Chapter 43 It’s him
If you want to light a wishing lantern, you must have the woman's name and date of birth, plus a handwritten wish, tie it to the lantern, and light it until it burns out.
Unfortunately, a woman’s name and birthday cannot be revealed to outsiders. If seen by someone with ulterior motives, it may easily lead to the spread of bad rumors. Because of this incident before, the lighting of lamps is no longer allowed in the temple.
"Miss, do you need an old man to write for you?"
"Don't bother. I'll write it myself."
Shen Wei picked up the pen and neatly wrote down his name, birthday, and wish on the wishing slip.
She handed it to the old Taoist priest with a pious attitude.
Then he bowed and went back to his room with Aunt Zhao and others.
Only after Shen Wei and the others had gone far away did the young Taoist priest look at his master in confusion: "Master, isn't it forbidden to light wishing lanterns? What's wrong with you today? Why are you making an exception?"
"Besides, don't you usually not like to laugh? Why are you laughing so strangely today?"
The old Taoist priest restrained the kind smile on his face.
He held the wishing stick, turned his head, and looked in the direction where Shen Wei left. An indescribable emotion rose in his eyes, as if he was recalling certain scenes through her back.
At last,
The old Taoist sighed and smiled, then lowered his head and wrapped the wishing stick around the lantern. As he wrapped it around the lantern, he said, "What the wishing lantern prohibits is not the lantern, but the secular shackles of the world. She is not a person of this world."
“Also outside the shackles.”
"This time, I think she will get what she wants."
The young Taoist priest didn't understand the meaning of these words. He frowned and thought for a while. When he looked up again, he saw the old Taoist priest holding the wishing lantern and leaving.
"Master, your lamp is not lit yet?"
The old Taoist priest didn't look back, and stepped straight out of the door: "I know a little bit."
Everything in the world is reincarnation.
Cause and effect are connected and endless.
Shen Wei couldn't remember having met the old Taoist priest before, let alone having been to Linghuang Temple, but the old Taoist priest looked at her and said it had been a long time since they last met.
Has she really seen it?
If so, when?
The old Taoist priest walked out of the temple holding the wishing lantern and went towards a living room on the east side. When he stood at the door of the living room, he paused for a long time before knocking on the door.
"Knock knock knock-"
"come in."
Push the door open and enter.
What caught my eye was a slender male figure with broad shoulders and a narrow waist. He was wearing a gray Taoist robe, and his whole body exuded a noble demeanor that was inconsistent with his status.
Hearing the footsteps coming in, the man holding a string of Buddhist beads and resting with his eyes closed turned around. He had a handsome face, like a god. The moment he opened his eyes, a cold and majestic dark light flashed in his eyes.
The man's eyes were fixed on the thing in the old Taoist priest's hand, the wishing lantern with a note wrapped around it.
His heart felt hot and his fingertips holding the Buddhist beads began to tremble.
Even his voice was a little hoarse: "Is it her?"
"is her."
"Is it her who woke up?"
"Yes."
"What did she wish for?"
The old Taoist priest took a deep look at the man whose fingertips were trembling, and saw the calm and indifferent expression on his face shattered and turned into panic, which was nothing like what outsiders had rumored about him.
"See for yourself." The old Taoist sighed.
He untied the wishing note and spread it out in front of the man.
The familiar yet unfamiliar words in front of him hit the man's pupils.
"Shen Wei."
"Chinese."
"Wish me strength, may I be high and mighty, may I be strong and ardent, may I be free, may I return home."
The man stared at the wishing note, reading it again and again. When he saw the words "wish me to return home", the corners of his eyes suddenly turned red and his bony fingers tightened slightly.
It was so tight, so tight that he felt it hurt to breathe.
is her.
Women's food is good.
Weiwei, wake up.
She is no longer the stupid female supporting role who is at the mercy of others, no longer a tool used in the book to highlight Qin Shuyu's elegance and reason, no longer covered in wounds for Xie Yuchuan, and no longer lives according to the original plot.
"Don't you want to go see her?" said the old Taoist priest as he wrapped the wishing stick around the lantern again.
The man paused, and there seemed to be some emotions fighting for sovereignty in his eyes. In the end, all desires and longings were suppressed. He lowered his eyes and smiled softly: "No."
Curtains should be warm, bold and bright, and should not be bound by anyone.
Even if it's him.
His appearance would only hinder her progress.
"Everything in the world has its cause and effect."
"When I saw her for the first time, I knew that this time, she would get what she wanted."
"You promised to wake her up, and you did it, but she won't remember anything about the past. Don't you feel unwilling?"
The man adjusted his mood and picked up the Buddhist beads again: "Yes, but as long as she is happy, it's fine."
Speaking of which.
His mind was empty, as if he was recalling something, with a trace of heartache and guilt in his eyes: "That kind of ridiculous and disgusting ending should not have happened to Weiwei."
"Fortunately, we have done what we promised her."
The man closed his eyes, suppressing the urge to break through all obstacles and see Shen Wei.
He will always remember that day...
Shen Wei made a fool of herself in the mansion, was despised and hated by Xie Yuchuan, and was finally driven out of the mansion with bruises all over her body. Everyone in the capital looked down on her, and she was retaliated and humiliated, like a dog that had lost its home.
She fell in the mud, covered in wounds, her life completely ruined.
But at this moment, at the end of the original book, Shen Wei's consciousness awakened. How painful she must have been. She looked at this terrible and ruined life and completely collapsed!
She cried.
She shouted,
She is in pain.
She couldn't believe that this was her whole life. She finally realized that she was living in a book, but the story had ended. She was sick and her legs were broken, and she could only wait to die.
The proud and indomitable Shen Wei was no longer able to redeem his life.
And what about the man? He was sitting in the carriage at that time, just in time to lift the curtain and saw her crying and wanting to go home...
That........
That’s all, I don’t want to think about it anymore.
This scene will never happen again.
"She paid such a huge price to ask Linghuang Temple to give her a chance to return to the plot, and gave me everything in exchange, just to let me wake her up at this moment. Now, we have completed her explanation, and she finally got what she wished for." The man laughed bitterly.