Chapter 444: Luo er's soul returns? I am your husband!

Zong Qingyue first gently hugged Li Qingluo.

Zong Qingyue then slowly said: "You have suffered, Luo er."

"Because you lost the memory of the Netherworld, what has been sustaining your soul's stability after your rebirth is that grudge in your heart."

"But my ability was insufficient, so when I forcibly reversed your rebirth, your soul had already lost one part, which remains in the Netherworld."

"This is also why you often suddenly fall into a deep sleep and cannot wake."

"As for why you will return this time, it is because your birth mother Qu Shi, your older brother Li Kechuan, and Liu Qiongzhu were all burned to death together in a farmer's house."

"Therefore, the grudge that has been sustaining your second life will now completely dissipate."

"And your three souls will naturally scatter as well."

Li Qingluo turned pale: "Then, when I returned to my previous life and saw their fate, what happened?"

"'Which life is the real one? Have I altered the originally set course?'"

Zong Qingyue saw she was trapped in the secret realm and hurriedly explained: "Luo er, of course it's all real."

"'The world you are in is the real one.'"

"'Don't you understand? Because your grudge from your previous life was too strong, when you returned to the Netherworld you went back to your last life and saw the outcome.'"

"'But that is also because your soul wandered astray.'"

"'Now, naturally, the world after your rebirth is your true life.'"

"'You really did it—you changed your own fate's register.'"

Li Qingluo: "But I still abandoned my grandmother, and abandoned Ah……"

Thinking of Duan Rongshi, Li Qingluo suddenly felt a bit guilty.

She dared not look at Zong Qingyue.

Especially facing her face like that.

Zong Qingyue, however, first curled her lips and laughed.

"'Silly Luo er, don't you understand? You are precisely the marriage star of Xiao Wu.'"

"'Otherwise, why would the Mother Consort alone want you to go back and change A Shi's fate?'"

Li Qingluo opened her mouth in surprise.

"'She, is that marriage star?'"

"'She is Duan Rongshi's destined person!?'"

"'This is actually true!'"

"'Then you…… why before……'"

Zong Qingyue gently poked her forehead.

"'Naturally, I was afraid to scare you, little fool.'"

"'What if, upon hearing that you must go back and something will happen with Xiao Wu, you get scared and dare not be reborn—what then?'"

"'Moreover, I often sneak a look at you two, and I'm almost driven to death by you and A Shi, two silly geese.'"

"'In your previous life, your two trajectories never met.'"

"'This lifetime, after great difficulty you finally crossed paths, came to know and love each other, yet progress has always been slow.'"

"'Do you know how much the Mother Consort wishes to see you two achieve fruition?'"

Li Qingluo was stunned: "Sister Qingyue…… you actually still went to spy on us?"

"'Then, that wouldn't mean you've seen our intimate acts with Duan Rongshi, would it?'"

Zong Qingyue saw her dazed and couldn't help laughing.

"'Rest assured. When you and A Shi are alone together, the Mother Consort always retains some self-awareness.'"

"'I certainly won't be that annoying ghost!'"

"'However, previously letting you call me sister was just to coax you.'"

"'Now that you and A Shi already have an engagement, why not hurry and change your address to call me Mother Consort?'"

"'Quick, call out so I can hear?'"

Li Qingluo was already about to stutter.

With her mouth open, she stammered and fumbled for a while before barely managing to shout: "Mother, Mother Consort……"

And her head was almost buried in the ground.

Zong Qingyue laughed heartily.

And gently cupped Li Qingluo's face: "Luo er, you are so adorable."

"'The Mother Consort really likes you.'"

"'However, you did very well in returning through rebirth.'"

"'Moreover, the Mother Consort is also reluctant to take you away from A Shi's side. So, you should still return again.'"

Li Qingluo stared blankly at Zong Qingyue: "Mother Consort, can I really return?"

Zong Qingyue smiled with a look of pity and nodded.

"'You still have six parts of your soul left in the mortal world, and those six parts will keep your physical body from decaying.'"

"'Luo er, go back.'"

"'After you left, A Shi went mad, searching high and low for you.'"

"'You have sensed that as well, haven't you?'"

"'He, a mere mortal, even found the past life where your soul wandered astray.'"

"'He seized his own physical body and took revenge for you.'"

"'However, after you dissipated, he was also forcibly sent back to the place he originally belonged.'"

"But if you don't go back again, I think he won't even live to be twenty-nine."

"Now, there are still many people above waiting for you."

"Can you bear to leave?"

Li Qingluo blushed and shook her head firmly: "I can't bear to."

"But you..."

Zong Qingyue: "Me? What's wrong with me?"

Li Qingluo: "Since Mother Consort can help me be reborn, why didn't you go back yourself to change your fate?"

Zong Qingyue: "Besides A Shi and my maidservants, I no longer wish to see anyone from the mortal realm."

"So, what meaning would there be for me to go back?"

"I only wish that you and A Shi could spend your lives in peace and happiness."

"Go back, child."

"This time, you must take everything neatly with you, and your heart will no longer hold resentment. For the rest of your life, you and A Shi will both live past a hundred years."

As she spoke, Zong Qingyue was about to push Li Qingluo back into the mortal realm again.

Li Qingluo quickly grabbed her tightly: "Mother Consort! Wait!"

"Who exactly harmed you back then?"

"Can you tell me?"

"Your death has become A Shi's obsession; if he cannot avenge you, he will never find peace in this life."

"And Mother Consort, I don't want to forget you again. If I return to life, let me remember you, okay?"

Seeing her so dazed, Zong Qingyue couldn't help but sigh.

"A person, if they have an obsession, will become a monster driven by that obsession."

