Translated by Crooked
Edited by Dust Bunny
Gu Xizhou’s spirit was stretched taut. When he couldn’t open the door, he knew there was still something Si Yu hadn’t told him. With a sense of creeping horror, he recalled the question Fu Yiran had asked.
Gu Xizhou’s eyes darkened, and he took two steps forward. There was already a seed of unease in his heart.
Fu Yiran once asked him… between himself and Si Yu, who would he choose? Now, because of this die, the door wouldn’t open. If he left, Si Yu would die.
Before entering this world, he rolled the die and wished for Si Yu’s safety. At that time, Si Yu asked him why he was rolling the die, and he answered that he wanted some good luck.
After such an idea arose, Gu Xizhou had great doubts about the very existence of Si Yu himself. He remembered Fang Zhi’s words – Si Yu looks very similar to him, so what is the relationship between Si Yu and him? Is Si Yu him, or is he Si Yu?
While Gu Xizhou puzzled over it, Si Yu frowned and said, “What did Fu Yiran say to you?”
Gu Xizhou raised his head and looked at Si Yu. “He asked me who I would choose if only one of us could live between you and me.”
Si Yu’s adam’s apple rolled. He already knew the reason Gu Xizhou couldn’t open the door. He stepped forward briskly and pulled Gu Xizhou into a tight embrace.
“You chose me. Does that mean you think I’m more important than your own life?” His voice was low and magnetic, speaking directly into his ears.
Gu Xizhou: “Yes, I chose you.” I used the die and wished for you to stay alive, instead of wishing for myself.
Gu Xizhou continued to speak. “Is it true that if I am resurrected, you’ll die?”
Si Yu was about to speak with Gu Xizhou interjected, “Don’t lie to me.”
Si Yu was silent for a very long time before he answered Gu Xizhou. “Xizhou, you’re thinking too much. Let’s go out first: I’ll open the door.”
Si Yu stepped forward and opened the door in front of Gu Xizhou. “Let’s go. I’ll tell you when we get out.”
Gu Xizhou shook his head. He’d already guessed the reason why he couldn’t open the door, and seeing Si Yu open it, he quickly retreated and picked up the die on the ground. He shook it in his palm.
If walking through the door meant Si Yu would die, then let Gu Xizhou die instead.
As Gu Xizhou rolled the die, it began to shake violently. Si Yu watched him but didn’t move to block him. If he didn’t will it, Gu Xizhou would never roll a 6.
“Why are you refusing? Be careful not to roll a 1, or——” Si Yu’s smirk suddenly froze, and he stared at the die in shock. Gu Xizhou had rolled a ‘6’.
Si Yu suddenly turned pale, as if he realized something. The innermost part of his decrepit heart suddenly gave birth to an indescribable sense of panic, and he rushed toward Gu Xizhou. A pillar that had been destroyed by Tu Yao’s rampage earlier suddenly began to slide downward——
Gu Xizhou covered his mouth, blood gushing out uncontrollably. His body was impaled by the steel bar. His other hand felt the blood around his waist, and he looked at Si Yu. He knew this guy was lying to him again. In the end, the last scene he saw before closing his eyes was Si Yu desperately running toward him.
Everything froze at this moment.
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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Why… was he here?
As Gu Xizhou wondered, he saw a man walk by, leisurely coming to a stop in front of him. He crouched down and picked something up, fiddling with it in his hands.
Gu Xizhou wanted to follow the man out. After all, this was the first person he’d seen. At the same time, he noticed that he actually could leave.
He followed the man back to his home, where he discovered that the thing the man had picked up was actually a piece of bone. Immediately afterward, the scene shifted, and the lump of bone turned into a six-sided die.
The die.
The very same one Si Yu gave him.
Gu Xizhou became certain of something in his heart.
This die was very strange. The numbers it rolled were only ever 6 or 1. As it passed through the hands of more and more gamblers, the die seemed to change. Gu Xizhou couldn’t say exactly how, but it exuded a different kind of aura.
As Gu Xizhou reflected on this, time seemed to fast-forward. The die seemed to be covered in many, many strange things. Gu Xizhou could see them with his naked eye… chains, lots and lots of chains.
Spreading outward from the die were countless chains, each connected to a single person that had contact with it. Yet, all of the people seemed completely unaware.
