After a while, five years had passed.
Zhao Mingchong thought it was rather unbelievable. He found himself more and more unable to let Tang Qizhuan go. Whether he was happy or unhappy, he would think of Tang Qizhuan. Whether he was busy or not, he would think of Tang Qizhuan.
He started to envy Tang Qizhuan’s friends. He secretly wanted to get rid of all those male and female celebrities accused of having sex scandals with Tang Qizhuan. The feelings he had towards screenplays where Tang Qizhuan was in were even more critical.
If possible, Zhao Mingchong wanted Tang Qizhuan to quit film. Just staying by his side was enough. In any case, the money Tang Qizhuan got from movies and commercials didn’t even amount to pocket change in Zhao Mingchong’s eyes.
There were many times where Zhao Mingchong wanted to tell Tang Qizhuan this, but in the end, he never got a word out.
Zhao Mingchong thought, Tang Qizhuan will definitely be unhappy. He seems to really enjoy acting.
Zhao Mingchong thought, Tang Qizhuan will definitely throw a tantrum. He might even go three days without eating.
Zhao Mingchong thought, Tang Qizhuan will definitely…
Coming back to his senses, Zhao Mingchong realized he had personally changed quite a bit.
The day of the car accident, Zhao Mingchong finally, clearly felt just how much he truly loved Tang Qizhuan, far more than anything else.
Zhao Mingchong said, “I was always not really a good person…if Xiao Zhuan gets mad at me a bit, that’s fine.” As long as…
As long as Tang Qizhuan didn’t know the truth, everything else wasn’t a problem.
The misunderstanding gradually became bigger. When the atmosphere was at its most grave, someone decided once more to mess with Zhao Mingchong.
No one expected that Tang Qizhuan would suddenly receive phone calls from a stranger harassing him. The person would call Tang Qizhuan from time to time. He would not say who he was, but would only warn Tang Qizhuan to leave Zhao Mingchong immediately.
Originally, Tang Qizhuan had merely suspected Zhao Mingchong of cheating, but those phone calls simply made matters worse, turning Zhao Mingchong into a real scumbag.
Various misunderstandings built up. Tang Qizhuan was already very unhappy. He decided to test Zhao Mingchong, proposing to travel with Zhao Mingchong for their honeymoon.
Zhao Mingchong shook his head helplessly and said, “How could I agree? His body was already so weak…”
After being nourished by the psychic joss stone, Tang Qizhuan became very sensitive to sunlight and yang energy. It wasn’t suitable for him to go out for a long time or to go to crowded places.
Zhao Mingchong refused Tang Qizhuan’s honeymoon trip idea by saying he was busy with work, successfully getting Tang Qizhuan to the “anxious” zone.
Tang Qizhuan angrily packed his suitcase and ran out of the villa when Zhao Mingchong wasn’t paying attention.
Zhao Mingchong was frightened when he found that Tang Qizhuan went missing. He asked around and looked for him, finally finding Tang Qizhuan at the Hell Chain Hotel.
Zhao Mingchong clenched his hands into fists and suddenly stood up from the sofa.
Wen Nuan jumped. Baili Wuchang moved in a flash, blocking Wen Nuan, afraid that Zhao Mingchong would do something to hurt Wen Nuan.
Zhao Mingchong didn’t have the intention to attack. He stood up, his voice increasing in volume as he said, “I only want to save Xiao Zhuan. I won’t hurt anyone. Don’t tell him about any of this. As long as you give me two more days…”
When Zhao Mingchong heard from Tang Qizhuan himself that he wanted to break up, he was furious. He treasured Tang Qizhuan so much, loved Tang Qizhuan so much, how could he be willing to part with him?
But the way things developed often left much to be desired.
Zhao Mingchong realized that the more Tang Qizhuan’s soul stabilized, the more his own condition worsened.
Zhao Mingchong’s private physician was befuddled by how he turned out like this. He advised him to check into a hospital as soon as possible, or else the consequences would be unfathomable.
Zhao Mingchong refused. He couldn’t go to the hospital. He couldn’t stop, or else Tang Qizhuan’s condition would be even more unfathomable.
He just needed three more days. In three days time, Tang Qizhuan would be back to normal.
Zhao Mingchong made a resolution. Before Tang Qizhuan officially broke up with him, he wanted three more days together.
After three days, Zhao Mingchong didn’t know what the state of him would become. He didn’t know whether he would be alive or dead. According to his doctor, he might even be handicapped.