"Xiao Wu and you, if you cannot possess each other, then your previous life was your ending."

"Even if you are reborn, you are merely a walking corpse."

"Foolish child. Why bother?"

"Moreover, if you bring the memories of the netherworld back, your mortal body will hardly be able to bear it at first."

"Perhaps you will be foolish for a few days, and then gradually awaken and remember everything."

"Do you really want to do this?"

Li Qingluo: "That's why we are mortals."

"Having flesh and blood, having the seven emotions and six desires, also wanting to feel the gratification of grudges and favors; otherwise, Luo'er wouldn't have agreed to be reborn."

"Mother Consort, please agree to Luo'er!"

Being entangled by her foolishness, Zong Qingyue reluctantly recalled the past.

"They, each one of them, is a murderer who killed me."

Li Qingluo woke up again, her gaze foolishly fixed on the bed curtains, not knowing where she was.

Until someone saw her awake, suddenly there was a cry of alarm.

"Ah!!"

That person knocked over the tea set in their hands and even fell sitting on the ground.

Li Qingluo slowly sat up, looking blankly at everything before her.

When the room filled with people, and these people excitedly surrounded her, not only chattering away, but also touching her all over.

Only then did she finally feel a hint of fear.

"Who exactly are you?"

"I... who am I again?"

Upon hearing her words, these people were momentarily stunned.

Li Qingluo saw a white-haired, yet beautifully kind-looking wet nurse with red eyes rush over and hug her tightly.

"Luo'er, what exactly happened to you?"

"Don't scare Grandma!"

"Quick, have someone hurry and bring Immortal Yunhe and Sect Leader Jinniang."

"Also, quickly go inform Prince Su, Your Highness!"

"Soon."

A haggard-looking yet extraordinarily handsome young man, resembling a banished immortal, let Li Qingluo unable to take her eyes off him, stumbled into the room.

Li Qingluo saw him walking over with furrowed brows.

As if he were carefully reaching out, yet he dared not touch her.

Li Qingluo also stared at him.

She thought: He looks so familiar; have I seen him somewhere before?

Duan Rongshi and her ignorant gaze met, and he held his breath.

After Immortal Yunhe and Sect Leader Jinniang arrived together, they examined Li Qingluo carefully.

Immortal Yunhe also set up a Daoist ritual arena.

All kinds of techniques were exhausted.

Sect Leader Jinniang also used several worms.

The conclusion: Indeed, all the souls of the Princess of Yaoguang have returned to their places.

"However, perhaps because the soul is still unstable, that's why this condition appears temporarily."

Pei Lao Furen anxiously asked: "When exactly will it recover?"

Yunhe: "This... I, a poor Daoist, also don't know."

Maybe soon, maybe... in this lifetime I also cannot...

As for this matter, I, a poor Daoist, cannot explain it either. Why not let the Luo Shen doctor come again to have a look?

The crowd erupted in noisy chatter.

Li Qingluo, however, kept secretly glancing at the person standing by the bedside, who likewise stared unblinkingly at her.

Please, everyone, go out first.

He suddenly opened his mouth and spoke.

Everyone else, including Pei Lao Furen, although very unwilling, seeing the situation before them, still sensibly withdrew temporarily.

After the room was left with only Li Qingluo and Duan Rongshi, she suddenly felt a bit nervous.

Duan Rongshi noticed her mood and quickly said in a low voice: "You can call me A Shi."

Li Qingluo curled herself up behind the quilt in the corner.

She cautiously gazed at the man before her and asked: "Then, who am I?"

"Why did they all leave, leaving only you here?"

Duan Rongshi slowly sat down on the bedside.

He reached out his hand: "Don't be afraid."

"Your name is Li Qingluo."

"I am your future husband; I will not harm you."

"They all left because they understood how much I miss you."

"So, I wanted to speak with you alone."

Li Qingluo was very surprised: "Husband?"

"I seem to know the meaning of this word... you are the future person who will grow old together with me?"

"We will also sleep on the same bed, never to be separated. Am I right?"

Duan Rongshi gave a faint smile, and warmth and tenderness finally appeared in the depths of his eyes.

"Luo'er is right."

"In this life and this world, we two will grow old together, never to be separated."

"Are you willing to first give me your hand?"

"Don't be afraid, I will be very gentle."

"If you don't like it, I will let go."

Only then did Li Qingluo muster the courage to extend her hand.

Strangely, his touch, she actually did not dislike it.

Moreover, it seemed that when he held her hand, her heart would 'thump-thump' wildly.

Soon, Duan Rongshi gently held Li Qingluo in his arms.

He even dared not use too much force, only able to constantly restrain himself, suppressing the impulse and desire to squeeze her tightly into his embrace.

Just holding her like this, alive and breathing, his eyes already turned red.

"Luo'er, don't leave again, okay?"

"Even if you remain like this for the rest of your life, do not leave me."

"Promise me."

Li Qingluo raised her head, seeing that he seemed sorrowful and distressed, she couldn't help but lift her hand to gently touch his reddened eye corners.

"Have you cried before?"

"But is it because of me?"

"I promise you, then."

"How strange, I can't remember anything at all—could I be sick?"

"But seeing you, I feel very familiar."

"Moreover, my heart feels very sad right now."

As she spoke, her fingers slowly moved and touched the small red dot between his brows.

Her other hand then rested on her own chest.

Duan Rongshi gave a gentle smile, lightly rubbing her small face: "My Luo'er has always been like this, a kind-hearted little fool."

"Luo'er, let us get married?"

"I don't want to wait any longer."

"In three days, we will perform the wedding ceremony. I want you to become my wife right away!"