A farmer has a shrewish wife; he's busy making money every day.

They won, but no one in the camp cheered.

Lu Cheng ran around cleaning up the mess: the officials who had faked their deaths, the damage and repairs after the great battle, the treatment of the wounded soldiers, and who would temporarily manage the affairs of the Wu Dynasty... There were many troublesome things to deal with.

But while everyone was so busy they wished they had three heads and six arms, no one dared to disturb Lu Chuci.

The Duke's Mansion.

Lu Chuci sat on the bed in his and Ye Qingxue's bedroom, holding a jade bracelet in his hand and unconsciously stroking it. His eyes were bloodshot, and there were no more tears in them.

He knew he shouldn't be like this, but his mind was truly unable to think of anything else.

After Ye Qingxue left, he went to see Empress Dowager Wu.

"Because the Martial Emperor is the child of a human and a cultivator, his body also has a defect. He will have his spiritual power absorbed by me through the umbilical cord, which will make him constantly weak."

“After he was born, the umbilical cord became his Achilles’ heel. The only way to get rid of him completely is to use divine sense to destroy the umbilical cord.”

"I told her about the consequences of destroying the umbilical cord with my divine sense, and she seemed a little scared, but..."

"I learned by chance that she used a modified version of the Ice-Fire Spirit Fruit. Although I am not a cultivator, my knowledge in this area is unmatched by anyone else."

"This improved method of use still does not bring out the maximum effect of the medicine by relying solely on physical union. Only when the souls are united can it be considered truly perfect."

Lu Chuci listened silently to her long speech before finally speaking: "So?"

Empress Wu's eyes flickered for a moment: "I was just telling her the truth. You've all experienced the feeling of souls being drawn together, haven't you? I wasn't wrong."

Lu Chuci remained expressionless, simply nodding after listening before leaving.

Empress Wu was later imprisoned in a water dungeon.

After returning to her bedroom, Lu Chuci sat there without saying another word.

Perhaps he was unwilling to believe it; he hadn't actually seen Ye Qingxue die, she had simply disappeared, and she would return.

She's so capable, how could she possibly die?

She must have other tricks up her sleeve.

Lu Chuci silently repeated the same words to herself in her mind over and over again, until she finally laughed at herself.

He touched his chest.

Are we soulmates? Then can you come out and talk to me?

Lu Chuci waited for a long time, but no one came out to speak to him.

He fell into a long silence once again.

Perhaps, only when his physical body dies can both of their souls be released.

Originally, it was he who deserved to die.

Lu Chuci felt as if his body was being torn apart. He knew clearly that his current state was not right, but he couldn't stop himself from thinking about it.

I can't control myself from doing it.

It wasn't until the door was pushed open with a bang that Lu Chuci suddenly realized that she was holding a knife in her hand.

He stiffly looked up at the person who had intruded, and it took him a while for his mind to process what was going on before he remembered who it was.

"Master Duyuan," he called out.

Du Yuan held his palms up in front of him, stepped into the house, and his expression was unusually no longer so mysterious.

"You, you threaten to kill yourself at the slightest thing, don't you know how to find a solution?"

Lu Chuci's expression was somewhat blank.

Looking for help?

If someone is dead, who can help them?

It's not a storybook...

Thinking of this, his expression suddenly froze. Yes, how could he forget that Ye Qingxue's arrival in this world was itself a fantastical event.

"How... can I help?"

A spark suddenly ignited in the dead silence of my heart.

Du Yuan reached out her hand to him, just like the way she did when she first met Ye Qingxue.

"Please entrust the spiritual object in your possession to me, young friend Lu."

Same words, different people.

The gears of fate seemed to make a soft sound, slowly picking up their tracks.

Lu Chuci handed over the jade bracelet in her hand.

Du Yuan placed the jade bracelet in his palm and murmured something. Suddenly, the jade bracelet emitted a lustrous light.

Lu Chuci's chest heaved rapidly, and a flame suddenly ignited in his heart.

