Chapter 15 I’m all alone in this world now

On the roof of a house in this mansion in the deep of an alley, Qing Huai who disappeared as soon as she entered the mansion was sitting and looking at the pavilion in the distance with a smile.

Next to her, there was a young woman in a cloth dress whose face was pale but looked peaceful. In the daytime, she still held an oil paper umbrella and covered herself under it. Now she was sitting idly on the roof with Qing Huai, a teenage girl dressed in black clothes.

After Qing Huai called “idiot”, the woman whose name was Hehua showed a faint smile. Seeing that Qing Huai still didn’t plan to leave after calling, she asked in confusion, “Qing Huai, why don’t you go to help him?”

Qing Huai looked emotionless, “I have to let him experience the danger in the human world. Otherwise, such a boy from a small town would be bullied when he is out.”

Hehua covered her mouth and chuckled, thinking, “Qing Huai, you look so young. Why do you speak like an experienced adult?”

Qing Huai turned her head and glanced at Hehua, asking in doubt, “Why were you so sure when you bet with me?”

“Because I can’t imagine another possible result. I grew up with Huang Jin since childhood. When I got married, I knew he would come to me. Since he has come, he wouldn’t dislike me because I became a ghost. However, I shouldn’t let him love me anymore in the future,” When she talked about Huang Jin, Hehua’s eyes were soft.

“In fact, Lizhi is not a bad girl. If she didn’t have strong resentment because she was badly hurt, she could be reborn. Now she can’t leave this mansion or live once more. She is pathetic indeed.”

Qing Huai asked, “She hurt you, but you don’t hate her?”

Hehua shook her head and looked peaceful.

Qing Huai couldn’t say a word. As a matter of fact, she didn’t understand the love between a man and a woman. In the demonic land, she had never seen that her father cared much about her mother, and when her mother talked about her father occasionally, she had never been so gentle. Her father was well-known in the demonic land. Her mother was not as famous as him, but she was not ordinary. Before she left home, her father knew it and didn’t stop her but just told her to be careful, while her mother showed concern in her eyes but didn’t say more. After pondering, she believed that perhaps only the ordinary people would attach importance to love.

Qing Huai suddenly said, “I just promised that guy’s master to take him to the border between Yanling City and Dayu, and he had saved my life. Otherwise, I would just look down upon him.”

Hehua didn’t know where Yanling was, and she knew nothing about Dayu. She was a civilian in a small country and had never been to the capital city. How could she know there was a more spacious land in the human world? So she didn’t respond to Qing Huai and just guessed that this girl spoke one way and thought another.

The demon and ghost on the roof had their own thoughts, but they didn’t talk.

The woman in a cloth dress stood up all of a sudden and stated softly, “Qing Huai, I will leave later. Don’t tell him.”

Qing Huai nodded and then asked, “Won’t you look at him anymore?”

The woman shook her head and showed a pure smile.

Qing Huai didn’t say more but stood up and then strode off the roof. She came to the rockery outside the pavilion and looked at Li Fuyao out of breath and the female ghost standing there while looking around.

When Qing Huai in black came to them, Li Fuyao finally sighed with relief. He was not joyful after surviving a disaster but felt relieved as he could see Qing Huai.

Qing Huai stood on the rockery and asked Li Fuyao, “What do you think? After I save you this time, will we be even?”

Li Fuyao smiled bitterly in silence.

Qing Huai was clear that for something, they couldn’t be even.

The female ghost in red looked at this uncommon teenage girl, with fear in her eyes, but she didn’t take actions in a hurry. She looked up at Qing Huai nonchalantly.

Qing Huai expressed calmly, “I don’t like anybody to look at me in this way.”

As soon as she finished her words, she stretched out her hand and a wisp of vital energy flew out of her sleeve before turning into a green silk. In the blink of an eye, like a rope, it restrained the female ghost.

Qing Huai came down from the rockery and didn’t look at her. She just said while walking, “A lonely ghost.”

The female ghost looked ferocious and struggled constantly, but no matter how she struggled, she couldn’t get rid of the thin and long green silk.

Qing Huai came to Li Fuyao and glanced at his injured hand, asking in a soft voice, “I wanted you to see the danger in the human world and teach you something for Chen Sheng. Do you hate me?”

Li Fuyao grinned, “How would I hate you?”

Qing Huai nodded, “Great. If you said that you hate me, I would beat you up today.”

Li Fuyao was stunned.

Qing Huai turned to Huang Jin, “You know she is not her, so do you have any objection if I kill her?”

Huang Jin was absent-minded, but soon he came to his senses and asked, “Where is Hehua?”

