My Omega Is A Top Heavenly Master (GL) - Chapter 19

Silver light erupted from Zhu Yue’s body.

Qin Xiyao’s consciousness broke free of Zhu Yue’s restraints. Before she could rush through the door, the familiar vortex appeared around them once again.

The surrounding scenery changed.

They had returned to the estate’s garden.

“Woof! Woof!”

Dudu happily wagged its tail.

Zhao Jing lay unconscious nearby, one of her trouser legs torn. One glance was enough to tell that Dudu had dragged her there.

Qin Xiyao finally saw Mu Baicheng again.

However, the visible relief on Mu Baicheng’s face made it obvious that she was not the person from Qin Xiyao’s previous life.

A trace of disappointment passed through Qin Xiyao’s heart.

“Thank you.”

Gu Hengyuan’s consciousness thanked Mu Baicheng inside her mind.

A series of unfamiliar memories then surfaced.

They belonged to Gu Hengyuan and revealed why she had failed to keep her promise.

After seeing everything, Mu Baicheng fell silent.

For a moment, she genuinely could not decide whether Zhu Yue or Gu Hengyuan had suffered more.

Black energy gathered in the air.

Zhu Yue emerged from the mist with a deathly pale face.

She had not expected Qin Xiyao to break free, much less to hear the words Mu Baicheng had spoken.

“Why?”

Her eyes were completely black, and bloody tears flowed from their corners.

Her hollow gaze settled upon Mu Baicheng.

She wanted an answer.

Mu Baicheng swallowed before deciding to tell her everything.

“She didn’t abandon you…”

The story was not particularly long, but it contained more than its share of twists and turns.

On the day Gu Hengyuan was supposed to deliver the betrothal letter, the Japanese invaders suddenly attacked Beiyuan.

Gu Hengyuan had no choice but to lead the soldiers inside the city into battle.

They drove the invaders from the city and back outside its walls.

Gu Hengyuan was injured, yet she remained deeply worried about Zhu Yue.

“Young Marshal, our reinforcements will arrive soon,” a soldier beside her said.

Gu Hengyuan knew this was not the time to be distracted.

She forced herself to focus and waited for news from Cao Weiyu.

The enemy’s artillery fire rained upon them without mercy.

The young warlord exhausted every ounce of her strength protecting this city, which was already tottering amid the storm.

Gu Hengyuan could no longer remember how many people died.

The enemy abducted the city’s children and placed them between the opposing armies.

Gu Hengyuan could not open fire upon them.

But she did not retreat.

She led a small unit behind the enemy lines and carried out a grueling decapitation strike.

The so-called decapitation strike succeeded only in killing the leader of that particular unit.

Gu Hengyuan rescued every child, but fewer than fifty soldiers remained beside her.

At the most dangerous moment, Cao Weiyu returned with reinforcements.

Seeing the situation turn against them, the Japanese invaders surrendered.

Gu Hengyuan wanted to hurry back into the city.

The people cheered from the walls.

Their Young Marshal had won.

Beiyuan had been saved.

One of the invaders removed his outer clothing, revealing explosives strapped across his body, and followed Gu Hengyuan toward the city.

Gu Hengyuan’s pupils contracted.

She seized him and threw them both into the moat.

She never emerged again.

Gu Hengyuan died, her body blown to pieces.

But she saved an entire city.

After her death, her soul radiated the red light of righteous merit.

Officials from the underworld came to take her away.

No matter how Gu Hengyuan begged, they gave her only one answer.

“The mortal realm has its laws. The underworld has its own.”

Gu Hengyuan exchanged all her accumulated merit for permission to remain at the entrance of Naihe Bridge.

She waited there year after year.

She never saw Zhu Yue.

Instead, she encountered several little ghosts.

They told her that blue irises had filled the new home Gu Hengyuan prepared for Zhu Yue.

They also told her that Zhu Yue had killed many people.

As the years passed, Zhu Yue claimed more lives, and her sins accumulated.

Gu Hengyuan could not leave the underworld.

She chose to separate her obsession from her soul and send it to the estate.

But she could not speak to Zhu Yue.

The people who entered the estate could neither see nor hear her.

She could only watch helplessly as Zhu Yue sank deeper into sin and the estate transformed into a place of absolute yin and baleful energy.

