Chapter 221: Chapter 221: Do You Believe That I’m Reincarnated?
Xu Jinzhi’s heart was beating very fast, fast enough to prove the panic she felt at the mont. She looked at the old monk and didn’t know what he would say next.
After a long wait, the old monk said with a sowhat hoarse voice, “Benefactor, what are you afraid of? Hasn’t everything already started over?”
“Hasn’t everything already started over?” This simple sentence struck Xu Jinzhi’s heart fiercely.
Xu Jinzhi couldn’t clearly describe her feelings at the mont, she just felt incredulous.
Did the monk in front of her know that she had been reborn?
Did he know everything?
Xu Jinzhi opened her mouth but couldn’t utter a word, she could even clearly feel herself trembling.
Seeing this, the old monk couldn’t help but heave a sigh, seemingly a bit lancholic, “Don’t be afraid, everything has already started anew.”
“You are blessed.”
Xu Jinzhi swallowed hard, no longer dwelling on why the other person knew she was reborn.
After all, rebirth itself was a baffling thing, but that was the reality. Therefore, if soone knew about it, it didn’t seem that strange.
Xu Jinzhi tried to steady her emotions, her voice trembling as she asked the old monk, “Won’t I repeat the sa mistakes?”
Actually, Xu Jinzhi wanted to ask more directly, “Xie Yanchuan won’t die, right?”
But she couldn’t bring herself to ask it out loud.
The old monk still smiled, “Everything has already started over.”
Xu Jinzhi was silent for quite a while before she softly said, “Thank you.”
The old monk just smiled.
A gust of wind ca by, causing Xu Jinzhi’s long hair to beco sowhat disheveled. In a trance, she seed to co back to her senses.
The old monk was still in front of her without leaving, only saying in a gentle voice after Xu Jinzhi ca back to her senses, “Go back, there’s no need to dwell on the past.”
After the old monk finished speaking, he bowed slightly to Xu Jinzhi, then walked straight ahead without glancing aside.
Xu Jinzhi turned to watch the monk’s receding figure, tears glimring in her eyes. After a long mont, Xu Jinzhi took a deep breath and started walking back the way she had co.
Only when Xu Jinzhi reached the stairs leading down the mountain did she couldn’t help but look back one more ti.
The old monk had already disappeared. Xu Jinzhi murmured softly, “Everything has already started over.”
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Xu Jinzhi returned ho before five o’clock.
Xie Yanchuan asked in surprise, “Haven’t you eaten?”
She said she was going to go shopping with Song You, and by all accounts, she should have co back after having dinner together. Coming back at this ti obviously ant she hadn’t eaten.
Xu Jinzhi stared at Xie Yanchuan for two seconds, then smiled, “She had other things to do, so I ca back first.”
“I see,” Xie Yanchuan didn’t ask further, “Then I’ll have Auntie prepare two dishes you like.”
Xu Jinzhi hadn’t intended to co back for dinner, so there were no dishes she liked prepared in the kitchen at that mont.
“Mm,” Xu Jinzhi nodded slightly, without saying much.
It wasn’t until after dinner that Xie Yanchuan took Tuantuan back upstairs to take a bath.
Xu Jinzhi returned to the bedroom first, and Xie Yanchuan just gave her a glance. It was only after bathing Tuantuan that he returned to the bedroom.
By then, Xu Jinzhi had also finished her bath. Xie Yanchuan went to get a hairdryer to dry Xu Jinzhi’s hair.
Throughout the whole process, neither of them spoke a word, but their gazes t several tis in the mirror.
Not until the hairdryer stopped did the bedroom beco completely quiet.
Yet, they continued to look at each other through the mirror.
“Jinzhi…”
“Xie Yanchuan…”
Both spoke at the sa ti.
Then Xie Yanchuan said, “You go first.”
Xu Jinzhi didn’t refuse, but she stopped looking at Xie Yanchuan through the mirror. Instead, she turned around, slightly tilted her head up to look at Xie Yanchuan in front of her, “Do you rember telling you that I have a secret?”
Xie Yanchuan was startled for a mont and then nodded his head, “I rember.”
She said she had a secret, she hadn’t told him, but he knew that Xu Jinzhi was pained by that secret.
Xu Jinzhi reached out to hug Xie Yanchuan, burying her head in his abdon.
And Xie Yanchuan, being hugged by Xu Jinzhi, could feel her holding on tightly, clearly in a state of unease.
Xie Yanchuan couldn’t help but raise his hand, stroking Xu Jinzhi’s smooth hair, and softly comforted her, “I’ve said, don’t be afraid. No matter what it is, I’ll face it with you.”
“Xie Yanchuan, do you believe in ghosts and gods in this world?”
“Do you believe soone could die and then return to the past?”
Xu Jinzhi’s voice was very soft, as if she were afraid her words would frighten Xie Yanchuan.
This ti, Xie Yanchuan didn’t respond promptly. The hand that had been stroking Xu Jinzhi’s head paused for a mont and then resud its gentle motion after a short while.
Then Xie Yanchuan continued, “As long as you’re the one saying it, I believe.”
He would believe her, no matter how ridiculous the matter, no matter how much it defied science.
Xu Jinzhi’s tears silently slid out from her eyes, her voice hoarse as she said, “Then let tell you, I have been reborn. Do you believe that?”
“I believe,” Xie Yanchuan said very firmly.
“Do you want to know what our past life was like?” Xu Jinzhi asked.
Xie Yanchuan said, “If you’re willing to tell , I’m ready to listen. If you don’t want to, that’s fine too, that’s all in the past.”
A trace of sadness flickered in Xu Jinzhi’s eyes, and she couldn’t help but close them.
A mont later, Xu Jinzhi continued, “In my past life, I was originally engaged to Xie Linchuan. I was supposed to marry Xie Linchuan.”
Hearing this, Xie Yanchuan’s movents paused again, and he even involuntarily trembled slightly, with a look of astonishnt in his eyes, as if he had not expected this.
“But later, due to so events, my engagent with Xie Linchuan was called off, but our two families were already tied together.”
“I had no choice but to marry you.”
Thinking of this made Xu Jinzhi extrely uncomfortable, and she wondered, why didn’t she like Xie Yanchuan at that ti?
Hearing the soft sobs of Xu Jinzhi, Xie Yanchuan’s hand again rested on top of her hair, stroking gently, obviously comforting her.
“What happened later?” Xie Yanchuan asked.
Xu Jinzhi continued, “We got married, but our relationship wasn’t good at the beginning. It wasn’t just bad, it was because I didn’t like you and was angry at the Xie Family, so naturally, I treated you poorly.”
“Then we had Tuantuan. You loved Tuantuan very much, and, and you loved too.”
“You treated very well, better than anyone else. It seed like no matter what I did, as soon as I thought of you, you would definitely be there.”
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