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Beside the Dragon Pond, inside the Chong Palace, the lychee tree that has been carefully raised here for many days by a certain His Royal Highness is exuding a faint fragrance of flower buds.

The strange man with a blue robe on his shoulders stared blankly at the swaying water in front of him. His feet, which were full of ugly scars and wound adhesion marks since he was a teenager, took off his shoes and socks from his hands. His movements dipped into the blue pool water little by little.

Qin Gentian, who subconsciously narrowed his eyes, put down his completely soaked trouser legs to cover the wounds that he didn't want to be seen by others until he felt a fluffy head looking at him from behind, and turned around slowly. He turned his head and glanced at the female tamarin hiding not far away.

"Whose little girl is this, what are you doing hiding there and not coming in?"

"Squeak - roar -"

Pointing out irritably and showing a bit of an angry staring expression, the tamarin obviously heard the conversation between He Bo and Gentiana Qin just now, so that's why she came in so anxiously to see how he was doing.

Seeing that Gentiana Qin's expression at the moment is actually quite normal, and even lazily beckoned to sit beside him, the female tamarin in a floral dress first scratched her head and screamed irritably, and then ran obediently. Qin Gentiana came to the side and squatted down angrily on the spot again without saying a word.

"Any candy?"

Qin Gentiana's sudden sound made the mother tamarin look at him with some doubts. Seeing that her master, whose words and actions are always incomprehensible, said this, she really took out two pieces of peanut halva from her sleeve. Handed it to herself, the mother tamarin first took it with a tangled expression and sniffed it carefully, and then heard Qin Gentiana beside her say lazily,

"The watergrass mother-in-law in the Chishui countryside asked someone to send it to the temple some time ago. I heard that until now she still likes to coax children to jump into the river with these broken candies that dogs can't eat... Do you remember her? ?”

"Hoohoo!!"

Being said by Gentiana Qin, it seems like he remembered something. The mother tamarin has been with Gentiana Qin for many years, and most of the hardest and darkest days were spent together in the evil world. Naturally, he knows some things about him in the past. And Wen Yan didn't say anything, just lost his mind for a while thoughtfully, and after a while Qin Gentiana raised his hand and caressed the tip of his brow before saying again,

"Well, it's her, I stole her things because of hunger, and she gave me a good beating, but in the end, she sent me such a package every year, because only I was born People who don’t have a candy will not dislike her poor craftsmanship, even if she is beaten to death like a baby, she will stuff it all into her mouth and gobble it up.”

Gentiana Qin seemed to smile a little strangely when she said this, and the mother tamarin with a dazed expression felt that something was wrong with her master for a while, but she couldn't tell exactly what was wrong, and then she listened to Qin Gentiana, who looked weird to the whole person, stroked the empty place in his heart with his fingers and said slowly in a soliloquy tone,

"But I just found out today that in the eyes of others, I'm actually not even qualified to take that one candy. Even if I just think about it, I'm selfish, stupid, and even more self-sufficient. That Zulong Old man, those friends around him, even He Bo and his like, think that I'm admiring him, and one day I will end up with him badly. It's been a while since I got carried away..."

"..."

"It would be fine if he and I could stay in the Three Body Kingdom for the rest of our lives, where no one knows us, but in the end, neither he nor I can escape this kind of life that will be judged and interfered by others for the rest of our lives... Maybe he I can do it without caring, but I am such a narrow-minded person who can’t listen to others saying bad things about me, but I really can’t do it... It’s really tiring to be a good person, and it’s even more exhausting to be a good person for one person I don’t know what to say, obviously those people want to step me into the mud on the one hand, but on the other hand they still ask me to be a good person for the rest of my life, and even try my best to do what they all want. If I have endured it all, will I be able to become this kind of person who endures and even allows others to teach me how to do it all my life?"

"..."

What she said was a bit sharp, even though the mother tamarin still couldn't understand what Gentiana Qin was saying, she could feel that her master, who had always had a bad temper since she was a child, was really angry this time.

But when she was panicking and thinking about whether it would be useful to find Jin Heng in the human world now, Qin Gentian, who was looking weird all over, had already twitched the corners of his mouth and stared at her with a terrifying and gloomy voice and opened his mouth.

"If you dare not listen to my words, go to the world to gossip, go to Chishui Swamp with He Bo and the others in the next few days to help the old woman dig lotus roots. Those who allowed them to come back to the palace, do you understand what I mean, tamarin?"

Female tamarin: "..."

A total of two weeks hadn't been normal, but being so stimulated by He Bo and the others today, he started to break the pot again.

At this moment, Qin Chongjun, who was so refreshed after letting go of his hands and firing a fire, seemed to have returned to the previous time when he was arrogant and reckless, and he didn't need to notify anyone. Those who he hated and hated most, but The irritability and rage caused by having to compromise for someone or something over and over again finally subsided a little.

