She Said That Kisses and Hugs Are Needed for Redemption [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 22

The hand dissolving the medicine paused, and Lu Xi was dazed for a moment. At this moment, she did not want to lie to Fu Lancen, but the matter of being transported into a book and the system was too difficult to explain. It would be hard for someone of this world to understand. Furthermore, if she revealed that this world was merely a book, would that not be a form of cruelty to the people living within it?

Ultimately, Lu Xi placed herself in the shoes of her original body and gave a simplified account of how the Demon Race had colluded with certain people in the Heavenly Realm to cause chaos in order to resurrect the Demon Sovereign.

“Do you happen to know of the Goddess of Salvation?” Lu Xi asked. This was the first time she had revealed anything regarding the Goddess to Fu Lancen.

The words Bai Youran had spoken to her previously flashed through Fu Lancen’s mind; she seemed to recall the term Goddess of Salvation being mentioned then as well. Hearing Lu Xi bring it up now, she wondered if it had something to do with her. She instinctively gripped Lu Xi’s wrist tightly and listened quietly to the words that followed.

“The Goddess is appointed by Heaven, and her essence blood and divine power are extraordinary. When she reaches the peak of her cultivation, she can deal with the Demon Race; even the Demon Sovereign would find it difficult to resist her. However, cultivation is no easy task. The Goddess can only temper her essence blood by engaging in dual cultivation with a High God of the Heavenly Realm.”

This was a prophecy handed down by the Heavenly Dao a thousand years ago, which at the time only Qi Ran could see. It stated that as the seal weakened and Han Jun emerged, the dual cultivation of the Goddess would cleanse the world with righteous energy and resolve the thousand-year calamity.

The Heavenly Dao had also left Qi Ran with the general location of the Goddess. After calculating for several years, he could only determine that she was in Qingqiu. Consequently, he traveled to Qingqiu alone in secret, using his divine power to detect which woman was the Goddess capable of dual cultivating with him.

When the Patriarch of the Nine-Tailed Fox clan learned of this, he had a long, private discussion with Qi Ran. Finally, they brought out the younger generation of the clan for Qi Ran to inspect personally. At that time, there was only one person whose divine power resonated with Qi Ran, and that was Fu Lancen.

Although the resonance was faint, it was different from everyone else. Realizing that Fu Lancen was likely the Goddess of Salvation, Qi Ran set the marriage date that very day. He intended to wait until she reached the level of a High Immortal before they married and engaged in dual cultivation.

Fu Lancen was already aware of what happened after that. Even though she was betrothed to Divine Lord Qi Ran, he returned to the Heavenly Realm and entered secluded meditation for thousands of years.

“If I am the Goddess as you say, but the one who ended up marrying Qi Ran was Bai Youran.” Before she could finish, Fu Lancen suddenly remembered that before the wedding ceremony, she had always felt exhausted and weary. On the night before the wedding, she had been imprisoned in the forbidden area of the back mountain for no reason. Someone had taken her blood while she was unconscious.

Connecting those memories with the current situation, it seemed Bai Youran had planned long ago to swap identities with her. To obtain the status of the Goddess of Salvation and marry the only High God in the Heavenly Realm, Bai Youran had ignored their years of sisterly affection and secretly plotted against her.

What she could not understand was that Bai Youran had always been frail and her cultivation was not particularly deep. How could she have imprisoned her in the forbidden area? At this thought, Fu Lancen’s heart felt increasingly heavy.

In truth, after being hunted for so many days and knowing the people of Qingqiu wanted to capture her, she should have realized the truth. Her own kin were on Bai Youran’s side. They were all accomplices helping Bai Youran hurt her.

She did not understand. They were all juniors of the Nine-Tailed Fox clan, and they were the very elders who had watched her grow up. Why would they harm her for Bai Youran’s sake? Did she no longer belong to Qingqiu in their hearts?

Fu Lancen’s expression grew more sorrowful. She gripped the quilt tightly as if to vent the resentment in her heart. Her slender nails pierced the fabric and scratched the soft flesh of her palm.

As a faint scent of blood spread, Lu Xi looked down and quickly grabbed Fu Lancen’s hand. With a slight force, she spread her palm open and saw several marks where the skin had been broken.

“How could you be so careless?” After wiping away the seeping blood with a cotton cloth, Lu Xi raised her hand and slowly brushed it over the palm. Silver-white light sparkled like stars, and in an instant, the marks vanished completely.

Yet Lu Xi still felt the sight was painful. She held the hand in both of hers, pressing gently, and then closed the distance between herself and Fu Lancen. Her deep eyes stared unblinkingly at the girl, who seemed to be lost in thought.

“Are you sad?” She was not very good at comforting people, so she tried to keep her voice as low and gentle as possible.

The girl’s features were clouded with sorrow. The hair by her forehead fell forward, covering her thin profile. In the mixture of light and shadow, she looked as if she were standing in an abyss. Lu Xi pursed her lips and raised her hand, her thumb slowly touching the girl’s cheek. She hooked the falling strands of long hair and tucked them behind her ear with extreme tenderness.

The warm touch pulled Fu Lancen back from her thoughts. Catching a glimpse of the woman’s long fingers resting by her ear, she froze for a moment, feeling somewhat awkward. “If you have something to say, just say it. Why are you touching me?”

Suppressing the sadness in her heart, she curled her lip. “And I am not that sad. I just don’t understand why, as a fellow junior of Qingqiu, I was the one to be abandoned.”

Noticing that the embarrassed woman was about to withdraw her hand, she quickly sat up and raised her head, resting her cheek in Lu Xi’s palm. Then, like a kitten seeking affection, she narrowed her eyes and nuzzled the warm palm.

Lu Xi was at a loss for words. The little fox was so cute; what should she do if she wanted to keep petting her?

She felt more and more distracted, and her face grew hotter. Unwilling to pull her hand back, she continued to stroke the fluffy head, doing her best to maintain a serious and upright expression. “No matter, why the people of Qingqiu abandoned you, you should not be sad over it. Because from the moment they gave up on you, they were no longer worth your sorrow.”

At this point, Lu Xi looked into the girl’s misty eyes, and her heart softened completely. “Furthermore, one must always look forward. Different stages of life bring different encounters, and different people will be by your side. Now, I am with you, and I will not abandon you.”

Those few short words were like falling leaves landing on Fu Lancen’s heart, swirled by a gentle wind and creating ripples of unexpected emotion. Her pupils constricted for a moment as if something had quietly changed. After a long silence, she smiled softly. “You are with me? In what capacity?”

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