Chapter 1679: Trying to Accept

"Since you can't do it, then try to accept him, right?" Honghou asked.

"Right." Xin'er nodded slightly: "I can only do this. I am very afraid, but there is no one I can confide in, so..."

"Alright, from now on you can have one more person to confide in, and that is me." Honghou looked at Xin'er with sympathy; she could not help but think of her former self.

"Thank you, sister." Xin'er gave a sweet smile.

"In some respects, we are actually the same." Honghou sighed and said: "The former me was once a person high above, but suddenly one day, when I woke up, I discovered I was in a dark environment."

"I was locked inside a coffin, suppressed by the most severe Suppression Technique of our kingdom in a place where the sun never shines. I struggled and screamed, but it was of no use at all."

"Moreover, I was under a Curse. I died, but I did not truly die. The pain and fear I endured were far beyond what ordinary people can understand."

Xin'er stared blankly at Honghou; she did not know that the beautiful woman before her had actually had such a tragic experience.

"Fortunately, these are all things of the past, and you are the same; these things are all in the past." Honghou smiled slightly, took Xin'er's hand, and said: "So there is no need for us to dwell on it. Since Mr. Chen said he would resolve these matters for you, I believe he will not break his word."

"Now that you have him to help you and me to listen to your confidences, you don't need to be afraid of anything anymore."

"Okay." Xin'er nodded heavily, and the trace of a smile on her face gradually widened.

"Alright then, we won't leave tonight. I have no way to remove these Dark Marks on your body for the time being. I need to follow you to see where exactly you go and what you do." Chen Yu pondered for a moment and said.

Xin'er nodded heavily. No matter what, as long as Chen Yu was there, she felt much more at ease; this man before her could provide warmth.

Night fell, and Xin'er was once again too sleepy to sit still. In fact, although she had been sleeping these past few days, whenever night arrived, that Dark Mark would drive her body, forcibly making her sit up, and then she would leave here like a sleepwalker to go to some very terrifying areas to awaken many Heart-Eating Ghosts.

Then these Heart-Eating Ghosts would go to other places to harm people, finally bringing back blood and True Essence, and these things would be filled into Xin'er's body.

Therefore, every night, her consciousness was incomparably clear.

"She is a pitiful person." Watching Xin'er fall asleep, Honghou sighed slightly. She opened a bottle of wine, sat opposite Chen Yu, and poured a glass for him, then tilted her head back and drank more than half of the remaining wine.

"All living beings suffer." Chen Yu shook his head and said: "You are not a normal person, so you cannot understand true suffering."

"Then you are wrong. Perhaps I didn't understand before, but now I do." Honghou said: "During the time since I woke up, I have been living in the human world, seeing all the states of human life, and I feel I am qualified to judge a little."

"Oh, is that so? Then what have you learned from it?" Chen Yu looked at Honghou with interest.

"Actually, by comparison, those who labor for their three meals a day are much happier." Honghou said faintly: "They don't care what happens to this world in the future, nor do they care if the end of the world will come. Everything is irrelevant to them."

"They only focus on a thing called money; this is the foundation of their lives in this world. Actually, such a life is happy and simple."

"Ordinary people have the suffering of ordinary people." Chen Yu held his glass, took a sip of wine, and said: "Birth, aging, sickness, and death are the greatest sufferings they face."

"People like you and me, although we have already escaped the cycle of birth, aging, and death, and the suffering of sickness, what we face is a difficulty that ordinary people cannot imagine."

"Why is that?" Honghou was puzzled: "Is there really no life that is truly carefree?"

"I'm afraid not." Chen Yu smiled and said: "This world is fair. Heaven bestows upon you something unique, but of course, it will also strip these things away from elsewhere."

"I seem to understand." Honghou nodded thoughtfully, then sighed and said: "Actually, we are all people toyed with by fate, aren't we?"

"Right, fate controls everything behind the scenes." Chen Yu smiled: "So, don't dwell on anything anymore. In fact, what we possess is something ordinary people could never have in their entire lives."

"Then what should I say? Should I say we should be content?" Honghou could not help but grin.

"I wouldn't call it being content, but at least we must look at things more openly." Chen Yu drank the wine in his hand in one gulp, his eyes looking toward Xin'er on the bed.

Xin'er's face showed a trace of pain; her limbs were struggling and flailing incessantly, as if she were fighting some kind of battle, and her body was stiff, her consciousness seeming to dissipate bit by bit.

"She has already started." Honghou's expression changed slightly; she stood up and watched Xin'er intently.

The expression on Xin'er's face showed a look of resistance. Gradually, her look of resistance disappeared.

She opened her eyes, and her two eyes were pitch black, without any pupils; this was the manifestation after being corrupted by darkness.

"She has fallen." Honghou took a deep breath. She and Chen Yu watched as Xin'er walked out, so they followed behind her.

Xin'er's footsteps were slow and steady; she looked straight ahead, and her face also wore an expression of fearlessness.

She walked straight ahead, crossing the road. Just at this moment, a sedan sped over, slamming toward her.

Honghou was startled and was about to step forward to stop it when Chen Yu grabbed her.

Honghou looked at Chen Yu in surprise, and Chen Yu shook his head at her.

The car screeched to a sudden stop; because the brakes were applied so suddenly, the tires began to smoke.

A man wearing glasses appeared from the driver's seat. He yelled at Xin'er: "Don't you have eyes? Do you want to die?"

Xin'er remained silent, but she stopped and looked at the bespectacled man with an indifferent expression.

Although the bespectacled man looked scholarly, in fact, he was a lecher. Seeing Xin'er's appearance, his eyes lit up, and his tone immediately softened.

"Beauty, why are you appearing here alone? What exactly happened?"

Seeing that Xin'er did not answer, he could not help but reach out with a wandering hand: "What exactly happened? How about I take you home, or you come home with me? It's very dangerous for a girl to be outside alone at night, you know."