At that time…
It would be better for Tang Qizhuan to leave. Zhao Mingchong didn’t want Tang Qizhuan to see him in a sorry state, nor did he want Tang Qizhuan to have to shoulder a guilty conscience.
“Just two more days…” Zhao Mingchong said resolutely. “As long as you don’t tell him, I just need two more days to succeed. Don’t tell him. Don’t let him know. I can give you money or whatever you want.”
“Succeed?” Baili Wuchang laughed coldly, emotionlessly saying some stabbing words. “To put it simply, you can’t succeed. Everything you’re doing is in vain.”
“What do you mean?” Zhao Mingchong was stunned. “Then what am I supposed to do to save him? As long as I can save him, I’ll do anything.”
Wen Nuan looked at Zhao Mingchong and suddenly interjected, “I might not be sure, but there’s been that person who keeps calling Mr. Tang. He wants to kill Mr. Tang, and he’s already attacked him once. Even if you save Mr. Tang, that might be futile…”
Zhao Mingchong’s eyes flashed with malice. He said, “Who is he? Why does he want to hurt Xiao Zhuan? I can’t let that happen.”
That man who wore a black hood had to be the same person who kept calling Tang Qizhuan. He was the man who continuously told Tang Qizhuan to leave Zhao Mingchong.
“He’s…”
Wen Nuan said thoughtfully, “Someone who likes you very much.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Tang Qizhuan frowned, raising his head. “Why did the clock break again? Looks like I just have really bad luck…”
At this moment, Tang Qizhuan felt a cold wind blowing from behind his neck.
The windows in the room were supposed to be closed because Zhao Mingchong had caught quite a bad cold. But at some point, they had opened again.
Tang Qizhuan hesitated for a moment. He stood up in the end, going to close the balcony windows.
“Whoosh—”
The curtains were ceaselessly buffeted by the night wind, dancing in the breeze, causing the shadows to scatter…
In the shadows, there was the vague silhouette of a person standing there.
“You?”
Though Tang Qizhuan couldn’t see too clearly, he recognized that person at a glance.
Wearing black pants and a black hood, it was that person who kept calling Tang Qizhuan. At the swimming pool, he had even tried to attack Tang Qizhuan.
The shadow stood there unmovingly, as if he was just a part of the room’s furniture.
“I came here to kill you…”
The shadow spoke, his voice containing stifled emotions.
Tang Qizhuan had heard countless threats already. His original anger and shock had long since faded. Now, all Tang Qizhuan felt was calmness.
Tang Qizhuan asked, “Why do you want to kill me? Because of Zhao Mingchong? I’m already going to break up with him after two days.”
The shadow shook his head. “No. He loves you too much. If you don’t die, he won’t give you up.”
Tang Qizhuan couldn’t hold back a laugh. “What nonsense are you spouting?”
Zhao Mingchong loves me? That might’ve been true in the past…
The shadow acted as if he didn’t hear Tang Qizhuan speak, continuing to mutter to himself, “And I love him too much, so I have no choice but to do this…”
Tang Qizhuan wrinkled his brow. “You want to kill someone for Zhao Mingchong? Do you think doing this is worth it?”
Tang Qizhuan realized that lately, a lot of strange things had been happening to him.
The shadow remained still, his voice completely steady as he said, “It’s worth it.”
“Mr. Zhao?! Mr. Zhao, what happened?”
At the same time the shadow spoke, Wen Nuan’s startled voice came through from outside.
“Mr. Zhao?!”
“Someone, help, help!”
“Mr. Zhao fainted, why isn’t he breathing?”
It was late, and the hotel hallway was silent. Wen Nuan’s voice carried through powerfully, so even if the doors were closed, the people in the room like Tang Qizhuan and the shadow could hear loud and clear.
“What happened?” Tang Qizhuan was startled, and he started to panic at a loss.
Wasn’t Zhao Mingchong perfectly fine earlier? He only had a bit of a cold.
The shadow’s response was about the same as Tang Qizhuan’s. Alarmed, he whispered, “No way…how could this happen…so quickly?”
“How could this…no way…”
It was as if the shadow had seen a demon. His voice rising, he said, “It was you! It was all your fault for hurting him!”
Tang Qizhuan didn’t have time to get mad like the shadow did. He quickly turned and ran out of the room, wanting to see what exactly had happened to Zhao Mingchong.
Upon opening the door, the first thing he saw was Wen Nuan.
Additionally, laying on the hallway floor with a wan face and eyes closed was Zhao Mingchong.
Zhao Mingchong was already unconscious, but even if he had only fainted, his expression looked extremely pained.