He finally didn't have to think about whether what he did would make people feel inappropriate and disliked. In fact, when he began to learn to think this way, he had already put himself in a position that was fundamentally unfair to the other party.

But it was also what he hated the most in the past, the humiliation of being trampled on the head, the hatred of being looked down upon by others, day by day, year by year, he managed to get out of it bit by bit by stepping on the bones and blood all over the place Is it because the dragon's horn was broken by that nosy old thing, is it because he really fell in love with that person, did he have to make these changes that he didn't like at all?

"Unworthy descendants! When death is imminent, you still don't repent? Do you understand what you did wrong?

"... I know I'm wrong... Heh, tell me what I did wrong? Is it wrong to kill people? Is it wrong to do evil? I just kill hundreds of people and thousands of people. In my eyes, it's not wrong to kill all the people I hate. , just because you think this is wrong, do you want me to agree with you?"

"Arrogant! Talking nonsense without repentance! With something like you, how can you be a dragon! Today I will cut off your pair of dragon horns, and let you live in the swamp for life and death to think about where you are wrong..."

The scene that happened in the heavy rain accompanied by thunder many years ago seems to be vivid in my memory. At that time, the unworthy descendants who were unwilling to kneel to the lofty ancestors at that time seem to have been polished by time, but obviously The arrogance engraved in Jiaolong's bones still exists in every trace of his blood.

Inevitably because of this incident, he thought of a certain existence who always had a high sense of existence. After all, he was still a silly rabbit who was reluctant to vent his anger. He stared at his fingertips and looked at the female tamarin who was too frightened to move like a psychopath whose brain was not normal at all, smiled and said,

"Tell me, if I think of a way to turn the white rabbit into a black rabbit, will those sanctimonious ancestors go mad and kill me?"

"……Roar?"

"If this is the case, no one will say that I am not a good match for him anymore. A Jin Heng who is as bad as I am, despicable, shameless and selfish, will he be able to stay with me for the rest of his life, life after life... no longer separated?"

"Ho... ho ho ho ho ho ho..."

Hearing Gentiana Qin say that, he was dumbfounded. After a while, the female tamarin vaguely guessed what he was going to do, and then shook her hands desperately with a frightened face and started yelling.

And I probably understand that my current thoughts and behaviors are probably unreasonable to the mother tamarin, and even ruin the sincerity that Jinheng gave him in vain. After a while, I looked at the lychee tree by the pond and fell silent. Only then did Qin Gentian close his eyes indifferently, and after thinking about it for a long time, he opened his mouth as if making a joke that only he himself could understand.

"Forget it, the white one is the cutest. Go and drive the carriage to the back door for me... It's getting dark, and he's still waiting for me to go back. I'm going home."

……

After leaving school, they went back to the old house for dinner together, and then went all the way back to their home in the city center. Zhang Changsheng enjoyed the happy time that every normal child would have this day.

Because he not only met Grandpa Rabbit who has a loud voice and looks a lot like an older Uncle Rabbit, but also met Grandma Zhang, who is not as good at cooking as his bad guy uncle, but is very nice, and Grandma Zhang, who drives very steadily and speaks very funny. Driver Dong, although according to his brother Changming, there is actually a very powerful old cat at home, but he ran out to play today, but obviously this does not prevent Zhang Changsheng from completely liking this lively family and I don't even want to go back to the ghost world.

"Although this kid has a thick head and a tiger brain, his brain is still quite flexible. I will ask Ah Geng to bring him back to play more. Since his parents are gone, it doesn't matter if there are more chopsticks at home. Most of these precocious children have a hard life. Take it as a good thing for you to do with him."

"..."

Still being influenced by Zulong's skill of speech and spirit, so he calmly accepted Qin Gentiana, the son-in-law and everything he brought, even though the first time Lao Er told him about Zulong's bestowing marriage to him, he I vaguely guessed the real reason why people around me would accept Qin Gentiana so easily, but now it seems that there are actually many flaws in this matter from the very beginning.

And it is obvious that my grandfather has a good impression of Zhang Changsheng. Jin Heng, who looked thoughtful, didn't say much, just nodded and agreed thoughtfully, which is what the old man said later. The words made him startled for a moment, and then he showed a strange expression again.

"And didn't you find out? This child looks a bit like you when you were a child... I guess it's also fate. As soon as he entered the door just now, I looked like I saw you when you were a child. It's strange..."

When the old man said this, his puzzled expression was exactly the same as that of the class teacher during the day. If there was something wrong with this matter that he hadn’t noticed before, even Jin Heng, who is used to being dull, could have noticed something wrong. .

