The scroll tells the story
Yuanli chuckled and interrupted him, "Of course you don't know. After all, the so-called falling asleep with me in your arms was all an illusion you cast on me, wasn't it? Just like the night you pretended to obey me and consummated your marriage with me."
"Controlling illusions with a mortal body is too restrictive. Illusions are connected to the thoughts I dwell on day and night. I didn't expect that I would... offend you like this. I was trying to explain earlier, making you think I wasn't a lecher, but in reality, I'm not immune to worldly desires. In short, it's all my fault. I offended you, and I apologize."
"Having entered the mortal world, how can I be free from worldly desires? I'm not saying this to ask for your apology, but to bring you closer. I want you to understand that you and I are already engaged, and there's no need to be embarrassed by the lust brought on by intimacy. Once we get married, this will become the most ordinary thing, right?"
He was surprised and startled for a moment, "Yes, that's right. The fact that Ah Li became my fiancée was really too surprising and unexpected. For a while, I didn't dare to get too close to you."
When Ah Cha said these words, the faint blush on his cheeks and the sparkling eyes when he looked at her all confirmed his feelings.
She walked into his arms, hugged his waist, and put her face against his chest. She said seriously in her heart: "A-Cha, from now on, I will do my best to make you happy."
"Ari, did something happen to you?" Cha Suxun asked worriedly.
"No, my life in heaven is only slightly worse than being with you. What kind of problems could I possibly encounter?"
Yes, just a few hundred million...
What kind of problems can we encounter...
It's nothing more than a crazy and troublesome old lover and a tribulation that may lead to failure and destruction of the soul.
"Okay, if you don't return to the mortal world, I'm afraid your physical body will have problems. Go back quickly."
"When Ah Li said 'a little bit', was it a little bit or just a little bit?"
“Is this a new tongue twister?”
"It's better to just be a tongue twister."
Ah Cha hugged her back and said in a gentle and relaxed tone, "When you were just a little fireball that couldn't transform, I taught you to write and read. You got sleepy and often lay on the back of my hand, saying that writing and reading were only a tiny bit difficult, but a tiny bit more difficult than a million million."
"But I will overcome all difficulties."
"Do you still remember the second half of your sentence? However, your tone isn't as firm as it was at first. Ah Li has an unyielding heart and unparalleled wisdom. All problems will be easily solved."
The day in the Nether Palace emerged in her mind. She lay lazily on the back of his hand while he was working on the desk. The coolness from the back of his hand dispelled her restlessness from practicing calligraphy. She lay there tired and sleepy, and she told him her memories in a naughty way.
"You're the only one who's been praising me like this from beginning to end."
"That's because I'm the only one who can praise you so directly and intimately. Others who find you kind and thoughtful as I do can't be as close to you as I am, so they can't express such direct praise. Ah Li, you're really good."
"You are also very good. You are good enough that everyone knows it without any praise."
"As long as you think I'm good, that's enough."
He patted her shoulder gently, then reluctantly let her go. "It's time to go back. I'm leaving, A-Li."
He left only after giving her the marriage certificate for safekeeping.
Not long after his figure disappeared, Heng Jin suddenly appeared not far away opposite her, and then teleported in front of her.
"When did you get here?"
"I happened to see you kissing him when I got here. Why?"
"What why? Were you eavesdropping again?"
"I was standing far away and couldn't hear what you said, nor did I cast any spell to eavesdrop. Why did you kiss him?"
Yuanli unfolded the marriage certificate, showed it to him, and then put it away. "Your Majesty, are you even going to ask about me kissing my fiancé now?"
The two names on the engagement book were eye-catching and glaring.
"You really made a marriage contract with him? Just to repay him for taking you in for thirty thousand years?"
"Whatever my reason for accepting the marriage proposal was, it seems to have nothing to do with the Emperor anymore, right?"
"It doesn't matter? How can it not matter? You are mine! You are the only wife I love and cherish in my life. How can it not matter..."
He was so angry that his whole body was shaking slightly, his fists were clenched tighter and tighter, and his red eyes, filled with tears, were frozen to prevent the tears from falling.
"Heng Jin, look carefully, I am Yuan Li, not Demon Lord Li Wan."
"You are! You are! I prayed to all the gods and Buddhas to get a few lines of poetry and instructions. I have argued countless times and there is no mistake. And, in the second life of Qingshui Town, you also recognized me. You said, you said Ah Heng, I don't want to live, you don't have to worry about me anymore..."
Yuanli felt completely baffled. She had no memory of saying this in Qingshui Town, and she felt that he was so overcome with grief over Li Wan's death that he had gone insane.
"I don't understand what you're saying."
He pinched his fingers and cast a spell, and four lines of words appeared:
The reckless movement of cause and effect disturbs the darkness, and the cycle of life is like the morning sun.
The sound of Sanskrit lingers around the house, and the sea of karma is deep and dark for several autumns.