Then, Gu Xizhou’s vision went dark. Without knowing how it happened, the chains connected to the die became more and more numerous, as if the whole world’s destiny was linked to it. And now, the die rested in the hand of a single ten-year-old boy.
Bored, the boy casually rolled the die over and over again, and it always landed on the number ‘6’.
This was… Si Yu.
Gu Xizhou remembered the information that Ma Qi had dug up for him. In the meanwhile, time sped up again, and Gu Xizhou confirmed that the little boy was Si Yu.
In a flash, it had reached the year 2021.
Ghosts. Right now, the whole world, every nook and cranny, was packed full of ghosts. The ghosts were no longer legends, but real existences that everyone could see.
Gu Xizhou had no idea why, but he finally understood the words the female ghost in the snowman world had said to him: Now, death is not the end, so there’s no need to be afraid.
In 2021, no one knew why the world became this way. Ghosts and humans coexisted, and after people died, they wouldn’t reincarnate, they’d directly become ghosts. And after a ghost died, they were gone forever.
Now, the world was divided into areas separated by ‘doors’, where each area was governed by different rules, like dying if you sleep, having to go to sleep in a room with three people, a barking dog, a white line of death, walking the wrong direction, or being killed on amusement park rides.
Ordinary ghosts have chains, but they’re stronger than humans, and humans became the weakest species.
At this time, there are three types of creatures in the world: ghosts with doors, ghosts, and humans. Ghosts with doors have their own death conditions, and these ghosts are naturally stronger than ordinary ghosts. Some of them proclaim themselves ‘kings’ due to their strength.
The weather changed.
Time jumped again to sometime he didn’t know, and Gu Xizhou noticed the die had changed hands, and this owner was Fu Yiran.
Gu Xizhou frowned, thinking in his heart: If he hadn’t appeared, Si Yu might have fallen for someone else and given them the die…
But what Gu Xizhou really minded was: Why did it have to be Fu Yiran?
As Gu Xizhou complained in his heart, he continued to follow the die. Soon, Gu Xizhou was relieved because Fu Yiran had bad luck, and he rolled a 1 every time. What was odd was that Fu Yiran seemed to have an odd ability to foresee any danger and always managed to avoid any accidents.
“King, ever since you took this thing, you’ve never had good luck… If it weren’t for your special abilities, you would have… ” A woman who looked very ordinary walked into the room and spoke to Fu Yiran.
Gu Xizhou raised an eyebrow at how the woman addressed Fu Yiran and turned to examine him closely.
So he was originally a ghost, the kind with a door.
Fu Yiran pursed his lips, and he seemed to have a headache. Finally, he gave a deep sigh and said, “I don’t have enough lives to play with the die of fate. I’ve seen both the past and the future with it, but anyone else would’ve died long ago.
“If I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have stolen it from that guy,” he said regretfully, licking his dry lips.
Gu Xizhou finally understood what he meant——Si Yu didn’t give the die to him, it was stolen from him.
Then, Fu Yiran threw the die out of the window, and Gu Xizhou’s consciousness followed the dice to the ground in an arc. However, this die seemed to cling to Fu Yiran and never let go, and there were always odd coincidences that led to the die unintentionally reappearing in Fu Yiran’s hand.
After discarding the die countless times, Fu Yiran, who was almost killed by the die once again, grimaced and cussed loudly, “Fuck!”
“King, I’m afraid this die can only be returned to that person…”
Fu Yiran’s face turned black, and he cursed, “Give it back to him? Do you think he would let me go if I go over? That’s’ God’.”
God?
Gu Xizhou’s entire nerves went taut. God… Was Fu Yiran talking about Si Yu?
“But what should we do? That person shouldn’t want to kill you. Otherwise, even if you could see the future, he could let all your futures lead to death. Since he didn’t do that, he should leave you a way out…” the woman whispered.
Fu Yiran was silent for a while. He gripped the die between his index and ring finger, thought for a moment, and seemed to come up with an idea.
Gu Xizhou waited, bored, for two days before Fu Yiran and the woman brought a young man to the villa. Gu Xizhou was stunned for a moment. From the very first glance, Gu Xizhou knew that this person was him: his reincarnation.
According to the previous world order, humans would reincarnate, and after he reincarnated, he became this young man named Gu Rong.
“King, I brought him to you.”