Fortunately, heaven sent Mu Baicheng to her.

Mu Baicheng could hear her footsteps.

When the story ended, the blackness receded from Zhu Yue’s eyes, and they returned to normal.

“So that’s what happened.”

“She didn’t abandon me.”

Zhu Yue now looked like a young woman in the prime of her youth. Her green qipao gave her boundless charm.

After hearing the story, Qin Xiyao remembered what Zhu Yue had told her inside the illusion.

Deep in her heart, Zhu Yue must have continued believing that Gu Hengyuan would keep their promise.

Otherwise, she could not have waited so long.

“Can you ask her how she died?” Gu Hengyuan asked sorrowfully.

After becoming ghosts, people retained the appearances they possessed when they died.

Zhu Yue had always looked this young, which meant she had died a very long time ago.

“How did you die?” Mu Baicheng asked.

“Mu Baicheng!” Qin Xiyao rebuked sharply.

Asking a ghost about the cause of its death was taboo.

The slightest mistake could drive the ghost into a frenzy.

Worse, Zhu Yue was already a powerful malevolent ghost.

Confusion appeared across Zhu Yue’s face.

That was right.

How had she died?

Why could she remember nothing?

“Hengyuan, am I dead?” she murmured, sounding like an innocent student from the Republican era.

Black resentment churned around her body, already becoming dangerously unstable.

Qin Xiyao formed a seal with her left hand and sent a Purifying Heart spell into Zhu Yue’s body.

The boiling black energy surrounding her gradually calmed.

“I’ll explain.”

Inside the previous illusion, Qin Xiyao had glimpsed Jincui’s memories.

On the night after Gu Hengyuan died, the brothel’s madam arranged for Jincui to serve a customer seeking sexual entertainment.

Everyone inside the establishment understood what that meant.

Jincui refused to accept it.

She was jealous that Zhu Yue had obtained Gu Hengyuan’s love.

At the time, news of Gu Hengyuan’s death in battle had not yet spread widely.

Jincui switched the room placard on her door with Zhu Yue’s.

The customer barged into Zhu Yue’s room in the middle of the night.

What followed was easy to imagine.

Zhu Yue, whose heart remained entirely focused on Gu Hengyuan, resisted the man with everything she possessed.

He ultimately beat her to death.

The man did not meet a good end.

Cao Weiyu shot him.

Jincui shared the same fate and accompanied him along the road to the Yellow Springs.

Nothing remained of Gu Hengyuan’s body.

Cao Weiyu could only bury Gu Hengyuan’s clothing alongside Zhu Yue’s corpse outside the home prepared for their marriage.

That was why Zhu Yue arrived at the estate after her death.

It was also why Gu Hengyuan’s separated obsession could return there.

“I’m sorry.”

A sigh sounded inside Mu Baicheng’s mind.

Gu Hengyuan blamed herself for failing to protect Zhu Yue.

She had saved an entire city.

Yet the one person she had failed to protect was her fiancée.

“Awooo!”

Dudu raised its head and howled.

The white road to reincarnation appeared once again.

Countless red spider lilies silently bloomed alongside it.

At the end of the road stood an unremarkable bridge.

An Alpha dressed in military uniform waited at the entrance, smiling at her beloved.

“Yue-niang.”

Clear tears shimmered in Zhu Yue’s eyes.

They transformed into specks of starlight that drifted into Qin Xiyao’s hand.

The tears of a malevolent ghost were extraordinarily rare.

Qin Xiyao carefully stored them away.

A trace of sorrow filled her eyes as she watched Zhu Yue run toward Gu Hengyuan.

Zhu Yue had accumulated grave sins.

Her ultimate fate would not be pleasant.

“Dudu,” Qin Xiyao called softly. “Let’s give them a good ending.”

Dudu understood her meaning.

Brilliant white light erupted from its body and enveloped Zhu Yue and Gu Hengyuan.

The two embraced at the entrance of Naihe Bridge.

Guided by Dudu’s pure soul, the righteous red light surrounding Gu Hengyuan began flowing continuously into Zhu Yue.

Little by little, it washed the black energy from Zhu Yue’s soul.

Qin Xiyao pressed her palms together and began chanting.

It was a melody Mu Baicheng had taught her in their previous life.

