So It Was Really Her

After the selection ended.

Because of Xia Lengyue's astonishing talent, she was directly taken in by the Sect Master as a personal disciple and was granted Lengyue Peak as her cultivation residence.

Meanwhile, Ye Xuan received a set of gray cloth clothes and became a lowly handyman disciple.

But fate played a huge joke on him.

"Ye Xuan, you're quite lucky."

A managing disciple threw him a wooden token and said enviously, "Personal Disciple Xia specifically requested a nimble handyman to go to Lengyue Peak to tend to the spirit herbs. You've been chosen."

Ye Xuan held the token, his hands trembling slightly.

"Personal Disciple Xia... specifically requested me?"

He braced himself and made his way to Lengyue Peak.

Lengyue Peak was rich in spiritual energy, with rolling clouds and radiant mists. In the exquisite courtyard at the top of the mountain, Ye Xuan met Xia Lengyue.

She was standing at the edge of the cliff with her back to him. The mountain breeze blew her long hair, making her look exceptionally lonely.

"Handyman disciple Ye Xuan greets Senior Sister Xia." Ye Xuan bowed in greeting, trying his best to make his voice sound humble.

Xia Lengyue slowly turned around.

She didn't speak, but just quietly looked at Ye Xuan, walking closer step by step.

She did not stop until she stood right in front of him. The distance between them was so close that Ye Xuan could smell the faint, cold fragrance on her body.

"Raise your head." Her voice was a bit hoarse, as if she hadn't spoken in a long time.

Ye Xuan raised his head as instructed, but didn't dare to look directly into her eyes.

Xia Lengyue looked at this familiar face, and the frost in her eyes instantly melted, replaced by a tenderness that made Ye Xuan's scalp tingle.

"Husband, I finally... get to see you again."

She murmured softly, reaching out her hand, wanting to stroke Ye Xuan's cheek, but she forcefully stopped herself in mid-air.

Ye Xuan's heart pounded wildly, and the cold sweat on his back instantly soaked his clothes.

These lines are wrong!

This script is wrong!

He took a half step back, revealing an honest but terrified smile. "What is Senior Sister saying? This disciple is just a rustic villager. Today is the first time I've ever seen a heavenly beauty like Senior Sister. Before... I have never seen you before."

Xia Lengyue's fingers froze in mid-air.

She looked at Ye Xuan trying his best to distance himself, his face full of 'I don't know you'. A trace of pain flashed deep in her eyes, but it was quickly covered by a deeper darkness.

"Is that so..." Xia Lengyue withdrew her hand, her tone becoming indifferent again. "That's right, you... don't remember yet."

"Senior Sister?" Ye Xuan was completely bewildered.

"It's nothing." Xia Lengyue turned around, her back to him, her voice betraying neither joy nor anger. "You may leave. Remember to come here every day to clean."

"Yes... this disciple obeys."

Ye Xuan felt as if he had thorns in his back. Not daring to stay a moment longer, he gave a dry laugh, hastily bowed, and retreated.

Returning to the handyman's cabin assigned to him by the sect.

Ye Xuan closed the door, leaned his back against the doorframe, and panted heavily.

"Too strange... this is really too strange."

He sat cross-legged on the simple wooden bed, his brows tightly furrowed.

"This Xia Lengyue feels exactly like the one in the game, but her background setting is completely new.

Moreover, according to the game's plot, after she entered the sect, the first thing she should do is go hook up with the inner sect genius Zhao Wuji, and then the two of them would become Dao companions to humiliate me."

Ye Xuan searched through his memories of what he had seen and heard today.

"But, in today's list of inner sect disciples, there was no such person as Zhao Wuji at all!"

"And I don't know her either, I'm not her husband at all."

"Forget it, never mind. Cultivation is the most important thing." Ye Xuan shook his head, trying to expel those distracting thoughts from his mind.

He sat cross-legged, preparing to cultivate.

And the cultivation method he used was precisely the Basic Qi Gathering Incantation issued by the sect to every handyman disciple.

However, reality was cruel.

After three whole hours had passed, the spiritual energy in his body was still as weak as a gossamer thread. After running one cycle through his meridians, most of it dissipated.

"Damn it, without that Five Elements Chaos Sutra, are five-element spiritual roots really just trash?"

Ye Xuan opened his eyes helplessly and tried to call out to the system in his mind, but there was no response.

"Sigh... am I destined to never make a mark in this life?"

A wave of exhaustion washed over him. Ye Xuan fell onto the wooden bed and went into a deep sleep.

In the dead of night.

In his sleep, Ye Xuan felt as if he were floating in a void.

The scene shifted, and he returned to the game's ending scene.

The sky was blood red, and all around were the countless corpses of cultivators.

He was lying in a woman's arms, his life force rapidly slipping away.

The woman's black clothes had long been dyed red with blood. She held him tightly, her usual arrogance completely gone, her face full of tears and terror.

That was Xia Lengyue.

In the dream, she cried heart-wrenchingly. Her trembling hands stroked his cheek, and her warm tears fell into his eye sockets.

"Don't go... please don't go..."

"I won't cultivate anymore, I don't want anything anymore, Ye Xuan, wake up!"

"I really regret it so much... don't leave me alone..."

This sorrow was too real, making even the Ye Xuan in the dream feel a sharp pain in his heart.

"Gasp!"

Ye Xuan suddenly sat up from the bed, panting heavily, his forehead covered in beads of sweat.

Outside the window, the moonlight was like water; it was already late at night.

"What a strange dream..."

Ye Xuan wiped his sweat, his gaze a bit unfocused. "I clearly cleared the game a long time ago, so why would I still have this kind of nightmare? All of this was too real, as if it had actually happened."

He calmed himself down and prepared to get out of bed to drink some water.

Suddenly, an extremely intense feeling of anomaly welled up in his heart.

It was the intuition brought by years of gaming experience—someone was spying on him!

Ye Xuan suddenly turned his head to look out the window, and quickly looked around.

In the empty room, there was only the rustling sound of the wind blowing the window paper.

He pushed open the door and walked into the courtyard. The surroundings were silent, with only the distant tree shadows swaying in the moonlight, looking like ghosts.

"An illusion?"

Ye Xuan frowned. He walked a circle around the courtyard but found nothing.

"Maybe it's because I just had a nightmare, my nerves are too tense."

He shook his head mockingly, closed the door, and returned to bed to continue cultivating.

However, what he didn't know was...

At the exact moment his door closed.

In the shadows of his roof, a pair of eyes slowly opened.

It was precisely that incomparably aloof heaven's proud daughter from the daytime, Xia Lengyue.

At this moment, how could she still have the slightest appearance of a fairy?

Dressed in black, she almost blended into the night. She lay prone on the roof tiles, greedily staring at the figure entering a meditative state again inside the room through a tiny gap.

Her cheeks were flushed with a bizarre redness, her breathing was rapid and suppressed, and her delicate body trembled violently from extreme excitement and some indescribable pain.

She stretched out her finger and gently traced Ye Xuan's silhouette through the void.

Two trails of clear tears slid silently from the corners of her eyes, dripping onto the tiles and instantly freezing into ice crystals.

"Husband..."

Her voice was as soft as a mosquito's buzz, carrying a sickening obsession and madness.

"I once failed you, making you die in despair..."

She stuck out her tongue, gently licking her dry, cracked lips. Her voice was as faint as a gossamer thread, yet it carried a bone-deep paranoia:

"Husband... this time, without my permission, you are not allowed to go anywhere..."

"Even in death, I will bind your soul to my side..."

"I have searched for you for centuries, and finally... I have found your reincarnation."