Seven Unfortunate Lifetimes (Love You Seven Times)

Chapter 4

Suddenly, I realized that I may have said something wrong. I wanted to amend what I had said, but father Song grabbed my hand and dragged me. I staggered.

He sternly said, “Come here!”

Thinking about the thick stick hanging in the ancestral hall, my legs started to feel the pain. Without a God’s body, being beaten was a vexing thing. My lips trembled, and my eyes began to fill with tears.

“Father, I was wrong.”

Father Song was unmoved. “I’ve been spoiling you too much. That’s why you’ve become as you are now. Even if you cry tears of blood, you’ll still receive this beating today.”

“Father!”

My tears kept falling down. I looked like Lu Hai Kong when he had cried when he was still an infant.

I knelt down and hugged his thigh. With a hoarse voice and tears streaming down my face, I said, “I really know I’m wrong! I’ll never go alone with Lu Hai Kong again! In the future, I’ll obediently listen to you! I’ll obediently stay at home every day and spend my time reading books and doing embroidery.”

“Humph,” father Song sneered. “You’ve already used this tactic.”

His face darkened, and he said in a heavy voice, “Don’t cry anymore on the street. People will look at us as a joke.”

He must be really angry if he spoke in such a tone.

I knew that no matter what I say, I couldn’t escape today’s beating. Just when I was wiping my tears and was about to stand up, someone shoved the general’s mansion’s door open. A small person, who didn’t even wear a coat and had one red eye, stood at the general’s doorway.

His head was bandaged. It must’ve been from today’s injuries. Lu Hai Kong, seeing me on the ground and grabbing onto father Song’s thigh, was shocked for a moment. After all, in front of him, I had always been haughty and aloof. I let go of father Song’s thigh and just knelt on the ground. In my heart, I was wondering why Lu Hai Kong was here. I saw Lu Hai Kong’s lips tremble as tears began streaming down. I didn’t understand him. The nanny and servants behind him were busy comforting him.

Lu Hai Kong had a stubborn temper. He pushed them away. With tottering steps and wiping away his tears, he ran towards me.

“Yun Xiang….huwa…huhu.”

He wiped his tears with one hand while he used his other hand to grab my hair.

“You don’t want me anymore! You don’t want me anymore! No matter how hard I chased, I couldn’t keep up with you!”

My mouth twitched. I came up with a reason to stall for time. “I chased after him to buy tanghulu for you…”

Lu Hai Kong stopped crying for a moment. He stared for a while with his bright, big eyes. Then tears started to stream out again.

“Huhu… It’s all my fault. It’s because I wanted to eat tanghulu. Now Yun Xiang has to be beaten… It’s all Hai Kong’s fault. Letting Yun Xiang be bullied, it’s all because Hai Kong was not good. I can’t even protect Yun Xiang. Hai Kong is stupid, even causing trouble for Yun Xiang.”

He walked slowly towards me and hugged my neck, making my neck all sticky. He was crying like the one who would be beaten was him.

I was a bit startled. I let his tears soak into my shoulders. Some also slid against my skin. It felt a little cool and a little warm. I didn’t understand. I couldn’t seem to get mad at him for soiling my clothes in the human world.

“Don’t cry anymore.”

I patted his head. It turned out that drinking the soup of oblivion and crossing that bridge had created this effect. Regardless of whom he was in the past life—man or God, no matter what love or hatred existed between us, everything had a new beginning after being reincarnated. You didn’t know me; I didn’t know you. For humans, fate lasted only a lifetime…