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Chapter 1784 A Match Made in Heaven
Lu Zhaoling waited until after dinner, when the servants had cleaned up the table, and when she and Zhou Shiyue went for a walk in the courtyard to digest their food, before telling him about her concerns.
"Are you worried that I was the peerless king of the Great Jin Dynasty in my past life? And that I died a terrible death in that life?"
Zhou Shiyue listened to her concerns and stopped.
Lu Zhaoling nodded.
"Judging from the looks of those guys like Du Bing, you definitely didn't die a good death back then."
"Pah, pah, pah, it's not a very good death."
But saying it like that doesn't sound very nice.
Anyway, the outcome was pretty bad.
Zhou Shiyue laughed.
"Then aren't we a perfect match?"
"Two people who both died tragically in their past lives?"
"I heard you were killed in an explosion. I wonder how I died."
"If I were to be blown up too, then we would truly be a match made in heaven."
Lu Zhaoling was speechless.
But for a moment she was speechless.
Zhou Shiyue took her hand and led her on a walk. He was quite calm, "Second sister, why think so much? Past events are past, let them go."
"What we should be thinking about is tomorrow, the future, and the tribulation you are facing now. Since you're going to die anyway, why worry about how good or bad your death was?"
Zhou Shiyue said arrogantly, "Anyway, even if I am blown to pieces, that piece should still look sharp."
Lu Zhaoling: “…”
Unbeknownst to them, Huaiyuan was also discussing Zhou Shiyue that evening.
After Yin Changxing returned to Huaiyuan, Yin Yunting also told them about what happened with Du Bing from Guimen that day.
Weng Songzhi felt a little regretful, because if he had seen it then, he might have been able to use his Heavenly Eye to see what Zhou Shiyue looked like in his previous life, or perhaps he could have seen what was inside the Gate of Ghosts.
Yin Changxing wasn't that shocked.
Because Zhou Shiyue already possessed a great deal of merit, which was continuously increasing, it was already unusual.
They all thought it was normal for Zhou Shiyue to have had a special identity in the past.
Rong Jingjing's mind went blank for a moment, and she suddenly blurted out, "Could it be that Prince Jin had some connection with Uncle Lu in his past life? Such a powerful figure couldn't possibly have too many connections, could he? It's normal for one or two to have some kind of relationship?"
"What are you talking about?" Yin Yunting looked at her.
"Senior Brother, I just... I just wanted to say, could it be that Prince Jin was some kind of powerful elder in Senior Sister's family in his past life...?"
After all, the Jin Dynasty was quite ancient.
So, the fact that a family can produce someone as talented as Lu Ming is due to genetics.
Her voice trailed off towards the end.
She herself knew that this guess was somewhat outrageous.
But her mention of it made Yin Yunting worry. He feared it might end up creating a relationship that was unacceptable to society.
Yin Changxing shook his head and said, "As long as they are not from the direct line of five generations, it doesn't matter what their relationship was in their previous life. By now, Xiao Ling'er has lived for countless generations since the Great Jin Dynasty."
The past is the past; what does it have to do with what happens after several lifetimes?
Besides, their past lives are all a mess.
Who still uses past relationships to make arguments?
“You don’t need to worry about that,” Gu Sanliang suddenly interjected at this moment. “I seem to have heard about that king of the Great Jin before. It is said that he died when he was very young, unmarried, without parents, wife and children. He died a tragic death all alone.”
Everyone looked at him.
Lü Song also said, "You know about this?"
"I heard an old storyteller tell a story about it," Gu Sanliang said.
Rong Jingjing quickly asked, "Uncle Gu, please tell me again, did that king die a tragic death? How did he die?"
Gu Sanliang said with a bit of helplessness, "I only listened to a few words at the time. The old gentleman focused on a strange folk event after the disappearance of the Great Jin Dynasty. He only mentioned the king briefly and didn't say how he died at all."
Now that he thinks about it, he only says a few words.
"If I had known this was important back then, wouldn't I have pressed for details? At that time, I saw that the people listening to the story were only interested in the strange events that followed, and no one asked about anything related to that king."
When he said that, everyone fell silent.
“I just asked Uncle Liu, Aunt Liu, and Old Ma, and none of them knew about that period of the Great Jin Dynasty, let alone that there was such a king,” Yin Yunting said.
"In other words, a person who once existed in this history, and whose life was short and tragic, left no trace in the people's minds or in the history books." Rong Jingjing said with a hint of sadness.
According to what the senior brother said, based on what the soldiers and ghosts said in those years, the king back then must have sacrificed himself for others or for the people.
But nobody really knows him.
“If the Prince of Jin is him, then he must have died for the sake of the common people, otherwise he wouldn’t have such great merit,” Yin Changxing said.
Everyone was even more at a loss for words.
After a moment, Rong Jingjing sighed.
"Then he and Senior Sister are really a perfect couple."
A pair of star-crossed lovers.
They all died for the people.
And judging from these descriptions, they all sounded like tragic deaths.
The people from the First Mystic Sect all felt sorry for Zhou Shiyue and Lu Zhaoling.
It was at this time that Madam Sheng San arrived.
After hearing her talk about Jianwangou, Yin Yunting frowned, but after thinking for a moment, he agreed to go with her.
If it's true that a person can exchange their life for another's, allowing someone else to die in their place, then he should investigate that thoroughly.
After Yin Yunting left with Sheng San Niangzi, Yin Changxing said to Weng Songzhi, "I just found out the true identities of Zong Bie and Xiao Sheng."
"Who are they?" Weng Songzhi asked.
"Zong Bie is nothing. The Zong family was a prominent family in the previous dynasty. After the establishment of the Great Zhou, some members of the Zong family fled because of the misdeeds committed by the previous dynasty, causing the remaining members of the clan to be exiled as well."
When the new dynasty was established, he did not submit to any new regime and instead followed the former ruler.
Fortunately, the Great Zhou Dynasty was benevolent at the time, and only sentenced them to exile. They didn't interfere much afterward, and some of them regained their commoner status.
This lineage refers to the descendants of those people.
Back near the capital, he naturally dared not reveal his background.
"However, that child is the son of a very famous abbot in Nanzhao."
Weng Songzhi was taken aback.
"The abbot of the temple?"
"Correct."
Yin Changxing said, "That Changyin Temple is also the place where the King of Nanzhao worships his ancestors and prays for blessings every year. It has a very high status in Nanzhao and is very sacred."
"The abbot has had such an incident..."
"Of course we have to cover it up!" Yin Changxing scoffed. "Even the abbot himself is sending people to hunt down this child."
“Even tigers don’t eat their cubs, how could he be so heartless?” Weng Songzhi was surprised; he had thought the abbot would want to protect his son.
After all, having already broken the rule, one would always want to leave room for future transgressions.
"It's probably because they're even more reluctant to give up that prestigious position."