TVIRAD – Chapter 63

Arc 5
There is a Ghost in Your Heart (7)

💝~Happy Valentine~💝

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As soon as he finished speaking, there was a loud bang outside. Jiang Huai let go of Ye Chen. He straightened up and said softly, “A’Chen, I will be back soon.”

“Wait!” Ye Chen stopped him, “What are you going to do?!”

Jiang Huai gave her a lukewarm smile. “Don’t worry,” he assured, “That child comes here, naturally, I will kill him.”

“Jiang Huai!”

Ye Chen got up. By this time, Jiang Huai had closed the door and gone out.

Ye Chen’s worry went out of the roof. She pursed her lips. Her hand began to write complicated spells on the side.

Jiang Huai’s array was almost unbreakable, almost. If Ye Chen desperately wanted to go out, with her strong soul, she may have the strength to do it.

She used almost all the power of her soul to write down these spells. The light in her body didn’t seem to approve of her behavior and it was constantly flashing. She ignored these and said directly, “If it weren’t for me, you would have disappeared a long time ago, Ye Chen.”

A person who shouldn’t exist in the first place, why should she be afraid?

The light did not flash again, as if it was contemplating, and then it went still.

When Ye Chen was in a hurry to break her array, Lin Jianxi was just about to break his array. He walked out of the array with Chu Tian and was besieged by a group of people in white robes.

Lin Jianxi didn’t move, he pulled Chu Tian, who was frightened, behind him. Still, he stood proudly. He and Chu Tian wore similar robes as Ye Chen. They stood upright, one big and one small, and looked remarkably harmonious.

“I’m here for Ye Chen,” Lin Jianxi said directly, declaring to those people. “Tell Jiang Huai to come out!”

“Presumptuous!”

Those people were angered, “Since you are a Feng Shui Master, you should have the distinction of the older generation! The owner of this house is your qianbei. How dare you directly call him by his name!”

“What Qianbei? He is not my Qianbei.” Lin Jianxi frowned. “Tell him to come out now!”

“Lin-xiaodi,” Jiang Huai’s voice came over. Lin Jianxi raised his head and saw a young man in a white robe stepping out from the corner of the corridor.

Compared with that year, he was much thinner and full of hostility. Even if he was smiling, he made people uneasy. He halted in the middle of the crowd on the promenade. He put his hands in his sleeves, looked over Lin Jianxi with a polite smile, “We met again. ”

“Cut the nonsense,” Lin Jianxi twisted his hand, “Hand Ye Chen back to me.”

“Hand her over?” Jiang Huai chucked, as if he heard something very funny. He raised his eyebrow and smiled at Lin Jianxi, “What qualifications do you have to tell me to hand over Ye Chen?”

Lin Jianxi was mystified. Jiang Huai raised his voice, his tone was raging, as if it was thunder delivering a crushing blow. “She is my wife, Jiang Huai’s wife. She is engaged to me. We are childhood sweethearts. Her body is still in my Jiang Family’s ancestral hall^[1]. Even if she is dead, she should still be by my side. She should be in my Jiang Family’s ancestral hall. What qualifications do you have to tell me to hand her over”

Lin Jianxi couldn’t answer it.

He didn’t move. His gaze downcast, “I don’t care what her identity is, nor do I care about your identity. Let alone the entanglement between both of you. I only know that she is my Jiejie. If she wants to stay here, I won’t stop her. If she wants to leave, no one can stop her. ”

Lin Jianxi elevated his head and gazed straight at Jiang Huai. He asserted, “Regardless of whether you are her old friend or even her husband, you can’t interfere with her decision.”

He was still young, a teenager, a fledgling boy, but he did not take a step back in front of his predecessor who was praised by everyone in the Feng Shui industry.

Jiang Huai was startled by his clear and firm eyes. He looked into Lin Jianxi’s eyes and thought that such a person had been with Ye Chen for three years. A sense of panic gnawed on his heart.

So even if he knew that it was wrong, even if he knew that it was against his usual benevolence, he still made a move!

The flame rose from the ground. 

Lin Jianxi changed his face, and pushed Chu Tian back, “Go!”

