Chapter 2746

When Lin Wan'er's figure disappeared on a mountain peak, Ye Chen's consciousness instantly returned to reality from the deep mountains of Diannan.

The moment he opened his eyes, he completely believed Lin Wan'er's words.

He believed that this girl had lived from three hundred years ago until now.

And at this moment, he finally realized why he had always felt that Lin Wan'er was not simple, yet he could never figure out where the problem was.

At seventeen or eighteen, she was proficient in the near-divine divination that Lai Qinghua hadn't been able to learn even after a hundred years;

At seventeen or eighteen, she had been hunted by the Anti-Qing Society. If the Anti-Qing Society had been hunting her for five years, didn't that mean she had to start playing a game of wits and courage with them since she was twelve?

At seventeen or eighteen, she was able to appear strangely in Jin Ling and in front of him not long after they parted in Northern Europe. How could there be such a coincidence in the world?

And this young girl who looked seventeen or eighteen could paint ink landscapes so superbly that her painting skills could almost kill any painter in history...

And from the moment she revealed the hidden truth, these questions instantly had reasonable explanations.

Take painting skills, for example. She had over three hundred years to understand painting, which was not something other painters could compare with.

Divination was the same.

Lai Qinghua was only a hundred years old, while Lin Wan'er was over three hundred. The gap between them was self-evident.

At the same time, Ye Chen also discovered that the temperament of the Lin Wan'er before him had changed entirely.

For some reason, now, in her every move, Ye Chen suddenly had a feeling of "beauty that covers the past and present, lotus flowers ashamed of her jade face."

And her use of "Nu Jia," a term used by ancient Chinese women to refer to themselves, made Ye Chen feel that Lin Wan'er was like a kitten lying on the ground, exposing its soft belly, suddenly exposing her greatest secrets and weaknesses before him.

Seeing that Ye Chen had not yet recovered from the extreme shock, Lin Wan'er said apologetically, "I ask the Young Master to forgive me. I did not intend to frighten the Young Master, but since the Young Master asked, I dared not lie, so I could only tell the truth..."

He steadied himself slightly, looked at Lin Wan'er, and asked word by word, "Did you travel through time from over three hundred years ago, or have you lived from over three hundred years ago until today?"

Lin Wan'er replied, "Back to the Young Master, I have lived until today."

Ye Chen was shocked and muttered, "Three hundred years ago, you watched that tea tree pass its tribulation in Diannan... then... how old are you this year?"

Lin Wan'er said earnestly, "Back to the Young Master, I was born in the second year of Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty, which is also the third year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, 1646 in the Gregorian calendar."

Ye Chen's brain felt dizzy.

According to this age, Lin Wan'er could be considered his ancestor. Even the recorded time in the Ye family genealogy might not be earlier than her!

So Ye Chen exclaimed, "1646... then you... oh no... then aren't you nearly four hundred years old now?!"

Lin Wan'er giggled, folded her hands at her waist, bowed slightly to Ye Chen, and said respectfully, "Young Master doesn't need to address me as 'you' (nin). Just call me Wan'er."

"No..." Ye Chen said very earnestly, "You are almost four hundred years old... it wouldn't be an exaggeration for me to call you an ancestor..."

Lin Wan'er smiled and said earnestly, "In my view, I am just a girl who never grows up, not an old monster who won't die. Although I have indeed lived for nearly four hundred years, I am still seventeen..."

"Uh..." Ye Chen fell into awkwardness. Two voices in his heart were arguing fiercely at this moment.

One voice said, "She's right. Although she has lived for nearly four hundred years, she has always been a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl..."

The other voice said, "But she is almost four hundred years old! What is the concept of four hundred years! You, Master Ye Chen, are not even thirty yet!"

Ye Chen was afraid that this entanglement would cause trouble, so he hurriedly shook his head, threw these thoughts away, and then asked Lin Wan'er, "You..."

As soon as the word "you" (nin) came out, he clearly saw a flash of unhappiness between Lin Wan'er's beautiful brows, so he hurriedly changed his words, "No, I want to say you..."

That trace of unhappiness on Lin Wan'er's face vanished instantly. She smiled sweetly and asked shyly, "What does the Young Master want to say? I am listening."

Ye Chen asked in surprise, "How can you be so young after living for four hundred years?! You even... you even look like you're not even eighteen... even if you keep taking the Rejuvenation Pill, it's impossible to make you return to your youth, right?"

Lin Wan'er hurriedly explained, "Young Master, you misunderstood. I did not return to my youth. It's just that since I was seventeen, my appearance and body have been what they are today, and I haven't aged in over three hundred years."

Ye Chen was even more shocked. He blurted out, "This... how is this possible... you are not proficient in Qi, and even if you were, you couldn't maintain your youth forever..."

Lin Wan'er replied, "Since the Young Master is proficient in cultivation, have you ever heard of the Eternal Evergreen Pill?"

Ye Chen shook his head, "Never heard of it... what is the effect of this pill?"

Lin Wan'er said earnestly, "After taking the Eternal Evergreen Pill, one's lifespan can reach five hundred years, and one's appearance will remain forever young within those five hundred years. I took it, which is why I have lived until today."

Ye Chen widened his eyes, "Is there really such a magical pill?!"

