If you want to light a wishing lantern, you must have the woman's name and date of birth, plus a handwritten wish, tie it to the lantern, and light it until it burns out.
Unfortunately, a woman's name and date of birth cannot be disclosed to outsiders. If seen by someone with ulterior motives, it may easily lead to bad rumors. Because of this incident before, the lighting of lamps is no longer allowed in the temple.
"Miss, do you need an old man to write for you?"
"Don't bother. I'll write it myself."
Chen Wei picked up the pen and neatly wrote down his name, birthday, and wish on the wishing slip.
She handed it to the old Taoist priest with a pious attitude.
Then he bowed and returned to his room with Aunt Zhao and others.
Only after Chen Wei and the others had left did the young Taoist priest look at his master in confusion: "Master, hasn't lighting wishing lanterns been banned for a long time? What's wrong with you today? Why are you making an exception?"
"Besides, don't you usually not like to laugh? Why is your smile so strange today?"
The old Taoist priest restrained the kind smile on his face.
He held the wishing stick, turned his head, and looked in the direction where Chen Wei left. An indescribable emotion rose in his eyes. He seemed to be recalling certain scenes through her back.
at last,
The old Taoist sighed and smiled, then lowered his head to wrap the wishing stick around the lantern. As he wrapped it around the lantern, he said, "What the wishing lantern prohibits is not the lantern itself, but the worldly shackles of the world. She is not a person of this world."
“Also outside the shackles.”
"This time, I think she will get what she wants."
The young Taoist priest didn't understand what these words meant. He frowned and thought for a while. When he looked up again, he saw the old Taoist priest holding the wishing lantern and leaving.
"Master, your lamp is not lit yet?"
The old Taoist priest didn't look back and stepped straight out of the door: "I know a little bit."
Everything in the world is reincarnation.
Cause and effect are connected and endless.
Chen Wei couldn't remember having met the old Taoist priest, let alone having been to Linghuang Temple, but the old Taoist priest looked at her and said it had been a long time since they last met.
Has she really seen it?
If so, when?
The old Taoist priest walked out of the temple holding a wishing lantern and headed towards a shelter on the east side. When he stood at the door of the shelter, he paused for a long time before knocking on the door inside.
“Knock knock knock—”
"Come in."
Push the door open and walk in.
What caught my eye was a slender male figure with broad shoulders and a narrow waist. He was wearing a gray Taoist robe, and his whole body exuded a noble demeanor that was inconsistent with his status.
Hearing the footsteps coming in, the man who was holding a string of Buddhist beads and resting with his eyes closed turned around. He had a handsome face, like a god. The moment he opened his eyes, a cold and majestic light flashed in his eyes.
The man's eyes were fixed on the object in the old Taoist priest's hand, the wishing lantern with a note wrapped around it.
His heart felt hot and his fingertips holding the Buddhist beads began to tremble.
Even his voice was a little hoarse: "Is it her?"
"It's her."
"Is it her who woke up?"
"yes."
"What did she wish for?"
The old Taoist priest took a deep look at the man whose fingertips were trembling, and saw the calm and indifferent expression on his face shattered and turned into panic. He was nothing like the man that outsiders had rumored.
"See for yourself." The old Taoist sighed.
He untied the wishing note and spread it out in front of the man.
The familiar yet unfamiliar words in front of him hit the man's pupils.
"Shen Curtain."
"Chinese."
"May I be strong and dignified, may I be proud and courageous, may I be strong and ardent, may I be free, may I return home."
The man stared at the wishing note, reading it over and over again. When he saw the words "Wish me to return home", the corners of his eyes suddenly turned red and his bony fingers tightened slightly.
It was so tight that it hurt him to breathe.
It's her.
She woke up.
Weiwei, wake up.
She is no longer the stupid female supporting role who is manipulated by others, no longer a tool to highlight Qin Shuyu's dignity and rationality in the book, no longer covered in wounds for Xie Yuchuan, and no longer lives according to the original plot.
"Don't you want to go see her?" said the old Taoist priest as he wrapped the wishing stick back onto the lantern.
The man paused, his eyes filled with emotions vying for dominance. Finally, all his desires and longings were suppressed. He lowered his eyes and chuckled softly, "No."
Curtains should be warm, bold and bright, and should not be bound by anyone.
Even if it's him.
His appearance would only hinder her progress.
“Everything in the world has its cause and its effect.”
"The first time I saw her, I knew that this time, she would get what she wanted."
"You promised to wake her up, and you did it, but she won't remember anything about the past. Don't you feel unwilling?"
The man adjusted his mood and picked up the Buddhist beads again: "Yes, but as long as she is happy, it's fine."
Speaking of this.
His mind was empty, as if he was recalling something, with a trace of heartache and guilt in his eyes: "That kind of ridiculous and disgusting ending should not have happened to Weiwei."
"Fortunately, we have done what we promised her."
The man closed his eyes, suppressing the urge to break through all obstacles and see Chen Wei.
He will always remember that day...
Chen Wei made a fool of herself in the Marquis's mansion, was despised and hated by Xie Yuchuan, and was eventually driven out of the mansion with bruises all over her body. Everyone in the capital looked down on her, and she was retaliated against and humiliated, like a dog that had lost its home.
She fell in the mud, covered in wounds, her life completely ruined.
But at this moment, at the end of the original book, Chen Wei's consciousness awakened. How painful she must have been. She looked at this terrible and ruined life and completely collapsed!
She cried,
She shouted,
She is in pain,
She couldn't believe that this was her life. She finally realized that she was living in a book, but the story had ended. She was sick and her legs were broken, and she could only wait to die.
That proud and upright Chen Wei was no longer able to redeem his life.
And what about the man? He was sitting in the carriage at that time, condescending to be noble, and just happened to lift the curtain and see her crying and wanting to go home...
That........
Forget it, I don’t want to think about it anymore.
This scene will never happen again.
"She paid such a huge price to ask Linghuang Temple to give her a chance to return to the plot, and gave me everything in exchange, just to let me wake her up at this moment. Now, we have completed her explanation, and she finally got what she wanted." The man laughed bitterly.
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