Tang Qizhuan’s heart clenched. He wanted to rush over to check on Zhao Mingchong.
He didn’t know what he was doing. He’d clearly told himself that he no longer had feelings for Zhao Mingchong, and he wanted to break up with him, never to see this scumbag again.
And yet, Tang Qizhuan couldn’t help but become worried when seeing Zhao Mingchong like this.
There really is no remedy for me…
Tang Qizhuan mocked himself. Unable to control his actions, he rushed over to Zhao Mingchong’s side.
But before Tang Qizhuan could even reach Zhao Mingchong, he was roughly shoved aside from behind, almost stumbling to the ground himself.
It was the shadow who shoved him aside to get past Tang Qizhuan.
The shadow knelt down and cradled the unconscious Zhao Mingchong in his arms, caressing his face with his pale hands. He said in a trembling voice, “How could…how could this happen…”
“Why?”
“No way. There’s no way you can die.”
“I came here to save you…”
“Cough cough cough—”
Zhao Mingchong’s breath was extremely feeble. It couldn’t be felt even after reaching out a hand. He coughed a few times, forcing himself to open his eyes.
His gaze wasn’t at all focused. In a strained voice, he said, “Xiao…Zhuan…Xiao Zhuan…”
He called Tang Qizhuan’s name, and it looked like he was trying to reach his hand out to Tang Qizhuan as well, but his hands lacked the strength to do so.
Tang Qizhuan stood at the side. Hearing Zhao Mingchong’s voice, his heart skipped a beat.
“No, you shouldn’t…”The shadow held Zhao Mingchong, speaking in a panicked and frantic way, “You shouldn’t be like this. Wasn’t your body healthy before? Why did it suddenly…”
“Because I changed his medicine.”
A voice spoke from behind the shadow. The shadow turned his head. Someone else had appeared next to Wen Nuan; it was Baili Wuchang.
Baili Wuchang crossed his arms. Part of his long hair fell in front of his eyes, so it was hard to see what kind of expression was on his face.
When they were eating in the restaurant just earlier, Zhao Mingchong had left for a bit to get some painkillers from the front desk. That box of unassuming painkillers had been changed out by Baili Wuchang.
Because of the psychic joss stone, Zhao Mingchong’s body had already been plagued by a thousand things. After adding that box of switched pills to the mix, his breathing suddenly became weak, and his entire body grew cold from head to toe.
“What painkillers?” Tang Qizhuan didn’t understand. He burned with impatience. “Right now isn’t the time to be messing around! What happened to Zhao Mingchong? I’m going to call an ambulance!”
Tang Qizhuan reached for his cellphone, but he was stopped by Wen Nuan.
Wen Nuan said, “Mr. Tang, calm down. Don’t be hasty. Mr. Baili isn’t a bad person.”
“But Zhao Mingchong, he…” Tang Qizhuan couldn’t calm down at all right now when Zhao Mingchong looked like he was in agony.
Wen Nuan said, “Even though Mr. Zhao looks bad, he’ll be alright in a little bit.”
Baili Wuchang didn’t give Zhao Mingchong poison. Rather, it was medicine that would grant him some benefits. Zhao Mingchong’s body had grown weak after coming into contact with the psychic joss stone, so Baili Wuchang changed out his medicine, allowing Zhao Mingchong to be alleviated of a bit of the psychic joss stone’s yin energy.
“Hah—” Baili Wuchang laughed coldly and said, “If I wanted to kill him, I would do so in one fell swoop. There’d be no reason for me to drag it out this long.”
Baili Wuchang’s great name was known in the Underworld far and wide. His spiritual power wasn’t comparable to the average ghost. He was a ghost envoy in Hell’s ghost department, but that was akin to using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
This act of “beating around the bush” was a painstaking effort, so no way was the purpose all for killing Zhao Mingchong.
“But…” Tang Qizhuan was already dazed. His brain had turned into a pile of mush.
Wen Nuan shifted his gaze from Tang Qizhuan to the shadow. He said, “It was for him.”
The shadow stiffened. Since Wen Nuan had spoken so definitively, he raised his guard.
Wen Nuan continued, “To lure him out, we had to use Mr. Zhao a little. After all…apart from Mr. Zhao, he doesn’t seem to care about anything else.”
Tang Qizhuan’s gaze also fell onto the shadow’s figure.
This person…
Tang Qizhuan saw the way the shadow had held Zhao Mingchong, and his heart clenched.
