After being greatly shocked, what flashed through Chu MuYun’s mind was: impossible!
In the Demon Realm, none of them can die.
This is the world he made, for their sake. No matter which one of them dies, this space will quickly collapse. Currently the entire demon world was alive and well, so how can it be possible that Ye JianHan was dead?
Xie QianLan was lying to him, this was Chu MuYun’s first thought after he calmed down.
Chu MuYun let go of his hand and asked in a cold voice: “Why did he die?”
Xie QianLan said slowly: “After you left, Yan Chen was furious and the Gate of Life was unstable. You know the situation at that time; Ling Xuan and I were exhausted, Shen ShuiYan and Mo JiuShao were seriously injured, and the only one who was healthy was Ye JianHan. He was the one who saved Yan Chen but was sucked in by the Gate of Life.”
Chu MuYun understood, he frowned slightly, as if his heart had been pricked by a needle.
Yan Chen really didn’t want to be that praying mantis but he lost control of his emotions and made the Gate of Life unstable. This ‘instability’ is different from a riot and its power was much smaller. Normally, if that happens, whoever controls the Gate of Life would just suppress it but obviously at that time Yan Chen couldn’t do it.
Ye JianHan knew that Chu MuYun had not yet ‘proposed’ to Yan Chen, so he took the initiative to save Yan Chen but at this time, Gate of Life was already on the verge of a riot and Ye JianHan was not in a period of complete health… since he had healed Shen ShuiYan. To do that he had probably connected himself to the Asura Domain, which consumed a lot of his energy, making him unable to resist the Gate of Life and was sucked in.
Why? All for one sad reason.
Yan Chen loved him, so he lost control because of his departure; Ye JianHan loved him and didn’t want him to die, so he took great risks to save Yan Chen.
Because of the success of his previous strategies, Chu MuYun had retrieved most of his memories but it’s still a little hard to imagine why all of this had even happened.
Just for the sake of his desire to find an heir to replace himself: he had raised ‘him’ seven times and destroyed ‘him’ seven’ times. In the Demon Realm, he had continued to lie to him seven times and, in the end, in spite of everything failing, he still thought of him wholeheartedly, regardless of life and death. {Um as far as I know this is the first time that the author has come out and stated that all 7 people are reiterations of the same person, I mean I guess the flashbacks were kinda obvious but this is the first time she stated it. Just did it simply like this, no buildup.}
Chu MuYun knew that he loved him, but compared to the emotions the other person had towards him, his little bit of ‘love’ was only enough not to make the other person die of heartbreak.
Ye JianHan wouldn’t die if he was sucked into the Gate of Life, but he might see those sealed memories.
Chu MuYun recalled for a while and found that his memory of getting along with Ye JianHan in the ‘previous life’ was still very vague.
He could only remember that the young Ye JianHan cooked a table of good dishes for him and his black eyes flashed, hoping that Chu MuYun could stay and taste them but instead he left indifferently.
Chu MuYun withdrew his thoughts and his mood had completely calmed down.
Xie QianLan kept looking at him, seeing his expression change, but his heart couldn’t help cooling down a little bit.
Chu MuYun should care about Ye JianHan, otherwise he wouldn’t be so agitated when he heard the news of his death, but this caring is nothing more than a simple amount of ‘care’ and once he accepted it, he calmed down and recovered within a few sentences. Just the same as ever/
Xie QianLan should be happy, after all, there is one less competitor, but he couldn’t help but feel sad.
If it was him who died, would Chu MuYun accept it so easily? Within not even a quarter of an hour.
Chu MuYun looked at Xie QianLan: “Where are you taking me?”
Xie QianLan returned to his senses but his eyes were still surrounded by darkness and silence: “Where else can I take you?”
Chu MuYun was startled.
Xie QianLan suddenly pulled him closer and kissed him fiercely.
The entangled lips and tongue should have been intense and hot, but at this moment they were filled with unwillingness and despair. The hesitant and confused emotions choked the heart, made it difficult to breathe, and made ice balls wander in the blood of the whole body, as they staggered forward and all the pricked nerves were screaming with pain.
Chu MuYun felt his emotions, couldn’t help hugging him, indulged his kisses and let him vent.
Just make love, don’t talk about love. Xie QianLan who said such words actually felt the most ardent and fierce love.
Probably because he had the messy memories of the previous few times he was born. He knew that he loved him deeply and this obsession had been planted deeply inside his bone marrow since he was born.
He casually wandered around the mortal world, waiting for him with extreme means, but finally realized that no matter how many times he repeated this action, he would never be able to get his love.
In desperation at last, he chose real death for the first time.
Xie QianLan knows that as long as he deviates from what Chu MuYun expected, he would erase his memory, but time after time, time after time, he can do everything he asks but the only thing he can’t do is let go of the “love” he had for him.
From Mo JiuShao, Yan Chen, Shen ShuiYan, Jun Mo to Xie QianLan, they seemed to be cursed, no matter how many times they lost their memories, no matter how many times they came back, no matter what methods Chu MuYun used to get close to him, they could never turn back, and would only become more and more madly infatuated with him.
But Chu MuYun doesn’t want it, he doesn’t want ‘his’ love, but only wants him to become like him…
Aa god who possesses enormous power and is above everything, but has no love or desires.
However, Xie QianLan couldn’t do it.
Xie QianLan’s determination finally woke up Chu MuYun and made him really start to ‘change’.
When Chu MuYun came back to his senses, Xie QianLan had already carried him out of the maze.
The moonlight is like water, gently sprinkled on the lakeside, and the shimmering light is like countless tiny fireflies, floating on the water playfully, enjoying their short but brilliant life wantonly.
Through the brightness, Chu MuYun saw his pale and helpless face.
Xie QianLan washed his body with warm water and said softly, “Ling Xuan has recovered his memory.”
Chu MuYun looked up at him.
Xie QianLan repeated again: “Ye JianHan is really dead.”
Chu MuYun frowned and said, “He’s not dead.”
Xie QianLan said: “Three thousand years ago, before Jun Mo gave Ling Xuan the Heart-Loss Pill, Ye JianHan extracted a wisp of Ling Xuan’s wandering soul and that wandering soul carried all Ling Xuan’s memories.”
Ye JianHan was indeed able to do this. Just as before when Chu MuYun passed through the Asura Domain to turn Ye JianHan into Ye DanDan, Ye JianHan was able to keep a wisp of his own wandering soul and attached it to Ye DanDan and which carried all his memories.
Ling Xuan was originally Ye JianHan. Hence he extracted his wandering soul and kept it for as long as he wanted. There is nothing wrong with this logic.
Xie QianLan lowered his eyes and continued: “Ye JianHan died, that’s why this wandering soul was released and returned to Ling Xuan’s body.”
Chu MuYun’s heart skipped a beat.
Xie QianLan dressed him, touched his slightly trembling lips and continued: “Do you think that if Ye JianHan wasn’t really dead, that he would Ling Xuan recover his memories?”
“It’s impossible, you like Ling Xuan so much so how could he let him remember everything?”
But Chu MuYun knew that Ye JianHan did it on purpose.
Perhaps even Ye JianHan thought he was going to die, so he released Ling Xuan’s wandering soul, hoping that Chu MuYun could succeed in his marriage proposal, and then… live on.