Yueling City is as prosperous as ever.

It's been two years since I last left, and now that I'm back here, nothing seems to have changed. The streets are still like that, and the people are still like that, but some, they can't go back.

Ling Caiwei walked in front, and Lu Chen could only follow behind him by half a step, never daring to go beyond the slightest. Before, he didn't understand this, but in the past two years, the darkness and pain he has experienced have made him deeply feel the horror of this world, and he has also learned more things.

Something you should know as a dog.

People are still bustling, and pedestrians can't help but cast curious glances.

This man, he kept his head down all the time, and wore a pitch-black dog-faced mask on his face, with only his chin exposed. The gray eyes had no brilliance, and there was not the slightest human life in them, like a walking corpse, mechanically following the dazzling woman.

"Today, let's go back to Guanyunlou for a night of rest, and tomorrow I will go to the mountains. ”

There was no expression on her face, and she couldn't see the slightest fluctuation.

All the cruelty is hidden by her under the glamorous appearance. In the eyes of outsiders, she is still the gentle and kind saintess of Liangyimen, but almost no one knows what kind of filth and filth there is behind this glamorous beauty.

Lu Chen knew.

It's scary...

"Yes. ”

He could only nod his head in agreement, no matter how angry and hateful he was, he could never refuse any request from this woman.

Under the dog-faced black iron mask, at the center of his eyebrows, a little blue light flickered all day and night, almost never subsided for a moment, it was Lu Chen's heart that wanted to kill this woman who pulled him from the clouds to hell all the time. But he can't make a move, and Slave Soul Jade won't allow him to make a move, he is destined to only follow behind this woman silently and be a dog.

"A man like a dog. ”

He heard voices like this coming from the crowd coming and going.

But, what can be?

But it's just a painful endurance without any resistance.

Behind the light lies darkness, and the opposite of kindness is intimidating squalor. is like the woman in front of her, who always wears a mask of hypocrisy, how disgusting she is inside.

Looking at the leopard in the tube, it can be seen that she is not the only one in this world, this world has never been extremely cruel.

People are born to be reluctant, but everyone expects to strive for the future beyond reluctance. Some people succeeded, stepped on the clouds, and looked down on the common people. There are those who fail, fall into the darkness, and are trapped in it. Lu Chen is the latter, at least, he is a failure now, and he can't see the slightest light appearing, just repeating despair and pain every day, letting the darkness gradually drown him.

Good and evil are opposites.

There is no shortage of goodness in this world, but there is also no shortage of evil. Good alone cannot last forever, evil alone cannot be eternal, and there must always be evil to bring out the greatness of goodness. But the evil is in front of you, where is the goodness?

Reality will always slap people hard, then spit out thick phlegm, and kick two more feet.

It has also been said that reality never fails anyone...

However, real life is a vicious battle, never live up to it, or give it a slap, in the end, you have to practice your courage single-handedly, who can be an exception?

"Little brother, do you eat steamed buns?"

The old man with mottled hair was standing aside with a large hot meat bun in his hand.

He stopped, turned around, and saw the old man surnamed Xi again.

As it did two years ago, almost nothing has changed, and it is still a modest outfit, with only a few more patches. It was also him who told Lu Chen two years ago that Guanyunlou was recruiting, and asked him to give it a try so that he could make a living.

I just want to make a living, but God likes to play tricks on people.

"Take two. ”

Lu Chen opened his mouth, and finally asked for two, and his heart was also very complicated. He knew that he couldn't blame this old man for everything that had happened, because he was just an ordinary old man, without any cultivation, and could only rely on selling steamed buns to make a living.

Providence makes people, not that he wants to make people.

"Thank you, little brother. ”

The old man smiled and bowed and nodded, skillfully turned around and loaded two hot meat buns and handed them to Lu Chen. He had a satisfied smile on his face, pure, clean, many times stronger than the dirt hidden in the shadows.

Lu Chen silently accepted the two meat buns, turned over his hand and took out a centime of spirit essence, and handed it out.

"Don't, the spirit spirit is too valuable, and you have given Xiao Lao'er a lot of gold and silver two years ago, which is worth a lot of buns. Today, these two meat buns were given to the little brother as a thank you gift. ”

The old man waved his hand again and again, turned around and went back to the bun shop.

Lu Chen was stunned and opened his mouth, but he didn't know how the old man recognized him. In two years, he has changed so much, if he is an ordinary person, how can he recognize him at a glance that he has become like this?

However, the old man was always not ordinary, just like he used to be, standing behind the bun shop, smiling and waving his hands.

He hasn't seen where he is now...

Lu Chen bit the corner of his lip, and there was some inexplicable feeling in his heart, he couldn't say it, he couldn't say it.

"Gone. ”

Ling Caiwei always watched all this happen coldly, and she didn't pay attention to the old man. In her opinion, it was just an ordinary old man, who would only attract guests for his livelihood, and as for why he was able to recognize Lu Chen, it was just because of his voice.

After all, two years ago, Lu Chen often came here to buy steamed buns to eat.

