Chapter 172: Chapter 146: Thank You, the Candy Is Very Sweet (3)

The Princess lowered her head and said softly, “I don’t know how to leave.”

Fu Xuan wrapped up the remaining candy and put it back in his pocket.

Hearing the Princess’s words, he knew that Wen Ranchen’s brainwashing was very successful. Now this woman had already acknowledged that she occupied someone else’s body.

“It’s simple, as long as you’re willing to die, you can leave this body.”

Upon hearing this, the Princess didn’t respond for a long time, her head bowed, making it impossible to discern her expression.

Fu Xuan didn’t rush her, just sat beside her, tilting his head back as he marveled at the numerous spiders in the prison cell.

“Fu Xuan, can you tell me what kind of person your… sister was?”

Upon hearing this, Fu Xuan became interested. Praise his sister?! He could praise her for three days without repeating himself, but given the urgency of time, he’d choose the most impressive details to share.

“My sister was different from others, she seemed indifferent but was fiercely protective. When I was young, I had a weak character, bearing the title of legitimate son yet only knowing how to cry. The day I entered the palace, I got lost and cried in the Imperial Garden, and at that time, my sister came by, wiped my tears away, gave me a few oddly-shaped candies, and took me back to our father. Back then, I thought she was like a fairy.”

“Later, when studying at the Imperial College, she was also amazing. While I was still at the Enlightenment Hall, she had already advanced to a higher level.”

The Princess secretly compared herself. If she had encountered the lost Fu Xuan in the Imperial Garden, what would she have done?

The most likely scenario was that she would mock him along with her servants and then lock him up for fun.

As for the Imperial College, it went without saying, she didn’t like learning those things, nor was she willing to.

She was truly completely different from that person.

Fu Xuan spoke a lot, and the Princess listened to a lot. Finally, she lifted her head, her expression surprisingly calm.

“Fu Xuan, I think I might truly be a wandering ghost, already dead, yet unwittingly occupying someone else’s body.”

“But what I’m saying to you now has nothing to do with whether I’m a human or a ghost.”

“Fu Xuan, I love you, unrelated to you.”

Fu Xuan froze. Though he frequented places of romance, it was the first time he encountered such direct emotions, and it was impossible not to be moved.

Wen Ranchen, who had been standing guard on the side, couldn’t endure it anymore and wanted to draw his sword. He couldn’t tolerate that woman using the Princess’s face to say those words to someone else.

But for the sake of the bigger picture, he restrained himself.

Fu Xuan, you’d better truly make her leave.

The Princess continued, “Fu Xuan, I can leave, but can you hold me one last time?”

This was a very simple gesture, the Princess thought, Fu Xuan should not refuse her.

But Fu Xuan shook his head, his reason being that it was his sister’s body; he couldn’t desecrate her body while she wasn’t present.

The Princess understood this shake of the head; it was a rejection, a choice of another person.

But she was about to die, why should she care about so much?

She would die, and she had never, until today, realized this reality so clearly.

A faint voice in her heart told her she couldn’t die, at least not this way, but at the same time, another voice told her that as long as she died, the pain would stop.

The more Fu Xuan spoke, she also understood how outstanding that other person was—someone with the same status as her, yet lived a life completely opposite, even winning the hearts of both Fu Xuan and Wen Ranchen.

Now, these two men were both out of her reach.

Was it like saying you steal my body, I steal your men?

Come to think of it, although she lost the men, she gained a body, so it wasn’t a total loss.

Facing death, the Princess opened her mind, and once her mindset broadened, she understood the truth about herself.

It turned out, she was nothing more than a mass of Heavenly Dao Energy. The memories she thought she had experienced were actually illusions constructed by the Heavenly Dao to reverse the altered world line.

All along, she wasn’t truly existent, the only reality belonging to her was Fu Xuan.

The Princess looked at Fu Xuan, and while he was still taken aback, she suddenly rushed up and threw herself into Fu Xuan’s arms, laughing heartily and loudly, showing a vibrant and bold expression of a young girl.

For a moment, Fu Xuan even thought his sister had returned, but the voice in his ear told him it was still that woman.

“Fu Xuan, it would be nice if there’s a next life. In the next life, I want to meet you sooner and fall in love with you.”

But she actually knew, she would never have that day; she wasn’t human, had no soul, no reincarnation; all scripted energy would just gradually dissipate over time.

“If she comes back after I leave, remember to tell her for me, thank you, the candy was very sweet.”

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