dream soul

"This is your jade pendant, take it."

"What are you doing?" Zheng Qi looked at Chan Ling's outstretched hand with a puzzled expression on his face.The jade pendant on the palm was still flawless, but for some reason it had a cold look.

"Take the jade pendant back, and then throw that flute away, as far as you can, and we will have nothing to do with you from now on." Chan Ling bit her lip with a firm expression on her face.

Zheng Qi said anxiously: "What are you going to do? Do you have any important matters, please tell me."

"Then let me tell you." Chanling put the jade pendant in Zheng Qi's hand, took two steps back, and said, "Did you always feel tired and tired in the past two days, and you can't work hard?"

"how do you know?"

"Do you still have no appetite to eat, and your face is as white as a piece of paper?"

"..." Zheng Qi has indeed been like this for the past few days, he always thought that he was too busy and tired.

"That's because I'm sucking your essence. Your essence is damaged, so it's natural." Chan Ling stared at Zheng Qi and said word by word.

My mind went blank for a moment.Zheng Qi just kept looking at Cicada Ling, at Cicada Ling's eyes, watching those eyes that were once gentle as water freeze inch by inch.

"Why do you think I committed myself to you? Isn't it just to suck your energy so that I can escape from here." Chan Ling sneered, with ridicule in the corners of his eyes and brows. "Do you really think I'm sincere? Do you really want to stay with me forever? Why doesn't your business mind bring love into it."

Zheng Qi didn't know what to say, his heart was severely slashed, even the sound of blood flowing down seemed to be clearly audible, but he still refused to believe it.I don't want to believe that the lover who was cuddling with me the day before actually has ulterior motives, and I don't want to believe that my sincerity is just a scam!

"Then don't you want to suck my energy? Why let me go now?"

"Of course it's because you're useless." Chan Ling still had a charming smile on her face, but the arc of her mouth became more rigid. "Your energy has been absorbed by me, and this broken jade pendant is useless. I kindly let you live. Why are you so stupid to seek death?"

"But..." Zheng Qi wanted to say something more, but Chan Ling was extremely impatient, and pushed Zheng Qi fiercely, "Go! Don't be ignorant, I don't want to see you again."

"Cicada age!"

Zheng Qi woke up from the dream.The sky outside the window was misty, it was not yet dawn, and it was still dark.There was a faint sound of wind and rain, and the sobbing was like the weeping of a ghost, or the low growl of a wild animal.

Zheng Qi felt chills all over his body and couldn't help wrapping the quilt tightly.He held the jade pendant in his hand, no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't be reconciled.Even if he deliberately lied to himself before Chan Ling, he still has to ask clearly, is it possible that all the emotions in the past were fake, and his every frown and smile were fake.From the beginning to the end, he was just a tool, a clown?

He only knows that the skin he touches is true, the person he kisses is true; every word of love he says is true, and the promise he promises is true.

The sky is getting darker, and there is no dawn.The rain continued for many days, with an ominous meaning.

Zheng Qi couldn't fall asleep anyway, so he picked up the flute beside his pillow and rubbed it lightly.As if he was too stupid, so stupid that he was dying, he wanted to see Cicada Ling again.

"Why are you here again?" Chan Ling saw Zheng Qi, annoyed and anxious, "Didn't I tell you to throw away the flute? You are so disgusted with life."

Zheng Qi held Chanling's hand tightly, and said, "You just think I'm tired of work. I just ask you, have you ever had a trace of sincerity towards me?"

"You!" Chan Ling withdrew her hand, but it was held too tightly, her eye circles were already red, "Why are you so stupid."

He sighed faintly, and said helplessly: "You...you know how precious your jade pendant is to a wandering soul like me. Such a good thing is often snatched by lonely souls and wild ghosts. You used to wear it, Covered by yang energy, you will not be discovered. But you have been with me for a long time now, and your yin energy is too heavy. I don’t know how many wandering souls want to harm you and rob this jade pendant.”

As he spoke, he shook his head with a smile, and said in a trembling voice, "I'm still talking about others, I'm not the same."

Zheng Qi held Chanling's hand, pressed it against his face, and said: "I am willing to do this. I lost you, so you will be trapped here forever? If there is anything, let's solve it together."

"How can it be so simple." Chan Ling smiled wryly, "It's easy for a wandering soul with high mana to harm you and me."

Zheng Qi wanted to say a few more words of comfort, but suddenly seeing Chan Ling's expression turned serious, he only heard the word "Be careful!" and was pushed aside.

When he came back to his senses, he realized that there was a cloud of black air floating in the air, full of evil spirit, attacking him, but was stopped by Chan Ling firmly.

"Jump from the window quickly. This wandering spirit is so powerful that I can't hold it back for long. You can wake up when you jump down, and you can escape when you wake up." Chan Ling turned her head and shouted hoarsely.

