stjorthotic Chapter 951 Your Story
Chapter 951 Your Story
"I didn't see anyone." Jiang You said seriously, "Why did you come to see me?"
"To be precise, I'm not looking for you, but someone else. But after thinking about it, I still want to talk to you now. After all, I can't seem to find anyone else to chat with."
Xuan Xi said, "This heart reminds me of many things, many things that I shouldn't have thought of."
"For example?"
“For example, the dilemma we are facing now.”
Jiang You raised the corner of his mouth, as if he had expected it, and uttered two words faintly, "Creating a god?"
Hearing this, Xuan Xi was startled and looked at her in surprise, "You actually guessed it?"
Jiang You, "A few days ago, I confirmed one thing."
"what?"
"The so-called abyss is here in the future."
Jiang You's voice was very calm, and there was even a slight smile on the corner of his mouth. There was no sign of anxiety when he talked about these things. He was so calm, as if he already knew what was going to happen next.
“At first, I didn’t have this idea, but the more times I entered the abyss, the more this doubt surrounded my mind.
After all, the mountain temple in the abyss is too similar to the mountain temple in Long Mountain.
Everything in this world has its origin; the abyss cannot appear out of thin air.
So these days, I've been wondering, where did the abyss come from?
Until that day, when I entered the huge heart in the cave below the Abyss Temple, everything had an answer...
The power of the abyss is time. It is a flaw in the river of time that merges the future and the past into different timelines, thus creating such a place.
It is the past, because it existed before Chaos.
It is also the future, because it is a relic left over from the last cycle...
I am increasingly convinced that there are some things that someone in the last cycle could have left behind, maybe someone else, maybe us..."
Jiang You's voice carried a calming power, and Xuan Xi listened carefully.
"Especially after the Abyss merged into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, I have almost confirmed this conjecture. Xuan Xi, I want you to give me an answer. You should know it."
"What does Madam Jiang Jiang think I know?"
"Red-Eyed's daughter is not a love-brained person. She would not help an emperor to kill a god just because she fell in love with him. She even took your heart."
Jiang You stared at him straight, "Xuan Xi, I want to know, how could a human emperor who can kill all the old gods with the power of a mortal be so easily taken away by someone?
Unless he did it on purpose...you gave her your heart voluntarily."
Hearing this, Xuan Xi couldn't help but admire the person in front of him.
She had not experienced what happened back then, but her guess was pretty close.
Xuan Xi said, "You are right, but what happened back then cannot be explained in just a few words."
"We have plenty of time, don't we?" Jiang Youping glanced at the darkness. After all, there was nothing I could do now except waiting. Instead of spending the rest of the time in boredom, I might as well listen to an interesting story.
Xuan Xi smiled knowingly, "Do you want to hear her story, or my story?"
"I'm more interested in yours."
Jiang You pushed the hot tea on the coffee table towards Xuan Xi, "A human emperor who can kill gods by himself, his story must be very exciting.
Your Majesty, I have no other hobbies except listening to stories.
I have heard a lot of stories so far, but if you ask me which one I am most looking forward to, it is probably this one that I am waiting for right now.”
Xuan Xi smiled, but the smile on that honest-looking face seemed a little forced.
Amid Xuan Xi's calm voice, a brand new story unfolded before Jiang You's eyes.
A story that had disappeared in the literature unfolded before Jiang You.
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Tens of thousands of years ago, there were many small countries on this land.
Among them, there is a small country called Xuanxi, located in Nanchuan...
In troubled times, even members of the royal family may not live in peace, not to mention that Xuan Xi's mother was not favored in the harem.
Xuan Xi, “You know, sometimes having many brothers and sisters is not necessarily a good thing, especially in the royal family.
Especially since I am the ugliest among all my brothers and sisters. I am not tall and my face is not good-looking. My appearance is a combination of all the shortcomings of my father’s and mother’s bloodlines…”
At that time, most people believed that appearance is determined by the mind.
Combining appearance with a person's character, people believe that a beautiful person must have a pure mind and noble character, and cannot be that bad.
An ugly person must have a dirty mind and bad character.
Even if a talented person passes the imperial examination, he will not be entrusted with important tasks if he is ugly.
This aesthetic trend was brought from the Central Plains a hundred years ago and gradually changed this small country.
From the common people to the royal family, those with beautiful appearance are respected.
Even the selection of the crown prince was influenced by beauty.
Under such circumstances, it was a joke that the young and handsome emperor and the beautiful concubine gave birth to an ugly child.
The emperor was unwilling to believe that it was his child, and even preferred that the concubine had committed adultery.
After confirming that it was his child, he directly disliked him and his mother.
I didn't kill him, but I didn't give him any extra looks either.
Xuan Xi sighed and said,
"…I was born ugly, but I am not really ugly. If I were in a commoner's house, my wool would only be coarse and inferior. But among a group of beautiful princes and princesses, I am like an outlier.
It's as out of place as a stone lying in a box of gold ingots.
They laughed at me, saying that it was better for me to have a child born of adultery than to bring shame upon the royal bloodline.
In the cold winter, they poured scalding rosin on my head. The rosin was very hot and painful... My hair was ripped out like duck feathers... My scalp turned white, and later... my hair never grew back...
The Queen Mother always advised that human nature is good at birth, but she died a few days after she said this.
She complained to the emperor, hoping that he would pay more attention to me, show me more love and care, so that I would not suffer.
But she knelt in front of the imperial study for the whole night until she turned into an ice sculpture, and the man didn't even look at her.
I was running a fever and didn't have the time to take a last look at her.
The ugly maid in the palace felt sorry for me, so she hid me in a barrel of night-scented incense and sent me out of the palace.
However, when she was leaving the palace, she couldn't help coughing when the nobleman passed by. The nobleman saw her ugly face and was so scared that he beat her to death on the spot.
I watched through the gap in the lid of the dung bucket as Madam was beaten into a ball of rotten flesh. Before she died, she looked in my direction and gestured for me to close my eyes.
...Oh, by the way, Mammy wasn’t ugly before, it was just that half of her face was burned off by fire when she was young..."
In Xuan Xi's calm narration, Jiang You seemed to see the little boy with a high fever curled up in the smelly night-scented pot, watching the only remaining kindness in the deep palace cool down in the cold wind.