Tonight Wen Xuan’s mood was too complicated. It’s not just Jian Yi who couldn’t read it properly, Wen Xuan couldn’t even figure it out himself clearly.
He knew he was angry and indignant. Over the things he heard and saw tonight, and even more so, over being deceived by Jian Yi all this time. He also knew he was sad and hurt. Because he originally wanted to use this chance to increase the relationship between him and this youth, but ended up widening the distance between them even more.
He even felt a slight relief. Because his heart once ached for the dimwitted Jian Yi who went through such experiences. Yet now he knew that those tragedies didn’t actually belong to his Jian shidi.
But it wasn’t until now that he discovered he was also scared.
Meanwhile, Jian Yi, who was suddenly hugged in Wen Xuan’s embrace, became completely dumbfounded. It took a while before he finally realized what happened. In a flash, both of his cheeks burned as he felt an inexplicable panic and surprise. However, the slightly trembling felt from Wen Xuan’s body very quickly calmed him down again.
He understood Wen Xuan’s fears and knew Wen Xuan needed his answer. Therefore, he reached out both hands and heavily pressed them against Wen Xuan’s back: “Shixiong, of course you should trust me. If there’s someone who is most deserving of your trust in this world, it’d be me.”
Wen Xuan slightly loosened both arms, took a step back and looked at him.
Jian Yi lost the pitiful look he had before, suddenly gaining a whole bunch of confidence out of nowhere: “Don’t you agree, shixiong?”
The source of this confidence was actually rather simple. Before Jian Yi didn’t know what kind of change there’d be to Wen Xuan’s attitude towards him, so he felt extremely anxious. Now that Wen Xuan actually asked him ‘should I still trust you’– it wasn’t out of sarcasm and ridicule, but rather a serious and earnest question– the answer of this question naturally required full confidence.
“I’m only worried you’d be unwilling to believe me.” Jian Yi said.
“So what if I’m willing?” Wen Xuan gave a bitter laugh: “There’s plenty of people I’m willing to believe…… Yet as the matter stands currently, I don’t dare to trust in my judgment anymore.”
“Then you should just trust me.” Jian Yi pointed at his own heart with his left hand: “My judgment is much more trustworthy than yours.”
For him to say these kinds of words, he was really being so outrageous it was hard to describe. Yet while saying these outrageous words, Jian Yi’s expression was extraordinarily serious. Like he was making an oath with his life on the line.
Wen Xuan quietly looked at him for a long time: “What should I believe?”
Jian Yi pressed his lips together.
“Surely not this?” Wen Xuan looked away and smiled faintly: “That you’re a vengeful ghost summoned from hell by ‘Jian Yi’?”
This was the setting that Jian Yi gave for himself when he was conversing with Qin niangzi before. Placed in the current circumstance, these words strangely corresponded to reality rather well.
“Shixiong……” Jian Yi knew the moment of truth had arrived. His gaze dissociated briefly then immediately focused on Wen Xuan’s face again: “Shixiong, our relationship won’t become any worse than what it is right now, right?”
When saying these words, he placed his left hand on his right wrist, fidgeting with the bracelet there restlessly.
Wen Xuan could tell his conflict and hesitation and patiently waited.
Moments later, Jian Yi took a deep breath and abruptly took off that bracelet, placing it in Wen Xuan’s hand: “Shixiong, all of my belongings are in there. You hold onto it and consider it my guarantee to you. If you still can’t trust me, then I can make a vow. If I let you down one day, I will resign to eternal damnation, without any hope for redemption.”
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This was the answer he dallied ages for? Wen Xuan lowered his gaze: “You don’t need to be like this.”
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“But these should make it easier for you to trust me right? And believe in the words I’m about to say— I… actually I— ” Jian Yi somewhat bashfully pressed his mouth together, extremely nervous: “came over from another world.”
Wen Xuan was immediately stunned and looked at him completely at a loss.
After a while, he finally responded and opened his mouth slowly, mumbling: “Another world?”
Just what I expected. Jian Yi repeated to himself internally. He just knew. That it’d be like this. Biting his lips, he blabbered onward in quick-fire succession: “See, told you this was hard to believe. But this is the truth. I came from a completely different world. As soon as I opened my eyes, I was in this body. Told you it was very hard to believe, right……”
Actually cultivators naturally knew of something called Three Thousand Worlds. But knowing was one thing. This was the first time Wen Xuan met someone from another world. Not to mention this person was so close to him. Feeling pretty bewildered was unavoidable.
“So you’ve been reluctant and unwilling to tell me all this time, because you felt I wouldn’t believe you?” Wen Xuan asked.
Jian Yi stopped his ongoing explanation and lowered his head. His expression looked more and more hard pressed as the time passed, like some small animal that regularly lived in a dark, shadowy corner and was suddenly thrown out to be exposed in the sunlight, full of discomfort. After a while, Jian Yi nodded his head with cheeks reddened again.
