Xie Lian suddenly remembered something. That day, in the Shenwu Hall, Lan Chang randomly pointed at a large group of people, but she didn’t point at Feng Xin who was standing in a very conspicuous position.

Jianlan immediately denied: "No!"

Fuyao also looked incredulous. It seemed that he had no idea what Feng Xin had to do with this woman, and was also stunned. It was only then that he finally came to his senses and said, "He hasn't asked what it was yet, how come you answered so quickly?"

Jianlan said, "Nonsense! You can already guess what he wants to ask. I tell you, it's not that!"

Feng Xin looked at the fetal spirit and said, "What did you call him? Cuocuo?"

This name seems to have some special meaning. Jianlan opened her mouth, stopped arguing, and said angrily: "How can a grown man like you say so much nonsense? If it's not true, then it's not true! How can you rush to acknowledge my son like this!"

Feng Xin said angrily: "What are you talking about? If that's the case, of course I will..."

Jianlan said: "Of course you are like that? Do you recognize him? Do you raise him?"

Feng Xin said: "I..."

After saying "I", he got stuck. He looked down at the deformed little monster hanging on his hand. The fetus seemed to hate him very much, biting him desperately. Feng Xin was screaming, and he didn't know whether to fight or not. His right hand was bleeding and clenched into a fist.

Seeing that he was stuck and seemed a little bit unable to accept it, Jianlan immediately spat: "I've already told you that it's not your fault, but you're still asking! It has nothing to do with you, so you can rest assured now!"

Qi Rong shouted, "Quibbling! It must be! I'm not wrong, isn't it the livelihood of the lowly people? Come and think about it, Feng Xin's own son was cut out of his mother's belly and turned into a little ghost. Hehe, there are actually people who dare to worship this bullshit 'Send a Child to Nanyang'? If you keep worshipping, be careful that you give birth to a son..."

As soon as Xie Lian raised his hand, Ruo Xie sealed Qi Rong's mouth, and Jian Lan stomped on his head a few times, causing him to curse. At this time, Gu Zi woke up in a daze, and seeing Qi Rong being stepped on, he rushed over and said, "No... don't step on my father..."

Seeing Gu Zi holding Qi Rong's head, Jian Lan couldn't move her feet anymore, so she grabbed the two pale short legs of the fetus and ran away, angrily saying, "I told you to stop biting! You are so disobedient!"

Feng Xin was lost in thought and failed to catch them immediately. Xie Lian subconsciously said, “Ruo Xie, chase them!”

Ruo Xie really went after him. However, when the white silk flew out, Xie Lian remembered that it was still tied to Qi Rong. Looking back, Qi Rong really jumped up with the grain on his head, and proudly announced: "I am free again!"

Seeing Feng Xin finally react, Xie Lian changed his words and said, “Ruo Xie, you should come back.”

So, Ruo Xie jumped back and slapped Qi Rong with a big slap. Qi Rong had just turned over and sang the old ghost song, but he was slapped again and turned three times on the spot, covering his face and fell down. He lay on the ground for a while, and suddenly went crazy, grabbed Ruo Xie, and shouted: "You dare to hit me with a piece of rag like you!!!"

This time, Ruo Xie was grabbed by him, and she twisted and turned, but she couldn't get away. Qi Rong seemed to suddenly gain strength. Xie Lian was about to go up and deal with him himself, but Qi Rong realized that there was a child on his head. He quickly pulled down Gu Zi and used it as a shield in front of him, saying, "Don't come over here! If you come over, I'll strangle him to death! Hey, hey, hey, look behind you, Gou Huacheng is going to die!"

Xie Lian was startled and turned around abruptly. Hua Cheng’s brows were indeed furrowed, and his lowered hands were trembling slightly, as if he was trying to hold back something. But when he saw him looking at him, he immediately said, “I’m fine!”

Thousands of ghosts are restless!

This time the agitation was stronger than any other time. Xie Lian decisively chose to go over and hug him. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Qi Rong quickly grabbed Gu Zi and fled. Jian Lan also seemed to have a severe headache and covered her ears. The fetal spirit was stimulated by the agitation and bit more fiercely. Feng Xin was bitten more than a dozen times and bleeding, but he still didn't dare to hit him. He held Jian Lan's arm tightly with one hand. The fetal spirit was merciless and waved his hand to claw at Feng Xin's face. This claw was extremely dangerous. Feng Xin let out a low cry and covered the wound. I don't know if his eyes were scratched. Xie Lian was terrified and wanted to tell Ruo Xie to go over there to save the situation, but Jian Lan stomped her feet and said, "If you do this again, I will be angry!!!"

After hearing the mother's scolding, the fetus jumped back into her arms and curled up obediently. Jianlan glanced at Fengxin and gritted her teeth and said, "It has nothing to do with you. I warn you, leave us alone!" Covering her head with one hand and holding it with the other, the mother and son ran away. Seeing this, Fuyao said, "Let me go!"