"Yes. ”

Lu Chen answered and stuffed the bun into his mouth.

It still tastes the same as it did two years ago.

He swallowed heavily, and his eyes were faintly red, but he couldn't see anything under the cover of the dog's face mask. When he returned to Guanyun Tower, the steward here had been replaced by another person in the Liangyi Gate, who was respectful to Ling Caiwei and did not dare to do anything wrong.

The room where Ling Caiwei used to be here is still kept, and they are back here.

The beauty of the past is also here. If everything in the past had not been shattered, perhaps Lu Chen would be very pleased to return to his hometown, instead of mechanically following Ling Caiwei's orders as he did today.

"I'll go out and do something, and you'll be waiting for me here. You are not allowed to go anywhere without my command. ”

The bed swayed to stop, Ling Caiwei wiped a handful of fragrant sweat, and directly pushed Lu Chen away.

It was already night outside the room, and what she was going to do, Lu Chen didn't know, and she didn't have the right to know. Only Ling Caiwei told him to wait here, so he had to wait here.

"Good. ”

Lu Chen put on Ling Caiwei's clothes again, this was what she ordered. Then, she ignored Lu Chen, who was like a dead man, and turned straight out of the room, not knowing where she went.

The night is deep, the moon is bright, and the stars are scarce.

Lu Chen sat on the threshold, looking at the darkness in the distance, and was distracted until midnight.

For a long time, a meteor streaked across the sky, leaving a short-lived splendor.

He woke up and lowered his head again, his eyes drooping to hide his gray eyes. There is no longer the slightest brilliance in it, just like the life of the past two years, there has never been any light and hope, only endless darkness and destruction.

"It's almost time. ”

The old man surnamed Xi stood in the bamboo forest not far away, looking at Lu Chen sitting on the threshold from afar, with a little inexplicable white light rippling in his eyes.

His voice was about to fall, and a milky white light began to appear on Lu Chen's body.

Warm and comfortable.

Lu Chen didn't know what was going on, he only felt that he was in a trance as if he was soaking in a hot spring, and an indescribable sense of comfort flowed all over his body. The white light, like a spring breeze, soothed his wounds and pain, and washed away his sins in the past two years. Everything was silently shattered like a passing cloud of smoke.

Ping!

With a crisp sound, Lu Chen's eyes widened suddenly, and he clearly saw a blue light flickering in front of him, and then slowly fell.

Slave Soul Jade...

There were no twists and turns, no accidents, it just broke and fell silently. The filth and sin that enslaved the soul quickly disappeared, and a lightness that had not been experienced for a long time filled the body and even the soul again, and the world in front of me seemed to be glowing with a new brilliance.

His body began to tremble.

What does the shattering of the slave soul jade mean, Lu Chen knows very well.

Finally...

No matter how far the road is, there will be an end.

No matter how deep the pain is, it will eventually end.

Freedom, what a luxury and simple thing, but only when it is lost can we understand its preciousness.

"It's broken... Really, shattered..."

Lu Chen raised his hand and caught the broken Slave Soul Jade, still unable to believe what he had seen. However, this fragment is so real.

The blue jade enslaved him for two whole years.

Now, it's so broken...

"Why?"

Lu Chen looked up, but he didn't see anything unusual.

Here, everything is silent, only the white light on his body gently floats, free, ethereal and carries what a calm and peaceful atmosphere. This white light annihilated everything in his past and healed all his wounds. In just a moment, the white light drifted away, and the indescribable comfort quietly disappeared, but an inexplicable breath rushed to his mind.

He struggled for a while, but he still couldn't resist, and finally fell down.

A black light shot out from his body and came to the old man surnamed Xi.

"You said you wouldn't do anything superfluous. ”

Hoarse and grim, the voice was still as terrible and low as ever.

"Is this kind of thing redundant?"

The old man surnamed Ji glanced at the black light, shook his head and smiled.

"Even if I don't do it today, sooner or later you will let him escape from the woman's grasp. And I'm just letting this happen sooner, just as you asked me to lead him to the woman. You arranged everything, and I just pushed the boat. ”

"Don't you think you're pushing too fast?!"

The voice in the black light roared, already carrying a deep anger.

"He has endured enough pain, there is no need to continue to bear it, and there is no need for him to stab his biological parents, which will only make him unbearable, and even the results that you and I don't want to see. ”

The old man had a lot of unbearable faces, and he quickly relented.

"I led the woman away, but it was only a psychological effect, and she would be back in a short time. It's better for you to go back quickly, let him wake up again and leave, otherwise according to that woman's heart, once she finds that the slave soul jade is broken, she will definitely kill him directly. ”

"You've always been like this, but you can't get used to seeing him continue to suffer. That's why you're one of the original sins!"

A low laugh came from the dark light, and then left a cold snort and returned to Lu Chen.

The old man stood in place for a long time, and his face was quite complicated. In the end, there was only a heavy sigh.

"What can be arranged, it has been arranged, and it will be difficult for you to control everything in the future. Am I the original sin, and what will the future be... Everything, its own number of days. ”