Chu Tian recited a spell and disappeared into the crowd in a blink. The surrounding people swarmed up. Lin Jianxi drew out the sword in his hand and fought with them. Jiang Huai watched quietly from the side, controlling the array under Lin Jianxi’s feet, manipulating the surroundings to strike on Lin Jianxi,.

Lin Jianxi dodged people and objects at the same time. After a while, his body was scarred and his movement slowed down.

He looked at the apathetic-looking person in front of him, and for the first time, he began to resent himself.

Resented that he didn’t work hard enough in the past, resented that he was not strong enough, and resented that he rejected all the teaching Ye Chen offered before. 

If he learned from Ye Chen earlier, if he worked harder, wouldn’t he be more than what he was now? He evidently know that she was in Jiang Huai’s hands, but he couldn’t bring her back.

Faintly, he had another thought.

That thought was so terrifying that he didn’t dare to look more into it.

But when he was completely knocked to the ground by Jiang Huai and was pressed on the ground, that thought surged up again.

He’s so strong.

Ye Chen’s fiance was way too good. 

Between him and Ye Chen’s fiance, the gap was too wide.

Lin Jianxi closed his eyes, struggling to push down the thought back to the bottom of his heart, the thoughts that he never dared to think about. He didn’t dare to explore it. 

He swung his sword and compelled Jiang Huai to back away. He rolled on the ground in chagrin.

Jiang Huai motioned over to his subordinates’ sword. He seized the advantage of the flaw that Lin Jianxi revealed.

However, at this time, Jiang Huai heard an angry cry, “Stop!”

The crowd looked over. Jiang Huai paused slightly. At that moment, a strong force hit his hand and bashed the sword away. 

All this happened within a second, Ye Chen had already snatched the sword and stood in front of Lin Jiangxi. Jiang Huai’s face distorted. He attempted to grab the sword, but a dagger stabbed out from behind him!

Everyone was shocked. Ye Chen’s brain was faster than her body. That’s not right, it’s not her. To be precise, when Ye Chen realized it, her body was not her own anymore. The real Ye Chen moved fast. She locked her and took over her body. She held the dagger in Jiang Huai’s body, and shoved Chu Tian, the one who had ambushed Jiang Huai with the invisibility robe.

Chu Tian was struck and flew out. He coughed blood and collided with Lin Jianxi.

Lin Jianxi’s eyes widened from shock. He instantly snapped his head to Ye Chen who was holding Jiang Huai. 

“Scram.”

“Ye Chen” didn’t look back. She stared at Jiang Huai’s wound. Her palms shook as she held him.

Ye Chen had expended most of this body’s energy to break the array, and her soul was facing the risk of disappearing.

She had no power to touch Jiang Huai with her current strength, but the warmth of that person made her greedy and reluctant to let him go.

All her life, she was heartless and unconcerned. She thought that what she pursued in her life was nothing more than pushing the limit of the strong. Nevertheless, when the man insisted on summoning her soul day and night, she realized that she was only an ordinary person after all.

She would experience joy, anger, and sorrow. She would feel guilty and distressed when this person chased after her with crazy persistence.

She didn’t understand what kind of emotion this was. She never analyzed it. She just did what she wanted to do.

She shifted her hand and traced his wound. The palm of her hand glowed.

Jiang Huai understood what she was going to do. He grasped her hand and admonished, “Stop!”

“You are hurt,” Ye Chen stated. “Ye Chen” looked up at him. In her cold eyes was the indifference he had always been familiar with, a detachment from the world, a person who couldn’t be touched by the red dust. “You will die.”

It’s her.

There was no what or why, but Jiang Huai knew by heart. The person in front of him was the real Ye Chen. 

He gazed obsessively at her. He trembled with elation. His eyes glistened, “You… You are back… You are really back…”

“Mn.” “Ye Chen” replied. She unmovingly stared at his wound. Jiang Huai guessed her mind and hurriedly comforted, “No, I won’t die. I have many healing talismans on me.”

With that said, he pasted the talisman paper on himself, and then said, “Wait a minute, I’ll draw you a soul gathering array… you…”

Before he finished speaking, “Ye Chen” snatched a few pieces of talisman paper out of his hand and threw it in front of Lin Jianxi. She spoke indifferently, “Our acquaintances are predestined. You are young. Leave. When I recover, I will give justice to your case. Go back and wait.”