And with this kind of emotion that something is inevitably wrong, he took the two little guys home all the way, and his uncle, who heard the two brats making noise in his ears along the way, didn't say a word, just frowned. From time to time, Mei looks out the window and thinks about her own affairs.

When he got home, he hurriedly arranged for the two little ones to take a bath, change into pajamas and drink milk. Like every parent who is not good at taking care of children, his uncle who finally drove them to bed finally breathed a sigh of relief, but Just when he was about to go back to the study and wait for Qin Gentiana by the way, the two dead children who were temporarily going to sleep together tonight started yelling at him in harmony.

"Uncle~~We want to listen to stories~~" "Yes, yes, Uncle Rabbit, tell us stories~~~"

His uncle, who was used as a bedside story by these two stinky boys, was really helpless for a moment, but seeing the excited faces of the little guys, he didn't say anything to spoil the fun in the end, but walked slowly to Sit on the side of the bed among them, and seeing the two little heads next to him, he asked lightly,

"What do you want to hear?"

"Listen to the one where there was a mountain in the past, and there was a temple in the mountain! Brother Changming just told me that you used to tell him this story every time you intentionally perfunctory him!"

Jin Heng: "..."

Jin Changming: "..."

Brother Changming, who was once again betrayed by a stupid fat man, turned green with anger, but he couldn't lose his composure considering that his uncle was still by his side, so he could only grit his teeth and forced a smile,

"You, don't listen to some people's nonsense...Uncle, I never said it, why don't we say something scary? Uncle, it must be a ghost, a monster or something. Some people were so frightened that they couldn’t fall asleep by crying!!”

The little classmate Jin Changming, who made it clear that he was about to retaliate, didn't seem to have thought that the silly little fat man next to him was actually the biggest ghost of those ghosts and monsters in his mouth in a sense. The leader, and actually surpassed his aunt in terms of status.

And sandwiched between the two chattering children, there was such a silence for a while, and Jin Heng, who had recently dyed his all-white hair back for a long time, looked at his own shadow on the bedside and frowned a little and said,

"Quiet."

When he fell down with such a serious and cold sound, Jin Changming and Zhang Changsheng fell silent, and Jin Heng, who saw this, thought for a while before looking at his nephew and said lightly,

"Tell me something your mother told me when I was a child."

"I... my mother?"

"kindness."

"Hey, Uncle Rabbit, what story did brother Changming's mother tell you?"

"The Story of a Doppelganger."

"Double body? What is a double body, uncle?"

"The other soul that each of us has is said to be trampled under our feet from birth, and it can turn into strange shapes and cannot break free. Their appearance, voice and even everything are exactly the same as your own, but Their personalities, preferences, and understandings of good and evil are completely different, because they don't belong to any kind of ordinary monsters, so they are always difficult to be found, and even many advanced alchemists in the past were easily harmed by them, so They will be called doppelgangers from hell."

Having said that, the expression on Jin Heng's face also changed slightly. In fact, this is probably the scariest story Jin Shu told him when he was a child, because the end of the story will always be accompanied by a person who is quietly replaced and not replaced by others. Anyone who knows exists, and that is the first time when Jin Heng was young, he knew how terrible it is that someone who is exactly the same as you but completely different will replace you one day.

And obviously this story that successfully scared him when he was a child is also effective for the two little kids in front of him, even Zhang Changsheng rarely got under the covers and showed a little scared expression.

"Ugh... I don't want to be secretly replaced, I want to stay with Brother Changming, Uncle Rabbit and the villains all the time...Brother Changming, if I disappear someday, you must find out in time and come find me again... ..."

"Haha I don't want to look for you, the one opposite to you must be a very cute little skinny guy, it's better to replace you, a little fat pig, hahaha!"

After saying this, the two heartless little things started to quarrel on the bed again. After that, Jin Heng didn't say anything more, and casually told a few less weird stories before turning off the light in the small room went downstairs.

But he didn't notice that with his not easy footsteps, a black sticky substance that had been following them since school in the afternoon and had been hiding under Jin Changming's bed since he came back followed like a flowing liquid. Limping, he gradually went downstairs.

Jin Heng, who had heard someone open the door until he was upstairs, walked slowly to the living room, and then looked down at the four pairs of slippers at the door that seemed to be deliberately placed by severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. The disgusting liquid in his calf also trembled and raised his fingers...

But before it completely stuck to Jin Heng and turned into another body exactly like him, a black shadow vaguely wearing a pink lace apron and slowly holding a shovel approached it from behind, accompanied by a particularly horrifying sound. After the resounding "snap", the legendary doppelganger from hell was slapped brutally on the greasy shovel by an aunt who came home in the dark at night, and then picked it up and pointed at his uncle who was completely sluggish. The handsome face shook expressionlessly.

Qin Gentiana: "I just came back and I'm cooking noodles, do you want to eat?"

Jin Heng: "..."