Qing Huai replied with no emotion, “She went to find a chance to be reborn. The people in the mansion wrongly thought this woman had an affair with someone outside and put her into a well to drown. But she still hated them so her soul didn’t disappear. She became a ghost and got back at the family, making all people in the mansion die. Although Hehua had nothing to do with this matter, she was implicated and died. However, not everybody can become a ghost after dying, so she went out and tried to be reborn. You can’t see her.”

This scholar who had studied for nearly twenty years responded, “Oh.” And he looked dispirited, asking in a low voice, “Can you let me look at her once more?”

Qing Huai didn’t reply, showing that she agreed in silence.

Huang Jin wiped his face and wanted to have another look at that female ghost in red, but he found that her face had turned into another one. Although she was still a woman, she looked totally different.

Huang Jin lowered his head and smiled, “I am done.”

Qing Huai turned her head and gazed at that female ghost who looked ferocious, stating expressionlessly, “You are trapped in this mansion and can’t leave here. You can do nothing else. I am not kind-hearted, but I will let you make a choice once more at last. Do you want to end the life here or still stay alone?”

The female ghost’s hideous face turned calm.

She smiled sadly, “Master, can you end my pain?”

Qing Huai gave a nod lightly.

The female ghost stayed silent for a while and then expressed gently in the end, “Master, please do it.”

Qing Huai bent her fingers slightly.

The green silk on the female ghost’s body started to move around, but she looked indifferent. Huang Jin staggered to her and still didn’t give up. He asked, “Has Hehua really gone?”

The female ghost questioned in doubt, “Do you still miss her?”

Huang Jin nodded repeatedly.

The body of the female ghost started to scatter and disappear, but she lowered her head, murmuring, “Are there good men in the world?”

After speaking, the female ghost in red disappeared.

Huang Jin reached out his hand and soon withdrew it, mumbling, “You are not her.”

Qing Huai turned around and spoke only one word, “Go.”

Li Fuyao picked up the machete and threw it to Huang Jin. Then he rubbed his chest and walked out of the mansion with Qing Huai.

Huang Jin was left alone and stood in a daze.

This scholar who was so bold as to bring a machete to snatch a bride suddenly shed tears and couldn’t stop.

In front of Qing Huai, he didn’t cry, nor did he when facing Li Fuyao, but when there was nobody else, Huang Jin couldn’t stop his tears. He let the tears fall down his face and didn’t wipe them. He just stood there blankly.

Soon there was only this scholar’s sob in this mansion.

In the distance where Huang Jin couldn’t see, Li Fuyao and Qing Huai stood still and looked at him. Li Fuyao asked, “The woman named Hehua must be here, right?”

Qing Huai turned to glance at him.

Li Fuyao waved his hand, “But it must be true that she is dead.”

Qing Huai mocked, “I didn’t expect that you are not an idiot.”

“If you didn’t see that woman, how could you know so much?”

Li Fuyao said that as an explanation.

Qing Huai asked out of the blue, “Li Fuyao, do you think the love between a man and a woman is good or bad?”

“What do you mean?” Li Fuyao raised his brows.

“For cultivating, of course.” Qing Huai took it for granted.

Li Fuyao said with uncertainty, “Chen Sheng didn’t say that love would influence cultivating.”

Qing Huai ridiculed, “Your master doesn’t care.”

Li Fuyao didn’t answer but stared into the distance. A woman holding an umbrella was gazing at Huang Jin from far away.

Li Fuyao pouted, “This is the woman.”

With no reply, Qing Huai looked at that woman.

The woman with an umbrella watched Huang Jin in the distance and shed tears silently.

After a long time, the woman stretched out her hand under the umbrella, but unfortunately, when the hand was out of the umbrella, it seemed to be burnt and began to show white smoke.

She didn’t find it seemingly and threw away the umbrella, reaching out her hands to hug, but she still didn’t move forward even for one step.

It could be seen that the woman’s body slowly became a white smoke.

Huang Jin still stood there in a trance without looking back.

When the woman’s body fully disappeared, Huang Jin seemed to feel it and suddenly turned his head to look back, but there was nothing behind him, except an umbrella.

Huang Jin walked over and picked up the umbrella.

He closed it and held it under his arms.

This umbrella used to be a gift from him.

He started to look around.

But he still couldn’t see anything.

In the end, Huang Jin whispered, “Are you afraid that I will be sad so you don’t come to see me for the last time?”

Nobody answered him, but he nodded.

He stood beside the umbrella’s original location and spread his arms, seeming to embrace somebody.

And the location was where the woman stood earlier.

Li Fuyao thought of a sentence, “I’m all alone in this world now.”

There was a similar sentence written by a famous poet in ancient times, and he believed it described what was happening.