"Of course." Lin Wan'er said, looking at her father's spirit tablet placed on the offering table not far away, and said earnestly, "I swear before my late father's spirit tablet that every word I have said to the Young Master today is without any concealment or deception. The previous concealment was truly a last resort. I hope the Young Master will forgive me."

Ye Chen followed her gaze and saw eight large characters written on the spirit tablet: Spirit Tablet of My Late Father, Lin Zhulu.

At this time, Ye Chen no longer doubted Lin Wan'er's words. He suppressed the horror in his heart and asked, "Was the Eternal Evergreen Pill you took given to you by your father?"

Lin Wan'er turned back to look at her father's spirit tablet again and said, "Yes, the Eternal Evergreen Pill was given to me by my father before he died."

Ye Chen was even more surprised, "Since your father had the Eternal Evergreen Pill, why didn't he take it himself before he died? If he had taken it, wouldn't he not have had to die?"

As he spoke, Ye Chen added, "Oh right, please try to use 'I' to refer to yourself. I am a modern person born under the red flag, and I am really not used to you calling yourself 'Nu Jia' all the time."

"Alright, I will try..." Lin Wan'er nodded gently, her face sad, "Back to the Young Master's question, over three hundred years ago, when I was truly seventeen and practicing embroidery in my boudoir in Diannan, my father, who was thousands of miles away, suddenly appeared before me. Actually, he was also seriously injured like the Young Master today..."

"I hurriedly settled my father down, and he gave me an unknown pill, telling me not to ask anything and just take it obediently;"

"I didn't know what effect this pill had, but a father's order cannot be disobeyed, so I took the pill. After I took it, my father told me what kind of pill it was and what its effects were..."

As she spoke, her eyes turned red, and she said softly, "As for why my father didn't take it himself but gave the Eternal Evergreen Pill to me, he said it was because he didn't want to one day have to watch his daughter grow old and die before his eyes..."

"My father also said that if there were a medicine that would make a father live forever and watch his daughter slowly grow old and die, then that medicine would not be an immortal medicine, but a poison..."

"My father said he had to die before me to be at peace, and I was still young, had no marriage, and had no worries. So after I took the Eternal Evergreen Pill, I could live well and live for five hundred years..."

Ye Chen suddenly thought of something and blurted out, "You said you are over three hundred years old, then wouldn't your children..."

Lin Wan'er gave Ye Chen a faint glare and said angrily, "Young Master, although I have lived for over three hundred years, I am still a clean and innocent girl who has never been married... Besides, I have been hunted for so many years, having to change places and identities every so often. How could I have children..."

"Oh oh..." Ye Chen hurriedly said with an apologetic face, "Sorry, sorry, my fault."

Lin Wan'er said faintly, "My father specifically instructed me that if I didn't want to have too many ties, I must be alone for the first four hundred years and not get married..."

Ye Chen asked curiously, "Why?"

Lin Wan'er said, "Because the Eternal Evergreen Pill will not let me grow up or age in the first four hundred years. Only in the last hundred years will it let me start to age gradually at a certain point in time;"

"If I were to get married in the first four hundred years, I would inevitably have to endure the pain of watching my children grow old and die. But once that point in time arrives, I can go from seventeen to eighteen, then to twenty-eight, thirty-eight, and then gradually grow old:"

"So, when that point in time arrives, I can experience a real life."

Ye Chen nodded in understanding. For a parent to watch their child grow old while they remain forever young must be a very painful feeling.

Therefore, Lin Wan'er's father giving her the Eternal Evergreen Pill and telling her not to get married for the first four hundred years was a very wise decision.

Thus, Ye Chen asked her again, "Then what happened to your father later?"

Lin Wan'er sighed, "My father was seriously injured at the time and had no other miraculous medicine to heal his wounds, so he could only lie in bed and recuperate. But fortunately, there was no danger to his life, and if there had been enough time, it was not impossible for him to recover..."

After a pause, Lin Wan'er said with a sad expression, "It's just that my father said at the time that the person who hurt him could reach Diannan in as little as half a month, so he kept urging me to take the ring and leave home quickly to avoid them finding me. But I was never willing to abandon him..."

Speaking of this, Lin Wan'er said with red eyes, "Seven days after my father was sent back to Diannan by the ring, he took advantage of me going out to buy medicine, left a letter, and died by severing his own meridians..."

Two lines of hot tears rolled down. Lin Wan'er hurriedly wiped them away with her sleeve and choked, "After I buried my father, I left home and started a flight that has lasted for over three hundred years..."

Ye Chen exclaimed, "You have been hunted for over three hundred years?! By whom? The Anti-Qing Society?!"

Lin Wan'er said with a complex expression, "Actually, the Anti-Qing Society was founded by my father and his sworn brother and classmate Wu Feiyang in the year the Qing army entered the pass. The two brothers founded the Anti-Qing Society to expel the barbarians and restore the Ming Dynasty. It's just that the Anti-Qing Society changed completely after my father died and had nothing to do with its name anymore. The ones hunting me were the later Anti-Qing Society and the later Master of the Anti-Qing Society."

Ye Chen blurted out, "Could the later Master of the Anti-Qing Society be that Wu Feiyang?!"

"No." Lin Wan'er shook her head, "The later Master of the Anti-Qing Society was Wu Feiyang's younger sister, Wu Feiyan!"