Chapter 511: 511: Why did you marry me?
As one of the Immortal Emperors in the Immortal World, the fact that he, Shen Jueyang, didn’t even notice that he had fallen in some kind of illusion felt dread in his heart. He finally realized that his friend, Xing Xieju had even concluded with the outsider clans just to drag him down. Even though he can be considered the youngest and strongest Immortal Emperor at that time, there are still hidden old men in the other factions.
Shen Jueyang looked at Yue Xuehua whose eyes were full of rage and said, "No wonder, he is so obsessed with you. That first meeting you thought was intentional and he had been seeing you most of the time."
Snorts
"So what if he is. At the very least, I wasn’t the only one to toyed with. In the first place, his real target is most likely you!" Yue Xuehua retorted.
The two after stabbing each other with words averted their eyes as if annoyed at one another and silence descended in the area.
"I don’t want to play anymore. Just ask what you wanted to know and I will ask what I wanted as well. Deal?" Yue Xuehua said.
Shen Jueyang lost interest in playing due to this realization and hesitated. Seeing his reaction Yue Xuehua sneered and said,
"If my question is hard to answer there is no need to speak and likewise if I don’t want to answer you cannot force me to," said the former Moon Empress of the Immortal Sun Empire.
The Immortal Sun Emperor agreed to the Moon Empress suggestions and nodded his head.
"I agree. You can ask first," said Shen Jueyang.
The two turned awkward after their conversation was stopped and Yue Xuehua fell into a certain silence as if thinking deeply about what she wanted to ask. Shen Jueyang just waited for her to ask and wave his hand. With a wave of his hand the chess board was replaced with a tea set and served the two of them.
When Yue Xuehua had opened her mouth, Shen Jueyang had just taken a sip from his tea. She is annoyed by how relaxed this scum is in someone else’s soul domain.
"What is Xing Xieju’s real identity? Since you are friends you should at least know right?" The former Moon Empress asked.
The Immortal Sun Emperor, Shen Jueyang, honestly responded, "I don’t know."
"You don’t know?! Are you for real?" Yue Xuehua said.
Shen Jueyang nods his head with a serious expression. "He is supposed to be an orphan in the Immortal Star Empire. However, if everything we had realized just now is real then... What I know must be fake information he intentionally spread around. But he might have a direct connection with those outsiders, if not for that how will we meet the Fairy Queen in the battlefield."
"Indeed. If all of his actions were planned including your first meeting then... You are most likely targeted from the beginning. That’s your fault for fighting alone even in the cosmos battlefield," said Yue Xuehua.
Shen Jueyang didn’t deny her words. After all, he had believed in those times that others would just be a burden to him and so he fought alone. That’s because he had grown in a place where betrayal and only strength speaks the loudest and so his personality was built at that moment making it hard for him to trust the others including his own clone, Taiyang.
He asked, "My question is... Why did Xue’er make a vow to the heart and seal her heart?"
The former Moon Empress answers, "That... Hm? It is quite childish. But it is the truth, Xia is like me before though more independent. Because she can stand on her two feet and never truly needed someone’s help, she had always been alone. It was too lonely for her. She wanted someone to love her truthfully. Maybe that was my influence over her. But..."
"But...? What is it?" Shen Jueyang asked.
Yue Xuehua sighed and said, "In this Exiled Star, she had fallen in love only twice. According to her memories, you’ve met those two men yourself."
Shen Jueyang recalled those two bugs that wanted to approach Yue Xuexia and seems to have an old relationship with her. A lover’s relationship.
He gritted his teeth and whispered, "It’s those two bastards. I should have just killed them after all."
Yue Xuehua observed the man in front of her.
She said, "No matter how powerful a woman is, even if she is independent, especially for someone like Xia who grew up knowing she would have to bear the responsibility of supporting her family as she is the eldest. She yearns what it feels to lean on someone to support her. Even if they can’t support her, she wants at least one person by her side. But as you know those two men had easily replaced her serious feelings for them."
"The feeling of warmth and knowing that you are not alone. Do you know how addictive that is once you have experienced it once? Because she had yearned for it so much that she made sure to keep the feelings well protected. Even though she didn’t yet to inherit my memories at that time, her soul already felt tired asking for someone to love herself. But as someone with responsibility on her shoulders, she couldn’t easily commit to another person, or maybe she didn’t expect them to easily throw away her awkward love and left her behind. It’s the same thing you did with me."
Shen Jueyang avoided her cold gaze but he knew that Yue Xuehua’s words were correct. In their eyes, he is no different from those two fools and he might be the worstest of them.
Yue Xuehua continues, "Even though the first one is alright as she was still young and had easily adjusted to the man’s betrayal, in the second one she had been a bit serious. That’s why when she was betrayed again, she gave it up in her heart. Since it was too painful for her. She pleads with the heavens to ease the pain and in exchange for that she makes a vow never to fall in love with another."
"Whether in my time or her life, why is it that we are so unlucky with men? At least I am not willing to become a heartless one to forget about the pain. But she chose family over love, she didn’t want to fail her family again leading to her getting a seal in her heart. So whenever she felt something like attraction or affection, the seal would lock it in and she would continue to be a heartless woman."
The Immortal Sun Emperor, Shen Jueyang asked, "Is there a way to unlock it?"
"....." This question made Yue Xuehua quiet. She didn’t dare open her mouth.
"Is there no way? Do I have to defeat the Heavenly Laws to remove the seal on her heart?" Shen Jueyang asked.
Yue Xuehua said, "No. It is not that simple. For the seal to be unlocked it needs the source of it to be removed. This is all I can say to you. As for the rest, figure it out yourself! It’s time for you to leave."
The whole soul domain shook at Yue Xuexia who is sleeping in the middle of the pond and is now emitting an aura as if she was about to wake up.
Shen Jueyang said, "She is about to wake up. I need to leave."
He was about to leave when suddenly Yue Xuehua without even turning to look at him said, " Wait."
The Immortal Sun Emperor stopped and waited for the former Moon Empress to speak.
He said, "What is it?"
"You... Why did you marry me back then?" Yue Xuehua asked.
Shen Jueyang was unexpectedly calm as if he had expected her to ask this kind of question.
"Do you want an honest answer or a fake one?" He asked.
Chuckles~
"Why don’t you tell me both?" The former Moon Empress asked.
Shen Jueyang agrees, "Alright. I will tell you the fake one. It is because I had fallen in love with you at first sight that I wanted you to stay by my side as my Empress."
"Hm~ this is indeed a joke, the former then?" Yue Xuehua asked.
The Immortal Sun Emperor said, "... It is because you are in love with me and I feel that you are easy to control. With you by my side, the Immortal Moon Palace wouldn’t make enemies with your clan and I will not have to worry about this. You just have to cling to me like a stupid fool and make use of you to handle your clan anytime."
Upon saying this, Shen Jueyang expected Yue Xuehua to at least be upset instead she started laughing.
She mumbles, "Indeed. At that time, I was truly foolish. But there is something you should know. I only admired you before. The real reason for my craziness at that time was because someone had poisoned me with a Love Gu. It amplified the strongest emotions in me."
"Love Gu?!" Shen Jueyang wanted to ask the details about this but he had been forcibly taken out as the real owner of the body was waking up.
After Shen Jueyang had disappeared, only one tear drop strolled down on Yue Xuehua’s cheek and said, "You must have not remembered saving me before. You are my savior but... you are also the person who broke my heart."