It’s just cultivating immortality, who isn’t a favorite of heaven?

"Please take a seat, everyone." Xie Jingxiu put a gentle smile on his face again and asked everyone to sit down.

Cen Pianpian sat down next to Xie Jingxiu, his eyes lingering on Cheng Shuyan for a long time before he tilted his head and asked Xie Jingxiu curiously, "Senior Brother Xie, how come I didn't know you had such an old friend?"

"She was my playmate in the secular world. Then something happened to her family, and I never saw her again."

He seemed to be answering Cen Pianpian's question, but his eyes were inadvertently looking at Cheng Shuyan.

"Oh? What accident?" Cen Pianpian continued to ask.

"She was sought out by her enemies and her entire family was tragically killed. What a pity, it happened on her wedding night."

His tone was quite regretful, like an outsider feeling sorry for his friend.

Xie Jingxiu said this on purpose. Yesterday, Cen Pianpian sent him a sound transmission note, saying that when she and Zhao Ziyi came back from the Cheng family, they met Cheng Lingshu's sister who had just been found by the Cheng family's steward.

Cen Pianpian said that the sister seemed to know him at the time and asked them to convey her admiration for him.

He didn't care at first. It was impossible for him to know Cheng Lingshu's sister who was living outside. Perhaps the woman just held a grudge against the Cheng family and pretended to admire him to take revenge on the Cheng family.

But when he saw Cheng Mingshu's face, he couldn't help but be cautious.

"Ah? That's too tragic." Cen Pianpian patted his chest and pretended to be frightened.

Xie Jingxiu seemed to be observing Cheng Shuyan unintentionally, wanting to see her reaction.

However, he was destined to be disappointed.

Cheng Shuyan shrank into her sea of ​​consciousness. She felt as if she had turned into a ball of light, hiding in the corner and spying on everything that was happening outside, just like she had been spying on "Cheng Dani's" life for those thirteen years.

"Cheng Mingshu" had not experienced the process of Shu Yan's past life, and had nothing to do with Xie Jingxiu, so he had no special reaction to his words.

"Senior Brother Xie, why are you always looking at Senior Sister Mingshu?" Cen Pianpian noticed Xie Jingxiu's eyes and felt unhappy. She seemed to be asking Xie Jingxiu, but actually her eyes were looking at Cheng Lingshu.

"Junior Sister Cen's eyes are really glued to Senior Brother Xie! You can even see clearly who he glances at more than once."

Cheng Qinshu couldn't stand Cen Pianpian's pretentiousness and was the first to speak back.

"Senior Sister Qinshu, please don't talk nonsense. Senior Brother Xie and Senior Sister Lingshu are engaged. If you let Senior Sister Lingshu hear this, she will be unhappy."

Cen Pianpian looked at Cheng Lingshu provocatively, wanting to see her reaction.

"Okay, I'm full. I'm going back to rest. How about you, sister?"

Cheng Lingshu watched and listened to Cen Pianpian's gossip, and since he had already done all the face-saving work, he simply stood up and said goodbye.

Cheng Shuyan naturally would not stay, as her goal had been achieved.

So everyone simply dispersed.

Everyone had no appetite during the meal and was thinking about their own things.

After returning to the room, Cheng Shuyan was finally no longer just a ball of light in the sea of ​​consciousness. She became Cheng Shuyan again.

She sat in the room, looking a little dazed, not quite understanding her current state.

She was certain that the person who appeared in Xie Jingxiu's yard just now was not herself, but "Cheng Dani", or "Cheng Mingshu".

But isn’t Cheng Dani dead?

On a winter night when she was thirteen, she froze to death in the woodshed.

The moment she saw Xie Jingxiu, she almost couldn't control her emotions, and she felt like a demon was invading her body.

Fortunately, Cheng Lingshu noticed her abnormality and awakened her to reason in time.

At that moment, she broke out in a cold sweat.

This is the territory of Xuanfeng Sect. If her inner demon had invaded and she had wanted to kill Xie Jingxiu, and acted impulsively, not only would she not be able to kill Xie Jingxiu, she would also be doomed to die.

So at that moment, she thought, if only Cheng Dani were still alive.

Cheng Dani was not aware of the entanglement between her and Xie Jingxiu, so she would not react as strongly as she did.

The next moment, "Cheng Dani" really appeared. She interacted with Xie Jingxiu calmly and without revealing a single flaw.

It was not until Cheng Lingshu took her away from Xie Jingxiu's yard that she suddenly regained control of her body.

Cheng Shuyan didn't quite understand why a dead person would appear again?

Could it be that Cheng Dani hadn't died back then? She had simply transformed into a ball of light and hidden in her sea of ​​consciousness, just like her?

Thinking of this, she began to carefully search every corner of her sea of ​​consciousness, but found nothing.

She did not find Cheng Dani's soul.

This is so weird. Logically speaking, Cheng Dani is just a mortal and she has never found any trace of Cheng Dani's existence over the years.

With the strength of her soul as a foundation-building cultivator, it is impossible for her not to notice the "existence" of a mortal soul in her body.

unless……

This soul does not exist at all.

What exactly is the "resurrected" Cheng Dani? Cheng Shuyan felt that things were getting weirder and weirder.

Remembering what the woman she met in the mysterious secret realm had said, she asked Cheng Shuyan what he thought of her relationship with the goddess, and finally asked Cheng Shuyan himself.

So, Cheng Dani is the same?

Is she also just a consciousness? A consciousness imagined by Cheng Shuyan?

In this world, there has never been a person named Cheng Dani. Has it always been just her?

Unable to figure it out for a moment, Cheng Shuyan had to give up the idea and decided to find a time to go to the Cheng family's library to see if there were any letters recording this matter.

……

After returning to the room, Cheng Lingshu thought about it and finally knocked on Cheng Shuyan's door.

My sister's condition was a little strange today. The moment she met Xie Jingxiu, a hint of murderous intent suddenly appeared on her body. Although she quickly hid it, Cheng Lingshu, who had been paying attention to her, still felt it.

After Cheng Shuyan opened the door and let her in, Cheng Lingshu walked over to her and sat down, saying solemnly, "Sister, I have something to ask you."

"Well, go ahead and ask." Cheng Shuyan probably guessed what she wanted to ask.

"You and Xie Jingxiu...you know him, right? Do you have a grudge against him?"

Cheng Lingshu asked very directly, and Cheng Shuyan didn't know how to answer for a moment.

If she admitted that she had a grudge against Xie Jingxiu, then where did this grudge come from?

She didn't dare say that she was actually the old friend who was killed on the wedding night as Xie Jingxiu said. If she did so, the Cheng family would definitely suspect whether she had taken over the body of the real "Cheng Mingshu".

Given the guilt and love that Cheng Huaixu and his wife feel for "Cheng Mingshu", she will definitely not have a good ending once this matter is exposed.

Her hesitation made Cheng Lingshu more certain, but seeing that she was unwilling to answer, he did not force her. Instead, he changed the subject and began to persuade her.

"Sister, although I don't know how you and Xie Jingxiu met or how you became enemies, if you don't want to tell me, I won't force you.

There is just one thing, Xie Jingxiu is a person that Xuanfeng Sect values ​​very much. If he dies in your hands, even if the Cheng family uses all its strength, it will not be able to save you.

So, no matter what grudge you have against him, sister, you must keep it hidden and don't attack him openly."