"I won't go." Zheng Qi picked up a stool on one side and stepped forward to help Chan Ling, "It's a big deal that we die together."

"You idiot." Chanling was sweating all over his head, he could only grit his teeth and fight hard, and flashed red lights, blocking the approaching black air.

Taking advantage of Zheng Qi approaching, he snatched the jade pendant from Zheng Qi's hand.Seeing that Yupei had changed hands, the wandering soul turned to attack Chanling.

Zheng Qi wanted to help, but Chan Ling didn't let him get close at all.Seeing the red light fading away, Zheng Qi's heart felt like a knife was piercing his heart.Even if Chanling lied to him, or wanted to harm him, he was with him.He had already made up his mind to be entangled with Chan Ling for a lifetime, so what's the matter now.He hasn't fully loved Cicada Age yet, he just grasped a little bit of beauty, and it disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye!

Cicada Ling knew in her heart that there was no escape today, and now she could only procrastinate for a while.When his soul is gone, the wandering soul grabs the jade pendant, and the next step is to drain Zheng Qi's energy.Now, it can only be burned together!

"Zheng Qi!" Chanling suddenly called out during the fight.Amidst the black air, the smile on his face was like the bright spring scenery he saw for the first time, but his eyes were red like peach blossoms stained with blood, and two lines of tears wet his cheeks,

"I love you."

Before Zheng Qi could react, he was hit by a red light, and he only had time to shout "No!" before turning out of the window.

Zheng Qi, I didn't lie.In the beginning, I just wanted to use you, your lust, and your stupidity.But you are too stupid, so stupid that I can't bear it.I can't bear to lie to you again, to myself.

You promised to stay together for a lifetime, I just took it as a joke, but when I was serious, I had to break my promise.

Blessings are as thin as mine, and my life is as short as summer cicadas, but it is not in vain that I am lucky enough to meet you.

Zheng Qi, I love you.

Zheng Qi suddenly woke up from his dream, his clothes soaked in cold sweat, it was bitingly cold.He stretched out his hand to reach for the bamboo flute, but his limbs were as heavy as lead, and it took him a long time to move a single centimeter.

When he reached the flute with all his might, he took a closer look, and suddenly it was like falling into an ice cellar—the crimson imprint on the flute had disappeared without a trace.

Disappeared, disappeared, Cicada Age is gone.Zheng Qi was holding the flute, the veins in his hands were bulging, and the flesh and blood were almost embedded in the body of the flute.

The amazement and lingering love when we first met, the love and cherishment when we got along, and the heartache and torture when we broke up, all disappear with the disappearance of this imprint.

Zheng Qi struggled to get up, hugged the bamboo flute blankly, only felt darkness in front of his eyes, suddenly woke up from a big dream, and it seemed that the nightmare had just begun and would never end.

"Cicada Ling, Cicada Ling, Cicada Ling..." Zheng Qi repeated over and over again, as if this could call Cicada Ling out of his dream and reshape his soul from nothingness.

He was only muttering to himself, but he didn't hear the waiter outside the door shouting, "Guest officer, are you up? I brought you water."

Xiao Er yelled twice, told no one to answer, and opened the door to check in worry.As soon as he entered the door, he saw Zheng Qi sitting on the bed with a haggard description, as if he had suffered a serious illness, so he stepped forward to inquire.

Zheng Qi's consciousness was very confused. Seeing a black shadow approaching, he thought someone was going to harm him, so he pushed Xiao Er unexpectedly, and fell to the ground with his bamboo flute.

Zheng Qi held up the bamboo flute in panic, and found that the body of the flute was split in the middle, and a few willow leaves wrapped in yellow and mud fell out.

"Willow leaf, willow leaf..." Without time to think carefully, Zheng Qi grabbed Xiao Er and asked, "Where is the official road for you to go to the capital? Is there a willow tree?"

Xiao Er said inexplicably: "Go out of the official road to the capital, turn right and go straight for two miles. There are many willow trees. Guest officer, are you suffering from hysteria?"

Zheng Qi didn't care about Xiaoer at all, and hurried to the official road without even putting on his shoes, wishing he could grow two more legs.After a while, I saw a row of weeping willows growing side by side on the official road, but one seemed to be dying for some reason.

Zheng Qi knelt down in front of the withered willow tree, using his ten fingers as spades to dig up the soil under the willow tree.I can't feel my fingers being ground to bloody flesh, and I can't feel the sharp stones scratching my hands.Feel nothing, feel nothing.

After digging for an unknown amount of time, Zheng Qi suddenly let out a scream, and sat down on the ground, weeping uncontrollably.

Under the excavated soil, there is a hand that has turned into white bones and is stuck to the chest.If you look carefully, you can see a piece of jade pendant tightly held in the hands of the white bones, which is embedded in the soil in the breastbone.

Straight into the heart.

END