The talisman paper slapped Lin Jianxi on the face. It had an astonishing effect. His wound began to heal visibly. But, the pain was still there. He didn’t feel better. He clenched his fist and gritted his teeth, “Then, when will you come back?”

“Ye Chen” paused, “I’m not her. I won’t go back.”

I’m not her?

What do you mean ‘I’m not her’?

Lin Jianxi was dazed. He watched “Ye Chen” checked Jiang Huai’s wound.

Such a gentle and meticulous appearance was a stark contrast to her indifference just before.

What happened?

Why did she suddenly change?

Because Jiang Huai didn’t like him? Because Chu Tian hurt Jiang Huai? Or, because she was now on Jiang Huai’s side and didn’t want Jiang Huai to see her treat them well?

Lin Jianxi’s mind was blank. Chu Tian wept, shouting “Jiejie” and “Don’t you want us anymore, Jiejie?” as he ran to Ye Chen,

The person next to him stopped him right away. Without the invisibility robe, Chu Tian was not much better than any ordinary child.

Yet, “Ye Chen” feigned not to have heard it. Her focus was all on Jiang Huai’s wound.

She was lazy, except for the people she cares about, she never liked to talk to others. She believed that she had already explained what should be explained, so she didn’t bother to appease more.

Chu Tian’s cries were loud. It distracted her from examining Jiang Huai’s wound. “Ye Chen” scowled and glanced at the guard, “Noisy.”

These were people who grew up with Jiang Huai, and they were also familiar with the habit of “Ye Chen” in the past. With only one word from “Ye Chen”, the guard understood what she meant. They dragged Chu Tian, who had fallen, forward and said to Lin Jianxi. “The matter has been made clear. Our Xiaojie also stayed voluntarily. Now, can you please go?”

Lin Jianxi’s condition was much better than Chu Tian’s. He scrutinized Ye Chen.

He also wanted to cry and scream like Chu Tian, to question her. But, facing her cold back, he sensed that once he made a word, it seemed to be the same as offering his feelings to be trampled on. 

The most dreadful outcome was, this person really may trample on it.

Therefore, he couldn’t ask. He had no courage to ask. Maintaining his front was probably the only dignity he could keep in this relationship.

He held Chu Tian with a grim face. “Since Jiejie voluntarily stayed here and clearly is fine, that means we are overly meddlesome. We will leave right away.”

Lin Jianxi dragged Chu Tian to leave.

Chu Tian refused to comply, regardless of anything, he cried and cried, shouting he wanted his Jie. Until they reached the Jiang Family’s gate, Chu Tian was still crying. Lin Jianxi eventually snapped, “Stop crying!”

“Let me go! I want Jiejie! I want Jiejie!!!”

“There is no more Jiejie!” Lin Jianxi yelled, “She doesn’t want you! She doesn’t want you anymore! Why can’t you just accept it!”

The tears on the corner of his eyes slipped down from his outburst. He wiped it away in discomfiture and turned away. 

In fact, facing this matter, he was no better than Chu Tian. 

His sealed lips quivered. When the first tear fell, it all became transparent.

Chu Tian was staggered by his yelling. He remained silent. Lin Jianxi put his head on his neck and said in a dumb voice, “Sleep, we’ll go home. Gege will be with you. We will be fine.”

Chu Tian hugged Lin Jianxi’s neck and whimpered once more.

Lin Jianxi carried Chu Tian in his arms and searched for a hotel. He opened a room and laid Chu Tian on the bed. In the end, Chu Tian was a child. He fell asleep after exhausting his energy to cry. But, Lin Jianxi couldn’t fall asleep.

Obviously, the room was not big, but when he sat on the sofa, he felt that he was all alone in a vast space. The feeling was awful. 

His mind was empty. He didn’t know where to go or what to do in the future.

He knew what he had to face. There was an Eight Yin Ghost-faced Spider that may come to kill him at any time. There was his family that always wanted his life. He was born carrying a fate full of hatred, but he was never afraid of it in the past. 

In the past, he lived a simple life. Ye Chen was with him, and he believed that things would always stay like that. 

Even if he was afraid, even if he was befuddled, even if he was terrified, there would always be someone— someone that silently guarded him even if she had long died. 

