These thoughts piled up in his mind, and he suddenly felt a strong desire to talk to her. Since dealing with Shujun’s "corpse" and the "burial," there had been a new secret between them.
He thought she might understand how he felt.
Perhaps he just wanted someone to confide in, and she was the first person that came to his mind.
Dong Huiying looked directly at the calamity she was in. In the process of dispelling the Gu, she began to recall some things about Dong Dabao, but the greatest characteristic of the Devouring God Gu was its ability to consume one’s memory, affecting one’s mental state.
And a large part of Dong Dabao’s memories were permanently, forever lost.
However, there were some, like what Dong Dabao had once done to the Liang Family Brothers, which etched into her heart so truly and left such deep impressions, as if she had experienced them herself.
Dong Huiying remembered the original Master Dong Dabao’s fate. An old nun had once divined her future, saying that she and the Liang Family Brothers were destined as the northern stars, all with broken and lost fates. But should they come together, it just might resolve their respective deadly fates.
She watched him quietly, "And then?"
Liang Zhichen shifted to the side and then pulled her down to sit next to him on a wooden stump. The small stump supported the weight of two people. He only sat on a small part, leaving the larger portion for her.
He held her hand in his, resting it on his knee. His voice was slightly hoarse, and in a low tone, he continued to confess, "After that... Shujun had always believed that it was because he took away Shu Yu’s nutrients before birth, that she ended up so frail. After Shu Yu... passed away, Shujun left the Sky Blue Building."
"He wanted to go out and clear his mind, and knowing he was upset, I agreed. But who could have known, his leaving turned into an eternal separation. He suffered countless torments before his death, and the person who tortured him, who killed him... was Pei Yu, He Su’s man, Pei Yu!"
"In that dream, it was as if I lived another life. I too doubted the reality of that dream, but I dreamt it over and over, and later verified it, only to find that the dream was real."
He turned to look at her, they sat so close, his expression very lucid, "After returning from Qingfeng Prefecture, I dug up an iron box on the mountain, buried under a pear tree, the box was rusty, and inside it, there was a blood letter written by you. I had taken Shu Yu out to seek medical treatment and heard a middle-aged woman speak of the Divine Doctor, that was your arrangement, wasn’t it?"
Dong Huiying was rendered speechless, this was... rebirth? Otherwise, how could Liang Zhichen know these things?
He saw the shock on her face.
"I only know these because of that dream. In the dream, the fourth brother went missing, the fifth died, and the sixth... the end for the sixth was equally tragic. By the time I died, of the six brothers, the death toll was five, including myself. I did not know where the fourth brother was, nor was I sure of his life or death, but I thought, should he still be alive, his sadness would be certain. At the end of the dream, the brothers of old, dead and scattered, and this family was also torn apart."
Suddenly, Dong Huiying tightly grasped Liang Zhichen’s hand. "The nun..."
She blinked hard, "My mother found a nun to read my fortune. When she saw your birth charts, she had predicted... that Shujun was harmed by a villain, Haoming would be lonely all his life, Yue Ning dead, Yixuan, Yixuan too... all matched."