Gradually, the luster of the jade bracelet dimmed, and something gradually gathered in the center of the ring, forming a soft, fuzzy-looking substance that floated on the jade bracelet.

"This..." Lu Chuci asked cautiously, her breathing slightly labored.

The joy of finding something lost instantly surged through my body like an electric current.

His hands were trembling.

"This is not Young Friend Ye."

Lu Chuci's body stiffened, and her surging blood suddenly congealed.

"This is your child."

With a "buzz," he felt as if his brain had stopped working, and he froze instantly.

"Wha...what?"

Seeing him like this, Du Yuan felt a strong sense of accomplishment welling up inside her.

He continued, slowly and deliberately, "Although it is said that heavenly secrets cannot be revealed, I can give you a few pointers since you are now a destined person, young friend Lu."

Lu Chuci immediately looked at him, her gaze so intense it seemed to burn him.

Du Yuan was startled by him and coughed lightly: "It is true that using divine sense to destroy spiritual objects can annihilate the physical body, but the opportunity for young friend Ye lies in the fact that she was pregnant at the time."

Lu Chuci clenched her fists tightly, struggling to suppress her turbulent emotions.

"The birth of life requires the unity of body and spirit, neither of which can be missing. The child that Ye Xiaoyou is carrying has not yet developed intelligence in its soul. The body does not reject the external spirit, and the mother's soul has a high degree of compatibility with it. So, at the moment when Ye Xiaoyou's body perishes, her soul is absorbed by this body, giving her a place to rest."

Lu Chuci remained silent, gritting her teeth as she listened to him continue.

Du Yuan flicked the floating spirit ball with his finger, and the spirit ball floated into Lu Chuci's hand.

Lu Chuci hurriedly and carefully carried it over.

Du Yuan: "Your child's physical body is not fully developed, which is why he was able to be absorbed into the jade bracelet's space. Under the layers of protection, Young Friend Ye's soul remained intact. However..."

Just as Lu Chuci was about to speak, she suddenly heard a twist in the story, and her heart ached sharply.

He even suspected he was going to develop a heart condition from all this.

Du Yuan enjoyed watching people get anxious, and continued slowly: "But precisely because the child's physical body is not fully developed, it cannot accommodate Ye Xiaoyou's soul for too long."

Lu Chuci asked anxiously, "And then?"

“Then…” Du Yuan stroked his non-existent beard, “The jade bracelet space is a place of spatial disorder. Since Young Friend Ye’s physical body was annihilated in this world, she naturally has to return to the place where her physical body was intact.”

"Is it...the 23rd century?" Lu Chuci asked, frowning.

Du Yuan nodded with satisfaction, intending to congratulate him, but then noticed that Lu Chuci's expression had darkened again.

"Why is Young Friend Lu unhappy?"

Lu Chuci said sullenly, "She's gone back to her world, of course I'll miss her."

Why doesn't young friend Lu go and look for the past?

Lu Chuci looked at him as if he were an idiot: "Time and space are such wondrous things, how could an ordinary person like me control them?"

Du Yuan frowned and gave him a look as if he were an idiot.

"Young friend Lu, have you forgotten that you have already entered the Divine Realm?"

The air froze instantly.

After an unknown period of silence, Lu Chuci suddenly stood up, causing the chair to fall to the ground with a thud due to his sudden movement.

The culprit showed no intention of helping him up; he was too excited to care.

"Yes! That's right! I, I can break through space and time! Thank you, thank you, I'll set off right now!" He was flustered for a while, then ignored Du Yuan and rushed out of the room.

Du Yuan: "..."

The little spirit ball detached from its father's palm and floated sadly into Duyuan's hand.

Du Yuan stretched out his index finger and rubbed it: "Poor thing, your father values ​​women more than his son."

The little spirit ball wobbled, as if making an accusation.

Du Yuan happily put it into the jade bracelet: "Let's go, come with me to find your maternal grandparents."