“You……” Wen Xuan didn’t even know how to reprimand him: “You……”
While Jian Yi waited anxiously, Wen Xuan suddenly smacked the table in laughter: “You actually…… ai, you, oh you!”
Jian Yi was inexplicably shocked: “Shixiong, what’s so funny?”
That’s right. What’s so funny? To be honest, there really wasn’t anything that was funny. But with the various emotions pressing down on Wen Xuan’s heart, it felt excessively heavy. Now that he finally learned the reason for Jian Yi’s deceit, Wen Xuan felt like a huge mountain was lifted off his chest, making him laugh out loud.
“I’m laughing at you making problems for yourself.” Wen Xuan rebuked: “Deceiving me for this long just because you were afraid I wouldn’t believe you, until you had to be forced to this degree to come clean? Can you guess how much excess doubt I had towards you because of this cover up?”
Jian Yi’s face immediately turned pale, full of guilt. Then he abruptly realized, thoughts jumping like they were attached to a spring. It’s unknown if he looked at Wen Xuan with shock or glee: “Shixiong, you, you, so you’re saying, you believe me?”
“Why wouldn’t I believe you?” Wen Xuan asked back with a smile.
Although there were still many doubtful aspects, the person before him was his Jian shidi in the end. As long as he knew the reason for the deceit, there was nothing he was afraid to believe.
That’s right. Wen Xuan was just this kind of person.
Even if he wrongfully believed in other people before, it has nothing to do with Jian Yi. Why should he lose his belief in Jian Yi because of other insignificant characters?
There was still only one thing he couldn’t figure out: “Didn’t you say you read my story growing up? How could you in another world……”
“It’s true. I read it in my original world!” After receiving Wen Xuan’s trust, Jian Yi felt like the sky cleared above his head. He explained excitedly: “Your story was written into a book and circulated in my world. I read it while growing up and liked it a lot!”
These words weren’t complete. It didn’t make it clear that the story wasn’t written as a biography of Wen Xuan.
But Wen Xuan naturally believed he was the story’s main character and couldn’t help but feel humbled from such treatment.
“When you first appeared, my gaze never moved away!” Jian Yi continued to say these confession-like words, sentence by sentence, completely unable to stop; “Do you remember that Qin Shiyu? Back then he just reached foundation building. Thinking he had plenty of strength, he provoked a demonic beast and almost died to that beast. At that time, you coincidentally passed by and saved him with one move! I was practically stunned by your brilliance!”
This was indeed the first meeting between Wen Xuan and Qin Shiyu. But this encounter was written from Qin Shiyu’s perspective…… At that time, after Wen Xuan rescued him, Wen Xuan immediately scolded him terribly, saying if he didn’t have enough strength, then don’t go searching for death, and such related words. Then Wen Xuan rejected his invitation to form a party…… Not only did they not become friends, they actually formed a slight animosity. Later Qin Shiyu’s strength increased exponentially while Wen Xuan’s strength remained the same without improvements. This first encounter became even more awkward for the two people.
However, Jian Yi didn’t care about all of that. He only knew to describe how much he admired Wen Xuan all of those years, making Wen Xuan feel waves of shock as he listened.
However, the number of times Wen Xuan appeared in the novel was really quite limited. Jian Yi recounted them one by one, but still didn’t feel it was enough. He was just about to start talking about things that haven’t happened yet when his nonstop confession suddenly stopped spontaneously, as if a formless hand grasped him by the throat.
Wen Xuan thought he was finally done, and practically let out a breath of relief.
Then Wen Xuan looked at the bracelet in his hand and decided to return it to Jian Yi: “Since this matter is already cleared up, this bracelet……”
Jian Yi hastily shook his head: “Shixiong, you should keep it. Actually I wanted to do this a long time ago. I told you, my stuff is your stuff. I don’t want to keep this storage bracelet separate from you.”
Laughing, Wen Xuan immediately took off the storage pouch on his wrist and tossed it to Jian Yi.
Jian Yi caught this storage pouch. The moment he held it in his hand, he suddenly grasped Wen Xuan’s meaning. Immediately, his face flushed red in excitement. He even specifically found a nice corner before carefully opening the storage pouch to take a look. What’s inside was a pile of miscellaneous stuff. Yet the more he looked, inexplicably, the redder his face became.
Because of the empathy parasite, be it the storage pouch or the storage bracelet, neither had any response to their different spiritual energies, as if they recognized both people as their owners.
Meanwhile, inside the storage bracelet was all of Jian Yi’s belongings…… that round jade magic tool, the spiritual stones he received from Jizi Ang, some jade slips that had cultivation methods on them, the Spirit Exchanging Sieve that Qi Jibai gave him, in addition to the things that Wen Xuan gave him. Wen Xuan has seen pretty much everything so they were familiar to him. However, after looking through these familiar objects, Wen Xuan unexpectedly discovered something else.
