To be frank, we are just colleagues in the immortal world. Intimate actions like hugging each other's waists shouldn't happen. Emperor, please respect yourself."
"You've kissed me on the lips, and you've even taken a small portion of my dowry. Now you're saying we're just colleagues? That we shouldn't be intimate? Are you planning on taking responsibility for my innocence? You're such a heartless person!"
When Heng Jin finished her telepathic communication, her eyes gradually became moist and red, and her tone was full of grievance, loss and blame.
Yuanli was afraid he'd actually start crying, which would have made it difficult for her to explain. Before she could come up with a plan, Hengjin asked again, "Yuanli, do you really not want me anymore? Even the most basic intimacy we once had, now makes you feel so ashamed and repulsed when others see it?"
When he said this, he was choking with sobs and crying, and his watery eyes looked like tears would fall at any moment.
At this point, Yuanli still wanted to say something hurtful but he turned around and wiped his tears. His large and fluffy robe made it difficult for people to guess what he was doing.
Turning her head to see Ah Xiang's shocked and questioning face, Yuanli was so frightened that she quickly said to him in her heart: "No, let's go back and talk about it, okay?"
He transmitted his message through telepathy, "If we go back and talk about it, you won't be a threat anymore and can just brush me off without any scruples, or say something that will hurt me even more. I'd rather you didn't say it. It's okay, don't worry about me."
Yuanli said in her heart: "You also know that you are threatening me?"
"But now you are so cruel that you are determined not to want me anymore. If I don't use tricks to threaten you, I will never hear the words of care about me from your stubborn mouth. Yuanli, I am scared and need some sweetness to sleep well. Do you understand?" Heng Jin said through telepathy.
Yuanli tried to comfort him in her heart, "Okay, okay, it's all my fault. Can you please stop pretending to wipe your tears and let them imagine things?"
Hearing the sound, Heng Jin snapped her fingers, and everything froze. All the people in the illusion, as well as Abang, Ayi, and Axiang, closed their eyes and became unresponsive as if they were frozen.
He turned around to face him, tears streaming down his cheeks, their traces clearly visible in the moonlight.
"Are you really crying?"
Heng Jin grabbed her hand and placed it on his cheek. The moment he pursed his lips and lowered his eyes, tears began to fall again, leaving a wet mark on her hand.
He raised his eyes to look at the tears on her hand, and his sad eyes fell back on her face again.
He said nothing, just stared at her intently and gave her an answer.
"That time I accidentally kissed you was an accident. If you don't say anything and I don't say anything, no one will know. Besides, it was just a kiss, so it doesn't count as destroying your innocence, right? Also, when did I ever accept even a small portion of your dowry? I only took some of the ornaments in your bedroom, but you said that what's yours is mine..."
Yuanli's voice gradually became smaller and smaller due to lack of confidence. She wanted to withdraw her hand, but she was no match for Hengjin's strength, so she had to accept her fate.
"Just a kiss?"
She could hear the restrained anger in Heng Jin's tone, "Hmm... Hmm?" As soon as she finished her "hmm", he lowered his head and kissed her lips.
The moment he lowered his head, he hugged her in one go, as skilled as a habitual offender. No matter how she struggled, she couldn't get away. But he only kissed her lips, and the most he did was lick her lips lightly. She didn't let go, and he didn't force her to entwine his tongue with hers.
During the struggle, Yuanli was a little angry, but when his tears continued to flow and stained her face, it was like clear dew that soothed her hot heart.
He cried silently, his shoulders twitching slightly, and unstoppable tears fell like pearls from a broken string.
Yuanli had never seen him cry like this before. Although she didn't understand why he cried like this just because of a few words, her heart softened instantly.
He let go of her lips, and kept wiping away the tears that were pouring down his face with the backs of his hands, his body trembling with uncontrollable emotions.
Yuanli hugged him tightly, and her right hand kept gently stroking his back to comfort him.
He cried even harder the moment he hugged her back, the sound of his pounding heartbeat falling too loudly in her ears in the quiet night for her to ignore.
"Why are you crying? What I said today wasn't as harsh as before, was it? You're crying like you're going to die."
"You have……"
Heng Jin was so choked up that he stuttered every word he said. Yuan Li had no choice but to go along with him, feeling that she was not wrong but still forcing herself to admit it.
She coaxed him gently, "Okay, okay, all the mistakes are my fault. Stop crying, okay? Who needs coaxing the most? Didn't you hurt me too? I didn't even cry while holding you like this."
"I cried because I loved you so much, but why didn't you come and hug me and cry when I hurt your heart? You didn't tell me your true feelings either. You just don't like me enough, right? Also, you have a heart that you wish you could break into eight pieces and give to sixteen handsome men. How could you come to me and complain about your grievances and open your heart? And you don't understand why I'm crying. What are you admitting to?"
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