Chapter 145 - Past Life’s Friend (1/2)
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Lin Liuchun squinted his eyes, thought for a moment, then put his hands under his head and spoke as he gazed up at the roof of the carriage. “I suddenly recall — thirty years ago — I also accompanied your father to the Middle Continent to participate in the Hundred Families Gathering. That year, he was the supervising officer of the Lin family for the excursion and was a naughty kid as well. In the blink of an eye, thirty years have already passed…”
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Lin Liuchun sighed with emotion and closed his eyes, seemingly asleep.
Lin Xuanzhi originally wanted to ask about his father’s past, but after seeing that Lin Liuchun had no intention of continuing this conversation, he paused before gently stepping out, leaping onto the speeding horse carriage behind him.
Inside the carriage, Duan Yuyang’s face was angry and flustered. “Why did you have to tie me up just before you got off the carriage earlier?”
Lin Xuanzhi sat beside Yan Tianhen, offhandedly grabbing Ah Bai and plopping him onto his lap. While petting Ah Bai, he said “I want to stop you from going out and stirring things up.”
Duan Yuyang rolled his eyes. “How did I stir things up? You’re not treating me like a friend.”
“It’s because you are my friend that I don’t want you to be implicated.” Lin Xuanzhi said. “If you stand up for me, then they will focus on the entire Duan family.”
Duan Yuyang’s face darkened. He ground his teeth and said: “Right now, I am very eager to drag the Duan family into the water.”
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Lin Xuanzhi said flatly, “There’s only a few people in the Duan family who wronged you. It’s not the best policy to drag the entire family underwater.”
Duan Yuyang snorted coldly and said dismissively, “I’m not planning to go back to the Duan family. How the Duan family fares, what does that have anything to do with me?”
Lin Xuanzhi looked at him and said, “I think you should take back the Duan family instead of handing it over.”
Duan Yuyang’s eyes flashed as he snorted. “How’s that possible? I am heavily outnumbered. Will you help me rob them?”
“If you want to rob them, then I will naturally help you.” Lin Xuanzhi replied. “But I am only one person. It’s too difficult. We might as well add another one.”
“Who?” Asked Duan Yuyang.
“Naturally, Yuan Tianwen.” Lin Xuanzhi said with unusual calmness.
Duan Yuyang stared at Lin Xuanzhi, speechless. After a long time, he exclaimed angrily, “You’re really too mean! You actually want me to find that bastard? You obviously know about honourable me and him. Fuck, let him go!”
Lin Xuanzhi turned a blind eye to Duan Yuyang’s dissatisfaction and said, “He owes you. Don’t tell me that you’re just going to let this go?”
“You think he owes me?” Duan Yuyang’s anger ceased, and instead he thought of something, then smiled and said carelessly, “He does not owe me anything. Everything I did, I did willingly. You can say that I’m inviting this upon myself, or that I’m shameless, but I was pretty happy being together with him, so I didn’t suffer. Plus, I don’t have the habit of trying again and again just to be shot down. He has rejected me twice and blindly found someone who’s a good actor. I’m too lazy to pay any attention to him. The road ahead is wide. In the future, we’ll go our separate paths.”
Yan Tianhen stared at Duan Yuyang, blinked, and said, “I suspect that Yuan Tianwen is blind. He didn’t want such a nice person like you and even deliberately chased after that Han Yuran.”
“Don’t tell me your Dage was never blind?” Duan Yuyang asked back.
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Yan Tianhen looked at Lin Xuanzhi and closed his mouth.
Lin Xuanzhi drew down the corner of his lips and said, “The current me is no longer blind. Blindness can be cured.”
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In reality, he never liked Han Yuran much.
If it weren’t for his father personally setting up the marriage, he would never have spared a second glance at Han Yuran.
Duan Yuyang sighed, hesitated, then looked at Lin Xuanzhi. “A few days ago, weren’t you the one who encouraged me to draw a clear line between myself and the Duan family and walk away?”
“I wouldn’t say I encouraged you.” Lin Xuanzhi raised his eyebrows slightly and said, “You were still angry a few days ago. You must have calmed down. If I were you, I would take back everything that belongs to me and give those who hurt me the punishment they deserve.”
Duan Yuyang thought for a moment and said hesitantly, “This, I have to think about carefully. After all, the enemy is strong whilst I am weak, and they’re in the dark while I am in the light.”
“Now, the enemy is already out in the light while you are hidden in the dark.” Lin Xuanzhi said meaningfully.
Startled, Duan Yuyang stared into Lin Xuanzhi’s pair of eyes — deep like the autumn waters — for a moment before turning away.
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A strange seed had been planted in his heart.
“Dage, it’s almost time to rest.” When the procession stopped, Yan Tianhen pulled open the curtain and said lightly.
However, he did not hear Lin Xuanzhi’s reply.
Yan Tianhen looked back and saw Lin Xuanzhi leaning by the window, his downcast eyes deep in thought.
Thick eyelashes obscured the look in his eyes, making it impossible to tell what emotions were in them. There was only a calm and collected expression on his impeccable face.
Lin Xuanzhi pursed his thin lips slightly. An onlooker would feel a sense of inexplicable sadness from his countenance.
Yan Tianhen paused and went to crouch beside Lin Xuanzhi’s leg. He looked up at Lin Xuanzhi’s eyes and said, “Dage, were you and Huangfu Jin old friends?”
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Lin Xuanzhi’s gaze landed on Yan Tianhen’s face. His heart tightened and stopped for a few beats. A flash of panic appeared in his eyes.
In that moment, he thought Yan Tianhen was actually the Yan Tianhen of his previous life.
However, Lin Xuanzhi soon returned to normal.
He pulled up Yan Tianhen and said, “Why do you ask?”
Yan Tianhen said, “Dage has been strange ever since you saw Huangfu Jin today. You’ve been absentminded thrice, and you neither hear nor respond to what I say. This has never happened before.”
Lin Xuanzhi paused and realized that he really seemed to be immersed in the memories of his previous life, consequently not noticing and even ignoring the people around him.