Chapter 510: 510: Something Unexpected
Even though meeting Yue Xuehua inside Yue Xuexia’s soul domain, knowing their connections, Shen Jueyang accepted it without problems. They are now playing chinese chess and he won the first game. The Immortal Sun Emperor looks at the former Moon Goddess and his wife that are supposed to have died just to send him to safety.
Shen Jueyang asked, "How is Yue Xuexia’s soul’s current state?"
"I know you would ask that," The lady in front of him mumbles before sighing and finally giving him the answer he wanted to hear.
Sigh~
"Xia’s state is not simple. During our ascension, she had suffered a heart demon which caused his soul to split. I remained and continue to live as Yue Xuehua and she was born on this star as Yue Xuexia. The so-called Exiled Star is our Yue Clan’s Ancestral Star and was given to us by our grandfather. This world exists to hold on to a part of our soul just in case something happens to the ones at the Immortal World. That’s why after I died, I reappeared in this place and Xia became the main soul as I have died."
"When she accepted my legacy I woke up in her soul domain as a part of his power which she had inherited from the legacy. However, she is not willing to merge with me. The reason... It is because of you. This is all I can say for this question."
Yue Xuehua looks at the Immortal Sun Emperor with a taunting gaze as she knew how much this man wanted to ask but cannot act directly. Of course, if it is the old him these actions she had taken would be considered offensive and she would have longed to die. But after meeting Yue Xuexia, he had changed and learned to be patient.
Shen Jueyang said, "Let’s have another game."
"You’ve changed. If it is the old you, you would be choking me right now for offending you," said Yue Xuehua as like the man in front of her, she started taking away the stones to her side.
Shen Jueyang spoke, "...I am... no longer the Emperor of the Immortal Sun Empire. That place... is gone. Right now, I am just focusing on my priorities."
Yue Xuehua narrowed her eyes and asked, "One of your priorities is Xia?"
"Yes," Shen Jueyang didn’t deny, which stunned Yue Xuexia for a moment. "Let’s begin the next game."
After another hour Shen Jueyang had won again. However, he noticed that the game is getting harder to win. Unlike the first game where he had won in just half an hour, this time he needed to take a whole hour which surprised him. This is so unlike the weak Moon Empress in his memories. Has she always been this talented? He couldn’t help but ask himself.
Yue Xuehua said, "You have won again. What is your second question?"
"How to resolve her current situation?" Shen Jueyang asked.
Yue Xuehua nonchalantly answered, "Simple. She needs to merge with me and by doing so everything of my own will be hers. My strength, standing, everything including my memories."
Once the memories are mentioned, Shen Jueyang stiffened and couldn’t help but look at the lady in front of him. As expected, she was smiling and the depths of her eyes were full of mirth.
An exasperated breath comes out from the Immortal Sun Emperor’s mouth. He looked anxious at this moment and Yue Xuehua knew the reason why. She couldn’t help but annoy him further.
"What’s wrong? Why do I feel that you are afraid? Do you not want Xia to know what kind of man you truly are?" Yue Xuehua said.
Shen Jueyang couldn’t control his temper and glare at Yue Xuehua. He says with a cold voice, "Shut up."
Hahaha~
Yue Xuehua laughed and said, "This expression fits you better. It feels a little bit like the old you~"
"Stop taunting me. I will not fall for it again," said Shen Jueyang as he once again calmed down his temper.
He added, "Next game."
They started to take away their own pieces again and started a new game. For the third game Yue Xuehua won in half an hour which shocked Shen Jueyang and looked at the former Moon Empress with a serious expression on his face. It was as if finally seeing the real face of the fox lady in front of him.
The Immortal Sun Emperor narrowed his eyes and said, "You’ve been hiding your strength all along? If so, why would you act that foo—strange before?"
"I’ve just practiced here. I also play with Xia here. Most of the time. She is free. Even though I can rarely come out, I am not bored as she would always be here to accompany me," said Yue Xuehua as she looked at the lotus pond where Yue Xuexia’s soul is healing.
Yue Xuexia upon touching that Soul Token felt her soul twisted and had to protect the weak soul, Xuehua inside of her. The token’s effect had tolled a bit on her soul that’s why after being forced to slumber by Shen Jueyang her body started repairing her soul with Yue Xuehua watching over her.
Shen Jueyang also looked at Yue Xuexia at the lotus pond and suddenly appeared near it. Yue Xuehua appeared beside him as well. He was about to reach his hand to touch her when a fan was used to hit his hand.
Pak!
"Don’t touch her. Her body is currently in protective mode. You would be forced out once it noticed you are an intruder. Right now, I am just masking your presence, once I stop doing that this soul domain would throw you out. Moreover, she is currently healing herself. Waking her abruptly will wound her soul further. Go back to the pavilion with me," said Yue Xuehua who disappeared after saying these words.
Shen Jueyang stared at Yue Xuexia for a few minutes more before going back to the pavilion where the former Moon Empress was waiting.
She said, "Since it was I who had one it is my turn to ask a question."
"Go ahead," said Shen Jueyang.
Yue Xuehua looked straight into his eyes and asked, "What is the Fairy Queen Titania’s real identity?"
"She is from the world beyond and someone Xing Xieju and I met in the Cosmos Battlefield. She is an outsider," answered the Immortal Sun Emperor.
Bang!
In anger Yue Xuehua hit the chess board in front of them and the stones flew from all directions even so Shen Jueyang looked at the former Moon Empress composed and calm.
The former Moon Empress, Yue Xuehua exclaimed, "You’ve brought an alien over to our land and given her access into our world by marrying you. Are you insane, Shen Jueyang?"
The Immortal Sun Emperor said, "I am not that crazy. In the first place, marriage is fake. The one who had married her as his concubine is Xing Xieju. I don’t know when it was rumored that it was me who married her. I may be a cruel man but I have never broken my marriage vows which I had made with the heavens. It was... you who believed I brought her into the palace as a concubine."
"She was only staying in the empire as she needed to adjust her body to our world. The Immortal Sun Empire is the closest to the Cosmos Battlefield. Moreover, Xing Xieju would always come back at night to live with her."
"Why did you never tell me before?!" Yue Xuehua asked.
Shen Jueyang averted his eyes and hesitated in answering this question. But he does know that he must say it.
"Her existence is a secret as she is supposed to become our spy from the other side. The harem is not entitled to know about such military secrets and..."
"At that time, I did not trust anyone about the matters of the world beyond. So only Xing Xieju and the Fairy Queen know about it. I also agreed to them staying there because I thought... I thought you wanted someone to talk to. A female that is not a servant and of the same standing as you as the Moon Empress."
The words of Shen Jueyang sound like Yue Xuehua. After all, what she had experienced at that time is completely different to what the Immortal Sun Emperor had thought. That bitch not only pretended as her husband’s concubine. Thinking about it now, the Fairy Queen had always mentioned that she is a concubine but never told her whose concubine she was. It was always her who had assumed that she was her husband’s concubine.
She said, "But you’ve always allowed her to cling on your arm."
"Nonsense! I’ve never allowed that!" Shen Jueyang said. "She would always cling to Xieju, not me!"
Upon seeing the shocked expression on Yue Xuehua’s face, Shen Jueyang realized something.
"Wait! Are you telling me the reason for you going crazy is because the one you are seeing the Fairy Queen is clinging onto was... me?!"
Even the Immortal Sun Emperor didn’t expect this. Did the Fairy Queen and Xing Xieju embroiled his whole palace into a huge illusion including himself?!