“En.” Fu Yiran glanced at Gu Rong and placed the box containing the die into his hand. “If you help me take this and return it, I’ll deal with the murderous ghosts in your neighborhood.”
Gu Rong curled his lips and replied, “How can you be sure that the other party will accept it if I take this thing? You can’t even go, and I’m still alive. I’m human; I’m weak.”
Despite the words Gu Rong spoke, he took the black box handed to him by Fu Yiran without hesitation.
Fu Yiran smirked and said, “Let me tell you a story. Twenty years ago, there was an honest police officer who died, and his thigh bone was polished into a die.
“That die was originally just a very ordinary die, but later it gained the luck of a gambler, and then it became fate itself. It named itself ‘Si Yu’, meaning ‘to take control of fate’, and later it really succeeded, even replacing God.”
Si Yu… held power over destiny.
Gu Xizhou’s heart sank, and he didn’t even dare to miss any words from Fu Yiran’s mouth. Fu Yiran could see the future and the past. During this time, Gu Xizhou has determined the ability of the ghost Fu Yiran. What Fu Yiran said was exactly the same as what he saw following the die before.
Gu Rong gave Fu Yiran a puzzled look and heard him say, “After becoming the ‘new God’, it set new rules.
When people die, they become ghosts filled with resentment and have the ability to take revenge. He thought that this human society would become a beautiful world, just like that police officer wanted. However, in reality, more and more people died, and the weak became murderous ghosts and killed people. Then the world began to move towards chaos.”
Gu Rong listened to Fu Yiran’s words and shrugged, “What does this have to do with me returning this?”
Fu Yiran said, “Because you are that dead police officer. I want you to send it back. It should accept it from you.”
听见伏弈然的话，突然一切戛然而止，时间瞬间被定格，顾西洲苦笑了一下：天想干什么？在他死后帮他理清楚来龙去脉？让他做个明白鬼？
Upon hearing Fu Yiran’s words, everything suddenly came to a sudden halt, and time was frozen in an instant. Gu Xizhou smiled bitterly: What does God want to do? Help him sort out his background after his death? Let him be an understanding ghost?
If he were to be resurrected, the human bone die would not exist. Without the die, Si Yu wouldn’t have been born, and God wouldn’t have been replaced. No wonder God wants to use him to kill Si Yu. However, since Si Yu can control human fate, he can completely control him…
And why didn’t God directly change history and resurrect him? Why go to so much trouble?
As Gu Xizhou thought, the familiar sound of chains rang in his ear. The chains connecting his body to the sky snapped with a crisp crack.
At this moment, he finally understood that his life as a demon cultivator was just a memory bestowed upon him by God. Those memories were pieced together from the future world, and those corpses, mountains, and seas of fire were just people who died after a battle between ‘kings’.
The new rules established by Si Yu were based on Gu Xizhou’s beliefs: evil was punished with evil, and good was rewarded with good.
But with the emergence of ghosts, order became chaos, and humans were no longer afraid of death, causing mutual harm. Some even voluntarily died and became ghosts. However, after the death of ghosts, they no longer reincarnated, but completely disappeared into nothingness.
The chain representing fate was broken, and Gu Xizhou, who had seen the future and the mission worlds, naturally knew what it meant. A door will appear on the ghost who breaks the chain.
Now, a door appeared in front of him.
Dong dong dong.
Gu Xizhou was shocked. Someone was knocking on the door.
Gu Xizhou reached out and grabbed the door handle. As he turned it, a hand reached out from the darkness behind the door and firmly grasped the edge of the wood.
The hand was clean, with distinct bones and slender and fair fingers. As it forcefully pushed open the door, a man’s dark hair, eyebrows and narrowed eyes appeared, and his eyelashes formed a fan-shaped shadow on his face. The black eyelashes curled slightly, and he lightly smiled and said, “I’m here to take you home.”
My head hurts… 😓
Same 😂 every time the chapter ends I try to do a recap to make sure i understand whats going on 😂
I had to read that twice… Still what? 😂😅
Ooh no wonder Fang Zhi kept saying that Si Yu resembled Gu Xizhou’s original body, he was born from Gu Xizhou
………………In short, this novel is a self-cest story?
hmm good point o_o
+1
Bruh you summarised what i was thinking from the start of this chapter when GXZ wondered if SY was him….