Black gold cores, a total of 12 of them. Wen Xuan took these black gold cores out of the bracelet and placed them neatly on the table.
“I didn’t have a chance to deal with them.” Jian Yi noticed Wen Xuan’s movement and hastily explained in embarrassment.
Wen Xuan smiled. He recalled when he first met Jian Yi. At that time, in order to get close to Wen Xuan, Jian Yi obtained all of the thirteen black gold ores present in the Water Cloud Sect and forced Wen Xuan to have no choice but to accept his request to journey together to the ancient mausoleum. Later he gave Wen Xuan a piece of the black gold ore. Weren’t the remaining twelve before his eyes now?
Back then, Wen Xuan even exclaimed, the person who was able to exchange 13 black gold ores all at once must be a pretty wealthy guy. Now look, what wealthy guy? Other than the things that other people gave him recently and that round jade magic tool, Jian Yi didn’t really have that much of anything at all.
“These.” Wen Xuan pointed at those black gold ores, “Don’t tell me they cost everything you had back then?”
“How could that be!” Jian Yi denied resolutely.
But from the embarrassed expression on his face, this clearly was only an obstinate duck with a stubborn mouth: “At most, half……”
Alright. Half. Wen Xuan put those black gold ores back into the jade bracelet with a laugh: “In order to get close to me, you sold off half of your belongings?”
“So what?” Jian Yi lifted his head, narrowed his eyes and asked extraordinarily seriously: “Shixiong, why do you think I came to this world?”
Hearing this question, Wen Xuan’s heart abruptly trembled.
Yet just as Jian Yi took a deep breath and was about to say the answer…… the infant that was placed on the table suddenly started crying again.
Jian Yi cursed internally and ran over quickly. Opening the swaddling clothes for a look, instantly his face turned green.
This stupid brat actually peed.
“Shixiong……” Jian Yi shot over a plea for help.
“What?” Wen Xuan asked with a smile: “Do you think I’ve handled this kind of thing before?”
Jian Yi can only lower his head again. Alright. Wasn’t it just a piece of diaper? Although he never changed one, at least he watched his mom change his little brother’s diapers before. An relentless feeling started burning in Jian Yi’s chest. He immediately pushed forth with his own effort, recalled the process in his memories, and started getting busy.
He actually looked rather…… reliable.
Sitting at the bedside, Wen Xuan watched Jian Yi bustling about. Strangely, an area in his heart felt more at peace.
“Jian shidi,” He suddenly asked: “Your past…… should be different from that dimwitted child. You’ve never experienced such tragedies, right?”
Jian Yi’s busy hands abruptly froze. Then he said with a smile: “Of course, I was pretty happy and blessed before.”
That area in Wen Xuan’s heart calmed down completely.
When Jian Yi finally finished his hard task and coaxed the infant back to sleep, he first went to wash his hands clean. By the time he came back and took a look, he saw Wen Xuan lying crooked against the head of the bed, already fallen into a deep sleep……in his completely rain-soaked clothes.
The corner of Jian Yi’s mouth twitched. Instantly he felt a headache and hastily came up with a plan to dry Wen Xuan’s clothes with spiritual energy. Good thing he was foundation building now. This task didn’t pose a problem for him.
Then Jian Yi stuffed Wen Xuan into the blankets.
Wen Xuan was slightly startled awake. His eyelashes moved briefly. However, since he knew the person beside him was Jian Yi, he was so at ease he didn’t even bother opening his eyes.
Jian Yi’s presence remained for a long time without leaving.
Some more time passed, this presence moved a bit closer, almost sticking to Wen Xuan’s face.
Jian Yi thought Wen Xuan was still in a deep sleep. So he leaned down, opened his mouth and secretly tasted Wen Xuan’s lips.
Inside the blankets, Wen Xuan abruptly seized and grabbed the bed sheet with his right hand. Then, he slowly let go, like he didn’t notice anything.
Thank You for the chapter (◍•ڡ•◍)❤
Ooo! The truth has been —somewhat— revealed!
These two sigh I feel like a grandma watching stupid kids and lamenting how are they so….
Like WX Just Realize Already!
And You JY Consent Is Important!!!!!!
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Again!! Xiao! Jian!
Consent is important!
The anticipated reveal… reveal-ish
I take it Jian Yi is still hiding stuff about himself?
What are they going to do with the child??
I’m going to jump to the next chapter real quick 🥰😏
Very grateful to you, translator, for uploading this to C G and letting us binge~~
Keep pretending 🙃
So cute! o(≧▽≦)o
I kinda want to know the story between chu-something, wen xuan previous master, and his lover? Is it his lover? Anyways-this just pop up into my mind while reading this chapter….. I don’t know why though… Will it be shown?
Bad Jian Shidi