Chu Yuan - Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Step back? Step back to where?

He wanted to imprison me in that desolate barrier again.

To let me continue living like that, never seeing the light of day?

I won’t!

I ran in a panic. I ran toward the exit.

But I was forced back to the edge where the sea of clouds met the sky by the guards who swarmed forward.

I stubbornly tilted my head up.

“Let me return to the Mortal Realm.”

Canglan’s expression was strange.

It looked like pity, yet also like mockery.

“Chu Yuan, you are too naive.”

“During your time in the Heavenly Realm, the Mortal Realm has changed beyond recognition. Who knows how many times your friends and family have died in the cycle of reincarnation!”

“Do you think there’s anyone still waiting for you?”

I said hoarsely, “Yes.”

Canglan froze for a moment.

“Who? That scholar from next door?”

“He died long ago! Even his bones have turned to ash!”

He laughed out of extreme anger.

“This Venerable One knew you still had feelings for him. You’ve finally admitted it.”

A scholar?

I thought blankly, who was the scholar?

But I still said, “Yes.”

Under his shocked gaze, I closed my eyes and leaped.

…

I was left bloodied and battered by the chaotic astral winds among the clouds.

The wind howled. Beneath me was an endless fall.

Then, I came to a halt at a certain height.

Someone gasped in my ear.

Blood matted my eyelids shut.

I didn’t know where I was.

I only heard a clear, crisp voice.

It sounded like a very young girl.

“Daddy said you can’t pick up men from the side of the road.”

She sounded a bit hesitant.

“But a woman…”

“I should be able to pick her up… right?”

The little girl mumbled to herself, repeating it.

As if she had made up her mind.

“Mhm… I’ll take her back to be my mommy!”

Time passed like shifting stars; a hundred years went by in a flash.

On the day Niannian went to the Mortal Realm for her Transformation Tribulation, I was even more anxious than she was.

The little girl had been born with a weak constitution, and she had inherited her father’s non-human nature.

Even after a hundred years, she had only managed to condense a phantom form.

A slightly stronger gust of wind in the Demon Abyss could blow her away.

“Don’t be afraid. I have already calculated Niannian’s journey.”

I turned my gaze to the man beside me.

His expression was hidden behind a silver mask, impossible to see clearly.

“It is a most auspicious omen.”

I stared at him intently. “Then what about you?”

Nameless was my husband.

A nameless ghost, thus he took Nameless as his name.

Like Niannian, he was a gathering of shadows.

In a few days, it would be time for him to enter secluded meditation for his breakthrough.

Nameless gave a very soft laugh.

He wanted to stroke my hair, but suddenly realized he wasn’t a physical entity.

His hand stopped awkwardly halfway.

I saw this, stood on my tiptoes, and leaned my head toward him.

“It’s okay, Husband.”

I smiled until my eyes curved like crescents.

“I won’t laugh at you, of course.”

Just like how he didn’t look down on me back when I had hit my head and couldn’t remember anything.

Since we were husband and wife, it was only natural to take care of each other.

With that, I gave the Nameless in front of me a big “mwah.”

I had seen couples in the Mortal Realm do this to express their love through a water mirror.

However…

I narrowed my eyes and looked at his suspiciously red ears.

“Are you shy?”

“Tsk, we’re an old married couple. Take off your mask and let me see you blush.”

Nameless instinctively backed away.

I muttered under my breath, “Stingy ghost.”

Then again, in all these years, I had never seen his face!

After a long while, I heard his low voice.

“I… am very ugly.”

Nameless lowered his eyelashes.

I couldn’t see his expression, but I felt like he was sad.

After thinking about it, I told him seriously,

“Although I’m curious, I care about you more than that.”

“A physical shell in the world is just skin. If you don’t want to, I won’t ask again.”

Nameless’s eyelashes trembled slightly.

“It’s not that I’m unwilling.”

He suddenly changed his tune, his gaze deep.

“When I emerge from seclusion, I will show my wife. How about that?”