Its name was Rebirth.

The red light surrounding Gu Hengyuan disappeared completely.

The black energy covering Zhu Yue was also cleansed away.

At that moment, they were both pure souls—possessing neither merit nor sin.

Before the white light disappeared, Zhu Yue looked back.

She gazed gratefully at Qin Xiyao and softly uttered two words.

“Thank you.”

I hope your wish is fulfilled as well.

Isn’t the person you’ve been waiting for already beside you?

The white light vanished, and the gate to reincarnation closed.

The rising sun shone into the estate.

Every blue iris withered in an instant.

It was as though they had never existed, entering reincarnation alongside Zhu Yue’s obsession.

“They’ll be all right, won’t they?” Mu Baicheng asked from behind Qin Xiyao.

She could sense Qin Xiyao’s sorrow.

This Omega sometimes appeared immensely powerful, yet at other times, she seemed extraordinarily fragile.

Mu Baicheng did not know which one was the real Qin Xiyao.

“Mm.”

Qin Xiyao turned toward her.

Gu Hengyuan’s words continuously repeated inside her mind.

If I die, I’ll marry you in our next life.

Had the Mu Baicheng of her previous life also been forced to leave?

How much resolve had Gu Hengyuan needed to abandon Zhu Yue and courageously walk toward certain death?

What about Mu Baicheng?

What had she felt when she left Qin Xiyao?

A thousand years had passed.

Qin Xiyao had hated and resented her.

But she had never once considered what Mu Baicheng might have encountered at the time.

“Let’s go.”

The longsword in Qin Xiyao’s hand disappeared.

She had not exhausted her magical power this time, yet she still felt tired.

This story resembled her own too closely.

It had torn open the sorrow buried in the deepest part of her heart and left it bleeding.

Mu Baicheng murmured her agreement, picked up the drowsy Dudu, and followed Qin Xiyao.

“Qin Xiyao, are you tired? I’ll buy you a Family Bucket later.”

“Or we could eat at Liu Suhong’s place. Her cooking is quite good.”

Mu Baicheng continued talking beside Qin Xiyao’s ear.

She could tell this troublesome ancestor was unhappy and wanted to cheer her up.

Qin Xiyao glanced sideways at her.

Sister Mu, why did you leave?

Did something happen to you, just as it did to Gu Hengyuan?

Did you ever love me?

The final question was the one Qin Xiyao was unwilling to confront.

She was not afraid of being abandoned.

She was afraid that Mu Baicheng had never loved her at all.

While Qin Xiyao remained trapped in her thoughts, Mu Baicheng suddenly took her hand.

“Stop being unhappy. We have eleven million yuan about to enter our account. At least smile a little.”

The greedy expression on Mu Baicheng’s face made Qin Xiyao’s lips curve upward.

Mu Baicheng immediately caught her smile.

“You smiled! So stop being unhappy.”

Omegas are difficult to understand, all right? Whenever you’re unhappy, the atmosphere around me remains gloomy all day. That makes me unhappy too.

Qin Xiyao took a deep breath.

Forget it.

She would recover her magical power first and then find a way to uncover the truth.

“Then let’s collect the money Huang Zhengyan owes us.”

“Fine. I can’t stand that bastard anyway. We’ll start with him.”

If not for Huang Zhengyan, would Qin Xiyao have needed to run into this haunted place in the middle of the night?

Mu Baicheng patted the back of Qin Xiyao’s hand.

“I think that bastard might try to avoid paying. Think about it—he came here tonight because he refused to accept his defeat. Combined with all his previous behavior, his integrity is clearly questionable.”

“Then I’ll leave collecting the debt to you.”

“Huh?”

“What? You can’t do it?”

Qin Xiyao tilted her head, looking solemn yet adorable.

Mu Baicheng froze.

She remembered how Qin Xiyao looked whenever she called her Sister Mu.

Her heart seemed to move with every word Qin Xiyao spoke.

Had she truly fallen in love with Qin Xiyao?

After thinking for a moment, Mu Baicheng pursed her lips.

“Qin Xiyao, can I ask you for something?”

“What is it? You can keep the money.”

“That isn’t it.”

Mu Baicheng took a deep breath and turned her face aside in embarrassment.

Then she mumbled, “Can you call me Sister Mu?”