This person had repeatedly called him and threatened him just to leave Zhao Mingchong alone. He’d even personally declared his love for Zhao Mingchong…
Thinking of this, Tang Qizhuan felt aggrieved. He had to admit, even though he wanted to break up with Zhao Mingchong, he couldn’t help inexplicably feeling jealous.
The shadow guardedly looked at Wen Nuan and Baili Wuchang. Because of his hood, they couldn’t see his entire face, but they could see a glint in his eyes where his pupils kept turning.
It was a trap…
The shadow realized in hindsight. This was all just a trap set up for him!
Since it had come down to this, the shadow suddenly got up. His eyes had been darting around, obviously looking for the best exit route.
It was said that when picking persimmons, one should pick the softest ones. Between Wen Nuan and Baili Wuchang, Wen Nuan looked like a soft persimmon while Baili Wuchang looked like a rock.
“Oh—!”
The shadow lunged towards Wen Nuan. As a means of escape, he was going to use Wen Nuan as a hostage.
Baili Wuchang’s face instantly grew unsightly to the max. His dark eyes grew blood-red in color, and his entire aura flooded with fury.
“You dare touch him!”
Baili Wuchang spoke in his rough voice, though his actions were much faster than his words. He had already flashed in front of Wen Nuan, protecting Wen Nuan airtightly behind him.
Honestly, Wen Nuan wasn’t at all frightened by the shadow. He was more afraid of Baili Wuchang’s anger.
The way Baili Wuchang looked, it was like he wanted to rip the shadow into pieces and crush his bones into ashes.
Without even being able to see Baili Wuchang reaching out, the shadow cried out in pain, heavily crashing to the ground.
“Hiss—” Wen Nuan sucked in a breath. Just hearing him fall told him enough about how it hurt.
When the shadow fell, he happened to fall right next to Tang Qizhuan’s feet.
Tang Qizhuan quivered in fear, quickly taking a step back.
On the ground, the shadow was too stunned to get up.
“Mm, it was this scent exactly.” Wen Nuan raised his head and twitched his nose, speaking with a sigh.
“What scent?” Tang Qizhuan couldn’t keep up.
Wen Nuan pointed at the shadow and laughed, “The scent from him. When I was by the swimming pool, I smelled it, and I knew it was familiar.”
Tang Qizhuan subconsciously sniffed, but he couldn’t smell anything particular.
Wen Nuan said, “If you can’t smell it, no worries. Let’s just keep our eyes open and watch.”
After he said so, he got close to the shadow, wanting to take his black hood off.
“Don’t you dare!” the shadow shouted deeply. Even though he couldn’t get up, he was still quite vigorous.
Wen Nuan was startled by him. The hand he had reached out paused. He decided to just turn around and tug lightly at Baili Wuchang’s arm. “Guest, maybe you should go. I’m afraid he’ll bite me.”
Baili Wuchang: “…” He’s not a dog.
Baili Wuchang didn’t reply. He also didn’t move, nor did he lift a finger.
They all heard a gust of wind, but the hotel hallway had no windows. A gale blew by, strong enough to make Wen Nuan’s eyes ache.
Tang Qizhuan quickly raised his arms to shield his face.
Once the big wind attacked, the shadow’s hood was no match, revealing his entire face.
“As expected, it’s you,” Wen Nuan said in awe.
Tang Qizhuan lowered his arms, staring at the shadow on the ground.
“Oh!”
Staring hard, Tang Qizhuan couldn’t help but widen his eyes. He stammered, “Y…You, how did…you…”
The shadow revealed his true colors. His face was exactly the same as Tang Qizhuan’s! It was as if they were twins…
But calling them twins would be inaccurate, because there wasn’t a strand of hair between the shadow and Tang Qizhuan that was different; they were one and the same…
They were the same person.
Wen Nuan smiled at the shadow and said, “The scent on you and Mr. Tang is exactly the same. Plus, you and Mr. Tang have the exact same figure proportions and height. Should I call you Mr. Tang Number One or Number Two?”
The author has something to say: [Mini Theater]
[Wen-Little-Nuan from the living world sends a question, please answer truthfully!]
—Do you like me, or do you like my birthmark?
Hei Wuchang: It’s a murder weapon from the living world!
Bai Wuchang: … (Casting a mournful look at Lord Baili)
Lord Baili: …
TL Note: If you saw abbreviations instead of names, no you didn’t…🌚
Just when I thought the situation wouldn’t get any worse, it did! 😭
We knew who the shadow was but I’m not sure how their story will be resolved 🤔
The shadow was probably the missing part of tang qizhuan’s memories 😔 i really don’t want this couple to end tragically TT