Feng Xin half-knelt on the ground, covering half of his face. Xie Lian held Hua Cheng and squatted beside him, saying, "Are you okay? Let me see if you're injured? Did you scratch your eye?"

Blood dripped from his fingers. Feng Xin closed his eyes and said, "...No. Don't ask me."

Xie Lian asked, “Feng Xin, Lan Chang…what exactly did Miss Jian Lan say…?”

Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, Feng Xin suddenly punched out with a loud bang, breaking the tree next to him, and roared: "I told you not to ask me!"

This sentence was mixed with a hint of resentment. Moreover, Xie Lian could hear that the resentment seemed to be directed at him, and he couldn't help but be startled.

Hua Cheng said coldly, "Whoever turned your wife and son into ghosts, should vent his anger on the one who deserves it."

Hearing this, Feng Xin raised his head slightly, and looked at Fuyao with red eyes. Fuyao was stunned, and immediately said angrily: "Why are you looking at me? You don't really think that it was my... general who did it? It's really bad luck! He only helped the woman because he saw that she was also a survivor of Xianle and had some connection with the royal family. He wanted to free the fetus, but who knew that it was stubborn and refused to leave and became a vicious person. Instead of getting good, it got covered in shit. I should have ignored it earlier! The little ghost doesn't even know who gave birth to it, how can you expect it to remember who killed it?!"

Perhaps because of the troubles he had been dealing with in recent days, his words became much more rude. Hua Cheng said, "So your general can be said to be unlucky? Then people who are more unlucky than him should not live anymore?"

Feng Xin shook his head and murmured, "…How could this happen? How could this happen?"

Xie Lian said, “You…or you should take care of your wound first. Do you have any medicine with you?”

Feng Xin glanced at him and said in a deep voice: "I'm fine. Don't worry about me!"

He covered the wound on his head, without treating it, and stood up, stumbling away. Xie Lian and Fu Yao called out to him several times from behind, asking him whether he was going back to heaven or chasing after someone, but he ignored them and his back quickly disappeared. Fu Yao struggled a few more times and said angrily, "Your Highness the Crown Prince! If you don't want to chase after me, can't I?"

Xie Lian came back to his senses, pondered for a moment, and said, “Okay.” As expected, he let him go.

Fuyao didn't expect that he would really agree. She stretched the muscles in her wrist and snorted, "Why are you willing to let go now?"

Xie Lian rubbed his brows and said, “The situation in the Heavenly Palace is probably more serious than I thought… Sigh, I now feel that instead of asking your general to go back, it’s better to let him move freely outside.”

After a pause, he continued, "What are you going to do now? I think the fetal spirit is not only making false accusations in order to escape, but there may be someone behind it."

Fuyao patted the dust off his sleeves and said, "No matter what happens, it's heading to Tonglu Mountain. Let's catch it first!"

After saying that, he left in a hurry. The inn, which had originally gathered several groups of people, suddenly became deserted. Xie Lian turned around and checked the collapsed hut. He lifted up the wooden beams and thatch to take a look. The monks and Taoists were indeed just unconscious and would probably wake up soon. He felt relieved and left.

After walking for a while, they came out of the wilderness and finally found a real inn, where they rested.

Xie Lian felt that the past few days had been extremely chaotic, and he sat on the window frame in a daze. Ruo Xie curled up in his hand, rubbing it back and forth, as if humming, and Xie Lian rubbed it with his fingers.

Suddenly, Hua Cheng walked to the window, shared the moonlight with him, and said, "It has nothing to do with you."

Xie Lian was slightly startled, then he understood what he meant. He shook his head and said, “I don’t know if it really has nothing to do with me… Feng Xin must have met Miss Jianlan after the fall of Xianle Country and before he ascended to heaven. Calculating the time, it was during the years when I was first demoted.”

Hua Cheng said: "That doesn't mean you are wrong for them to become like this now."

After thinking for a while, Xie Lian said, “Sanlang, I haven’t told you about the things that happened when I was demoted, right?”

Hua Cheng said: "No."

Xie Lian said, “I haven’t told anyone else about this. I just asked you to come here and talk to me about this. I hope you don’t mind.”

Hua Cheng gently pressed the window frame, sat on it, and said, "No, you say."

As Xie Lian recalled, he said, “At that time, Feng Xin was the only follower left of mine, and life was very difficult. I had to pawn all of my belongings from when I was a Martial God and a Crown Prince.”

Hua Cheng smiled and said, "Including Hong Jing, right?"

Xie Lian smiled and said, “Hahaha…right. You can’t let Jun Wu know about this. Remember to keep it a secret for me. And I’ll pawn all of my dozens of gold belts as well.”

