Faceted Jade a.k.a Carven Jade [ENG Translation]

CHAPTER 41 (II)

The life of a "ghost lord" was very hectic. Every day, he had to fight for territory with the little fiends and negotiate with other ghost lords. With all this fighting, if he hadn't carved those horizontal strokes on the wall every day, he'd have almost forgotten who he was and what he was doing here.

He would only remember that he was still here, waiting for someone, when he had carved those horizontal strokes.

Sometimes he would wonder if that person was ever going to show up. Sometimes he would wonder what was going on out there, if his father was still alive, and if anything had happened to Yunze.

However, when he thought that the Xuanji Secret Realm had basically been sealed at that time and that Qin Yan and Jiang Yebai were present, he felt considerably more at ease.

Tan Xin said he was worrying over nothing and advised him every day to forget about Yunze once he came to the Cliff of Ten Thousand Bones, pointing out that it would be better for him to stay here as a junior ghost lord.

It wasn't that Fu Changling hadn't thought about this before, but every day when he carved those marks, he was reminded of Qin Yan's last words, "Wait for him".

This feeling was especially intense tonight, and somehow, he was tossing and turning so much that he had trouble sleeping. After a moment's hesitation, he got out of bed, threw on a mink fur cloak, and dug out a jar of wine. Then he took a seat in front of the wooden slips and began reading a narrative book that had taken the ghost realm by storm.

As he was flipping through it, he heard a female voice say, "You seem so unhappy."

Fu Changling paused, and then he knew it was that senior who had shown up. He lowered his head, smiled, and replied, somewhat sheepishly, "It's not that I'm unhappy."

"What is it, then?"

"Just," Fu Changling thought for a moment and responded with some hesitation, "missing someone."

"Someone you love?"

"I also have no idea." Fu Changling took a sip of his wine. "I must have loved him in my previous life. Right now, I'm not sure if it's a guilt trip or love, but I think it's more of an affection after all. Even if I don't love him as much now, I nevertheless have to cherish him in every way all over again."

"Have you ever loved someone, Senior?" Fu Changling didn't want to blabber on too much about himself, so he asked that person instead. Without any embarrassment, that person gave a soft chuckle and frankly replied, "I have, and I still."

"Oh?" Fu Changling cheered up. "Is that person still around?"

"He was still around when I died."

"How did the two of you meet?" Fu Changling came to be interested. The other party's voice was much softer: "Our families had a long-standing friendship, and we had been betrothed since childhood."

"That's truly a predestined marriage. Did you two end up together?"

The other side remained silent. Fu Changling realised that he might have said something wrong and was about to apologise when he heard the other person respond, "Let's just say we're together. We got married before Heaven and Earth, as well as the gods and Buddhas."

Based on the phrase "married before Heaven and Earth, as well as the gods and Buddhas", Fu Changling roughly surmised that this senior and her lover weren't officially married to one another.

He was about to say something when he heard the shriek of a fierce ghost in the distance. Fu Changling's expression changed, and Tan Xin also opened his eyes and quickly asked, "What happened?"