She was quiet. She was powerful. Even if sometimes she acted out of tune, she always made it clear that she was with him. He didn’t have to worry or be afraid of anything.

He never thought she would leave.

And yet, out of nowhere, that person was lost.

He could only watch that person vanish from his life. Even if she didn’t tell them to scram today, he could probably only watch her and Jiang Huai, delivering a blessing— I wish you happiness.

If they got married, he would add another blessing— I wish you a harmonious marriage lasting a hundred years.

Visualizing that picture, Lin Jianxi covered his eyes with his arm. He shrank into the sofa.

He’s not Chu Tian.

In the night, in the dark corner where no one could peep, at last, he didn’t have to conceal his emotions. He could admit that his feelings for Ye Chen were different from Chu Tian.

He didn’t know when it started, let alone when it would end. 

He was no longer the 14 years old who admired and worshiped her because of a video. 

A warm and sour feeling had long uprooted and sprouted in his heart. 

He never admitted it because he was afraid of losing her. He was afraid that he would be deprived of the right to stand by her side. 

It was a blessing to be able to know her and stand by her side. 

But, why.

He only wanted so little. He had tried his best. Why did she still leave?

Lin Jianxi closed his eyes and curled on the sofa, suppressing his sobs.

After ”Ye Chen” stabilized her soul in the soul gathering array, she wandered around and released Ye Chen, who had been locked for a long time.

Ye Chen actually freaked out at first. She conjured many possibilities of what this “Ye Chen” would do after she was locked up by her. And one of the possibilities was proven true. This person, Ye Chen, was so arrogant and lazy, so lazy to the extent that she didn’t waste words on someone she didn’t care about.

When she watched Chu Tian cry and Lin Jianxi fumbled to leave, she almost burst into tears with 38 in her arms. The moment she was released from her imprisonment and their Divine Consciousness met, she slapped Ye Chen. 

“Ye Chen” quickly dodged. After many rounds of clashes between the two, “Ye Chen” glowered, “Finished?”

Ye Chen clenched her hands. She sat down and repressed her ire, “Don’t you know my relationship with Lin Jianxi and Chu Tian? Will it kill you to say something to them?”

“I have.”

“They obviously didn’t understand.”

“Not my business.”

“Fuck!”

“I am generous enough to keep Chu Tian alive.”

“Fuck!”

“Anymore ‘Fuck’?”

Ye Chen, “……”

Nevermind. She knew her temper.

She took a deep breath and faced her, “Don’t you know that you survived because of me? Do you want me to narrate your ending if I didn’t come?”

“Your memory is shared with me,” “Ye Chen” informed smoothly. Ye Chen was instantly floored.

“38,” Ye Chen rashly reported, “There is a bug in your System!”

38 changed its expression from “Laughing with Tears” to  “/( T o T)/~~”, “38 has no energy. 38 has not been upgraded. This plane is full of Big Boss. 38 can’t help it!”

“Your voice, I can hear it too.”

“Ye Chen” informed again.

Ye Chen was taciturn. A while later, she didn’t mince her words, “Let’s make it clear, I will leave in a year and a half after I complete my task. You, a Feng Shui Master, understand the Causality Cycle, right? I helped you. Then, you understand our Cause and Effect, don’t you?

“I’ll help you.” “Ye Chen” spoke coldly, “We can cooperate. As soon as possible, return my body to me.” 

Ye Chen bowled over. Return her body as soon as possible… Didn’t that just mean she must leave this world as soon as possible…

She left this world… Then, what about Lin Jianxi?

She left early; She left late. It’s all the same. She still left. With her gone, how would Lin Jianxi spend the rest of his life?

How did Shen Jingfeng spend his?

38 told her that he had a good life, he had many friends and traveled to many places. 38 told her that he lived a very happy life. 

But, now, looking at Jiang Huai, Ye Chen was unexpectedly uncertain. 

Shen Jingfeng, that man, always hid his wounds under his smile. He walked alone on the stormy road. Where did 38, a system, could judge whether he was happy or not?

If Shen Jingfeng’s life was not good, then what would be of Lin Jianxi?

While thinking of this question, Ye Chen thought of another question.——

Shen Jingfeng and she were husband and wife in the last life. He loved her. What about Lin Jianxi in this life?

Ye Chen was dazed. She wasn’t sure.

