It was another night of grand snowstorm.
Clusters of snow bent the dry branches in the courtyard, creating a crisp sound when stepped on.
Wei Bo, holding a lantern and draped in a thick cloak, gazed at the warm yellow light seeping through the doors and windows, gradually elongating the shadows within.
He attempted to climb the stairs and walk along the corridor.
But just as he was about to step on the stairs, he suddenly heard a cold and stern voice from inside:
“Tonight, there’s no need to add coal.”
This was Wei Yun’s voice.
Wei Bo paused for a moment, then quickly responded, “Yes.”
But as he looked up, carefully observing the heavy shadows inside through the doors and windows, he originally wanted to ask about Miss Biao’s matters, yet at this moment, he dared not speak further.
Miss Biao always appeared suddenly and disappeared just as quickly.
These days, Wei Bo had always had a question in his mind.
But every time Miss Biao appeared, she was always by the master’s side, which led him to wildly guess.
Could it be that there is a secret chamber in the master’s study… specifically for keeping a concubine?
Could it be that Miss Biao had grown accustomed to that “golden house,” and thus was reluctant to live in the well-arranged room he had prepared for her?
As Wei Bo walked back with the lantern, tightening his cloak around him, he suddenly felt as if he had discovered some incredible secret.
At this moment, in the study, Wei Yun and Sheng Yueqi stood together, in front of them, a woman was completely ensnared by a net, her hands and feet tied to a chair, and her dark purple crystal earrings swayed with her struggles.
And Wei Jing… was still stuck to the door panel by a blue light.
“…I’m sorry, Sister Chun.” Sheng Yueqi, upon seeing the woman glaring at him angrily, touched his nose and laughed awkwardly.
Honestly, he felt quite guilty about the whole situation.
After all, it was hard to offend either side.
This woman’s name was Meng Lichun.
After Sheng Yueqi’s soul traveled to this world, he saw Meng Lichun for the first time when his body was six years old.
In memory, she was definitely a woman with a cold and stunning appearance.
But her neurotic personality did not match the first impression her face gave.
“Sheng, Yue, Qi!”
Meng Lichun glared deathly through the torn and tattered net at the young boy with a small braid in front of her.
This net was considered a treasure of the Sheng family.
Though it was not often used, it was not easily shown to others.
It is said to have been an object of immortals, though it cannot net fish or mortals, and appears to be just a torn net. However, it proves quite effective for catching deities.
For Meng Lichun, this net could at most sustain for the duration of a cup of tea.
“Lord…”
Sheng Yueqi was about to say something, but turned his head to see Wei Yun pulling the sword from its scabbard, which was sticking to the door, held by Wei Jing.
As the sword was drawn from the scabbard, it made a clanging sound and sparks flew.
Sheng Yueqi hurriedly asked, “Lord, what are you planning to do?”
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Wei Yun pointing the sword directly at Meng Lichun, who was bound by the net, the tip barely half an inch from her nose.
Wei Yun remained silent, simply moving the sword blade down to rest on Meng Lichun’s neck, the cold touch involuntarily making her shiver.
Throughout the centuries, she had never been held at sword-point like this.
But Meng Lichun did not show much fear. She just looked steadily at Wei Yun, as if carefully sizing up this person she always considered a dangerous anomaly.
“Wei Yun.”
She suddenly spoke, accurately calling out his name.
“Do you want to kill me?”
Wei Yun’s gaze on her was especially cold and he did not respond.
“You can’t kill me.”
Meng Lichun laughed, and as she spoke, her lipstick smeared on the net, causing her to taste something strange, making her expression turn slightly bizarre.
“Just like you can’t kill me?”
Wei Yun’s sword tip moved forward slightly, against her throat, ready to pierce her skin with a little more pressure.
His calm statement was like a stone causing ripples in water, stirring up waves of reaction.
Meng Lichun reflexively looked at him, her expression one of astonishment.
How could he know?
“So, you tied my fate to someone else, right?”
Wei Yun’s thin lips slightly parted, his gaze on Meng Lichun cold as if frosted with ice and snow, carrying a hint of malice.
He asked, “But why her?”
At that moment, the tip of the sword he was holding had already cut her neck, leaving a mark of blood.
“Lord, Sister Chun…”
“Shut up.”
Sheng Yueqi was about to say something, but Wei Yun interrupted him directly.
At this moment, Meng Lichun finally recovered from her shock, she looked steadily at Wei Yun for a long time, and then suddenly laughed.
Lowering her eyelids, she said, “Wei Yun, you are indeed smart.”
Meng Lichun suddenly felt that she might have underestimated this young Imperial Advisor of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
“Sister Chun, why exactly do you want to kill the lord?”
This was something Sheng Yueqi could not fathom.