Hua Cheng said: "Well, so Feng Xin took your gold belt and gave it to Lan Chang?"

Xie Lian shook his head and said, “That shouldn’t be the case. Feng Xin wouldn’t take my things carelessly. I asked him to sell them and keep the money for himself.”

In fact, this was a free gift to Feng Xin. Feng Xin refused for a long time, but finally couldn't resist and said, "I'll keep it for you for now."

Xie Lian said, “To be honest, I asked him to sell the money for his own use, not only because I felt guilty, but also because I was afraid.”

The followers dispersed, and only Feng Xin still treated him as the Flower Crown Martial God and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Xie Lian was shocked to realize that the two had grown up together, and although Feng Xin was his trusted subordinate and personal guard, he had never received any great rewards from him. Suddenly, he felt scared.

He was afraid that even Feng Xin would find this life unbearable and would no longer follow him. Therefore, the meaning of the golden belt was not a reward, nor was it simply a gift or consolation, but it also had a little bit of flattery or reward.

In the illusion created by the fetal spirit, Xie Lian saw a talisman, which should have been given to Jianlan by Feng Xin. After the fall of Xianle Kingdom, all of Xie Lian’s palaces, temples, and shrines were burned down. No one believed in Prince Xianle anymore, and his talismans were considered waste. However, Feng Xin still collected many of his talismans, and often distributed and gave them away, saying to Xie Lian, “Look, you still have believers.” But Xie Lian knew in his heart that the fate of those talismans was mostly to be thrown away.

Xie Lian said slowly, “Over the years, I never knew who Feng Xin liked. I never asked, and I never paid attention.”

After all, he had been a child prodigy and a member of a royal family since childhood. It was natural for Feng Xin to have everything revolve around him. How could he have his own life and little thoughts?

"It may not sound good to give something given by others to a girl, but at that time, that gold belt was really the best gift Feng Xin could give. After all, we often didn't even have enough food to eat. Feng Xin was not a person who liked to spend money recklessly. So, you can imagine how much he liked Miss Jianlan at that time. If he liked her so much... then why did you break up?"

Regardless of whether the fetus was Feng Xin’s son or not, if Feng Xin missed out on the girl he loved because of his downfall, Xie Lian would feel bad no matter what.

Hua Cheng said: "If you like someone but end up breaking up, it only means that you just like them."

Xie Lian smiled and said, “Sanlang, you can’t be so absolute. Sometimes, whether the road is easy or not is not something you can decide.”

Hua Cheng said calmly: "Whether the road is easy to walk on, maybe I can't decide, but whether to walk on it or not, only I can decide."

Hearing this, Xie Lian was stunned, and felt as if something in his heart was opened. He stared at Hua Cheng without saying a word. Hua Cheng tilted his head and said, "Brother, am I wrong?"

Looking at his sparkling black eyes, Xie Lian suddenly grabbed him, put him on his lap, and said, “Hahaha, Sanlang, you are so right!”

“…”

Hua Cheng seemed to be shocked by his actions and let him lift him up high. Xie Lian laughed and said, "To be honest, the arrogance in San Lang's words just now is really a bit like me when I was young."

Hua Cheng seemed to have gotten used to being held like this by him. He raised his eyebrows and said, "That's really my dream."

The big and the small played around in the room for a while, then Xie Lian threw Hua Cheng onto the bed and lay down on it himself, face up. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Hua Cheng suddenly sit up, his pupils slightly contracted, and his sharp eyes cast across.

Xie Lian immediately sensed something was wrong and sat up. He immediately broke out in a cold sweat. He saw a figure had quietly appeared in the room, sitting at the table, with a pot of tea already brewed, and the aroma of tea wafting in the air. However, he hadn't noticed it the whole time!

Xie Lian couldn’t help but feel his hair stand on end, his heart held the sword in front of him, and he asked, “Who?!”

The man said gently, "Don't be afraid. Would you like some tea, Xianle?"

“…”

The figure and voice were both of a young man, very familiar, Xie Lian finally breathed a sigh of relief, tucked his messy hair behind his ears, his heart still pounding, he said, “Emperor…”

However, before he could completely relax, he suddenly pulled up the quilt, buried both Hua Cheng and himself inside, and asked, "...Why did you come down?"

He held Hua Cheng tightly under the quilt, signaling peace of mind. Jun Wu slowly poured three cups of tea, then stood up and said, "If you don't come back, of course I have to come down to see you myself."

As he spoke, he walked towards this side with his hands behind his back, and slowly walked out of the shadows. Xie Lian looked along his white robe and saw that he was actually carrying a sword. He was shocked and jumped off the bed quickly, saying, "Emperor, I want to explain first..."

Unexpectedly, Hua Cheng pulled back the quilt behind him, sat cross-legged, put his elbows casually on his knees, and smiled, "I think it's not necessary."