The dark ashes condense into blue debts from the previous life, and the remaining fate continues the sorrow.
The virtue and grace remain in the dark, and only when the soul disappears will it be revealed by the purple light.
"Although I haven't fully grasped the poem's true meaning, it's a gift from heaven that I found you by chance. I searched the world for your presence until I overheard a spirit from a distant fairyland mention the "Shezi Flower." Everyone knows about the red spider lily and the red spider lily, but few know it's also called the "Shezi Flower," symbolizing the abandonment of worldly worries in pursuit of tranquility beyond. It was then that I realized the truth and set off to the netherworld to find you."
"This is ridiculous. Heng Jin! What are you going on? Li Wan, the Demon Lord, is dead! Died in the stone formation that suppressed the Evil Abyss. Wake up! Are you saying I'm her reincarnation? Well, even if I am, why are you still looking for the jade hairpin? Resurrection? Restoring memories? You're completely contradicting yourself. Ultimately, what you love is your past with Li Wan. It has nothing to do with who I am, and it has nothing to do with Yuan Li."
She was angry because he was difficult and crazy, but she was no longer angry because he placed his feelings for Li Wan on her, nor was she angry because he liked someone else.
She was glad that she had become completely disappointed and given up on him when she saw him breaking down hysterically because of Li Wan just now.
Otherwise, how sad it would be for me who likes him...
Heng Jin cast a spell and took her back to his bedroom, so fast that she didn't even have time to implement her escape plan.
Looking at the familiar bed curtains, Yuanli felt helpless and speechless.
"Haven't I made everything clear to you? I don't like you anymore, Heng Jin. Really, what's the point of you keeping me locked up in your bedroom?"
"As long as you are not married to someone else, everything still has meaning."
Heng Jin set up multiple barriers in the bedroom, then took out a glass incense burner with a landscape carving from a secret box and placed it on the table.
He spread his wings, plucked a feather, lit it, and placed it in the incense burner. Thin smoke curled up and the familiar fragrance of the red spider lily filled the entire bedroom.
He pinched his fingers and cast a spell to lead Yuanli into the incense burner. When Yuanli opened her eyes, she found herself in a beautiful paradise. A large area of peach blossoms from the sacred tree were in full bloom. The cool breeze blew the fallen petals, covering the gurgling stream. The emerald green grass was very soft to step on, and various elegant wild flowers dotted it.
On the top of the mountain stands a towering palace, and a spectacular waterfall cascades down from the cliff.
They stood beneath the two stoutest and tallest peach trees, their branches entwined like lovers, tightly intertwined. Red silk wedding flowers were hung around them, double happiness patterns cut from red paper were pasted on the trunks, and wooden plaques tied with red ribbons hung from the dense peach branches.
The wooden sign reads:
I would give up everything I have, even my life, so that my wife might live.
She remembers.
In her first life, Cha Suxun helped her pass through Wangxiang Pond and enter his dream. She saw him sitting under two lush peach trees, holding a wooden prayer sign in his hand. The sign read, "I am willing to give up everything I have and even my life in exchange for my wife's life."
The most eye-catching thing is a long altar, on which are placed four tablets and fruit and tea cups. The kneeling cushions on the ground are also made of red silk embroidered with double happiness.
"When we were here worshipping heaven and earth, you promised me in front of our parents' tablets that you would be my loving husband and wife for eternity. You even said with a smile that a heartless person would have to swallow ten thousand needles before they could reconcile. And yet, in just the second life, you left me."
Heng Jin stared at the two red silk wedding cushions in disappointment, crying and laughing at the same time, blinking her moist eyes again and again, trying to blink back the tears that were gathering.
With a wave of his sleeves, hundreds of scrolls unfolded in the air around them, and each scroll showed two loving figures.
"It's you and Li Wan who are here to worship Heaven and Earth, not me. I never said anything like that. You and I are nothing but a mirage that we both dislike."
She didn't want to get close to him, so he controlled the red rope tied between their wrists and led her into the first painting.
The boundary between the two worlds of demons.
In the painting, Heng Jin and Li Wan were fighting fiercely. Bingpo was flexible and adaptable in her hands, and every move was unexpected.
She was dressed in red with handsome silver armor, and her posture was dashing, like a majestic general. Even the wind was kind to her, blowing her cloak into a beautiful shape, adding to her beauty.
Facing Heng Jin's attack, she responded naturally, and even made fun of him while busy.
Even though his cold "expressionless face" showed no emotion or reaction, she always had a bright and lively smile on her face.
This was the clearest moment for Yuanli to see Li Wan's beauty. She was truly... so beautiful...
Everyone who was related to Li Wan said that she looked very much like her, like a real sister, but when they really stood in front of her clearly, she looked like a fake that could not be examined closely.
"Hey! Bingtuozi! Aren't you tired? Stop fighting and talk to me. You've been fighting with me for three consecutive days and never talked to me. You're too aloof to make friends! So, which immortal king's soldier are you?"
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