Time Travel: The Noble Family-Chapter 1379 - 564: Past and Present Lives (Part 1)

Xiang Wei followed Yueyao’s gaze and saw the rainbow ribbon: "I wonder which madam lost such a ribbon on the mountain."

Yueyao saw this ribbon but seemed to be frozen in place, standing motionless for quite a while.

Xiang Wei was startled, pulling Yueyao and saying, "Madam, what’s wrong?" Please don’t be bewitched again. Xiang Wei feared this situation with Yueyao most.

Yueyao looked at Xiang Wei, Gu You, Gu Lan, and the others, saying, "You all wait here; I’ll go up and see."

Xiang Wei looked at the mountain, seeing nothing, just an empty landscape: "If you’re going, let me go with you!" If possible, Xiang Wei would prefer Yueyao not to go up the mountain and to return home swiftly.

Yueyao shook her head and said: "No need, I’ll be back soon."

Under Yueyao’s strong insistence, all six remained where they were, then watched Yueyao step by step toward the hillside.

The wind on the mountain was strong, blowing Yueyao’s hair somewhat messy, her skirt fluttering everywhere, but she no longer had time to take notice of these.

Yueyao climbed the slope with the fastest speed. Soon, she saw a person in a green robe, turning his back to her.

That person, hearing footsteps, turned around.

Yueyao said softly: "Is it really you?" that voice, so calm, Yueyao wondered if it was really her saying it.

Zhou Shu’s eyes were extremely deep, like a bottomless abyss, his expression betraying no joy, anger, or sorrow, seeing Yueyao, he said: "You’ve come. I’ve been waiting here for you for a long time." The tone was as if the closest person had come.

Yueyao heard this, her heart stuttered, suppressing her heart that was about to leap out, then feigned calm: "I don’t want to see you." Regardless of past life or this life, she didn’t want to see this person.

Zhou Shu just stared steadily at Yueyao, saying: "This time coming to the Capital City, I just wanted to verify some things, not to disturb you."

Yueyao didn’t speak, only her heart sneered coldly. Claiming not to disturb her life, yet making her feel almost insane.

Zhou Shu’s profound eyes made Yueyao’s heart tremble, after a long while Zhou Shu said: "Since leaving Haikou, I hadn’t planned to return. But starting three years ago, I began dreaming, and the dream was always about the same person."

Zhou Shu’s words unexpectedly made Yueyao think of Ma Peng, who had also had a dream about his past life. Could it be Zhou Shu also dreamt about that past life? Thinking about the ribbon she just saw, Yueyao felt a chill all over.

Zhou Shu continued: "Rather than a dream, it’s a story. When I married her, she initially despised me as a lowly merchant, weeping every day. Later, I devoted myself wholly to caring for her, only then did she gradually accept me. Afterwards, we lived some happy and joyful days. At that time, just seeing the smile on her face made me feel like the happiest man on earth." Zhou Shu spoke at an extremely slow pace, as if time could stop for it.

Yueyao used her nails to pinch her palm, using pain to maintain her calm.

Zhou Shu’s voice grew gentler: "Later, she was pregnant, pregnant with my child. Then I felt that heaven treated me too kindly, leaving me with no regrets for life."

Yueyao thought of that child who died without the chance to come to the world. Remembering her joy upon learning of her pregnancy, only to realize she was just Zhou Shu’s concubine, a plaything, made her feel her world had collapsed, her heart died too.

Zhou Shu looked at Yueyao, murmuring: "Why? Why you watched so cruelly as he disappeared before your eyes. That was not only my child, but also your child?"

Yueyao could no longer disguise, sorrowfully said: "Because his existence was a mistake, I couldn’t allow this mistake to continue." She wouldn’t allow her child to bear the stigma of being a concubine’s son, nor endure a lifetime of cold stares from others.

Zhou Shu chuckled softly: "It seems I guessed right." Zhou Shu’s smile carried a kind of hopelessness and sorrow.

His dreams were intermittent, but because the events were so vivid, he remembered them even after waking. Yet, what happened in the dream differed entirely from reality; Yueyao didn’t marry him nor follow him to Haikou. In the dream, Yueyao was tender and kind-hearted, wouldn’t even harm an ant, preferring to hurt herself rather than others. But the real Lian Yueyao was a ruthless woman who could kill.

The divergence between dream and reality made Zhou Shu think he was bewitched, but the occurrences in the dream were too real, to the point he felt he truly lived those moments. The joyful, painful, memorable, and sorrowful experiences were all intensely felt, seemingly engraved upon his heart, unable to forget.

Suffering day by day, Zhou Shu finally couldn’t bear it. He returned to the Great Yuan Dynasty, then exerted effort to seek a highly-skilled monk to interpret his dreams. The monk told him he certainly owed the dream person too much debt in a past life, causing these grievances to bind him. To seek liberation, he must find the one who tied the knot.

That’s why Zhou Shu came to the Capital City. Upon arrival, he suddenly recalled Yueyao’s expression the first time they met at the Zhou Family. Yueyao’s fear upon seeing him.

Thinking of the monk’s words, Zhou Shu’s heart suddenly stirred, immediately ordering an investigation into Yueyao’s deeds over the years. The more he investigated, the more suspicious he became. Eventually reaching an unbelievable conclusion: Yueyao also dreamt the same dreams, but unlike him who dreamt them three years ago, Yueyao dreamt them long, long ago.

It was also because he saw Yueyao so composed, that he deliberately used the unborn child to provoke Yueyao, not expecting it would indeed be as he imagined.