Wei Yun wasn’t some criminal transgressor; at the end of the day, he was just an ordinary mortal. Yet, why did Meng Lichun always think about killing him?
“If it’s because of the copper pendant, isn’t that reason too far-fetched?” Sheng Yueqi frowned.
The mention of “copper pendant” seemed to trigger some memories for Meng Lichun. She even wanted to kick Sheng Yueqi, “It’s all because of you, you little rascal!”
Of course, she couldn’t reach Sheng Yueqi with her kick.
To tell the truth, Sheng Yueqi was too good at hiding. He also made some strange things and was able to block her tracking of him continuously. So, for many years, Meng Lichun never found him.
And tonight, seeing Sheng Yueqi here was a complete surprise to her.
Such a cunning person, she should not have spared his life back then out of a moment of compassion.
She was about to scold him some more, but Wei Yun’s sword moved forward, drawing another bloodstain, making her frown and dare not move again.
Although Meng Lichun was immortal, she could still bleed and naturally feared pain.
“Wei Yun, were you born with the ability to see things others can’t?”
She suddenly spoke up.
As soon as these words came out, both Wei Jing, who was sticking to the door, and Sheng Yueqi, standing beside Wei Yun, simultaneously focused their gaze on Wei Yun.
Wei Yun didn’t care about their surprised looks, just staring at the woman in front of him.
As he expected,
She indeed knew about this.
“The so-called mirages you see are actually real, they are images from another world.”
“You already know this, right?”
At this point, Meng Lichun didn’t want to hide anything anymore.
“That’s a world completely different from here, unlike the Great Zhou Dynasty, its societal progress is hundreds of years ahead of this place.”
“Occasionally, adhesions appear between two time-spaces, forming spacetime rifts, and the screens you see are spacetime images refracted through these rifts. Ordinary people can’t see these images, not even traversers.”
Meng Lichun looked at him, “But you can see them.”
“Wei Yun, have you ever wondered why?”
In the end, this was all caused by her own obstinate actions in the past.
Meng Lichun was once a traverser.
That was over nine hundred years ago.
At that time, there was only one spacetime, one world.
And she originally came from the future world.
It was an era where technology had reached new heights, and smart technology had become indispensable to everyone.
She had traveled from such an era back to more than six thousand years ago in ancient times.
That was a particularly ancient history in the literature of the future world.
A past that many could not glimpse.
There, she committed the great sin of reversing spacetime, causing spacetime lines to become chaotic.
Thus, a complete world began to split into two spacetimes from a certain time point.
One spacetime regressed hundreds of years in societal progress, while the other, out of control, began to develop rapidly.
And the future world she originally came from also disappeared due to the butterfly effect of her actions.
She was a sinner punished by the gods.
In this life, immortal, in the rift called the third spacetime between two spacetimes, she existed as someone to repair and supervise the spacetime lines.”
A pair of eyes has witnessed the birth and death of lives across two different timelines, constantly coming and going, yet never able to see the end of one’s own life.
Wei Yun,
His previous life was exactly at the center of a temporal split.
When one timeline splits into two, forming two distinct timelines, the magnetic fields of these timelines become entirely different.
Because Wei Yun was at the center when the timeline split, he possesses two types of magnetic fields.
Even though he now belongs to this timeline, as he ages, the magnetic field from the other timeline becomes more apparent in him.
By then, he will be able to travel back and forth between the two timelines.
Becoming an unrestricted time traveler.
This is an extremely dangerous matter.
If he gains access to advanced knowledge from the other timeline, there’s no guarantee he won’t use it for personal gain, potentially causing further chaos in the timelines.
Anything that could significantly impact history must be stopped.
And Wei Yun, being such a unique existence, is like a ticking time bomb for both timelines.
His love for power might lead him to do things that could harm the order of the timelines, and Meng Lichun must prevent this from happening.
However, she didn’t initially intend to kill him.
After all, it was a grave mistake she made impulsively when facing desperation. He, too, was implicated because of her.
Even then, Meng Lichun didn’t realize her actions would split one world into two different timelines, turning her once hometown into nothingness…
She could never forgive herself, nor could she escape this prolonged agony.
Only later, when she learned that her bronze token had fallen into Wei Yun’s hands, did she realize he would discover its secrets and see the world different from Great Zhou.
To Meng Lichun, this was an extremely dangerous signal.
Thus, she decided to kill Wei Yun.
But at that time, Wei Yun held a significant position in the Great Zhou dynasty. He was still a part of Great Zhou’s history, and the two magnetic fields he possessed were the main reasons she couldn’t kill him.
That’s why Meng Lichun decided to use a fate-binding method to eliminate Wei Yun.
The phoenix tail scale and the bronze token were originally one, and the fate-binding was based on the connection between these two items. So, by a twist of fate, Xie Tao, who possessed the phoenix tail scale, became the best pawn.