She understood that she was important to Lin Jianxi, but in what regards?

A lover? A relative? She couldn’t tell.

“What are you hesitating about?” The original owner was dissatisfied, Ye Chen returned to her senses and bit her lips, “I want to ask Jiang Huai a few questions.”

“Mn.”

The original owner gave her consent. As a matter of fact, she could guess what Ye Chen’s questions were. She didn’t bother to say more and went to Jiang Huai. She explained her relationship with Ye Chen to Jiang Huai and offered the control of the body to Ye Chen. 

Jiang Huai was lying in bed, smiling at Ye Chen. 

When the real “Ye Chen” returned, Jiang Huai regained his noble demeanor when she first met him. A person worthy of respect. A bright young man comparable to the moon. 

Ye Chen became reserved. In the face of this person, she continuously felt guilty. She started cautiously, “Jiang-xiansheng. Before…  I… stepped out of my line.”

“There’s no harm.” Jiang Huai reassured, “A’Chen has told me all about it. Instead, I should be grateful that you gave A’Chen a chance to survive.”

“I didn’t do it deliberately. Jiang-xiansheng doesn’t have to thank me.” Ye Chen quickly expressed, “I am here because I want to ask Jiang-xiansheng about something…”

“Please do, Guniang.”

“That… Um, Xiansheng knows this… I will probably leave in a year and a half at most. But, I don’t want the person I love to suffer like Jiang-xiansheng. I want to know… is there a way that will let me not hurt my beloved ones?”

Ye Chen looked up at Jiang Huai, “If the person that Jiang-xiansheng loved disappeared, in what kind of situation would Jiang-xiansheng feel less pain?”

Hearing this, Jiang Huai smiled. There was both pain and compassion in his eyes. He answered softly, “There must be hope. ”

“Hope?”

“Yes.” Jiang Huai sighed, “The reason for the suffering is despair. If there is hope, even if the process is painful, they can persevere. The person in Guniang’s question, it’s Lin Jianxi, isn’t it?”

Ye Chen was bewildered. Soon afterward, she replied with a feeble “Mn.”

She was not good at expressing herself, but now she was seen through by Jiang Huai, She was a bit embarrassed. Jiang Huai smiled, “If it’s Lin Jianxi, how about Guniang make it clear to him? That you and A’Chen are not the same person. After Guniang told him that, Guniang could lie to him that you need to enter the secret realm of the Ye Family to nurture your soul. You will come back after you are well. It will give him a glimmer of hope.”

“He can talk to you at any time at the entrance of the Ye Family’s secret realm. If it is necessary, let A’Chen pretend to be you and chat with him for a while. In this way, Guniang’s departure will only be a temporary separation for him. With this hope, he won’t suffer much.”

“But…” Ye Chen was tangled, “You can recognize “Ye Chen”. He probably can recognize it too, right?”

“I am not perfectly sure that you are not A’Chen.” Jiang Huai’s smile weakened, “I just have an inkling that this person is not the person I know. If A’Chen doesn’t show up for a long time, I think, I will only feel that I have lost my love for her.”

“If he also recognizes it, he will be in pain for a while, and later, he will treat it as his love has been exhausted.”

“Choosing not to love is different from being forced to lose your love.”

Ye Chen listened quietly to Jiang Huai’s words. She asked the last question, “Then, what if he waited, waited for ten years and another ten years, yet no one came?”

“If I were him,” The smile ever present on Jiang Huai’s face, “I would die with hope. I would die where I thought that I was closest to you.”

“I won’t even think about the fact that you are not in this world anymore.”

“Because, how dare I think about such a cruel thing? ”

“You must be alive. The whole world tells me so, then you must be alive. ”

“Guniang,” Jiang Huai sighed softly, “You have to go, even if it’s cruel, it’s a fact that he must face. We can only think about how to sugar it up and make the knife stab shallower, that is all.”

“After all, when all is said and done, it still hurts.”

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Footnotes

1. 祠堂 – cítáng. The ancestral hall, also known as the ancestral temple, is a place where wooden tablets of deceased is placed. The tablets are arranged in order according to the generation. In traditional weddings, the ancestral hall serves a major symbolic function, completing the ‘transfer’ of a woman to her husband’s family.↵

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