Novel Full 345 Intertwined fates
Xing Bi wasn’t sure what she wanted to know about her life. She scratched her chin. “I don’t know if I want to know something particular…”
Nian gasped. “Don’t you want to see our happy future through the cards?”
“Yeah, I am at least sure that I definitely don’t want to see that.”
Nian cried. “You are harsh, Xing Bi. But my love for you shall not fail!”
Ai thought about it and said, “How about we see the three cards for you too? I…want to know about your past.”
She had Xing Bi’s death in her last life in mind as she suggested to her.
“Okay! As my Ai says!” She chirped.
“Such partiality…” Nian mumbled as he sobbed.
Xing Bi took three cards out of the deck and placed them before the elderly woman.
The first card showed a woman lying on the ground helplessly. A source of light was before her and she had desperately stretched her hand to reach the light. But there was a figure of a dark person behind her, clad in black clothes who was pulling her away from the light.
Nian frowned. “Who is that black man? Is it any one of her possible suitors? If so then…”
I need to dispose of him.
The elderly woman quietly said, “It’s the grim reaper.”
Nian blinked. “Sorry, what?”
“Death. The light this woman is trying to reach means that she is chasing after the truth. Bring the truth to light. But before she could do so, death took her away.”
Ai’s eyes slowly widened.
Is this card referring to the accident that killed her?
“But why is this grim reaper smiling?” She couldn’t help but shudder.
“Because this Death is not the real Death. It’s somebody else who is evil, who was happy to see the woman die. Death is never evil. It is a natural part of our lifecycle. But this smiling grim reaper represents bad intentions-“
*BANG!*
Nian’s palm struck akin to thunder on the table. The expression on his face at this moment didn’t look any less than grim reaper itself. “Grandma, as an elder, I really respect you. But if you are going to talk nonsense about Xing Bi’s life or the end of it, then that respect won’t last for much longer.”
The woman was calm and unfazed about his threat.
Jun quickly said, “Bro, it’s alright. They are just cards-“
Nian wasn’t in any mood to joke, and he gave that message crystal clear to his little brother with one look. “Don’t interrupt when I am talking, Jun.”
Jun quietly backed off.
Xing Bi coughed and smiled it off. “You don’t have to be so serious. I told you I am not into divinity anyway.”
“It doesn’t matter if you are into fortune telling or not. I won’t spare anybody who will even remotely imply your harm.”
The hair on the back of her neck tingled, gazing into his black, impeding eyes.
The elderly woman wasn’t offended. On the contrary, she gave a kind but mysterious smile. “It’s not about sparing me or not. You shouldn’t close your eyes to the things just because they don’t suit your convenience.”
The frostiness in his eyes only deepened. “It’s not that they don’t suit my convenience. It’s meaningless because there is nothing in this world that I will let even touch Xing Bi’s hair! So I won’t tolerate this nonsense at all!”
He grabbed her hand and pulled her up. “We are leaving. I don’t want to know any fortune anymore,” he coldly remarked.
“Ah? W-wait…”
He gave Xing Bi no chance to speak as he furiously left the tent with her.
After a moment of silence, Jun apologized. “I am sorry on his behalf. But when he is like that, everybody is pretty much helpless.”
She smiled. “I never felt offended. Rather, I like the young man. It is his fierceness and protection that she needs the most.”
Though Jun and Ai were ideally supposed to follow Nian and Xing Bi, they remained for some time to freely talk to her.
Jun opened and closed his mouth, trying to frame his question, which the elderly woman read. “I can see what the others cannot. You two are reborn, right?”
They answered after a long pause. “…Yes.”
Jun faintly smiled. “This was a fantasy to me until a few months ago when I woke up again. Rebirth felt impossible. It felt even more of a dream and coincidence when Ai was the same woman I shared my last moments with and in this life, she became the woman I love from the depths of my heart,” he squeezed her hand gently.
“Coincidence? There is nothing such as coincidence,” her gaze twinkled with enigma. “Do you think that it’s a mere coincidence that you died alongside her and were reborn to meet her again? It was destined. Your lives are more intertwined than you think they are. Your past was connected, so is your present and so will your future.”
Ai slightly parted her lips. “Past is connected…? But Jun and Ai never met each other. We didn’t know each other.”
“Just because you never met doesn’t mean your lives weren’t connected. If they weren’t connected, the woman with the different shadow wouldn’t have appeared in both of your cards.”
They stiffened.
“Your eyes have questions in them. You look lost.”
Jun thought about Zixin’s burned laptop and sighed.
Indeed, I am lost. We lost the last hope too.
“If you wish to seek your answers, she is the key. She is the one that leads to everything.”
Cai Guiying…
Which reminded Jun that somehow her brother, Cai Lingyun, was his aide in his last life.
Something really connected me and Ai in the past too?
Ai nodded.
She continued. “The woman who was with you just now…”
“Xing Bi?”
“She also knows the answers that you wish to find,” she said cryptically, “Just like the woman in white. She could also help you.”